Warwickshire reeling after chief's Coventry comments

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Council leaders in Coventry and Warwickshire are trying to heal a rift after comments made by the Jim Graham, chief executive of Warwickshire CC, concerning Coventry City Council's role in local growth initiatives were made public. The controversy was sparked last month when an email Mr Graham sent to Warwickshire CC's cabinet, which accused Coventry of 'boundary blindness' in taking government funding ahead of the county, was leaked to local newspapers. 'At times, there has been an air of desperation in the city to get anything it can out of the government's growth agenda,' Mr Graham stated in an email dated 6 March. Coventry and Warwickshire's Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), has questioned the county council's commitment to economic partnership as a result of Mr Graham's comments.