A Happy Healthy and Peaceful New Year to everyone. I hope that all those who have made New Year resolutions will be able to say in a year’s time that they have been successfully able to keep them!

2011 will bring lots of fresh challenges for many people especially those involved in the public sector as the Government’s plans to start to control the rate of increase in public spending take effect. I will refrain from making predictions as they are invariably wrong but I do hope that the economy continues to grow so in the medium term the Country might at least be in a position where the budget deficit is eliminated as the Chancellor plans.