Up to £64 million funding from the regional budget is to be reprioritised on helping West Midlands businesses beat the credit crunch.

Liam Byrne, Minister for the West Midlands, announced the plans following a historic Cabinet meeting held in Birmingham, thought to be the first time the Government has met outside London or the Prime Minister’s country residence at Chequers since 1921.

The money comes from Advantage West Midlands’ existing £300 million budget but will be targeted at specific issues. Around £48 million has been earmarked towards a gap funding initiative aimed at encouraging commercial property developers back into the market, with a further £13 million allocated for a regional infrastructure funding programme.

A £2.75 million recruitment scheme is also on the cards, aiming to find jobs for 2,000 graduates in companies across the region. In addition, there will be increased capital investment grant support for SMEs.

Treasury Secretary, Yvette Cooper, said the package would help businesses ...

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30. Jan - 24. Mar 08 / ends in 25 days
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11am-6pm Tuesday to Sunday. Closed Mondays

This exhibition will be Ryan Gander’s first since taking 2007 as a ‘year out’ in which to travel and develop new work. Arranged in collaboration with South London Gallery and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, it constitutes a much anticipated return with new installations, objects and film.

Gander is concerned particularly with art’s potential to stimulate dialogue, playing off immediate circumstances in order to make them seem
simultaneously familiar and unfamiliar. It is an ambiguity that gives rise to an ‘uncanniness’ and creates uncertainty, encouraging our contemplation
of a range of issues within the context of his work. This exhibition expands the artist’s usual preoccupations – notions of origination, authorship and how meaning can change with time and location – to engage the viewer more as an active participant in ...

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