Cash for ’empowering’ Midlands arts projects

The government has confirmed funding for arts projects in Coventry and Worcester which had been under threat as part of a review of spending.

A city centre cultural gateway in Coventry will receive £5m, while projects linked to the Scala theatre in Worcester will get £2.3m, ministers said.

Projects totalling £100m had originally been announced under the previous Conservative government’s levelling-up programme, which Labour announced it would review when it took power.

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