Article: pounds 1m to kickstart home building; n Taxpayers' loan to developers has local jobs tie-in.(News)

Article: Black Country economy will mine a new vein to ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  March 6, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Business Editor A former Black Country copper works has been ... at Darlaston SDA - local jobs for local people that ... market town of the Black Country and wider West Midlands ... as a beacon for the Black Country. It has taken a long ...

Article: Black Country News: District centres support ...
Birmingham Mail;  May 31, 2006 ;     421 words ... ... take action to support district centres in Walsall and elsewhere in Britain. It also expresses concern at the decline of local jobs and economies, which hit elderly people and those on low incomes particularly hard. Coun Ian Shires, leader of the Liberal ...

Article: Black Country News: District centres support; ...
Birmingham Mail (England);  May 31, 2006 ;     484 words ... ... take action to support district centres in Walsall and elsewhere in Britain. It also expresses concern at the decline of local jobs and economies, which hit elderly people and those on low incomes particularly hard. Coun Ian Shires, leader of the Liberal ...

Article: Pledge over new hospital Black Country News ...
Birmingham Mail;  September 19, 2006 ;     455 words ... ... February 16 next year. "We will be spending several hundred millions of pounds and want to make sure this project creates local jobs. "At this stage, we have a site and are working closely with companies to acquire it with minimum amount of difficulty ...

Article: Pledge over new hospital; Black Country News ...
Birmingham Mail (England);  September 19, 2006 ;     511 words ... ... February 16 next year. We will be spending several hundred millions of pounds and want to make sure this project creates local jobs. At this stage, we have a site and are working closely with companies to acquire it with minimum amount of difficulty ...

Article: Black Country quartet are Brown's rising stars; ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  July 9, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Birmingham and its very near neighbour the Black Country have enjoyed a close but separate existence ... underpinned by coal and steel from the Black Country. With the massive transformation of ... purpose much more quickly than the Black Country, to become the thriving multicultural ...

Article: Black Country: IMAGE? WHAT IMAGE? Is the ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  October 7, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Ian Halstead The Black Country remains an unknown area to many ... initiatives had improved the Black Country's historically poor image ... would have even looked at the Black Country ten or 15 years ago', he suggested ...