{"id":53485,"date":"2015-02-05T15:45:51","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T15:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=f1b5580d46f5c87855f198e934a352fa"},"modified":"2015-02-05T15:45:51","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T15:45:51","slug":"news-story-prime-minister-and-chancellor-visit-the-set-of-emmerdale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=53485","title":{"rendered":"News story: Prime Minister and Chancellor visit the set of Emmerdale"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Popping into the Woolpack Pub on-set, Prime Minister David Cameron and Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne met trainees who are gaining hands-on experience on the show as part of a scheme using Government funding accessed via the Employer Ownership of Skills Pilot and supported by Creative Skillset. <\/p>\n<p>The visit also included a behind the scenes tour of the long-running soap which makes 312 episodes a year making it the UK\u2019s highest volume drama.  <\/p>\n<p>The set visit came after the Prime Minister and the Chancellor had earlier set out in speeches, a Long-Term Economic Plan for Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire, within which the contribution of the creative industries was cited as a key driver of economic growth locally.<\/p>\n<p>Regional screen agency, Screen Yorkshire, has seen 24 different productions contracted in the region in the last two years alone through its Yorkshire Content Fund.<\/p>\n<p>The Chancellor said:  <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Yorkshire is fast becoming a centre for film and television production and is home to the fastest growing digital sector outside London.  Our long-term economic plan for Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire backs the growth of the creative industries where it already employs over 157,000 people.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Emmerdale is a great example of this, supporting over 300 jobs and adding real value to the local economy. It has become part of the fabric of British daily life for over 7 million viewers, and it was a pleasure to meet the cast and crew.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of a tour of Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire, the Prime Minister David Cameron and Exchequer George Osborne  visited the set of ITV\u2019s Emmerdale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}