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Be the Standard: Live

Join Be the Standard on Thursday 30th June between 9am and 5pm at the Everyman Cinema in Leeds to learn from some of the world’s best in sport and business on how to become the best version of yourself.

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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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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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What are our railways here for?

Simon Danczuk, business consultant and former MP, shares his thoughts on the recent DIB London dinner with Anit Chandarana, Lead Director for the Great British Railways Transition Team, and Lord Andrew Adonis, former Secretary of State for Transport.

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DIB CEO appears on GB News

Downtown in Business CEO and Group Chairman, Frank McKenna was invited once again onto the GB News channel to discuss the latest news from across the country.

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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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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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