The men in particular find it hard to be flexible.”Flexible shifts in the service sector have suited women returners with family responsibilities best, which might explain why we’ve found it easier to find women jobs than men,” said Chris Livingstone, the JobCentre manager.Hartlepool’s marketing slogan underlines the realities. But finding employment for workers from traditional industries is difficult. Mr White counters: “If you are going to succeed in attracting and retaining jobs, you have to make sure it’s as attractive a place to live and work as it can be.”As in nearby Sunderland, call-centre jobs have helped. This was one reason a facelift was the priority when European money was thrown at Hartlepool. The resulting marina and quay development has created service-industry jobs, but detractors claim these have hardly dented the dole queues.

Hartlepool had the lot and lost them.When a restructuring of the town’s economy began in the early 1990s, there was a very narrow range of industries left and some appalling preconceptions about the place. HARTLEPOOL DESERVES a break. Just when a few wise voices were predicting unemployment would dip below 10 per cent – still high enough to make any town flinch – the main JobCentre roof caved in. This delayed the processing of job applications and, suddenly, the north-east coastal town’s jobless figure bounced back up to 11.5 per cent, the highest in the country in both May and June.
“It’s quite a preoccupation for us as you can imagine,” said Tim White, the head of economic and urban development at the local council.Think of the heavy industries that have declined in the past 30 years – steel-making, engineering, shipbuilding and chemicals. It said: “Their final destination can only be Hell.”Ann Widdecombe, the shadow Home Secretary and a prominent convert to Catholicism, said: “We can just dismiss this for the religious bigotry that it is.”Father Tom Connelly, a spokesman for the Catholic church in Scotland, said: “I suspect they are perhaps a little envious of the extraordinary coverage following the death of Cardinal Hume.”.

It added that those who live by the error of salvation by works rather than by faith in Christ alone cannot go to Heaven or even purgatory. He was widely praised for helping to bring together different faiths.
But the August issue of The Free Presbyterian Magazinecriticises him for promoting the interests of Catholicism and making the religion more acceptable to the English establishment while feigning support for the ecumenical movement. Cardinal Hume, the leader of the Catholic church in England and Wales, died of cancer in June, aged 76. The Free Presbyterian Church magazine said the Archbishop of Westminster lived and died in the errors of Rome. A SCOTTISH church has been accused of bigotry after its magazine claimed the late Cardinal Basil Hume’s final destination could only be Hell.