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Originally Posted by Ken Moss
Unfortunately Andrew, that's how it reads. If you can direct me to information that states otherwise I'll gladly take a look and reappraise things.
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I assume it is national thing simply because of the huge cost. I don't think it's fair to blame just the council for the waste of money though. All the funding came directly from the office of the deputy PM, the single regeneration budget and the European regional development fund. They requested that Hyndburn council have the site, and offered the cash.
The most shocking thing is this:
"The Portal was to be a project that broke new grounds in IT, but unfortunately rapidly developing technologies such as Ebay, Amazon, Facebook etc. made it obsolete almost at the point that it was launched."
Sites like Ebay, Amazon, that already existed before the project was embarked on! Quite how Hyndburnlife sought to replicate those sites, I don't know...