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Warning against cuts in transport
Cuts to transport budgets could mean hikes in rail fares, more potholes and fewer buses, a report says. This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. »
UK cuts ‘to push jobless to 3m’
Government spending cuts will push UK unemployment to almost three million, an employment group has warned. This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. »
Jobs fear in Companies House cuts
Staff at Companies House in Cardiff are warned to expect 11% cuts this year. This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. »
Met Police cuts would-be officers
The UK’s largest police force turns away successful prospective officers due to the economic climate, the BBC understands. This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. »
German space escapes budget cuts
The chairman of Germany’s space agency says he does not expect space to be affected by the nation’s big austerity drive. This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. »
UK outlines spending cuts
The government is to spell out where it will cut £6bn in spending this year, saying immediate action is needed to start rectifying the UK’s finances. Conservative Chancellor George Osborne and his Lib Dem deputy David Laws will outline cuts across all departments. Budgets for IT, property, advertising and recruitment are expected to be cut,... »
NI executive faces cuts of £128m
The Northern Ireland executive will have to save an extra £128m on top of other savings this year. This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. »
Osborne outlines £6bn cuts detail
The government is to spell out where it will cut £6bn in spending this year, saying immediate action is needed to start rectifying the UK’s finances. Conservative Chancellor George Osborne and his Lib Dem deputy David Laws will outline cuts across all departments. Budgets for IT, property, advertising and recruitment are expected to be cut,... »
Spain unveils fresh budget cuts
The Spanish PM unveils plans to tackle his country’s budget crisis amid concerns that problems afflicting Greece may spread. This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. »
Spain to unveil deep budget cuts
Spain is to detail deep cuts in public spending amid EU concerns that economic problems afflicting Greece may spread. This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. »
Greek parliament backs hefty cuts
Greece’s parliament is due to vote on the hefty cuts and reforms proposed by the government to address the country’s financial crisis. It comes a day after three bank workers died in a petrol bomb attack as demonstrations over the planned austerity measures turned violent. Bank workers have gone on a nationwide strike in anger... »
Spending cuts ‘deepest since 70s’
The UK faces the deepest spending cuts since the late 1970s if the three main parties are to meet their budget commitments, new analysis suggests. The years between 2011 and 2015 must see the largest cuts since 1976-80, according to a report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). Its estimates suggest the Conservatives would... »
Labour warn over rivals’ ‘cuts’
Labour are to warn children will be hit by their opponents’ spending cuts, as they seek to refocus the campaign on "major policy issues". Lib Dem plans to axe child trust funds and Tory proposals to scale back child tax credits put children "in the frontline" of cuts, Labour will argue. The Tories will say... »
‘NHS job cuts’ in the spotlight
NHS job cuts are top of the agenda as nurses gather in Bournemouth for their annual conference. Royal College of Nursing general secretary Peter Carter warned over the weekend that pressure to save money in the NHS was threatening jobs. An online RCN survey of 287 nurses ahead of its four-day meeting suggested the pinch... »
Cash cuts ‘put NI youth at risk”
The head of the Community Relations Council says funding cuts are “short sighted and ill-advised”. This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. »
Major jobs cuts ‘on way in NHS’
Major cuts in NHS staffing levels which could have "disastrous" consequences are likely after the election, the leader of the nurses’ union has warned. Royal College of Nursing leader Peter Carter believes the cuts will be much worse than the deficit crisis of five years ago when thousands of posts went. Mr Carter told the... »
Clashes over hospital cuts
Cuts to hospitals took centre stage in a health-themed election debate. Maternity, children’s and A&E units are currently being revamped in England. But health secretary Andy Burnham accused the Tories of being insincere by promising to put a temporary ban on changes if they win power. Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley had argued that some... »
Training cuts ‘anti-obese’ views
Students training to enter the health service need better teaching in order to prevent discrimination against obese patients, a study suggests. This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. »
Protest over public sector cuts
Thousands of public sector workers have joined a demonstration in London to protest against the prospect of cuts. Ahead of the general election, trade unionists, pensioners, students and other campaigners marched to condemn reductions in jobs and services. All three main parties have conceded that job losses will result from cuts in public sector budgets.... »
Honesty urged over hospital cuts
Politicians are "not being open and honest" about the issue of hospital closures, a coalition of charities and patient groups says. Jeremy Taylor, head of National Voices, said the parties were happy to talk about the need for savings and moving care into the community. But he said they were "shying away" from the flip-side... »
Big job cuts at troubled Jarvis
About 800 job cuts are to be cut at Jarvis by the administrators who are now running the rail maintenance firm, a union official has said. Stan Herschel, regional organiser at the RMT union, said the cuts would be made in Jarvis’s rail renewal division, based in York. Last week Jarvis, which employs 2,000 people,... »
Surgery cuts ‘unfair to patients’
Patients are being refused basic operations because primary care trusts want to save money, say the UK’s leading surgeons. The representatives of six major surgeons’ bodies make the claim in a letter to The Guardian newspaper. They say operations for back pain and common hernias through to varicose vein removal are being scrapped. The Department... »
NHS puts cuts plans to government
Proposals for significant reductions in NHS spending have been made to the government by England’s 10 strategic health authorities (SHA). The plans follow an announcement last year by the chief executive of the NHS that it must save up to £20bn by 2014. One of the biggest SHAs, NHS Yorkshire and Humber, has confirmed to... »
Miliband urges more nuclear cuts
An agreement between the US and Russia for large cuts nuclear weapons must lead to further reductions, Foreign Secretary David Miliband has said. The treaty reduces the number of warheads allowed on each side by about a third, from from 2,200 to 1,550. Mr Miliband said the UK was committed to a world without nuclear... »
Labour cuts ‘tougher than 1980s’
Alistair Darling has conceded that if Labour is re-elected public spending cuts will be "tougher and deeper" than those implemented by Margaret Thatcher. Asked in a BBC interview to spell out how far-reaching future cuts could be, Mr Darling did not reject a comparison with measures taken in the early 1980s. The Tories have said... »
Cuts cast doubt on asteroid plan
By Paul RinconScience Reporter, BBC News Plans to more precisely plot the orbit of an asteroid with a small chance of hitting Earth in 2036 may be badly hit by funding cuts to a US radar facility. Radar measurements set to be made in January 2013 by the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, US, could help... »
Darling defends departmental cuts
Alistair Darling has defended plans to make £11bn of savings across government in the face of opposition claims that they amount to "fantasy cuts". Departments, ranging from health to defence, will have to make large three-year savings to help cut the deficit. The chancellor denied Labour had just woken up to the need for action,... »
Pay cuts for US bailed-out bosses
US President Barack Obama’s pay tsar has told executives at five bailed-out firms, including AIG, GM and Chrysler, to take a pay cut. Kenneth Feinberg has ordered the 2010 pay of almost 120 bosses at the firms to be shaved by an average of 15%. Earlier this year AIG made substantial bonus payments on old... »
SNP’s pledge on cuts protection
SNP leader Alex Salmond will tell his party’s conference in Aviemore that a hung parliament at Westminster would be "redolent with opportunity". Mr Salmond is also expected to disclose plans for a joint campaign with Plaid Cymru on issues they will seek progress on in the event of a hung parliament. For Scotland, that may... »
‘Pain’ warning over spending cuts
Welsh public services are facing cuts that will cause "considerable pain", according to a report. The Auditor General for Wales Gillian Body said the NHS, councils and the police may need to cut staff hours and encourage part-time working. Ms Body said services must work in "radically different ways" to face cuts of about £1.5... »
Clegg ‘will not back early cuts’
The Lib Dems would not support a government which tried to make major spending cuts in the next financial year, leader Nick Clegg has said. Slashing spending so early in the recovery would be "economic masochism", Mr Clegg told BBC Radio 4’s Today. But he repeated his assertion that, in the event of a hung... »
Aer Lingus to make 670 job cuts
Aer Lingus has announced plans to lay off 670 staff, including nearly a quarter of its cabin crew, as part of large-scale restructuring plans. The Irish Airline says it plans to save 97m euros (£88m, $132m) as a result of the cuts. The airline’s cabin crew face 230 compulsory redundancies after their union rejected restructuring... »