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By Jordan Marshall2021-08-04T05:00:00+01:00 T&T appointed PM on scheme to bring Billingsgate, New Spitalfields and Smithfields markets into one location The City of London Corporation has appointed Turner & Townsend and Gardiner & Theobald to key roles on its scheme to develop a new City markets complex in Essex. The new site in Dagenham is set to become the future home of Billingsgate, New Spitalfields and Smithfield Markets as part of the City’s market co-location programme - that will fr...

New car parking charges go live in Nuneaton and Bedworth within days It is hoped it will help covid hit businesses in the town centre Car parking charges in Nuneaton as well as Bedworth are to change Our free email updates are the best way to get Warwickshire headlines direct to your inboxInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe We use your sign-up to provide content in ways youve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us ...

BBC News Published For the first time since it opened for tours forty years ago, Dennis Severs 18th Century house in Spitalfields, east London, has been closed to the public but, behind the scenes, a small army has been working to renew the house for reopening to visitors this summer. From 1979 to 1999 it was lived in by Dennis Severs, who gradually recreated the rooms as a time capsule. The house reflects the life of an imaginary Huguenot family, who had lived there since it was built in 1724....

Central Line okay this weekend... but not Circle, Metropolitan or Hammersmith & City - Credit: Mike Brooke Passengers on the Underground face services suspended this weekend on the Circle, Metropolitan and Hammersmith & City lines, while on the roads the Blackwall and Rotherhithe tunnels close at night. Circle/Hammersmith & City: No trains on the entire lines Saturday and Sunday (July 24-25) due to staff shortages in the control room.  Metropolitan: Nothing running from Aldgate on S...

Hair today, green tomorrow: UK stylists join eco-drive Issued on: 24/07/2021 - 07:20 Stylist and salon owner Adam Reed is part of a collective in Britain urging more hairdressers to recyle unwanted hair DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS AFP 4 min London (AFP) Hairdressers across Britain are being urged to do their bit for the environment by recycling snipped-off hair to help clean up oil spills, make compost or generate energy. At an east London salon, Fry Taylor...

By Adam Crossley 2021-07-16T05:00:00+01:00 To identify opportunities to enrich local people and places, we must look outside the construction chain, says Adam Crossley Social value isn’t something done to people – it’s created with and for people. A rich understanding of the community is therefore vital to identifying the local challenges and finding ways to involve people in our projects in a way that creates value far beyond the tangible assets we build. Our approach to creating s...

Social value is an element of project value that is weighted increasingly heavily when evaluating project bids. But what exactly does it comprise, how can it be effectively delivered – and more challengingly, how is it calculated? Alinea and Social Value Portal explore the issues and offer examples of social value in practice 01 / Introduction Sustainability has always been framed in terms of the three tenets of social, economic, and environmental considerations – or people, profit and plan...

Found! A curvy brand that fashion editors wear, too Dinah Van Tulleken For The Daily Mail © Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo The dirty secret of affordable, fashion-forward clothing is that if you’re even slightly over average size (in Britain that’s a 16, by the way) it’s almost impossible to find. That is until now. Working in fashion for 20 years, I’ve never come across a truly brilliant on-trend brand that caters for a normal size. But, just recently, I’v...

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Tia guides us through her fascinating and engrossing childhood-inspired work, and discusses advocating for art as a source of strength.