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To Kafeneion => Grapevine / News Briefs => Topic started by: Maik on Sunday, 03 April, 2016 @ 11:11:28
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Greece challenges IMF over 'debt transcript leak'
Greece has demanded an explanation from the IMF over a leaked conversation in which top officials allegedly discuss the Greek bailout.
A transcript, published by Wikileaks, shows the officials discussing ways of putting pressure on Greece, Germany and the EU to get them to wrap up talks.
One of those quoted suggests a crisis "event" may be needed to force a conclusion.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35953028
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Middle-class families 'resentful' as Government takes record £4.6bn inheritance tax bill
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tax/inheritance/middle-class-families-resentful-as-government-takes-record-46bn/
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Government calls on councils to buy British steel in bid to save industry
Ministers have announced a bid to save UK steel by encouraging councils and hospitals to buy British as they try to save the industry.
New medical facilities, schools and road projects are among £300 billion worth of infrastructure projects due to be built over the next five years. Public bodies must consider using British steel before importing from abroad under rules that value the social impact of production alongside the cost of the material for the first time.
The change will level the playing field between British made steel and Chinese imports, Ministers have announced.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/02/government-calls-on-councils-to-buy-british-steel-in-bid-to-save/
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'It's time to stop Greece's fiscal waterboarding by an incompetent, misanthropic troika'
http://www.businessinsider.com.au/yanis-varoufakis-on-imf-debt-talk-leak-2016-4
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Government calls on councils to buy British steel in bid to save industry
Ministers have announced a bid to save UK steel by encouraging councils and hospitals to buy British as they try to save the industry.
New medical facilities, schools and road projects are among £300 billion worth of infrastructure projects due to be built over the next five years. Public bodies must consider using British steel before importing from abroad under rules that value the social impact of production alongside the cost of the material for the first time.
The change will level the playing field between British made steel and Chinese imports, Ministers have announced.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/02/government-calls-on-councils-to-buy-british-steel-in-bid-to-save/
Didn't I read/hear somewhere that the government sourced steel from Sweden for some new plane/ship, recently!!
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Yep, indeed seems to be the case, Jean:
New Scout armoured vehicles built with Swedish steel
The £3.5 billion scheme, for 589 Scout vehicles, requires "specialist" steel in "relatively small quantities", Philip Dunne said in a written Parliamentary answer.
Challenged on British steel by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Mr Cameron said: "On procurement, we changed the procurement rules so that it was easier to source UK steel.
"That is why Crossrail - 26 miles of tunnels, the biggest construction project anywhere in Europe - is being completed using almost exclusively British steel.
"That did not happen under the last Labour government; it does happen now."
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/politics/new-scout-armoured-vehicles-built-with-swedish-steel-34146875.html
Company supplying Swedish steel for Navy's warships is owned by Tory donor
GCH Capital and its founder Greg Hutchings have pumped tens of thousands into the Conservative war chest, latest donation figures reveal
A total of 4,000 tonnes of steel is being used for the £348million fleet. Parliamentary questions this month forced the Ministry of Defence to admit that 60% – about 2,400 tonnes – is coming from Sweden, 400 tonnes from Spain, 800 tonnes from the UK and the remaining 10% “from Dent’s existing stock, of unknown origin”.
Electoral Commission figures last week showed GCH ploughed £16,700 into the Tory Party in November on top of the £65,000 it has injected since 2010.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/company-supplying-swedish-steel-navys-7461439
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Yep, indeed seems to be the case, Jean:
New Scout armoured vehicles built with Swedish steel
The £3.5 billion scheme, for 589 Scout vehicles, requires "specialist" steel in "relatively small quantities", Philip Dunne said in a written Parliamentary answer.
Challenged on British steel by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Mr Cameron said: "On procurement, we changed the procurement rules so that it was easier to source UK steel.
"That is why Crossrail - 26 miles of tunnels, the biggest construction project anywhere in Europe - is being completed using almost exclusively British steel.
"That did not happen under the last Labour government; it does happen now."
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/politics/new-scout-armoured-vehicles-built-with-swedish-steel-34146875.html
Company supplying Swedish steel for Navy's warships is owned by Tory donor
GCH Capital and its founder Greg Hutchings have pumped tens of thousands into the Conservative war chest, latest donation figures reveal
A total of 4,000 tonnes of steel is being used for the £348million fleet. Parliamentary questions this month forced the Ministry of Defence to admit that 60% – about 2,400 tonnes – is coming from Sweden, 400 tonnes from Spain, 800 tonnes from the UK and the remaining 10% “from Dent’s existing stock, of unknown origin”.
Electoral Commission figures last week showed GCH ploughed £16,700 into the Tory Party in November on top of the £65,000 it has injected since 2010.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/company-supplying-swedish-steel-navys-7461439
All Steel is not the same. Even when british Steel was in it's heyday it didn't produce all the possible grades for all all the possible applications.
The specification for the ships is for a marine grade, high strength steel. A very specialised item. Given that there is very little shipbuilding done in the country it's sort of understandable that as there isn't much of a demand in the UK for this grade, then it's not readily available. Some of the plates for these ships may also be outside some of the dimensional capabilities that a UK mill could produce.
The same situation may applied to the Scout cars.
Maybe we should be looking at the designers and Naval Architects to specify materials that are available.