Barton Square, the brand new £70million extension to Manchester’s Trafford Centre, is creating 500 jobs with the opening of about 15 new retail stores.
The first phase has already launched but a further 11 shops are due to open this summer, including Laura Ashley, Home Sense and Italian furniture store Natuzzi, creating new opportunities for retail managers, tempoary sales staff and security officers as well as cleaning and maintenance roles.
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More than 70,000 migrant workers managed to find work across the UK’s unemployment blackspots last year which has led to claims that the government is failing to get people on long term unemployment benefits back to work.
1,360 migrants found work in Rochdale Manchester where the employment rate is as high as 76%, in Enfield (London) there is an area which has 59% of their residents claiming jobseeker’s allowance, yet 500 migrants managed to find work in the area. In Caerphilly South Wales where 53% of the residents are unemployed 270 migrants found jobs.
You get the picture, some of these areas literally have whole generations of families on benefit, the question that also needs to be asked is whether the benefit actually out weighs the employment that migrants have seemingly been able to source. Between 2003 and 2007 the number of UK Nationals in word decreased by 409,000 to 25.2m, over this same period the number of migrants in employment from Eastern Europe in the UK grew from 29,000 to 410,000….. a scary pattern is emerging…
Supermarket chain Tesco is to offer university degrees in shelf stacking (the design) and display design, available as a course with Manchester Met Uni and London Uni of the Arts and Consultants.
Ironically students could study for an A-level in fast food chain McDonalds management and then go on to study Tesco at Uni., ultimately giving students a major retail advantage over their peers looking for graduate management placements. Some of their lectures will be held at the University but the majority is expected to take place online or at home.
Gordon Brown potentially faces a legal battle with Manchester over the plans to scrap the supercasino build. Manchester and Blackpool are currently poised to open a Las Vegas style super gambling resorts, if this plan does not get the final go ahead the local authorities are planning to recover the £250 million already invested into the scheme. As well as improving the local infrastructure the plan would have brought 3000 new jobs to the area and help regenerate the deprived east side of Manchester.
Large casinos are still planned and expected to get the go ahead for Leeds, Hull, Middlesbrough, Milton Keynes, Solihull, Southampton and East London to name a few, each of these will have upto 150 bandits with jackpots of upto £4000. Smaller casinos are still going ahead in Skegness, Bath, Luton, Swansea, Torbay, Wolverhampton and Scarborough.
Plans have been unveiled for a new city in the north of the UK that will have a purpose built business district capable of offering some 30,000 jobs!
Both Leeds and Manchester Councils are said to have been approached in a grand bid to create the largest phase of the growth that the UK has seen since Sheffield experience 73,000 new jobs between 1995 and 2005.
