SCORES of companies throughout the mid-west are already preparing to close up shop with Dell contracts drying up over coming months.

Poisoned former KGB man Alexander Litvinenko met two other Russian agents in Moscow in 1998 to make an extraordinary video in which they claimed their bosses had ordered them to kill, kidnap and frame prominent Russians.

An Italian security expert today confirmed he met with a former Russian spy in London before the outspoken critic of the Kremlin was taken seriously ill with what British police and doctors suspect is poisoning by a toxic metal.

ONLY one in eight companies which provide security guards and door supervisors had been issued with a licence to trade by the deadline date of the end of last month.