borough
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Sandwell Council, which covers West Bromwich, said both Singh and MPK were no longer operating in the borough.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Victor Niederhoffer was born to Arthur and Elaine Niederhoffer in New York’s Brooklyn borough on Dec. 10, 1943.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
As Berenger and Rogers are drawn into an affair, Scott plays up the contrast between her wealthy Upper East Side world and his working-class life in an outer borough.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Leigh Day is now bringing a civil legal claim on behalf of 10 families against the trust which ran the school and the London borough of Waltham Forest.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
When he took meetings around the borough, he wore a wool flannel three-piece.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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At the same time, rents increased by 10% in both boroughs.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
Zip-Zap co-founder Laura Edwards says families are moving out of Islington to other boroughs for better schools, more affordable homes and more space.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
She points to boroughs such as Islington, where high poverty, limited green space, expensive housing and dense populations contribute to particularly low child populations.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
New York City added more than 1.33 million residents between 1900 and 1910—the most people for any decade, ever, aside from when the city’s boroughs were knitted together in their current form.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
I had divided Harmonee into three boroughs, or neighborhoods: the hero borough, the monster borough and the regular borough for all the regular people.
From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore
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