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Market town near Oxford named England’s newest garden city
London: A market town that traces its roots back to Saxon invaders in the sixth century was Tuesday named as the answer to a housing crisis in the overcrowded Home Counties area of England.
Bicester will become the British government’s newest garden city as part of an initiative to create off-the-shelf cities by expanding existing towns, Xinhua reported.
Around 100 million pounds ($157 million) will be spent on roads and utilities infrastructure and loans to house buildings. It would more than double the size of the town from its current 29,000 inhabitants.
Around 13,000 new houses will be developed, all with gardens, aimed as lower-cost homes for younger families.
Garden city projects were popular in England a century ago, to be replaced in the second half of the last century by 27 “new towns” stretching from Scotland to many regions of England.
With a growing need for new homes, the British government sees garden city schemes as a way of meeting the demand. The first of a new generation of garden cities was announced earlier this year in Kent, also in the Home Counties.
Housing experts say more new towns and garden cities will be needed over the coming seven years, equivalent to the building around London of 18 Olympic Park-sized communities.
British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has championed new towns across England, saying Tuesday he hoped Bicester will be the first of “another wave” of garden cities that will help solve Britain’s housing crisis.
He said his party, the Liberal Democrats, has long argued that garden cities are an idea whose time has come again.
“This is a significant victory for the approach championed by the coalition government, where local areas put their hand up and say we want to become a garden city or garden town,” Clegg said.
“I hope many other towns will follow Bicester’s lead and we will see more garden cities spring up that have the affordable, well-designed homes with proper transport links, services and amenities, which our young families want and need,” he added.
Most of the new homes will be built on a brownfield site, once occupied by what was one of the world’s first military airfields.
The Royal Flying Corps, which later became the Royal Air Force moved onto the 0.78 square hectare site in 1917.
Bicester, 24 km from the university city of Oxford, is said to be ideally located as a commuter town, around an hour from central London and less than an hour to Heathrow Airport. With a major interchange junction on the M40 motorway, it has easy access to the capital as well as to Birmingham.
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Xiaomi and Vivo Outperform Samsung, Apple Way Down in Rankings
Chinese brands Xiaomi and Vivo were used by 21.9% and 20.79% of Casino Days players from South Asia respectively, and together with the positioned in third place with a 18.1% share South Korean brand Samsung dominate the market among real money gamers in the region.
Cupertino, California-based Apple is way down in seventh with a user share of just 2.29%, overshadowed by Chinese brands Realme (11.43%), OPPO (11.23%), and OnePlus (4.07%).
Huawei is at the very bottom of the chart with a tiny share just below the single percent mark, trailing behind mobile devices by Motorola, Google, and Infinix.
The data on actual phone usage provided by Casino Days, even though limited to the gaming parts of the population of South Asia, paints a different picture from global statistics on smartphone shipments by vendors.
Apple and Samsung have been sharing the worldwide lead for over a decade, while current regional leader Xiaomi secured their third position globally just a couple of years ago.
Striking Android Dominance among South Asian Real Money Gaming Communities
The shifted market share patterns of the world’s top smartphone brands in South Asia observed by the Casino Days research paper reveal a striking dominance of Android devices at the expense of iOS-powered phones.
On the global level, Android enjoys a comfortable lead with a sizable 68.79% share which grows to nearly 79% when we look at the whole continent of Asia. The data on South Asian real money gaming communities suggests that Android’s dominance grows even higher and is north of the 90% mark.
Among the major factors behind these figures, the authors of the study point to the relative affordability of and greater availability of Android devices in the region, especially when manufactured locally in countries like India and Vietnam.
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