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Law, law, law - how do you like it?
Posted by Ross Smith on August 6, 2008 3:01 PM
We sent off today the North East Chamber of Commerce's response to Gordon Brown's Draft Legislative Programme for 2008-9 - in other words, the new laws he intends Parliament to work on over the next year.
There's some pretty important stuff in there for North East businesses - not the least the prospect of councils being given new powers to put an extra levy on business rates.
We've told Government that we're not against the idea in principle - if businesses in the region agree it's worth spending extra money to fund a particular piece of infrastructure, then this creates a means for them to do so. In practice, however, we've raised some serious concerns over how it might be applied.
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Exports offer hope as King avoids R word
Posted by Andrew Hebden on August 13, 2008 3:29 PM
"Don't mention the R word" was probably the edict from Downing Street as Bank of England Governor Mervyn King prepared to unleash his much-anticipated quarterly report on the state of the economy.And, for what it's worth, he didn't.
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Economy versus Ecology
Posted by Ian Brown on August 14, 2008 3:15 PM
I am lucky to hold a post for the Environment Agency covering both the north east and Yorkshire/Humberside, as such I got to hear the chairman of the Environment Agency give his retirement speech in London, Sir John Harman came from the world of local authorities (Kirklees) and as such has been at the very centre of environmental politics for the last couple of decades. He is doing other lectures so I will only touch on his conclusion.
It is also relevant to the current thnk-tank controversy. The reason we should not send the population of Sunderland to Oxford is as much about ecology as it is economy!
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Holiday martyrdom.......put on hold due to annual leave!
Posted by Ian Brown on August 14, 2008 5:19 PM
If I had been employed instead of self-employed I would have been given a good talking to by the HR (human resources) team for not taking my holidays. This is the time of year when virtually everybody does off for at least aweek. In rural areas many farmers and tourism businesses of course are needed in their business and frankly for many years that was my excuse.
Martyrdom in its full religious sense may be worthy but at a more mundane definition it is about many of us believing we are indispensible.....my mention of this topic to a friend before deciding to blog it met with a stoical and true statement: - " The graveyard is extremely full of indispensible people." Let's discuss!
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BAA break-up makes sense
Posted by Andrew Hebden on August 20, 2008 10:07 AM
The Competition Commission's decision that BAA will likely have to sell off three of its UK airports is the only logical outcome of this long overdue inquiry.
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5 flights, 6 hotels, 2 cars, 20 meetings and 5 training sessions
Posted by Andrea Wilkinson on August 21, 2008 4:39 PM
Here I am again in the whirlwind that is pre-planning for a long haul journey. This time it's a mammoth trip to the Swaziland and South Africa for three weeks, flying from the UK to Johannesburg to Swaziland to Mpumalanga to Cape Town.
From visiting the largest trade fair in the Southern Hemisphere to training people in fair trade awareness at Kruger National Park and Cape Town to watching King Mswati the Third of Swaziland pick his 14th wife; it's going to be a varied trip!
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