Yorkshire Post Business Talk

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WAS shadow chancellor Ed Balls right to call the treasury “cack-handed” in engineering the departure of RBS boss Stephen Hester? In this edition of the business programme from the Yorkshire Post, we speak to him in depth.

THE cost of resources and the impact of digital technologies on the labour market are among the barriers likely to prevent Western economies from returning to post-war growth rates, according to one of the best-known names in economics. Listen to informed debate in your weekly business programme from the Yorkshire Post.

A RESCUE plan for the Co-operative’s troubled banking arm has been unveiled in a bid to plug a £1.5 billion hole in its balance sheet. Listen to informed debate in your weekly business programme from the Yorkshire Post.

Yorkshire will be home to one of the largest renewable plants in the world when the £700m biomass project at Drax power station is complete, according to its operator. Listen to informed debate in your weekly business programme from the Yorkshire Post.

THE green shoots of recovery are finally sprouting, the outgoing Bank of England Governor Sir Mervyn King insisted this week. Listen to informed debate in your weekly business programme from the Yorkshire Post.

MANUFACTURERS are returning to Britain from overseas for cheaper transportation and the benefits of having suppliers closer to home. Listen to informed debate in your weekly business programme from the Yorkshire Post.

THE leading global manufacturer and distributor of the Raspberry Pi microcomputer has urged the Government to exploit the educational potential of the British invention and unleash the next generation of entrepreneurs. Listen to informed debate in your weekly business programme from the Yorkshire Post.

THE winners and losers of Yorkshire’s post-2010 economy are revealed in new jobs data which shows glaring disparities between different towns and cities across the region. Listen to informed debate in your weekly business programme from the Yorkshire Post.

SHE was the woman who changed Britain, but also divided it. Margaret Thatcher's legacy is felt as keenly in Yorkshire's coalfields as in its business centres, and in this week's programme, we take stock of what the Iron Lady left behind. Listen to informed debate in your weekly business programme from the Yorkshire Post.

TRINITY Leeds, the huge new covered shopping complex in the heart of the city centre, has finally opened its doors - but will it revive the economy? Listen to informed debate in your weekly business programme from the Yorkshire Post.

THE Government is being warned that its new Community Infrastructure Levy could “kill off” new property developments. Listen to informed debate in your weekly business programme from the Yorkshire Post.

MORRISONS shares are changing hands at record levels amid analysts' warnings that annual results on Thursday will reveal another fall in underlying sales. Listen to informed debate in your weekly business programme from the Yorkshire Post.

LEEDS’S ambitions to host a new “super casino” appeared to have run aground this week as another bidder withdrew its interest and also shut up shop on its existing city gambling venue. Listen to informed debate in your weekly business programme from the Yorkshire Post.

A Labour MP has written to the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards to express “grave concerns” about Yorkshire Bank’s activities in the commercial property market. Listen to informed debate in your weekly business programme from the Yorkshire Post

DEPUTY Prime Minister Nick Clegg has said successive governments have choked off the potential of northern cities in favour of London's financial services industry. Listen to informed debate in your weekly business programme from the Yorkshire Post.

AS more bankers cling on to their bonuses despite the Libor scandal, we ask – do businesses need banks anyway? Listen to informed debate in your weekly business programme from the Yorkshire Post.

CHANCELLOR George Osborne has vowed that 2013 will be the year the banking system is "reset". Listen to informed debate in your weekly business programme from the Yorkshire Post.

THE Prime Minister is insisting that new high-speed rails links to Leeds and Sheffield will go ahead - despite a backlash as the routes were unveiled. Listen to informed debate in your weekly business programme from the Yorkshire Post.

AN industry consultant has claimed that investment banks are looking at "securitising" NHS patients with a significant risk of ill health in the same way they bundled up and sold sub-prime mortgages. Listen to informed debate in your weekly business programme from the Yorkshire Post.

HMV is the latest casualty of a winter of discontent on the high street that has already seen Jessops and Comet go to the wall. Listen to informed debate in your weekly business programme from the Yorkshire Post.

MORRISONS has begun the year with a dismal set of Christmas trading figures – down by as much as five and a half per cent at some stores - and a new promotion strategy that has attracted ridicule from some analysts. Listen to informed debate in your weekly business programme from the Yorkshire Post.

THE planned sale of R&R Ice Cream early next year is on course to be Yorkshire’s biggest-ever buyout. Listen to informed debate in your weekly business programme from the Yorkshire Post.

A POWERFUL group of local enterprise partnerships in the North West could be extended across the Pennines into Yorkshire. Listen to informed debate in your weekly business programme from the Yorkshire Post.

THE government is preparing to announce a massive wave of devolution to the English regions, which could see billions of pounds of Whitehall funds made available to councils and businesses in Yorkshire. Listen to informed debate in your weekly business programme from the Yorkshire Post.

THE chief executive of Finance Yorkshire has claimed the Government is so busy launching new initiatives that it is failing to ensure they reach and benefit small businesses and entrepreneurs. Listen to informed debate in your weekly business programme from the Yorkshire Post.

BUSINESS output across most of the English regions including Yorkshire fell into the red last month, ending a two-month period of private sector expansion. Listen to informed debate in your weekly business programme from the Yorkshire Post.

BUSINESS Secretary Vince Cable told the audience at the Yorkshire Post Excellence in Business Awards this week that Britain was far too London-centric - but that the “pendulum was now swinging back", with the devolution of power to the regions. Listen to informed debate in your weekly business programme from the Yorkshire Post.

LEEDS Council has set out its stall for a raft of developments which it says will create 10,000 jobs across the district. Listen to informed debate in your weekly business programme from the Yorkshire Post.

THE former head of the civil service has admitted to the Yorkshire Post that his old colleagues are going to have to collaborate more with the private sector. Listen to informed debate in your weekly business programme from the Yorkshire Post.

WORKERS will soon be able to give up employment rights in return for shares in their company. Listen to informed debate in your weekly business programme from the Yorkshire Post.

IT has been on the city's wish list for a generation and now, the Leeds Arena is just a year away from opening. Listen to informed debate in your weekly business programme from the Yorkshire Post.

AFTER the success of Sheffield's MADE Festival, the city could become a national pilot for new ways of helping the so-called missing million of young people out of work. Listen to informed debate in your weekly business programme from the Yorkshire Post.

YORKSHIRE businesses and the wider regional economy have been boosted by today's confirmation of direct government funding to Local Enterprise Partnerships for the first time since they were set up in 2010. But is it enough? Listen to informed debate in your weekly business programme from the Yorkshire Post.

ONLY a tiny fraction of the £2.4 billion set aside by Government to support growth in the regions has actually reached projects on the ground. Listen to informed debate in your weekly business programme from the Yorkshire Post.

THE government says it is re-writing the planning rules to speed up development and inject new life into the flagging economy. Listen to informed debate in your weekly business programme from the Yorkshire Post.

LEEDS Building Society has unveiled record capital and reserves on the back of the continuing scandals in the banking sector. Listen to informed debate in your weekly business programme from the Yorkshire Post.

HSBC has apologised for mis-selling in the past - but how can the industry mend its ways? In this week's programme, we hear from two big-hitters. Listen to informed debate in your weekly business programme from the Yorkshire Post.

IN the week the long-awaited Eastgate Quarters development is green-lit in Leeds, we speak to the big players in the city's evolving retail ecosystem. Listen to informed debate in your weekly business programme from the Yorkshire Post.

THE government is promising more money, more power and better transport for the regions. But will it deliver? Listen to informed debate in your weekly business programme from the Yorkshire Post.

BARCLAYS boss Bob Diamond has bowed to the inevitable and quit. In this week's programme, we examine the fallout for the company and the industry. Listen to informed debate in your weekly business programme from the Yorkshire Post.

HAS the high street lost the plot? That was one of the themes of a debate on the future of shopping, hosted in Leeds – at which Mary Portas, the self-styled retail guru and author of a government review on the future of shops, polarised opinion. Listen to informed debate in your weekly business programme from the Yorkshire Post.

RETIRED supermarket tycoon Sir Ken Morrison has launched a surprising attack on his old company, accusing the current management of Morrisons of neglecting its core business. Listen to informed debate in your weekly business programme from the Yorkshire Post.

THE Eurozone crisis claims another bail-ee... Is it holding back our recovery, as George Osborne suggests? Listen to informed debate in your weekly business programme from the Yorkshire Post.

WHERE does the government stand on employment law? We speak directly to Nick Clegg. Listen to informed debate in your weekly business programme from the Yorkshire Post.

AN international real estate fund has bought the landmark Princes Exchange office block in Leeds in the biggest deal of its kind this year. Listen to informed debate in your weekly business programme from the Yorkshire Post.

ENCIRCLED by critics angered at its lack of accountability and insistence on retaining a bonus culture, Lloyds Bank launches a charm offensive. But will it wash? Listen to informed debate in your weekly business programme from the Yorkshire Post.

SHAREHOLDER anger has claimed the scalp of another City executive, as Aviva boss Andrew Moss steps down. Listen to informed debate in your weekly business programme from the Yorkshire Post.

THE Yorkshire and Clydesdale Banks are retreating from the south and cutting more than 1,400 jobs in the UK. Listen to informed debate in your weekly business programme from the Yorkshire Post.

THE car dealer JCT600 has raced to a third successive year of record turnover, putting it in pole position among Yorkshire’s largest family-owned businesses. Listen to informed debate in your weekly business programme from the Yorkshire Post.