Post-Brexit India deal could cut thousands of jobs in Leave-voting areas, and hike food prices
18/05/2023
British rice milling industry faces wipe-out from part of a trade deal being discussed with India. First proposed by Boris Johnson, it is also predicted to raise consumer food prices and break UK limits on pesticides.
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.
MULTI-MILLION cuts to regional funding intended to level up the country will have “catastrophic consequences” on the local economy, it has been warned.
Lobby group says former Labour seats have most to lose from collapse of talks.
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'
"Every time you send out transport with lobster, it is like playing Russian roulette with five bullets in your gun.”
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.
I’m a sheep and cattle farmer in Yorkshire – Brexit has left farmers in fear for their futures
09/06/2022
UK farming is facing an uncertain future, with the end of EU subsidies due to Brexit, followed by the impact of covid and lockdown.
Grants given through the government’s Shared Prosperity Fund were supposed to match EU cash previously handed out to UK regions for development. In reality, the north is £1.65 billion down.
Huddersfield shop gets just six visitors a month as owner says Covid and Brexit killed it
03/02/2023
Nick Tozer has been running his bookshop for over 20 years and has around 26,000 books on sale. / He is slowly building up the mail order side of the business but says Brexit has made it harder to send books to some countries.
Organised crime gangs are preparing to exploit the eight freeports that are being opened across England as part of the Government’s ‘levelling up’ strategy, experts have warned.
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.
Farmers have held a protest outside government offices in York over claims the pig industry is at risk of collapse.
Dentists near me: Lack of dentists in Barnsley partially down to Covid-19 pandemic and Brexit
01/12/2021
“We’ve also lost all the EU dentists with Brexit, and that’s made a big difference,” said Ms Naylor.
Fazila Loonat says she was racially abused in street after Danny Lockwood’s column.
South Yorkshire to lose £900m and Tees Valley and Durham £750m, Michael Gove told – despite pledge to ‘match’ EU funds
Brexit: nine UK regions where exports have fallen since 2018, including Wales, the South East and Yorkshire
11/07/2023
Northern Ireland has been hardest hit, with exports to the EU falling by a third between 2018 and 2021, analysis of official figures shows.
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.
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.
A new report exposes in detail the impact that Brexit is having on businesses - with the effects getting worse over time, not better.
One Yorkshire farmer culled hundreds of piglets because of a processing backlog at local slaughterhouses.
Brexit-related issues are causing disruption for SME manufacturers in Yorkshire and the Humber, according to a new report.
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.
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.