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...It has also delayed by up to six months the start dates for some university graduates due to join the company in May, blaming the “macroeconomic environment”....
...I thank the Members for Stockton South, Barrow and Furness and East Devon for their tenacious campaigning on this issue....
...Research led by Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham at Yale University shows that municipal bond markets have already begun to price in the risks of higher sea levels....
...One Conservative party strategist said the picture would be reflected in other parts of England: “If you go back to 2015 when we had nobody in places in Darlington and Stockton, we are now building on gains...
...This reader came away inspired by the dedication and energy of characters like Michael Tubbs, the young mayor of his Stockton, California, hometown, or Jos de Blok, the founder of Buurtzorg....
...Novavax will also broaden its collaboration with Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies, which will make one of the components of the vaccine at its UK site in Billingham, Stockton-on-Tees....
...Nor do they like the fact that Williams used to be MP for Stockton South, a mere eight miles away. “We’re always getting outsiders imposed on us,” says one pensioner....
...But Lina Dencik, of Cardiff University’s Data Justice Lab, which last year published a report examining local authorities’ use of data analytics, urged caution....
...They’re still looking, they’re still desperate, you still hear it,” said Ms Navarro, speaking by Zoom from her family home in Stockton, where her own father was furloughed from his construction job....
...The Economic Security Project, whose co-chair is Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, has made a $1m grant to support a study where 125 residents of Stockton, California, are given $500 a month with no strings...
...Stockton South has seen a more aggressive campaign than in other red wall seats....
...The Labour majority in Crewe and Nantwich in the north-west is only 48 votes; Stockton South in the north-east requires 888 votes to change hands....
...These include £400m to build a new road bridge over the Tees near Stockton and £50m to help redevelop the former steelworks site at Redcar....
...“There are not that many Labour Leavers left, because an awful lot of them already went over to the Tories in the 2017 election,” said Rob Ford, a professor of politics at Manchester university....
...Her choice of career was inspired by a week’s work experience in Jacobs’ Stockton-on-Tees office while studying for her A-levels....
...The first steam railway ran between Stockton and Darlington. The first television was invented by a Scot....
...“Competition forced these guys to improve or exit,” said Professor Nick Bloom of Stanford University....
...Only 26 per cent went to university or an equivalent, more than 10 percentage points lower than the English average....
...Olivia Mitchell, a professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, said public pension plans face “grave difficulties”....
...“I don’t think any great or growing city can sustain its vibrancy and its competitive position if it’s only affordable to the highest-income workers,” says Stockton Williams, executive director at the Terwilliger...
...Six Midlands universities will get £60m for an Energy Research Accelerator....
...Several fear a repeat of the bankruptcy proceedings in Detroit or Stockton, California, when creditors suffered heavy losses....
...Virtual reality is helping developers to build homes at West End Gardens in the smart market town of Stockton-on-Tees in England’s north-east....
...At 18, Grannan went to do a liberal arts degree at the University of Pennsylvania, after which she planned to apply to medical school....
...Stuart Wilks-Heeg, head of politics at Liverpool University, said: “The Tories really made no headway in the north in 2015.” Their vote share declined slightly while Labour’s rose 4.6 per cent....
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