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NewsSharewatch: dizziness and nausea may occur
When asked to explain the events of last week, most City analysts were uncharacteristically lost for words.
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ODA admits village funding ‘very difficult’
The Olympic Delivery Authority has said the problem of securing funding for the £1.2bn Olympic village has been exacerbated by the turmoil in the financial markets over the past week, write Sarah Richardson and Dan Stewart.
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Primary school plan announced
The government is likely to put in place a more formal delivery strategy for its primary school capital build programme this autumn, officials have said.
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Council vote
Labour ministers defeated a conference motion that proposed to give councils money directly to improve their housing stock.
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Asbestos speech
Alan Ritchie, general secretary of the Ucatt, told the conference that workers who had developed pleural plaques after exposure to asbestos were being cheated out of their rightful compensation by a “greedy, scheming” insurance industry.
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Give the money back
Almost £1bn of lottery funding for the 2012 Olympics should be kept for the regeneration of east London, instead of being returned to lottery good causes when land is sold, Hackney councillor Guy Nicholson said.
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U-turn on regional powers
The government is preparing to backtrack on a proposal to force regional assemblies to give up planning powers to quangos.
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NewsBattersea remembered
Today marks the second anniversary of the Battersea crane disaster, which killed two people
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NewsPrasad: only two or three eco-towns should go ahead
A key government adviser on eco-towns told a Labour conference fringe event this week that only two or three of the plans were good enough to be developed.
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NewsPlaces for People homes near Milton Keynes Trying times
Housing association Places for People (PfP) is to offer 20 of these new homes in Wolverton near Milton Keynes to customers on a “try-before-you-buy” basis in order to beat the credit crunch.
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CommentSupersizing Cabe
Cabe is happy to condemn the work of ‘commercial’ practices but seems rather reluctant to do the same for the A-listers, such as Rafael Viñoly’s Walkie-talkie
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Consultants named for £750m government shortlist
Twenty consultants have been shortlisted for a place on a £750m government framework
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Ibstock cuts jobs in brick crisis
The UK’s second biggest brick maker, Ibstock, is to make up to 136 redundancies as the continued housing slump forces it to close two plants and mothball a third.
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Four teams vie to build £245m Commonwealth Games village
Four consortiums have been shortlisted to develop the £245m Commonwealth Games village in Glasgow.
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FeaturesWelcome to the machine: Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation
Of all Le Corbusier’s buildings, perhaps the most influential is Marseille’s Unité d’Habitation. As a major exhibition of the great man’s works opens in Liverpool, Martin Spring visits this communal ‘machine for living in’ to see what lessons it has for us
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NewsFire in Bath
Sir Robert McAlpine’s £360m Southgate shopping centre in Bath was evacuated after a fire broke out on Tuesday afternoon
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NewsMillett to oversee Olympic venue construction
Jason Millett, the former head of Bovis Lend Lease UK, is to oversee the construction of the main Olympic venues, writes Dan Stewart.
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NewsPitch perfect
Building Design Partnership has revealed its plans for a radical redevelopment of Old Trafford cricket ground in Manchester.
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NewsRevealed: Four consortiums bidding for £245m Glasgow Athletes Village
Davis Langdon, Mace, Gladedale and Broadway Malyan compete to build 1,500 homes in east Glasgow