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...Alan Plampton, a retired accountant from Cromarty in Scotland, has been monitoring rising food prices more closely over the past year. But he refuses to skimp....
...Towards the end of my conversation with Suzy Klein, new head of arts and classical music at the BBC, in a Shepherd’s Bush café, I recall the days when the local market used to have a record shop which opened...
...Fan and merch seller Alan Guthrie forever regrets passing up a £5 tour T-shirt, worth £450 now. The band picked up another fan, Tony, who enlivened their stage shows with his wacky interpretive dance....
...Her “Pilgrimage into Walden XII — The Honor of Shepherds” creates six guardian shepherds overseeing a medieval fantasy land: ancient concepts of morality and narrative encased in the latest tech....
...My dinner could not have been more local — shepherd’s pie with slow-braised Herdwick lamb, and a pint from the Grasmere Brewery, a mile down the road....
...But what does a shepherd’s staff symbolise in 2020, when the closest most of us will get to herding is in the queue outside the grocer’s to pick up a pint of milk?...
...A handful of essays on visual artists, including a piece on her husband, the abstract painter Alan Cote, feel extraneous....
...Even his friend, the critic Alan Pryce-Jones, described him as “quick under the fat, disloyal, an admirable destroyer. A great taker of quiet notes.”...
...And among the famous performers who tottered down that perilous staircase were Alan Rickman, Andrew Scott, Frances de la Tour and Phoebe Waller-Bridge....
...‘At Least Wave Your Handkerchief At Me’ is out now on Glitterbeat Letter in response to this article: Albania was less cut off than people imagine / From Dr Alan Bullion, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, UK...
...In 1959 he signed up as a test pilot for the newly created National Aeronautics and Space Administration along with six others who also carved their names in the history of space — Alan Shepherd, Virgil...
...ex-nun who pitches up in Alan Bennett’s north London driveway in a battered van in 1970-something and never leaves....
...Christian Shepherd...
...For me, the best politician’s memoir of recent years has been Alan Johnson’s This Boy (2013), because it was hardly about his political career at all....
...All three executive directors bought into the optimism this week, with Matthew Weiner and Marcus Shepherd both increasing their stakes by 8 per cent....
...Duncan; Hulton Archive/Getty Images; Chris Ratcliffe/Getty Images; Ed Shepherd Photography; John Tarlton/Getty Images...
...Much of literary London has passed through its doors, many of them today: playwright Alan Bennett visited this morning, Booker Prize-winning novelist Alan Hollinghurst is here tonight....
...nicholas.lander@ft.com ——————————————- Shikumen 58 Shepherd’s Bush Green, London W12 8QE 020 8740 9978; shikumen.co.uk...
...Ed Miliband’s plan to raise the national minimum wage to £8 by 2020 is “not at all ambitious”, Labour’s former health secretary Alan Milburn will say on Monday....
...Peter Aspden is the FT’s art writer Photographs: Peter Aspden; Jill Furmanovsky; Alan Burles/Alamy...
...President Barack Obama introduced Sylvia Mathews Burwell on Friday as his choice to shepherd the next phase of the Affordable Care Act, his signature health law....
...The problem is that the Committee refuses to describe what it expects to happen to Bank Rate to shepherd those expectations in the right direction....
...LHT o2academybirmingham.co.uk , 0844 477 2000 … Sohn, September 12, Shepherds Bush Empire, London, then touring Based in Vienna but from the UK, Sohn (real name Christopher Taylor) is an electronic...
...The Shepherd’s Life: A Tale of the Lake District, by James Rebanks, Allen Lane, RRP£16.99 Part shepherd’s calendar, part memoir, part encomium for fell farming, Rebank’s book follows the four seasons to...
...Mike Shepherd bears a slight facial resemblance to Wilfrid Brambell but is sprightlier and less (deliberately) whiny....
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