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Editorial: Unsung heroes will stay off the key worker radar

By Ben Willis

12 March 2004

Any company director experiencing difficulties in recruiting key staff to run its affairs will do whatever he can to plug the gap. Medical insurance, company cars or annual bonuses might all be waved as carrots to entice workers into those jobs that, although crucial, would usually get the upturned nose treatment.

Opinion: Why prevention is the only cure for ailing NHS

By Sir Peter Hall

12 March 2004

The state of the nation's health is rising up the policy agenda, but it's not clear how effectively the National Health Service is handling it. That's underlined by the Wanless report, which says the NHS should turn itself from a sickness treatment service to a sickness prevention service, and by a new league table that puts Hull in top place for the Obesity Cup, with other big cities close behind. Wanless says public health campaigns haven't reached people who are "lifestyle illiterate" and who are heavily clustered in places like Hull.

EDITORIAL: Upfront Natwest puts pressure on high street rivals

By Richard Garlick

16 January 2004

In a landmark move, RBS Natwest has released details of how much it lends to small businesses in deprived areas (see Community Renewal News p7).

OPINION: Selling off local cells won't be good for justice

By Sir Peter Hall, professor of planning at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London; Email: sir.peter.hall@haynet.com

16 January 2004

David Blunkett plans to sell off Brixton, Wandsworth and Holloway. Well, not the entire areas - although, given the rumours about the draconian powers he planned to give himself in his Civil Contingencies Bill, now scotched, who knows? No, its just the eponymous Victorian jails that are in Blunkett's sights. Their redevelopment value, apparently, is irresistible.

EDITORIAL: Lottery funders must remain free to take risks

By Richard Garlick

9 January 2004

Pumping tens of millions of pounds of public money into a new botanical visitor attraction in a remote Celtic outpost is clearly a risky enterprise.

OPINION: A very seasonal tale of housing market growth

By Sir Peter Hall, professor of planning at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London. Email: sir.peter.hall@haynet.com

9 January 2004

The Christmas and New Year period is the season of recycled roast turkey and instant microwave news. You suddenly realise that a large part of the news is manufactured - not in the Hutton Inquiry sense, but simply processed and served in neat chunks to meet the insatiable appetites of the meeja. But at holiday times, the news factories shut.

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