... Thousands of jobs ‘to go’ NORTHERN Ireland is now a “glorified workhouse” where six in 10 workers are employed by the state, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions conference in Enniskillen was told yesterday. Chairman Mrs Inez McCormack warned delegates ...

... Britain live in families drawig benefits that would not be enough to pay for the food gven to a child in a Bethnal Green Workhouse in 1876. NCH Action for Children, a charity organisation, used Poor Law regulations and historical records to calculate the ...

... movement was very slow. Mr Fields said lorry loads of potatoes were coming into the county. Potato growers were rendyy for the workhouse at the moment and the appalling weather conditions in Donegal have shown the farmers stand against the land tax to be 100 ...

... will mean “industrial conscription” for s quarter-of-a-million 16 and 17-year-olds and will turn the YTS into a ‘toonwo workhouse’'. Mr Weller sald yesterday: “Young people are belng torced into 8 situation where they either take the YTS or they are ieft ...

... losing her parents in a cholera epidemic, 16-year-old Cissie struggles to keep her five young brothers and sisters from the workhouse. With Tracy Whitwell, James Fox. The Knock. Drama series which enters the unique world of HM Customs and Excise Spitting ...

... ogre-like reputation for small boys. Certainly, life in Harryville has changed. Few would wish to return to the days when the workhouse was a possibility and cold water, outdoor toilets and oil lamps a matter of everyday existence. But there’s no harm in r ...

... Manchester Park. $-30 THE QUEEN IN THE CARIBBEAN: Part 1 - Belize and the Bahamas. 6-00 OLIVER TWIST Oliver has shocked the workhouse guardians by asking for more gruel and they decide to get rid of him by making him an apprentice. 6-30 NEWS; Weather News ...