Newsweek

Newsweek is an edited selection of local news, as reported elsewhere in the week to 19th February

• W Berks reveal full extent of cuts
• All areas of RBWM budget slashed
  
• TV Police cut 800 jobs over 4 years as budget slashed by £12m 
• Union blasts fire crew cut
• Unemployment rises in Reading, Wokingham and West Berks
• Calcot IKEA store would create 400 jobs
• Harrods to move distribution centre to Thatcham
• Business booming for networkers 
• MoD joins mock terrorist attack
• Biggest peacetime flood exercise to test responses

This week official budgets were finalised for the year ahead, which resulted in concern for the economic outlook and an obvious focus on the hoped-for transfer of jobs from state to private sector. However authorities were also busy preparing themselves should the unexpected happen and things turn from bad to worse.

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