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Cure Leukaemia helping to create data map with OGL
Economic Development
Blood cancer charity Cure Leukaemia is creating a new data platform using the latest human genome mapping to transform the lives of blood cancer patients.
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Where is Solihull in brand Greater Birmingham?
Opinion
Has the time come, then, for Solihull to swallow its pride and unite fully under the Greater Birmingham brand? The unceremonious dropping of the formal LEP name can only be inevitable, surely?
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Councils unite to form new transport authority
Economic Development
West Midlands authorities unite to set out new transport agenda for whole region
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Report predicts jobs growth for Birmingham
Economic Development
City expected to see employment grow, but underlying problems in its service sector hold it back
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West Midlands bucks trend for foreign investors
Economic Development
Foreign investment has soared by more than a third in the West Midlands in the past year – outpacing the º£½ÇÊÓƵ average three-fold.
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Black Country business leaders welcome closer ties with Birmingham
Black Country
Paul Bennett, president of Black Country Chamber of Commerce, welcomed comments by Sir Albert, who called for closer ties between the neighbouring areas.
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West Midlands United can be powerful
Opinion
Unity – a word of only five letters but one that stirs all sorts of passions when you use it in relation to the West Midlands.
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Major rise in foreign investment in the West Midlands
Economic Development
Region outstrips the rest of the º£½ÇÊÓƵ after spike in job-boosting investment from foreign shores
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I'll succeed where Heseltine failed - Labour's Lord Adonis promises backing for regions
Economic Development
The Labour peer leading a party review into regeneration and the economy has set out plans to devolve cash and power to the regions
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Companies ‘need to fail’ for city to compete
Economic Development
The counter-intuitive statement came as evidence showed that more successful city economies have businesses springing up all the time and a competitive climate that means many to go to the wall
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Localism gets itself into a right pickle
Opinion
I attended the Royal Town Planning Institute's (RTPI) Annual Convention in London and like many planners in the audience was waiting expectantly to hear Eric Pickle's keynote address.
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Walsall Council leader dismisses West Midlands LEP proposal
Economic Development
Forthright response after Birmingham City Council leader Sir Albert Bore suggests local enterprise partnerships in the region should merge
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Great Charles Square developer driven by city's momentum
Economic Development
Developer of major city centre scheme says enterprise zone and increased private sector engagement has benefited Birmingham city centre
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Business Department "doesn't understand regions" claims peer as Labour launches economic growth review
Economic Development
Lord Adonis attacked BIS as "not fit for purpose" as he launched a review into how Labour can boost the West Midlands economy.
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Jaguar Land Rover a big winner as Regional Growth Fund injects £57m into West Midlands
Economic Development
Car giant runs three of 16 initiatives given Government boost to encourage employment
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£400m city scheme bringing slice of Big Apple back on track
Economic Development
Work restarts on Birmingham's stalled £400m Arena Central development
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Coventry & Warwickshire LEP supports a strong Birmingham
Opinion
Coventry & Warwickshire LEP supports strong Birmingham, strong region and strong LEP collaboration.
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Call for a united West Midlands LEP
Birmingham City Council
Local authority leader wants enterprise bodies to unite to give the West Midlands a better voice
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It’s sink or swim time unless we show this type of ambition
Opinion
The Greater Birmingham and Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership (GBSLEP), working with a cross-party group of local MPs and Solihull Council, united in a visit to London to spell out the potential from expanding the economic hub around the M42 motorway near Solihull.
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Localism (and the city) the losers again
Opinion
David Bailey writes "While Slasher Osborne noted that there may be scope for to increase funding in future years, it all leaves the feeling that Lord Heseltine had been stymied by Whitehall. Localism loses out."
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Osborne knocks back £50bn pot for regions in spending review
Economic Development
Business leaders accuse Government of  ‘paying lip-service’ to regional devolution
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‘Yes Minister style’ scrap going on over Heseltine Plan for decentralisation
Opinion
Professor David Bailey from Coventry University Business School gives his view on Heseltine's plan for a decentralised pot to the tune of £70bn
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The choices facing George Osborne
Opinion
Dr Steven McCabe writes "There was much excitement surrounding last week's announcement of creating 'º£½ÇÊÓƵ Central' - an integrated bundle of capital projects that would create a strategically vital transport nexus in the West Midlands, with ambitious housing and leisure developments."
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Property chief’s son died in Scottish walking trip
Economic Development
Body of Dr Oliver Smith, the son of Opus Land owner Richard Smith, found after two months missing
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