Bolton Council has suggested a solution to having no public toilets in the town: reopen those in Horwich. Councillors have been campaigning for facilities ever since the toilets in Captain Street were closed earlier this year by Bolton Council.
A teenager has been charged with criminal damage after a fire was lit at a Miss Selfridge store in Manchester city centre. The shop, in Market Street, was set on fire on Tuesday evening during much unrest.
Up to 20 jobs will go because Liverpool Coastguard station is due to close owing to a reorganisation of the service. The Crosby station is set to shut within three years’ time.
Merseyside Fire Service has had to axe 103 jobs in order to save £3.7 million over three years.
The Tate Liverpool art gallery will cut its staff. Management at the Albert Dock showpiece is seeking ways to make the gallery run more efficiently and is reviewing the numbers of front-of-house staff. The attraction said it would seek to make any changes through redeployment and voluntary redundancy.
An industrial development manager said he was hoping to lessen the impact of any redundancies at South Cumbrian firm Oxley Developments.
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.
Shut toilets are one of the reasons contributing to a Cumbrian town’s lack of visitor appeal, a report has claimed. So-called ‘Shop Doctor’ Bill Smith prescribed his diagnosis of why the ailing town Millom needed a revitalising shot in the arm.
A Merseyside chipboard factory which has faced a number of health and safety inquiries in the past decade was damaged by a large fire. In the latest incident at the Sonae plant in Kirkby the fire started in a woodchip storage bunker at the factory and caused much damage.
Blackpool Council is due to get rid of five senior posts as a cost-cutting measure. Those affected include executive director of tourism and regeneration Helen France, who joined the council from Knowsley Council in 2008.