Express & Star (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
Plans to blow up two landmark silos at the former British Sugar site in Kidderminster have been scrapped because of concerns over safety and loss of income for the Severn Valley Railway. Silos will now be knocked down in stages using a giant “nibbling” machine. … [visit site to read more]
The Debatable Land (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
From the Telegraph's obituary of John Burrows, an intelligence officer who spent part of the war working at Bletchley Park:In August 1939 he married Enid Carter, an employee of the British Sugar Corporation, and a few weeks later, on the outbreak of war, he volunteered for the Intelligence Corps. "When I joined the Army, I was a teacher of modern languages," he said. "I admitted to a working knowledge...
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 31/08/2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Associated British Foods Plc , the owner of British Sugar, is in talks to buy Spanish rival Azucarera Ebro in a 500 million pounds deal, reported the Mail on Sunday.
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk - Home (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
SUTTON’S transport group has won a multi-million pound contract to deliver for British Sugar.
Express & Star (Free subscription) | 28/07/2008
A fierce debate has started about whether a Midland landmark silos should be demolished when the British Sugar site is developed into a business park. There has been suggestions the huge storage structures, which dominate the Kidderminster skyline, could be used as a place to adorn paintings or public artwork done by school children. But some say [...]
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Tate & Lyle , the British sugar refiner and artificial sweetener maker, said it made a "satisfactory" start to the financial year with profit before tax for the continuing operations in the first quarter "broadly" in line with last year as the firm said it's on track for the fiscal year as a whole. Its Americas food and industrial ingredients unit benefited from improved volatile...
Express & Star (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
The Severn Valley Railway heritage line could be extended as a commuter link with a major new business park planned for the former British Sugar site near Kidderminster, it has been revealed. Developers hope to bring a former station near the site back into use. They say the rail link would provide hundreds of workers and [...]
Express & Star (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
Around 700 new jobs could be created at the former British Sugar site in Kidderminster and a satellite college or university may also be built on the land. Developers Cill Dara Property Partnership have held talks with members of Wyre Forest District Council about how the derelict site might best be developed. Officials are now hoping plans [...]
York Press (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
ENVIRONMENT chiefs have cleared British Sugar of breaching a permit when decommissioning work at its former York factory caused a big stink.
York Press (Free subscription) | 15/05/2008
ENVIRONMENT chiefs believe the stink in the area around York's former British Sugar factory should have gone by the weekend.
York Press (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
BRITISH Sugar today apologised to residents after untreated water at its former York factory unleashed a foul stench.
York Press (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
DEMOLITION experts have moved in to York's former British Sugar factory to begin dismantling the massive complex.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Workers move onto the British Sugar site in York to begin demolition work after the factory's closure.
Forbes (Free subscription) | 02/04/2008
British Sugar Giants faces challenges of falling dollar and rising corn prices.
York Press (Free subscription) | 11/03/2008
MOTORISTS and residents may face ten months of disruption and noise because of the looming demolition of York's former British Sugar factory, it was claimed today.
