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Plans to build up to 650 homes across Cheshire are set to be approved by the local authority, a recent news report has found. The three schemes across Crewe, Sandbach and Alsager are due to receive consent from Cheshire East Council. All of them are located on agricultural land or countryside.

The University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust has recently revealed serious cost-cutting plans, that, unfortunately, might also involve a number of jobs being lost.

A Sixth Form college in Barrow has just started a consultation period over proposed redundancies for support and teaching staff, the main reason behind this rather undesirable situation being a steep cut in the number of students attending the year groups. The institution will be forced to reduce its spending by an impressive £360,000, which, unfortunately, will also translate into personnel being made redundant, voluntarily or otherwise. Furthermore, the college’s principal, David Batten, also

The Cumbria County Council has just revealed fresh new plans to carry out road maintenance and improvement works between the Mockerkin south junction and the Dean/Pardshaw crossroads, the total investment amounting to £500K.

The old Vicarstown School site, in Latona Street, Walney, was quite recently the scene of a theft, a heavy piece of construction equipment disappearing from the premises. According to a police report, the heavy orange forward/reverse plate, used for compaction, would have required three or more people to carry out of the former school’s area. Unfortunately, sites such as the one mentioned above are quite often the target of thieves, mostly due to the lack of any significant access control solutions on the premises.

Workers in the Cheshire area fear for their jobs after a Dutch food group announced it is pulling out of the UK.

A new report on low pay among the regions reveals the north-west has the joint greatest number of people by volume receiving less than the ‘living wage’. It means the workers affected cannot afford a basic living standard. The area shares the figure of 570,000.

Union members at Cheshire West and Chester Council are to be balloted for industrial action in a dispute over terms and conditions.

St Catherine’s Hospital in Merseyside and Manchester Central Library were caught up in protests staged over construction industry pay on Wednesday.

Ministers are trying to reduce the costs of the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) schemes at NHS trusts like the one at St Helens and Knowsley.

Liverpool-based firm TJ Hughes has announced it is to call in the administrator during the next week. The retailer was only bought out by its management team in March following the withdrawal of credit insurance for its suppliers.

Lancashire Police Federation has said its members are "stretched to the limit" in reply to their chief constable’s plea to work harder. Steve Finnigan made a rallying call to officers to make a greater effort since the force faces cuts of £42 million in the next four years.