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#economic-development

Barking Riverside station opened earlier this year but a plan for another new train stop in Barking is being discussed (Image: PA) Barking and Dagenham Council has said it is in talks with Transport for London (TfL) about a plan to build another new London Overground station in Barking.The authority has revealed it is working with TfL to make a case for a new train station at Castle Green, which is located in Renwick Road and would sit between Barking and Barking Riverside stations.

Ukrainian soldiers fire an AS90 155mm self-propelled gun as they take part in a military exercise at a training camp in an undisclosed location in England on March 24, 2023 [File: Kin Cheung/AP Photo] Published On 25 Mar 202325 Mar 2023 Here is the situation as it stands on Saturday, March 25, 2023: Conflict The United Nations has said it is deeply concerned by what it decried as summary executions of prisoners of war by both Russian and Ukrainian forces on the battlefield.

The retail industry in New York City has shed thousands of jobs since the pandemic, even as the rest of the job market has almost fully recovered, according to a new report released on Thursday from the Center for an Urban Future, a public policy think tank.The study found that in the three years since February 2020, New York City lost 37,800 retail jobs, an 11.1 percent decline, while the overall private employment sector has regained all but 0.8 percent of jobs.

A proposed transit tax increment financing district for the South Side Red Line extension has recently raised questions about TIFs generally and CTA service, leadership and conditions.These topics deserve attention but should not further delay this long-promised project or approval of the TIF, which will soon be formally introduced in the City Council.

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia wrapped up what was for him an extraordinary and sometimes rambling week of upbeat commentary on the Ukraine war by asserting on Friday that Russia was so assured of prevailing against the Ukrainian counteroffensive that he had ruled out using nuclear weapons.Dropping what had been a strict avoidance of discussing the war in any detail, Mr. Putin told an audience of Russia's business elite, gathered for the annual St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, that Ukraine had no chance against Russian forces and indicated that its Western backers would tire of the conflict and stop supplying weapons, ending Kyiv's war effort.

During annual festival 3 Days of Design, Danish brand Frama created a farmers-market exhibition at its Copenhagen headquarters to celebrate its focus on local communities.The Il Mercato exhibition showcased Frama's furniture and homeware in collaboration with Apotek 57 - the brand's seasonal cafe - alongside fresh vegetables from non-profit farmers market Grønt Marked.

Local studio Königsberger Vannucchi Arquitetos Associados has completed Platina 220, the tallest skyscraper in São Paulo, which has a central block flanked by three shorter volumes.The skyscraper has been completed in Brazil after eight years of construction as part of a 2014 master plan to redevelop parts of the city.

Conservative MPs faced claims of a cover up after they blocked the release of documents showing the Government's decision-making over an inquiry into the UK's largest freeport.Labour questioned why the National Audit Office (NAO) was not tasked with leading the probe into allegations of wrongdoing linked to Teesworks in the north east of England, as the region's Conservative mayor Ben Houchen originally requested.

A British family whose ancestors had slaves in the 1800s is to apologise to the people of a Caribbean island and pay reparations.One of the family members, a BBC reporter, said the Trevelyan family is apologising for the role our ancestors played in enslavement on the island of Grenada.The family had more than 1,000 slaves there in the 19th century and owned six sugar plantations, the broadcaster reported.

The bodies of two crew members of a fishing boat which sank off the coast of Jersey have been found, the States of Jersey Police have confirmed.The L'ecume II sank at around 5.30am last Thursday after it was involved in a collision with another ship, the Commodore Goodwill.All three people on board  skipper Michael Michieli and crew Larry Simyunn and Jervis Baligat  died.

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Shopping for locally owned products is about to get much easier, as the Chamber of Commerce is preparing to launch Brooklyn Made - a merchandise shop selling Brooklyn-produced goods ranging from clothes and housewares to art, jewelry and packaged foods.

A cycle lane has been branded the most dangerous in Britain after nearly 60 people said they were injured there in a year - with locals blaming the optical illusion design.An FOI request showed 59 people claimed to have been hurt on the lane on Keynsham High Street in Bristol.Photos of the lane, installed last March, shows how it appears to be flat at a glance - but walkers say they have repeatedly missed and tripped on a hidden curb, which they say looks like a flat line as it is painted white.

A cycle lane has been branded the most dangerous in Britain after nearly 60 people said they were injured there in a year - with locals blaming the optical illusion design.An FOI request showed 59 people claimed to have been hurt on the lane on Keynsham High Street in Bristol.Photos of the lane, installed last March, shows how it appears to be flat at a glance - but walkers say they have repeatedly missed and tripped on a hidden curb, which they say looks like a flat line as it is painted white.

Thursday, December 15, 2022 by Emma Freer
City Council wants the local hospitality industry - including restaurants, bars, food delivery services and the tourism bureau - to curb its reliance on single-use plastics.Council members recently directed staff  to incentivize such behavior, including by working with the Austin Restaurant Association, citing the city's goal of drastically reducing the amount of trash sent to landfills by 2040 and a recent report on trash in creeks.

The Ontario government has announced the construction of a Volkswagen electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturing plant in St. Thomas, on Talbot Line near Yarmouth Centre Road, close to the city's airport.The announcement was released Monday by the office of Vic Fedeli, the province's minister of economic development and trade and is the first public confirmation of the deal that has long rumoured to be in the works.

It's a story that you can almost set your watch by: Every few months, new data or a new report will show that the birthrate in a country or region is too low to sustain economic growth, and that efforts to convince people to have more babies have failed.It's a story that, in many ways, is made for the Interpreter, and one that I'm very much in the middle of as a busy working parent.

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The following is a transcript of the video above, from our webinar on "Remaking the Economy: Owning Our Future."View the full webinar here.Kamuela Enos: "Indigenous" is like a catch-all term for a whole bunch of cultures that are not the same.But we're not white or Brown, in terms of the dominant system.