Alexandra Wood

2 days ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Alexandra Wood

A popular East Yorkshire DIY shop will close doors for the last time next month – with its owner blaming the Chancellor’s tax-grabbing budget for killing off the family business after nearly six decades. Johnson’s of Hedon was started as a hardware shop in 1969 by George Brooke, who managed it alongside his son Mike Brooke. A Hedon institution, the shop is known for offering DIY products at a fair price – a mission it has carried out for over half a century.

4 days ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Alexandra Wood

Hundreds of people have been signing petitions in support of fitness instructors in East Riding leisure centres who face a large pay cut in July. According to one social media post, a new pay structure would see instructors getting “dangerously close to the minimum wage for the hour of the class only”, without recompense for time spent planning and travelling to the venues. It says this could force “experienced instructors to walk away from council venues”.

4 days ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Alexandra Wood

Shocking footage appears to show piglets at a Cranswick farm being killed using an illegal method known as "piglet thumping". The footage shows newborn pigs being grabbed by their hindlegs and slammed against concrete — a method of killing banned under UK law. Sainsbury's, Tesco and Morrisons confirmed they have suspended their supplies from North Moor Farm, near Middle Rasen, in Lincolnshire.

1 week ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Alexandra Wood

British Steel is starting a recruitment drive for more than 180 workers as it prepares to ramp up production, weeks after being rescued by the UK government. The company is advertising for a variety of professional, skilled, and non-skilled roles, with the majority of the jobs (165) in Scunthorpe, and 17 others in Teesside and Skinningrove. Jobs range from engineering and environment to chemistry and cleaning, and from legal and labouring to safety and stores.

1 week ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Alexandra Wood

MP Dame Diana Johnson is demanding a final version of a report into Hull’s Blitz is published – 83 years after it was written. Hull was the most devastated city in the UK per square mile - even more than London - but a Government notice preventing its naming for reasons of national security was only lifted in the 1970s. At least 1,200 people were killed in the Blitz on Hull in 1940 to 1941 – a casualty rate on a par with London.