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14 Saturday, June 27, 2009 Industrial action plan by steel sales staff BRITISH Steel sales staff at Steel House, Redcar voted to take industrial action over a bonus row. The steel union ISTC announced that 86% of their members in the commercial department had voted for action 'short of a strike'.

Holidaymakers hit by passport delays TEESSIDE sunseekers jetted off following passport worries. Around 40 holidaymakers were so concerned about delays at the Liverpool passport office that they asked Tim Devlin MP for Stockton for help. The delays were caused by a new computer system it was understood.

Women can't compete, but they can serve MEMBERS of a Guisborough pool team found that they could not compete in the game organised at the town's Quoit Club because they were women. A club official explained that there was a strict all-male policy, although women were allowed to serve behind the bar and sell raffle tickets.

Builders hope to 'ride on Wynyard's prestige' A CONSERVATION group sounded the alarm over developers trying to cash in on millionaire John Hall's plans for Wynyard Hall. The Norton Heritage group claimed housebuilders were homing in on villages surrounding the estate "hoping to ride on Wynyard's prestige." 'We're trainees, but not getting supervision' STOCKTON North MP Frank Cook stepped into a simmering row over an old folks' luncheon club at the United Reform Church, Norton Road. Catering trainees claimed that they had to cope on their own, buying food and preparing meals without the supervision promised. However, the Stockton Youth and Community group insist that a 15 minute visit was made daily, but MP Frank Cook said it was, "unsatisfactory." No fun on Yarm run IT wasn't much fun for three runners who finished the annual Yarm Fun Run. For instead of receiving a medal they were told they had taken the wrong route. Organiser Liz Marsden said, "The person who came in first hadn't entered officially and didn't know the route, the other two just followed him."