Farms supplying supermarkets Tesco, Sainsbury’s and ASDA accused of keeping birds in appalling conditions.
… Turkeys suffer at Christmas factory farms Brendan Montague | … on the tables of millions of households this Christmas. The investigation reveals shocking … discomfort and fear – all for the sake of Christmas dinner. "The government and industry …
Britain's long-suffering nuclear bomb test veterans have once again had justice denied to them, writes Chris Busby, by a shocking piece of judicial chicanery in London's High Court in which the judge whimsically excluded all the scientific evidence that did not suit the Ministry of Defence. But the veterans' fight for justice and scientific truth continues, facing its next test in the Court of Appeal.
… also mailed to just one person just when the Christmas post could be trusted to delay it … in this case showed what really happened at Christmas Island. Like the USA at the Bikini … this meant there was little or no fallout on Christmas Island. But this was only the low …
This summer families of atom bomb test veterans who have died of cancer took the UK government to the High Court for its failure to compensate them, writes Chris Busby. Also on trial was the 'official' radiation risk model, which understates the true health hazards of internal exposures by a factor of 1,000. But 17 weeks after the case, litigants and veterans are still awaiting judgment.
… of late Barry Smith, who was stationed at Christmas Island in 1958/59 after the bomb … atomisation of the eight tons of Uranium over Christmas island, and various lesser … experience was the nuclear test sites. For Christmas Island, new evidence was presented …
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… of awfulness, a month when a combination of Christmas debt, miserable weather and the … can be particularly good for anyone whose Christmas was marked by a few liver-straining …
Chemical giant Bayer has failed in its attempt to sue Friends of the Earth Germany over its claims that its pesticide Thiacloprid harms bees. Now pressure is growing on the EU to add the neonicotinoid to the three already banned.
… for the bees and freedom." Just before last Christmas Bayer took out a restraining order …
UK police now have free rein to create 'dispersal zones' in public places, writes Josie Appleton. This allows them to exclude people for anything from street drinking to looking suspicious, being homeless, protesting, or merely 'congregating'. This represents a serious breach of our Common Law and Magna Carta rights.
… were declared in advance of events such as a Christmas lights switch-on in Lancaster city …
Last week David Cameron backed down over his plans to bring back fox hunting by 'fatally amending' the Hunting Act, writes Dominic Dyer. The way he spun it, it was all about SNP interference in English law, but the real problem was opposition within the Conservative Party, which increasingly sees blood sports as a barbaric relic that alienates voters of all persuasions.
… to a free vote in the House of Commons before Christmas. Things aren't what they used to be …
The apparent conspiracy by the UK government and its agencies to conceal the real cause of death of 7-year old Zane Gbangbola may go right up to Prime Minister David Cameron, writes Paul Mobbs. He was chair of the COBRA emergency committee at the time when it appears to have held back the truth that he was killed by cyanide from the toxic landfill site his home was built over.
… be submitted to his investigation before Christmas. That is likely to require action by …