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...Thompson’s appointment, first reported by Sky News, will be effective immediately and ends a protracted search for a replacement for previous HS2 boss Allan Cook, who left in July 2021....
...Need to know: business John Allan, chair of British supermarket chain Tesco, is to step down next month following misconduct claims....
...Allan Jordan is a maritime historian with expertise in cruise ships. “Finance for the buyer is the whole problem, because you’re not selling a true asset like a piece of property....
...Also on the block at Sotheby’s is the refined collection of Hester Diamond, who died last year....
...They vary from the ornate, scalloped patterns of Suffolk and Norfolk, with their elaborate diamond patterns, to the simple, “flush” style of the south-west, where the roof line is continued smoothly all...
...Job moves Landsec, the UK’s largest listed property group by assets, has appointed Mark Allan as chief executive to replace Robert Noel, who announced his retirement earlier this year after a decade at...
...The UK Foreign Office advises against tourism to the country The best herring in Jutland Tom Allan I was meant to eat at Noma in the spring....
...I long for the colourful diamond knit worn by Christopher Wood in his 1927 self-portrait, and the pink sweater captured by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye in her glorious Jewel painting of 2012....
...diamonds now in the British crown jewels....
...An 813 carat rough diamond called The Constellation has been sold for $63m — a record value for an unpolished stone according to Lucara Diamond Corp, the Canadian mining company that found it....
...Philippe Mellier highlighted how De Beers, the world’s largest diamond producer by value, cut output last year to try to revive the market amid waning demand for diamond jewellery, partly because of China...
...It “reflects the type of organisation we are”, Allan Leighton, the mutual’s chairman, said....
...The Incredible Bongo Band broke up in 1974 — King Errisson later touring with Neil Diamond, and Michael Viner becoming a publisher who died of cancer in 2009....
...He takes ancient Greek coins and Roman intaglio and sets them in 18-carat gold, often surrounded by fine diamonds or rubies, selling them for up to £30,000....
...He will take over at Worldpay from John Allan, who recently became chairman of retailer Tesco and also chairs housebuilder Barratt Developments. Mr Allan will stay on the board....
...But the shares are up 50 per cent since July to a two-year high, and trade on 22 times forecast earnings, writes Matthew Allan....
...“Number 10 may think this has been buried by the [Queen’s diamond] jubilee, but this will keep on running.” The Tory MP Nadine Dorries said Lady Warsi should resign to clear her name....
...… Digital Leighton Former Royal Mail chairman Allan Leighton has bagged another digital venture....
...Forget diamond-studded skulls and unmade beds: there is a contemporary art genre still under the radar of many collectors and dealers: performance art....
...plc) River Diamonds UK Limited Hotel Cardoso SARL Swissta Mozambique LDA Is this a record?...
...Featuring insight from John Thain, Bob Diamond, Rodgin Cohen, David Nason, Bryan Marsal and Pete Peterson....
...Long service would be rewarded with the addition of a tiny diamond to the employee’s pin. “If you lost it, you’d have to pay $41 for another,” one worker recalls. “More if you’d been given a diamond.”...
...If echoes of Agon and Diamonds hovered in the air, the shifting balances of power, courtly encounters and lyrical flow commended themselves....
...Allan Wilen, economics director of the Construction Products Association, said foreign interest in the area was partly owing to the flexibility and openness of the UK’s financial markets....
...The towns in Arctic Russia not benefiting from the rush to claim the region are those without oil fields or diamond mines....
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