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News in-depthUK infrastructure
Cambridge innovation hub at risk from lack of infrastructure, warn businesses
...Bridget Smith, the Liberal Democrat leader of the South Cambridgeshire district council, added that there was also still no clarity about the government’s plans for obtaining land for new development....
March 30, 2024
UK local government finance
Hunt pulls £200mn from councils after clawing back house sale funds
...Richard Wright, the Conservative leader of North Kesteven District Council, in Lincolnshire, told the Financial Times that the end of the policy would “make a huge difference in a small authority like ours...
March 7, 2024
FT Live
Inside Politics: who will win the UK general election?
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Wednesday, 8 MayDigital Conference
Joy Lo Dico
What Notting Hill reveals about the architecture of inequality
...After its nadir in the 1950s and 1960s, with race riots and unscrupulous landlords, the west London district rose at dizzying speed....
February 28, 2024
Canary Wharf Group PLC
Canary Wharf owners to inject £400mn into London office district
...The site also now houses a number of healthcare and life sciences-focused organisations including Genomics England, Barts Health NHS and the General Pharmaceutical Council....
October 25, 2023
News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
On Gaza’s doorstep: Israelis drift back to deserted border town of Sderot
...Tali Levy had no qualms about returning to her home in the southern Israeli town of Sderot, despite the war raging on its doorstep. “We owe it to all the victims of October 7 to come back,” she said....
April 23, 2024
Brexit
The 22-mile trip for post-Brexit border controls starts next week
...Officials at the Dover Port Health Authority, which is part of Dover District Council, have raised the alarm that commercial volumes of illegal meat have been making their way to the UK through non-trade...
April 26, 2024
FT Live
Future of Asset Management Europe
New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence
Tuesday, 12 NovemberLondon, UK
German politics
German far right defeated in regional election
...The party, which according to the latest polling has the support of over one in five Germans, elected its first Landrat — the equivalent of the head of a UK county council — in the district of Sonneberg...
January 28, 2024
Palestine
US votes against move to give Palestinians UN membership
...Twelve of the 15 members of the UN Security Council, including Russia, China and France, voted in favour of the measure. The UK and Switzerland abstained and the US voted no....
April 18, 2024
Due Diligence
A lifeline for Canary Wharf Premium content
...Canary Wharf grapples with its (debt-laden) balance sheet Transforming London’s derelict docklands into a booming financial district is surely an impressive feat....
April 25, 2024
UK local government finance
Cash-strapped English councils to get extra £600mn
...local services”, said Sam Chapman-Allen, chair of the District Councils’ Network....
January 24, 2024
UK local government finance
English councils ‘forced to the pawnshop’ in fire sale of assets
...Councils have lost 24 per cent of their core spending power in that time, according to the Local Government Association, the representative body covering county and district councils, metropolitan and unitary...
February 28, 2024
Russia
Russia detains 11 suspects after deadly attack on Moscow concert hall
...In a televised address on Saturday Putin condemned the attack as a “bloody, barbaric terrorist act” but made no mention of Isis....
March 24, 2024
Russia
Dozens killed in attack on Moscow concert venue
...A US official said the US had no reason to doubt a claim from the Isis terror group that it was behind the attack....
March 23, 2024
Eurozone interest rates
ECB rate-setters downplay fallout of hot US inflation
...But several of those present said no more than three out of 26 council members forcefully argued for an immediate rate cut. However, one who pushed for a cut said six others had done the same....
April 12, 2024
Sadiq Khan
Sadiq Khan launches bid for third term as London mayor
...There are no council elections in Scotland....
March 18, 2024
FT Live
Africa Summit
Africa in a complex world
Tuesday, 29 OctoberLondon, UK
UK social housing
Councils in England call for more powers to deal with empty homes
...Last year, North Norfolk district council hired an empty homes revenue generating officer in a push to persuade homeowners to make better use of vacant properties....
January 10, 2024
News in-depthHaiti
Haiti nears transitional government in stand-off with gangs
...“It was in the middle of the night that the gangs invaded and we had no choice [but to flee] to save our lives.”...
March 22, 2024
Europe Express
How Europe lost faith in the power of EU-US trade talks Premium content
...Croatia, Czech Republic, Greece, Latvia and Romania have no published fossil fuel subsidy phase out policy at all, the researchers found, “and have thereby not complied with what was agreed in the [EU] Council...
April 4, 2024
Letter
Letter: Chancellor must act to save vital local services
...Led by Eastbourne and the District Council Network, a cross-party group of 119 local authorities recently asked the chancellor to uprate LHA reclaim rates; commit to increase funding for discretionary housing...
December 8, 2023
Borderlands
How Mexico’s ‘kabuki pantomime’ fails to stop US-bound migrants
...“No country — no matter how powerful — can manage a phenomenon that is inherently transnational and multidimensional.”...
April 21, 2024
Hong Kong politics
Cathay Pacific offers cheap flights to help Hong Kong’s ‘patriots only’ vote
...As part of Beijing’s tightening control of the former British colony, most directly elected district council seats have been scrapped and pro-democracy candidates barred from contesting the remainder....
November 24, 2023
Hong Kong politics
Hong Kong’s ‘patriots-only’ election draws record low turnout
...The district councils, formed in 1982 when the city was a British colony, primarily handle municipal matters such as bus routes and street cleaning....
December 11, 2023
Cost of living crisis
English councils warn of soaring cost of preventing homelessness
...Half of all English councils — 158 local authorities — attended an emergency online summit on Tuesday hosted by Eastbourne borough council and the cross-party District Councils’ Network....
October 31, 2023
News in-depthAfrican politics
War comes to Sudan’s capital — at vast human cost
...“I blame the army for the attack on my mother,” Adel, 33, told the Financial Times from his home in Saudi Arabia. “I couldn’t sleep for days after learning about her horrific death.”...
March 14, 2024
OutlookChristian Davies
The upside-down world of North Korean elections
...According to state media, 0.09 per cent voted against candidates for provincial councils, and 0.13 per cent against city council candidates....
November 30, 2023

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