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United Kingdom: Floods of biblical proportions leave cities, towns and villages under water
2015-12-26 21:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: It was the day the floodwaters inexorably advanced across the Pennines, leaving much of the north of England sodden and beleaguered. From Greater Manchester in the north-west to parts of North Yorkshire some 50 miles to the east, Boxing Day 2015 will be remembered as the day the rains came. In Todmorden, in West Yorkshires Calder Valley, Rebecca Marshall was last night facing the grim prospect of having to abandon her home as the floodwaters slowly rose around her house. The incessant rains had...
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Agriculture downturn ripples through farm towns
2015-12-23 16:47:17| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
Bruce Schmoll, a corn and soybean producer in southern Minnesota, is among the farmers hit by a drop in crop prices. A big drop in crop prices is among the factors contributing to a downturn in the farm economy these days.
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The Coca Cola truck is touring Britain's fattest towns giving children free Coke
2015-11-30 14:45:58| Beverages - Topix.net
All aboard the sugar bandwagon: For many, it's become a Christmas tradition, a giant Coke truck touring Britain's fattest towns, plying children with free drinks. Innocent fun - or a sinister ploy to hook them on sugar? Mid-afternoon on a bitter November day in Gateshead and a queue hundreds of people long is snaking around the bleak car park of the Asda supermarket on the outskirts of town.
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Alberta cities, towns brace for climate change costsa
2015-11-25 11:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: As Albertans glance at the details about how the province's new climate change policy will increase home heating costs and the price at the pumps, financial officers inside city and town halls are busy working their calculators and spreadsheets to get a sense of the looming impact. The bigger the town or city, the heftier the blow. "We are a very large business with 20,000 employees," said Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi. "We're still analysing what that means to us as an organization." The...
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Britain's first 'million pound towns'
2015-10-25 19:09:40| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
One has a golf course that charges 125,000 to become a member, and the other has a post office said to stock bottles of Bollinger and Dom Perignon.
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