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An excuse to do nothing
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When the thin blue line becomes a garrote
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Providing a useful sex education
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A mirrored darkness
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Brassed off
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Posts Tagged ‘business support’
Rural Wales: Wealth of beauty, poverty of opportunity
There is undoubted beauty and magic in the Welsh countryside. But behind the scenes of these picture postcard communities lies a tough day-to-day existence, and a struggle against poverty and exclusion
Edwina and Huw spotlight the economy
TWO WELSH LABOUR Leadership contenders are making the economy their focus today as they visit major employers in South West Wales. Edwina Hart is in Bridgend today – the constituency of rival for leadership Carwyn Jones. She will visit the Ford factory and set out her view of how the economy should be supported in [...]
Change the mindset and you can fix the economy
The Welsh Liberal Democrats begin their Autumn conference today in Wrexham, one of the key local authorities they control in Wales. Ahead of her keynote speech to conference, Welsh party leader Kirsty Williams sets out her party’s approach to revitialising Welsh economic development policy
Paper tigers and dragged feet
As their party conference begins in Manchester, a leading Welsh Conservative claims that the Welsh Assembly Government has squandered a series of opportunities that would have helped Wales combat the recession
The economic policies that matter
Unable to deliver monetary or fiscal changes, the Assembly must concentrate on the economic policies it can deliver
Cardiff must take lessons from London
Cardiff makes bold claims to its status as a capital. But the paucity of vision and timidity of its administrators give lie to such assertions
One size doesn’t fit all
Since the UK’s businesses contribute more in direct taxation to local authority funding than all the money raised from Council Tax, surely the funding system they pay into should be geared so that it doesn’t penalise small businesses?
Fortune favours the bold
A continued exodus of staff from big companies to set up on their own mirrors the way our economy has grown. So if now isn’t the right time to start a business, then when is?
Lighting the way
The Welsh Assembly Government has often been criticised by businesses for failing to provide clear advice on business support. But now a new unit that focuses on leadership training is aiming to change that
Time to rethink business development
Solicitor Bernie Jackson has just set up her own company in the heart of a recession, providing business development through face-to-face referral. She explains why she believes it can succeed in this environment
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