Hints and tips:
...Allegra, 20 International Way, London E20; allegra-restaurant.com Cloudy Bay Summer Terrace at Oxo Tower Restaurant Dine on the eighth floor in a botanical-style garden with views over the Thames....
...Taking over the space that previously housed The Gilbert Scott, the Midland Grand showcases the talents of chef Patrick Powell, who’s also the chef at the Handelsman-owned Allegra at the Stratford Hotel....
...The terrace and garden at Allegra is open from 4pm on Wednesday and Thursday, and from 12pm Friday to Sunday. 20 International Way, E20; book at allegra-restaurant.com 8 La Veranda by Patrón at Rosewood...
...In 1982, the Eton master Martin Hammond wrote to Johnson’s father: “I think he honestly believes that it is churlish of us not to regard him as an exception, one who should be free of the network of obligation...
...But on receipt of the email about a party, one of us would surely have asked Martin Reynolds, the principal private secretary who sent it, what on earth our dear leader thought he was doing....
...Allegra Nayar, Wellington College: Turkey needs a profound change in economic policy....
...“This is the toughest it’s been in more than two decades,” said Jeffrey Young, chief executive of Allegra Strategies, a food retail consultancy firm....
...In her biography, Purnell recalls a school report sent by letter to Johnson’s father by Martin Hammond, Master in College at Eton....
...For my dry cough and runny nose, he prescribes ibuprofen and the allergy medicine Allegra, and there is a little something in the tea, too....
...Peter Martin, director at CGA Peach, says the chain should be treated as a serious contender in the coffee market....
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...Martin Amis, the novelist, theorises that Britain has dealt with its decline as a force in the world by embracing frivolity....
...Both join from Odey Asset Management, where they co-managed the Odey Allegra Global fund....
...What I would really like to do is finally read Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom and, much more eagerly, Allegra Goodman’s The Cookbook Collector....
...Yet Sanofi-Aventis’s softly spoken head of research used to play rugby and still uses the sport as a metaphor to explain his vision of the pharmaceutical industry, writes Martin Arnold....
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