Christmas Gift Gives Heads of Valleys Opportunity to Blossom

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A new strategy aimed at driving the economy in the Heads of the Valleys was yesterday unveiled with a warning that the region's local authorities could no longer work in isolation.

In announcing the strategy at the Ebbw Vale Innovation Centre, Economic Development and Transport Minister Andrew Davies urged local decision makers to come together to formulate an agreed strategic framework for the economic regeneration of the whole region by Christmas - with pounds 12m of fresh funding to help realise it.

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Christmas Gift Gives Heads of Valleys Opportunity to Blossom

Although Mr Davies said the Heads of the Valleys continued to suffer from problems of long-term decline, unemployment and high rates of economic inactivity, he stressed that it w...

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