• Material from the nations and English regions will be repeated during times of lower demand.

    BBC: set to cut 2,000 jobs by 2017

  • Regional development agencies will be established in England, decentralising decision-taking to the English regions.

    BBC: The Queen's speech in full

  • Although London has been promised its own government, the position in the other English regions remains opaque.

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  • Devolving more power to the English regions, for example, might help, except that the English are not conspicuously keen.

    ECONOMIST: Bagehot

  • The creation of English regions appears to be based on little more than the banding of franchises for regional television.

    ECONOMIST: St George's new dragon

  • MPs from poorer English regions are enviously eyeing Scottish public spending, which is about 25% higher per Scot than per Englishman.

    ECONOMIST: Devolution

  • However, GVA per head in Wales remained the lowest of the devolved nations and English regions at 75.2% of the UK average.

    BBC: Unemployment falls 15,000 in Wales for August-October

  • Now that the government is offering elected assemblies to the English regions, these spending disparities are poised to become a big political issue.

    ECONOMIST: Scots in government

  • Another manifesto commitment which is unlikely to see any swift government action is devolution for the English regions, in the form of local assemblies.

    BBC: News | UK Politics | What the Queen won't say

  • The NUJ said the BBC was planning around 30 compulsory redundancies, affecting areas including BBC Scotland, the Asian Network, the World Service and English regions.

    BBC: staff to strike over cuts

  • The staff at risk are based at the BBC's operations in Scotland, the English regions, and radio stations including Five Live and the Asian Network.

    BBC: Wales

  • Monument Metro station is one of the 10 busiest railway stations in the English regions, with more than 10 million passengers using it every year.

    BBC: Ticketing revamp to close Monument Metro station

  • The BBC said she had been commissioned to do the work by Lucy Adams, the BBC's director of HR, and David Holdsworth, the controller of English Regions.

    BBC: Russell Joslin death: Lesley Granger heads BBC inquiry

  • Across the English regions and Wales, the survey found that Wales was the least ethnically diverse area - some 2.9 million whites made up 96% of residents.

    BBC: Census shows rise in foreign-born

  • Until now, when a British delegation travelled abroad seeking trade, Northern Ireland had to compete with Scotland, Wales and English regions, whereas the Republic of Ireland stood alone.

    BBC: Peace brings business hope

  • In the recent elections, there were all-postal voting pilots in four English regions - the East Midlands, the North East, the North West and Yorkshire and the Humber.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Politics | Council chief warns on vote fraud

  • One of the curiosities of British politics, at least from a Scottish point of view, is how little the dominance of London shapes the politics of the English regions.

    BBC: Is London good or bad for Scotland?

  • The English regions could form provinces to provide a balance to their Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish counterparts and to offset arguments about a monolithic England dominating the rest.

    ECONOMIST: St George's new dragon

  • Of all the parts of the UK - the nations and the English regions - you could argue that none of them has performed closer to the UK average than Scotland.

    BBC: No longer the poor relation

  • To Mr Prescott's mind, the obvious answer is to press on with what he sees as the next stage of devolution setting up elected assemblies in the eight English regions outside London.

    ECONOMIST: Regional aid

  • Wales is the least ethnically diverse area among the areas covered by the census, which also includes the English regions with 93% classing themselves as white, down from 96% in 2001.

    BBC: Census 2011: Largest rise in Wales population since 1951

  • Now, just as Wales and Scotland are about to get their own elected assemblies, the English regions are to try out development agencies with the possibility of elected assemblies in the future.

    ECONOMIST: An England of regions | The

  • Mrs Ellis, who works for the BBC as English Regions head of new media, said a recovery plan was in place, with the college set to be "back in the black" in two years' time.

    BBC: K College staff strike over plans to cut jobs

  • Mr Murphy, who led a Commons debate on the issue last March, admitted that the previous Labour government had failed in its attempt to introduce devolution to the English regions in 2004, saying it was a "different time".

    BBC: Devolution for English regions call by MP Paul Murphy

  • The worst, (but all too plausible) solution would be to set up regional assemblies to appease the chattering classes in the English regions but then jealously to guard the powers of Westminster and Whitehall, as well as the privileges of local government.

    ECONOMIST: A federal Britain

  • But Mr Byers - who is also secretary of state for the regions - received a boost in the form of the backing of Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott who predicted his colleague would play a major part in the next stage of the government's plans for devolution into the English regions.

    BBC: Sixsmith: Byers 'tore up' agreement

  • Within the first term of this government there will be devolution to Scotland and Wales, an elected mayor in London, the removal of the voting powers of hereditary peers, the implementation of the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law, a promised referendum on electoral reform and a process of devolution to English regions.

    BBC: Is Thatcherism dead?

  • Cardiff council leader Rodney Berman said designating the city centre as a financial services enterprise zone would help it compete with English cities and regions.

    BBC: Conservatives criticise 'fag packet' enterprise zones

  • Their report cites poll findings that show English people are well aware of unequal treatment for England's regions.

    BBC: Mind the gap on the Northern Line

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