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Here you'll find films on recycling, housing help for key workers, rural post offices and flood defences.

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Waste Watchers

15 February 2005

"Waste not, want not". This age-old adage sums up Government initiatives to encourage recycling.

Bottle banks make sense. Pulping yesterday's papers saves trees. Even humble hedge clippings can become tomorrow's compost. Our film examines the impact in the Yorkshire city of Wakefield.

• Waste watchers - Realplayer
• Waste watchers - Windows media player
• Waste watchers - Transcript

Extra information

• More on recycling and waste from DEFRA (opens in new window)
• Recycling in Wakefield Metropolitan District Council (opens in new window)

A key to our home

The Starter Home Initiative is helping to recruit and retain key workers - primarily teachers, NHS staff and police - by giving them a step onto the housing ladder.

The programme offers 'shared-ownership' schemes, equity and interest-free loans.

• A key to our home - Realplayer
• A key to our home - Windows media player
• A key to our home - Transcript

Extra information

• Number 10 factsheet: Factsheet from the ODPM
• Housing Corporation (opens in new window)