Ambulance workers will stage a fresh strike on Friday in the long-running dispute over pay and staffing. Members of the GMB and Unite in the West Midlands will mount picket lines outside hospitals across the region. Stuart Richards, GMB senior organiser, said: “West Midlands ambulance workers are on strike over this year’s pay. “But ministers […]
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Derbyshire’s Tory leadership prides itself on setting one of the country’s lowest Council Tax rises for the coming year – but opponents accuse them of offering cut price services that will ultimately cost residents more. At just 3.75 per cent, Derbyshire County Council (DCC) boasts the lowest percentage rate rise for 2023/24 out of any
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Worrying figures reveal the number of Derbyshire children in care has increased by a third in the last four years at a rate triple that of the national average. Derbyshire County Council’s Revenue Budget Report 2023/24 revealed there were 1,004 children in care across the county as of November 2022, an increase of 32 per
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Members of the Public and Commercial Services union in Dover and French ports including Calais will walk out from tomorrow and over the weekend Border Force workers will stage a fresh strike on Friday as part of the increasingly bitter dispute over pay, jobs, pensions and conditions in the civil service. Members of the Public
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The first vehicle it registered was a Sandero back in 2013 Dacia has sold more than 240,000 vehicle since its very first model was registered in the UK in 2013. The value-orientated brand is celebrating a decade on sale in the UK, with a total of 240,010 vehicles sold over the last 10 years. The
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The Met Office say conditions will mean travel disruption and possible damage to buildings in places and warned the drivers of high-sided vehicles to be careful Parts of Scotland and north-east England have been warned to brace for disruption from high winds and rain as Storm Otto approaches the UK. The storm – the first
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The industrial action will commence on the 16th of March Rail workers are to stage a series of fresh strikes in the long-running dispute over pay, jobs and conditions. Members of the Rail, Martine and Transport union (RMT) will walk out on March 16, 18 and 20, and April 1, at 14 train operators. The
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It closed above 8,000 for the first time The FTSE 100 has struck another record closing price as it finished above 8,000 points for the first time. Rises by British Gas owner Centrica and banking firm Standard Chartered helped keep London’s index of top firms in positive territory on Thursday. London’s top flight moved 0.18%,
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A yurt, cabin and a converted loft will be used for glamping accommodation on a historic farm site in the Derbyshire countryside. Plans for the glamping accommodation were approved at a Derbyshire Dales District Council meeting last night (February 14) for a site at Horsley House Farm in Bradbourne. This was against the recommendation of
Scotland’s First Minister announced her surprise resignation on Wednesday morning The search to find a successor for Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has begun following her surprise resignation. Ms Sturgeon shocked Holyrood on Wednesday when she told a hastily arranged press conference she was to quit. The SNP leader insisted recent political challenges, such as the UK Government’s decision
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