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...Saint George, as well as the “Z” and “V” marks displayed by the Russian army during its invasion of Ukraine....
...The story of journalist-turned-political-activist Claudia Mo, powerfully told in this weekend’s FT Magazine, recalls the battles fought and ultimately lost by those seeking to maintain autonomy for the city...
...The mayor of London is running an advertising campaign with the slogan “Let’s do London”....
...Bloombergville, a demonstration against the then-mayor’s public sector budget cuts, had already led to dozens of people camping outside City Hall, a few blocks north of Wall Street....
...In Dundee, the most pro-independence city in Scotland, a new £80m V&A Museum opened in 2018, part of a dockside redevelopment....
...“All that work about the presence of the child in the city,” Fior says, “people have caught up. A lot of our work is in the [London] mayor’s programmes....
...The company denied the claims and eventually settled out of court. Leeds city council subsequently found that the man, Naveed Iqbal, had used his brother’s Uber driver login....
...He drew parallels between the council estate where he grew up in London and the housing projects of Brooklyn or Baltimore. His series Have You Heard George’s Podcast?...
...She served for the decade 1963-73 on Cambridge city council, becoming its mayor in 1971....
...At the South Bank in the 1960s the young architects of the LCC (London County Council) and then the GLC (Greater London Council) designed a series of buildings in a fierce, Brutalist style, all board-marked...
...Sheila Irani, a member of the previous city administration and a 2015 candidate for a seat on the city’s council, believes that inviting companies to illuminate the sign just three or four times a year as...
...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....
...To be part of the biggest regeneration project in Europe, where you’re looking at the notion of the city, the notion of building, the notion of location, which is as much about schools and politics and healthcare...
...“For a significant section of the London electorate, having a Muslim mayor would be an attractive idea and further evidence of the cosmopolitan nature of the city,” he says....
...The rest of the £80m came from the Heritage Lottery Foundation, the Arts Council and a raft of contributors including the Swarovski Foundation and the Dr Mortimer & Theresa Sackler Foundation....
...Partly in response to this, mayor Bill de Blasio last year announced a $41.1bn development project which he calls “the largest and most ambitious affordable housing programme initiated by any city in this...
...While here in London we’ll help the British Museum, the Science Museum, and the V&A move their collections out of storage and on display....
...One way to picture the economic impact of a Brexit may be the shape of a letter ‘V’ or a ‘tick’....
...Ladee is a robotic mission that will orbit the moon and is the first flight of the US Air Force’s Minotaur V rocket....
...City’s LatAm links The lord mayor of the City of London, Roger Gifford, visits Chile, Peru, Colombia, Panama and Mexico to strengthen business links....
...The most devastated post-industrial cities, such as Cleveland, Buffalo, Baltimore and Detroit, have only recently showed stirrings of life....
...David Cameron, the prime minister, recently left open the prospect, after the next election, of forcing councils to move to the model of elected mayors....
...Richard was a popular governor of Edward IV’s northern provinces and, as king, set up a Council of the North to revitalise the region. He remains esteemed in York....
...Voters in 11 cities, including Birmingham and Bristol, Leeds and Liverpool, can decide that they want their own elected mayors. They should not allow the dismal Boris and Ken show to put them off....
...The move comes as the government paves the way for 12 English cities to opt for elected mayors next summer in a major devolution drive....
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