The £76m Barton Square development in Manchester has focused on homewares with Marks and Spencer Home, Next Home, Dwell and Habitat signed up to the Manchester Shopping Centre.
Barton Square set to open in March 2008 will come with an additional 600 parking spaces to the current 10,000 free parking spaces at The Trafford Centre and will be linked with the existing centre by a pedestrian footbridge.
Nearly 2000 people are claiming £4.4 million in benefit because they are too fat to work, other payments include 10 people incapacitated by leprosy and 50 people due to acne. The picture gets worse when you take depression, stress and fatigue or ‘unknown’ diseases into account with 2,700,000 people claiming £7.4 billion…. Do you blame people for working the system or should the Government actually close these loop holes.
Incapacity benefit is available to anyone under state pension age who cannot work because of illness or disability. A person becomes eligible after they have been on statutory sick pay for eight weeks. The amount payable ranges from between £61.35 a week to £81.35 a week, compared with £59.15 jobseekers allowance. (src The Times)
