Published Date:
12 January 2010
IT is always good news to hear about new jobs and while the East Midlands Development Agency giving Long Clawson Cheese Dairy £2.5m to create 12 jobs is to be commended, could it not have put its resources to better use promoting the area?
If the money had been used for reopening the Grantham Canal to bring tourists and commercial traffic into the Vale of Belvoir, such an initiative would have quadrupled employment prospects, work in hotels, cafes and chandlery would have blossomed the length and breath of the canal, every village on route would have reaped some fiscal benefit.
That way, additional jobs would have come to the dairy via tourism and demand for Stilton cheese would have increased accordingly. Instead they will only create 12 cheese making jobs.
Investing in the infrastructure is the only way to regenerate this deprived region, which has been left to its devices for decades.
NIGEL J STARBUCK
Bingham
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Last Updated:
12 January 2010 12:37 PM
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Location:
Melton
