Gate Gourmet at danger of falling down

Gate Gourmet has warned it could fall down if it cannot explain its problems at Heathrow. Meeting resumed, flanked by the company and the Transport and General Workers Union, which needs all 670 sacked workers reinstated on Tuesday.

A company presenter at the meeting said it needed to save POUND 14m on labour Heathrow this year. The spokesman stressed that the unions had been discussing Gate Gourmet’s strategic options for six to eight months before last week’s events.

A TGWU presenter said, “There’s some very hard discussion going on, and some very detailed work going on at the minute”.

“Discussions are extremely rough, however every endeavor is being completed to get to a conclusion that will be satisfactory to the TGWU and save the jobs of Gate Gourmet’s 1,400 staff at Heathrow,” a Gate Gourmet presenter said.

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Newest computerized hospital to be placed within PIMS premises

Federal Health Ministry of Islamabad has formally given sanction to set up newest computerized hospital in Pakistan Institute of Medical Science (PIMS).

The newest computerized hospital, which will be one of its types in Pakistan, will be constructed with an estimated cost of Rs 3 million.

All the latest facilities will be available in this hospital and sources disclose that the hospital will be constructed within the premises of PIMS.

Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz will lay the foundation stone of the hospital in October.

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Iraqis speak, 15 dead after military shooting - but U.S. denies

An assault on a U.S. military patrol followed by U.S. gunfire left 15 Iraqis dead and 17 injured in a town, west of Baghdad, residents said on Saturday, but the U.S. military said it was not to be blamed.

Residents of Nasaf, a town just outside the city of Ramadi, said a roadside bomb exploded next to a U.S. armored patrol as it passed near the Ibn al-Jawzi mosque soon after prayers on Friday. “U.S. troops opened fire straight away after the explosion, shooting toward people rising from the mosque”, they said.

The director of Ramadi General Hospital, Munem Aftan said, 15 people were killed, as well as eight children, and 17 injured. Pool of blood place on the steps exterior of the mosque and bullet holes are noticeable on its walls.

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Crude up, U.S. refiners suffered unpredicted outages

Oil climbed on Friday to within USD 1 of its all-time high as more U.S. refiners suffered unpredicted outages that would confound efforts to meet strong demand growth in the world’s biggest consumer.

U.S. light sweet crude was up 27 cents to USD 61.65 a container in Asian trade, having closed 52 cents higher on Thursday, its fifth gain in the past six sessions. Prices were 85 cents below the all-time peak of USD 62.50.

Half-dozen refineries in the United States have been forced into unexpected shutdowns since late July and some have had to wait planned restarts, leaving the market on edge after U.S. gasoline stocks fell a sharp 4 million barrels last week.

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