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Latest News
23 October 2025
Mayor’s mission to jumpstart AI revolution announced during Tech Week
West Midlands Mayor, Richard Parker has set out plans for the region to become a national leader in the UK’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) revolution...
22 October 2025
Mayor's funding offers mouthwatering opportunity to next generation of street food stars
The Street Food Startup Incubator will discover and train future food traders as part of a £300,000 support package to help town and city centre high...
22 October 2025
£400m investment into key West Midlands Investment Zone site
The Birmingham Knowledge Quarter is being hailed as the city’s answer to London’s King’s Cross with state-of-the-art commercial space focused on life...
21 October 2025
New state-of-the-art milk factory to deliver hundreds of jobs to West Bromwich
Freshways has invested £25 million in the facility, which will pasteurise and package almost 900 million pints of fresh milk a year and create 200...