Archives for December 2012

Essentials within 10-minute walk a key driver of happiness

A new report, Local Services:Happy Places explores the links between how happy people are with where they live and the shops and services in their area. The report, commissioned by the Association of Convenience Stores and conducted by research consultancy BritainThinks, proposes measures intended to make communities better places to live. One of the report’s […]

Northern prosperity is national prosperity – IPPR report

IPPR North’s Northern Economic Futures Commission has published its final report which sets out “a new economic agenda for the north of England, one which seeks to place the region at the heart of the UK’s ‘rebalancing’ towards business investment and export performance”. Alongside recommendations focused on jobs and skills, innovation, SMEs, natural assets, transport, […]