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BBC research shows leisure facilities and the arts at risk from reduced spending
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more than 70 per cent predict
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spending cuts of between five
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and 20 per cent by 2015 in a image
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bid to meet budget shortfalls. Leeds City Council is one of the authorities to forecast job losses
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The study was sent to all 150
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English top tier and single tier While most councils were less Tony Travers, director of the
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authorities – metropolitan and willing to forecast possible job Greater London group at the
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London boroughs, unitary losses, eight local authorities – London School of Economics,
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authorities and county councils City of Bradford, Kirklees, told the BBC: "The scale of
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– and received 93 responses. Sheffield, Stoke-on-Trent, job reductions... suggests
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More than 60 councils were Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, tens of thousands of posts are
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facilities, arts and culture and that more than 1,000 positions likely there will be a sharp cut
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the services most at risk. the next five years. some years after."
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emma Matthews 01462 471907 £10.8m funding to kick-start Salford makeover
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By pete hayman hotel rooms and 220,000sq m
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(2.4 million sq ft) of space for
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Plans for the redevelopment of retail and leisure developments.
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Salford's Chapel Street area Led by Central Salford Urban
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have received a boost after the Regeneration Company
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Northwest Regional Develop- (CSURC) and English Cities
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ment Agency (NWDA) agreed Fund, the project has received
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to invest nearly £10.8m to nearly £9m from the NWDA
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kick-start the scheme. and £1.79m from the European
NWDA's investment will

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