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I Left My Heart in the Motor City

Laura Potts | Posted 03.05.2013 | UK Lifestyle
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Laura Potts

If it's possible to capitalise on the idea that your city is special because it perennially has one of the highest homicide rates in the Western world (2012's stats: around 400); or because people flock from around the globe to experience its unique brand of 'ruin porn'; or because it's a badge of honour to survive such a notoriously dystopian landscape - then Detroit is setting a new standard for self-promotion.

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Book Review: Please Don't Come Back From the Moon by Dean Bakopoulos

Abigail Tarttelin | Posted 27.05.2013 | UK Entertainment
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Abigail Tarttelin

Can you have a mancrush as a woman? I do. This book was a requested Christmas present. I loved Bakopoulos' first book so much I decided to dig into his second.

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General Motors on Classic Road to Disaster by Sentimentally Holding Onto A Loss-Making Division

Peter Martindale | Posted 20.04.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Ellesmere Port, Business Secretary, Vauxhall, Components, Car Industry, Bedford, Opel, General Motors, Luton, Vehicle Manufacturing, Vince Cable, Coalition Government, Motown, Detroit, Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, UK Politics News
Peter Martindale

If General Motors does not sell to a suitable buyer then the chances are that in just a few years, Vauxhall Motors, one of the few remaining British car marques, will follow a long list of illustrious names, and will be no more.

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