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Ex England star to address property conference

Former England footballer Trevor Steven is the latest name to be added to the speakers list for DIBs national Regeneration, Property & Planning conference, which takes place on Thursday 15th September at the Grand Hotel in Birmingham.

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Exclusive Business Gym Event

As businesses adapt to the ‘new’ post-COVID world, how we deal with our people has become more complex and challenging than ever. At this exclusive ‘Business Gym’ event, Victoria Brown will provide up-to-date information and invaluable advice on HR and employment law, Health and Safety, and motivating staff.

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Wolverhampton Summer Showcase

The City of Wolverhampton Council, in association with Downtown in Business, will launch its Investment Prospectus at an exclusive Summer showcase event later this month.

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Were we all hoodwinked over lockdowns?

DIB boss Frank Mckenna asks: Could a more common sense, less draconian approach to the pandemic have been adopted? Could the catastrophic impact on the economy, kids education and mental health have been avoided? Certainly, from what Sue Gray tells us, the staff at 10 Downing Street don’t appear to have seen COVID as the deadly virus they had us believe.

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Liverpool’s missed opportunity

The chief executive and group chairman of Downtown in Business offers his thoughts on local government reform in Liverpool, as the city council consults with its residents to ask what the governance model of the future should look like.

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Judge us by the company we keep

Downtown in Business prides itself on hosting the very best events and attracting great people into the room. Already in May we have enjoyed the company of the chief executives of Birmingham, Coventry, Newcastle, and Wolverhampton City Council’s; the chief executive of the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority; the leaders of Leeds and Manchester City Council’s; Sir Howard Bernstein; the chief executive of Halton Borough Council; the Liverpool City Region mayor; the heads of regeneration from Wirral, Birmingham, and Leeds; and the chief executive of Liverpool John Lennon Airport.

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