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A factory worker stockpiled weapons and supplies including 14 exploding Kinder Eggs at his home to prepare for an apocalypse, a court heard. Daniel Magee, 39, had spent 20 years collecting items including knives, body armour, camouflage clothing, and smoke pellets. He was arrested after two parcels, ordered from China, were intercepted at Royal Mail’s … 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
Chemicals giant Ineos to build new factory in TEN days to produce a MILLION bottles of hand sanitiser a month The new factory will be in Middlesbrough and will be built in just ten days Products given to hospitals for free and shipped across the UK and Europe Ineos also manufactures rubber gloves, PVC saline … 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: 00:26 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
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
More signs of a ‘Boris bounce’, as factory output and sales of commercial properties soar By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 GMT, 21 February 2020 | Updated: 23:06 GMT, 21 February 2020 Boris Johnson’s election win appears to have boosted factory output and sales of commercial properties The economy has shown more … Read more
Six workers trapped in squalid, airless conditions were rescued from an elaborate cannabis farm and counterfeit tobacco factory hidden beneath a mountain village in Spain after police arrested the suspected masterminds of the operation. Spanish police smashed a British-led gang behind Europe’s first-ever underground illegal cigarette factory. The secret operation, complete with machinery that could … Read more
Factory orders hit six-month high amid ‘early signs’ of a turnaround as political certainty improves By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 GMT, 20 February 2020 | Updated: 22:08 GMT, 20 February 2020 Factory orders hit a six-month high in February amid ‘early signs’ of a turnaround. The monthly trends survey by the … Read more