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Monday 28th January 2008
Blears blurry on supercasino
Communities minister Hazel Blears has left the future of Manchester's supercasino bid more than fuzzy after she refused to answer questions on the mecca's fate.
Launching a low-pay campaign in Salford, the point of the venture was clouded after she would not answer questions on the casino which was supposed to regenerate east Manchester.
At a cost of £100 million, the supercasino was meant to create 3,000 jobs in the area, but the House of Lords delayed the plans by not offering its support.
Although Ms Blears was asked to identify better ways of regenerating deprived urban areas of Manchester than building a casino, she seemed lost for words on this occasion.
Launching a national minimum wage campaign at Somerfield supermarket in Withington, she could only explain that she was still working on a final decision as to the fate of Manchester's supercasino.
"What the prime minister asked for was to undertake a review of whether there are alternatives for regeneration other than the casino development. I have been working on that for the last few months, looking at all the evidence and I will forward the decision as quickly as possible," she said.
"I think a lot of people supported the supercasino at the time. Clearly there wasn't a majority in the Lords and the reason we took a look at this was because it wasn't possible to get it through before," Ms Blears added.
Source:Direct News
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