Give Queen a new royal yacht for diamond jubilee, says Michael Gove
Exclusive: Education secretary proposes taxpayers fund gift – likely to cost at least £60m – to mark 'momentous occasion'......cont
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jan/15/queen-royal-yacht-diamond-jubilee-gove?fb=native&CMP=FBCNETTXT9038
Below the breadline on Liverpool's workless estates
One-third of households are now on the dole as downturn forces some benefits claimants to survive on less than £20 a week
Thomas Bebb
Thomas Bebb near his home in Kirkdale, north Liverpool. He has just £20 left for food and clothing after bills and debts are paid from his £67 a week jobseeker's allowance. Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian
Thomas Bebb cranes his head out of his living room window to assess how many of his neighbours are unemployed. He counts the number of flats in this three-storey, brown-and-grey pebbledash block (12) and pauses to calculate how many contain people in work. There are two: a scaffolder and a nurse. Looking across the courtyard at two other blocks opposite and to the left, he can't think of anyone with a job there either.
The high numbers of workless households on this estate help explain startling figures produced by the GMB last week revealing that nearly one in three households in Liverpool have no one in work. It is the legacy of historic industrial decline in this area, suddenly worsened by the recent round of public sector redundancies and a new, downturn-related disappearance of retail and manufacturing jobs......cont
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/jan/15/below-breadline-liverpool-workless-estates?fb=native&CMP=FBCNETTXT9038
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