BT said it hopes to finish the restoration of communications services by Friday (February 24, 2012) at the latest for the village of Tickton near Beverley. The Tickton Grange Hotel was just was one of the local businesses affected by cable theft.
Teesside Crown Court heard how a man from Crook made up a story that he was robbed in order to mask the fact he had lost £1,000 in cash. Alex Jones had put the money on the roof of his car before forgetting where he had left it.
Employees in Scunthorpe and Newcastle are expected to be out of work by the end of this year. That is because Lloyds Banking Group will close a number of regional sites.
A Grimsby factory will close with the loss of about 340 jobs if any alternative plan to save the site could not be found. Staff will be consulted over the planned closure which would occur by the spring.
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has been appointed as administrator for Petroplus Refining Teesside, which operates an oil storage site on Teesside and an external research site, plus its parent company.