Lancashire companies can improve toilet facilities with coin entry turnstiles
Residents say the short supply of toilet roll in Barnoldswick is ‘loo-dicrous’.
Residents say the short supply of toilet roll in Barnoldswick is ‘loo-dicrous’.
Merseyside and Cheshire job centre staff walked out for the whole of the working week over proposed changes to the service. The workers took the three-day strike immediately after the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee extended bank holiday.
Munitions workers at Radway Green near Crewe will lose their jobs under new restructuring plans.
Ten crews were required to tackle a blaze which broke out about 13:00 BST at the mill at Calderbrook Road in Littleborough on Monday (May 28). The fire service said it received more than 60 calls reporting the fire.
Jobs will be created in Lancashire (at BAE sites in Samlesbury and Warton) since the majority of the building work of 22 Hawk jets will be taking place there.
A tribute to Johnathan Ball and Tim Parry on Bridge Street in Warrington has been stolen.
Factory workers from Spennymoor in County Durham and Barrow and Cleator Moor in Cumbria were among those taking part in a rally over job losses.
The North West is benefitting from 300 new jobs coming to Ellesmere Port. A new logistics facility will open this summer at the Cheshire car plant, where the new jobs will be based.
Cheshire West and Chester Council workers walked out at the weekend over changes to their contracts.
Two Merseyside criminals have been sent to prison for handling stolen art. Kevin Marlow (29) of Halby Road, and Gerard Starkey (50) of Southport Road, both of Bootle, had earlier pleaded guilty to handling stolen goods.