The members of the Central Youth Theatre are preparing for the ‘Everybody Dance Now’ festival which takes place from July 29 to August 6.

Fines of £279,410 have been slapped on two West Midland organisations for failing to display the European Union symbol.

Investment in Wolverhampton has dried up since the city has been “left to its own devices” and cut adrift by the abolition of regional development agency Advantage West Midlands, the shadow chancellor has claimed.

Councils have rejected an offer to buy land owned by doomed quango Advantage West Midlands, it emerged today.

Multi-million pound regeneration and business projects for the West Midlands will be handed over to the Government as a £300 million-a-year quango winds down.

The boss of a doomed quango received a bonus of £21,000 – on top of a salary higher than the Prime Minister’s, it emerged today.

Doomed quango Advantage West Midlands is still employing 19 directors at a cost of around £1.5 million a year, it has been revealed.

Almost £180 million worth of derelict land earmarked for much-needed development has plummeted in value by around 45 per cent, it emerged today.

Around £35 million has been slashed from the budgets of more than 120 regeneration projects across the West Midlands, it was revealed today.

Advantage West Midlands has pulled the plug on £5 million pledged funding for Dudley Zoo’s long-anticipated transformation, it has emerged.