Maggie Hartford

Writer Maggie Hartford, who is sort of half way to being a vegeterian, chose the whole roasted pepper stuffed with rosemary and butternut squash risotto.

Her verdict: "Five out of ten.Good fresh products, very acceptable but not stunning.

By Maggie Hartford

Welfare officer: Maggie Hartford - maggie.hartford@nqo.com, tel. (01865) 425461

Maggie Hartford is the chapel's health and safety officer and a member of the chapel's new media committee, which has long been pressing the company to address many of these issues.She believes the training courses represent a step in the right direction."It's highlighted a lot of issues that we were concerned about, and suggested ways of dealing with them," she said."I think its raised the issue in everybody's mind, and I hope that makes a difference."The company will no doubt insist all of this has nothing to do with the concerns raised by the chapel.In fact management is so hostile to allowing the chapel any say over these matters that when the new media committee wrote raising concerns, management replied to the FoC, presumably in the hope that the new media committee disappear if they pretend it doesn't exist.However, it's not so many months since management dismissed the chapel's concerns by saying the occupational nurse would be able to deal with any additional problems working with new media might entail."It's a bit of a coincidence that they have tightened up on health and safety issues after a long campaign of attrition by the NUJ about various concerns, particularly to do with new media," said Maggie.

By Maggie Hartford

By Maggie Hartford
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I counted four stripes on the shoulder of the pilot as he emerged from the cockpit."As there are no cabin crew, I'm doing the safety talk myself," he said, as he gave us the lowdown.