The respected IHS Markit/CIPS manufacturing survey has been released today with more good news for British manufacturers. For the 15th month in succession the manufacturing sector has grown, in the last quarter from 56.3 in October an improvement both on forecasts and on September when the index grew by 56.

James Cook University Hospital on Teesside is increasing its hospital parking costs. The increase in parking costs, which are to rise by as much as £1.30 a visit, will come into effect tomorrow, hitting both patients and staff who use the car park at Teesside’s biggest hospital.

David Meacock, UKIP’s new Culture and Arts spokesman said “We in UKIP have said for ages that not only should the UK limit migration because the unplanned-for a million net migrants every three years are overwhelming the UK’s infrastructure and State services, but we also need to preserve the British way of life by for example everyone speaking and reading English. So, I’m very pleased that Mr Tusk seems to be beginning to see the light by also recognising ‘the need to rebuild effective control of our [the EU’s] external borders’ – one reason why 17.4 million UK voters voted to leave the EU.”

The Student Union a Sussex University have shown, again that the words debate, and Student Unions should not be uttered in the same breath.