Town centre businesses in Horsham needed to be evacuated because of a fire at a nearby sub-station. The West Sussex County Council offices on North Street and the Royal Sun Alliance building were both evacuated this morning (Tuesday).
It has been announced this week that a processing centre in Romford, Essex, is expected to close by the end of September with a loss of 212 posts. The part-nationalised Lloyds Banking Group told the unions involved whose members were affected.
About 1,000 jobs are on the line in Essex after at a refinery owner said it would be filing for insolvency. The Swiss owner, Petroplus, said talks with its lenders had broken down and it had appointed a receiver to the UK refinery.