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Critics question whether generous incentives to attract foreign investment deliver value for money
...But it is not only places such as Stoke that are feeling the strain....
...At least 10 councils, including Middlesbrough, Stoke-on-Trent, Somerset, Southampton and Bradford, have applied to the government for “exceptional financial support” to balance this year’s books....
...Perhaps also imagine yourself sitting on the floor next to a broken Avanti toilet somewhere near Stoke in 2044. Rail industry experts take a somewhat different view to the government....
...Earlier this month culture secretary Lucy Frazer attended an event organised by the philanthropic network Made in Stoke, which encourages wealthy people raised in the Staffordshire manufacturing town to...
...There are other venues too: the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, which hosts an installation by Birmingham-born multidisciplinary artist Osman Yousefzada; and AirSpace gallery, where William Cobbing brings...
...But now almost all — including big Conservative-run county authorities in Hampshire and Kent as well as the city of Stoke-on-Trent — are sounding the alarm....
Sadiq Khan calls for ‘assurance’ that lessons have been learnt after protest suppression stokes liberty fears
...Hugely popular actress Lulabelle Rock engages one of her own Portraits to assassinate all the others, in order to stoke publicity for her next movie....
...The commission said in its paper that this measure would not work on a Europe-wide basis, in part because it could further stoke up demand for gas. What is next?...
...If you look at what the leader in Stoke said after the Conservatives lost in Stoke, the point she was making was that actually the independent vote there had gone back towards Labour....
...Among the group’s strongest arguments is that much of the land around Audley is part of the greenbelt that encircles the nearby city of Stoke-on-Trent....
...Stoke-on-Trent warned that it was teetering on the edge of having to do so, too....
...The oldest pieces he owns are three Delft plates featuring hand-painted portraits of William III and Mary II, made in the late 17th century. Much of the rest was made in Stoke. “I’ve got a Queen Anne....
...The figures underline the challenge posed to China, which has sought to reboot consumer demand after lockdowns hammered its economic prospects and policymakers reverted to an investment-driven model to stoke...
...Additional reporting by William Langley, Andy Lin, Gloria Li and Eleanor Olcott in Hong Kong...
...Inflation is set to slow to roughly 3 per cent this year, Williams said at an event hosted by the Fixed Income Analysts Society....
...It’s frustrating,” said William, a ride-hailing driver trapped in Guangzhou’s Haizhu district. He added that the area’s initial three-day lockdown had already been extended four times....
...The writer William Gibson’s famous line about the “future”, that it “is already here — it’s just not evenly distributed”, certainly applies to London....
...You can see James Baldwin debate William Buckley in 1965. Or Richard Feynman lecture on photons to an audience in Auckland in 1979....
...That was “exactly the kind of inflammatory rhetoric that stokes people towards acts of violence like yesterday’s petrol bombing in Dover. Despicable,” said Labour MP for Streatham Bell Ribeiro-Addy....
...More than a third of the Arts Council’s grant budget will still be spent in London, but 78 “levelling up for culture places” areas, such as Stoke and Wigan, deemed by government to have been historically...
...Separation of church and state On the political front, one obvious question raised by Farage’s intervention, is whether populists on the hard right will seize on trends outlined by the census to stoke the...
...various data stories around football’s World Cup in December, but perhaps the most engaging graphic on sports was Alan Smith’s look at the transformation of the England cricket team under new captain Ben Stokes...
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