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...And by the aftermath of the second world war, with a Labour government committed to building a new Jerusalem of council houses for all, Metro-land had almost vanished from the national conversation....
...US, the 2023 Met Gala is held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York with the theme, Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty, honouring the late designer Tuesday Korea, the Asian Development Bank annual...
...Associations with queer cruising accelerated the decline of public lavatories as prurient councils looked for excuses to shutter them....
...Tokyo Metro, which operates the capital’s main subway system, is taking measures based on a flooding simulation by the Central Disaster Management Council that also takes into account the effects of climate...
...It gained 12 seats, ending up with 46 out of 72 on the metropolitan borough council. Patrick Harley, the Tory leader in the West Midlands town, was dumbfounded....
...The Metropolitan Police Service and the National Police Chiefs’ Council said in their submissions that “frequent claims” for compensation for human rights breaches were “expensive and resource heavy to deal...
...Since 2010-11 the region has received £1.5bn of public sector money, boosted by £3.1bn of private sector investment, according to the city council....
...“That might be through county councils taking on similar roles, in their areas, for stations or branch lines....
...Virginia and Arlington County will also invest $223m in infrastructure improvements to Metro stations and pedestrian routes near the project....
...He pointed to a potential scheme at Morden, a station at the southern end of the Northern line, where the local council and TfL had pooled their land interests “to create a new town centre”....
...“We’ll be partners moving forward,” LA Metro said in a statement posted on Twitter....
...The Tories’ surprise victory in the north-east of England’s Tees Valley mayoral contest and advances in Glasgow council show they are electable in previous no-go areas....
...The elections in May will see 2,370 seats contested in 27 county councils, six English unitary authorities, one metropolitan authority and two mayoralties....
...“There is a growth in start ups and much of it is taking place outside the metro areas on the coast. The internet has created a level playing field for information,” says Mr Hwang....
...A lifting of HRA caps for councils in high demand areas to get them building again and £8 billion of new financial guarantees to support private housebuilding and the purpose-built private rented sector....
...Number of the day: 382 The number of council seats Labour has lost, at the time of writing....
...The metro mayor will have power over seven metropolitan areas around Birmingham....
...The writer is an economic historian at the London School of Economics and a BBC/ Arts and Humanities Research Council New Generation Thinker...
...Mike Heyworth is director of the Council for British Archaeology....
...The office of mayor is much weaker in Los Angeles than in other large US cities such as New York and Chicago, not only because much of the metropolitan area is outside of LA city borders....
...The concept works relatively well in Greater Manchester — an area that includes 10 metropolitan councils that have co-operated since the overarching authority was abolished in 1986....
...The 10 councils that make up the metropolitan region already work collectively on transport, jobs and housing through the combined authority....
...But the commission said it needed to go faster and further, with business rates and council tax receipts retained along with greater borrowing powers....
...The planning commission ruled against Vogl, continuing the council’s long-held support for the start-up village....
...And last week, Metropolitan EAD, the metro company owned by Sofia city council, announced a tender for construction of three more stations on the first line....
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