Ministers have been forced to cut grants for students from middle-income homes and scale back plans to expand student numbers after a government blunder left a 200m black hole in the universities budget. Some 40,000 fewer students will be eligible for partial grants and there will be 5,000 fewer places than expected next year after the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills …

South Shore Daycare Services and the South Shore YMCA have been awarded United Way grants totaling $30,600.

A government blunder will force up to 40,000 students to pay more for university education after grants were cut yesterday.

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Friday morning, Nashville Mayor Karl Dean was on hand to help announce anti-foreclosure grants for the mid-state.

Two area programs were recently awarded grants from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Quincy Community Action Programs will get $57,065 and the Plymouth Redevelopment Authority will get $52,500 under HUD’s Housing Counseling Program.

The Northern Marianas is eligible for federal grants related to the military buildup in the region under a bill President George W. Bush signed on Wednesday.

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