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THE green light for two power stations in Yorkshire will be the first of “many more such announcements” over the autumn, David Cameron said.

The go-ahead for plants at Ferrybridge and Thorpe Marsh, could create more than 1,000 construction jobs.

But Yvette Cooper, MP for Normanton, Castleford and Pontefract, said the news was “too little, too late to help unemployment across Yorkshire, which has risen by almost 10 per cent in my constituency in the last year”.

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“Contrary to the spin, there is no new Government funding for jobs at Ferrybridge, just the long awaited green light for a project already in the pipeline. Overall we’re still seeing a cut in funding for Yorkshire jobs and the abolition of the regional development agency which was making a real difference,” she said.