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“must save £1.1bn as the government tries to cut the UK's deficit by £5.7bn this financial year”
“emergency Budget on 22 June”
“up to £24m in Cornwall”
“The number of people unemployed in the UK increased by 23,000 to 2.47 million during the three months to April, official figures have shown.”
“The unemployment rate was 7.9%, up from 7.8% in the quarter to January.”
“the number of people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance fell in May by 30,900 to 1.48 million, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.”
“when compared with the figures for the three months to March, overall unemployment has fallen from 2.51 million.”
“the number of people classed as economically inactive - those out of work and not seeking employment - rose by 29,000 during the three months to April to 8.19 million.”
“This is the highest level since records began, and represents 21.5% of the working age population.”
“The number of people out of work for more than a year increased by 85,000 to 772,000”
“unemployment among 16 to 24-year-olds rose by 11,000 to 926,000.”
“the number of people in employment increased by 5,000 to 28.9 million.”
“the number of people employed in the public sector increased by 28,000 in the year to the end of March 2010 to total 6.09m.”
“the government announced a £10.8m reduction in funds for North Yorkshire County Council and £2.79m for City of York Council.”
“More than £7m of cutbacks at the county council relate to highways and transportation.”
“nearly £1m relates to funding of children's services.”
“the government announced that more than £1.6bn will be axed from local authorities in a bid to reduce the country's £178bn deficit.”
“£900,000 of the cuts related to funding of children's services.”
“A Lincolnshire authority is asking for applications for £110,000 of flood prevention funding.”
“West Lindsey District Council said most of the money was earmarked for larger projects but £10,000 would go to parish councils.”
“Protection of these vulnerable communities is a high priority for the council, hence our investment of £100,000 to support partners to deliver prevention schemes.”
“The county council recently put 55,000 properties on a mobile phone alert system to warn of extreme weather.”
“Chris Allen, Public Protection Services Manager at West Lindsey District Council, said: "Protection of these vulnerable communities is a high priority for the council, hence our investment of £100,000 to support partners to deliver prevent…”
“the government announced more than £1.6bn would be axed from local authorities”
“with Leeds losing more than £7m”
“Over £5m has been cut from grants which the previous government provided to support services which are vital to young people who would otherwise not access education, employment or training.”
“Bradford council is also facing a budget reduction of more than £7.26m”
“the year-long £8.34m pilot, which was due to start in September”
“The authority has been told by the Department for Education that the year-long £8.34m pilot, which was due to start in September, has been withdrawn.”
“France's growing budget deficit currently stands 7.5% of GDP”
“far above the 3% target set by the EU”
“Meanwhile the country's annual pension deficit is expected to total 32bn euros (£26.7bn; $39.5bn) this year”
“and could rise to as much as 114bn euros by 2050 without reform”
“Meanwhile, public sector workers retire on 75% of their final salary”
“The independent commission will take at least a year to review whether casino-style investment banks should be split from deposit-taking institutions on the High Street.”
“Mr Osborne said that the process of reforming the regulatory system would be completed by 2012.”
“The Department estimated that leakage is costing around £5m a year.”
“The inquiry was originally budgeted to cost £11m and report findings were expected by 2002.”
“The final bill was estimated at nearly 200 million pounds - making it the longest and most expensive inquiry in British legal history.”
“Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have been asked to find savings totalling £704m.”
“the coalition government says its first priority is reducing the UK's £156bn debt.”
“He told the BBC that without urgent action the council's debts would rise from £357m to £413m by the end of the financial year.”
“The councils' responses suggest that nearly £2.5bn worth of projects could be cancelled.”
“As the rhetoric has become increasingly bitter, the firm's share price has continued to tumble, with billions of dollars being wiped off its value.”
“The TV industry is hugely important to Wales in terms of its economic value, especially given the number of jobs associated with TV production in different parts of the country.”
“The full scale of this economic impact is probably unknown and is one of the reasons behind Prof Ian Hargreaves' call to map the creative industries sector in Wales in his recent report 'The Heart of Digital Wales'.”
“It holds the data of some 8,000 banks and operates in 200 countries.”
“The current jobs will be protected under the 10-year contract which is expected to save the authority £50m.”
“The financial savings made as a result of the £175m contract, will go towards maintaining and improving front-line police services.”
“has now grossed more than $1bn in revenue”
“over the $14bn mark”
“which has a value of $5bn”
“nearly three times that of its closest rival Electronic Arts”
“Work has begun on a £2m refurbishment of Nottingham's main library to include a new service centre for the public.”
“The council has declined to say how much it hoped to raise for commercial reasons.”
“The initiative, backed by £1.5m from the European Social Fund, will be run by the New Sandfields Aberavon charity.”
“Devon roads damaged by the harsh winter are to benefit from a £3.6m government repair grant.”
“The council said the money would be used to repair about 70 miles of the county's 8,000 miles of highways.”
“The funding is in addition to DCC's £7m programme of repairs which has filled about 70,000 potholes this year.”
“£8m museum”
“£4.6m lottery grant”
“£15m Sea City Museum”
“The new attraction comes after the council was awarded a £4.6m lottery grant towards it plans for a £15m Sea City Museum just one mile away from the Aeronautica site.”
“South West Water bills are almost £150 more than the national average”
“In 2009, water users in Devon and Cornwall were told they could expect a cut of about £6 in bills over the next five years, which would bring a typical bill down to £483 - still almost £150 more than the national average charge of £340.”
“According to the Consumer Council for Water, three out of 10 people in the South West are in 'water poverty', with bills costing more than 3% of their income.”
“A £1.6m research centre aimed at using resources from the sea to fight diseases such as cancer has opened.”
“Margaret Davidson, who chairs the council's social work committee, said the £30m needed to meet the commitment was not available.”
“In five years time or so when the financial situation is better and the bankers have paid their money back to the public purse, we can improve the facilities that are there.”
“She got a big tin and wrote on it 'Wildlife Africa Fund - 1p Minimum Charge' and as you went past it you had to put some money in.”
“Belfast company Andor Technology has announced operating profits of £3.2m for the six months to the end of March.”
“This is an increase of 85 per cent on the same period last year.”
“We expect sales for the full year to be worth more than £3m in the Chinese market.”
“The Asia-Pacific region currently accounts for around 25 per cent of our overall revenue, and we think that we could expand our sales significantly there over the next few years.”
“The Asia-Pacific region currently accounts for around 25 per cent of our overall revenue”
“We need the ships, the rigs, the equipments and everything else that is used for oil exploration to be made in Brazil.”
“It said the number of loans granted to home buyers fell by 9% in April to 40,000.”
“and said lending was still 15% higher than a year ago.”
“However the proportion of loans made to first-time buyers was just 35% of the total - the lowest figure since September 2007.”
“With only a gradual easing of mortgage rationing in the past few months, first time buyers are still having to put down an average 25% deposit when buying a new home.”
“A public inquiry has begun in Oxford into plans to build a £1bn reservoir.”
“It estimated that £7.5bn was lent by these businesses in 2008.”
“The watchdog has been scrutinising the pawnbroking, payday loan and home credit businesses since July last year.”
“This report shows that prices reflect market realities, and that complaint levels are low,”
“The Consumer Prices Index (CPI), the government's preferred measure, dropped to 3.4% from 3.7% in April, according to the Office for National Statistics.”
“The Retail Prices Index (RPI), a measure widely used in pay talks, fell to 5.1% in May from 5.4%, the ONS said.”
“The fall was bigger than the 3.5% analysts' forecast.”
“May's retreat in CPI will be of some relief to the Bank of England and boosts its case that inflation will head down significantly over the coming months.”
“He expects inflation to be under the 2% target by early-2011 barring any increase in VAT in next week's emergency budget.”
“It reinforces our belief that the Bank of England is more likely than not to keep interest rates down at 0.50% into 2011 as recovery remains bumpy and gradual with major fiscal tightening and the Eurozone debt crisis posing serious threats…”
“The fall was bigger than the 3.5% analysts' forecast, and could mean that April's 17-month high marks a peak.”
“The county council has set a target of raising an extra £600,000 a year through charging for community-based care services.”
“4,450 of its citizens hold secret accounts with UBS.”
“£30m redevelopment”
“£3m donation by local benefactor David Robinson”
“Japan's central bank has announced plans to provide up to 3 trillion yen (£22bn; $33bn) in low interest loans”
“Rates have remained at 0.1% since the end of 2008”
“The plans allow approved banks to borrow up to 150bn yen each for up to four years at an interest rate of 0.1%”
“The scheme is due to begin at the end of August”
“prices currently falling at an annual rate of 1.5%”
