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Neighbourhood Insp Lisa Musgrove, of the Sunderland Neighbourhood Policing Team, commented that a robbery at William Hill bookmakers in Sunderland was an isolated incident. She said: “Thankfully the member of staff was not seriously injured. We’ve been following a number of lines of inquiry to find those responsible and are now releasing CCTV footage in the hope members of the public can help us.” She added: “We know that one of the men has Lidl shopping bags over his shoes but would ask anyone who may know the brand of clothing or where it could have been bought from to contact us.”

Labour left a £3.3 billion black hole in the defence budget according to the incoming Defence Minister, Dr Liam Fox. Writing in the Times, Dr Liam Fox said the Ministry of Defence had been "living beyond its means for too long". He used as an example that the cost of building two aircraft carriers rose by £767m. "Some projects would actually be more expensive to cancel than to continue – which is an absurdity that you would only really find made in Whitehall,” was Dr Fox’s verdict on the defence department.

A Scottish First Division soccer club in administration has removed most of its first team staff. Players Mickael Antoine-Curier, Eric Paton, Dominic Shimmin, Njazi Kuqi, Paul McHale, Scott Fox, Colin McMenamin and Charlie Grant have been released by Dundee. Former Scotland midfielder Brian Kerr and the management team have also been axed. "We must get money in the door before Christmas," said the administrator’s statement. "That is the deadline we have set as of now. I cannot stress enough how much the club needs the support of Dundee and its people."

Organisations such as the Design Council and the National Endowment for Science, Technology and Arts will be turned into charities as part of the Government’s sweeping reform of quangos, of which 192 of these non-governmental bodies are set to be scrapped. "We know that for a long time there has been a huge hunger for change," Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude said yesterday. "People have been fed-up with the old way of doing business, where the ministers they voted for could often avoid taking responsibility for difficult and tough decisions by creating or hiding behind one of these quangos.”

A state-of-the-art car park has opened in Birmingham, as part of a brand new retail and shopping complex in the city centre. The ‘donkey work’ of actually parking your vehicle is done for you, a first for these shores. Motorists leave their car in a transfer area, then watch as the vehicle is carried down and placed in an empty bay on an automatic carrier. On returning for the car, it is lifted back up to the garage. Incredibly, the car is even turned around so it can be driven straight out.

The National Probation Service says that re-offending rates can be reduced from 50 to 35 per cent if criminals take part in schemes such as those used to treat drug and alcohol addiction. But the trade union and campaigning group, which represents more than 9,000 probation and family court staff throughout England, Wales and Northern Ireland, predicts that the number of successfully completed schemes will fall if government departmental cuts proceed as planned because the service will lose experienced staff. "This will increase re-offending rates and create more victims," said the group more commonly known as Napo.

The TUC (Trades Union Congress) has given the thumbs-up to a slight rise in the minimum wage, which most adult UK workers are eligible for. In a statement the TUC said: “Its success has shown that – despite scare-mongering from some business voices – the economy can easily cope with sensible labour market regulation. Indeed, our current economic woes seem to be caused by too little regulation rather than too much.” The employment ministry added that the main 13p per hour increases “are appropriate for the economic climate.”

A walkout was saved at the last minute by thousands of journalists, technicians and other broadcast staff this week which would have jeopardised coverage of David Cameron’s speech. Labour Party leader Ed Miliband had earlier called on BBC staff not to black out Mr Cameron’s debut speech as Prime Minister midway through the Tories’ annual conference, saying that in the “interests of impartiality and fairness” it should be broadcast. Unions are clashing with BBC management over plans to cap pensionable pay.

Having a puff on company time could be stubbed out from next week in one part of eastern England. William Nunn, leader of Breckland council, which proposes that staff will not be paid in future for the time they take to have a cigarette, said: "We want to make sure this policy is fair for all, including those that don't smoke and don't take advantage of breaks out of the building.” He added: “We surveyed all of our staff and 75% responded and said we should get a policy through the authority which made it fair for all.”

Milk and juice carton company Tetra Pak is set to close a depot in Wales, resulting in 150 jobs going. Rik Jacobs, Tetra Pak managing director for the UK and Ireland, said: "The decision to consult on Wrexham's future has been an extremely difficult one, but is necessary to ensure our continued competitiveness. If the proposal to close production in Wrexham goes forward, regrettably there will be significant restructuring and job losses." Mr Jacobs said if the closure went ahead it would offer "fair and equitable severance packages over and above the statutory requirements."