Hints and tips:
...Now aged 77, Pelly confines her triking to local runs near her Gloucestershire home or up to Scotland to see her son, and even uses the 1,500cc automatic machine for the occasional supermarket trip....
...In 2001, Galli Zugaro helped a local firm launch two boats in the Galápagos. They were plush; but he had higher aims....
...A local court has imposed a ban preventing the ship’s captain, chief engineer and assistant engineer from leaving the country....
...“Making money from injustice is no longer something that Wall Street countenances,” said AFT president Randi Weingarten. “Mass incarceration disproportionately hurts people of colour . . ....
...But the SS Antoinette was much better from the inside: bars fore and aft and another on the open deck, a bijou resistance pool, a gym and a cinema....
...The company had been founded here and local pride in the fact remains. I watched the grey slip-slap of the Mersey as hundreds of new faces came up the passenger gangway....
...They cruise the Quirimbas archipelago with a guide, butler and local crew, sleeping in mobile fly-camps set up on uninhabited islands....
...AFT and other unions contributed more than $1m to the election campaign of Fenty’s opponent, Vincent Gray, who is now Washington’s mayor. Rhee resigned with Fenty....
...Massport, Logan airport’s operator, said a Japan Airlines 787 had been taxiing towards the runway at 12.25pm local time when a fuel leak was spotted....
...Who: Houlihan Lawrence, www.houlihanlawrence.com, tel: +1 845 677 6161 (US), +44 (0)20 7467 5330 (UK)...
...Evolution is slow, but despite the recession, AFT is growing....
...“One of the things we always say is that the best protective tool [against sprawl] is a profitable farmer,” says Jimmy Daukas, policy director of the AFT....
...Working from period designs with Chris Rees, a local boat builder and designer, Goss and the build-team have constructed the boat – much of it using local oak – in just 10 months....
...Sporting a full berth aft, a proper stand-up toilet in the cabin and plenty of seating inside and out, it’s clear that Claes has an eye for the more technical points of Finnish form and function....
...FT: On another related tax issue … there is a concern over the abolition of the 10p tax rate, and there’s a suggestion that this will hurt Labour at the local elections....
...As our first lunch was laid out, the two small fore and aft-decks bristled with action: the enormous sails – made from double-stitched stripes of scarlet and cream – were hoisted to reveal billowing clouds...
International Edition