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WHAT HAPPENED ON 12th December 2000?
11th December 2000
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12th December 2000
2 000 JOBS GO AS VAUXHALL SHUTS PLANT
The Vauxhall car plant at Luton in Bedfordshire is to close with the loss of 2 000 jobs over the next 15 months. The closure stems from global restructuring by parent firm General Motors which blames over-capacity & changing European market conditions. The Luton factory produces the Vectra for which recent demand has been low. US-based GM is to concentrate production of the model's replacement in Germany & possibly the Netherlands
12th December 2000
COLOMBIAN POLICE FIND MASS BABY GRAVE
The bodies of 24 new-born babies & three foetuses have been found by police in a grave in the northern Colombian city of Barranquilla. Regional police chief Arnaldo Jose Sandoval said his force was looking for underground medical centres suspected of performing illegal abortions. But forensic experts pointed out that the babies were almost all newly born rather than aborted foetuses. Colombian radio said various surgical instruments were also found at the site
11th December 2000
CARLTON SELLING TECHNICOLOR FOR £1.4bn
British-based Carlton Communications is planning to sell its media services arm Technicolor to France's Thomson Multimedia for £1.4bn it has announced Under the deal Carlton which owns 50% of ONdigital will invest £10.4m in TAK Thomson's European interactive TV joint venture with Microsoft. Thomson is involved in the manufacture of digital set top boxes. Technicolor's core business is the sale of DVDs.
12th December 2000
2 000 JOBS GO AS VAUXHALL SHUTS PLANT
The Vauxhall car plant at Luton in Bedfordshire is to close with the loss of 2 000 jobs over the next 15 months. The closure stems from global restructuring by parent firm General Motors which blames over-capacity & changing European market conditions. The Luton factory produces the Vectra for which recent demand has been low. US-based GM is to concentrate production of the model's replacement in Germany & possibly the Netherlands
12th December 2000
MONDAY'S HIGHLIGHTS AT WESTMINSTER
Tony Blair hailed the Nice summit of EU leaders as a success for Britain & said it had cleared the way for enlargement of the Union. However he told MPs it was time for the EU to find "a more rational way of decision making". Tory leader William Hague said the summit had produced "three major steps to a European superstate". The Nice Treaty would not be ratified by a future Tory government he added.
11th December 2000
GERMAN PARTY WANTS UK SHEEP IMPORT BAN
The president of Germany's Christian Democratic Union party is calling for a ban on all imports of British sheep. Angela Merkel has told Bild am Sonntag newspaper: "It is necessary to ban imports of sheep meat from Britain because scrapie is widespread there." The comments by the leader of Germany's main opposition party are to be published in the newspaper tomorrow. She also suggested that UK beef imports should be banned from Germany again.
12th December 2000
2 000 JOBS GO AS VAUXHALL SHUTS PLANT
The Vauxhall car plant at Luton in Bedfordshire is to close with the loss of 2 000 jobs over the next 15 months. The closure stems from global restructuring by parent firm General Motors which blames over-capacity & changing European market conditions. The Luton factory produces the Vectra for which recent demand has been low. US-based GM is to concentrate production of the model's replacement in Germany & possibly the Netherlands
12th December 2000
GERMANY Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has agreed to meet French President Jacques Chirac at a special Franco- German summit next month following last weekend's strained summit in Nice. USA man who stalked actress Gwyneth Paltrow for over a year & sent her hundreds of e-mails has been sent to a psychiatric unit in Los Angeles. Dante Soyu also harassed the star's parents. YUGOSLAVIA Bosnia & Yugoslavia have established diplomatic ties eight years after the war which saw Bosnia secede from the federation.11th December 2000
1 200 JOBS BEING SHED AT CLOTHING FIRM
The management buy-out team taking over what is left of the Nottinghamshire- based Coats Viyella clothing division says 1 200 jobs are to go. The new company Marplace says a lack of orders will result in two factories having to close. The factories employ about 1 000 people at Alfreton in Derbyshire and Sutton- in-Ashfield Nottinghamshire. Some 800 people will continue to be employed across the country.
12th December 2000
2 000 JOBS GO AS VAUXHALL SHUTS PLANT
The Vauxhall car plant at Luton in Bedfordshire is to close with the loss of 2 000 jobs over the next 15 months. The closure stems from global restructuring by parent firm General Motors which blames over-capacity & changing European market conditions. The Luton factory produces the Vectra for which recent demand has been low. US-based GM is to concentrate production of the model's replacement in Germany & possibly the Netherlands
12th December 2000
GOVT PROMISES "RAPID RESPONSE" ON PLANT
The Government is promising what it calls a "rapid response" to Vauxhall's decision to end car production at its Luton plant. The Trade Secretary Stephen Byers said it was a "bitter blow" for the 2 000 whose jobs are to go & the Government would help fund new job opportunities. Luton South MP Margaret Moran said it was devastating for the local economy. She said she had already spoken to the Government about a possible rescue plan
11th December 2000
CHANCELLOR SIGNALS FAMILIES TAX CUTS
Chancellor Gordon Brown has signalled tax cuts for families in the run-up to the next General Election. Mr Brown said he aimed to raise the new #8.50p children's tax credit to £10 a week equivalent to a 2.5p income tax cut for the average family. He questioned Tory plans to cut tax at a meeting of Labour's National Policy Forum at the party's Millbank base. He said the proposed cuts would put the stability of the economy at risk.
12th December 2000
2 000 JOBS GO AS VAUXHALL SHUTS PLANT
The Vauxhall car plant at Luton in Bedfordshire is to close with the loss of 2 000 jobs over the next 15 months. The closure stems from global restructuring by parent firm General Motors which blames over-capacity & changing European market conditions. The Luton factory produces the Vectra for which recent demand has been low. US-based GM is to concentrate production of the model's replacement in Germany & possibly the Netherlands
12th December 2000
ARCHER REMANDED FOR TRIAL FOR PERJURY
Former Tory party deputy chairman Lord Archer has pleaded not guilty to five charges including perjury & perverting the course of justice. The millionaire author was remanded for trial on May 14 at the Old Bailey. Lord Archer 60 is alleged to have asked Ted Francis 66 to provide a false alibi for a libel case. Mr Francis a TV producer pleaded not guilty in court to one charge of perverting the course of justice.
