In addition, a military festival will be held each year outside London at varying locations.
Mr Robertson said: “The Royal Tournament has served us well for a great many years but as we approach a new millennium it is necessary to take a fresh look at this event. George Robertson, the Secretary of State for Defence, said the loss-making Earls Court event will be succeeded in 2001 by a military tattoo featuring ceremony, massed bands and pageantry at Horse Guards’ Parade in central London. THE 118-YEAR-OLD Royal Tournament, the traditional showcase for Britain’s military, is to be replaced by two new events, the Government announced yesterday. He retired from British Gas in 1996 but stayed as a consultant and was recently made non-executive chairman of Atlantic Caspian Resources, an oil company.. She’s had three or four litters and one of her offspring is a little male piglet who is also called Cedric. I don’t think she is worried by the Government’s new plans.”The real Cedric Brown, 64, is also faring well. She once faced the chop after being wrongly deemed to be barren but was rescued by the GMB union and used as a symbol of the protest against burgeoning boardroom wages.
Teigh O’Neill, who works at the Mudchute Park and Farm, said: “She’s still going strong, although she’s getting old and has a bit of arthritis.

As the Government today introduces the Bill it hopes will curb excessively generous remuneration packages, Cedric was basking in the sun on a farm in east London. CEDRIC, THE pig that came to symbolise the worst excesses of boardroom fat-cat pay culture, is alive and well. The 200lb sow became famous after she was used in a protest at a British Gas annual meeting in 1996. She was named after the company’s chief executive, Cedric Brown, who was being paid pounds 475,000. The shops will reopen for business today but Centrica said they would close for good over the next six weeks.. Ms Golden said: “Unison will be having urgent meetings with the company in an effort to get them to change their minds and give more time for the benefits of the recent restructuring to start coming through.”All the stores were shut yesterday because staff were attending meetings to be told about the closure decision.

Energy Centres have introduced many changes in the last year and in February concluded a partnership deal with the unions.”We don’t believe the company has given enough time to give all these changes a fair chance of success.”Unison said Centrica’s directors had enough money to launch a pounds 1.1bn bid for the Automobile Association, but were now “turning their backs” on staff who had co-operated with restructuring. Centrica said it would offer early retirement, enhanced redundancy packages and help with other jobs.But Stephanie Golden, national officer at Unison, said: “This is a double betrayal of staff who this year took a pay cut to protect jobs and keep shops open. But unions expect most of the 1,445 staff, of whom 708 are part- timers, to be made redundant.The company said its strategic review concluded that no further investment should be made in the high street shop network because of continuing losses. Leaders claimed business would be affected because many people liked to pay their bills and have problems solved face-to-face.
Centrica, which acquired the stories in the demerger of British Gas two years ago, said every effort had been made to turn round the business But losses of pounds 33m in 1998 were continuing. Centrica blamed difficult trading conditions and intense competition.The chief executive, Roy Gardner, said he hoped as many staff as possible will be re-deployed across the Centrica group, where “extensive opportunities” existed. Unions attacked the move as a “disgraceful betrayal” of staff, who agreed a pay cut earlier this year to try to save the Energy Centre high street stores. The company said the decision – which will cost it pounds 60m – followed continuing losses at the stores, estimated to be pounds 25m in the first half of the year.