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...Build up your own cluster in a county and expect surprises. Londoners have 32 pages of the Yellow Book to themselves, a scintillating range....
...Northampton was lucky to stay in tier 2 with a higher and rising rate of infections than many tier-3 areas....
...Kildare, Ireland; Richard Higson, Warwickshire; AJO Donnell, County Waterford, Ireland Polymath 1,007: David Brogden, Northampton Crossword 16,075: Tristram Riley-Smith, Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire; Simon...
...But Cardiff, Edinburgh, Leeds and Northampton are far higher than London in the ranking of UK cities that is based on the proportion of their services exports coming from finance....
...Geddington, just north of Northampton, is a honey-coloured medieval village with a triangular “Eleanor Cross” at its heart....
...In 2014, Northampton council raised almost £8m selling an Egyptian statue to fund the refurbishment and expansion of its museum. Croydon council in south London has parted with some Ming vases....
...His first intervention came in Northampton, where he helped to remove six signs and dumped them in a ditch 10 miles away....
...Lancashire county council proposes introducing charging at five museums and the closure of a further five — equating to a 92 per cent cut in its museum budget, the Museums Association said....
...In the meantime, wrote JE Dolby, general manager of Northampton Town and County, in 1964, “new industry is not encouraged”....
...● Footnote to regular readers: Northampton Town (Sporting Life, April 21) evaded relegation from the Football League on Saturday. Be pleased for me....
...Instead, Northampton has nothing....
...However, the fastest growing of the 200 SMEs surveyed was a UK discount retailer: 99p Stores, based in Northampton....
...Northampton, Milton Keynes and Brighton – all with high levels of private sector employment – head a table of towns and cities that have recovered most strongly from the depths of the recession four years...
...Northampton County Council has said it would sell a £2m ancient Egyptian statue, while two Victorian erotic paintings fetched about £2m for the Royal Cornwall Museum in 2010....
...There are large industrial cities including Coventry and Birmingham in the West Midlands, and distribution centres and spillover towns such as Northampton and Corby to the east....
...They found that eight of 10 fast-growing medium-sized towns and cities had seen below-average growth in office space over the past decade, including Cambridge, Oxford, Peterborough, Northampton, Cardiff...
...The county has attracted leading retailers, as well as branded food and consumer goods manufacturers, to set up purpose-built logistics centres....
...Pat Browne, a state senator representing parts of Lehigh, Monroe and Northampton counties in Pennsylvania’s north-east, is heading a legislative drive to move the two large defined benefit pension plans...
...Hull, Doncaster and Northampton, which suffered big job losses in the recession, had the largest reductions in claimant count unemployment between March and November last year....
...Then the Centre for Cities named Hull, with Doncaster and Northampton, as having had the biggest fall in the jobseeker’s allowance claimants last year....
...Helen Whyshall, who left Autofocus in September, has admitted at Northampton county court that she verified a witness statement when it was false to her knowledge or when she did not believe it to be true...
...Some figures suggest Northamptonshire, as a county, has the highest crime rate in the UK. I am not convinced....
...“You have got to make it happen and do it now,” says Damon Lawrenson, an experienced interim manager currently working as assistant chief executive at Northampton County Council....
...Friday’s 24-hour action took place in London, Northampton, Peterborough, Birmingham and Coventry. It will be repeated on Saturday in Bristol, Edinburgh and Peterborough tomorrow....
...But measured in pounds and pence, nowhere has suffered more than Craigavon, County Armagh, in Northern Ireland. There the average loan in negative equity is under water to the tune of £25,198....
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