Cuts

Joe Weir, FBU executive council member for South East England, says effects are clear. Very rarely does a single incident neatly demonstrate the impact of cuts to public services. But on Saturday 15 July, a fire broke out at the Royal Albion Hotel in Brighton, East Sussex. This was not the first...

Headlines about the NHS at breaking point have been written for years, but now the truth is far graver, says Professor Allyson Pollock, clinical professor of public health at Newcastle University What happens in the National Health Service matters to everyone, and not just because almost everyone in...

FBU members in Scotland are organising to save their service from some of the worst cuts seen in modern times and are calling for UK-wide support for their campaign, says Colin Brown, EC member for Scotland Following the announcement of a five-year “flat cash” budget last year, the Scottish Fire and...

Matt Wrack says the official report on a major wildfire incident is a damning indictment of the effect of cuts and failures of leadership 19 July 2022 will go down as one of the most memorable dates in the history of the London Fire Brigade (LFB). It was certainly one of the busiest days in LFB’s...

While some parts of the UK experienced the wettest July on record, much of continental Europe experienced weeks of dangerously high temperatures, as well as tornadoes, flash floods and hailstones as big as golf balls. Our climate is becoming more chaotic and destructive. Firefighters are on the...