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Unison members vote to accept Scottish Government pay offer
Members of Scotland’s largest NHS union, Unison, have voted to accept the Scottish Government’s pay offer.In a digital ballot where 54.0% of eligible members voted, 78.5% accepted the offer.Another union, GMB Scotland, accepted the pay offer earlier in the week.The pay offer – which was made to 160,000 NHS staff, including nurses, midwives and paramedics …
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Silicon Valley Bank UK arm hands out £15m in bonuses days after £1 rescue
The British arm of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB UK) has handed out millions of pounds in employee bonuses just days after its insolvency was averted through a Bank of England-orchestrated rescue deal.Sky News has learnt that the payouts to staff including its senior executives were signed off by HSBC, SVB UK’s new owner, earlier this …
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Train passengers face disruption as rail workers strike in pay and jobs row
Train passengers will face fresh disruption on Saturday because of another strike by rail workers in the long-running dispute over jobs, pay and conditions.Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) at 14 train operators will walk out, crippling services across the country.Passengers were warned to check before they travel, with trains due to …
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The five West Midlands projects to get a share of Jeremy Hunt’s £100m Levelling Up cash
Innovative West Midlands projects in healthcare and green technology are set to receive funding from a £100 million Levelling Up pot – and the region’s mayor Andy Street hopes that will help attract another £150 million of private sector investment. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt this week confirmed in his Budget that 26 projects in three high-tech …
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More than 175,000 appointments and procedures postponed in junior doctor strike
More than 175,000 appointments and procedures had to be postponed during the three-day junior doctors’ strike.The postponements, revealed in data published by NHS England, had to be made to protect emergency, critical and urgent care for patients.NHS medical director Professor Sir Stephen Powis said the strike has been on “an unprecedented scale and had a …
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Gallery: See all the winners at the West Midlands Tourism Awards 2023
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West Midlands tourism stars crowned at annual awards
The stars of the region’s tourism industry have been recognised at an annual awards ceremony and will now go on to compete against their peers from around the country. The third West Midlands Tourism Awards took place in Wolverhampton last night and crowned winners working in a host of different sectors in places such as …
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London markets lose earlier gains as jitters return to banking sector
The flurry of optimism in London markets on Friday morning after a 30 billion dollar (£25 billion) cash injection into a struggling US bank dissipated towards the afternoon as global markets continue to feel the fallout from a series of failures.The FTSE 100 had initially gained exactly 100 points in the early hours of trading …
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Investor anxiety lingers as European markets finish week in the red
A dramatic week for European markets has ended on a low, with a number of interventions from global banks failing to calm the nerves of jittery investors.London’s FTSE 100 closed firmly in the red despite seeing gains in early trading on Friday.It followed a group of US banking giants injecting 30 billion US dollars (£25 …
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Defence giant Lockheed Martin invests £150k solar power project with Northumbria University
Aerospace firm Lockheed Martin has joined forces with Northumbria University to research space-based solar power. The US-based contractor has invested £150,000 into the partnership that aims to “harvest” the sun’s energy and beam electricity wirelessly down to Earth. The process will use specialised solar panels that will collect and convert laser power into power for …
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Morrisons fined £3.5 million after supermarket worker died
A supermarket chain has been fined £3.5 million after an epileptic employee died when he fell from the stairs during a seizure.Matthew Gunn, 27, suffered catastrophic head injuries at the WM Morrisons store in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, in September 2014.He had been regularly using the staircase to access his locker on the first floor of the …
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February saw strongest increase in business activity in eight months as region returned to growth
February saw the strongest increase in business activity across the Yorkshire and Humber region since the start of last summer. Analysis of the latest NatWest Yorkshire & Humber PMI Business Activity Index showed output from the manufacturing and service sectors ended a four-month downturn, with the region among the strongest performers. The headline measure was …

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