New Forest Show Highlights

6:58am today

A GUIDE to just some of the highlights that can be expected at this year's New Forest show.

	It’s like a bomb has exploded among us
	3:21pm Sat 19 Jul 08
	"SOME days are so difficult to get through without him I can hardly breathe."

Libraries affected by council staff strike

11:40am Wednesday 16th July 2008

A LIST of the libraries that will be shut or partially closed today following the walkout by council staff.

Ford - the minutes in full

10:11am Wednesday 16th July 2008

The full minutes from the special joint works committee at the Southampton Ford plant. The three page report was leaked to the Daily Echo.

	Ford's Turkish future
	9:03am Sun 13 Jul 08
	AS FEARS over job losses at the Ford plant in Southampton grow, comments on the company website will do little to ease workers' concerns.
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	FORD - Concern among workers
	10:51am Fri 11 Jul 08
	WORKERS arrived at the giant Ford plant yesterday with heavy hearts and still no news about their jobs.
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	FORDS - Turkey plant also builds Transit
	9:24am Thu 10 Jul 08
	In addition to the Southampton plant Ford put together the Transit van in Ford Otosan Assembly, in Kocaeli, Turkey, and Genk Body and Assembly in Genk, Belgium.
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	FORD - 1.8 million Transit vans in 35 years
	10:11am Thu 10 Jul 08
	WHILE the white Transit van may seem to many to be a timeless British icon it was not until 1965 that the first one rolled off the production line.

FORDS - History of Southampton's Transit plant.

10:07am Thursday 10th July 2008

SOUTHAMPTON'S Ford factory first opened in Swaythling in 1953 and after the first van rolled off the production line in 1972 it quickly became known as the 'Home of the Transit'.

	Councillors take £1.27m in expenses
	11:03am Thu 3 Jul 08
	THE taxpayers' bill for Hampshire county councillors has doubled in past seven years, the Daily Echo can reveal.
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