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New youth fellowship programme launched to help young people
Aspiring young change makers across the North of England are being given the
opportunity to develop their entrepreneurship to drive real change in their
communities.
The Young Change Makers Fellowship Programme has been launched by Virgin Money
Foundation with the National Lottery Community Fund and Northern Soul to find
change
Loyal workers cannot be left with just a lump of coal this Christmas, says GMB Union
GMB, the union for Spectrum for Arcadia workers, says disgraced peer Philip
Green must fork out for redundancy payments as his retail empire collapses.
Arcadia, which owns Topshop, Burtons and Dorothy Perkins, announced last night
it had gone into administration, putting 13,000 jobs at risk.
The company has tried
Yorkshire businesses predict rapid recovery once vaccine rolls out
* 90% of Yorkshire mid-sized businesses say they will fully recover from
COVID-19 within six months from the point a vaccine is made available
* 80% of companies have revised their business plans as a result of the
positive vaccine news
An overwhelming number of Yorkshire businesses predict a rapid recovery once
Property sellers join the rush to beat March stamp duty deadline
The latest data from Rightmove shows new sellers joining the rush to beat the
March stamp duty deadline has resulted in a slight dip in asking prices of 0.5%,
or £1,505 on average, compared to last month, and that national sales agreed are
up 50% on October last
Over 50 million facemasks go to landfill each day and the litter is killing wildlife
Keys, phone, facemask; this is the new routine as we prepare to go out and about
during the Covid-19 pandemic, but what you do with your used facemask has
unwanted consequences.
It’s impossible to miss the sheer volume of facemasks that have been carelessly
littered around our towns and
National lockdown guidance and affected services
The Government has announced a new national lockdown with rules coming into
force from Thursday November 5.
For four weeks until Wednesday 2 December the Government is asking people to
stay at home, except for specific purposes; not to gather with others they don’t
live with, except for specific
Community benefit fund to support 6 regional projects
Yorkshire Water has extended its commitment to working with others through the
creation of a £100,000 Community Benefit Fund, which will help to deliver
projects for local communities in the region.
The water company created the fund after receiving praise for its partnership
work from Ofwat, which granted Yorkshire