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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.
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.
A tale of two flags
22/08/2020
Two glorious banners, twelve lustrous golden stars above a dazzling white rose, assure every passer-by that there’s some corner of a Yorkshire lawn that is forever Europe.
This real-life experience of a small West Yorkshire company, before and after the creation of the single market, provides an insight into our imminent future in the event that we leave the EU without a worthwhile trading deal.
'It is literally everything at the moment – Covid-19, feed prices, pig prices, Brexit – it has all happened at the same time'
Kirklees council say the cost of the project has risen by £3m.
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.
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.
Brexit-related issues are causing disruption for SME manufacturers in Yorkshire and the Humber, according to a new report.
One Yorkshire farmer culled hundreds of piglets because of a processing backlog at local slaughterhouses.
A new report exposes in detail the impact that Brexit is having on businesses - with the effects getting worse over time, not better.
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.
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.
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.
South Yorkshire to lose £900m and Tees Valley and Durham £750m, Michael Gove told – despite pledge to ‘match’ EU funds
Fazila Loonat says she was racially abused in street after Danny Lockwood’s column.
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.
Farmers have held a protest outside government offices in York over claims the pig industry is at risk of collapse.
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.
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.
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.
The Hull and East Yorkshire for Europe Branch of the European Movement believes in the importance of the United Kingdom being within the European Union. We firmly believe in the fact that membership of the European Union helps safeguard our rights and freedoms, as well as provide social and economic partnerships that otherwise would be difficult, expensive or impossible.
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.
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.
A grassroots community in Kirklees actively campaigning for the UK to remain a full member of the EU.
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.
"Every time you send out transport with lobster, it is like playing Russian roulette with five bullets in your gun.”
New Tory MPs have promised to transform the region, but its greatest threat will come in days, when Britain leaves the EU.
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'
Lobby group says former Labour seats have most to lose from collapse of talks.
MULTI-MILLION cuts to regional funding intended to level up the country will have “catastrophic consequences” on the local economy, it has been warned.
Campaigning for a better future for Yorkshire and the UK working with - and not against - our European friends.
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.
BREXIT ISN'T WORKING. LET'S END THE CHAOS.
We are a cross-party, collaborative group campaigning to ensure there is a People’s Vote (2nd referendum) on the decision to leave the EU and (subject to this being achieved) campaigning to remain in the EU or as close to the centre of the EU as possible.
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.
Post-Brexit prosperity fund will give Doncaster considerably less than previous EU provisions
15/12/2022
Doncaster Council has approved funding from a flagship government levelling up scheme, but Mayor Ros Jones says the amount is “tiny” compared to previous EU resources.
Research also reveals EU remains ‘overwhelmingly dominant’ destination for UK manufacturing exports.
‘Red Wall’ and other poor parts of England will lose as much as £1 billion of development cash this year because of Brexit, dashing Boris Johnson’s pledge to “level up” Britain.
Rishi Sunak's Spring Statement has failed to offer Yorkshire the same guarantee previously provided to Cornwall on the Government's flagship post-Brexit regional funding programme.
Row over post-Brexit cash for Teesside as mayor's funding claim rejected by powerhouse chief
28/04/2022
Ben Houchen says the area will get more cash but Northern Powerhouse Partnership director Henri Murison says the mayor is 'double-counting' unspent EU cash
A Sheffield supplements firm has spent £500,000 on a new base in the Netherlands to ensure it remains profitable ‘despite the challenges of Brexit’.
Sheffield firms face 'perfect storm of costs' in run up to Christmas - will you be affected?
18/10/2021
Sheffield companies are facing a ‘perfect storm of costs’ as they battle to keep the shelves stocked at Christmas.
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.
Pig farmers are in a “desperate” position – with culls of thousands of healthy animals and producers quitting the industry, they warned as a summit was held on the crisis.
Italian women invited to work in UK mills in the 1950s but now faced with applying to stay after Brexit have said they feel English and have a life here.
As some towns double down on their European links while others fight to remove them, Holly Eva Ryan reflects on what twinning really means.
The Yorkshire farmers who say they face a 'living hell' with Covid and Brexit perfect storm
09/01/2022
Thousands of pig farmers say they are in ‘a living hell’ as a perfect storm of supply chain delays caused by COVID and a shortage of butchers has pushing their industry to the edge.
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.
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.
Business group warns that companies are getting ready to shift operations abroad.
THE UK Government has been rightly criticised for the fisheries deal it made with the EU.
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.
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.
Woman slams Rishi Sunak over Brexit after four independent businesses close in PM's constituency
02/08/2023
Rishi Sunak was told that “increased taxes, soaring costs, the impact of Brexit, difficulty finding staff, all combined with the fact that it was your government that crashed the economy” led to four businesses closing.
Facility nicknamed Farage Garage is just one of 29 such sites being created across England
York for Europe campaigns for Britain to remain a member of the EU or to retain as close a relationship as possible.
We believe that leaving the EU is bad for York and bad for the UK. We seek to maintain as close a link to the EU as possible.
Yorkshire farmers want to convert sheds into business units after loss of EU subsidy post-Brexit
08/12/2023
Farmers in North Yorkshire have applied to convert four sheds into business units to make up for a loss of income due to the end of European Union subsidies.
Yorkshire firm says Brexit import rules have led to severe firework shortage ahead of Bonfire Night
24/09/2021
With celebrations such as Bonfire Night, Diwali, New Year’s Eve, and Chinese New Year fast approaching, people are looking forward to celebrating the end of 2021 and a return to normal.
Government has not been straight with fishing industry, says Sam Baron of Baron Shellfish, Bridlington
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
A Yorkshire retailer is facing potential losses of £100,000 owing to missing stock.
A Sheffield MP is demanding the Government replaces £605m of EU cash earmarked for South Yorkshire after Brexit.
‘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'
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