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☆ This school has 12-hour days, 'relaxing' meals — and no smartphones
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-17 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Helping an 'Anxious Generation'All Saints' experiment with an extended school day comes as concern mounts about the impact of smartphones and social media on teenagers. AdvertisementUS Surgeon-General Vivek Murthy also recently called for social media to carry cigarette-style warning labels to warn of the health risks. Writing in The New York Times, he said social media increased the risk that children would suffer anxiety and depression. However, the extended school day program has produced some noteworthy results. AdvertisementRausch said his research had shown that constant access to smartphones and social media only increases social inequality.

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☆ At Least 10 Die as Fire Engulfs High-Rise Complex in Spain
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-23 | by ( Rachel Chaundler | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A day after a fire roared through a high-rise apartment complex in the Spanish city of Valencia, killing at least 10 people, police investigators were trying to determine why the flames had engulfed the two buildings in less than an hour. Luis Sendra, the dean of the Official College of Architects of the Community of Valencia, said that investigators would have to wait until the structures cooled down to be able to determine whether exterior cladding might have helped fuel the fire. He said that gaps between the insulation and the cladding could have facilitated the spread of flames. “It’s too early to know the exact cause,” Mr. Sendra said. “But the speed with which it spread would indicate similarities with Grenfell Tower in London.”

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☆ ‘Absolute Chaos’: Residents Evacuated From Public Housing Tower in England
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Isabella Kwai | More About Isabella Kwai | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

“Our lives are all up in the air.”The evacuation has drawn fresh attention to the construction of Britain’s public housing high-rises. The Grenfell Tower fire, which killed 72 people and left hundreds homeless, prompted a national reckoning over safety measures and construction of high-rise buildings. Critics have accused governments of prioritizing cost-cutting over safety, and housing advocates in London and elsewhere have since raised concerns about other buildings. While there was “no evidence of an immediate risk to life,” he said the decision was made to evacuate. Barton House was built in 1958 and is among the oldest of the city’s public housing projects, or council housing estates, as they are called in Britain.

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London CNN —A barge on which the United Kingdom government plans to house hundreds of asylum-seekers has been described as a “death trap” by the country’s Fire Brigades Union. Yui Mok/WPA Pool/Getty Images/FileThe Fire Brigades Union (FBU) said it will write to the UK Home Office on Wednesday to set out its safety concerns. The government’s plans to house migrants on the barge has been widely criticized by human rights groups. “We’ve got British taxpayers stumping up millions of pounds a day to house migrants in hotels.”Rival protesters argue in Portland, Dorset, where the Bibby Stockholm docked on July 18, 2023. Ben Birchall/PA/APThe Home Office announced plans to house around 500 single adult males on the barge in April.

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☆ UK financial watchdog intervenes to cut building insurance costs
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Huw Jones | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

LONDON, April 21 (Reuters) - Britain's financial watchdog has proposed changes to cut the cost of insuring residential apartment blocks, saying intervention was needed to prevent wrongful use of commission. The proposals announced on Friday follow a review after the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire in London, which killed 72 people and led to big increases to building insurance costs. The FCA published a consultation paper on its proposals alongside a review of 16 insurance brokers' sales to blocks of apartments between January 2019 and September 2022. "Brokers were often unable to articulate what insurance-related services or benefits of value were provided by the parties sharing commission," the watchdog said. Leaseholders would have transparency on insurance costs and ability to challenge poor value under the FCA proposals.

☆ UK housebuilders face slow and painful refurb
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-01 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

LONDON, March 1 (Reuters Breakingviews) - UK housebuilding is facing a bleak future. In previous slowdowns, the UK’s Conservative Party bailed out the sector with packages like Help to Buy, which subsidized mortgages to help buyers. After Wednesday’s 9% share price decline, it’s share price is now worth less than half of what it was before the outbreak of Covid-19. With little help on the horizon, UK housebuilders face a slow and painful rebuild. They do not reflect the views of Reuters News, which, under the Trust Principles, is committed to integrity, independence, and freedom from bias.

☆ Goldman Sachs downgrades Arconic, cites uncertain demand outlook in Europe
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-28 | by ( Samantha Subin | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

It's time to sell shares of Arconic , according to Goldman Sachs. Analyst Emily Chieng downgraded the aluminum products maker to sell from neutral, citing a weak European demand outlook. ARNC 1D mountain Arconic shares fall premarket Shares of Arconic this year have gained about 4.6% following a roughly 36% slump in 2022. Chieng trimmed the firm's price target to $21 from $23 a share, representing more than 5% downside from Monday's close. Shares fell about 4% premarket.

☆ Government bears some blame for Grenfell fire, UK housing minister says
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-29 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] A woman places a white rose during a memorial service for those who died in the Grenfell Tower fire on June 14 2018, outside Westminster Abbey in London, Britain June 14, 2022. In June 2017, Grenfell Tower, a 23-storey social housing block in west London, was destroyed by a fire started by an electrical fault in a refrigerator, Britain's deadliest fire in a residential building since World War Two. "I think that if you look at what happened to Grenfell, there were lots of factors. But it is undeniably the case that the system of building regulation was not right." Following the blaze, a public inquiry found numerous faults in the planning and administration of the Grenfell refurbishment, and hundreds of buildings were found to have similar cladding.

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