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Four glass recycling companies wound-up in the High Court
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A Spanish man who attempted to smuggle 2.8 kilos of cocaine worth £112,000 into the UK by hiding it in the soles of training shoes was jailed for 11 years yesterday.
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The Highways Agency is advising road-users of possible delays along parts of the A64 near York during the summer school holidays, as drivers head to the coast.
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The Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) is seeking an agency to develop creative work as part of its Youth Alcohol Action Plan.
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Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council (MBC) feature in a new report highlighting the best examples of family learning provision, boosting the skills, qualifications and confidence of children and adults in England... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council (MBC) feature in a new report highlighting the best examples of family learning provision, boosting the skills, qualifications and confidence of children and adults in England... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council (MBC) feature in a new report highlighting the best examples of family learning provision, boosting the skills, qualifications and confidence of children and adults in England... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
A fifteen year contract that will help sustain the UK’s ship building and support industry has been signed between the MOD and BVT Surface Fleet Ltd. (BVT) Minister for Defence Equipment and Support, Quentin ... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
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This is the 8th of our regular reports to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on the impacts of the credit crunch... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
We've submitted the 8th of our regular reports to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on the rural impacts of the recession. Our briefings help inform his contribution... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
One of the main things to support market towns and larger villages is to get decent broadband connectivity to them, then they can innovate and support themselves. Read more Comment (0), Email this.
Good point Chris. Decent broadband connectivity could also be a good way to provide additional support to jobseekers through online channels perhaps? Read more Comment (0), Email this.
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This article in the latest Green Futures magazine looks at how digital exclusion is damaging rural Britain’s prospects, and how poor ... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
The latest issue of Green Futures magazine looks at how access to high quality broadband is a postcode lottery where rural areas draw the short straw.
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The Boundary Committee for England's advice on the establishment of new unitary authorities in Devon, Suffolk and Norfolk has now been further delayed to October, following a recent high court... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
A group of companies headed by Magna Group plc (“Magna plc”), has been wound up following an investigation by the Insolvency Service.
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Communities and Local Government Secretary John Denham today announced the reappointment of Michael O’Higgins as Chairman of the Audit Commission.
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The Prime Minister announced today the Government’s support for a new scheme designed to get more people volunteering during the recession.
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Housing Minister John Healey today unveiled plans to dismantle the current council housing finance system and replace it with a clearer, more transparent system that puts councils firmly in control and better... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
In the week the whole world celebrates the anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landings in 1969, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills is beginning a consultation which aims to thrust the UK space ... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) will respond to today’s report on behalf of the Government.
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A group of companies headed by Magna Group plc (“Magna plc”), has been wound up following an investigation by the Insolvency Service.
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Additional safety measures will be introduced around the Clacket Lane Service Area on the M25 near Westerham in Kent later this month. Work will involve installing solar-powered road studs and repainting all ... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
The Government is today launching a consultation on legislation that would protect 40 of the world’s poorest, most heavily indebted countries from the behaviour of a minority of commercial creditors, such as ... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
With help from Natural England, Norfolk farmer and broadcaster Chris Skinner was delighted and surprised to find harvest mice, Britain’s smallest mammal, back in his fields at High Ash Farm.
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ADMIRAL Sir Mark Stanhope KCB OBE ADC has today become the professional head of the Royal Navy and Chairman of the Navy Board. He is responsible to the Secretary of State for the fighting effectiveness, efficiency... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
Communities Secretary John Denham today heralded the biggest single transfer of power to local government in a generation.
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The Government is today launching a consultation on legislation that would protect 40 of the world’s poorest, most heavily indebted countries from the behaviour of a minority of commercial creditors, such as ... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
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A shared strategy for ensuring a safe and secure Olympic Games was published by the Home Secretary Alan Johnson today.
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A wide ranging consultation on the hours many van, bus and other professional drivers can work was launched today by Transport Minister Paul Clark.
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A mouse in the country - britain's tiniest mammals return to a norfolk farm Read more Comment (0), Email this.
At twenty four minutes past ten yesterday evening, Stornoway Coastguard received a 999 call from a concerned friend of a man who had put to sea to check his lobster pots.
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English Heritage is delighted to announce that award-winning restaurateurs Melanie and TJ Drew are to lease from English Heritage The Abbey Inn at Byland Abbey in North Yorkshire.
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Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council (MBC) feature in a new report highlighting the best examples of family learning provision, boosting the skills, qualifications and confidence of children and adults in England... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
Additional safety measures will be introduced around the Clacket Lane Service Area on the M25 near Westerham in Kent later this month. Work will involve installing solar-powered road studs and repainting all ... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
ADMIRAL Sir Mark Stanhope KCB OBE ADC has today become the professional head of the Royal Navy and Chairman of the Navy Board. He is responsible to the Secretary of State for the fighting effectiveness, efficiency... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) will respond to today’s report on behalf of the Government.
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Fair Access to the Professions Panel publishes over 80 recommendations. ‘Closed shop’ Britain must end to unleash aspiration in all children, report concludes.
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Communities Secretary John Denham today heralded the biggest single transfer of power to local government in a generation.
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Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council (MBC) features in a new report highlighting the best examples of family learning provision, boosting the skills, qualifications and confidence of children and adults in England... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
Learning from the failings identified at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, Health Secretary Andy Burnham today announced a package of measures to tackle exceptional failures in Foundation Trusts.
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The quality of trainee teachers entering England’s schools continues to rise according to new statistics published today.
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Dame Suzi Leather is re-appointed as Chair of the Charity Commission, the independent regulator for charities in England and Wales, Angela Smith Minister for the Third Sector announced today.
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Publication of the latest statistics on animal research and the Animal Scientific Procedures Inspectorate Annual Report 2008
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We the under signed petition the UK Prime Minister to instruct the relevant... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
The Insolvency Service published its report on the first six months’ operation of Statement of Insolvency Practice 16 (SIP 16) today.
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Two men have today, Monday 20 July 2009, been jailed after a 15-year-old labourer was crushed to death by a wall in Hadley Wood. Builder Colin Holtom and contractor Darren Fowler had previously been convicted... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
Crispin Moor, our Executive Director - Whitehall, has blogged for New Start magazine about how and why Rural Proofing can help effectively deliver mainstream policies and ... Read more Comment (0), Email this.
At twenty four minutes past ten yesterday evening, Stornoway Coastguard received a 999 call from a concerned friend of a man who had put to sea to check his lobster pots.
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HM The Queen has appointed Mark Andrew Jabbitt to be a District Judge (Magistrates’ Courts) on the advice of the Lord Chancellor, the Right Honourable Jack Straw MP. The Right Honourable The Lord Judge, Lord ... Read more Comment (0), Email this.