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Opinion: This is what local businesses need to know

The news last week from the BIS that the Regional Growth Fund (RGF) will receive a further £300 million in funding can only be celebrated by Liberal Democrat activists. Launched by Nick Clegg back in 2010, the fund was designed to help regional businesses grow and strengthen local economies. In the run up to the upcoming elections, local businesses need to be reminded of the funding available to them, now in its sixth round, which the Liberal Democrats have secured in government.

So far almost £3 billion has been invested in regional companies through the RGF, helping them to …

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  • Jana
    @ Tim Rogers Actually, it was rearmament in the 1930s that pulled countries out of the Great Depression and proved that government deficit spending would boos...
  • David Warren
    What @MickTaylor said!...
  • Tim Rogers
    Nick Taylor. You are wrong. The 1930s saw disarmament and looks what happened. If both sides disarm good but we don't see Putin disarming....
  • Mick Taylor
    I respectfully disagree with George Cunningham. Rearmament inevitably leads to war (well spending all that money and not using it) and when a nuclear armed oppo...
  • Tim Rogers
    Totally agree. Everything seems to be coming to a head and it will now require resolve and a speeding up of rearmament. While attention is on Trump and Ukraine,...