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Building new jobs

29 October 2004

A £500,000 expansion of a Northumberland company supported by the North East's regional development agency is set to create 20 new jobs in the area. Modern Art Stone, which manufactures artificial stone for housebuilders and builder's merchants (above), is relocating from Cambois to Blyth to expand its production. The move is being supported by One NorthEast, which is providing a Regional Selective Assistance grant of £125,000, which will enable the company to buy the land on which to build a new 3,995 sq meter factory.

Scots skills schemes score in £25m fund

29 October 2004

A housing association offering skills training to unemployed young people was among the recipients of £25 million of European money distributed in Scotland last week.

Agency is given a year to improve

29 October 2004

The West Midlands' regional development agency has been given a year to improve its performance after a report published earlier this month said it had suffered a communications breakdown with its regeneration partners.

North-South divide in pay league

29 October 2004

In the economic performance league London and the South-East continue to mirror the success of the capital's top two football teams Arsenal and Chelsea. But Mark Hepworth detects signs of a revival in the fortunes of other regions.

A defender of form and function

29 October 2004

Heritage Lottery Fund director Carole Souter heads a body that has distributed £3 billion to restoration projects. But continuing to get the right balance between protection and prosperity requires imagination, she tells Tom de Castella.

DfES should learn new lessons

29 October 2004

If there is one serious counter-revolutionary force in Britain, it's the Department for Education and Skills. You may ask whether there are any revolutionary forces here, but you get the drift. The DfES is a block on progress.

Drugs war only helps criminals

29 October 2004

According to drug policy foundation Transform, our prohibition policies are in crisis. The well-intentioned efforts to prohibit the production, supply and possession of certain drugs through criminalisation is, it says, causing untold damage to communities both here and in drug producing countries. Attempts to eliminate the domestic market for heroin and cocaine have proved futile, as global economics have drastically inflated their price. Transform asserts that current drug policy creates crime, undermines public health and promotes social exclusion. It asks us, instead, to contemplate a hypothetical society in 2020 where all drugs are regulated and controlled.

Keep impulsive punters and big casinos apart

29 October 2004

You heard it in this column first, on 25 June, to be exact. Now the media, gripped in a feeding frenzy, are writing about little else.

South-East plans lack new towns' former resources

29 October 2004

John Prescott's massive housebuilding plans for the South-East are gathering a healthy head of steam, but it seems the train has left the station without half its carriages.

A Regeneration & Renewal special report - The new towns

29 October 2004

The creation of the new towns formed one of Britain's most important post-war social policies, and there is much to be learned from the strategy's mixed results. Joey Gardiner finds that, in developing its growth areas plans, the Government risks ignoring the lessons of history.

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