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...Instead of stacking up votes in safe seats in London, most of the increase in support for the party has been built up in counties across England’s south, the midlands and the north — potentially translating...
...The West Midlands authority is on track with its 2016 target to build 215,000 new homes by 2031....
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...Nonetheless, Reform is polling at 11.3 per cent nationally, and is said by its campaigners to be gaining particular momentum in the north and Midlands....
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...Even two large Tory counties in the more prosperous south, Hampshire and Kent, have warned of the risk of effective bankruptcy....
...The local trade school, Midlands Technical College, is tailoring a custom programme to help train and mobilise the 4,000 workers needed for Scout Motors, sending university administrators to Volkswagen’s...
...The £82mn factory in County Durham opened in 2015 and is delivering trains for Avanti West Coast and East Midlands Railway....
...“What cannot be done is a salami slicing of services,” said Andy Street, the Conservative regional mayor of the combined authority for the West Midlands....
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...Where communities were built around mining, as in Fife, County Durham and south Wales, the strike was “solid”....
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...Derby County, the losers that day, went on a downward spiral that nearly ended the two-time champions of England....
...Local politicians from other parties are also considering an overhaul of local bus services, including Andy Street, Tory mayor of West Midlands, Oxfordshire county council, run by Liberal Democrats and Greens...
...The County Councils Network said urgent action was needed to address the drop-off which has come despite repeated government pledges to reform adult education and boost the uptake of apprenticeships....
...Next week, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer will be hoping history repeats itself in what was then the South East Staffordshire constituency, as his party looks for another unlikely win in the West Midlands...
...At the time, the campus included the Midlands Prison, a facility known for jailing abusive priests....
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...And then the areas, as you say, in the south-east and the south-west and the Home Counties where the liberal Democrats are the main challengers to the Conservatives....
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