‘Dagenham is worried’: London borough in limbo after Smithfield and Billingsgate move axed | Infrastructure

Behind huge locked gates, the sprawling expanse of concrete and scrubland was supposed to be a hive of activity by now. Formerly the site of Barking Reach power station, these 17 hectares (42 acres) of industrial land at Dagenham Dock in east London were due to be redeveloped into a new, purpose-built wholesale food market…

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Russell Tovey on ‘Plainclothes,’ ‘Looking,’ and Sex Scenes

Russell Tovey, the gay British actor who’s been out of the closet since he was a teenager, has played characters both repressed (see: Mormon closet-case Joe Pitt onstage in “Angels in America”) and proudly queer (HBO’s “Looking”). In his latest “Plainclothes,” the Sundance winner written and directed by first-feature filmmaker Carmen Emmi, he plays a…

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Trump and ByteDance tout TikTok deal approval, but no official details yet

President Trump on Friday announced that the TikTok deal, which would potentially see the video platform controlled by a consortium of U.S. investors, had been approved by President Xi of China. TikTok owner ByteDance also issued a public statement saying the company would work to ensure that TikTok “remains available to American users through TikTok…

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ETH News: Fusaka Coming in December

Ethereum core developers have confirmed a tentative roadmap for the network’s next major upgrade, Fusaka, during Thursday’s All Core Developers Consensus (ACDC) call. The upgrade, designed to further scale the blockchain, is now scheduled for early December, with follow-up changes aimed at more than doubling blob capacity in the weeks after. Before the Fusaka upgrade…

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