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...I’m particularly taken by the magnificent gardens filled with the bountiful aroma of trees and flowers from different regions of France. Many of the species were planted centuries ago....
...“Something I’m really passionate about is putting humans into the data, helping us see ourselves within the information,” said the chart’s designer Arlene Birt, visual storyteller and founder of the infodesign...
...If anyone has any excellent recommendations about holiday reading for me (fiction or not), I’m all ears! Top stories today Jitters?...
...I’m now reading his latest, Rogues, and his Wind of Change podcast is in my queue....
...Ian Paisley Jr, MP and son of DUP founder Ian Paisley, on Friday evening defended Poots’ conservative views on abortion, gay rights and other social issues, telling the BBC: “I’m reminded of the Frank Skinner...
...“I’m quite philosophical about where I am at the moment,” the 50-year-old former lawyer insists. “I wish it had happened differently, but it has happened.”...
...I’m giving the [UK] government a little more time to find a solution. I’m trying to be reasonable . . . It means, simply, removing the Irish Sea border.”...
...He added: “I’m speaking to you from a White House designed by an Irish hand, and a nation where Irish blood was spilled in a revolution for independence, and for union and freedom through the years....
...Best of the rest WHAT I’VE BEEN READING ELSEWHERE Arlene Pieper Stine, 90, dies; First woman to finish a marathon I’m training for my second lockdown marathon so enjoyed this tale of a pioneer....
...I’m not going to judge anybody who has the ability to get a vaccine.” Official figures showed there were more than 2m patients in Northern Ireland in 2020 and fewer than 1.9m residents....
...Merger arbitrage funds, which buy shares in M&A targets and bet against the acquirer, gained 7.7 per cent in the first four months of 2021, a marked contrast with last spring’s coronavirus-driven market...
...I’m Irish.” Although Mr Johnson has welcomed Mr Biden’s victory in the US presidential election, he has not urged Donald Trump to concede defeat, nor has he yet spoken to the winner....
...“It was an almost Trumpian act — I’m very pleased that they’ve changed their minds,” he said....
...“I’m going to continue on in the job for as long as the party has confidence in me. There’s a huge job of work to be done,” she said....
...“I think it has the potential to be very very divisive and I’m taking a very different approach,” Mr Martin said....
...“I’m not going to pull down the Northern Ireland executive because of bad behaviour by the deputy first minister because that punishes everybody in Northern Ireland,” she said....
...Arlene Foster, leader of Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist party, has suggested that Boris Johnson is not on top of the detail of his own withdrawal agreement with the EU and said her 10 MPs are unlikely...
...One Eurosceptic minister briefed on Mr Johnson’s plan said last night: “I’m very hopeful of a deal. I’m amazed at what he has achieved — it surpassed my expectations.”...
...● Arlene Foster braced for ‘cash-for-ash’ scandal findings Also this week . . ....
...“I’m less worried about the security than I am about how usable it is for the volunteers,” said Genya Coulter, an election security consultant based in Florida....
...After the dinner Arlene Foster, DUP leader, had said that “talk of a border poll” was not something the prime minister was “entertaining”....
...“I’m going to vote for a party that will block Macron,” said one 45-year-old civil servant taking part in a small gilets jaunes protest outside LREM’s Strasbourg rally....
...The party’s leader Arlene Foster told the BBC: “We believe this is a serious and sensible way forward.”...
...“I’m not going to get caught up in the semantics of that this morning.”...
...Arlene, my wife. How physically fit are you? Pretty fit. I play singles tennis two hours at a time and seldom faint. Ambition or talent: which matters more to success?...
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