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2009
Articles from 19th Mar 2009
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Integrated public transport access scheme to cost £11m
Mar 19 2009 | Other UK business news
Two of the companies bidding for Birmingham City Council’s highways maintenance contract will carry out a multimillion-pound integrated road scheme to improve transport access involving Solihull, Birmingham International Airport, NEC and Birmingham International railway station. Read
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City training campaign launched today
Mar 19 2009 | Other UK business news
Ed Balls, John Denham and Sir Alan Sugar are in Birmingham today to encourage a wider take-up of apprenticeship schemes among local companies. Read
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Stability hope in mortgage loan cuts
Mar 19 2009 | Other UK business news
Potential restrictions on mortgage lending arising from a report by the City watchdog later this year could provide a stable West Midland property market – provided they were done in a flexible and measured way. Read
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Requirements of banks to make them 'shock absorber' - FSA
Mar 19 2009 | Other UK business news
The Financial Services Authority consigned “soft-touch” banking regulation to history as it set out plans for a more intrusive approach. Read
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Over 250 facing the axe as Apollo 2000 and Arrow collapse
Mar 19 2009 | Other UK business news
About 250 people will be losing their jobs after two West Midlands electrical appliance firms collapsed. Read
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Birmingham tyre firm HiQ to create 500 jobs
Mar 19 2009 | Other UK business news
Birmingham tyre servicing retailer HiQ is creating up to 500 new jobs as it expands its franchise programme around the country. Read
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Racing is in the blood for amateur jockey Richard Burton
Mar 19 2009 | Other UK business news
Amateur jockey Richard Burton was born in 1976 and lives in Shropshire and with a family history like his it was inevitable he would end up in the saddle. Read
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Shropshire mum turned trainer savours Cheltenham Festival success
Mar 19 2009 | Other UK business news
Last week half of Birmingham’s business community decamped to Cheltenham for their annual round of important ‘meetings’. Here Melissa Jones caught up with a local pairing who helped make it such a memorable week. Read
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Area rise of 16 per cent unemployed one of largest in country
Mar 19 2009 | Other UK business news
The West Midlands witnessed one of the sharpest rises in unemployment in the country according to the latest official figures in which the national jobless numbers exceeded two million. Read
