Birmingham, West Midlands

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Birmingham, West Midlands
An extraordinary jewel of a city US President,
Bill Clinton
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The West Midlands

• Population 5.6 million
• Workforce 2.5 million
• Students 165,000
• Football Clubs 6 (2 Premier league)
• Jobs/ work places 1.7 million
• Universities 6
• Theatres 10

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Birmingham

• Regional capital of the West Midlands
• At the heart of the UKs communications network
• 42,000 companies
• Europe's largest city centre retail regeneration
  scheme, Bullring
• Four universities with over 63,000 students

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Around Birmingham

• Stratford-upon-Avon
• Oxford
• The Cotswolds
• Warwick
• Birmingham has
• more miles
• of canal than
• Venice

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Famous People from the West Midlands

• Ozzy Osborne
• John Ronald Reuel (J.R.R.) Tolkien
• William Shakespeare
• Slade
• Samuel Johnson
• Charles Darwin
• Sir Alfred Frederick Bird

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We look forward to seeing you soon!