A Cheddar Valley business is going national in its bid to boostsales.
Thatchers Cider, the Sandford-based company, is investing in amajor media campaign worth Pounds 1.5 million for its flagshipbrand, Thatchers Gold.
The Somerset cider maker is including UK national coveragethrough Sky channels, together with cinema, for the first time. ThePeople Who Care …
BAGHDAD - A mortar shell hit the roof of Iraq's parliament building in the Green Zone compound in Baghdad on Monday, but no injuries were reported, a lawmaker said.
"The shell landed almost above the office of the parliament speaker," said Sabah al-Saadi, a parliamentarian, adding that there was minor damage to the roof.
Al-Saadi was inside attending a committee meeting with other lawmakers when the mortar shell hit.
Also Monday, gunmen in two cars attacked a minibus heading to Baghdad from a Shiite town north of the capital, killing seven passengers, including a child, police said.
Thousands of soldiers, meanwhile, continued combing through fields and …
The National Assembly gave preliminary approval Tuesday to legislation that would let President Hugo Chavez's government seize control of some oil service companies without following usual legal procedures for expropriating private businesses.
State oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA, or PDVSA, has clashed in recent months with domestic and foreign firms over their fees for providing equipment and services to help extract crude. PDVSA wants to slash those costs 40 percent because its revenues have plunged due to the fall in oil prices, and it says some contracts are now overvalued.
Under Chavez, Venezuela has nationalized four major oil projects as well …
Saying no to school consolidations is the easy part of draftingnext year's budget by the Chicago Board of Education. Now comes thehard part - plugging a $300 million flow of red ink.
Consolidations of 26 elementary schools wouldn't have saved anickel in the first year but they would have caused disruptions forstudents, teachers and local school councils, an argument that wasn'tlost on the board's Instruction Committee last week.
So, now what? Other than Supt. Ted Kimbrough's plan to closefive schools, which goes before the board's Audit and FinanceCommittee, the board has no other cards on the table to ease theshortfall in the $2.3 billion budget next …
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian authorities said Monday that they have accused an army major and four other soldiers of killing three civilians and then falsely presenting their bodies as those of guerrillas slain in combat.
Maj. Juan Carlos Del Rio Crespo and four other troops were charged in the 2002 killings of three members of the Agudelo family in Antioquia state, about 180 miles (290 kilometers) northwest of the capital, Bogota, the attorney general's office said in a statement.
Investigators determined the three were defenseless when they were slain, but that the soldiers later said the deaths happened during combat against the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of …
The U.S. military said Sunday it does not believe a recent wave of deadly attacks in Baghdad reflects a trend toward an overall increase in violence.
Navy Rear Adm. Gregory Smith, the military spokesman, said a wave of horrific violence, including a single attack on Thursday that killed 68 people in Baghdad, must be placed in perspective.
You have to "look historically at what happened in the last year to put in perspective what has happened in one week or two weeks in Baghdad," Smith said.
Violence around Iraq has dropped by about 60 percent in the past nine months, due mostly to an influx of thousands of U.S. troops, a cease-fire …
A North-east show has showcased improvements in school meals.
Aberdeenshire Council's meal service was highlighted at the Turriff Show which continues today.
One particular highlight of the stand was maps illustrating howlocally farmed milk and beef are supplied to the meals service at allAberdeenshire schools.
The "Fae Fairm tae …
