1525 [1445] [1430] Hrs GMT
London
Saturday
07 August 2010.
Editor © Muhammad Haque:
The Big Biz agenda scam Crossrail’s touts operating from the ‘professional, official media’ outlets as typified by the ‘Press Association’ ‘UK’ are parading lies. As is illustrated in the UK Press Association’s evidently untruthful assertion contained in the ‘news release’ we quote in full below:
“Skills offer as thousands of CrossRail jobs created
(UKPA) – Jul 22, 2010
Londoners will be offered the chance to learn skills to help them take advantage of the thousands of new jobs being created by the Crossrail project, it has been announced.
The 118km long, £16 billion rail line, which will run through central London, will support the creation of around 30,000 jobs by 2026, with up to 14,000 being employed at the height of its construction between 2013 and 2015.
A skills and employment strategy has been launched, setting out how local people will be given the chance to work on the ambitious project.
London Mayor Boris Johnson said: "We want Londoners to benefit from this project in every way and that means giving them the chance to learn the skills and benefit from the jobs created by the scheme.
"The skills strategy and various training and apprenticeship schemes will help us give young inhabitants of this great city the chance to build and benefit from Crossrail as a lasting legacy."
Transport minister Theresa Villiers said: "Crossrail will be more than a world-class railway - for tens of thousands of people it could be the route to a successful career."
Crossrail has committed to creating at least 400 apprenticeships through its supply chain and to develop a specialist tunnelling and underground construction academy.
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