BA pilot holiday pay row lands in court – BBC News

Posted February 24th, 2010 in airlines, holiday pay, news, trade unions by sally

“British Airways is due in court to fight a union’s attempt to change its policy on holiday pay for pilots.”

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BBC News, 24th February 2010

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Clothing catalogue broke advertising rules over ‘irresponsible’ pictures of children – Daily Telegraph

Posted February 24th, 2010 in advertising, children, health & safety, news by sally

“The images, from a brochure for the no added sugar Ltd winter collection, breached the advertisers’ code because children could try to copy the images, putting their safety at risk, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruled.”

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Daily Telegraph, 24th February 2010

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Interrogation practices to be questioned – The Independent

Posted February 24th, 2010 in intelligence services, news, torture by sally

“Ministers are to face a legal challenge over the use of secret guidance given to members of the secret services when interrogating prisoners abroad. Lawyers and human-rights groups claim the unpublished codes of practice, issued in 2002 and 2004, allowed officers working for MI5 and MI6 to collude in torture. Reprieve, which represents Binyam Mohamed and several other former Guantanamo Bay detainees, is to go to court to force the Government to disclose what it describes as Britain’s ‘torture policy’.”

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The Independent, 24th February 2010

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News of the World phone-hacking scandal: the verdicts – The Guardian

Posted February 24th, 2010 in media, news, privacy, telecommunications by sally

“What the House of Commons culture, media and sport select committee report says about Andy Coulson, the information commissioner, the police and the PCC.”

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The Guardian, 24th February 2010

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Reckitt could face £775m fine over Gaviscon ‘abuse of position’ – The Times

Posted February 24th, 2010 in fines, medicines, news by sally

“The maker of Gaviscon indigestion medicine is alleged to have removed one version of the drug from NHS lists to encourage doctors to prescribe a more expensive variety. The Office of Fair Trading said yesterday that Reckitt Benckiser had abused its bestselling position in the market for supplying heartburn medicines to the NHS.”

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The Times, 24th February 2010

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