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Book Review - Community finance made clear

23 April 2004

The trouble with emerging markets is that they are inherently difficult to keep track of. Like developing eco-systems, they seem to be appearing and evolving a hundred places at once.

Diary: Bad news for baseball caps, long-haired musicans ... and commuters

23 April 2004

The decline of standards of behaviour over the past 30 years has gone hand-in-hand with a decline in hat wearing. In bygone days, it was bad manners to be seen outside without your bowler or trilby. But, alas, the tradition was swept away with so many others during the tide of licentiousness and equality prevalent in the 1960s.

Turning Point: Project that led to a new horizon

23 April 2004

From a young age I knew that I wanted to do something that would make a meaningful difference to the quality of people's lives. However, I wasn't sure exactly what role or profession would enable me to do this.

Funding: Fast and fresh finance

23 April 2004

The distribution of regeneration cash doesn't have to be all about form-filling, reporting systems and highly-paid consultants. Heather Greig-Smith examines some innovative methods of handing out grants.

Editorial: Can Northern link exploit a chink in the UK economy?

23 April 2004

Over the past 40 years, all the major shifts in Britain's economic landscape seem to have conspired to exacerbate the gap in wealth between London and the regions. The decline of heavy industry, the rise of financial services, and entry to the Common Market have all played their part in reinforcing the South-East's pre-eminence.

Opinion: 1947 law still shaping our land

23 April 2004

I'm a great fan of hypothetical, 'what if' kind of history writing, of which there is much about at the moment. You know the sort of thing: what if Hitler hadn't invaded Russia? what if the First World War had been avoided? and what if the UK hadn't supported the US in Iraq and Turkey had? Would we have won the Eurovision song contest instead and Johnny Turk come last? We'll never know, but it's certainly fun to speculate.

Opinion: Health can be a money-spinner

23 April 2004

A report to Government by Derek Wanless yielded the astonishing statistic that if improvements to public health were implemented in a meaningful and thorough-going manner, the nation could save close to £300 billion. Such a boon to the exchequer would represent the equivalent of a 9p in the pound tax reduction.

Opinion: New approach needed to ease drivers' torture

23 April 2004

Easter has become a mini-silly-season: even the Guardian borrowed an item from Germany tabloid Bild Zeitung about a gargantuan Berlin cat taken into care after its owner fed it two kilos of mince a day. Never to be outdone on these occasions, Ken Livingstone conveniently forgot his protocol role as London mayor by calling for the arrest of Ariel Sharon and the public hanging of the Saudi royal family, catching the headlines on a newsless weekend. But he also engineered a semi-serious spat about a serious issue: speed humps. Up in the posh borough of Barnet, taking in the north London highlands from High Barnet down to Hampstead Garden Suburb, the Tory council has been busy ripping up humps and taking out bike lanes. Declaring that "London has one of the best road safety records in Europe. We are not going to allow that to be undermined by the loony right," Ken promptly withdrew £1.5 million in funds from the intransigent anti-humpers. The so called "loony right" is personified by council member Brian Coleman, who gives as good as he gets. "These road humps are responsible for 500 unnecessary deaths, pollution and noise," he said.

Interview: From penalties to strategic goals

23 April 2004

As he dons the mantle of the regional development agencies' 'chair of chairs', former football chief Bryan Gray will need to keep his eye firmly on the ball. Ben Willis meets him.