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  • Game Day Guide: Stars vs Blackhawks

    Game Day Guide: Stars vs Blackhawks

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    The Christmas Break came at the right time for the Stars.

    Dallas just completed a stretch in which it played 16 games in 29 days in 10 different cities. It was an incredible challenge, and yet the Lads in Victory Green went…

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  • CJP for citizen-centric measures to bridge regional justice gaps – RADIO PAKISTAN

    1. CJP for citizen-centric measures to bridge regional justice gaps  RADIO PAKISTAN
    2. CJP for better judicial facilities in remote areas  Dawn
    3. Remote areas: lack of judicial infrastructure worries CJ  The Express Tribune
    4. CJP Yahya Afridi pushes for…

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    Symptom Experience and Management Needs of Breast Cancer Patients unde

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    Breast cancer is the most common and fatal malignant tumor among women worldwide, surpassing lung cancer to become the top cancer globally.1,2 The treatment and care of breast cancer patients have brought serious economic and…

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  • A timeline of disaster: How extreme weather battered Europe this year – Euronews.com

    1. A timeline of disaster: How extreme weather battered Europe this year  Euronews.com
    2. Cyclones, floods and wildfires among 2025’s costliest climate-related disasters  The Guardian
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  • The day Barbara Windsor said ‘Get in my Northampton pub’

    The day Barbara Windsor said ‘Get in my Northampton pub’

    Barbara Windsor appeared in nine films in the Carry On comedy series, plus Sparrows Can’t Sing, for which she was nominated for a Bafta, as well as parts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and On the Fiddle with Sir Sean Connery.

    She was well-known to…

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  • ‘The sight of it is still shocking’: 46 photos that tell the story of the century so far | Photography

    ‘The sight of it is still shocking’: 46 photos that tell the story of the century so far | Photography

    At the turn of the century there was a modest debate, mainly conducted on the letters pages of the newspapers – back then, still the prime forum for public discussion – as to when, exactly, the new millennium and the 21st century began. Most…

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  • No longer ‘unloved’: retailers investing more in physical stores, UK data shows | Retail industry

    No longer ‘unloved’: retailers investing more in physical stores, UK data shows | Retail industry

    UK retailers are investing more in bricks and mortar, with shopping centres and food stores leading a revival, according to research.

    Retailers and property investors are reallocating capital back into physical stores, according to the property group Knight Frank.

    The switch represents a fillip for high streets and shopping centres after a difficult decade, which culminated in the shutdown of most stores during pandemic lockdowns and an accompanying surge in online shopping.

    The growth in online retail has fallen back and flatlined at between 26% and 28% of overall retail sales since a peak of 35% in mid-2020.

    Retail has outperformed all other types of commercial property this year, with 9.2% returns on investments in the year to September, Knight Frank said. This is ahead of industrial properties, at 9.1% and offices at 3.2%.

    Shopping centres and food stores are the joint top performers this year, each delivering 10.2% growth in returns.

    Shopping centres such as Bluewater in Kent are seeking to attract people with ‘experiences’ and activities including zip wiring. Photograph: supplied

    Shopping centres are now seeking to attract visitors with “experiences” and activities such as zipwires and darts, to complement shops. While large centres tend to do well, smaller, older malls are suffering because retail chains’ preference for fewer larger stores, Knight Frank said.

    Next year, retail property is forecast to deliver investment returns of 9.5%.

    Will Lund, the head of retail capital markets at Knight Frank, said: “With online penetration flatlining and retailers reinvesting in physical space, the narrative around retail has fundamentally changed. We have great confidence that this demand is going to drive a return to decade-high investment volumes in 2026 and we are expecting a busy year.”

    In November, the chief executive of the commercial property development and investment company Landsec, Mark Allan, said it was prioritising buying more retail assets over the next 12 to 18 months, in a sector that had long been considered “unloved”.

    Landsec, which owns and manages large shopping centres such as Bluewater in Kent and Trinity Leeds, has sold £295m of offices as it shifts towards retail and residential. The company is in talks to buy the Silverburn shopping centre near Glasgow for £250m early next year.

    British Land, another big developer, focuses mainly on London office campuses and retail parks. Office attendance is accelerating, retailers are expanding out of town, and supply remains very constrained across both markets,” its chief executive, Simon Carter, has said.

    Landsec is in talks to buy the Silverburn shopping centre near Glasgow for £250m early next year. Photograph: Jeff Holmes JSHPIX/REX/Shutterstock

    A number of shopping centres have changed hands this year and supermarkets and other food stores have increased sale-and-leaseback transactions.

    Knight Frank is managing the sale of Merry Hill near Dudley and expects to sell the West Midlands shopping complex for £300m, with 10 investors bidding.

    Last month, Frasers Group, the owner of Sports Direct, bought the Braehead shopping centre near Glasgow, one of Scotland’s busiest, from SGS UK Retail in a deal reportedly worth £220m.

    Knight Frank estimated that £5.8bn was invested in retail assets in 2025, down 17% from the previous year because of a shortage of properties. Transaction levels rose in the second half if the year, and with pricing strengthening, that momentum is expected to carry into 2026.

    Charlie Barke, the head of capital markets at Knight Frank, said: “We’ve got fewer willing sellers because people are expecting these assets to start to perform well again. So stock supply to the market is limited for the first time in quite a long time, and now demand for investments exceeds supply in the retail sector.”

    Across the country, 13.5% of shops stand empty, the lowest vacancy rate since 2020, with a further drop expected next year.

    On the high street, £420m of shops were traded in the second half of 2025, up 150% on the first half. Prime centres and regional cities are expected to deliver rental growth of 6.9% this year.

    Sam Waterworth, a partner at Knight Frank, said: “Retail has decisively turned a corner with 2025 marking the high street’s rebound.”

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