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Example of a coffin plate excavated from the cemetery. Credit: Gowland et al, PLOS ONE, 2023. CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Skeletal remains preserve direct evidence of the health issues faced by children born into poverty and forced into labor in 19th century England, according to a study published May 17, 2023, in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Rebecca Gowland of Durham University and…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A strong link between the extent of deprivation of local authorities in England and their numbers of children going into the care system through the family courts has been uncovered by researchers at Lancaster University. The study, available online and due to be published in the July 2023 issue…

The Bank of England raised its key interest rate for the 12th consecutive time and signaled more increases are possible as it released less gloomy forecasts for the U.K. economy. The Bank of England raised its key interest rate for the 12th consecutive time and signaled more increases are possible as it released less gloomy forecasts for the U.K. economy. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each…

Bank of England’s deputy governor, Sir Jon Cunliffe, recently spoke about the development of tokenization at the Innovative Finance Global Summit in London on April 17. The UK’s central bank is exploring tokenization in bank money, non-bank money, and central bank money and the ways tokenized assets will interact. This has created a buzz in the British crypto market, with decentralized exchanges and DeFi projects gaining popularity. In this article, we will compare and analyze Signuptoken.com, a new player in the crypto…

Luxury vehicles have always been an attraction for car thieves worldwide. In a surprising occurrence, a Bentley Mulsanne saloon, which was stolen from the United Kingdom, was found in a lavish bungalow in Karachi, Pakistan. Although customs officials recovered the vehicle in Pakistan, the question remains: how did it make its way to an entirely different continent? Below are the details. The Pakistani officials reported the stolen car to the UK National Crime Agency. Upon receiving a tip-off from the agency, the…

The traditional accountability chain and the accountability landscape of non-majoritarian institutions. Credit: Governance (2023). DOI: 10.1111/gove.12785 News coverage about the Bank of England is closely linked to the parliamentary oversight of the institution and to the Bank's own account-giving activities, analysis shows. Media…

Nina Stibbe’s fourth novel is set in the fictional town of Brankham in Rutland and finds Susan Faye Warren meeting best friend Norma and husband Roy on the same day in the early 1990s.She encounters Roy, a keen golfer eight years her senior, while eating breakfast in a cafe near The Pin Cushion, the haberdashery shop where she has a Saturday job. Norma is the daughter of the shop’s owner, and is drafted in one summer as acting manager. She and Susan, an English undergraduate, immediately hit it off despite a warning from…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Serious violence in England and Wales has increased by 12%, almost returning to pre-COVID levels, according to a new report by Cardiff University. The University's Violence Research Group found an estimated 164,723 people attended A&E in England and Wales for violence-related injury in 2022, up…

There may need to be limits initially on the use of major stablecoins for payments, and they should also be backed by high quality and liquid assets to protect consumers, Bank of England Deputy Governor Jon Cunliffe said on Monday. Britain is due to adopt rules for regulating stablecoins, a form of cryptocurrency backed by an asset or fiat currency, which consumers could use to make payments digitally. "Systemic stablecoins will need to be backed with high quality and liquid assets," Cunliffe told a conference held by…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain New research led by the University of East Anglia (UEA) shows that large infrastructure projects which are the focus of the UK government's leveling up agenda and include support for business start-ups, must also offer sustainable, local investment in deprived communities. Through place-based…