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...Last autumn they launched the Insulator Collection of lighting, in homage to the glass and ceramic insulators used in the late Victorian era on overhead wires and pylons....
...Here’s what else I’m keeping tabs on today: Economic data: Russia publishes February consumer price inflation data while the UK releases its January GDP estimate....
...It is shipbuilding, however, that has become the latest and potentially most important battleground....
...Brian King, a tourism and hospitality professor at Texas A&M University, said it signalled “tangible evidence” of technological advancement alongside a “large scale and increasingly sophisticated” consumer...
...This isn’t completely new — see Emily Peck of Axios on the history of the United Steelworkers influence on M&A in the US....
...As a photographer, Harry Benson, a Glaswegian — I’m showing my slight bias here, as a Scotsman....
...officials in the occupied Black Sea peninsula said.Video footage on social media appeared to capture a series of strikes and fiery explosions lighting the pre-dawn sky at Russia’s main Black Sea fleet shipbuilding...
...“It’s a story about soil degradation and intensive farming,” says Maclure, who used glass from a collapsed Victorian greenhouse for the work. “She’s a symbol of grassroots activism to save our soil.”...
...Motor suppliers face bottlenecks in a crucial entry point for vehicles while repair estimates are soaring. Read our explainer on what happened and what it says about the quality of US infrastructure....
...But while equities can ignore, say, that Beijing’s shipbuilding capacity is 230 times greater than that of the US, fixed income cannot....
...Here’s what else I’m keeping tabs on today: Economic data: Economists expect the US core consumer price index increased 0.3 per cent in February....
...Russia’s defence ministry claimed 10 missiles were fired at the ship repair facility, with seven missiles downed by air defences....
...But in the shadow of its giant twin gantry cranes, activity has returned with maintenance, repairs and the fabrication of equipment for oil rigs....
...The London-based company, established in 2010, has orders worth more than $100mn from the biggest container ship operators, Maersk and MSC, as well as from Shell and Princess Cruises for its innovative air...
...I’m just telling [them] that you have to stay within the rules.”...
...I’m at aime.williams@ft.com....
...Dr John Warren Ipswich, Suffolk, UK Letters in response to this letter: Victorian economy’s debt to Slave Compensation Act / From David Sproxton Bristol, UK Victorian-era litter pickers didn’t need risk...
...Australia said it would establish additional training, skilling and education programmes to help its local submarine and shipbuilding industry....
...“I’m worried that in the bigger picture, business will not survive. And business is fundamental to every country.”...
...“The scale and potential of the China market are undiminished” when it eventually opens up to the world, said Brian King, at Texas A&M University....
...Britain had subsidised all manner of “strategic” industries — cars, shipbuilding, the railways, coal. The results had been almost universally dreadful....
...In the league of fantasy M&A, Lex took a look at what J Sainsbury might be worth to a private equity buyer....
...“Forestry as a business has been a bit like shipbuilding in that it has been run down,” says Tustin....
...I’m Marc Filippino, and here’s the news you need to start your day. [MUSIC PLAYING] Tech stocks have been tumbling and now jobs are going....
...You don’t see your money when you’re in the shops — I’m cutting back.”...
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