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Book Review: Rural reality bites for urbanites

9 April 2004

Ah - the countryside! Lush meadows (mud); cosy country pubs (here be bigots); and log fires (beware back injury from chopping wood). Out of Your Townie Mind exposes the myths of rural living and replaces them with the uncomfortable reality: The countryside is cold and dirty, and "unless you are a white heterosexual" can be desperately unwelcoming.

Agenda

9 April 2004

AGENDA TO 8 JULY

Turning Point: Selling safety after career trade-in

9 April 2004

A shopkeeper by trade, I had no intention of changing my occupation when an established business of some 30 years standing was left to me and my brother to run - which we did successfully.

Diary: Kate rates soccer shenanigans, a positive choice, and hedges are hit

9 April 2004

- Wild goose chases go with the territory when you're in journalism.

Editorial: Why casino and family mix could be a huge gamble

9 April 2004

Readers planning stag or hen parties to Blackpool should make sure that they are equipped with the required plastic handcuffs and comedy breasts before they set off. For, if an initiative launched this week takes off, it will soon be a lot harder to buy them in the town.

Special Report: A Regeneration & Renewal special report - The Coalfields

9 April 2004

After decades of decline, the coalfields hit rock bottom. Ben Walker examines the Government's attempts at regeneration and asks whether they have met with success.

Opinion: Greater risk means more action

9 April 2004

Barbara Roche asserts that red tape is stifling renewal (Regeneration & Renewal, 19 March, p9). She made the same statement publicly at a Barrow Cadbury Trust seminar on inclusive communities last year, and promised that endowments and low-level funding without high levels of accountability were on her ministerial agenda. Shortly afterwards, she was relieved of her position.

Opinion: Northern way to a new economy

9 April 2004

We've had the American Way, Playschool encouraging infants to walk the Wibbly-Wobbly Way, and now the Northern Way. The latter appears to be a version of the Thames Gateway transplanted northwards, but without London's GDP or the link to that other great development corridor, Europe's Great Yellow Banana.

Interview: Off the buses and into business

9 April 2004

ECT has grown from a small, voluntary-sector minibus service into one of Britain's biggest social enterprises. It had to become a serious player to succeed, chief executive Stephen Sears tells Nick Loney.

Opinion: Historical echo of Rachmanism in slum districts

9 April 2004

There was recently a sensational article in this magazine: on Tyneside, a company called Practical Property Portfolio (PPP) got more than £100 million from investors to renovate and let derelict houses, with promises of 15 per cent return a year (Regeneration & Renewal, 26 March, p22). But the renovation never happened, and investors lost their shirts. PPP was legally wound up after the Government brought petitions against it for "an elaborate investment scam".