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Silent nights

By Karen Buck

12 December 2008

We need to turn the tide of UK loneliness

The year ahead

By Tim Williams

12 December 2008

Build or create next Karen Matthews

Applications cut only scratches surface of planners' problems

By Bryan Johnston

12 December 2008

It would make Scrooge's day. Some chief executives and top councillors have taken the recent drop in planning applications as carte blanche for recruitment freezes, tightening the screw on pay and maybe even trimming round the payroll edges.

Fyson on ... the dangers of measuring heritage site protection

By Anthony Fyson

12 December 2008

The dangers of measuring heritage site protection in economic not global enrichment terms.

Front-loading

By Richard Garlick

5 December 2008

Agencies differ over accelerated spending

Transport slash

By Sir Peter Hall

5 December 2008

Only butcher Boris has China's speed

Keep a beady eye on job-search rules

By Karen Buck

5 December 2008

Against a backdrop of sharply rising unemployment, it is easy to understand why the Social Security Advisory Committee issued a warning about new job-search regulations, which create new benefit claimant criteria for the minority of lone parents not in work and whose eldest child has turned twelve.

Homes delivery collapse leaves agency facing public sector role

By Huw Morris

5 December 2008

Staff at the Homes and Communities Agency, which launched this week, could be forgiven for feeling that they are on the receiving end of a hospital pass.

Fyson on ... Building for Life

5 December 2008

Building for Life criteria that ask the right questions for assessing high-quality developments.

Bell on ... aiming high on airport policy

5 December 2008

Sammy the seagull was feeling peckish. But as a frequent flyer from Blackpool he had enough air miles to take a trip to London.