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DUBLIN/LONDON (Reuters) - As a major supplier of food in Northern Ireland, Lynas Foodservice is sourcing more goods such as cheese from across the open border with EU-member Ireland to avoid the bureaucratic trade hurdles being erected with Britain after Brexit.
FILE PHOTO: A view shows tied up boats in Portavogie Harbour, as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, near Newtownards, Northern Ireland, Britain April 25, 2020. REUTERS/Jason Cairnduff/File Photo
The supplier of coffee chains, fast food giants and pubs has rerouted European stock via Dublin and sought out Irish or EU suppliers to ease the pressure once British goods require customs checks and paperwork to enter the province when the United Kingdom exits the European Union on Dec. 31.
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A closely watched gauge of growth in British manufacturing activity rose to its highest level in three years last month, as factories rushed to complete work before the end of the post-Brexit transition period on Dec. 31. The IHS Markit/CIPS manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) for December rose to 57.5 from November’s 55.6, its highest .
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DUBLIN/LONDON (Reuters) - As a major supplier of food in Northern Ireland, Lynas Foodservice is sourcing more goods such as cheese from across the open border with EU-member Ireland to avoid the bureaucratic trade hurdles being erected with Britain after Brexit.
FILE PHOTO: A view shows tied up boats in Portavogie Harbour, as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, near Newtownards, Northern Ireland, Britain April 25, 2020. REUTERS/Jason Cairnduff/File Photo
The supplier of coffee chains, fast food giants and pubs has rerouted European stock via Dublin and sought out Irish or EU suppliers to ease the pressure once British goods require customs checks and paperwork to enter the province when the United Kingdom exits the European Union on Dec. 31.
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New York Times didn’t show much Christmas spirit when it likened the sudden stringent new Christmas-season corona restrictions put in place by U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson to Brexit. The paper has always been hostile to both Brexit (the 2016 popular vote that called for the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union) and conservative party leader Boris Johnson.
Reporters Benjamin Mueller and Isabella Kwai sounded like vengeful lefties in Tuesday’s story piling on to Britain’s Christmas-time woes: “As Borders Are Sealed Over Virus Fears, a Taste of Looming Brexit.” The combo of Boris-Brexit-loathing with repellent gloating over the country’s coronavirus woes made for a truly toxic take.