CONSOLIDATION 3

The twelve o’clock news

1) In the late 1980’s campaigning by Junior hospital doctors exposed an unacceptable faith of the NHS.

2) There were tales of a hundred and 20 hour weeks, even of doctors falling asleep in the operating theatre.

3) The Government promised action.

4) In 1990 an agreement was struck.

5) The new deal as it’s known sets targets for reducing doctors’ hours.

6) By April the 1^st this year no doctor must be on duty for more than 33 hours a week.

7) So as the deadline approaches, has the government solved the problem which has doled the health service for decades?

The twelve o’clock news. This is Alan King.

Distillers, Britain’s biggest Scotch whiskey manufacturers, has announced it’s to axe 715 jobs and close two of its Scottish plants.

A nineteen-year-old airman has been beaten around the head, kicked and punched in Chippenham. He’d been heading back to camp at Hullavington when three youths attacked him in Malmesbury Road. The airman needed hospital treatment for cuts and bruises. Police said the attack was unprovoked: no money was stolen. They’re now appealing for help from the public.

Two women thought to be responsible for widespread credit-card fraud have failed in an attempt to swindle a Chippenham off-licence. Les Skipper reports:

The women, both in their late twenties, tried to use a stolen Access card to buy £34 worth of spirits at Roberts wine merchants in Market Place. When the store assistant decided to check the card, the women made a speedy exit. It’s thought centre for ships taking part in the infamous slave trade. At one time, there were seven miles of continuous docks along the River Mersey. The river is crossed by two tunnels, a railway tunnel built in 1886 and a road tunnel, the Mersey Tunnel, in 1934. For many years ferries were the main way across the river, which has no bridges at this point. There are also two 20^th century cathedrals: one Church of England, the other Roman Catholic. The Catholic cathedral, one of the few in the world built with an underground car park, can be seen in the lower right foreground of the picture. The famous Lime Street station can be seen just right of the centre. Liverpool is a cosmopolitan city and, to the anger of both the Irish and the Welsh, it has been called ‘the real capital of Ireland’ and ‘the real capital of Wales’, because of the large number of Liverpudians of Irish and Welsh descent. Today it is well-known for the wit and humour of its people, and its high unemployment figures. There are plans to attract tourism to the area, and to the north-west generally, by converting areas of dockland into leisure areas, parks and museums.

(from Streamline English. Directions, by P.Viney. Unit 15)

UNIT 1

Lesson B

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