Hints and tips:
...Our neighbours turned out to be Anthony Hanson, an international wine expert at Christie’s, and Rosi Hanson, a wine and food writer who had worked for the great Elizabeth David....
...The best book I’ve read in the past year is North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell. I love old classics and wordy fiction....
...Queen Elizabeth 2 was a transatlantic liner launched into the space age....
...Jack Cade; and Edward IV’s queen Elizabeth Woodville is played with characteristic powerful directness by Alexandra Gilbreath, too seldom seen onstage of late....
...In December, CRH sold Ibstock, one of the UK’s three biggest brick manufacturers alongside Wienerberger and Hanson, to Bain Capital in a £414m deal, showing private equity’s appetite for exposure to the...
...The UK’s big three — CRH-owned Ibstock, Wienerberger, and Hanson, part of HeidelbergCement — went into the downturn with 55 brickworks between them. By 2013, just 34 remained....
...Pirie’s contribution, in 2002, was a twin-volume guide to Fragmenta Regalia, Sir Robert Naunton’s account of the main figures in the court of Queen Elizabeth I....
...“In the mix we have developed over the past 40, 50 years in the Lords, there are very high-profile people with business backgrounds, like James Hanson, Gordon White, John King and Jeffrey Sterling....
...The sale generated plenty of interest from private equity groups, with PAI, Doughty Hanson and Charterhouse all expressing interest before dropping out in the later stages of the auction....
...PAI, BC Partners, Doughty Hanson and Charterhouse are likely to join Permira and Lion Capital, which own Birds Eye Iglo and Findus Group respectively, when initial bids are tabled for Unilever’s Findus Italy...
...Relatives have come forward to identify some of the dead, including one woman, Elizabeth Hanson, 31, an analyst and expert on Islamic extremism....
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