Event: The Urban Hub - presenting a programme of fringe events at all three party conferences in Autumn 2008
New items for download: The signed shared commitment to climate change from the Core Cities and Government |CC/Government Climate Change Declaration (PDF)
The Core Cities group is a network of England's major regional cities: Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham and Sheffield. They form the economic and urban cores of wider surrounding territories, the city regions and are the economic drivers of their regions. The umbrella theme for the joint activity of the Core Cities Group is economic development.