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West Midlands firms trim property costs in economic gloom - Birmingham Post.net

New research shows firms in the West Midlands are trimming costs from their properties amid tough trading conditions. One of the major target areas for savings is the occupancy cost of properties, according to research by property consultants Cushman ... More...

Business News: New job places 'can mean £416m boost' for West Midlands - Coventry Telegraph.net

The report, The Economic Value of Apprenticeships ... Engineers are set to be the biggest beneficiary of the extra places in the West Midlands, with employers predicted to receive a £63million boost between 2012 and 2020. More...

Supply chain: Tsunami, floods and storms move logistics up the agenda - Financial Times

When a tsunami triggered by a vast earthquake crashed over sea walls on Japan’s east coast on March 11 last year, some tiny ripples from the vast tragedy made themselves felt as far away as England’s west Midlands. Disruption to Japanese electronics ... More...

Rise in West Midlands unemployment 'surprising' - BBC News

From September to November 243,000 people were unemployed in the West Midlands, an increase of 9,000 people ... The organisation's 2011 third quarter economic survey suggested Black Country businesses were "broadly optimistic" despite "the prevailing ... More...

Sun is setting on Britain's delusional image - The Vancouver Sun

the West Midlands, Glasgow and Northern Ireland. The miseries of such places seldom touch Canadian visitors to the United Kingdom because so few of them venture much beyond a comfort that extends not much further than Hyde Park and Buckingham Palace in the ... More...

Letters: The march towards independence - The Guardian

Many of the economic problems, and political marginalisation ... Regions in England – the West Midlands for example – have a similar population to Scotland and the people deserve a similar level of devolved assembly government, with their ... More...

Manufacturing losing 3,400 jobs a week with West Midlands worst-hit, claims GMB - Birmingham Post.net

The biggest fall has been in Staffordshire (21,000), followed by Worcestershire (20,100), Kent (19,800) and Hampshire (18,600), while the West Midlands was the worst ... of them in 16 years- is the most tragic economic story from Britain in the last ... More...

Get With Apprenticeships Says Birmingham Chamber - Prfire (press release)

Businesses must ‘get with apprenticeships’ in order to secure economic certainty for the UK say West Midlands business leaders. Michael Ward, president of Birmingham Chamber of Commerce Group (BCCG) said: “To be competitive in a global economy we can ... More...

Hackers intercept FBI, Scotland Yard call - Economic Times

Updates are given on the status of inquiries stretching from Los Angeles to Baltimore to England's West Midlands and Ireland, with one member of Scotland Yard's central e-crime unit telling the FBI that British police had recently arrested a 15 ... More...

Region’s rioters jailed for total of 120 years - Westmidlands.com

He said he believed the cause of the riots in the West Midlands had nothing to do with the shooting of Mark Duggan by police in Tottenham on August 4, instead blaming the economic backdrop, opportunism and criminality. In total, those prosecuted have been ... More...

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