Learning and Skills Council Chief Executive Geoff Russell has today been appointed as the first Chief Executive of the new Skills Funding Agency.
Following a competitive process, on 22 December 2009, an independent Appointment Panel appointed Ian Burns, head of Smith & Williamson’s transaction services and valuations practices, as independent valuer...
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Stop smoking experts from the NHS in the West Midlands are giving their top tips to the thousands of people planning a New Year quit attempt.
Details of a £20m three-year pilot scheme to explore a more personalised way of meeting the health needs of Thalidomide survivors have been announced today by Health Minister Mike O’Brien.
A Glasgow bus company has been fined £3,300 by the Traffic Commissioner for Scotland Ms Joan Aitken for failing to run their services to time.
New research from Defra shows that 78% of people support having a separate food waste collection to enable recycling of food, and two thirds of households said they used their separate food waste collection.Â
Learning and Skills Council Chief Executive Geoff Russell has today been appointed as the first Chief Executive of the new Skills Funding Agency.
A Stirling bus company has been fined £1,100 by the Traffic Commissioner for Scotland Ms Joan Aitken for failing to run their services to time.
New research from Defra shows that 78% of people support having a separate food waste collection to enable recycling of food, and two thirds of households said they used their separate food waste collection. Â
AÂ Borders bus company has had its licence suspended by the Traffic Commissioner for Scotland after a public Inquiry heard of serious defects to buses used on school runs.
Carol Carter from Halesowen has been at the forefront of a major campaign - spreading the word in a series of radio and newspaper interviews across the UK promoting Smokefree United – part of the NHS Stop Smoking...
Portland Coastguard Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre were requested by the South West Ambulance Service this morning to render assistance to their paramedics utilising the Coastguard Rescue Teams 4x4 vehicles...
Portland Coastguard Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre were requested by the South West Ambulance Service this morning to render assistance to their paramedics utilising the Coastguard Rescue Teams 4x4 vehicles...
Trials of a scheme to improve access to information about training courses, and show learners how much Government funding is available to them are so far proving to be successful, a report out today has found...
Energy and Climate Change Minister Lord Hunt today announced the appointment of Stephen Barrett and Robert Wright as members of the Civil Nuclear Police Authority.
The UK Government has today submitted its official response to the European Commission’s green paper on reforming the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP).
Millions of pounds of criminal cash is being given back to help the fight against crime, Home Office Minister Alan Campbell announced today.
Housing Minister John Healey today announced that communities across the North and Midlands will share £311m next year to boost work already underway to transform homes and regenerate communities.
An innovative free Quit Kit which gives smokers the right tools to successfully stop smoking is launched today as new research shows that almost half of smokers (44%) in England have resolved to quit this New...
New measures to help people get fairer treatment when building work goes wrong were published today as part of a consultation on boosting the professional standards for builders and tradesmen in approved competent...
Culture Minister, Margaret Hodge, has placed a temporary export bar on a painting by Samuel Palmer, The Shearers. This will provide a last chance to raise the money to keep the painting in the United Kingdom...
Many county councils are currently heading down the route of building large...
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A record 143,400 people, including 8,600 people in London, completed an apprenticeship in the 2008/09 academic year, according to data on vocational qualifications released today by the Department for Business...
Swimmers at public pools across England will enjoy brand-new and revamped facilities in 2010 – thanks to a new wave of investment from the Government’s £140m free swimming initiative that has so far...
Defra, the Environment Agency and Welsh Assembly Government today published River Basin Management Plans (RBMP) for ten river basin districts in England and Wales. The plans set out how good water status will...
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Swimmers at public pools across England will enjoy brand-new and revamped facilities in 2010 – thanks to a new wave of investment from the Government’s £140m free swimming initiative that has so far...
Defra, the Environment Agency and Welsh Assembly Government today published River Basin Management Plans (RBMP) for ten river basin districts in England and Wales. The plans set out how good water status will...
A range of former so called ‘legal highs’ including GBL, BZP and man-made chemicals sprayed on herbal smoking products such as ‘Spice’ are now illegal, Home Secretary Alan Johnson announced today.
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