In Stoke, bet365 employs over 5000 people in a myriad of roles, many highly skilled and well paid. Jobs like these are the lifeblood of any community.
The Chancellor’s announcement about investment zones shows that, far from being dead, levelling up is alive and kicking in those places with the ambition to deliver.
It would help to level up places struggling to keep pace with the UK’s most prosperous locations.
Without the changes to the boundaries, by the time of the next election this data would be a quarter of a century out of date.
It’s already about more than narrow questions of governance – and should expand to cover the role clubs play in local communities.
The maximum sentence of imprisonment will now be ten years’ imprisonment, reflecting the severity of the nature of the crime.
These institutions play a vital role – despite what commentators, and sometimes politicians, say.
The authors reply to William Atkinson – who suggested a week ago on this site that it should not.