Os participantes são convidados a entregar um bem alimentar para apoiar famílias vulneráveis do concelho de Loulé.

O conteúdo Tôr acolhe caminhada pela igualdade com recolha solidária de alimentos aparece primeiro em Barlavento.

Ola Källenius says it will ‘weaken the industry on both sides’ ahead of act intended to counter non-EU competition

Locking the UK out of the EU’s flagship industrial “Made in Europe” legislation would amount to a “deliberate choice” by EU leaders to “hurt” the car industry across the bloc, the head of Mercedes-Benz has said.

Speaking in his capacity as president of the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA), Ola Källenius said such a move would “weaken the industry on both sides”.

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© Photograph: Christoph Steitz/Reuters

© Photograph: Christoph Steitz/Reuters

The Royal Navy’s only dedicated ice patrol ship has been towed from Teesside to Devonport following a reported defect, raising questions about Britain’s ability to maintain its maritime presence in the polar regions as the government works toward a replacement.

No âmbito das comemorações associadas à temática da Igualdade e do Plano Municipal para a Igualdade e Não Discriminação (PMIND), a Câmara Municipal de Loulé, em parceria com a Junta de Freguesia da Tôr, promove, no próximo dia 17 de outubro, sábado, a iniciativa “Caminhar pela Igualdade”.

O evento, que repete o sucesso de edições anteriores, desafia a comunidade a juntar-se por uma causa social e humanitária. A caminhada terá um percurso circular de aproximadamente 6,5 quilómetros, com início e término programados para a frente da Junta de Freguesia da Tôr.

Para além da promoção da igualdade e do desporto, a iniciativa assume também um forte caráter solidário. Todos os/as participantes são convidados a entregar um bem alimentar no momento da concentração.

Os bens recolhidos serão posteriormente distribuídos a uma instituição de solidariedade social local, apoiando as famílias mais vulneráveis do concelho. A concentração dos/as participantes está marcada para as 14h30.

As inscrições estão abertas e devem ser efetuadas até ao dia 16 de outubro, sexta-feira, através dos seguintes contactos: 289 414 908 ou geral@freguesiadator.pt . A autarquia sugere que se junte a esta causa e caminhe pela igualdade e pela solidariedade.

At Bybi in Copenhagen, a dedicated group of staff and volunteers have built a community for all centred on the production of honey – much of which is given away for nothing. Could it be replicated elsewhere?

The bees at Bybi, a collective of beekeepers in Copenhagen, live on the roof. Their home is a complex of Victorian buildings, right in the centre of the city, that looks like an idealised vision of the modern social enterprise, ennobled by the architecture of the past. It’s a place of cottage industry in concert with nature, where the marginalised are brought in from the fringes and corporations stand waiting to help, where jobs happen but a lot of the work is done by volunteers, and where – this bit is important – a lot of time is spent discussing ideas.

Oliver Maxwell, Bybi’s 48-year-old founder, encourages me to examine the buildings more closely. They were once a prison, a workhouse and a hospital; their functions today – a homeless shelter, a young offender institution and, until recently, a job centre – are not so different. Denmark’s Victorian transformation, from “agricultural backwater to industrialised agriculture”, was reflected in how they treated people, Maxwell says.

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