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...A YouGov poll in February for the Mile End Institute at Queen Mary University of London gave Khan a 25-point lead over Hall, at 49 per cent to 24 per cent respectively....
...and a professor at Birmingham university....
...Birmingham city council, the largest local authority in Europe, owed about £470mn to bondholders when it declared bankruptcy in September....
...“In politics, when you straddle a fence, it does not end well,” said Mary Anne Marsh, a Democratic strategist. “[Trump] wants it both ways....
...But in “Streets of Sorrow/Birmingham Six”, he defended the so-called Birmingham Six, who were wrongly jailed for 1974 pub bombings. They were freed in 1991....
...But he was criticised by several of his own Conservative backbenchers, including Mary Robinson, MP for the Cheadle constituency in Greater Manchester....
...But local government budgets are under severe pressure: Birmingham city council, Europe’s largest, was in September among those to declare itself in effect bankrupt....
...Birmingham alone registered about 250 confirmed or probable cases between October 1 and January 18. Measles is a highly infectious viral respiratory disease that can cause brain damage and even death....
...So, the report also recommends huge public and private investments in Birmingham and Manchester, in order to close a good part of their productivity gap with London, by increasing their business capital...
...For the third time since that lockdown, I have been back to the land where almost everything touches off lateral thinking in ways that a high-speed train trip to Birmingham never will....
...Back in Birmingham, Lorna’s widowed grandmother Mary, in her eighties, grapples with modern-day technology in the form of regular Skype calls, and her family cannot anticipate the isolation to which she...
...The writer and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, one of two women included here along with the historian Catherine Macaulay, owed much to the patronage of Richard Price, a London-based Welsh intellectual....
...When friends come to visit we take them to the top of the tower at Great St Mary’s Church, which is the best place to take in the view....
...Mary Wilson Birmingham, UK...
...Albert Pierrepoint was born in March 1905, the middle child of Mary and Henry Pierrepoint....
...“We built part of the factory [in Birmingham] on the back of it.”...
...Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, to May 29, ikon-gallery.org...
...The Dream of Gerontius might have been made for the grandly Victorian Royal Albert Hall, though Elgar actually wrote it for Birmingham....
...Neither Lost Mary or Elf Bar, which combined account for more than half of all vapes sold in the UK, had a stand there....
...He made two tombstones for a nephew and niece who died in a house fire in his home city of Birmingham, Alabama....
...Letter in respect to this article: Hong Kongers feel the strain of strict Covid rules / From Mary Wilson, Birmingham, UK...
...Michael was in the Olympic squad in Tokyo this year, and last month scored two wins at the Horse of the Year Show in Birmingham....
...Director Robert Icke likewise asks searching political questions in a new stage adaptation of George Orwell’s classic study of dictatorship, Animal Farm (Birmingham Rep from January 22, then UK tour)....
...I was asked to scout bands in Birmingham in 1965 and heard a voice that sounded like Ray Charles, but higher pitched. It ended up being Steve Winwood....
...The opening had been the idea of the Irish president Mary McAleese, who had issued the invitation, only, of course, for it to be instantly vetoed by the Palace guardians....
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