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BusinessDesk 15 Dec 10
Not In My Back Yard
The Government’s plans to give greater control over certain planning issues to local people could be placing the property industry into the hands of NIMBYs.
That’s one of the views following the long-awaited unveiling of the Localism Bill by communities secretary Eric Pickles MP on Monday…
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The Plastic Hippo 9 Jun 10
Way back in September 2009, the then Shadow Chancellor George Osborne predicted that a future Conservative government would emulate the “success” of local Tory councils in cutting front-line services. Speaking then from the safety of opposition, it is worth again repeating what he said:
“When it comes to rooting out waste and cutting costs, or improving services through innovative new policies, Conservative councils are showing it can be done.” Err…a bit like Walsall, then.
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Jonathan Walker B'ham Post 8 Jun 10
Public services face yet more cuts after David Cameron warned of “momentous” spending reductions which will “affect every single person in our country”.
Spending on police and housing has already been cut in the West Midlands, and last week the Government announced it was closing the Birmingham-based General Teaching Council, which employs 150 people in the city.
But the Prime Minister said there was far more pain to come…
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Derek Bennett EU Sceptic 27 Jan 10
What do you do on-line, what do you get up to in cyberspace? Most people use of the internet is quite innocuous, e-mails to family, friends and work colleagues, a bit of on-line shopping or catching up with the tittle-tattle on Facebook and other such sites, nothing usually for anyone to get hot and bothered about. However, Big Brother is increasingly watching our every internet move…
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B'ham Mail 16 Dec 09
More cash will be diverted to white working class communities in the Midlands in a bid to counter the belief they have been ignored, Communities Secretary John Denham has revealed. The money will be spent on improving facilities in what the Government called “traditional working class communities”…
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B'ham Post 17 Dec 09
Research by the Centre For Cities thinktank reveals that 50,000 private sector jobs, chiefly in manufacturing, disappeared in the West Midlands between 1998 and 2007. During the same nine-year period 80,000 public sector jobs were created. The report, commissioned for Birmingham City Council has implications for the entire region…
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Express & Star 17 Dec 09
Hundreds of West Midlands minimum wage salaries are to be funded by the government to boost employment. Four firms have been offered funding on condition they get people into work, with many of the roles in the Black Country…
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B'ham Mail 17 Dec 09
Labour backbenchers have warned the Government they will step up demands for action to prevent a foreign buying axing jobs at Cadbury if ministers fail to intervene…
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Stirrer 16 Dec 09
The long awaited arrival of London-style Oystercards could be just around the corner for bus passengers in the West Midlands following a £20million government handout to regulator Centro. But as Kevin Chapman suggests the slow delivery of an established system, begs questions about how public transport is run…
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B'ham Mail 16 Dec 09
Labour MP Steve McCabe had attacked the US food giant’s takeover bid at a union rally, saying it would be like Arthur Daley being put in charge of a Premiership football club…