Ah, the perils of RSS. The feed continues, but you don’t realise that the website has had a makeover. Which is what has happened with the Custard Factory website in Birmingham…

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Including a fine guide to the multiplicity of buildings now in management and available for rent, including the forthcoming Devonshire House.

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The banner (leaving aside the slight hint of homophobia) is sadly on the right lines — when a recession hits, we know that the creative industries always go down first and then deeper than the rest of the economy. It’s then that our rickety lashed-together networks of support infrastructures really get tested.