EastEnders’ Gillian Taylforth’s ex-fiance arrested after police raid suspected ‘£850,000 cannabis factory at his farm’ Dave Fairbairn, 64, was detained alongside two other men on Tuesday this week Cannabis found in outbuildings at the property in Arrington, Cambridgeshire Total of 1,000 illegal plants and three suspected stolen vehicles impounded By Raven Saunt and Oli Gamp … Read more
A 15-year-old schoolboy has turned his bedroom into a factory churning out face visors for staff on the frontline of the coronavirus fight. Harry Cooper from Middlesborough is making them on a 3D printer he got for Christmas and is handing out the safety equipment free of charge. Harry has been raising money for the … Read more
Thousands of Bangladeshi clothes labourers were ordered home after arriving at work to find their factories remained shut, despite owners asking them to come in during a coronavirus lockdown. Staff arrived in Dhaka hoping to get paid for March and resume work after a 10-day break enforced by the government to tackle the spread of the … Read more
Desperate hospital officials have been ‘screaming and shouting’ for coronavirus testing kits, The Mail on Sunday has been told. Andrew Broggio, the owner of Wiltshire-based Medical Wire and Equipment Co Ltd, said he has been ‘completely overwhelmed’ by demand and that he cannot ‘magic ten million kits out of thin air’. Like other diagnostics firms … Read more
The former IBM factory near Glasgow has become Britain’s second crisis hospital as the building has been offered to NHS Scotland in the battle against coronavirus. It comes as the ExCel Centre in Newham, East London, was kitted out with 4,000 beds and two morgues amid the Covid-19 crisis. Britain’s major entertainment venues also ‘stand … Read more
Sports Direct boss Mike Ashley pressured by MPs over factory worker’s safety By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 GMT, 25 March 2020 | Updated: 21:54 GMT, 25 March 2020 Sports Direct has been pressured by MPs to explain what it is doing to protect its workers from coronavirus. Mike Ashley, boss of … Read more
Nissan mothballs UK biggest car plant: Sunderland factory employs some 6,000 workers By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 00:26 GMT, 18 March 2020 | Updated: 01:08 GMT, 18 March 2020 Nissan has mothballed the biggest car plant in the UK as the Covid-19 outbreak wreaks havoc. Production at the giant factory in Sunderland, … Read more
What could be more reassuring in the midst of the coronavirus-fuelled loo-roll shortage than to visit a toilet tissue mill on the outskirts of Manchester and marvel at the mountains of soft white toilet paper on display? They are everywhere — bobbing down the production lines in myriad neat, white rows, before being stacked, bagged and … Read more
Confirmed: Honda’s Swindon car plant closure has been ‘set in stone’ for July 2021 Announcement is the first time a specific date has been set for the plant to shut The factory employs around 3,500 staff and produced 109,000 cars last year It is unclear if the 380-acre site will be used for industrial or housing … Read more
Masterminds behind a £10million fraud which saw the UK’s largest illegal tobacco factory produce 140 packs of cigarettes a minute have been jailed. John Watson Snr, 47, who was a director of Doncaster Greyhound stadium, Terence Jacques, 60, and security guard Russell Haywood, 48, led a 12-man gang who made millions of counterfeit cigarettes which … Read more