400 Cadbury workers to lose jobs

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Engine giant Rolls-Royce is making 38 staff redundant in its turbine-making division near Bristol.
Creativity is driving confidence in Plymouth's construction industry and helping to haul the city out of recession, say planning chiefs.
Bristol City FC is moving closer to a breakthrough in negotiations to lift one of the final hurdles in the way of its plans to build a new stadium.
A Cornish renewable energy company has gone into liquidation after falling victim to the poor economic conditions.
Labour councillors want to dip into the reserves to delay job losses at Bath and North East Somerset Council by 12 months.
With graduate unemployment at its highest for 12 years, an innovative scheme at the University of Gloucestershire is offering fresh hope for job hunters.
A 50-year battle to protect a piece of green land in Somerset may be lost because the Government wants to hit its house-building targets in Somerset.
Regeneration specialist St Mowden says it is seeing “signs of improvement” in the property market despite wider annual losses.
With an average, annualised turnover of £28 million, The Commercial Group is the largest independently owned office services company in the UK.
Businesses should take advantage of interest-free loans being offered by the Carbon Trust to help accelerate economic recovery, the British Chambers of Commerce will say this week. Read more here
For generations Dover has stood as an indomitable symbol of Britain's freedom and independence. But now cash-strapped Britain is considering selling up to the French Read more here
Two out of five workers expect to be forced to reapply for their own jobs this year as employers start to focus less on redundancies and more on restructuring ahead of a hoped-for upturn.Read more...
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