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NWDA cuts - true cost to the region revealed as more than 100 projects lose out
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The Northwest Regional Development agency has confirmed more than 100 projects will lose out after the ConDem Government cut £52m from its budget. The announcement is a massive blow to regeneration plans across the region. The £220m Talbot Gateway plan in Blackpool, the Skelmersdale College Campus Renewal, Chester Zoo’s £225m Natural Vision project, the new £28m Everyman theatre in Liverpool and the International Festival in Manchester are just some of the projects that were expecting to secure funding support and will now miss out. Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg admitted some RDAs ‘do a good job’ when he was challenged...
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Announcement of the death of Cllr Roy Oldham
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Announcement of the death of Cllr Roy Oldham Councillor Samuel Roy Oldham, CBE, known as Roy, who has died aged 76, after losing his two-year battle with cancer, will be remembered by the public and peers alike as a man of the people and, after being at the helm of Tameside Council for 30 years, the longest serving council leader in the country. His thirty consecutive years as the Executive Leader of a Metropolitan Borough Council stands as testimony to the drive and determination of a man who led the borough to the pinnacle of local government. Named as among...
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More than 100 North West school rebuilding projects axed
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The Coalition Government’s Secretary of State for Education has delivered a hammer blow to thousands of children, parents and teachers in the North West. Tory MP Michael Gove’s announcement on Monday, July 5, means that 110 Building Schools for the Future (BSF) projects in the North West have been stopped. The BSF cuts will have a massive impact on schools in Cheshire and Merseyside (57), Cumbria (6), Lancashire (20) and Greater Manchester (27). A further 21 BSF projects have been marked ‘for discussion’. Labour’s Wigan MP Lisa Nandy, a member of the children, schools and families, select committee, said: "Depriving...
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The Budget will hit the poorest in the North West hardest of all
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Labour North West MPs are warning about the dangers of a reckless budget that is short sighted in approach and will hit the poorest in region hardest of all. Shadow Treasury minister, Wallasey MP Angela Eagle, said: "This budget offers no help, no chance and no hope for the poorest and most vulnerable in the North West. "Young people and families are set to suffer the most with child benefits frozen for three years, the abolition of the health in pregnancy grant and cuts to the Sure Start maternity grant. "And don’t forget they’ve already cut the Child Trust Fund,...
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Don’t scrap the Future Jobs Fund
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"Don’t scrap the Future Jobs Fund" – Labour North West spokesman MP Phil Woolas Labour Regional spokesman MP Phil Woolas is urging the Tory–Lib Dem government not to cut support for jobs and the economy as figures released today show that unemployment in the North West is now at 294,000. Labour’s Future Jobs Fund has created over 18,000 youth jobs in the North West. But the government is scrapping this help and axing future opportunities for local young people with North West potentially the hardest hit region in the country. The MP believes these figures show we are...
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