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A manufacturer actively involved in the commercial and fire markets has just received a £400,000 investment from FW Capital to develop its specialist production arm. Fendor, based in Washington, Wearside, has been manufacturing windows which can withstand hydrocarbon fires, barless custody windows and custody doors, as well as secure windows for the health industry for the past 30 years. Naturally

In excess of 200 jobs are to go at City of York Council due to cost-cutting. The Labour-run authority’s budget was passed this week and has been slashed by £20 million over the next two years.

Union officials have threatened to take legal action over mandatory CCTV cameras in Sheffield taxis.

Workers on the Tyne and Wear Metro took strike action for the twelfth time – and they are threatening to do it again soon.

Wakefield NHS staff put a different spin on the phrase ‘burn notice’. During their protest over planned jobs losses and salary cuts they set fire to their dismissal notices sent by the Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust which is in cash crisis.

Traffic was held up in Rotherham town centre due to a warehouse blaze. The area around Centenary Way and the College Road roundabout needed to be cordoned off because crews had to attend the incident during the late evening.

A rise of 3.6 per cent in South Yorkshire council tax is one of the options to replace 60 police posts. The increase is a £5 rise, to £142.55, for the average Band D property.

Cleveland Police will lose at least 300 officers from its roster within the next year, it was revealed this week.

More investment has arrived in Sunderland following the opening of an electric car battery plant.

The Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust promised there would be no compulsory redundancies and staff levels would not be reduced over proposed changes to the service’s workforce.

The management at Maltby Colliery have confirmed the closure of the century-old Rotherham coal mine. The deep coal pit which employs 540 staff will shut within the next quarter, its owners Hargreaves Services said.

A Doncaster supermarket has been drawn into a workplace battle. Unite lorry driver members pledged to take part in the latest round of industrial action, a demonstration and rally at the town’s Tesco store on Church Street on Saturday.