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Two Local Charities Unite for "Next Steps to Independence" Event

The winter fuel payment cut is hitting millions of pensioners

Union threatens legal action over Labour's Winter Fuel Payment cuts

The workers deliver fuel from the Stanlow oil terminal to Shell, BP and Esso forecourts predominantly across the North West and Scottish borders, as well as to airlines, including Jet2 at Liverpool airport

Fuel shortage warning for North West as tanker drivers go on strike

Unite members stage their protest at Blackpool

Why Unite members protested outside Blackpool's Winter Gardens today

Commuters wait at a bus stop outside a branch of Barclays in London.

Barclays bank to axe 450 jobs across the business

London Gatwick Airport will be hit by eight days of strikes this summer - Credit: Adobe

Gatwick Airport to be hit by strikes for eight days of summer holidays

Unite the union said its members will no longer strike following an improved pay offer from the employers. (Photo by Guy Smallman/Getty images)

Unite calls off 31-day Heathrow Airport strike after last-minute offer

Heathrow Airport security officers are set to strike for 31 days in the latest wave of industrial action. (Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Heathrow Airport security officers to strike for 31 days this summer

Workers at the Coca Cola plant in Wakefield are set to go on strike for 14 days in June. (Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Coca Cola plant workers announce 14-day strike

Strike will continue until close to midnight today May 1.

Nurses strike continues: Major disruption for NHS services in England

Members of Unite have rejected the Government’s pay offer

Security officers at Heathrow airport are set to walk out for a further eight days over a pay dispute in May, Unite has announced. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Security officers at Heathrow airport to walk out for further 8 days

A sign indicating the start of the security queue during a strike by security workers at London Heathrow Airport in London, UK, on Friday, March 31, 2023. IAG SAs British Airways is set to scrap 320 flights during the Easter week as security workers strike for 10-days over pay. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images

8 tips to get through security quicker despite airport strikes

British Airways will cancel around 32 flights per day to and from Heathrow over the Easter weekend (Photo: Getty Images)

Heathrow security staff start 10-day strike affecting Easter travels

North Ronaldsay Lighthouse in the Orkney Islands is one of the 208 lighthouses operated by NLB.

Lighthouse workers vote for strike action in historic first

Passengers travelling from Heathrow Terminal 5 over Easter have been told to expect delays (Photo by Jack Taylor/Getty Images)

British Airways cancel dozens of Easter flights amid strike action

British Airways to cut back on more than 300 flights this Easter amid strike action.

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Heathrow workers are to strike over Easter. Credit: Getty Images

Heathrow Airport Easter strike: Staff will walk out for 10 days

Staff from North West Ambulance Service on a picket line outside Wigan Community Fire and Ambulance Station in January

North West Ambulance Service bosses prepare for more strike action by staff

Drax Group Plc’s power station where workes have voted to go on strike.

UK homes ‘face power cuts’ due to strike action at major station

Ambulance strike dates 2023: Unite announce new strikes taking total to ten across England and Wales

Ambulance strike dates as Unite announce fresh action

Ambulance workers on strike at the Devonshire Road temporary station

Warning to only call 999 in ‘life-threatening emergencies’ amid more strikes

North West Ambulance Service urged the public to call 999 only in life-threatening situations as strike action loomed

Ambulance service pleas for 999 calls only in 'life-threatening emergencies'

A group of fraudsters have been posing as ambulance staff and knocking on doors asking for financial support ahead of upcoming industrial action.

Fraudsters posing as ambulance staff seen asking for donations

Unite members who work or the NHS are being balloted for strike action

Lancashire hospital staff among NHS workers balloted for strike by Unite

This is what you need to know about the scheme from the Post Office (Photo: Shutterstock)

All 114 Post Office branches affected by strikes in July over pay row

Currently, all blood tests and other pathology samples are processed at local hospital sites across Lancashire, but under the planned changes, routine samples ordered by GPs and other out-of-hospital services would be ferried to Samlesbury for analysis in a new state-of-the-art centre - no matter where in Lancashire the patient lives

Preston and Blackpool hospital consultants' anger over 'intimidation' claim

Urgent blood tests would still be analysed at hospital sites under the plans - but routine work would be carried out at a base in Samlesbury

'Super lab' plan for all routine blood tests in Lancashire is put on hold

Plans to analyse all of Lancashire and South Cumbria’s non-urgent blood, urine and other pathology samples on a single site in South Ribble have been put on hold, the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) can reveal.

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The company will be closing a number of Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland branches (Photo: JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Lloyds Banking Group to close 60 branches as customers continue to bank online

Lloyds Banking Group said it plans to shut 60 branches across the country. (Credit: PA)

Lloyds Bank in Poulton set to close in 2022

Unite the union has accused Tesco of offering a “derisory” pay increase to its members (image: PA)

Tesco staff strikes could lead to empty shelves this Christmas, union warns

Lloyds and Halifax to close 48 branches - full list of impacted stores

Stagecoach drivers in Lancashire have vote to go on strike

Lancashire bus drivers vote for strike action over pay

The new tram tracks down Talbot Road

Letters - Thursday, September 30. 2021

The UK is set to face a beer and crisp shortage due to a lack of delivery drivers and strike action (Shutterstock)

Why Britain could be set for a beer and crisps shortage

Travel industry leaders said the limited opening up of foreign travel is still not sufficient enough (Photo: Getty Images)

Green list update ‘not enough’ to save summer - despite addition of 14 new count...

North West ambulance staff will hold a consultative ballot over whether to go on strike due to being left "exhausted" by a procedure which sees them called out to incidents up to 40 minutes away.

North West Ambulance staff to consider strike action over 'excessive mileage', s...

Unions have urged North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) Trust to change its procedure which sees ambulance workers called out to emergencies across the region, up to 40 minutes away.

North West Ambulance staff at 'wits end' with callouts up to 40 minutes away, un...

Intensive care nurse and Unite union rep Ameera Sheikh outside Downing Street

Union warns of NHS staff 'exodus' and waiting list crisis amid pay rise row

In the wake of their heroic efforts nurses are being offered a 1% pay rise (Getty Images)

Nurses are being offered a 1% pay rise - here's how much they are currently paid

Lunar Caravans was moved to the former GE site at Strand Road

Union demands probe into furlough payments to Lancashire caravan manufacturer

Hundreds of job losses feared at Manchester Airport Group under cost-cutting pla...

Rolls Royce staff working on fan blades for aircraft engines

Lancashire aerospace site at centre of strike action is shut until after Christm...

The Co-op Bank is to close 18 branches as coronavirus changes the way people have been banking

Co-op Bank to close 18 branches with loss of 350 jobs

Rolls Royce makes aircraft engines

Rolls Royce air to shed 9,000 jobs as coronavirus lockdown continues

A typical hospital laboratory where tests for coronavirus take place among other important functitons

NHS accused of bringing back controversial hospital laboratory merger plan amid ...

Plans to reconfigure Lancashire's pathology services date back over two years

Lancashire path lab plan a 'stab in the back' for coronavirus testing staff, cla...

There are more than 12,000 on the Fylde coast working in the hospitality sector - and unions warn they face uncertainty due to the coronavirus pandemic

Fears for Blackpool hotel, bar and restaurant staff as jobs lost amid coronaviru...

Flybe: Europe's largest regional airline collapses into administration

Flybe: Flights from Liverpool and Manchester airports cancelled after Europe's l...

The legislation is expected to pass its first vote in Holyrood later today (25 Feb) (Photo: Shutterstock)

Sanitary products will soon be free for everyone in Scotland

HSBC

Banking giant HSBC to shed 35,000 jobs

Ambulances

Strike action looms as paramedics in Lancashire are balloted on overtime rules

NWAS says its ambulance stations are constantly under review

Blackpool, Fleetwood, Thornton, Lytham and Wesham ambulance stations face closur...

Hundreds of Lancashire bus drivers drivers to strike

Hundreds of Lancashire bus drivers drivers to strike

A blood donor

Blood unit plan hit by big delay

A Stagecoach bus

Bus strikes loom across Lancashire as Stagecoach drivers in Preston and Chorley ...

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