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Initiative aims to boost job chances

10 August 2007

A government initiative to provide unemployed people with training designed to improve their chances of getting a job was launched last week.

City-regions move ahead

10 August 2007

Northern city-regions have made good progress in establishing development plans but there is still work to be done, according to a report by PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Diye Wariebi

10 August 2007

Wariebi, 36, founded social enterprise DigiBridge.

History repeating

By Sir Peter Hall

10 August 2007

We're no better than the Luddites of the past.

A head for business

10 August 2007

Manchester's chief executive says his city is a model for increasing prosperirty.

MPs slam skills scheme red tape

10 August 2007

A government scheme to subsidise employers' training programmes is restrictive and bureaucratic, and may be funding training that businesses would otherwise have paid for themselves, according to a report by MPs published last week.

New target urged to end prosperity gap

10 August 2007

The Government is failing to close the prosperity gap between the North and South, according to think-tank research.

Bradford firms in regeneration push

10 August 2007

Bradford firms want city centre regeneration speeded up and made the focal point of local economic policy, according to a survey by the city's chamber of commerce.

Office scheme 'risk' for deprived areas

10 August 2007

Office schemes in regeneration areas are at risk from any downturn in the property investment market, according to the Investment Property Databank report.

'Good progress' in Northern city-regions

10 August 2007

Northern city-regions have made "good progress" in drawing up effective economic plans, according to a report by consultants PricewaterhouseCoopers.