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...“My grandparents used to work in the potteries,” says Simpson from her garage studio in Mow Cop, a village on the Staffordshire border....
...The 12th-century Normans were followed by the English Protestants and Scottish presbyterians dispatched to the north-eastern corner of the country by the Tudors and Stuarts....
...AIG’s connection with Stowe dates back to the 1940s, when company founder Cornelius V Starr was a frequent visitor....
...Two years ago, he brought to the world a rare and fine William Kent hall bench, in perfectly untouched condition, en suite to the Hall furniture at Holkham, the great Palladian house on the north Norfolk...
...In the village of Snitterfield, a short drive to the north of Stratford, Hamptons is selling a five-bedroom, Grade II-listed Tudor house for £745,000....
...He had the words of William Booth, the founder of the Salvation Army, pinned to his bedroom wall....
...Further up the river, Braehead shopping centre stretches along the banks towards King George V Dock, which is still operational....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Ralph Bowmaker, an interior designer and treasurer of the Pugin Society, lives in a mini gothic revival village in north London called Holly Village....
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
...Kim Wilkie, who designed the V&A’s renowned John Madejski Garden, will discuss his life and work at the V&A on Monday June 18, 7pm-8.45pm £15 (including reception and book signing), tel: +44 (0)20 7942 2277...
...Mike Leonard is an attorney in North Carolina and the descendant of a German family who immigrated to the US in 1750....
...Should you encourage immunisation by dispatching clinics to villages or reward parents with bags of rice? Or both? Or neither?...
...A judge in Regina v....
...H/T to @martyn_williams on Twitter. 0455 – The US Embassy in Tokyo has warned over ‘substantial misinformation’ circulating in Japan at the moment....
...On a warm spring day in Geneva, the tall stern figures of the four “fathers of the Protestant Reformation” – Jean Calvin, John Knox, Theodore de Bèze and William Farel – stare disapprovingly at picnickers...
...Next year we are starting a programme of opera masterclasses at our home under the directorship of the baritone Roderick Williams....
...Mr Brown exudes the seriousness of his Presbyterian roots; Mr Cameron has a toff’s sense of humour. Ultimately, the electorate will weigh experience and solidity against time for a change....
...Tuesday May 3 Penworth 6.30pm Lennon and McCartney impersonators seemed to abound at the village hall in Penworth, a Lancashire village not much bigger than a mud puddle....
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