?I refused to work for a company that expected women to wear makeup, heels and a skirt. She noted that it took until last January for British Airways to allow female cabin crew members to wear trousers. Its old code had warned employees against such things as greasy or highly gelled hair or wearing flowers as accessories. ?The company expected me to do a nine-hour shift on my feet escorting clients to meeting rooms,? she said. Britain?s 2010 Equality Act prohibits discrimination in the workplace on the basis of gender, age or sexual orientation.

In the event of a US-UK trade deal, farmers on both sides of the Atlantic might argue that GM labelling, and cultivation and import bans, are discriminatory barriers to trade. A US-UK trade deal opens the door to imports of American foods grown using these pesticides. The UK?s willingness to accept imports of animal feed manufactured with animal byproducts (and GM soya) could be a prerequisite of any US trade deal. Facebook Twitter Pinterest A US-UK trade deal could lead to GM crops being grown commercially in the UK. The only GM foods currently on British shelves are sweet imported American junk foods, and cheap cooking oils aimed at the catering trade.

As President Donald Trump looks to create jobs in the U.S., his press office is demonstrating an urgent need to hire a proofreader. The subject line of another missive released Thursday announced a ?Readout of the Vice President?s Call with Australian Foreign Prime Minister Julie Bishop. On Friday, May is scheduled to become the first foreign leader to meet Trump since he became president last week. " Bishop was born in Australia and she isn?t the country?s prime minister, a job held by Malcolm Turnbull. The White House just put out a memo highlighting Trump?s meeting on Friday with ?United Kingdom Prime Minister, Teresa May.? The release sent to media organizations from the Office of the Press Secretary dropped the ?h" in all three mentions of her full name: Theresa May.

The Special Relationship: British PM May to Meet Pres. Trump on FridayBritain?s new prime minister hopes that she can forge a ?special relationship? with the new U.S. president in the manners of FDR-Churchill, Clinton-Blair, and most famously, Reagan-Thatcher.

Police in Thailand are seeking two suspects, a South African and a Briton, in the killing of a British man in the Thai resort town of Pattaya. He said Bonito, from South Africa, is suspected of being the gunman and Briton Turner the driver who whisked him away on a motorcycle after Tuesday`s shooting. Jitti said both men have left Thailand but he declined to say to where. They have suggested the killing may have been related to a business dispute. Police said witnesses and surveillance cameras helped identify the suspects.