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                Charlotte Middlehurst

                UK assistant news editor

                Charlotte Middlehurst is an assistant news editor on the UK desk, where she oversees public policy, health and sport. Before that she was on the FT’s breaking news desk and the Opinion desk.

                Before joining the FT, she worked in China as an editor and freelance reporter for titles including the Economist and The Telegraph. She studied Mandarin at Shanghai Jiaotong University and previously worked for the independent environmental platform China Dialogue, where she covered climate, energy, economic and environmental policy.

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                • Saturday, 22 October, 2022
                  UK politics
                  How the markets broke ‘Trussonomics’

                  A visual journey through the collapse of Liz Truss’s ill-fated economic project

                  Liz Truss
                • Friday, 13 May, 2022
                  Transport6 min
                  Are electric air taxis and commuter planes really getting closer? | FT Rethink

                  The FT’s Charlotte Middlehurst reports that there are still major hurdles to overcome to get manned electric vertical take-off and landing craft airborne

                • Monday, 1 November, 2021
                  Climate change
                  Businesses feel the heat when workplace temperatures rise

                  Employers are reviewing where they operate and looking at greater use of automation

                  Hard labour: stone breaking in Dhaka
                • Sunday, 25 July, 2021
                  Coronavirus
                  Why England’s newfound pandemic freedom is alarming for young people

                  Vaccine hesitancy and soaring rates leave the under-30s vulnerable to Covid-19

                  Sami Stebbings receives a dose of a Covid-19 vaccine on board a vaccination bus at the Latitude festival in Henham Park, Southwold, Suffolk, last week
                • Thursday, 6 May, 2021
                  FT SeriesThe new workplace
                  Get ready for the new workplace perks

                  Out go gyms and free meals, in come gong baths and financial advice

                  The pandemic has catalysed a fundamental shift in employee values from free food to flexible hours and additional leave
                • Monday, 26 April, 2021
                  Energy sector
                  Plastics-to-oil recyclers face a double struggle

                  Chemical recyclers look to prove both their viability and environmental credentials

                  Preparing for re-use: Recycling Technologies turns waste plastics into liquid oil
                • Thursday, 8 April, 2021
                  News in-depthWaste management & recycling6 min
                  Chemical recycling: the end of plastic waste?

                  Less than 9 per cent of plastic waste is recycled, but an emerging industry promises to change that

                • Monday, 4 January, 2021
                  News in-depthChinese politics & policy
                  China’s secret prisons in spotlight over Canadians held since 2018

                  Use of foreigners as political tools increasing under Xi Jinping, say campaigners

                • Friday, 13 November, 2020
                  Long Story Short
                  A selection of the FT’s biggest stories and best reads every Friday

                  Charlotte Middlehurst’s top reads this week: Behind the Covid vaccine breakthrough | America’s next Treasury chief? | Banks face heat on fossil fuel lending

                • Wednesday, 11 November, 2020
                  Energy sector
                  Creaking power grids demand investment in new technologies

                  Funding, though growing, must accelerate to keep pace with the investment needed to transform distribution

                • Tuesday, 3 November, 2020
                  Climate change
                  Climate change: how China can achieve its pledge of zero emissions

                  Transition from fossil fuel could include phased switch to renewables, with opportunities for foreign companies

                • Wednesday, 15 July, 2020
                  Special ReportRethinking Energy
                  Global power grids decentralise towards a flexible future

                  Intermittency of growing renewables supply brings efforts to smooth energy supplies

                • Wednesday, 8 July, 2020
                  Waste management & recycling
                  Dumping our trash habits could be a worthwhile lockdown legacy

                  A trip to the reopened local waste centre highlights how consumption patterns have changed

                  Nearly a third of England’s local authorities have reported an increase in household rubbish, but we are now throwing away a third less food
                • Thursday, 14 May, 2020
                  Coronavirus
                  Coronavirus: US death toll surpasses 80,000 — as it happened
                  Physician Sophie Miller (R) adjusts a face shield on May 14, 2020 at the LAC+USC Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, upon delivery by the Greater Los Angeles Hospital Registry, a volunteer run online service connecting health care workers in LA County with personal protective equipment (PPE). - 10,000 face shields were delivered today to 9 hospitals in Los Angeles County, with the equipment donated by philanthropists and several California-based companies. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP) (Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)
                • Tuesday, 12 May, 2020
                  Coronavirus
                  Coronavirus: US daily death count bounces back above 1,500 — as it happened
                  A notice informing customers of social distancing measures is displayed at a restaurant in Tucson, Arizona, U.S., on Monday, May 11, 2020. Restaurants and coffee shops can start offering dine-in service while limiting occupancy and checking employees for Covid-19 symptoms before their shifts, Azcentral reported. Photographer: Cheney Orr/Bloomberg
                • Thursday, 7 May, 2020
                  Coronavirus
                  Coronavirus: New York death toll exceeds 20,000 — as it happened
                  May's full Moon, known as the Full Flower Moon and is the last supermoon of the year, sets behind the Statue of Liberty on May 7, 2020 in New York City. (Photo by Johannes EISELE / AFP) (Photo by JOHANNES EISELE/AFP via Getty Images)
                • Tuesday, 5 May, 2020
                  Coronavirus
                  Coronavirus: US deaths spike as fatalities spread outside NY — as it happened
                  FILE - This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S. On Tuesday, April 21, 2020, U.S. health regulators OK'd the first coronavirus test that allows people to collect their own sample at home, a new approach that could help expand testing options in most states. The sample will still have to be shipped for processing back to LabCorp, which operates diagnostic labs throughout the U.S. (NIAID-RML via AP)
                • Tuesday, 28 April, 2020
                  Coronavirus
                  Coronavirus: US tops 1m Covid-19 cases — as it happened
                  Vice President Mike Pence visits Dennis Nelson, a recovered COVID-19 disease patient who is now donating his blood for research on the virus and disease as Pence tours Mayo Clinic facilities supporting coronavirus disease (COVID-19) research and treatment in Rochester, Minnesota, U.S., April 28, 2020. REUTERS/Nicholas Pfosi TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
                • Thursday, 23 April, 2020
                  Coronavirus
                  Coronavirus: House passes $484bn stimulus bill — as it happened
                  U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to lead the daily coronavirus task force briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 23, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
                • Wednesday, 22 April, 2020
                  Coronavirus
                  Coronavirus: US death toll tops 42,000 — as it happened
                  Mandatory Credit: Photo by JUSTIN LANE/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock (10620325c) People wait in line, some as long as four hours, to be tested for COVID19 at the Gotham Health Center in the Bronx, New York, USA, on 21 April 2020. New York, as well as many other states in the country, is trying to increase the number people being tested for the coronavirus as leaders work on determining safe plans for reopening the economy. New York Coronavirus Testing, Bronx, USA - 21 Apr 2020
                • Tuesday, 21 April, 2020
                  Coronavirus
                  Coronavirus: US death toll nears 40,000 — as it happened
                  A man wearing a mask walks by the New York Stock Exchange, Tuesday, March 17, 2020. Share prices are volatile after a brutal sell-off that gave the U.S. stock market its worst loss in more than three decades. Markets in Europe lost early gains and were trading lower on Tuesday (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
                • Monday, 20 April, 2020
                  Coronavirus
                  Coronavirus: US fatalities slow but top 37,000 — as it happened
                  NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 20: A person crosses the street at very quiet Times Square on April 20, 2020, in New York City. During his daily coronavirus (COVID-19) briefing, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said the death toll dropped below 500 in a 24 hour period for the first time since the peak of the pandemic. (Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)
                • Friday, 17 April, 2020
                  Coronavirus
                  Coronavirus: Texas lays out plans to gradually reopen state economy — as it happened
                  French Gardes Republicains mounted gendarmes check people's mobility document outside a supermarket in Courseulles-sur-Mer, Normandy, on April 17, 2020, on the 32nd day of a strict lockdown in France aimed at curbing the spread of the COVID-19 infection caused by the novel coronavirus. (Photo by LOU BENOIST / AFP) (Photo by LOU BENOIST/AFP via Getty Images)
                • Thursday, 16 April, 2020
                  Coronavirus
                  Coronavirus: US death toll tops 30,000 — as it happened
                  Frontline coronavirus doctors and nurses at Valleywise Health hospital await a donation of PPE by the Chinese Americans COVID-19 Relief AZ organization Thursday, April 16, 2020, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
                • Wednesday, 15 April, 2020
                  Coronavirus
                  Coronavirus: Daily US death toll hits new high of 2,492 — as it happened
                  U.S. President Donald Trump arrives with Vice President Mike Pence for the daily coronavirus task force briefing in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 15, 2020. REUTERS/Leah Millis
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