Ms Pentland will be running as an independent in Bass, one of what is expected to be a bumper crop of independents taking advantage of a historic rise in disaffection with the major parties.

Bass independent Rebekah Pentland says she’s going to launch herself headfirst into a campaign for an election nobody wanted. Her view of the stadium’s effect on the polls.

Brown, which usually has a maximum membership of 25 and a waiting list, has only 18 members. The co-op's usual system — which includes three members cooking dinner each night of the week — has been ...

The Egyptian Transport Ministry has officially opened the first phase of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project to the public on the Ring Road around Greater Cairo, starting on Sunday. The project comes ...

In recent times, the British honours system has recognised people who have “made achievements in public life” and “committed themselves to serving and helping Britain”.

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In an address to the 2024 Payments Conference, Kganyago said that this was “the largest and most ambitious initiative by the SARB, in the payments space, since the launch of the South African ...

Labyrinth seals are critical components in high-speed rotating machinery, designed to minimise fluid leakage and influence the overall rotordynamic behaviour of the system. They utilise a series ...

Experiments employing linear independent rotor whirling motions have quantified not only the translational forces but also the additional tilt and moment coefficients, thereby refining dynamic ...

The downtown curfew instated by Mayor Karen Bass on Tuesday remains in effect. Starting at 8 p.m., no one is allowed within a one-square-mile zone within downtown L.A. until 6 a.m. Sunday, with ...

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