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This section contains all the latest news from The Northern Way, including media releases, statements and some speeches.

	22nd December 2006 Muli-million pound enterprise drive in the North's schools The enterprising nature of thousands of school children across the North is to be nurtured in a ground-breaking initiative that will invest more than £4million to encourage entrepreneurship at an early age. • Click here to read more

	12th December 2006 Northern Way Focuses for Success Neville Chamberlain CBE, Chairman of the Northern Way Steering Group, has today confirmed that the Northern Way goes from strength to strength as its Steering Group agreed to refocus its work around three areas to help close the £30bn productivity gap between the North and the South. • Click here to read more

	11th December 2006 Off benefits and into work - The Northern Way breaks cycle in Merseyside Princes Park in Liverpool and Birkenhead on the Wirral are to become the latest areas to benefit from multi-million pound Northern Way initiatives to drive down the number of people claiming Incapacity Benefit in the North. • Click here to read more

	5th December 2006 Northern Way Welcomes Barker Review Recommendation The Northern Way today welcomed the Barker Review of Land Use Planning Final Report and Recommendations, which put economic development at the heart of planning in the future • Click here to read more

	1st December 2006 Response to the publication of the Eddington Review John Jarvis, Transport Project Director for The Northern Way, said: "Sir Rod Eddington's report is a very welcome landmark in our developing understanding of the link between transport and productivity." • Click here to read more