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Article: PERSPECTIVE: pounds 10bn; Why the West Midlands needs....(Features)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- February 20, 2007
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The West Midlands is a great region.
With Birmingham - an internationally renowned city at its heart, world class universities and global business brands, the West Midlands contributes well over pounds 80 billion to UK plc with an economy bigger than many EU member states and larger that Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
It continues to be a location of choice for overseas investment, now home to over two thousand foreign owned companies.
And as the only UK region with universal broadband coverage, we are ideally placed to exploit the potential ...