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Month: May 2010

Gaza Interactive

An interactive guide to the Gaza War of December 2008 that was produced for The National to mark the first anniversary of the conflict.

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Audio: Why Dubai is reaching for the stars

The tall buildings expert David Scott explains, in October 2008 before the property crash), why Dubai is obsessed with tall buildings. You can here the audio track here.

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Audio: Building an icon

Adrian Smith, the man who designed the Burj Khalifa (then known as the Burj Dubai), talks in October 2008 about the challenges in building the world’s tallest building and super-skyscrapers. To here the interview click here.

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World Future Energy Summit: Global Village

The World Future Energy Summit attracted exhibitors from across the globe under one roof. With these audio interviews I wanted to show the diversity of those taking part united under a common cause. You can view the interactive here.

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Innovations at the World Future Energy Summit

From a waste disposal unit that crushes rubbish with air, to bags made from potatoes, the World Future Energy Summit 2010 in Abu Dhabi was a hive of activity. Here I took photos and made audio recordings of some of the more interesting grassroots exhibits. You can access the interactive here. I also wrote an accompanying […]

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World Future Energy Summit

On the floor at the World Future Energy Summit, Abu Dhabi for The National

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Obama's race to the White House

This is an interactive timeline of the 2008 US presidential election. I helped compile key dates and edited a brief synopsis of each.

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Ellington Colliery: Coal mining comes to an end in the North East

King Coal dethroned with just five words by Paul McMillan, Evening Chronicle, January 27, 2005 Just five weasel words were needed to end centuries of our industrial heritage. “Gentlemen the pit is closed” were the words from Ellington axeman Gerry Spindler. What it meant was the Big E, the last superpit in a once proud […]

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Drugs, vice and misery

This was a backgrounder to a long-running court case I covered at the end of 2003. A serving police officer had been using the services of a violent pimp in return for access to the force’s computer. The case highlighted how the vice trade operated in a city that is not blighted by an obvious ‘red light’ district.

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Emirates Airline opens Dubai to Newcastle route

Before leaving the Newcastle Evening Chronicle and moving to the Middle East, I found myself breaking the story of Emirates Airline extending to Newcastle Airport. It was big news for the city as it was the airport’s first long-haul route and would make trekking across the world much easier for travellers in the North East. […]

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