Government picks Birmingham ahead of Liverpool in race for Commonwealth Games
Birmingham has beaten rival Liverpool to be England’s choice as host city to stage the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has named the city as its preferred option but it will still have to convince the Commonwealth Games Federation it is capable of staging the high-profile event.
Senior figures from the city had been quietly confident that it would get the nod and the confirmation will accelerate plans for venue improvements across the city, including a major upgrade of to the Alexa... You can carry on reading TheBusinessDesk.com for free, but you have reached the maximum number of pages an unregistered user can view. To register for an account, click here or login below...
