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...That’s why they have to react so quickly,” said Simon Gammon, a mortgage broker at Knight Frank. At the end of 2023 there was a rally in bond markets that prompted lenders to lower mortgage rates....
...Prime Minister Rishi Sunak joked at the Christmas party for lobby journalists: “When I ask Sir Keir where the money is coming from to fund his £28bn spending spree, he turns into the Silent Knight.”...
...Why The castle has a long history dating back to the 13th century, including an owner said to have hosted Mary Queen of Scots....
...No, it’s Falstaff, the roguish old knight who hangs out with Prince Hal in east London’s less reputable taverns in Henry IV....
...Monetary policy: Federal Reserve governor Michelle Bowman, Cleveland Fed president Loretta Mester and San Francisco Fed president Mary Daly will all participate in events today....
...Simon Gammon, managing partner at mortgage broker Knight Frank Finance, said: “Rates at this level are going to come as a shock to the 1.4mn or so households that face remortgaging this year.”...
...In Smyrna (now Izmir), Timur ordered that all the captured Knights Hospitaller be beheaded, then catapulted their heads into the galleys of their colleagues who had fled by sea....
...Imogen West-Knights is a writer based in London. Her first novel, ‘Deep Down’, is out now Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
...The Washington-based SOC, chaired by Mary Kay Henry, is a group that includes the 2mn-member Service Employees International Union....
...Take a break from the news Find out how a patents expert, a music professor and a software engineer set about cracking a 445-year-old code to reveal the secrets of Mary Queen of Scots....
...In January 2008, when Nicholas was 21, he messaged an 18-year-old college student named Mary Grebinski on MySpace....
...She also often collaborated with writers such as Jan Morris and VS Pritchett – most famously shooting the photographs for Mary McCarthy’s seminal literary study The Stones of Florence....
...He wrote, as the saying goes, as if there was no tomorrow, rattling off a thinly autobiographical 300-page novel, Mary Balfour’s Apple Tree, while working on Jacob’s Ladder....
...Household names on the list include fashion designer Mary Quant, rock star Brian May, artist Grayson Perry and Virginia McKenna, the actress and wildlife campaigner....
...“We’re unmasking what has been going on — which is a service that is on its knees,” Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said....
...For Venezuela-born Mary Perez, it’s the butcher, Italian deli and a French café in “Stratford Village” south of Kensington High Street that keeps her in the affluent west London neighbourhood....
...But one day she found a spare wooden board and decided to create an image of the Virgin Mary, the likes of which she had seen countless times in the Prado as a child....
...Who Albury & Hall Ottery St Mary, Devon, £4mn Where In a rural location 2.5 miles outside the town of Ottery St Mary in East Devon. It’s a 20-minute drive to Exeter airport....
...Neither Lost Mary or Elf Bar, which combined account for more than half of all vapes sold in the UK, had a stand there....
...“It’s about us doing what’s not expected,” says Knight, who walks that talk in the kitchen....
...The FT's Imogen West-Knights tells us that it's mostly heard by middle-aged women. So is it a real noise, an imaginary illness, or both?...
...In 1992, Crisp was made a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog in Denmark and in 2005 he was awarded an OBE “for services to ballet”....
...Lyall has been a mainstay of Scottish traditional music groups from the Treacherous Orchestra, a crowded supergroup, to the punk-folk outfit Croft No. 5, and has toured with artists from Kate Rusby to Mary...
...From the stage, hosts from estate agency Knight Frank posed a question: “Are offices more in demand than ever?”...
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