LOSSES | 27 October 2026 at 05:43

A 6,750-Vehicle Fleet Firm Ran Out of Road

Administrators were appointed to the Stevenage contract-hire firm on 15 October, after HMRC filed a winding-up petition and no buyer came forward for the business as a going concern. 136 of its staff were made redundant on the spot.

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GAINS | 25 October 2026 at 05:56

Big Motoring World Is Building Its 12th Used Car Supermarket in Coventry.

An 11-acre brownfield site on Old Church Road, vacant for three years, is becoming a used car supermarket with room for 550 vehicles. The company says it will employ more than 100 people once it opens in early 2027. Nobody has checked that figure yet, because the site has not opened.

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LOSSES | 25 October 2026 at 05:55

The BBC Is Merging Its Comedy, Arts and Classical Commissioning Teams.

BBC content chief Kate Phillips is combining television and audio commissioning for comedy, arts and classical music from January 2027, cutting around 100 roles along the way. That is the seventh departmental slice of the corporation-wide cuts programme this ledger has logged since August, now totalling 541 against the BBC's own 2,000 ceiling.

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THE MACHINES | 25 October 2026 at 05:54

Close Brothers Cut 600 Jobs Over a Car Loans Scandal in March.

The merchant bank set aside GBP300 million for the motor finance mis-selling scandal and said it would cut a quarter of its workforce. Its own announcement named AI as one of four cost measures, alongside outsourcing, offshoring and office cuts. Commentary sites have spent the following seven months running headlines that make AI sound like the whole story.

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LOSSES | 24 October 2026 at 06:50

The Telegraph Is Cutting Up to 100 Jobs Under Its New Owner.

Axel Springer, the German publisher that completed its takeover of the Telegraph in June, told staff this week that up to 100 jobs are going. Chief executive Carolin Hulshoff Pol wants the paper known as "AI-powered". The reason she gave for these particular cuts is not AI: it is the ownership saga that came before her.

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GAINS | 23 October 2026 at 06:57

Rheinmetall Promised Telford 100 Jobs for Its New Gun Hall.

Britain is producing artillery gun barrels again for the first time in twenty years. The company and the Defence Secretary both used the figure of 100 jobs at the opening. Today the Gun Hall employs 35 people.

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LOSSES | 23 October 2026 at 06:55

FinTrU Is Cutting 114 More Jobs in Belfast and Derry.

FinTrU proposed 95 redundancies in Belfast and 19 in Derry this week, its third round of cuts since late 2025. The union says staff have been told they may lose enhanced redundancy terms the company applied in the earlier rounds.

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LOSSES | 23 October 2026 at 06:54

LifeScan Cut 144 Jobs at Its Inverness Factory by June.

LifeScan Scotland eliminated 144 posts in Inverness through a voluntary severance scheme, with staff gone by the end of June. There was no press release. The figure surfaced this week, in the small print of the company's own annual accounts.

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THE MACHINES | 23 October 2026 at 06:52

Barclays Is Cutting 5,000 Jobs and Naming AI as a Reason.

Barclays told shareholders on 22 October that AI is making its staff more productive and it needs about 5,000 fewer of them. Its own chief executive then told reporters AI is "the icing on the cake, not the cake." A union calls it an excuse. Nobody has said how many of the 5,000 work in Britain.

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LOSSES | 22 October 2026 at 06:45

The BBC Has Disclosed Six Rounds of Job Cuts So Far.

BBC News is cutting a net "just over 100" roles, and BBC Three and BBC Scotland are losing their television channels. Add up every departmental cut the corporation has confirmed this year and the total is 441, barely a fifth of the 2,000 jobs it said in April it would cut.

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PROMISES | 21 October 2026 at 06:58

Ulster University Asked for 450 Redundancies. 735 Staff Applied to Leave.

Ulster University set a target of around 450 job losses in April. Seven months later, 735 staff, nearly a quarter of the workforce, have applied for voluntary redundancy. The university says the number is not final. Whichever way it moves, this is exactly the gap this ledger exists to track.

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GAINS | 21 October 2026 at 06:55

Amazon's Newest UK Warehouse Opens in Peterborough.

Amazon has turned a seasonal Peterborough site into a permanent GBP107 million distribution centre, calling it a historic moment for the company and promising 1,400 jobs. The building is open. Whether 1,400 people actually work there is a different question, and this ledger has set a date to check it.

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LOSSES | 21 October 2026 at 06:52

Flutter Entertainment Is Cutting Up to 1,400 Jobs.

The owner of Paddy Power, Betfair and Sky Bet says up to 1,400 jobs will go across its combined UK and Ireland division, blaming this year's Budget tax rises. Leeds and Dublin are both named. How many of the 1,400 are British is not in any source checked.

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LOSSES | 21 October 2026 at 06:48

Westminster City Council Is Cutting 520 Jobs.

Westminster City Council will cut 520 posts, about 14 percent of its workforce, blaming a government funding gap it says could reach GBP160 million by 2029. A cabinet member says AI and commercial activity will help the council run leaner afterwards. The cuts are confirmed; the coping plan is a forecast.

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GAINS | 20 October 2026 at 06:40

Britain's First Subsea Cable Factory Just Opened in the Highlands.

Sumitomo Electric opened a GBP350 million factory at Port of Nigg this week, the UK's first plant built to make the high-voltage subsea cables offshore wind farms need. The company says the site will create 250 jobs. Nobody has counted them yet.

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GAINS | 19 October 2026 at 06:52

Hexaware Promised 1,200 UK Jobs in June.

A Greater Manchester trade mission to India this week announced 420 new jobs at a Hexaware technology centre, and it read like fresh news. It is not. Hexaware committed to 1,200 UK jobs across Manchester, Leeds and Birmingham back in June, as part of a UK-India package announced at the G7 Summit. This week is the first time any of those jobs got a city attached to them.

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LOSSES | 19 October 2026 at 06:50

Marston's Brewery Has Run in Burton Since 1834.

Carlsberg Britvic told staff and the Unite and GMB unions on 8 October that it wants to close Marston's Brewery in Burton upon Trent, ending almost two centuries of brewing on the site and putting around 310 jobs at risk. The company blames a UK cask ale market that has halved in a decade, not the plant or the people in it.

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LOSSES | 18 October 2026 at 06:50

The Guardian Is Ending Casual Shifts For Good

The Guardian is scrapping the casual-shift system that 370 journalists worked under in the last 14 months. It is creating up to 55 new part-time posts to replace them, plus 40 apprenticeships. The union says that still leaves up to 315 people with nowhere to go.

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GAINS | 18 October 2026 at 06:47

A Newcastle Tech Firm Promises 120 Jobs by 2029

Everything Managed Group wants to grow from 180 staff to 300 at its Grey Street office after a half-million-pound refurbishment. Twenty of the new roles are hiring now. The rest depend on four more years going the way the company plans.

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GAINS | 18 October 2026 at 06:46

Bank of America Has Hired 300 People in Belfast

Bank of America is marking a milestone at its new Belfast office: more than 300 hires completed. The company itself set the bar at up to 1,000 roles, back in September 2025. This ledger never logged that promise until the 300 became real.

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