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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
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