A new £59m fund is to be unveiled to boost areas of depressed economic growth in the English regions. The fund will invite the country’s 24 Enterprise Zones to bid for the money to turn “shovel ready” infrastructure projects into “job ready sites”. The money is intended to be spent on local infrastructure – including roads, schools, utilities or reclaiming land – to allow the zones to attract companies and jobs, according to today’s Daily Telegraph.

” This should be beneficial to Lancashire” says County Councillor Bill Winlow