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Western Cape leaves all the other provinces in the dust

Today at 12:00 PM, via Daily Investor

South Africa’s housing recovery remains uneven, with the Western Cape continuing to outperform all other regions through faster sales, stronger price growth, rising building activity and robust home loan approvals.

Education

Teaching union claims extra £4bn for Send overhaul just ‘drop in bucket’ compared with what’s needed – UK politics live

Today at 11:50 AM, via The Guardian

Full details of government plans to be published this morning with reforms partly driven by move to contain soaring costs

Here is the Department for Education’s news release from overnight about the Send reforms.

And this is what it says about how it will spend £4bn improving Send provision in English schools,

To dramatically improve the support mainstream schools can provide for children with...

Motoring

Dark clouds looming over Renault

Today at 08:31 AM, via TopAuto

Renault expects profitability to decline this year as it grapples with rising competition from Chinese rivals.

Health

A Cancer Detection Test Fails in Major Study

Friday at 16:25 PM, via New York Times

A closely watched clinical trial in Britain that screened blood for early detection of cancer did not show a reduction in later stages of the disease.