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Government refuse funds for Birmingham Library

I link through to the press release from DCMS which made it clear that the government will not give Birmingham funds under PFI for a new Library. If I remember rightly the bid put forward did not specify where the Library would be or whether or not it would have the archives united in a National Centre for Family History (or split apart as they are at the moment).

For all of Labour's crocodile tears over a Library they never put in a bid for the finance.

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