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...Q4, IG Group Q3 trading update, John Lewis Partnership FY, Moonpig trading update, Munich Re FY, OSB Group FY, RWE FY, Savills FY, Vistry Group FY Friday European Central Bank chief economist Philip Lane...
...The combined haul of Shiva Baby, Les Olympiades (also known as Paris, 13th District) and Rye Lane is less than the $194mn made by the first Downton Abbey movie — to the tune of about $190mn....
...Not for nothing does the Financial Times blend Lex and Lane Fox in its Weekend menu....
...Approach from one direction, along a leafy lane, and you will spot the genteel signage of The Black Swan — the perfect place to take your grandparents for a pre-theatre pie....
...The 10,000 sq ft Bode studio in Brooklyn is stuffed to the ceiling with antique quilts, salvaged textiles and vintage checked tablecloths....
...The flowers on the Queen’s coffin for Westminster Abbey were superbly matched, chosen and arranged....
...Coffee-Bike at St Paul’s Cathedral Warwick Lane, London EC4M 8AD Good for: Experiencing a London landmark Not so good for: Quiet contemplation....
...But planes occupy all the best real estate, casting their dappled shade over Berkeley Square and Park Lane, Westminster Abbey and Aldwych....
...The first Starlink satellites will be deployed to provide connectivity to a few specific isolated sites, including a 12th-century abbey in the North York Moors National Park, and rescue operations in the...
...The line runs from Shenfield in Essex and Abbey Wood in south London to Heathrow and Reading in the west in a vaguely “X”shape, putting several lesser-known areas on the map....
...With more strikes in the offing, of course, and a service at Westminster Abbey. David HoyleThe NHS was and still is, a glimpse of the new heaven and the new earth that is promised....
...Low, undulating countryside unfurls in every direction, covered in quilts of alternating vineyard and woodland stitched together by meandering two-lane roads....
...He makes it clear that any expedition down obliterated tracks — Pudding Mill Lane, Marshgate Lane, Temple Mill Lane — is an exercise in elective disorientation....
...’ve always been obsessed with antique quilts....
...During the day, guests sat here drinking tea; at night, quilts were unrolled over the heated clay surface for sleeping....
...The palatial Abbey Mills pumping station — topped with a turret reminiscent of an Orthodox church — is so striking it might even warrant a brief stop for a more considered look. But I keep going....
...The trees stand on either side of a footbridge on Cox’s Walk, from which Camille Pissarro painted “Lordship Lane Station, Dulwich” in 1871, now hanging in the Courtauld Gallery....
...Now, she makes songs with an orchestra recorded in Abbey Road Studios. “[It’s] just amazing to watch,” she says. “Very surreal.”...
...Downton Abbey has a gin flavoured with rhubarb. Botanic gardens sell own-brand gins with “botanicals” that give them distinctive flavours....
...His poetry on natural landscape and his changing relationship to it too are masterpieces, from “Tintern Abbey” to the unsurpassed “Prelude”. Yet he grew to appreciate gardened landscapes too....
...In the book, Emma and others visit Mr Knightley’s Donwell Abbey and stop to eat strawberries from the beds....
...Bolder still is the Jealous Wall, a neo-Gothic folly built to resemble the ruins of an abbey in Mullingar, County Westmeath, in Ireland....
...Quilt makers, jewellers, florists, fabric designers and botanical illustrators all feature, while the pairings across the pages – such as Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers alongside Canadian photographer Jeff...
...It’s not as if the centuries prior to the Renaissance were completely devoid of curiosity or progress: the St Albans abbey church that Westwyk would have attended boasted “the world’s most advanced astronomical...
...It looks like a fragment of Venice eccentrically relocated, or perhaps the archaeological remains of the medieval abbey that once stood here. It is, in fact, a folly dating from about a decade ago....
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