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War correspondent Emile Dillon was born in a hardware shop near the Four Courts in Victorian Dublin, but went on to become a ...
In the 1960s, the Gorbals area of Glasgow underwent a dramatic transformation as part of a broader effort to address housing ...
Mike Kelloway will be returning to Ottawa, although the Liberal MP will be representing a different riding than he did in his first two terms. There was a steady stream of voters coming and going at ...
In this series of weekly live blogs, we take an in-depth look at the election campaign and the issues that matter to voters in the key Victorian electorates of Goldstein, Wills, Kooyong and Bruce.
Dr Emile J Dillon, War Writer, Dead” was the main headline on a New York Times article published on June 10, 1933. “Former ...
Located on the Crescent, overlooking Peel Park, is Salford Museum and Art Gallery, an impressive red-brick building with spacious galleries housing paintings, sculptures and artwork. But one of the ...
one of the country's biggest and poorest slums, has a lot more to offer than just trash. "We realised when talking to people [there] that these were stories that shouldn't just remain in Payatas ...
Using the case study of the Kibera slums, this paper takes a medical anthropological approach to discuss and explain the untold and common practice among the urban poor in developing countries that is ...
The flat owners' appeal after his application to turn the property into a HMO with eight bedrooms has been rejected by councillors. Over 30 residents had objected to the plan.
A flat owner's bid to turn his Pollokshields property into a home for 14 people has been described as “like a return to the Victorian times ... basically proposed slum accommodation, and ...
Rourkela, Odisha’s industrial hub, is shaken by the discovery of a young man’s body in the STI Chowk slum of Raghunathpali on Sunday morning. The victim, whose throat was slit, has left residents in ...
The city council’s headquarters, a grand grade II-listed building constructed during the Victorian era, loomed in the background. By the lunchtime rush, even this modest pile of mess had disappeared. ...