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...But there are still parts of the city that fit with “all those discussions about levelling up”, says Wood. Is the BCB, funded by the Arts Council, helping to unleash Stoke-on-Trent’s potential?...
...The insurance sector will also feature heavily this week with figures from Admiral, Royal London and Legal & General on Wednesday, a day before Aviva reports its numbers....
...This week is the start of the Commonwealth Games in the UK’s second-largest city, Birmingham....
...The three-way wiring between media, crown and public that reshaped the modern monarchy did not, in fact, begin with Elizabeth II, but with her grandfather George V....
...Also, ECB president Christine Lagarde’s speech at the first meeting of the Simone Veil Pact, organised by Renew Europe....
...On Thursday Emmanuel Macron, French president, will host a gathering of EU leaders in Versailles for an informal European Council summit....
...London’s restaurants are integral to the appeal of the city for tourists and those who choose to live and work here. A crisis in this sector will have ramifications for London as a global city....
...But for academics such as Margot Finn, a colonial historian at UCL and the former president of the Royal Historical Society, this new knowledge cannot now be unlearned despite the best efforts of the government...
...Andrew Mountford, professor of economics at Royal Holloway, University of London: No — I don’t expect the economy to recover quickly....
...In October, the city’s Al Bustan Palace, pictured below, reopened after a lavish 18-month renovation, and in January, the Royal Opera House Muscat will launch a major new display space with an exhibition...
...“We’ve been living in the past for 13 years,” says Mark Leonard, director of the European Council on Foreign Relations....
...Adam Posen, president, Peterson Institute for International Economics I do not know how much it will change....
...It would not double income taxes, VAT, council tax and NI as the PM claimed at PMQs it would likely lower them....
...One way to picture the economic impact of a Brexit may be the shape of a letter ‘V’ or a ‘tick’....
...Joseph Pearlman, Professor of Economics, City University The policies are a joke. Help to buy will just increase prices....
...Manchester and Leeds are doing well, but secondary cities and towns off the beaten track are struggling....
...Former Monetary Policy Committee member Adam Posen, now president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, was one of those arguing that monetary policy “shouldn’t change at all, unless and...
...Kathrin Muehlbronner, Moody's, Senior Vice President — Sovereign Risk Group b) is closest to our views....
...The RSA commission also includes Tony Travers, a local government expert from the London School of Economics, and Bruce Katz, a former adviser to US President Barack Obama and a vice-president of the Brookings...
...Immigration explored As the UK prepares to lift working restrictions on Bulgarians and Romanians, Birmingham City University hosts a public debate to explore wider immigration issues....
...Ladee is a robotic mission that will orbit the moon and is the first flight of the US Air Force’s Minotaur V rocket....
...Mozambique mission Joaquim Chissano, the former president of Mozambique, undertakes a mission to seek an end to the ongoing political crisis there. Elections planned for July were postponed....
...The city council believes the cultural programme can generate an extra £500m for the local economy and triple visitor numbers to 1.3m in 2013....
...Somewhat incongruously, in a jolly, almost orangey brick, half of it houses the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors....
...Opera House Mark Pepys, former professor of medicine, University College London Medical School, Royal Free Hospital Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, scientist, Medical Research Council, Laboratory of Molecular...
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