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Tesco offers £1,000 bonus to new HGV drivers amid UK worker shortages
The payment applies to new starters who join from July 14 until September 30.
Lucy Hilton
InYourArea Community
Liverpool Teaching Hospitals stand proud with new Pride Progress Flags
The Progress Flag better represents the range of identities within the Trust’s LGBTQIA+ community.
Planning Applications IYA
Planning applications lodged in Rossendale up to July 30
Planning applications lodged with the Rossendale Borough Council published July 30 include:
Planning Applications IYA
Planning applications lodged in Accrington up to July 9
Planning applications lodged with the Borough of Hyndburn during the period from Monday, July 5 to Friday, July 9 include:
National
Anti-monarchy activists launch billboard campaign to abolish UK royal family
12 billboards are going up this week
National
Boy, 13, responds to ‘nasty’ cyber bullying with disability charity challenge
Rhys is responding to the bullies in his own way, with a goalkeeping challenge to raise money and awareness for Scope, a disability equality charity.
National
UK braces for 75mph wind gusts as Storm Evert approaches
The newly named storm will bring “unseasonably strong winds and heavy rain” according to the Met Office.
National
Top 10 UK cities for dog fouling producing methane emissions each year
There are an estimated 12.5 million dogs in the UK as of 2021.
National
Council workers urged to reject ‘woeful’ pay offer
The unions have said the offer falls well short of the 10% claim they put forward for this year.
National
UK ‘to hit 40C on regular basis even if global warming is limited to 1.5C’
The UK is seeing more “tropical nights” where the mercury did not drop below 20C.
InYourArea Community
The Neil Cliffe 5k for St Ann's Hospice
The run will take place on Wednesday, August 11 at 7.30pm at Wythenshawe Park.
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Laughing Badger: Wildlife and wildflowers
"Plants that are widespread and medicinally potent invariably acquire a large number of folk-names, and the foxglove’s many names are a case study in our ancestor’s imaginations."