Supermarkets account for just 48% of grocery sales, the lowest share in Europe, says Georgios Doukidis of IELKA, a retail think-tank.Everyone expected a cull but it was slow in coming, partly because marginal shops held on by dodging tax.
"Those who survive the jobs cull can expect a pay freeze, equating to a real terms pay cut, and an ever increasing workload".
Culling badgers to counter tuberculosis in cattle would be a mistake, the leading government adviser on the problem said yesterday, in advance of an expected announcement that a cull is to go ahead.
✒ Ahead of BBC news supremo James Harding's announcement last week of hundreds of job cuts, which were expected to include a cull at Panorama, veteran reporter John Sweeney was maturely stoical.
"Our response to this outbreak follows tried and tested procedures for dealing with avian flu outbreaks and we expect the cull to be completed later today.
"While we are not considering eradication, we do expect our cull target to rise significantly in the light of this new estimate as we need to bring the population of boar on the Public Forest Estate under control".
One of the largest mobilisations of radical animal rights activists was expected in cull zones.
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Hague is to take on the lesser role of leader of the House of Commons, while in a far wider than expected cull of male ministers, the former chancellor Kenneth Clarke will leave the government, along with Damian Green, the policing minister, and David Willetts, the universities and science minister.
A dramatic day at Rangers on Tuesday saw the first first-team sacrifices made in a cull that's expected to run deep through the club's playing squad.
