A pub will be demolished and shops razed to the ground and rebuilt as part of a 2.5 million regeneration of an area of Telford.

The project has been lined up for Hollinswood, and members of Telford & Wrekin Council's cabinet will decide whether to push ahead with the proposals at a meeting next week.

The scheme includes demolition of the Woodcutter pub, demolition and replacement of the existing shops and flats and building a new activity hub for adults with learning difficulties.

It also includes enhancements to and extension of the community centre, landscaping improvements, better links to Telford town centre and the potential for further residential development.

Consultation on the proposals is already under way and an open day will be held from 1.30pm to 6.30pm in Hollinswood Community Centre on Tuesday.

Telford & Wrekin Council also has the potential option of carrying out a second phase of regeneration which would result in construction of seven two bedroom homes close to the centre of Hollinswood.

Hollinswood would follow in the footsteps of Brookside and Hadley, which have already seen major regeneration works to their centres.

The plans to revamp Hollinswood, which will be discussed by councillors at a meeting on Thursday (SEPT 18), are in response to a profile of The Nedge ward that was carried out in 2011, which highlighted that the local parish saw the centre of Hollinswood as unattractive, outdated, unsafe and subject to vandalism.

The review also showed that residents felt the physical environment of the centre makes it a focus for social and community problems in the area with growing issues of crime and anti-social behaviour.

Councillor Bill McClements, cabinet member for finance and enterprise, said: This scheme will improve Hollinswoods links to the town centre, providing better access to emerging employment opportunities associated

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Louisville, KY (WHAS11) - The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) District 5 Office advises motorists that the exit ramp from southbound Interstate 65 to KY 245 at Clermont (Exit 112) will be closed this weekend for concrete pavement repairs. This ramp is scheduled for closure from 9:00 p.m. on Friday, Sept.12 until 5:00 a.m. on Monday, Sept.15.

Motorists should follow the signed detour via southbound I-65 to westbound KY 480 (Exit 116), then turn left onto southbound KY 61 and follow to KY 245.

The exit ramp from southbound I-65 to KY 480 (Exit 116) is scheduled for closure the weekend of September 19-22.

This work is part of a $20.7 million project for removal and replacement of various sections of concrete pavement across a 20-mile section of I-65 in Bullitt County.

The speed limit in the work zone is reduced to 55 MPH and double fines are being enforced.

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EXTENSIVE plans for Yorks new community stadium also set to include a leisure complex and swimming pool - have been given the go-ahead by cabinet.

City of York Councils cabinet last night approved borrowing 4million towards financing the project, and full council is now due to debate and make a final decision on whether the borrowing of the funds should be granted.

The total cost of the stadium and leisure complex - plus the replacement athletics track at Heslington West and rugby facilities at York St John - is 37 million. Of that, the City of York Council will contribute a total of 8million - 4million of which is due to be borrowed.

The latest plans for the Huntington site include a leisure complex and a newly built swimming pool to replace Waterworld, a cinema, restaurants and a library.

Cllr James Alexander, leader of the council, said: This is a huge potential for the city. This is a massive thing we can bring forward for the public.

This is genuinely a huge opportunity to show members of this city these are facilities for them. These are good quality, nationally recognised facilities. I think that is the right thing to do.

Other Labour councillors spoke of their approval of the scheme with Cllr David Levene stating that getting 37 million of facilities for 8million seems to be value for money and Cllr Sonja Crisp describing the site as a health and wellbeing hub for the city.

Project manager Tim Atkins told the meeting the cost of the stadium project was more than anticipated as original estimates had been conservative. But he said the commercial opportunities were positive with the arrival of John Lewis and Marks and Spencer at the site putting York on the map.

However, speaking at the beginning of the meeting, Conservative councillor Paul Healey questioned whether the council could afford to be drawn into another major out of town development.

He expressed doubt over whether the council could justify borrowing 4 million at a time when concerns were continually expressed about restricted budgets.

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BAGHDAD Iraq's parliament officially named Haider al-Abadi the country's new prime minister late Monday and approved most of the candidates put forward for his Cabinet amid mounting pressure to form an inclusive government that can collectively cap the advance of Sunni militants.

Lawmakers approved all of the candidates proposed for the new government, with the exception of a few posts, namely the defense and interior ministers. Al-Abadi requested an additional week to name them.

Outgoing Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi and former Speaker of Parliament Osama al-Nujeifi were given the largely ceremonial posts of vice president. Kurdish politician and former Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari was named as one of three deputy prime ministers.

Al-Maliki, Iraq's prime minister for the past eight years, relinquished the post to his nominated replacement Aug. 14, ending a political deadlock that has plunged the country into uncertainty as it fights a Sunni militant insurgency. Al-Maliki had been struggling for weeks to stay on for a third four-year term as prime minister amid an attempt by opponents to push him out, accusing him of monopolizing power and pursuing a fiercely pro-Shiite agenda that has alienated the Sunni minority.

The U.S. and other countries have been pushing for a more representative government that will ease anger among Sunnis, who felt marginalized by al-Maliki's administration, helping fuel the dramatic sweep by the Islamic State extremist group over much of northern and western Iraq since June. The insurgency seized Iraq's second largest city, Mosul, and routed Iraq's beleaguered armed forces. Thousands of people have been killed and more than 1.5 million have been displaced by the violence.

The extremist Islamic State group's lightning advance across much of northern and western Iraq has driven hundreds of thousands of people from their homes since June, and prompted the U.S. to launch aid operations and airstrikes on Aug. 8 as the militants threatened religious minorities and the largely autonomous Kurdish region.

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Ministers admit PM's leadership would be 'difficult' if there is Yes vote One told the Mail he could be 'forced out' or feel 'duty-bound' to go Some Tory MPs say his credibility will be shattered in event of Yes vote Another said he would have a very difficult period, but was likely to survive Comes as PM has effectively ceded control of the No campaign Gordon Brown

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David Camerons fate as Tory leader will hang in the balance and he could feel duty bound to resign if Scotland votes for independence, his allies conceded last night.

Even some Cabinet ministers who are supportive of the Prime Ministers leadership admit his future will be difficult despite his insistence he would emphatically not quit in the event of a Yes vote.

One told the Mail he would have a responsibility to stay on and deal with the aftermath of Scotland voting to break away but could then be forced out or feel duty-bound to go.

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Polands ruling Civic Platform party retook the lead in opinion polls, with parliament speaker Ewa Kopacz set to replace Donald Tusk as prime minister following his departure to become European Union president.

Support for the ruling party jumped 10 percentage points from June to 34 percent, while the opposition Law & Justice Party lost 3 percentage points to 28 percent, according to a Sept. 4-5 poll by TNS Polska for the state television channel TVP 1. A separate survey conducted Sept. 5-6 by the IBRiS polling company showed the two parties tied at 30 percent after Civic Platform trailed by eight points in August, the Rzeczpospolita newspaper said today.

The ruling coalition is seeking a replacement for Polands longest-serving prime minister since the communism ended in 1989, to lead Civic Platform into next years general election. President Bronislaw Komorowski will discuss the creation of a new cabinet with Kopacz after he accepts Tusks resignation on Sept. 11, his spokeswoman said today.

The president sees the need to stabilize the government as quickly as possible, Joanna Trzaska-Wieczorek told reporters in Warsaw. Hes said it numerous times.

Komorowski has received assurances from Janusz Piechocinski that his Peasants Party, the junior partner in the ruling coalition, will support Kopacz, she said.

The ruling coalition will meet at 8 p.m. in Warsaw to discuss the future cabinet, Malgorzata Kidawa-Blonska, cabinet spokeswoman, said today. Infrastructure and Development Minister Elzbieta Bienkowska will also leave the government to become an EU commissioner.

Tusk has lead the Polish government since 2007, helping steer the economy to become the only one in the 28-nation EU to avoid recession. His popularity has suffered after leaked tapes of conversations between leading Polish policy makers rocked the nation this year, threatening to capsize the ruling coalition and unseat the central bank governor.

The bounce-back in polls has so far failed to translate into electoral successes for the Civic Platform. Law & Justice won three by-elections yesterday, keeping their seats in the upper house of parliament.

A lot of political analysts have been talking about the so-called Tusk effect because of the prime ministers appointment to a high position in the EU, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, head of the Law & Justice, said at a news conference. Poles see the reality and the reality is that Donald Tusk is leaving for Brussels and problems remain.

To contact the reporter on this story: Piotr Skolimowski in Warsaw at pskolimowski@bloomberg.net

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Iraqi parliament is scheduled to be convened on Monday night to vote on Prime Minister-designate Haider al-Abadi's proposed cabinet, the parliament speaker Selim al-Jabouri's office said on Sunday.

State television also reported the tentative plan to hold the session. The approval of the cabinet could still be delayed amid last-minute wrangling and brinkmanship over posts.

The make-up of the cabinet has still not been revealed, but Abadi is expected to include representatives of all the country's religious and ethnic components in a bid to save Iraq from collapse.

If a government is not agreed, this will mean a return to the start of the contentious process, leaving Iraq rudderless at a time of crisis.

The prime minister designate was picked on August 11 as a replacement for outgoing Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who dropped his bid for a third term after Shi'ite, Sunni and Kurdish political blocs rejected him.

The prime minister has until September 10 to submit his government for approval, or Iraq's president must select another candidate for premier.

Undone by Islamic State group

Maliki, who won the most votes of any candidate in April's national election, was undone by the Islamic State group's seizure of large sections of northern Iraq and the almost total collapse of the Iraqi military almost three months ago.

About one-third of the country is under Islamic State domination, while the self-rule Kurdistan region continues to examine whether or not to declare independence.

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Disappointed: Norm Baker was short-changed by nearly $20,000 in his redundancy package from the public service. Photo: Melissa Adams

When Norm Baker accepted a golden handshake from The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, he trusted his colleagues to get the numbers right.

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Now the Canberra retiree says he has been short-changed by up to $17,000, looks set for a legal battle against his old department and is urging public servants taking redundancies to double-check the fine print.

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"The first offer they gave me was a little over $83,000, then the second formal quote was a little over $80,000," he said.

"So because they'd recalculated and had done the right thing, I thought in the end it might be very close to that number.

"But in my case it was substantially different.

"It's only a modest amount in the scheme of things, certainly compared to others, but it's significant to me."

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The Cabinet holds its first meeting since the summer break this afternoon, and the deployment of Irish troops in the Golan Heights, abortion and the economy will dominate the agenda.

It will be a busy meeting for Defence Minister Simon Coveney who will also have to report on what to do about the Government Jet which is broken down in the United States.

Minister Coveney will brief his Cabinet colleagues this afternoon on the fact that Irish soldiers are effectively now in a civil war in the Golan Heights and not a United Nations peacekeeping mission.

Last night he said Ireland has no plans to withdraw troops from the mission but he will outline how he plans to discuss the mission in a review with the UN before the replacement of soldiers in a months time.

Minister Coveney will also brief colleagues on the options for the Government Jet - the aircraft has been grounded in the US for five weeks and repairs or a replacement could cost anything from 3m to 4m.

Another issue on today's agenda will be a report from Health Minister Leo Varadkar on the claim a rape victim, who was expressing suicidal thoughts, was denied an abortion.

Some budgetary discussions will also take place off the back of the Exchequer returns, while Tnaiste Joan Burton has asked for an update on the housing delivery programme.

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The Czech government has received the ECs proposal for new sanctions against Russia and the cabinet will meet to debate the proposal on Wednesday, the Office of the Government announced in a press release on Tuesday morning. A tripartite meeting of government officials, trade union leaders and employers will be held on Thursday to debate the impact of the proposed sanctions. The Czech prime minister said at the EU summit that the country reserved the right to reject the sanctions should they cause disproportionately high economic losses. His cautious stand has come under fire from opposition parties and the coalition Christian Democrats who likened it to the Munich Agreement of 1938. The opposition parties have demanded that a special session of cabinet be held on the issue.

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Czech mens tennis number one Tom Berdych defeated Austrias Dominic Thiem 6-1, 6-2, 6-4 in the fourth round of the US Open on Tuesday night to advance to the tournaments quarterfinals. The sixth seed Berdych, the last Czech remaining at US Open, will play the Croat Marin ili, seeded 14th, for a spot in the semifinals.

A court in Prague sentenced a physician to 7.5 years in prison for having induced opiate addiction to one of his former patients. The court said the doctor between March 2008 and November 2010 sold doses of opioid analgesic to his patient who suffered from painful anal injury, making him heavily addicted to the drug. The patient sold his business and other property to be able to afford the drug, and eventually died in a car accident while driving under the influence of opiates. The court also banned the man from practicing medicine for ten years, and ordered him to pay a fine of seven million crowns.

Two Czech citizens have been killed while fighting in the ranks of pro-Russian forces in Ukraine, the website of a local Czech communist party organization in Frdek-Mstek reported quoting source Russian sources. The reports says the men, whose names were given as Ivo Stejskal and Vojtch Hlinka, were killed in combat on August 12 in the east of the country, and were buried on the spot. The Czech Foreign Ministry has said it has no knowledge of the Czech citizens deaths; the countrys intelligence services however believe around 30 Czechs have joined the ranks of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine.

The Nov divadlo (New Theatre) was officially opened in the West Bohemian city of Plze on Tuesday night. The modern structure with a capacity of just over 450 was built at a cost of CZK 880 million. Among those in attendance on Tuesday was actor and theatre director Tom Tpfer, who said it was an amazing thing that the country had received its first purpose-built theatre in over 50 years. The first performance at the Nov divadlo was of Bedich Smetanas opera The Bartered Bride. Plze will be a European Capital of Culture in 2015.

Police in Rumburk, North Bohemia have ruled out the possibility that a nurse illegally euthanized an elderly cancer patient, Mlad fronta Dnes reported on Wednesday. Investigators no longer believe that the patient wanted to die and are working on the assumption that the nurse acted out of antipathy towards patients, the newspaper said. Nurse Vra M. has herself denied that she was committing euthanasia when gave the patient an injection of potassium that caused her heart to stop. Detectives are looking into another 10 deaths at the hospital.

The City of Prague has decided to suspend its twinning with the Russian cities of Moscow and Saint Petersburg, Mayor Tom Hudeek wrote on his Facebook page on Tuesday. The move comes in response to what the mayor described as the Putin regimes arbitrary attack on Ukraine, which threatened not only Ukraines sovereignty but the security of the whole of Europe. Mr. Hudeek called on other Czech cities to follow Pragues lead in this regard. The Czech capital is twinned with more than two dozen cities around the world.

In an address to the lower house on Tuesday, President Milo Zeman warned MPs he would take a civil service bill to the Constitutional Court if they push the legislation through despite his previously signaled veto. Mr. Zeman said the amendment would not achieve its stated aim of depoliticising the civil service but would rather make it more politicised. The government has won support for the bill by taking on board opposition demands, including dropping a provision to create a top civil servant whose office would control the entire system. Mr. Zeman is critical of a provision under which every minister would have at most two deputies who are political appointees.

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