The BBC’s annual Children in Need show raises a record £26,332,334 – £8 million more than last year – with acts including Will Young, Gok Wan and the cast of EastEnders.
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Record £26m for Children in Need
Could the District use an additional $355 million? Would another $680 million help out cash-strapped New York City? How about $58 million more for Milwaukee, or $30 million for Detroit? Those cities would reap millions if they could collect on unpaid traffic and parking tickets, but in an era when speed cameras , red light cameras and high-tech parking meters have created multimillion-dollar municipal revenue streams, record numbers of tickets are going unpaid. Read full article > >
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Your credit may take a hit from unpaid traffic and parking tickets
The Texas Transportation Institute has just released its annual Urban Mobility Report , serving up in gory detail all the horrors of traffic congestion. Washington, D.C., regains its prized spot as most congested city in the United States, with Chicago number two. Friday, it turns out, is the worst day nationally for traffic congestion, with 200 million more hours of delay than Monday. And 40 percent of delays don’t even occur during rush hours — they creep up midday and overnight, when they’re least expected. Read full article > >
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That traffic jam is costing you $713
One million more now have health coverage.
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Big Drop in Uninsured Young Adults
The World Bank says escalating food prices have pushed 44 million more people into poverty since last June.
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Food prices at ‘dangerous levels’
Three-quarters of a million more people are set to become higher rate taxpayers in April, says the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
The animal death toll keeps climbing: first it was thousands of blackbirds and fish in Arkansas and Louisiana, now 2 million more fish are dead in the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. Most of the casualties are adult spot and juvenile croakers, believed to…
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2 Million Dead Fish in Maryland
Your credit may take a hit from unpaid traffic and parking tickets
Monday, October 31st, 2011
