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Archive for June, 2008

26 Jun

Announcement: New Supporter

West Midlands NO! is pleased to announce its latest supporter: Dr Bob Spink MP (UKIP: Castle Point).
Dr Spink joins Daniel Kawczynski MP (Conservative, Shrewsbury & Atcham), Mike Natrass MEP (UKIP, West Midlands), Councillor Denis Allen (Conservative, Telford & Wrekin & Mayor of Wellington, Shropshire), Councillor George Ashcroft (Conservative, Telford & Wrekin), Robin Tilbrook (Chairman, English [...]

26 Jun

Dishonest quangocrats desperate for power

The Chairmen of 6 regional assemblies - including the West Midlands Regional Assembly - have written a letter to the Times calling for them to be allowed to make regional policy even though their quango is being abolished.
Nothing wrong with suggesting that of course, but it is the dishonesty that shows just how desperate they [...]

23 Jun

AWM criticised over £6m offices

BBC’s Midlands Today programme have given Advantage West Midlands a well-deserved slating today over its £6m new offices for West Midlands Business Link.
Local businesses are struggling with the credit crunch, the onset of a global recession and the continual decline of the manufacturing industry upon which the economy of the West Midlands connurbation has traditionally [...]

14 Jun

AWM boss to get CBE

John Edwards, the former unelected Chief Executive of the unelected Regional Development Agency, Advantage West Midlands, is being given a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to the rural economy.
Edwards presided over Birmingham-centric AWM for many years and as anyone who lives outside of “Greater Birmingham” will know, AWM cares very little for [...]

07 Jun

Four years on and nothing to show for it

Advantage West Midlands, the unelected regional development agency, has been leasing the site of the former BBC Pebble Mill studios in Edgbaston since the BBC moved out in 2004.
The studios have been demolished and the site is nothing more than a patch of bare earth.  AWM wants to turn the site into a medical research [...]

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