Andy Tate

EDUCATION bosses are today are hopeful that Southampton will receive some of the billions of pounds set aside for school rebuilding by the Government today.

SOUTHAMPTON Itchen MP John Denham has pledged to be a “strong voice” for firms and workers in the south after being appointed shadow business Secretary in new Labour leader Ed Miliband’s frontbench team.

WOULD-BE entrepreneurs in Hampshire have been banned from applying for Government cash under a new scheme to help budding businesses get up and running.

VOLUNTARY groups cannot “fill the gap” in essential services that will be left by forthcoming Government cuts to public spending, Hampshire MP John Denham has warned.

MINISTERS are preparing to launch a new attempt to bring more of the south’s 15,000 empty homes back into use.

ED MILIBAND’S speech to the Labour conference has put the party back on the road to power, Southamp-ton MPs said last night.

ENERGY Secretary Chris Huhne has admitted that voters in his Hampshire constituency who backed him to keep the Conservatives out of government may have been disappointed by the result.

LIBERAL Democrat leader Nick Clegg, right, has warned the south it will have to shoulder a bigger share of pain over the next five years than it did during previous economic crises.

LIBERAL Democrat activists from Hampshire have helped deal an embarrassing blow to the party leadership over the Government's plans for academies and “free’’ schools.

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