£380m of loans to WM firms
Of £5bn in loans from the British Business Bank to boost small and medium-sized firms, £380m has gone to companies in the West
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MP: Protect single-sex spaces
Bromsgrove MP Bradley Thomas is backing a parliamentary motion protecting biological sex-based spaces. This comes after the recent UK Supreme Court ruling that
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Anti-abuse art at stations
Artwork opposing violence against women and girls is being installed at five West Midlands railway stations. The art, by local illustrator Emma Kaye,
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‘22,000 WM jobs to go’
Labour’s tax changes will see 22,000 jobs go across the Werst Midlands, new research reveals today. The Government billed its autumn budget as
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‘700 jobs from Games legacy fund’
The lives of 800,000 residents have benefited from £13m of Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games legacy funding, it was claimed today. Grants of between
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Macaw Security: ‘Boring’ is best
Steve Hands and his fellow ex-Royal Marines pal Matt Fisher set up Macaw Security Solutions in 2018 with the aim of being as
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Calling stem cell donors
Every 14 minutes someone in the UK is diagnosed with blood cancer. For many patients a stem cell transplant from a matching donor
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MBO for Brum agency
A Birmingham digital marketing agency has been bought out by one of its founders. Solihull-based digital specialist Sam Hufton led the management buy-out
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Mt Everest speed record
Four ex-UK Special Forces soldiers, including Vets Minister Al Carns, have achieved their record-breaking goal of getting from London to the summit of
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Hampshire vet joins 3M lawsuit
An ex-Royal Marines commando from Hampshire is among tens of thousands of British military personnel who lost their hearing after being given faulty