• A sink estate is a British term used for a council housing estate with high levels of social problems, particularly crime. The word is often used in certain...
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    popularity of the critical description of council houses as a 'sink estate'. "Sink estates" were criticized as "cut off from society's mainstream" with...
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    "Convert to Islam changes French mindset: Rebel Ribéry strides from sink estate to brink of greatness". The Independent. UK. 6 October 2006. Archived...
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    Peckham (redirect from North Peckham Estate)
    muggings were commonplace, and the area became an archetypal London sink estate. As a result, the area was subjected to a £290 million regeneration programme...
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    particular people, places or times, she moves freely around settings – a sink estate (Acid Row), a Dorset village (Fox Evil), a suburb of London (The Shape...
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    Park, London, he grew up on the tough Mozart estate, which was at the time a notorious inner-London sink estate. As a boy his passion was for athletics. He...
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    particularly marked economic and social deprivation are derogated as sink estates. Council house residents may be stereotyped as an underclass. In reality...
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    by demolishing UK's worst sink estates". 10 January 2016 – via www.theguardian.com. "Mirror Winstanley Estate Sink Estate". Daily Mirror. 28 February...
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    50-minute hybrid film Twockers, a lyrical and gritty love story set on a sink estate in Yorkshire, which he co-wrote and co-directed with Ian Duncan. In 2000...
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    Times. Retrieved 29 August 2024. "Ballymun at 50: From high hopes to sink estate". The Irish Times. Retrieved 29 August 2024. "1966 – Ballymun Towers...
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  • personal and family tragedy of farm sales – and were forced to move to a sink estate in Borchester. Joe took this especially hard, and in one of the most...
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  • February Christine Dalby The Neighbour lives at Clement Attlee Court on a sink estate in Weatherfield where Greg, a friend of Rosie Webster's (Helen Flanagan)...
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    2023). "'It was like Blade Runner meets Berlin rave': the Manchester sink estate with the UK's wildest nightclub". The Guardian. Article names many residents...
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  • Inheritance tax (redirect from Estate duty)
    International tax law distinguishes between an estate tax and an inheritance tax. An inheritance tax is a tax paid by a person who inherits money or property...
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  • journalist David Rose writes that by 1976 the Farm was already seen as a sink estate, and that by 1980 a Department of the Environment report had suggested...
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  • Sabotage Times said of the "abominable" track: "Coming across like a sink estate answer to the Black Eyed Peas, the track combines a shouty, tuneless...
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     216. ISBN 978-1-902669-73-1. Hannan, Martin (2010) "Martin Hannan: Sink estate that can turn the tide", The Scotsman, 23 March 2010, retrieved 2022-12-07...
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  • hospital he loses his way and is viciously mugged near the Shaftsbury estate [a sink estate] in Rotherhithe, and is helped by Mhouse, a prostitute, who gives...
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  • moved into the Edinburgh vice scene. The book uses two new settings: a sink estate divided between the indigenous population and refugees (based on Wester...
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  • in the sinking of the Titanic. His pregnant mother Madeleine Astor survived the sinking. Astor was known for his legal battles with the estate of his...
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    November 2019. "Ikoyi Dolphin High-rise: Residents raise the alarm over sinking estate". Thenationonlinng.net. 30 September 2018. Retrieved 4 November 2019...
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  • com/music/2023/sep/27/it-was-like-blade-runner-meets-berlin-rave-the-manchester-sink-estate-with-the-uks-wildest-nightclub Mancunian Matters (Hoda Javandi) - 5 October...
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  • But the sad truth is that if a black child had been snatched from a sink estate in Liverpool or Glasgow, the chances are you would not know their name...
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    unpopularity of the estate among residents and high maintenance and running costs. The towers gained a later notoriety for being used as a sink estate, with many...
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  • Instagramming the Apocalypse 2020 Byron, Vincent. "Viewpoint: Escape from the sink estate". BBC. Libby, Brown. "The 'Inane Ramblings' of Byron Vincent". Suave...
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  • and gangsters, and reflected in the architecture of business parks and sink estates. This political writing takes the form of "an insightful and robust social...
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    Guangdong Province, China. In 2018, Evergrande became the most valuable real estate company in the world, but by 2021 it had collapsed financially and started...
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    writer, soldier, amateur historian, real estate investor, and passenger aboard RMS Titanic. Gracie survived the sinking of the Titanic by climbing aboard an...
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  • around sink estates with high levels of crime, vandalism and drug-taking. She has appeared in two series of the BBC One programme The Estate We're In...
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    Suddenly I was surrounded by lots of disturbed and dangerous kids from a sink estate. Every break-time there'd be fights, and the teachers kept control with...
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