Tree planting scheme to offset damage of new polyhalite mine in the North York Moors delayed by Brexit-related sapling shortages
21/06/2021
The North York Moors National Park Authority, which approved the world’s largest polyhalite mine development, is examining how it can meet tree planting targets to offset the development’s impact in the face of a national shortage of saplings.
Why Brexit may mean less regeneration funding for deprived areas like South Yorkshire when details of UK Shared Prosperity Fund emerge
21/06/2021
Areas like South Yorkshire will see a cut in the amount of economic development support they receive in the coming years even if the Government matches the funding they were getting from the European Union before Brexit, academics have claimed.
Hebden Bridge designer joins call for fashion to be supported as much as fishing through Brexit and coronavirus
05/05/2021
It started from the rich and interwoven history of textiles in Yorkshire from the 18th century, when the region stood at the forefront with its countless cotton and wool mills.
The sea of opportunity that Brexit was supposed to deliver has certainly dried up for Yorkshire’s fishermen. News that the UK and Norway have failed to reach a fishing deal for this year means boats like the Hull-based Kirkella remain tied up, possibly for good.
These are the Brexit trading challenges faced by Wakefield businesses according to the city's chamber of commerce
22/04/2021
A new report from the Mid Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce highlights significant challenges continuing to face firms 100 days on from Brexit as they struggle to adjust to new trading arrangements.
A Yorkshire retailer is facing potential losses of £100,000 owing to missing stock.
Brexit-related issues are causing disruption for SME manufacturers in Yorkshire and the Humber, according to a new report.
Officers from as far afield as Gwent in Wales, Devon and Cornwall and Yorkshire have all been moved to the county to deal with the contingency plans brought in to deal with the change in rules when travelling to EU countries.
Touring musicians and technical staff across Yorkshire say new travel laws due to Brexit could put many out of business if a solution isn't found.
'It is literally everything at the moment – Covid-19, feed prices, pig prices, Brexit – it has all happened at the same time'
A South Yorkshire exporter is unable to export to the EU amid the chaos stemming from the Brexit deal – threatening 30 per cent of business and a £1m sales boost.
A pioneering exporter who sold lobsters to Europe from the Yorkshire coast has been forced to wind up his 40-year-old family business – because of Brexit red tape.
"Every time you send out transport with lobster, it is like playing Russian roulette with five bullets in your gun.”
Government has not been straight with fishing industry, says Sam Baron of Baron Shellfish, Bridlington
Owner of first lobster tank business in Europe's largest shellfish port forced to close 'due to Brexit restraints'
08/02/2021
The owner of the first lobster tank business in Europe’s largest shellfish port has revealed he has been forced to close, alluding to Brexit restraints as the main reason.
A Fisherman In Yorkshire Says He is Closing His 40-Year-Old Business Due To Brexit Red Tape
08/02/2021
A decades-old fishing business in a major British shellfish port has said that it has been forced to close due to new paperwork brought about by the UK's exit from the European Union.
North Yorkshire-based commercial nursery, Johnsons Of Whixley, says it has had to stop supplying plants to Northern Ireland after new Brexit restrictions came into play in January.
South Yorkshire and Derbyshire bosses brand Brexit deal a 'total disaster' set to cost jobs and close companies
27/01/2021
South Yorkshire bosses have branded the UK’s Brexit deal a ‘total disaster’ and say it could cost jobs or force some firms to close.
In nearly 50 years as a fisherman Arnold Locker has seen it all. He was fishing when the UK joined the Common Market in 1973 and lived through the heartache of decommissioning and burning of boats that followed in the mid 1980s.
Facility nicknamed Farage Garage is just one of 29 such sites being created across England
Lobby group says former Labour seats have most to lose from collapse of talks.
Despite its success in the EU and local elections this year, the party could have its work cut out to win seats as it pushes for devolutio
‘Please leave my town’: Yorkshire man tells Boris Johnson to go away during campaign walkabout
06/09/2019
'It is Dominic Cummings and you playing games with Parliament, playing games with the people of United Kingdom'
No-deal Brexit could see rubbish from the south sent to the north, industry insiders admit
23/08/2019
'What we ask from the south is more power and equivalent investment... yet what we get in no-deal Britain is literally, rubbish'