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loving hell don't talk about pay it's further rubbing it in that I've made a huge mistake by working in telly but would have to retrain to do anything else (and have no £££ and it's hard)
Anyway good news, privatisation works! part 2849237 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30785623
BBC News posted:Sellafield firm loses £9bn clean-up contract
The government has stripped private consortium Nuclear Management Partners (NMP) of a £9bn contract to clean up the nuclear waste site at Sellafield. It follows recommendations from the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) to change the way the site was managed.
The Public Accounts Committee and the National Audit Office have both accused NMP of cost overruns and delays. Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Davey said Sellafield Ltd would now become a subsidiary of the NDA. He said Sellafield "will continue to be led by a world class team, who will be appointed and governed by a newly-constituted board of the site licence company".
"The new model will, in due course, see a strategic partner appointed by Sellafield Ltd, to strengthen the programme management and commercial capability at the site, as well as playing a key role in managing capital projects and contracts," he added. "This approach is recognised as best practice in other major projects, such as Crossrail and the Olympics." NMP, which includes British and French energy firms Amec and Areva as well as US engineer URS, has run the site for more than six years. Mr Davey said transition to the new arrangements would take 15 months.
Despite criticism of the way the site was managed, NMP's contract was extended for a further five years in 2013. Shadow energy minister Tom Greatrex said: "After serious criticism from the National Audit Office and Public Accounts Committee, the sudden cancellation of this contract leaves Tory ministers with serious questions about the decision making process and use of taxpayers' money." NMP was originally granted the decommissioning job in 2008, and employs 10,000 workers on the site.
The GMB union welcomed the news. Its national secretary for energy, Gary Smith, said: "We said the contract should not have been extended in 2013. The government needs to be held to account. Hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayers money has been squandered." The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), which awarded the contract, last year increased its estimate for cleaning up the UK's nuclear sites by 7% to £110bn over the next 120 years, with Sellafield accounting for the vast bulk of that. But NMP general manager Iain Irving said since the contract was extended in 2013 "the site has enjoyed one of its best ever periods of performance and progress". "Importantly, over the last two years, we have consecutively achieved the site's best overall safety records," he added.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-30830799
BBC News posted:Rudyard Lake Steam Railway in Staffordshire for sale
A miniature steam railway in Staffordshire, including a mile-and-a-half of track, six steam engines, four diesels, 13 carriages, a footbridge, two signal boxes and three stations, has gone up for sale.
The Rudyard Lake Steam Railway, which is owned by Mike and Eileen Hanson, has an asking price of £349,950. Mr Hanson, who is selling because he "wants some time to himself", described the line as "the ultimate train set". The line attracts 40,000 people a year.
Mr Hanson said: "We have had the railway since 2000 and have come to the point where it's time to do something else." He said he had was working in an office as an accountant when the opportunity came along to buy the track. "I've been into trains all my life and we put a silly offer in," he said. "Since then we have probably invested hundreds of thousands of pounds in it. It's the ultimate train set. We have built the station and the café and added all the engines and carriages."
The railway, which also includes a cafe, wagons and engine sheds, is run by a small number of part-time staff and a group of about 25 volunteers.
"It's the full kit," said Mr Hanson. "But it's not the sort of thing you're going to do to make a lot of money. I hope we find a buyer who's a bit like me - an enthusiast who wants to make it work. "
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Evening Standard posted:'No social housing' in our luxury tower block, boasts developer in advert for Greenwich flats
Property developers have sparked outrage by boasting to Asian investors that a new luxury tower block in one of the poorest areas of London will have “no social housing.” More than 30 flats in the nine-storey Abbey Tower development in Greenwich are being put up for sale in London this week and at an event in Hong Kong later this month.
An advert on the website of the London and Hong Kong based agent Fraser & Co, which is hosting the launch event at the Mandarin Oriental hotel, highlights the fact that the development is “a fully private block with no social housing”. The absence of affordable housing is listed as a major attraction, along with its proximity to a planned Abbey Wood Crossrail station, opening in 2018.
London Assembly Green Party member Darren Johnson said: “Boasting about the absence of social housing in adverts for new developments shows that housing policy in London is about meeting the needs of wealthy investors, not about the needs of ordinary Londoners. At least this appalling advert is honest about it.”
The row is the latest in a series of controversies about the glossy marketing of private homes in areas of London that are in the throes of regeneration but lack affordable housing. Last week, a four-minute video promoting apartments costing up to £23 million at Berkeley’s One Blackfriars tower in Southwark was pulled after viewers branded it sexist and likened it to soft porn. A promotional video for the One Commercial Street scheme on the edge of the City from developer Redrow also prompted a Twitter storm when it was likened to American Psycho or “an Eighties aftershave commercial.”
The one, two and three bedroom flats at Abbey Tower, the first phase of the Close Quarter development in Abbey Wood, are advertised as starting from £275,000 and come with a “free furniture pack and legal fees paid”. A brochure for the scheme, which is being developed by property firms Development Securities and Hurlington, says the apartments have been “furnished with an unwavering attention to detail”.
Lawrence Martin, director of projects at Development Securities, said the wording in the advert was for “technical reasons” because buy-to-let investors often ask if there is social housing as it can affect the level of service charges. He said the wider Abbey Wood regeneration includes a large Sainsbury’s, a new library, surgery and primary school. There will be a further 186 flats of which 24 per cent are “affordable”.
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