They found a 93 year old woman with hypothermia and leg ulcers who was kept waiting for more than 30 hours, and a 41 year old woman with abdominal pains who spent more than 54 hours in casualty at Kent and Canterbury Hospital. The money is part of a 15 billion package over five years. When Railtrack was sold off, shareholders paid less than 700 million for it. Now the government is giving the company 20 times that amount. A survey released this week showed the first fall in order books for this sector for two years.
Managers expect workers to pay the price of keeping profits high.
140 jobs to go at SSL medical products on Merseyside. 80 job losses at EMAP publishers.