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 | | From: | Paul C | | Subject: | Prescott plans to subsidise London junkies | | Date: | Wed, 05 Jan 2005 14:34:19 GMT |
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 | http://politics.guardian.co.uk/economics/story/0,11268,1382840,00.html
Prescott plan to provide £60,000 homes
Peter Hetherington, regional affairs editor
Tuesday January 4, 2005
The Guardian
Young couples and single people priced out of the housing market could
get subsidised loans underpinned by the government under plans to
extend home ownership and increase social mobility.
The initiative in a new housing strategy from John Prescott, to be
unveiled later this month, also involves using thousands of acres of
government land, particularly in London and the south, to build houses
with the aim of producing a home for £60,000.............
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Paul
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| | From: | Jackie Mulheron | | Subject: | Re: Prescott plans to subsidise London junkies | | Date: | Wed, 5 Jan 2005 18:40:20 -0000 |
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"Paul C" wrote in message
news:41dbfaba.21074462@news.individual.de...
> http://politics.guardian.co.uk/economics/story/0,11268,1382840,00.html
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> Prescott plan to provide £60,000 homes
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> Peter Hetherington, regional affairs editor
> Tuesday January 4, 2005
> The Guardian
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> Young couples and single people priced out of the housing market could
> get subsidised loans underpinned by the government
PLUS
> http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8209-1404787,00.html
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> Superlink 'could run at half Crossrail cost'
> By Angela Jameson
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> SUPERLINK, a proposed railway across London, could be built and
> operated at half the cost to taxpayers of the existing Crossrail plan.
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> Superlink's promoters, Michael Schabas and John Prideaux, yesterday
> said that Crossrail would require a subsidy of £6.4 billion from the
> taxpayer, while Superlink would need just £3.2 billion from the public
> purse.................
PLUS
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2005/01/03/do0304.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/01/03/ixportal.html
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> Leg-room doesn't put bums on seats
> By Robert Whelan
> (Filed: 03/01/2005)
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> The parlous state of the West End theatres is one of those recurring
> topics, and no newspaper has done more to focus attention on the
> crumbling Victorian and Edwardian structures that accommodate most
> shows in the capital than The Daily Telegraph.
>
> The paper's critic, Charles Spencer, has made it a crusade to get
> something done about the litter, the traffic and the inadequate
> facilities of the buildings, and now it seems that a lifeline is to be
> thrown to the theatre owners by the Heritage Lottery Fund. The fund
> might come up with £125 million, half the sum estimated to be needed
> to bring the buildings up to scratch.
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> Of course, the Lottery has already paid for the lavish refurbishment
> of temples of culture in the metropolis, notably the Royal Opera
> House, the Coliseum and the Royal Court. The difference, on this
> occasion, is that the money would not be going to subsidised
> companies, but to commercial managements.
PLUS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1382317,00.html
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> How the humble bus could prove just the ticket
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> Andrew Clark, transport correspondent
> Monday January 3, 2005
> The Guardian
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> .........London has demonstrated what can be achieved with buses.
> Passenger numbers have risen to their highest level since 1969. Every
> weekday, 6,500 scheduled buses carry six million people on 700
> different routes.
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> The improvements have come at a cost - the government's annual subsidy
> to buses in London is scheduled to hit £1bn by 2008
Nice work Paul. That certainly shows up how London is a massive drain on
prosperity in Scotland and other parts of the UK.
Donations to the Tsunami may also show that Scotland has more wealth than
the rest of the UK considering it is running above it's population share by
a fair margin.
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