Deputy Prime Minister visits Construction College

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Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg recently visited Leeds College of Building and unveiled a £1bn scheme aimed at tackling the current increase in youth unemployment. The youth contract scheme will give employers subsidies worth £2,275 to take on 160,000 18-to 24-year-olds, for six months, over three years. Whilst at the College the Deputy Prime Minister met with Principal Ian Billyard, Deputy Principal Derek Whitehead and various students across the College, including WorldSkills Gold Medal winner Shane Trevitt. Principal at Leeds College of...

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MLA Calls for cash to bolster Northern Ireland construction projects

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The SDLP Foyle MLA, Colum Eastwood has called on Stormont’s Minister of Finance Sammy Wilson to target ‘shovel ready’ projects in order to sustain and grow current employment within the Northern Irish construction sector. Mr Eastwood said, “There have been few spared by the force of the economic tsunami which has buffeted this island over the last number of years. A succession of unemployment, debt and fiscal figures have acted as headlines to the undercurrent of real hardship experienced by ordinary families. Every sector of this...

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