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RDA veteran defends value to business

Scrapping regional development agencies would reduce business influence on government policies, the longest-serving regional development agency director has warned

CBI data reveal service sector suffering

Britain’s services sector took an unexpected hit in the autumn, a new survey has found, so underscoring the economy’s inability to shake off the effects of recession

Scottish recovery set to trail rest of UK

Scotland is beginning a slow and patchy recovery from the deep recession of the past 18 months but will continue to underperform the rest of the UK next year, according to a leading economics consultancy

Political polls leave investors uncertain

A hung parliament, suggested by one poll, would make it much harder to reach the consensus needed to take tough action on mounting debt

Reasons to be thankful as next storm hits

As our American cousins mark the Thanksgiving holiday, Recovery Watch would like readers to note a few high points of the past week that show we Britons, too, have much to be grateful for

Nuclear plant group’s safety move

A French consortium hoping to build the first new nuclear power stations in Britain for 20 years has submitted a solution that will ‘in principle’ meet safety concerns about its reactor design, says the UK regulator

Warning on final-salary pensions

The rush to close schemes has resumed in the wake of the financial crisis and the recession, and the government is running out of time if it wants to help rescue those left, warns the National Association of Pension Funds

Darling to admit recession is worse than he forecast

The chancellor will admit in next month’s pre-Budget report that the recession has been much deeper than he forecast in March, the Financial Times has learnt

Britain regains allure for east European workers

Signs that the country is returning to economic growth begins to reverse last year’s flood of departures drop in work permit applications from new EU member states

Retailers upbeat on Christmas outlook

Shoppers flocking to Britain’s high streets help sales grow at their fastest pace in two years, boosting optimism about the pre-Christmas period, a CBI survey shows

Everton regeneration scheme blocked

Business creativity fuelling growth

Drive to promote carbon fibre technology

Tories’ lead on cuts falls

Editorial Comment: Operation Stealth

Legal blow to 1m bank customers on charges

ONS paints picture of slow recovery

Nuclear to add £40 to bills, says EDF

Effect of state support for UK business

Report Card: How the schemes have fared

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