Ecco and Hotter are useful for this.
It would be interesting to explore this a bit more.
Thank you!
It's reflected in a kind of localism, where if you haven't lived in a place all your life - a town, city or village - then any opinions you may have about an area carry low value.
Over the last fifteen years the value of working-age benefits (like unemployment benefits) have fallen in real terms – down 9 per cent. Over the same period, the value of the State Pension has increased by 15 per cent.
This is incredible. A UCL demographer basically shows that all the ‘Blue Zones’ where people live to very old ages (which have inspired all those diet and whatnot) are a combination of statistical errors, lack of birth certificates and people committing pension fraud! www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/202...
A study by Dr Saul Justin Newman (Centre for Longitudinal Studies) has won the first-ever Ig Nobel award in Demography at this year’s 34th Ig Nobel Prizes. His work reveals fundamental flaws in the
This looks an interesting idea www.greenpeace.org.uk/resources/fa...
I'm writing a history of the scoria bricks used in many alleyways in York and the North East, made from recycled ironworks slag.
Great, but behind a pay wall so we can't read it. In York the council are threatening to fine people in one street who put things in their alleyway, when they're trying to create a green space. Does anyone else know why back alleyways are prevalent in the north, but very few in London and the south?
