the union believes the coventry warehouse employs 1,300 people, and that a majority want to be represented by the union. they ve applied for statutory recognition from an organisation known as the central arbitration committee. at its warehouse in dartford, the company has addressed the issue of recognition for the first time in an interview. but the truth is you are going to do everything in your power as a company to keep that union out, aren t you? we respect our workers rights tojoin or not tojoin a union, and we re working with the cac as part of the gmb s formal application for recognition. but, i mean, you re not going to recognise them, are you? you will do everything in your power to stop that from happening. we re working through a formal process with the cac. so if the gmb can show they have got a majority of workers in coventry, you will recognise them? there s a formal process under way. the gmb have made a formal application to the central arbitration committee
in the north of the country, with police and nato troops clashing with serb protesters. translation: kosovo is the heart and bedrock, a centre translation: kosovo is the heart and bedrock, a centre of translation: kosovo is the heart and bedrock, a centre of historic translation: kosovo is the heart and bedrock, a centre of historic events - bedrock, a centre of historic events for our state. the great battles took place there, the most important monasteries and temples are there, so there are many reasons why ruth adam camera, because that is the truth. fans of the chennai super kings will be pretty happy right now. not only did they win the indian premier league on monday but their wicketkeeper, the great ms dhoni, has delayed his decision to retire. dhoni pulled off the key stumping of gujarat titans batter shubman gill in the final as his side set up a dramatic finish. ravindra jadeja smashed ten runs from the final two balls to seize victory for chennai. dhoni had b
That simply wasnt made to last. Raac was a postwar solution, now causing a headache for 21st century britain. More than 100 schools in britain have been told they need to close. Labour has announced it will force the government to reveal a complete list of affected schools, and now calls for transparency on the scale of the problem and for fast solutions. Its been known for a while and what we have also known for a while is there is a squeeze on school funding, and my committee has highlighted that repeatedly, and my committee has highlighted that and when you dont invest in maintenance and improvements in schools you get these problems arising but with raac its a systemic failure of the actual material used to build them. Hospital buildings and Court Buildings among those impacted and internal documents obtained by The Sunday Times suggest hospitals could be at risk of catastrophic collapse. The concerns about this have been swirling around for so long. Trusts have been trying to cope
rishi sunak has pledged to give 30 towns across the uk £20 million each, if the conservatives are re elected. my colleaguejess parker has been following the conservatives and gave me this update earlier. i am on the conservative battle bus. it s on its inaugural campaignjourney. and there s a little bit of confusion because, of course, myself and other reporters have been reporting from buses since the campaign began. that was on a different bus. didn t have conservative branding. didn t have the prime minister on board. but we re now on the officially branded bus that was launched earlier today in redcar, and we re continuing to travel across the north east. just to give you a sense of this bus, if the camera will kindly do a little crowd view. this is producerjack bbc producerjack. and then down the aisle there there are other reporters from different broadcasters, from newspapers as well. and of course the idea is that you get to follow the campaign, you get to be in re
Hold it on top of the mud. and you ve only gone that deep, but you re stuck. of course, even though people know of the dangers, it s all too easy to get caught out, which is why those living up and down the east coast here appreciate what the coastguard does. we re here to help people, not to judge people if they get into distress or they get into the mud. we re here to help you, and that s what the coastguard s about. crispin rolfe, bbc news. next week marks the 80th anniversary of the d day landings and ahead of the date, we ve been telling the stories of some of those involved. 0ur reporterjohn maguire has been to normandy to meet three french women who were young children at the time of liberation. for the people of northern france, years of nazi occupation came to an end with d day and its aftermath. civilians paid a heavy price in lives and property destroyed as the allies drove the german forces south. the fighting was often brutal. those alive today were