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<p>British Prime Minister David Cameron has said that he wishes the public to increase the proportion of their holiday budget spent in this country, from 36 per cent up to 50 per cent.</p>
<p>Legal Aid is a fundamental cornerstone of our society, as it allows those people on limited incomes access to justice. Around two million people every year benefit from Legal Aid, in a wide variety of cases.</p>
<p>Statistics show that if you buy a lottery ticket on a Wednesday you have more chance of being dead come Saturday than you have of winning the jackpot. However that doesn’t stop Britons spending £100 million each week on the lottery.</p>
<p>The impact of Government policy to deal with the fallout from the credit crunch is only just starting to take effect and I believe that people are only just beginning to realise the sacrifices that are going to have to be made to get the country back on its feet.</p>
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Advantage West Midlands chairman Sir Roy McNulty has defended the regional development agency's record and said local government secretary Eric Pickles was wrong to describe it as bloated. "In terms of overheads this is not, as Mr Pickles has been heard to say, a bloated organisation.
It is very lean, particularly by public sector standards," he said.
Entrepreneurs must persist despite difficult economic circumstances, according to Professor Mark Hart, who speaks exclusively to Insider about the future of entrepreneurs in the region.
Professor Hart's Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), which was released today, reveals that one in five entrepreneurs in the Midlands citing their reason for beginning a business as "out of necessity".
Public services provider Amey is expanding its offices at Colmore Plaza to accommodate the specialist project team that will deliver the £2.7bn Birmingham Highways PFI.
George Osborne used his Emergency Budget to confirm the worst-kept secret of the last few months: that the new government will scrap regional development agencies (RDAs).
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