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- Natural disasters: how can we improve? [25 May 2010]
- Not In My Back Yard
- Digital Divide in the UK?
- Importing goods, exporting drought?
- The challenges and opportunities of an ageing society
- Engineering our climate
- The future shape of Capitalism
- Migration: skills and the job market
- Razing the Rainforest
- London under water
- Concreting the countryside
- Future of low carbon energy
- Africa in the 21st Century
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Not In My Back Yard : In the News
Councils concerned nuclear assessment hand-outs would create bias
- Source: The Guardian
16th March 2010
Under new planning rules, energy companies pay local authorities to assess their planning applications, but some councils do not have the resources or expertise
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Audio: £30bn high-speed rail plans unveiled
- Source: The Guardian
- 12th March 2010
Panel discusses proposals to run 250mph trains between London and Birmingham
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High-speed rail plans announced by government
- Source: BBC News
- 11th March 2010
Plans for a new high-speed rail network, featuring 250mph trains, have been announced by Transport Secretary Lord Adonis.
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New high speed rail link announced
- Source: 10 Downing Street
- 11th March 2010
The Government has announced plans for the development of a high speed rail network linking London to Birmingham.
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Prepare for the fourth transport revolution
- Source: The Times
- 11th March 2010
Britain needs it and can afford it. There is no reason to hold back high-speed rail
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Audio: Consultation ‘the right way forward’ on high-speed rail
- Source: BBC Radio 4
- 11th March 2010
Liberal Democrat transport spokesman Norman Baker and Shaun Spiers from the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England, discuss how to reconcile the benefits of large national projects with local objections.
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No problem pupils in my backyard
- Source: The Guarduan
- 9th March 2010
Are recent disputes between special schools and local residents indicative of a growing trend in people refusing to live alongside pupils with behavioural problems?
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At last someone makes the case against localism
- Source: The Daily Telegraph
- 8th March 2010
The decentralisation of power is all very well, he argues. But what about things that are in the interests of the UK as a whole? What if we need a new rail-link, or a new power plant, or a new airport? Would every local council be allowed a veto?
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