HomeThemesTypesDBAbout
tag: Yorkshire ×68

items

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 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'
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.
Northern Ireland has been hardest hit, with exports to the EU falling by a third between 2018 and 2021, analysis of official figures shows.
“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.
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.
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.
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.”
'What we ask from the south is more power and equivalent investment... yet what we get in no-deal Britain is literally, rubbish'
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Sheffield companies are facing a ‘perfect storm of costs’ as they battle to keep the shelves stocked at Christmas.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
'It is Dominic Cummings and you playing games with Parliament, playing games with the people of United Kingdom'

types

◈ group ×9
◈ news ×54
◈ video ×1

related tags