ECONOMIC GROWTH

Eastern promise

Through its wider vision and approach to growth and prosperity, East Midlands Councils has proved its worth as an economic partnership transcending geographic boundaries and narrow interests, Dan Peters reports.

The East Midlands is the region that people forget is there, says the leader of Nottingham City Council Jon Collins.

It is certainly a region traditionally overshadowed by its neighbours in the West and one that has been slower at making its devolutionary mark than the so-called ‘Northern Powerhouses' beyond its borders.

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