Monday, 21 May 2012

Nightmare on Greek Street

The government has withdrawn funding from England’s first nine pathfinders. Without cash to complete their projects, Keith Cooper asks what the future holds for the areas they were created to regenerate and the residents trapped in nightmare neighbourhoods.

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