Incredible Edible Mytholm want to buy the Mytholm Works site to create a Growing Future, so this Community Land Advice group’s Communities Buying Land training day is interesting – too late to go, but they also have useful info on their website about leases including meanwhile leases…
Here is the Meanwhile Project website.
KPMG Leeds Office. KPMG has seconded Pete Thomas to work as Finance Lead for the new NHS West Yorkshire Commissioning Support Unit (CSU). His job is to prepare the CSU business plan.
Dr Chris Day writes:
The NHS internal market will mean that commissioners who allocate the budget and providers who do the work are effectively part of the same organisation. This is a recipe for conflicts of interest. Patients will not know why they are being refused care or where the money has gone that would have been available in the past.
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Zed Books is publishing a new book by Lancaster Uni Prof John Urry, that looks like a must-read.
An interview with activist Brid Brennan, of the Economic Justice and Alternatives Program of the Transnational Institute, of the Netherlands (TNI).
Last week the House of Lords voted to put on hold the ConDem government’s plan to abolish the Agricultural Wages Board (AWB). They intend to scrutinise the proposal, which would open the door for supermarkets and agribusinesses to cut farm workers’ already low wages.
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Iceland President tells Davos 2013 – let banks fail instead of making the public pay for their failures. This is what Iceland’s done and its economy is recovering, unlike economies where governments have made the public pay to bail out banks. He also says shrinking the financial sector leads to increased competitiveness in other key 21st century sectors, as the talent that the bloated financial sector sucked in goes to innovative work.
This False Economy Guide to the new NHS structures looks very useful.
Ban the Burn! members and supporters might like to attend the free South Pennines National Character Area Profiles Workshop. This Pennine Prospects/Natural England workshop is about how the South Pennines Watershed Landscape Project has been influenced by Natural England’s update of the South Pennines National Character Area (NCA) profile.
The workshop takes place on Tuesday 29th January, 10am-2pm, at Hebden Bridge Town Hall. It is free, with lunch provided, and open to all, but you need to book in advance by emailing robin.gray@pennineprospects.co.uk or phoning 01422 847612, or 07582 101319.
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Calderdale Save Our Services is holding an Open Campaign Meeting on Monday 4 February 7 – 9pm at Horton House, 7 Horton Street, Halifax, HX1 1PU
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Over the last 7 days there were 646 visits to Changing More Than Lightbulbs.
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The Fuel Poverty update was in the top 10. I thought with the snow, that would’ve been more popular!