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We three Dings: how a small-town burger bar beat the pandemic odds

** Unpublished Article ** The terms 'pop-up restaurant' and 'small town in the north-east of England' are rarely used together to describe a successful business venture. Throw a pandemic-induced lockdown into the mixture and success appears even less likely. But for Ding, a pop-up burger bar in Hartlepool, success was part of the recipe.

Storms ahead for dementia research

** Unpublished Article - shortlisted for The Economist Internship 2020 ** One unsuspecting night in June 1993, a Scarborough hotel tumbled down into the sea below. The contents of Holbeck Hall spilled out across the rocky cliff-side, together with all the memories the hotel had housed. “I knew everything in it,” said the hotel’s owner, Joan Turner, “I’ve lost my dream.” Turner’s loss was palpable but the insidious process of coastal erosion that swept Holbeck Hall away took decades to reach this destructive point.