Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life…
The Government has recently ended its £750m border security contract with a Raytheon-led consortium and said it had no confidence in the U.S. company.
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£755m UK border contract scrapped
By Lorraine Turner
Friday, 23 July 2010
The Government ended its £750m border security contract with a consortium led by Raytheon yesterday, saying it had no confidence in the [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Jul 26th 2010
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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
Horace
22 Comments CherryPie on May 30th 2010
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20 Comments CherryPie on May 28th 2010
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This year the MoD Group Conference was held in the Holiday Inn which was a long trek from the Group hotel. Business started at 9 in the morning and finished at 5.30 in the evening with an hour for lunch. Once again I was on the Standing Orders Committee which ensures the conference [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on May 24th 2010
My actions are my only true belongings.
I cannot escape the consequences of my actions.
My actions are the ground upon which I stand.
Thich Nhat Hanh
18 Comments CherryPie on May 23rd 2010
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Follow me live from Brighton, reporting on the MoD group and main PCS conference. You can also view the latest the comments on my Twitter feed more easily in in my sidebar if you scroll down a little.
We meet in Brighton just after the 6 May general election, but we know that whoever is leading [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on May 16th 2010
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The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) has won it’s legal challenge against government plans to cut civil service redundancy payments:
Following a two-day judicial review hearing in the High Court in April, Mr Justice Sales ruled today (10 May) that the previous government acted unlawfully when it introduced, without PCS’s agreement, a [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on May 10th 2010
