Jacob Fruitfield Food Group marketing and technical director Loretta Dignam talks to Conor Keane about her busy working day

A world diamond network has vowed to expel any member who knowingly trades gems from two Zimbabwe mines where labourers have been killed and children enslaved.

Zimbabwe promised to withdraw its soldiers from diamond fields in the east, an official newspaper reported – a week after a rights group alleged the military was committing killings and abuses in the area.

WORKERS at a Dublin biscuit factory were hit with the bad news yesterday of 220 job losses.

JACOB FRUITFIELD, the snack food group in charge of seminal brands such as Kimberley and Fig Rolls, has reportedly entered the bidding fray for C&Cs Tayto crisp brand — for which the first round of bidding closed last week.