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Wales 'to return £40m to Europe'

20 June 2008

The Welsh Assembly Government (Wag) will have to hand back £40 million of European funding to the European Commission, according to press reports.

£43m new money for innovation

20 June 2008

Regional Development Agency Yorkshire Forward is to make £43 million available to fund research and development work by businesses across Yorkshire and the Humber.

NEET figures plummet

20 June 2008

Twenty thousand more young people were in education, employment or training at the end of 2007 than in 2006, figures from the Department of Children, Schools and Families show.

Poles apart

By Sir Peter Hall

20 June 2008

Polish immigrant fears are new twist on an old tale

Manchester's congestion tax dilemma

20 June 2008

With the enormous carrot of a £2.7bn investment in transport dangling in front of the city-region, Greater Manchester is coming under huge pressure to swallow the contingent road pricing scheme, says Allister Hayman.

Jobseekers lacking skills compelled to train

20 June 2008

Benefit claimants who lack the necessary skills to get a job will have to undertake compulsory training, the Government has announced.

Immigration not to blame for job levels

20 June 2008

Poor skills and low motivation, rather than an influx of Eastern European immigrants, are the reason UK workers are failing to fill job vacancies, a report claims.

Trump admits ignoring his own golf resort advisers

20 June 2008

American tycoon Donald Trump was forced to admit that he had ignored the advice of his own experts in seeking to locate his proposed golf resort on environmentally sensitive sand dunes in north-east Scotland.

Data check - Children's holidays

20 June 2008

16% of children from the richest households do not get at least a week's holiday away from home a year.

Mersey bridge proposal tabled

20 June 2008

Detailed proposals for a 1,000-metre toll bridge over the River Mersey have been submitted to the Department for Transport.