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Home business overlooked, says report

25 July 2008

One third of all small businesses in the UK operate from home and their importance to the economy is being overlooked by policymakers, according to academics.

Haca plans regional skills champions

25 July 2008

Regeneration skills champions would be created in each of the new housing and regeneration super-agency's regional teams, under plans revealed in Regeneration & Renewal this week.

Schooling power

By Sir Peter Hall

25 July 2008

Education is way to close wealth gap

Regeneration can buck the downturn

25 July 2008

Confidence within the sector is waning but regeneration prospects are better than many people think.

Breaking up is hard to do

25 July 2008

The scaling back of the LDA proposed by Patience Wheatcroft is unlikely to happen

Jobs policies 'miss ethnic groups'

25 July 2008

A flagship government programme to devolve unemployment strategies to cities has been attacked by MPs for failing to target out-of-work ethnic minorities whose employment rate still lags far below that of the average population.

London mayor Johnson's agency board revealed

25 July 2008

The board of London mayor Boris Johnson's economic development agency is set to be staffed by 13 figures from the worlds of politics, regeneration and business, Regeneration & Renewal has learned.

Tories: fix society to revive economy

25 July 2008

Reducing educational failure, tackling worklessness, alleviating poverty and mending the UK's "broken society" will be at the centre of a Conservative government's agenda to revive the economy, the shadow chancellor George Osborne said last week.

Data check - London bucks retail trend

25 July 2008

8.7% Rise in June retail sales in central London compared with June 2007

Threshold set for Laa cash rewards

25 July 2008

Councils would need to go at least 60 per cent of the way to meeting their local area agreement (Laa) deal targets in order to receive any money from a multi-million pound reward pot, under government plans.