Export Working Capital Scheme
Warwickshire-based iRob specialises in robotics and automation, providing a range of manufacturing services to large scale exporters in the automotive industry. The company turned to
UKEF after securing a high-value contract with Jaguar Land Rover to deliver new automated facilities for a range of new models.
UKEF’s local export finance manager, Jane Cooper, worked with Barclays to put a working capital facility in place that would allow the company to buy materials and pay staff while retaining cash in the business. We were also able to help extend the payment deadline after COVID-19 disruptions led to factory shutdowns and inevitable changes to the project timelines.
iPolitics By Kady O Malley. Published on Jan 19, 2021 6:01am Conservative Leader Erin O Toole in Ottawa in February 2018, announced his climate plan on Thursday which includes a carbon levy. (Matthew Usherwood/iPolitics)
As
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gets ready to head outside Rideau Cottage to deliver his now standard semiweekly on-camera update on the ongoing cross-country effort to curtail and contain a second wave of COVID-19 outbreaks, he’ll likely take some comfort in the fact that, unlike his Conservative counterpart
Erin O’Toole, he won’t have to explain how his party wound up inadvertently processing a $131 contribution from alleged white supremacist. (11:15 AM)
CHRISTMAS spirit was on show in Aberdour recently when one group of residents got a special festive treat. Members of the Aberdour Daycare Association’s Tuesday Club were treated to a Christmas delivery of a fish supper, home baking and a plant. Volunteers were out in force dropping the goodies off to make up for cancellation of their annual Christmas dinner. Association chairperson Jane Cooper told the Press: “We are missing our Christmas lunch – we always have a nice Christmas lunch – and that is to thank the volunteers as well,” she said. “We didn’t want Christmas to go and not to have marked it.
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Federal prosecutors say police have rounded up most of the 20-plus Springfield area people indicted on drug charges, adding the defendants are gang members or associates of gang members.
The accusations involve trafficking cocaine, crack, heroin, meth, and fentanyl in Springfield over the last two years. Police agencies involved in the investigation include the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration, state police, and Springfield police.
The list of defendants, provided by the U.S. Attorney’s office:
U.S. v. Derrick Bailey et.al. 20-30078
1. Derrick D. Bailey, 40, of the 2700 block of York Rd., Springfield, Ill., detained in federal custody