Defence contractor BAE Systems is to formally announce later that it is cutting nearly 3,000 jobs in the UK. Brough in East Yorkshire will see 900 jobs go, Warton in Lancashire will lose 822 posts and Samlesbury, also in Lancashire, will lose 565. A further 655 jobs will also be lost at smaller sites, taking the final figure to 2,942, the BBC understands.

In another time and perhaps another place
No jobs were lost at British Aerospace
Almost 3000 lives are to come undone
Feed the anger under the autumn setting sun

Patients with terminal cancer should not be given life-extending drugs, doctors said yesterday. The treatments give false hope and are too costly for the public purse, they warned. The group of 37 cancer experts, including British specialist Karol Sikora, claimed a 'culture of excess' had led doctors to 'over treat, over diagnose and overpromise'.

The fates of time resting in hands of fools
As yet again they change our living rules
From their gilded lives flow words of concern
But moneyed self preservation all they learn

Three women have described the historic day Mahatma Gandhi visited Darwen 80 years ago today. As political leader of India, he was invited to see the effects of his country’s boycott of cotton goods on Darwen, by Percy and Kathleen Davies, owners of Greenfield Mill, in Darwen. Then aged 62, he was in London for talks about the issue when the opportunity arose to speak to the town where 10,000 were unemployed because of the action.

 

A famous man called Mahatma

Came to Darwen met few grandma
He saw that it was very good
Went home, said emigrate, we should
Millions shall go there for holiday
No needs for money the UK pay