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      <title>First Restart Grants are paid to businesses in Birmingham</title>
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      <description>Birmingham City Council has started to process the first Restart Grants to businesses in the retail, hospitality and leisure industries a week after they reopened their doors to the public.</description>
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      <title>£5,000 grant for Birmingham’s hackney carriage drivers to prepare for the Clean Air Zone </title>
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      <description>Birmingham City Council has announced a new £5,000 grant for Birmingham-licensed hackney carriage drivers.</description>
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      <title>Council agrees £10,000 boost for Birmingham businesses who missed out on Government support</title>
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      <description>One-off grants of £10,000 will be paid to 421 hospitality and leisure businesses in Birmingham which have previously missed out on Government support or require emergency intervention to protect jobs.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2021 11:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Major Research Study to Assess Impact of COVID-19 on Central Business Districts</title>
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      <description>Study established by Colmore Business District, Birmingham which will provide the case study for The Future Business District</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2020 16:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Council announces major skills funding provisions for SMEs</title>
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      <description>Birmingham City Council has secured a major boost funding to help small businesses in Birmingham bounce back from the COVID crisis.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2020 12:44:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Beware: The 12 Cons of Christmas</title>
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      <description>Christmas is a time for giving, but people are being warned that for some unscrupulous individuals and firms it is a time for conning. &#13;
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      <title>Gold bangle scam trio jailed</title>
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      <description>Three jewellers who falsely claimed that sets of gold bangles they manufactured and sold were made from higher quality gold have today (7 November) been jailed for a total of 14 years.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2018 16:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Trader sentenced for counterfeit goods</title>
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      <description>The owner of a Birmingham-based business has been given a suspended prison sentence after pleading guilty to a number of offences relating to the possession of counterfeit and unsafe goods. </description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2018 18:32:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Nightclub owner fined after employee’s 13ft fall</title>
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      <description>Owners of a popular Birmingham nightclub have been fined £10,000 at Birmingham Magistrates' Court today (1 November 2017), after an employee fell 13ft down a lift shaft at the club.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2017 15:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Car trader sold unroadworthy vehicles</title>
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      <description>A Birmingham car trader has admitted a total of 42 offences relating to the sale of unroadworthy vehicles. </description>
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