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...One version of the Rovers Return, the pub from the world’s longest-running TV soap opera Coronation Street, sticks incongruously out of the surviving studios....
...Wives Like Us by Plum Sykes is published by Harper at $28; published in the UK on 14 May at £18.99...
...Spit into a tube, post it to a lab and a genetics testing company will email you the results for as little as $99....
...In Devon, The Collective at Woolsery — a pub, shop, cottages and farm created by tech entrepreneurs Michael and Xochi Birch — uses bokashi composted waste from the pub to feed vermicompost (worm compost)...
...The result is a decent 9 per cent abv Riesling (£11.99 for 75cl, majestic.co.uk) and rather nettly 9.5 per cent abv Sauvignon Blanc (£9.99 for 75cl, waitrose.com) – the latter is a particular breakthrough...
...While his older siblings were out and his father was at the pub, he was getting an alternative education watching Channel 4, the fourth terrestrial channel with edgy, more modern programming....
...Non-executive directors Robert Moorhead and Tea Colaianni also got in on the action, buying a cumulative £99,000-worth of shares....
...There are more people feeling the pinch and willing to buy something “fallen off the back of the lorry” down the pub or at a car boot sale....
...But business data provides a clearer reading on lifestyle trends than pub quips or straw polls....
...So, rather than actually writing words ourselves, here’s mainFT’s sister pub Ignites Europe from a few weeks ago: Asset managers have been dropping the word “sustainable” from the names of funds in response...
...“It’s more evident in retail — suddenly that £9.99 wine becomes £10.50 and the volume will drop massively.”...
...Some 99 per cent of the perpetrators never faced justice. Many SS members simply returned to their lives after the war....
...But that’s like complaining when a pub serves beer: meta-intrusions are a requisite of Auster novels. Auster, who is 76, finished Baumgartner while unwell — he is being treated for cancer....
...How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney Harvill Secker £16.99, 304 pages...
...We make a stop en route to deposit my boyfriend’s brother in a pub, which happens to be opposite Martello Terrace, where the novelist James Joyce lived by the sea between 1887 and 1891....
...Last month, the non-alc lager brand Lucky Saint (£42.50 for 24 x 330ml) opened a pub in Marylebone to cater for the one in three UK pub visits now apparently alcohol-free....
...The Bee Sting by Paul Murray, Hamish Hamilton £18.99, 656 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Patience writes with a newsman’s sharp eye — grim Glasgow pubs and their yellow-eyed drinkers are lovingly sketched — and the snappy dialogue is enlivened by an acerbic wit....
...Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan Jonathan Cape £16.99/Little, Brown $27, 224 pages Melissa Harrison’s most recent novel is ‘All Among the Barley’ Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books...
...Not 4.99. 499. Ethan Wu$499 a month, not $4.99. It’s a truly astounding price tag. Katie MartinAre you sure? Ethan WuI’m pretty sure....
...His loathing for his work is matched by his love for the city, “the rain, the pubs, the pasty women”....
...One option available to the Wagamama owners is to offload its 80-site pub business Brunning and Price, which people close to Oasis believe could fetch £160mn for its freeholds or upwards of £250mn for the...
...Townsend says many of her employees own homes in Andover, 10km from her pub....
...I’m an only child, but we still have a jolly time: my dad has taken to year-round barbecuing as he can’t stand the built-in Aga, and we’re usually at the pub before four....
...Some shitty pub where I once saw The Damned. That kind of thing.”...
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