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...The lighting alone at Anna Lapwood’s solo Prom performance — at London’s Royal Albert Hall last week — would have given an average church organist a heart attack....
...As directed by veteran Shekhar Kapur (Elizabeth), our heroine is Zoe (Lily James), a chipper, socially conscious documentary maker whose home is a houseboat, prettily moored by Chelsea’s Albert Bridge....
...In fact, Albert Camus remarked: “If I hadn’t read The Widow Couderc, I wouldn’t have written The Outsider as I did.”...
...After Prince Albert died in 1861, Queen Victoria set a fashion for mourning jewellery made from the black gemstone jet. “Jet was very expensive,” says Katz. “ . . ....
...Over 35 blissful minutes in 1956, French director Albert Lamorisse’s classic The Red Balloon forever sealed the relationship between cinema, childhood and a splash of colour soaring skywards....
...He wears a tweed baker boy cap and holds a battered shepherd’s crook (“I bought it in the Lake District in 1974 when we were filming Tommy”)....
...If we’re going straight to the match, we pop into Fisherman’s Hut, next to Shepherd’s Bush Market tube....
...Albert Eight-year-old Albert is a cross between a Dalmatian and a springer spaniel – or a dinger – and lives in London with the actress Eileen Walsh and her family....
...Last year, 53-year-old Damien Albert, Daniel’s colleague with a huge amount of off-piste expertise, lost his life while leading a group of clients....
...Until he died of prostate cancer last week, aged 81, he and his wife, Judith Stringer, kept two German shepherds....
...The band is from Shepherd’s Bush, where I live – which is cool, because nothing comes from Shepherd’s Bush. An indulgence I would never forgo is Cornish Quartz Cheddar....
...Albert encouraged them to tend the plots with the bribe that he would buy their produce for Osborne’s kitchen. Like the other garden-obsessed power brokers Albert’s interest was more than an escape....
...In order to deliver the genes into the body, Bennett would need to package the cloned DNA inside a delivery vehicle that would shepherd it to the intended cells....
...The £1bn Asian Business Port project at the Royal Albert Docks in east London is the latest in a series of Chinese-backed projects to have stalled, despite prominent efforts on the part of British politicians...
...While music photographs have often achieved cult status – and the occasional high price – the success of the Victoria and Albert Museum’s David Bowie exhibition in 2013 and allusions to rock from the 1970s...
...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...
...British works include a major painting by Samuel Palmer, “Shepherd with Moon and Evening Star”, as well as Clark’s most famous purchase, Turner’s “Seascape: Folkestone”, revealing what he once described...
...Mike Shepherd bears a slight facial resemblance to Wilfrid Brambell but is sprightlier and less (deliberately) whiny....
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...The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, by Ayana Mathis, Hutchinson, RRP£12.99, 256 pages A first novel following the contrasting fortunes of the 11 children and one grandchild of Hattie Shepherd, the African-American...
...There was the comedian Ade Edmondson playing “thrash mandolin” with his group the Bad Shepherds, who specialise in reworking punk songs in the style of Celtic folk music....
...He is presently an Albert Einstein Fellow in Berlin...
...If ever Wall Street produced a long-distance runner, literally and figuratively, then it was surely Albert Hamilton Gordon, known as Al, who has died at the age of 107....
...I remember seeing Melly perform once at the Chelsea Arts Ball, a glittering fancy dress affair held at the Albert Hall....
...Rob Shepherd, managing director of London’s leading hand bookbinders Shepherds, started his career as a book restorer and is passionate about endpapers. “You can date a book by its endpapers,” he says....
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