Four towns and cities in the West Midlands will get up to £25m each to help save their local shops, the government's announced.
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Having already named 101 places last summer to benefit from their Future High Streets Fund, ministers said a further 20 areas would also get support and they've named 14 today.
In this region, they are:
Staffordshire Moorlands - Cheadle
Birmingham - Stirchley
Coventry - Coventry City Centre
Sandwell - West Bromwich Town Centre
The government said the support they'd each get would include "access to cutting-edge research", online training and use of local footfall data.
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More towns and cities given £25m to save shops
Allen Cook
BBC News
Four towns and cities in the West Midlands will get up to £25m each to help save their local shops, the government's announced.
Having already named 101 places last summer to benefit from their Future High Streets Fund, ministers said a further 20 areas would also get support and they've named 14 today.
In this region, they are:
The government said the support they'd each get would include "access to cutting-edge research", online training and use of local footfall data.
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