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News in Brief: 6/9/2014

WOLVERHAMPTON: The city received a fresh blow yesterday when parent company Caterpillar axed over 200 manufacturing jobs at its historic Turner Powertrain Systems plant.

Engineering union Unite regional secretary Gerard Coyne accused global heavy machinery giant Caterpillar of reneging on an earlier pledge to retain manufacturing jobs in the city.

Caterpillar now plans to export the work abroad.

 

CHILD ABUSE: City of London Lord Mayor Fiona Woolf has been named chairwoman of an inquiry commissioned by the government into historic child sex abuse.

Ms Woolf, a leading tax lawyer, takes the place of Baroness Butler-Sloss, who stepped down days after being appointed to chair the inquiry in July, after questions were raised over potential conflicts of interest.

Some of the alleged events took place when her brother Lord Havers was attorney general.

 

POLICING: A senior policeman told an inquest yesterday that bosses “suppressed” his report expressing concerns about the policing at Hillsborough football ground in 1989.  

Retired chief inspector Frank Brayford said he had detailed his concerns internally days after the fatal semi-final but never received a reply.

He was allegedly visited later by a West Midlands officer and told to stop.

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