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• Australia has been hesitant – but could robots soon be delivering your pizza?

  10-05-2025 22:00
  
  While there have been concerns over the safety and legal status of the technology, working models from local startups are showing its benefitsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastRobots zipping down footpaths may sound futuristic, but they are increasingly being put to work making deliveries around the world – though a legal minefield and cautious approach to new tech means they are largely absent in Australia.Retail and food businesses have been using robots for a va
  
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• Bicester Village at 30: how a wet field in Oxfordshire defied the death of the shopping mall

  10-05-2025 08:00
  
  With almost 100% occupancy and a waiting list for pop-up spaces, the Disneyland-inspired fashion mecca is bucking trendsBefore a shopping centre selling past-season designer fashion at discounted prices opened its doors in April 1995, the site of Bicester Village had been “a wet field containing two old horses that looked ready for the knacker’s yard, and a fallen-down shed behind a small branch of Tesco”, remembers Colin Woodhead, a PR director who worked on the launch. &ldquo
  
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