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Sunday, November 8th, 2009 by Geoff Wilding
Under plans put forward by the Conservative Party, graduates in England would be offered a 10% discount on early repayments of their student loans, the Guardian tells us.
The plans, which aim to raise the £300m needed to fund an additional 10,000 university places next autumn, would allow graduates who made an early debt repayment of above £500 [...]
Saturday, May 19th, 2007 by Geoff Wilding
Prime Minister-in-waiting Gordon Brown fulfilled a promise to the party faithful by visiting Labour Party supporters at Dordon on April 27.
Mr Brown spoke with party members for half an hour before flying to his Kirkcaldy constituency.
It was 18 months ago at the Labour Party autumn conference that Mr Brown promised Dordon delegates he would pay [...]
Wednesday, May 16th, 2007 by Geoff Wilding
Spot checks have revealed the illegal and harsh world of east European workers packing vegetables for the country’s biggest supermarket chains.
Inspectors from the Government’s new agricultural labour agency found serious breaches of employment laws when they visited three packing plants in the West Midlands
None of scores of migrant workers had contracts of employment and most [...]
Monday, May 7th, 2007 by Geoff Wilding
Tory Triumph, Labour Shock, Lib Dems Decimated
Geoff Wilding looks back at a surprising result
Date Line May 3rd
Local media assembling at the count in Coleshill had little idea that the night would throw up the most remarkable result since the birth of the Borough in 1974. Pundits were making predictions of course but none of us [...]
Monday, May 7th, 2007 by Geoff Wilding
Our man had the giggles! He was spluttering uncontrollably over his keyboard. His fits of laughter interjected only by a long gasp on his roll up.
“Control yourself man.” barked the editor, it’s bad enough when you don’t bother to turn up for last month’s edition, but insult to injury when you laugh about it.”
Our man [...]
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