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Growth from the grassroots to create wealth on their terms and in their way. so let me spell it out. no more short cuts. strong dynamic government is necessary but it's not sufficient. communities need strong public services but that's not enough on its own. for national renewal, there is no substitute for a robust private sector creating wealth in every community. you can see this in the precision engineers and life scientists in glasgow. the video game visionaries in dundee. the cyber security firms in the valleys and south wales, the hydrogen corridor in teesside, nano manufacturing in nort...

There are few companies that can say they are still servicing machines they made more than 80 years ago – but Ipswich-based Christy Turner can

There are few companies that can say they are still servicing machines they made more than 80 years ago – but Ipswich-based Christy Turner can

For from it companies in the region in rural upper but there are a prime example of what's been going wrong. experts call what the vision of fighting a company is struggling with fit issues. the family business for two generations it's now run by hindsight now his firm has taken on apprentices for more than three decades precision engineers and cutting machine operators in particular train here but for a few years now they've been unable to find anyone for the traineeships applicants have grown spheres and they come with worse qualifications than most even that the machines are becoming more a...

Simon winchester is the author of, among other books, "the perfectionists: how precision engineers created the modern world." simon winchester, pleasure to have you on. >> thanks a lot. >> why did precision become so important in the industrial revolution? >> it started actually, we know the birth date, may 4th, 1776. someone wrote to me the other day and said, you do know the significance of may 4th is "star wars" day, "may the 4th be with you," this is not my joke. but may 4th, 1776, james watt, couldn't make cylinders properly. and a man created a cylinder, an enormous thing, and the piston...