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WrapUp London: How unwanted coats are changing lives this winter
Posted onBBC The table full of coats and outerwear for babies and toddlers was popular It is a simple mission: ensure everyone in London is wrapped up warm for winter. This year, WrapUp London will collect and distribute about 20,000 unwanted or outgrown coats and gift them to homeless charities, women’s refuges and family centres. A…
Blackpool Big Food Project foodbank ‘could close without support’
Posted onAn emergency food charity that sends meals to foodbanks across Blackpool has said it could face closure without support to keep its services running. The Big Food Project is a redistributor of surplus food from supermarkets and manufacturers to 125 foodbanks, schools, community kitchens, crisis services and families across Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. It said…
China’s economic growth slows as trade tensions with US flare up
Posted onOsmond ChiaBusiness reporter Getty Images The 4.8% growth in the third quarter marked a slowdown from 5.2% in the three months to July China’s economic growth slowed in the three months to the end of September as problems in the property market persisted and trade tensions with the US flared up. The world’s second-largest economy…
Japan is facing a dementia crisis – can technology help?
Posted onSuranjana TewariAsia Business Correspondent, Tokyo BBC Scientists at Waseda University in Tokyo are developing caregiving robots Last year, more than 18,000 older people living with dementia left their homes and went missing in Japan. Almost 500 were later found dead. Police say such cases have doubled since 2012. Elderly people aged 65 and over now…
