A new entertainment complex in Skegness will create at least 50 jobs.
In Skegness, Lincolnshire the four-storey building will include an ice rink, bars, cafes and even a erotic gentlemen’s club.
East Lindsey District Council has approved the project which will cost £7 million pounds. The jobs will be created by summer 2011. Many other contracting jobs will be available to the construction businesses involved in the project. The business responsible for the project is as yet unknown.
Regeneration projects in the London borough of Newham will create more than 62,000 jobs by 2025. The council is working hard to ensure that Newham residents will benefit from the opportunities that arise.
The regeneration of Newham is creating employment opportunity and growth in construction, retail, tourism, hospitality, leisure, finance, business, health and social care.
Typical jobs will include jobs in Logistics, General construction and Project management for Plumber’s, Electricians and Civil Engineers as an example.
Pioneering budget hotel Travelodge is to build 10 new hotels throughout the UK which will add a further 857 rooms to their existing 27,000 room portfolio.
Up to 250 new jobs will be created in Edinburgh, High Wycombe, Ipswich, Llanelli, London, Manchester, Newbury, Newcastle Under Lyme and Wadebridge.
Travelodge also plans to grow its current Covent Garden hotel in London by 249 rooms making it the chains largest hotel. The expansion plans are creating 35 new jobs plus up to 100 construction jobs.
Before the end of the yearEnsus, a local start-up, will start production at the £300m bioethanol plant in the Wilton complex. It will convert wheat into fuel, animal feed and carbon dioxide for the soft-drinks industry, and will be the largest of its kind in Europe.
Another firm, MGT Power received planning approval last month to build Europe’s largest biomass plant in the same area.
Gaia Power, will shortly find out whether a £200m waste wood burning plant will be built across the river at Billingham.
At the Centre for Process Innovation, located at the old ICI laboratories, a £17m grant has been approved to expand its activities into new processes, such as turning algae into fuel.
EDF Energy plans to start construction of a 30-turbine wind farm a few miles offshore this year.
Digital innovation boosted by a new £150 million fund aiming to ensure that the country becomes a world leader in terms of technology jobs.
Pledging to create an ideal environment in which hi-tech companies are able to thrive over the coming years, Gordon Brown revealed that the public sector investment will be supplemented by up to £1 billion worth of private sector funding in fields such as life sciences, biotechnology and digital manufacturing.
The prime minister also expressed confidence that as much as £100 billion will be ploughed into the UK’s burgeoning green energy sector, with more than 400,000 new jobs in the construction and engineering sectors alone set to be created as a result.
“And we believe investment by government and the private sector will enable the economy to create, over the next five years, 1.5 million new skilled jobs in Britain.”
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