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OPINION: Getting it off my chest, at last

12 December 2003

This week I shall mostly be wearing anger. Normally in this column I restrain my anger and cloak it in irony or whimsy.

OPINION: Targets of 'respectable' racism

12 December 2003

Among all ethnic groups in the UK and across Europe, it is the Roma - or the gypsy and travelling communities as they are also known - who endure pariah status. While it is generally understood in polite, mainstream society that discriminatory attitudes against black and ethnic minorities are unacceptable, prejudice against Roma is even enshrined in an amendment to the Race Relations Act that allows immigration officers the right to target them. It is often perceived that travelling communities wish to roam on the margins of society. It has been recommended that they buy land and put down roots. Yet when they attempt to do that, they are often refused planning permission due to the ingrained fear and loathing that surrounds them.

OPINION: Top-up fees may threaten small university towns

12 December 2003

The great university top-up fees fight is going round after round, and the result could just be a knock-out, ending the current champion's long winning run. But what the media hasn't noticed is that the outcome will have huge implications for regeneration.

INTERVIEW: High-flyer is on a space mission

12 December 2003

Six months into her new job at the ODPM, fast-rising young minister Yvette Cooper has got a tight grip on the green spaces agenda. Matt Ross meets her

ANALYSIS: Weighing the cost of redundancy

12 December 2003

Changes in redundancy pay laws to protect workers on short-term contracts could have costly implications for regeneration schemes, report Doug Mullen and David Alcock

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT NEWS: Bridge design picked

12 December 2003

Designers have been chosen for a Glasgow pedestrian bridge that the city council hopes will act as a catalyst for the regeneration of the Tradeston area of the city. A group comprising engineer Atkins, its cost management subsidiary Faithful & Gould and architecture practice the Richard Rogers Partnership won a competition to design the bridge, called Neptune's Way.

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT NEWS: Commission to consider capital convention centre

12 December 2003

A mayoral commission is being set up to consider building an international convention centre in the capital.

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT NEWS: Skills programme works, say ministers

12 December 2003

A government programme to improve the employability of low-skilled workers has been hailed a success by ministers and the business lobby.

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT NEWS: Renewal faces council cash cuts

12 December 2003

Spending on regeneration and liveability faces across-the-board cuts as local authorities come under increasing pressure from both ministers and the public to reduce council tax.

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BRIEF: Development Agency pledges

12 December 2003

The North-West Development Agency has pledged £2 million for developing a centre of excellence for manufacturing and technology in Burnley. Based on the former Michelin site, the centre will provide a base for up to 20 small and medium-sized firms with the aim of improving local start-up rates. It has already received £1.4 million from the European Regional Development Fund.