内容摘要：The consultation describes the three-council option as including "more local decision-making and accountability" and says the smaller councils "can work more closely with businesses to boost economic growth and employment".

The consultation describes the three-council option as including "more local decision-making and accountability" and says the smaller councils "can work more closely with businesses to boost economic growth and employment".

"Men tend to bottle everything up - 'pull your socks up', 'stiff upper lip', 'man up,' - which is a phrase I think we've all used over the years but the world's a changing place."Just being there for each other, being there to listen, being there to support is really important and that's why we come out every week."

A paedophile who stole a terminally ill man's identity and spent almost three decades on the run has been convicted of 54 child sex abuse charges.Richard Burrows "acted like a coward and fled the country" leaving his victims to suffer, police said after he was convicted at Chester Crown Court.During his trial this year, the court was told he had abused boys as young as nine while a housemaster at a Cheshire boarding school and as a scout master in the West Midlands between the late 1960s and mid-1990s.

He had previously admitted 43 out of 105 charges. The prosecution did not offer evidence for eight counts and he had denied the remaining 54 but was found guilty of all of them.Burrows, 80, formerly of Birmingham, will be sentenced on 7 April.

He was arrested at Heathrow Airport last year after almost three decades on the run, having failed to appear at his originally scheduled trial over alleged child sex offences at the same court in 1997.

The court heard how between 1968 and 1995, Burrows systematically abused 24 young boys across the Cheshire, West Midlands and West Mercia areas.has warned that young people are being put off by a range of barriers, including:

According to Ucas, 430,000 students said they were interested in apprenticeship opportunities in 2023.However, only 189,430 apprenticeships were published on the official site in England in the last academic year.

The last government said that was "nowhere near enough" and launched an onlineThink hard about what the apprenticeship offers - will the qualification help you progress in the career you want? Can you picture yourself in a job in the industry? What opportunities are there to progress at the organisation itself?