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...Richard Wright, the Conservative leader of North Kesteven District Council, in Lincolnshire, told the Financial Times that the end of the policy would “make a huge difference in a small authority like ours...
...The greater Birmingham area is already showing signs of housing pressure, with prices doubling in the past 20 years and over 54,000 households on waiting lists for social housing, according to the Resolution...
...Birmingham city council, which has been placed under the oversight of government appointed commissioners after issuing a Section 114 notice, is preparing to sell off £750mn of assets over the coming two...
...Sharon Thompson, a former housing officer who took over as Birmingham’s deputy council leader in May, said the authority had been “digging deep” to determine the scale of its liabilities....
...Half of all English councils — 158 local authorities — attended an emergency online summit on Tuesday hosted by Eastbourne borough council and the cross-party District Councils’ Network....
...From the ruins of industrial dereliction, a new district has sprung back to life near the centre of Britain’s second city, Birmingham....
...It would be very sad if incredible institutions like the V&A turn up in the park, drawn by the pull of the creative community, but by the time the building is finished, that community has been moved on.”...
...Florida’s vote-tallying fumbles were pivotal in the 2000 election, in which George W Bush beat Al Gore after the count went to the Supreme Court....
...Alexandria was once known as the “Birmingham of Australia” for its hundreds of factories....
...Adjoining the capital’s central business district, Bahrain Bay boasted flagship developments such as the headquarters of Islamic bank Arcapita, as well as a Four Seasons hotel....
...Unlike some other conurbations, the 10 metropolitan boroughs of Greater Manchester are part of a unified organisation, the Greater Manchester Combined Authority....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...An apartment in Avenue Princesse Grace, one of the principality’s best locations where you can watch Hamilton, Vettel, Alonso et al race beneath your balcony, fetches some of the highest prices – between...
...“What if it were the Republic of Ireland v Slovenia?” “Ireland”. “Northern Ireland v Slovenia?” “Slovenia”. A Protestant later gave me the reverse set of replies....
...Lib Dems in local government who face electoral disaster because of the growing unpopularity of Clegg, Cable et al at a national level....
...The streets of Florence gave us the Renaissance, and the streets of Birmingham gave us the Industrial Revolution....
...“The gap in energy performance between the existing stock and the types of buildings we need to deliver now is vast,” says Mark Williams, director of innovations at the Carbon Trust, a UK-based organisation...
...Entertainment was provided by British comedian Al Murray and a colourful troupe of can-can dancers....
...He was a “working man of the theatre” - arguably (but not in every respect) superior to Dekker, Middleton, Jonson et al, and no different in kind. He lived in a real world....
...The first to suffer were the largely middle-class inhabitants of a housing complex called the Gulberg Society in the Chamanpura district of central Ahmedabad, the largest city in Gujarat....
...properties – roughly 1.1 per cent of the total housing stock....
...THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GUILTY PLEASURES edited by Michael Moran et al John Murray ₤12.99, 352 pages Classic toilet material: its half-page alphabetical entries are eclectic, opinionated tilts at icons and...
...Finn et al, Anglo-German Foundation, 2005...
...Baghdad's Sadr City district....
...Supreme Court’s historic finding in the case of Rasul et al v....
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