Unipath, who make home pregnancy testing kits, are to close their Bedford base, causing the loss of around 500 jobs.
The company had been owned by Unilever until 2001, when it was taken over by American company Inverness Medical Innovations (IMI). The company now plans to transfer production to low cost facilities, which are mainly in [...]
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West Midlands Police and the CPS will be sued for libel by the makers of a programme shown on the Channel 4 series Dispatches in January 2007.
The programme – called Undercover Mosque – detailed Islamic extremism in the West Midlands. Police and the CPS claimed that the programme had been heavily edited and therefore distorted [...]
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