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...Take me to a vine-shaded terrace in Tuscany . . . £14.99 (for 75cl bottle), 1.5 litre magnum for £28.99 Waitrose Marchiori & Barraud Malbec 2022 Mendoza (14.5%)Bittersweet and completely unlike most Argentine...
...made a within-estimate £11.7mn (£13.7mn with fees)....
...September 5 to 14; further information here European Heritage Days A key event in the autumn, the European Heritage Days take place every September....
...Gas prices have risen from $3.73 per gallon in January to $5.75 in July. The protests, which intensified last week, began at the end of June....
...The Mendoza Review, a 2017 government-commissioned review of museums in England, noted the precarious finances of museums in the face of these maintenance demands....
...Aloe-vera pulp over a tomato side salad added a sweet, minty tang — most welcome in Singapore’s 30C heat....
...It appears to show the online grooming of a young girl aged between 11 and 13....
...Since the Fed meeting, the price of the yellow metal has climbed to $1,406 per troy ounce, its highest level since August 2013....
...Rappler had exposed Twinmark’s practices in its December 2017 report — 13 months before Facebook banned the company....
...The Mendoza Review, established by the UK government to investigate public spending on museums and galleries, reported in 2017 that funds in England had declined by 13 per cent, from £829m in 2007 to £720m...
...Aman, Otemachi Tower, 1-5-6 Otemachi, Chiyoda (aman.com). Daikanyama T, 17-5 Sarugakucho, Shibuya (real.tsite.jp/daikanyama/english)....
...By 2050, 17 per cent of the world’s population — or 1.6bn people — will be over 65 years old, up from 8.5 per cent in 2015, according to a report by the US government....
...Who Christie’s International Real Estate, christiesrealestate.com, tel: +1 406 249 1764 Secret Garden, Corfu, Greece, €4.3m Where On a hillside in Gastouri, a village 10km south of Corfu Town with views...
...General Motors posted a 5.8 per cent sales dip to 244,406, much steeper than the 0.5 per cent fall that had been expected by KBB....
...European markets Eurofirst 300 up +32.72 (+2.20%) at 1,517 FTSE100 up +150.13 (+2.11%) at 7,265 CAC 40 up +209.65 (+4.14%) at 5,269 Dax up +406.41 (+3.37%) at 12,455 Currencies €/$ 1.09 (1.09) $/¥ 110.19...
...+0.08%) at 1,558 FTSE100 up +67.66 (+0.91%) at 7,522 CAC 40 unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 5,406 Dax unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 12,805 Currencies €/$ 1.11 (1.11) $/¥ 112.33 (113.11) £/$ 1.29 (1.29) €/£ 0.8596...
...) at 5,269 European markets Eurofirst 300 up +1.71 (+0.13%) at 1,350 FTSE100 up +70.04 (+1.02%) at 6,919 CAC 40 unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 4,444 Dax unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 10,406 Currencies €/$ 1.12...
...Markets Asian markets Nikkei 225 down -559.43 (-3.15%) at 17,191 Topix down -45.77 (-3.15%) at 1,406 Hang Seng down -455.25 (-2.34%) at 18,992 US markets S&P 500 down -36.35 (-1.87%) at 1,903 DJIA down...
...Virgin Money gained 6.5 per cent to 379p, with Investec Securities advising a switch out of OneSavings Bank on valuation grounds. OneSavings lost 1.5 per cent to 379p....
...AA dropped 13.1 per cent to 289.6p after the motor insurer cautioned with in-line interim results that higher taxes would increase customer churn rates and put pressure on prices....
...Markets Asian markets Nikkei 225 down -343.74 (-1.89%) at 17,891 Topix down -32.30 (-2.15%) at 1,471 Hang Seng down -194.30 (-0.86%) at 22,406 US markets S&P 500 down -13.77 (-0.68%) at 2,004 DJIA down...
...Peers across the luxury goods space slid after the earnings report, with shares of Coach falling 5 per cent to $34.68, Vera Bradley declining 4 per cent to $13.48, and Fossil sliding 7 per cent to $70.55...
...€/$ 1.13 (1.13) $/¥ 124.29 (124.24) £/$ 1.53 (1.53) €/£ 0.7351 (0.7345) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.20 at 63.60 Light Crude (Nymex) down -0.24 at 59.40 100 Oz Gold (Comex) up +0.60 at 1,185...
...The average price of a home in the capital is now a record £406,730, said Nationwide — 35 per cent above the 2007 peak....
...Vera Lynn....
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