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The tiny city that’s being transformed by America’s richest family

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[ I grew up on the cusp of the Missouri-Arkansas border, the dividing line that separates the American Midwest from the South. My family’s weekend getaways were always taken by hopping on a northbound interstate to Kansas City or St Louis. But that changed in 2011. When Alice Walton, billionaire heiress to the Walmart fortune, … Read more

UK economy grew by 0.3% in November

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[ The economy grew by 0.3 per cent in November, new figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show. The ONS said the services sector was the main contributor to the monthly growth in Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Services output grew by 0.4 per cent in November 2023, following a fall of 0.1 per … Read more