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Howard Gannaway's Chamber Blog

So what else did “The Man from Doncaster” say for the Newsnight cameras? (See BBC2 Newsnight 30th June)  We spent a very busy few hours with Ian Watson from the BBC interviewing Mike Wilkinson from Business Award-winning company, i-education and then visiting Sentry Doors in Carcroft.  The subject of the programme slot was whether the private sector is going to be able to take up the slack and find jobs for those who are forecast to lose jobs in the public sector.  Yours truly (“The Man from Doncaster”) was interviewed for over 5 minutes, which, as is usually the case, was cut down to one comment taking a few seconds.  The broadcast comment suggested that the private sector in Doncaster is up for expansion but, as much of the customer base is dependent on the public sector, we may need a period of transition with support to make the changes to a fully private sector economy...Click here to read the blog in full