Fire at Coxheath scrapyard near Sydney burns hundreds of cars

Cape Breton firefighters say 60 vehicles were fully engulfed by flames in a pile of 500 cars at a scrapyard just outside Sydney, N.S. Tuesday night.

More than 60 firefighters led by the Coxheath Volunteer Fire Department responded to the fire. 

Reports of the fire came around 7:15 p.m. and the Cape Breton Regional Municipality said firefighters are expected remain on scene into the early hours of Wednesday morning.

The CBC's Gary Mansfield reports there was no water supply on hand so fire crews brought in water trucks.

A crane was at the scene to lift the vehicles out of the way, which were stacked several cars high. The fire was isolated to one area of the scrapyard and fire crews worked to keep it from spreading. 

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Fire at Coxheath scrapyard near Sydney burns hundreds of cars

Cape Breton firefighters say 60 vehicles were fully engulfed by flames in a pile of 500 cars at a scrapyard just outside Sydney, N.S. Tuesday night.

More than 60 firefighters led by the Coxheath Volunteer Fire Department responded to the fire. 

Reports of the fire came around 7:15 p.m. and the Cape Breton Regional Municipality said firefighters are expected remain on scene into the early hours of Wednesday morning.

The CBC's Gary Mansfield reports there was no water supply on hand so fire crews brought in water trucks.

A crane was at the scene to lift the vehicles out of the way, which were stacked several cars high. The fire was isolated to one area of the scrapyard and fire crews worked to keep it from spreading. 

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Turkey's ruling party denies plans to scrap secularism

rkey's Islamic-rooted ruling party has denied it has plans to change the nation's secular constitution into a religious one.

The statement from senior party officials on Tuesday came a day after parliamentary speaker Ismail Kahraman said majority-Muslim Turkey should have a religious constitution. His comments have led to fears that Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu's party — which is drafting a new constitution— plans to scrap Turkey's secular system.

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Ministers abandon plan to scrap farm animal welfare codes

Ministers have backed down on plans to repeal farm animal welfare codes, abandoning their move to put the poultry industry in charge of the guidance on chickens that was scheduled to come into force this month.

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs released a statement confirming the U-turn, saying the decision was taken “in light of views raised”.

The move to scrap the official code on farming chickens for meat and breeding was revealed last month by the Guardian, prompting an outcry from animal charities and opposition parties.

The change in favour of an “industry-led” guidance, which was to be written and supervised by the British Poultry Council, was part of the deregulatory agenda being led by Liz Truss, the environment secretary.

Other sectors that were to get control of their own guidance in future included the cattle, sheep and pig farming industries.

But a Defra spokesman said on Thursday: “We have the highest standards of animal welfare in the world, and no changes have been proposed to the legislation upholding them. We want to draw more closely on the expertise of the farming industry to ensure our welfare codes reflect the very latest scientific and veterinary developments.


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“In light of views raised, we have given the matter further consideration and believe we can achieve this objective by retaining the existing statutory codes. The work of the farming industry has been invaluable and we will continue to work with them to ensure our guidance is updated to best help them to comply with our high welfare standards.”

Concerns that welfare standards could be weakened had been raised by the RSCPA and Compassion in World Farming as well as by Labour, which this week called for an urgent parliamentary debate on the changes.

Kerry McCarthy, the shadow environment secretary, wrote to Truss on Wednesday, saying: “Abolishing statutory animal welfare codes flies in the face of common sense and risks a return to dangerous days in Britain when animal welfare standards were lax and food scares were rife.

Pfizer, Allergan scrap $160 billion deal after U.S. tax rule change

U.S. drugmaker Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) and Ireland-based Allergan Plc (AGN.N) left their $160 billion merger on Wednesday, a noteworthy win for President Barack Obama, who has been pushing to check bargains in which organizations move abroad to cut duties.

Pfizer said the choice was driven by new U.S. Treasury rules went for such arrangements, called reversals. The merger would have permitted New York-based Pfizer to cut its duty bill by an expected $1 billion yearly by domiciling in Ireland, where charge rates are lower.

While the new Treasury rules did not name Pfizer and Allergan, one of the procurements focused on a particular element of their merger - Allergan's history as a noteworthy acquirer of different organizations.

Allergan Chief Executive Brent Saunders said on CNBC TV that the new Treasury standard would not prevent the organization from doing other stock-based acquisitions when this fall. The new Treasury standard considers the previous three years of an organization's arrangements.

"It truly appeared as though they made a fine showing with regards to with developing a provisional principle to stop this arrangement and clearly it was effective," Saunders said.

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Saunders said that he would stay to run the standalone organization with an attention on both arrangements and innovative work. Allergan will likewise advance with arrangements for its $40.5 billion offer of its nonexclusive medication business to Israel's Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (TEVA.TA). It anticipates that the exchange will near to June.

With the arrangement behind it, Pfizer said it would choose this year about whether to divide from its many non specific pharmaceuticals into a different business. It had put off settling on that choice until 2019 in the wake of reporting its arrangement with Allergan last November.

Pfizer will pay Allergan $150 million to repay costs from its arrangement.

Clinton and Sanders trench graciousness for New York scrap

Low-level squabbling between Democratic competitors blasts away from any confining influence in front of New York essential, with specific hostility over who is the most bona fide.

As though finding betting in Casablanca, political agents affirmed themselves "stunned" on Thursday at indications of developing spite between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton in front of their out of the blue aggressive New York essential decision.

"An extraordinary failure," griped Clinton representative Brian Fallon, after her adversary reacted to what he accepted were close to home assaults on him by addressing whether she was "qualified to be president" either.

Precisely who began this most recent war of words, is presently the subject of a war of words as well, with the Clinton camp blaming Sanders for reacting to false media reports of its new forceful procedure as opposed to precisely reflecting what their hopeful had said or done.

In any case, low-level quarreling between the battles that had been put on hold amid a more courteous midwest essential in Wisconsin burst away from any confining influence again without a moment to spare for an unquenchable New York media.

"It is really clear that their procedure is to denounce Bernie Sanders' record ... furthermore, run a smear crusade," reacted his battle administrator Jeff Weaver on MSNBC. "They are going to perceive how a genuine New Yorker battles back … he is a child of Brooklyn and knows unpleasant and tumble, he is not going to take it."

Typically, this fight over who is the true New Yorker is turned out to be the most beautiful.

The 74-year-old congressperson from Vermont lays the most seasoned case, having put in the initial 18 years of his life in a Brooklyn dwelling fabricating that left him with a standout amongst the most particular accents in American legislative issues.

Be that as it may, his long nonattendance uncovered itself embarrassingly this week when he was asked by columnists how the metro functioned and depicted utilizing tokens, eliminated in 2003.