Brilliant. Near-complete nationwide Google Street View coverage of the UK, from tomorrow. Including Stoke-on-Trent, it seems — not previously covered. Hopefully, the photos will have been made in the summertime/autumn.
Skillset Employment Census 2009 (PDF link, 700kb). Taken in July 2009, the results are now available. They estimate that the West Midlands has a combined employed/freelancer total of 5,950. Strip out occupational groups like management, engineering, sales, “journalism and sport”, roadies and transport people, etc., and the total drops to a ‘creative core’ of somewhere around 3,000 people.
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Skillset Employment Census published
The West Midlands Open 2010 biennial opens tomorrow at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, showing 145 artworks until 2nd May 2010. Veteran photographer Lorentz Gullachsen, who lives in Worcestershire, is the overall winner…
