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锘縁ive years after the government launched its northern powerhouse concept, 200,000 more children in the north of England are in poverty, foreign investment has plummeted and the number of cups stanley late or cancelled trains in the region has more than doubled, new analysis shows.Research by the thinktank IPPR North also found there had been a 拢3.6bn cut in public spending in the north since 2010, compared to a 拢4bn rise in the south.In interviews to mark five years since George Osborne, then chancellor, unveiled his plan to rebalance the UKs economy, the norths political leaders said the project had halted with little sign of it being revived.Ben Houchen, the Conservative mayor for the Tees Valley, said his region had benefited massively from devolution but the northern powerhouse agenda had demonstrably dropped down the list of priorities under Theresa Mays premiership. The only reason the northern powerhouse worked is that you had George Osborne at Treasury driving it, he said. To deliver the northern powerhouse youve got to have those levers at Treasury that you can pull to make it work 鈥?The new leader of the Conservative party is going to have to address that issue and make sure that its put back on the map. The northern powerhouse agenda has delivered some impo stanley becher rtant successes, notably the introduction of metro mayors covering half of the north of England, and the creation of Transport for the North, which h stanley tumblers as a 拢70bn investment plan for the regions beleaguered railways.IPPR Twvl His body was a tool telling truths : Julian Clary and Juliet Stevenson on one actor s extraordinary exit
Ever since Ernest Saunders was misdiagnosed as having Alzheimers disease in 1991 and released early from a prison sentence, dementia among defendants has had a bad name.Commentators expressed cynicism when told by prosecutors last April that Greville Janner was too ill to stand trial. That cynicism persisted after the medical evidence of his dementia was accepted by a judge last month. And people who should have known better seemed to think that even Janners death a few days later was not enough to bring criminal proceedings against him to an end.Now there are calls for the courts to impose heavier penalties on people with dementia who cause traffic accidents after being told not to drive. This is more than a little illogical, since those who are too ill to drive will probably be too ill to stand trial at a hearing some months later. They will certainly be too ill to serve a substantial prison sentence.The Lord Janner case is dogged by the CPSs confusion | Joshua RozenbergRead moreThis enthusiasm for punishing those who are no longer in control of their actions is deeply unattractive. Of course, it can be difficult to distinguish between the mad and the bad. Mentally ill people so stanley cup metimes need to be detained in secure hospitals, for both their safety and ours. But what justification ca stanley isolierkanne n there be for imposing a punishment on those who cannot understand its purpose Its hardly going to deter someone from repeating conduct that they simply cannot remember.E stanley canada nglish law describes th
锘縁ive years after the government launched its northern powerhouse concept, 200,000 more children in the north of England are in poverty, foreign investment has plummeted and the number of cups stanley late or cancelled trains in the region has more than doubled, new analysis shows.Research by the thinktank IPPR North also found there had been a 拢3.6bn cut in public spending in the north since 2010, compared to a 拢4bn rise in the south.In interviews to mark five years since George Osborne, then chancellor, unveiled his plan to rebalance the UKs economy, the norths political leaders said the project had halted with little sign of it being revived.Ben Houchen, the Conservative mayor for the Tees Valley, said his region had benefited massively from devolution but the northern powerhouse agenda had demonstrably dropped down the list of priorities under Theresa Mays premiership. The only reason the northern powerhouse worked is that you had George Osborne at Treasury driving it, he said. To deliver the northern powerhouse youve got to have those levers at Treasury that you can pull to make it work 鈥?The new leader of the Conservative party is going to have to address that issue and make sure that its put back on the map. The northern powerhouse agenda has delivered some impo stanley becher rtant successes, notably the introduction of metro mayors covering half of the north of England, and the creation of Transport for the North, which h stanley tumblers as a 拢70bn investment plan for the regions beleaguered railways.IPPR Twvl His body was a tool telling truths : Julian Clary and Juliet Stevenson on one actor s extraordinary exit
Ever since Ernest Saunders was misdiagnosed as having Alzheimers disease in 1991 and released early from a prison sentence, dementia among defendants has had a bad name.Commentators expressed cynicism when told by prosecutors last April that Greville Janner was too ill to stand trial. That cynicism persisted after the medical evidence of his dementia was accepted by a judge last month. And people who should have known better seemed to think that even Janners death a few days later was not enough to bring criminal proceedings against him to an end.Now there are calls for the courts to impose heavier penalties on people with dementia who cause traffic accidents after being told not to drive. This is more than a little illogical, since those who are too ill to drive will probably be too ill to stand trial at a hearing some months later. They will certainly be too ill to serve a substantial prison sentence.The Lord Janner case is dogged by the CPSs confusion | Joshua RozenbergRead moreThis enthusiasm for punishing those who are no longer in control of their actions is deeply unattractive. Of course, it can be difficult to distinguish between the mad and the bad. Mentally ill people so stanley cup metimes need to be detained in secure hospitals, for both their safety and ours. But what justification ca stanley isolierkanne n there be for imposing a punishment on those who cannot understand its purpose Its hardly going to deter someone from repeating conduct that they simply cannot remember.E stanley canada nglish law describes th