Towns Programme News Today

Norton reports for our world. Once the pride of the soviet union, hundreds of towns which helped to power russias industrialisation are under threat of extinction. Failing industries, a falling population and the sheer vastness of this country mean many places have been abandoned. Often leaving remaining residents in squalid conditions. Nearly one in ten russians now live in places whose long term future is at risk. The situation is so serious that the government has come up with a plan to try t...

Our latest headlines two of the three teenage boys killed after they were hit by a car in hayes in west london have been named locally, as George Wilkinson and harry rice. A 28 year old man who was in the vehicle has been arrested. The attorney general has acknowledged that very serious mista kes over the disclosure of evidence by prosecutors have led to the collapse of recent trials in england and wales. A bomb hidden by the taliban in an ambulance in the Afghan Capital has killed at least 95 p...

Of their local industry. The government now has a plan to save at least some of russias dying towns. Jenny norton reports for our world from eastern russia. Once the pride of the soviet union, hundreds of towns which helped to power russias industrialisation are under threat of extinction. Failing industries, a falling population and the sheer vastness of this country mean many places have been abandoned. Often leaving remaining residents in squalid conditions. Nearly one in ten russians now liv...

We have a full round up of the days news. Now on bbc news hundreds of industrial towns across russia face extinction. Once the pride of the soviet union, many have been abandoned and millions have lostjobs and homes after the collapse of their local industry. The government now has a plan to save at least some of russias dying towns. Jenny norton reports for our world from eastern russia. Once the pride of the soviet union, hundreds of towns which helped to power russias industrialisation are un...

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