Regional Development in the UK

‘A cold wind drives over the Titanic's abandoned slipway, and nothing stirs where over 35,000 men hammered and cut in what was once the world's greatest shipyard. From here, past idle cranes and rusty railway tracks, Belfast looks bleak.
If the region's politicians seem largely oblivious to the parlous state of the economy, businessmen and Peter Hain, the secretary of state for Northern Ireland at Westminster, are not. “Do we have a sustainable, self-supporting economy? …