Yorkshire Water crashes to 1-star rating after 260 pollution incidents – and you’re paying for the clean-up

Yorkshire Water crashes to 1-star rating after 260 pollution incidents – and you’re paying for the clean-up

Pollution jumped 72% in a year to its worst level since 2011. Bills are up more than a third in two years, and the company admits customers, not shareholders, will fund most of its £8.3bn fix. Yorkshire Water has crashed to the lowest rating the Environment Agency can...
Campaigners speak out as self-employed dads win 2 weeks’ paid paternity leave in Budget

Campaigners speak out as self-employed dads win 2 weeks’ paid paternity leave in Budget

More than 150,000 extra parents a year to get paternity pay, but campaigners say two weeks is just the start. Self-employed fathers will be paid to spend time with their newborn babies for the first time, after Chancellor John Healey announced the change in his first...
Storm Boelo leaves fallen trees, power cuts and travel disruption across South Yorkshire

Storm Boelo leaves fallen trees, power cuts and travel disruption across South Yorkshire

The Met Office’s yellow wind warning ended at 9pm on Sunday 25 October, but the effects of the storm are still being felt. In Sheffield, a large tree fell onto a parked car on Union Road in Nether Edge, with other fallen trees reported at Hillsborough Park and...
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