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.
Sheffield high school teachers are taking part in a one-day strike in a row over classroom observations.
Rotherham is bearing the brunt of a firm’s decision to cut 156 jobs in Yorkshire. Rotherham will lose 110 posts of the 156 jobs going at sites in South and West Yorkshire.