2009 Lindsey Oil Refinery strikes On 16 February an Acas report concluded that Total had not broken the law in employing Italian workers at the refinery. The strike at Lindsey resumed on 11 June 2009, after a subcontractor at the site laid off a number of employees, later confirmed to be 51. The strike was quickly followed by sympathy strikes at Cheshire's Fiddlers Ferry Power Station on 15 June and Aberthaw on 17 June. The strikes escalated on 18 June, with walkouts at Drax Power Station and Eggborough Power Station in Yorkshire and Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station in Nottinghamshire, BP Saltend, and the BOC oxygen plant
Richard Erle-Drax-Grosvenor (1797–1828) the surname of Erle-Drax in lieu of his patronymic. Richard Erle-Drax-Grosvenor (1797–1828) Richard Edward Erle-Drax-Grosvenor (c. March 1797 – 18 August 1828), was a British politician. A member of the Grosvenor family now headed by the Duke of Westminster, he was the son of Richard Erle-Drax-Grosvenor and Sarah Frances, daughter of Edward Drax, of Charborough House, Dorset. On his father's death in 1819 he succeeded him as Member of Parliament for New Romney, a seat he held until 1826. Erle-Drax-Grosvenor inherited Charborough House through his mother. He died unmarried in August 1828, aged only 31. His sister Jane Frances Erle-Drax-Grosvenor