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The Latest Breaking News from Levelling Up Fund

East Ayrshire set for £30m Bellfield roundabout and Kilmarnock cultural quarter bid

The local authority will decide whether to give the go ahead to Levelling Up fund bid for ambitious projects.

Daily Record

Scots councils will bid for £800m 'levelling up' fund launched by Tories

Other projects directly funded by the UK Government include £219,096 to finance a community buy-out of The Old Forge pub – the most remote bar in Britain.

Daily Record

Derry residents waiting for development of playpark for over 20 years

"We must finally get it across the line."

Belfast Live

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Government accused by MPs of squandering billions of pounds on ‘levelling up’

The Public Affairs Committee has accused the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities of unfairly allocating funding.

The Independent UK

New hopes for Huyton after previous Government snub

Knowsley Council is set to submit three new Levelling Up Fund bids with hopes of accelerating change in Huyton Village

Liverpool Echo

Grainger Market cash struggles as £500k trader debt and spiralling repair bills make it 'drain' on resources

City council bosses say that it costs them £300,000 a year to keep the market running, but hope that a multi-million pound Levelling Up boost will turn the famous institution around

Chronicle Live

Levelling Up Fund ‘absolutely does not’ undermine devolution, say Conservatives

Party leader Douglas Ross was speaking as he toured the grounds of the Crichton Trust in Dumfries.

The Independent UK

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Is Salford really less in need of ‘levelling up’ than the rest of Greater Manchester?

Each Greater Manchester borough is listed in category 1 on the government's Levelling Up Fund Index of Priority Places for the second round funding - except Salford which is in category 2.

Manchester Evening News

Worries that new West Denton leisure centre won't be ready in time for Government's 2024 deadline

Almost £20m of Levelling Up Fund money for a new swimming pool in the outer west must be spent by March 2024

Chronicle Live

Billions for levelling up ‘wasted’ as ministers pick wrong projects and ignore ‘what works’, study warns

Spending watchdog criticises £4.8bn Levelling Up Fund and £3.2bn Towns Fund for not being ‘based on evidence’

The Independent UK

Single mum bursts into tears after reaching out for help

The number of people in need of help has soared in one part of Merseyside

Liverpool Echo

Tory towns flooded with cash as poorest left with nothing in levelling up lie

The Government says its £4.8billion Levelling Up Fund will support regeneration, local transport projects, cultural and heritage assets, but the money has failed to help many of those who need it most

Daily Mirror

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