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We read all too often of weekend conferences, with banner headlines heralding imminent changes.
Over the past few weeks we have seen banner headlines about the doubling of recorded crime since 1979.
There are banner headlines in the popular press and frequently outraged leading articles.
Unfortunately, such banner headlines imply that a dramatic statement of intent will be sufficient to bulldoze the planning authorities into granting the planning application.
The unfortunate fact is that industrial relations achievements never receive publicity, although every strike, large or small, is publicised by banner headlines.
Recently, our local newspaper did so on its front page with banner headlines attacking the failure to meet accident and emergency targets for waiting times.
All too often those banner headlines in the newspapers are proved right.
The next day almost every national newspaper carried banner headlines saying that help was on the way.
