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UK: Unite online meeting for Go North West strikers promotes cost cutting and alliance with Johnson government Unite the union has once again used an online meeting, supposedly organised to rally support for over 400 Manchester bus workers on strike against fire and rehire contracts at Go North West, to champion its efforts to end the dispute based on a proposal for at least £1.3 million in cuts. Unite's advert for the Facebook event, “Manchester Bus Strike: End Fire and Rehire" The April 7 “Unite Politics” Facebook event, “Manchester Bus Strike: End Fire and Rehire,” was an occasi...

THE GOVERNMENT is set to announce £5 billion in funding today to help remove flammable cladding from tower blocks. According to reports, Housing secretary Robert Jenrick will set out a package of measures when he addresses the House of Commons later on Wednesday. Plans under consideration are believed to include a £5 billion grant on top of the £1.6 billion safety fund that leaseholders can currently apply to. It is also reported that grants to remove cladding will only be available to those living in buildings higher than 18 metres, with those in smaller ones having to rely on lo...

Your article of 21/1/21 invited views on the proposed East of Otley plan for Persimmon Homes to build 550 homes. Your readers may be interested in a…

Blog: Professional indemnity - Was 2020 the eye of the storm? 25 Jan 2021 MGB’s Nick Bender considers the evolution of the PI market and predicts how the space will look in future. The UK PII Insurance Market is now unrecognisable from the beginning of the previous decade, which experienced heady rate-cutting and considerable over-capacity. Since 2018 we have seen mass exiting of Insurers, as return on capital had been almost non-existent. 2019 Some of the issues that caused contraction in 2019 included 2017s Grenfell Fire tragedy and the student accommodation fire in Autumn 2019, leading t...

Published: 5:30 AM January 15, 2021    Outgoing Chief Fire Officer Mark Hardingham is the new chair of the National Fire Chiefs' Council. - Credit: Sarah Lucy Brown The search for a new Chief Fire Officer for Suffolk has officially started with the publication of a recruitment advert for the role which has a salary of £129,614pa. Suffolk's Chief Fire Officer Mark Hardingham takes over as chair of the National Fire Chiefs' Council in April - a key position in advising the government on fire policy. Mr Hardingham's departure was announced in August when he was appointed to the new role, whic...