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Latest News | Birmingham's Curzon Street HS2 station has been approved. It will include seven high speed platforms and is due to open in 2026.
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With people across the world remote working, Dr Yanguo Jing, associate dean at Coventry Business School, looks at how to do so effectively.
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Championship club Coventry Rugby have raised more than two thirds of their crowdfunding target to help them "bridge the financial chasm" caused by the coronavirus pandemic and honour its payments to local companies and suppliers.
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DWF, which has a Birmingham office, has secured an in principle agreement to increase its committed revolving credit facilities (RCF) as it looks to navigate the ongoing pandemic.
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The proposed £6.2bn merger between Just Eat and Takeaway.com has been cleared by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).
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A family-owned Herefordshire bottling and packaging firm is responding to the Covid-19 pandemic by manufacturing its own hand sanitiser after securing an additional overdraft facility from HSBC UK.
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Invoice finance firm Optimum Finance has launched a support package for UK SMEs affected by coronavirus.
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Roy Farmer, corporate finance partner at Dains Accountants, says before businesses apply for loan support under the government backed Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS) it is worth a few minutes of reflection to consider how to make the application successful.
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Water and waste company Severn Trent has arranged for £38m to be paid to its smaller suppliers early to help support them through the Covid-19 crisis.
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The banking and finance sector has provided more than £2.8bn of lending to SMEs so far through the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS). However, the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) has said that more work is needed to meet the demand from UK businesses.
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Fresh consent has been granted for a 51-storey tower to be constructed in the centre of Birmingham. The £160m project is set to be the city's tallest residential building.
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A further suite of multimillion-pound investments to unlock and transform former industrial sites has been approved by the West Midlands Combined Authority.
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The former Molson Coors Brewery in Burton-on-Trent, which has been earmarked for a residential-led, mixed-use scheme, has been put on the market.
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Hammerson has warned that it is willing to terminate a £400m deal to sell nine retail parks after the buyer revealed it does not intend to complete the transaction on the agreed date.
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Construction work has restarted at the Queen’s carpet maker's former sports ground in Kidderminster. The £8m affordable housing scheme was close to reaching the topping out stage for the first tranche of new homes before all work was paused due to the Covid-19 lockdown.
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Stoke-on-Trent-based building contractor Novus has reopened a number of its construction sites across the UK as it starts the first phase of its coronavirus mitigation plan.
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Jaguar Land Rover has revealed plans to gradually resume production from 18 May.
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Warwickshire-headquartered electric taxi maker LEVC has halted payments to its suppliers.
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A consortium of companies developing a compact nuclear power station, which is led by Rolls-Royce, has appointed an interim chief executive.
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Member Exclusive News | Car maker MG Motor, which is headquartered in Birmingham, is supplying PPE face masks to hospitals in the UK and Ireland.
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Multi-sector property business Godwin Developments has expanded its Birmingham team with a new appointment
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