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...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...
...Even two large Tory counties in the more prosperous south, Hampshire and Kent, have warned of the risk of effective bankruptcy....
...skyscrapers in the capital’s business district....
...beautiful county in England, Surrey....
...A fire engine and ambulance arrived within minutes....
...the press centre was in Falmouth, (Anna laughs) on the south coast of the county, miles and miles away....
...The mayor also highlighted that 91 per cent of New York City’s 400,000 employees, a group that also includes emergency medical technicians and sanitation workers, are now vaccinated, up from 86 per cent...
...other emergency assistance to new arrivals....
...“Hopefully this serves as a wake-up call,” said Dr Marc Eckstein, medical director and commander of the Los Angeles Fire Department’s ambulance service....
...“The younger crowd feels that the chance of dying of Covid is pretty low, so they do not want to waste their time getting vaccinated,” said Michael O’Driscoll, the county’s director of health emergency management...
...Opening and closing the economy When coronavirus first erupted in the US in early March, states in the north of the country such as New York, Michigan and Washington bore the brunt of hospitalisations and...
...health emergency and travel bans aimed at Chinese nationals....
...All 40 Sonoma County public school districts will be closed Monday, October 28 and Tuesday, October 29, county officials said....
...On the slate: upgrading the motorway running between Northumberland, one of the least populated counties in England, and the Scottish capital of Edinburgh....
...Some blame those waiting out lockdown in their second homes for bringing the virus, infecting the local population and putting additional pressure on local medical services....
...The authority immediately embarked on the task of tracing and quarantining cases, as well as all their contacts. Staff were seconded from other parts of County Hall to help....
...The local opposition council said it was setting up emergency volunteer teams in several districts to reinforce shelters with sandbags and try to link them through tunnels....
...I lost half my bowel,” Martin recalls of the medical emergency that struck last October, from which he is still recovering....
...There is a cycle of panic and complacency that we have seen over and over again. Once Europe and North America had eradicated smallpox by 1950, they didn’t think about it any more....
...And Fairfield County, where Greenwich and many hedge funds are located, is the most unequal region in the state....
...Smoke and fire were seen coming from a Texas chemical plant late on Friday, adding to the myriad new medical risks lurking in tropical storm Harvey’s disastrous wake....
...for firebreaks or emergency water supplies....
...Instead of threatening “fire and fury”, as he did on North Korea, Mr Trump proclaimed a national emergency to defeat America’s galloping drug epidemic....
...Whereas the cost of smoking was largely limited to medical bills, drug addiction is putting pressure on an array of public services, from children’s care to prisons and policing....
...Of the district where Cucalon lives, Hankins adds: “Is it becoming a county where only if you’re wealthy and white you can live here?”...
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