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...Spencer Flower, Dorset’s Conservative council leader, has a simple edict when it comes to defending his blue fiefdom from a Liberal Democrat insurgency: don’t let Rishi Sunak’s disunited MPs anywhere near...
...(Glass found it a “funny parallel” for a still from Pablo Larraín’s film Spencer, which shows Stewart’s Princess Diana hugging a toilet.)...
...plant pot and vase, £146.22, connox.co.uk Louis Vuitton cord and leather Swing chair by Patricia Urquiola, £28,600 Guess cotton-mix top, £75 Gucci porcelain Herbarium Bee incense burner, £235 Oliver Spencer...
...Accessories like a tie pin or lapel flower absolutely make a morning dress outfit. So does your tie knot — wear a small, tight knot with a dimple. A loose tie ruins the look.”...
...Spencer Neumann, Netflix chief financial officer, said the company would be “pulling back” on spending growth over the next two years, as it seeks to maintain its operating profit margin at about 20 per...
...UK, the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, a key networking event in the London calendar, opens in the gardens of the Royal Hospital Chelsea....
...The couple married in 1953 — with their friend Stanley Spencer in attendance — and never returned to China, by then under communist control....
...The guests wore kilts and glittering evening gowns; the tables groaned with silver and flowers. We were piped into dinner and served cognac in the drawing room after the speeches....
...Humblingly, it was Marks and Spencer that came closest to the very specific form of perfection I sought....
...As senior agronomist at Marks and Spencer, he has first pick of new varieties that will entice middle-class shoppers to pay premium prices....
...Dining cars were a rarity on my trips: one fellow traveller told me, “The key to using sleeper trains these days is a good Marks and Spencer’s salad.”...
...Christine Spencer “I was Christine Evans. And in 1974 I was the youngest ever female dealer on the floor, just before my 18th birthday....
...Marks and Spencer tweeted: “We join the Royal Family and the nation in their grief and offer the Royal Family our heartfelt condolences.”...
...Some of the drama around Sir Philip Green’s unsuccessful bid for Marks and Spencer in 2004 allegedly unfolded at a Chelsea gala evening....
...As for complaints by unionists that they could no longer buy cherished products such as flowers from Marks and Spencer and shortbread with royal patterns, Varadkar said many reports were anecdotal....
...Separately, in the capital, the Chelsea Flower Show opens at the Royal Hospital Chelsea....
...It was when Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer in 1981 that media attention snowballed. The ceremony was watched by 750mn people around the world....
...It’s a kaleidoscopic affair, with flowers, dogs and half-clothed figures spread out above fireplaces, on doors, beneath windows....
...Lady Diana Spencer, who married Prince Charles in 1981 to become Princess of Wales, would quickly become an international celebrity who outshone her husband and mother-in-law....
...The monkfish, another star dish, arrives grilled and topped with bilahir tok, a tangy tomato chutney, and kol phool (banana flowers) on a bed of creamy sauce....
...I do love a tray laden with breakfast things: juice and toast and fresh flowers....
...Native flowers and trees will be planted....
...“Just two years ago, there wasn’t a black-owned anything on this street,” says Janice Spencer, a 67-year-old retired finance-industry worker....
...The vicarage fills up with flowers. People stop in the street to offer condolences. Christmas looms....
...Personal because of its intimacy, its understated and informal elegance (no flower beds, just trees and a few spring blooms) and its hidden dells....
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