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Sandwell

26 November 2004

Each week we ask a regeneration practitioner or commentator to assess a recently published planning document. This week Richard Cutler reviews the masterplan for Sandwell.

£50m deal is agreed for TV renewal town

26 November 2004

The town currently being filmed for a Channel 4 documentary series on regeneration has signed a £50 million deal to redevelop its town centre.

University's plans set to change Leeds' cityscape

26 November 2004

Leeds Metropolitan University has unveiled plans for the tallest building in the city as part of a ten-year rebuilding programme.

Pledge that Games will revitalise east London

26 November 2004

Winning the Olympic Games in 2012 would transform the Lower Lea Valley and leave it with a lasting legacy, the chair of the capital's Olympic bid promised last week.

More people in work than ever before

26 November 2004

There are more people in work than ever before, work minister Jane Kennedy claimed last week. Kennedy was responding to figures from the Office for National Statistics showing that the number of workers in the UK rose 55,000 in the last quarter to 28.43 million - up 232,000 on a year ago. The number claiming unemployment benefit fell by 88,000 over the year to 837,700. For details, visit www.dwp.gov.uk.

Salts Healthcare Ltd wins category in Innovations Awards

26 November 2004

Birmingham-based Salts Healthcare Ltd has won the Achievement in Innovation category in the West Midlands Innovations Awards, sponsored by regional development agency Advantage West Midlands. The Development in Innovation award went to STATS Ltd in Coventry. Warwick University-based Innovation Direct won the Living for Innovation award.

Struggling manufacturing sector

26 November 2004

A struggling manufacturing sector and increased labour market inactivity are "continuing concerns" that should prevent the Bank of England from further increasing interest rates, economists at the Trades Union Congress warned last week. The TUC said that if the euro continues to rally against sterling, the Bank "should consider a cut".

Employment rate for ethnic minorities not rising fast enough

26 November 2004

The employment rate for ethnic minorities is not rising fast enough, minister for work Jane Kennedy admitted this week. Marking the first ann-iversary of the Government's Ethnic Minority Employment Task Force, Kennedy said that there is still much more to do to realise the potential of people from ethnic minority backgrounds.

Private Finance Initiative hailed a success

26 November 2004

The Private Finance Initiative was last week hailed as a success in a report by think-tank the Social Market Foundation. But the report, commissioned by law firm Bevan Brittan, warns that "urgent work" is needed on long-term management of the PFI, under which private companies can finance public projects without the money having to be included in the chancellor's public sector borrowing requirement. The Future of the Private Finance Initiative is available at www. bevanbrittan.com

CBI calls for freeze on the minimum wage

26 November 2004

The national minimum wage should rise only nominally or not at all in 2005, the head of lobbying body the Confederation of British Industry said last week.