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A group of city mayors and council leaders representing more than 15 million people in the north of England are launching a campaign for the region to have its own specific budget, as a way of spreading economic growth further around the country.The 19 politicians, who are board members of Transport for the North TfN , have urged the creation of a so-called
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One cold but sunny autumn day, a young white-collar worker in Shanghai received an anxious phone call from his family. The authorities were requisitioning their farmland for development.Wang Shuai believed the scheme was illegal, but officials refused to discuss it. He tried journalists, but they thought his story both too common and too sensitive. That was when he turned to the internet. It was the choice of having no choice, he said. But I had read complaints about injustices on the net before and I knew some cases had worked out. There were reports like officials who used public money for holidays; when they appeared, the nation began investigating. The authorities had launched an anti-drought initiative which included chopping down fruit trees 鈥?conveniently allowing them to slash compensation t
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