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The Kindling Trust: Creating a virtuous food economy

Fixing our broken food system has never been more important, for both sustainability and health outcomes. But challenging the industrial model is not easy, as Clare Goff found out

‘In Manchester there’s lots of talk about sustainability but it’s never embedded’, says Chris Walsh, a co-founder of The Kindling Trust. ‘The city is obsessed with inward investment and very traditional economic growth which eclipses all else.’

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Election result delivers little cheer for progressive place making

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Coalitions and collaborations. How exciting are they?

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Raising the volume on poverty and inequality in cities

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Devolution and decentralisation have to be fair, equitable and offer hope

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Manifestos are short on ideas for local growth

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Places have relationships

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From ‘me towns’ to ‘we towns’

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With full disclosure banking could be a race to the top

Reforms to make banking competition work for consumers have reached an impasse. Do nothing and we can expect nothing to result, but even with Project Merlin – which was established by the four major UK banks (HSBC, Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group) and hopes to improve stability and competition between banks – lending fell for Britain’s top banks in every quarter a year after its implementation.

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Placemaking must be framed by fairness and equity

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Risky business: how cutbacks are leading local authorities into ‘exotic’ waters

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Local authorities and housing associations must work together in tough times

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Analysis: From ‘civic’ to ‘civil’ society

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Sandwell: A new hospital at the heart of local economic change

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Black Country Make: Building a digital factory on a 1960s estate

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Understanding how debt problems change our behaviour is the key to better support