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A-Z Index
About Us
Access to finance for small business
Access to Information
Accessibility Help
Acquisitive Crime: the National Picture
Acquistive Crime
Advanced Search
Advice Service's £14m boost for North West firms
Aimhigher
Aims and Objectives
Almost 100,000 children across the North West benefit from record child maintenance figures
Almost £20M Grassroots Grants scheme opens its doors to small voluntary and community groups in the North West
An overview of new Local Area Agreements (LAAs)
Anti-social Behaviour
Anti-social Behaviour: the National Picture
Appointment of Director for Children and Learners
Apprenticeships
Arts and Creative Industries
Arts and Creative Industries: the National Picture
Assessment of North West Regional Development Agency activity and perfomance for the 2005-06 financial year
Assisted Areas Consultation Update
Atlas aim for global success with help from UKTI
Authorities discuss new priorities for North West
Avian influenza - final epidemiology report published
Applying to be the Community Grants Co-ordinating Body
Avian Influenza - remaining restrictions lifted
Almost £20M Grassroots Grants scheme opens its doors to small voluntary and community groupsin the North West

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Back Issues
Background
Background
Background to Rentcharges
BBC announces shortlist of locations for North West move
Beacon Councils
Beacon Peer Support Scheme
Beverley Hughes attends first Council of Regional Ministers
Beverley Hughes attends first Council of Regional Ministers
Bids invited for £16m Merseyside European Funding
Biodiversity
Biography
Biography
Biography
Biomass and Woodfuel
Blackpool among Local Authorities reducing chewing gum litter by two thirds through Government-backed campaign
Blackpool's iconic tram set for £85million upgrade
Blears announces new regeneration drive for Manchester
Blears confirms regeneration boost for Blackpool
Board Game makes drugs advice child's play
Bolton
Bolton be safe project scoops top prize in Nationwide Crime Fighting Award
British Chambers of Commerce Regional Business Reception
British Crime Survey Comparator Offences Tracker Tool
Budget confirms recovery of North West cities
Building Expertise
Building Expertise: the National Picture
Building Local Capacity
Bus passenger takes trip of a lifetime
Bus passengers to be championed by watchdog
Bus passengers to benefit from local transport bill
Buses to get £20 million boost
Business and Culture in Liverpool
Business and Industry
Business and Industry: the National Picture
Business Continuity Page
Business Plan
Better support for emotional wellbeing in schools – 25 pilot areas announced
Blackpool scheme praised as ministers launch new 'think family' approach to help vulnerable parents and children

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Dare to Dream event
Deadline approaches for communities to make the most of local assets
Defra announces measures to encourage individuals to tackle climate change and take up greener lifestyles
Defra announces plans to replace current Hill Farm Allowance Scheme
Defra announces renewal of grants to environmental action fund projects to support sustainable living
Defra incentive schemes encourage recycling
Defra launches £6 million Greener Living Fund
Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott launches consultation on 15 year master plan for Carlisle
Detailed noise maps available at the click of a mouse
Development Plans: the National Picture
Development Plans
Digital Britain - The future of communications
Digital solutions to social exclusion
Disperse anti-social behaviour from the North West's streets
Draft Legislative event
Dramatic crime reductions in the North West
Dramatic Crime Reductions in the North West
Driver Testing and Training to be overhauled
Drug Worker of the Year for the North West
Drugs
Drugs: the National Picture
Drugs and Alcohol
Drugs and Alcohol: the National Picture
Do you have a Local Hero?
DCMS conducts first national study of voluntary arts activity in England

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Environment Secretary backs take up of flood protection measures for homes and businesses
Expert panel discusses plans for bus passenger champion
e-Government unit relocates to the North West
Early Years and Children Under 0-13
Ecosystems Approach Seminar
Economy
Economy National: the National Picture
Education
Education National Picture
Education and Skills
Education and Skills: the National Picture
Education maintenance allowance works for Cumbrian teenagers
Education maintenance allowance works for Cumbrian teenagers
Education maintenance allowance works for Merseyside's teenagers
Education maintenance allowance works for Lancashire teenagers
Education maintenance allowance works for Greater Manchester's teenagers
Education Maintenance Allowance Works for Warrington and Cheshire Teenagers
Eight North West Authorities awarded Beacon Status
Eight North West voluntary groups receive Queen's Award for voluntary service
Elderly urged to apply for help for heating and insulating their homes
Energy
Energy: the National Picture
England team backs anti-knife campaign
Ensuring a fair housing market for all
Enterprise Skills To Be Taught At Premiership Football Clubs
Environment and Rural
Environment and Rural: the National Picture
Environmental Issues
Environmental Issues: the National Picture
European Social Fund - Innovation & Transnationality Projects Meeting
European Structural Funding 2007-2013
Europe faces up to challenge of its changing diversity - with official British launch in Manchester
European Funding
European Funding: the National Picture
European Programme Legacy and Evaluation
European Programmes – How are they changing?
European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
European Social Fund (ESF)
Events Diary
Everyclick and Clear Channel Outdoor launch the UK’s largest competition for charities
Executive Group
Executive Group
Extension of Bluetongue protection zone to allow further vaccination
Extension of Bluetongue protection zone to allow further vaccination
Extra funding available for North West's rural stations
Extra help for the poorest performers as recycling targets are increased
Extra millions to regenerate run down housing in the North West
Environment Minister calls for the public sector to lead in energy efficiency
Eight North West voluntary groups receive Queen's Award for voluntary service
Ezines

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Fact Files: North West
Fair and affordable funding to keep down council tax
Faith Communities Capacity Building Fund
Faith Communities Capacity Building Fund - Round Two
Farming and Food
Farming and Food: the National Picture
Feasibility Testing - the Oldham & Cumbria Experience
Feasibility Testing Update
Final call to enroll on a 2008 Early Years Professional course
Final report of the Business Continuity and Perceptions of Business Crime in the North West Region survey published
Financial penalties for utility companies which fail to give proper notice of street works introduced
Findings from study of the Mersey Basin Campaign published
Fire & Rescue Service Update
Fire engines go green
First batch of bluetongue vaccine delivered
First glimpse of Liverpool's European Capital of Culture programme
Five years in prison for careless drivers who kill
Forestry
Friesian to Fridge
Further support for tackling chewing gum litter in Blackpool
Further support for tackling chewing gum litter in Wigan
From the street to the boardroom Government and business leaders give homeless organisations a chance to become entrepreneurs
Facing the Housing Challenge – Action Today, Innovation for Tomorrow
From Neighbourhood to the National: Policing Our Communities Together
Formal recognition for wartime women who worked on the land
Follow the Leaders, Save a Tree - be a Hugger

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Getting that dream career is easy according to one in four North West teenagers
Global opportunities beckon for North West companies at UK trade & investment ports sector event
Go-ahead for £51m A34 Alderley Edge and Nether Alderley bypass
Gorton Community Allotment Dig
Government response to audit commission report - staying afloat - financing emergencies
Government backs Metrolink extensions and gives go ahead for refurbishment work to start
Government committed to affordable housing in Cumbria
Government confirms £525million to benefit communities
Government Connect enters an exciting new phase
Government invests to improve local transport in the North West
Government invests £213m to improve local transport in the North West
Government makes £1.25m available for victims of crime
Government Office for the North West
Government Office for the North West
Government plans for a fairer society debated on Merseyside
Government publishes alternatives to casino-led regeneration
Government publishes Draft Legislative Programme 2008-09
Government puts casino panel’s recommendations to Parliament in full
Government support for flood risk households
Government takes action to deliver 106 new Pendolinos for West Coast
Government tender for Bluetongue vaccine
Government to invest £11.4m in community fire safety - £2.5m for the North West
Greater Manchester Challenge
Greater Manchester Challenge
Greater Manchester Challenge launches with an ambitious agenda
Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Lancashire and Cheshire offered additional funding to tackle youth crime
Green farming schemes in the North West reaping benefits after 21 years
Green Fire Stations to open up to local communities
Green Infrastructure in the NW Region
Green light for five flagship unitary councils
Government powers help local authorities get tough on litter
Government Office Review

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Hazel Blears gives green light to sub-regional jobs boost
Healey confirms TUPE protections for staff moving to new Unitary Councils
Healey unveils overhaul of efficiency and improvement support for North West councils
Health and worklessness key priorities for Merseyside
Health inequalities
Healthier Horizons for the People in the North West
Heathrow Matters to the North West says Transport Secretary
Help
Helping soldiers into homes
Heritage, Museums, Libraries and Archives
Heritage, Museums, Libraries and Archives: the National Picture
Heysham to M6 link planning decision
Higher Education: the National Picture
Highest number of schools opening for thirty years
Highways Agency and the Met Office ready for severe winter weather on Cumbria and North Lancashire's busiest roads
Highways Agency urges road users to 'be prepared' as major events compete
Hilary Benn responds to review into handling of foot and mouth disease
Homelessness falls across the North West
Housing
Housing: the National Picture
Housing Organisations net more than £20 million from ODPM
How To Use This Website
HSAO provides friendly face of hse for Cumbrian agriculture
Highways Agency (North West)
Historic Warrington pub voted pick of the poll in the North West of England
Highest number of new schools opening for thirty years
Households and local authorities make progress on waste

IDeA LAA and LSP Improvement Support Programme
Information Management Programme (IMP) Update
IDeA Support - Improvement Support Work Programme
Improving Health
Improving Health: the National Picture
Indicative LAA negotiating timetable for 2007/08
Inequities are killing people on a "grand scale" reports WHO's Commission
Information on the Complementary Strand
Information Management Project (IMP)
Introducing the GONW LAA Co-ordination Team
Investing in the Future

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Join our Communications team
Joint declaration to tackle climate change
Joint economic commission for the North West agrees actions on economic downturn
Joint economic commission for the North West agrees actions on economic downturn

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Keeping traffic moving and cutting disruption - new powers come into force
Kelly announces £244m for Manchester tram extensions
Keynote address at the CLES Summer School
Keynote address at Protecting Your Business Seminar
Keyword Search
Kirkby Lonsdale firm drive Business forward with help from UKTI
Keynote address at the launch of the Regional Economic Framework
Kelly announces £6bn Motorway Improvements

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Objective 1
Objective 1: the National Picture
Objective 2
Objective 2: the National Picture
Objective 3
Objective 3: the National Picture
Office Locations
Oldham LAA Video Case Studies Pilot
One in three retailers caught in underage alcohol sting
Operation probes community fears on crime and drugs
Order placed for Bluetongue vaccine
Organisational Structure
Over 59,000 smokers in the North West quit, 14% more than last year.
Over £1million is invested on Merseyrail line
Over £300 million to encourage business growth
Over £500m funding for North West housing market renewal areas announced
Overnight slip road closures as part of £1.2M resurfacing of M6 in Cumbria
Our Region

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Q

Queen's Award for Voluntary Service
Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service

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S

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Two flagship unitary Cheshire councils to proceed
Three year cash boost for policing in the North West
Transport Minister hails Lancaster and Morecambe's cycling success
Technical Help
Trials highlight satisfaction with Home Information Packs and buyers acting on energy ratings
Trials highlight satisfaction with Home Information Packs and buyers acting on energy ratings
The gender debate- new research from LSC shows a gender gap in attitudes towards adult education
Two weeks remain to enter the North West young climate change champions competition of 2007!
The Queen’s Award for Enterprise Promotion 2007
The North West Regional Housing Strategy
Tackling domestic violence over Christmas
Tackling drugs changing lives awards: national winners announced
Tackling social exclusion: 2 NW projects included in helping the most chronically excluded adults
Terms and Conditions
Transactional ERDF and State Aid (TESA)
TESA
Text size and font style
Text-only version
The Government Office Network - Personal Information
The milk roadmap
The North West shows the Nation a new way to rescue heritage
The North West shows the Nation a new way to rescue heritage
The Northern Way
The Region's Knowledge Portal is now live
The Rural Voluntary and Community Sector
Third Sector
Tougher laws for drinks industry could be imminent
Tourism
Tourism: the National Picture
Towards a Tobacco Free Future event
Town centre specialists to drive forward economic renaissance in Blackpool, Lancaster and Stockport
Trade Minister visits Daresbury and Speke
Traffic signs in Britain - biggest review in 40 years launched today
Transforming Communities in Merseyside
Transport
Transport Minister opens £139.5 Million M60 Junction 5-8 Widening Project
Transport: the National Picture
Transport Settlement
Transport Settlement
Troubled teenagers top priority in Manchester
Third Sector: the National Picture

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UK Fisheries Minister welcomes "fair" deal for UK in EU fisheries talks
UK Government invites new Nuclear Power into the energy mix
UK on track to meet Kyoto targets as emissions continue to fall
UKTI and RDAs: Joint Reviews of Overseas Representation and Regional Trade Operations
UKTI helps send Leigh compressor spares business worldwide
Under fives get better start in life - but still more to do - North West nurseries hailed as outstanding
Using a keyboard

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Vaccination vital to protect rare livestock in Bluetongue protection zone
Video message on the annual crime statistics publication
Video message at launch of the Regional Leaders Forum
Vacancies
Video message at the launch of the Dignity in Care campaign
Views sought on £34million european fisheries fund
Violent Crime
Violent Crime: the National Picture
Visits
Voluntary and Community Organisations invited to comment on North West Compact
Voters go to polls once in a month as next year's local and European elections are moved to same day

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White paper delivers power shift to local people
White Paper delivers power shift to local people
Waste pilots - draft guidance published
Written ministeial statement re Final Report released into the derailment at Grayrigg in Cumbria on 23 February 2007.
Warrington celebrates as Dignity Champions top 3,000
Waste
Waste: the National Picture
Water-friendly farming: Target areas announced to curb agricultural pollution
What's New?
What's New?
Wigan children get government's sustainable food and farming champion to dig in and help grow crops
Woolas announces sixteen successful bids for Unitary status to improve local services
Woolas confirms grant increases for all local authorities
Worklessness
Worklessness
Worklessness and health key priorities for North West England

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Young People 14-19
Young people in Manchester set to advise on regeneration and renewal