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...This quiet marina is filled with old wooden galleys, ultra-modern superyachts and cobbled winding alleys....
...Back on the old road, past rolling wheat fields, I came to Karak, one of the best preserved Crusader castles in the Middle East, built by the wonderfully named Paganus the Butler in the 12th century....
...With the likes of “Make It Easy on Yourself”, initially a 1962 hit for the R&B singer Jerry Butler, Bacharach learnt to incorporate the sounds of black American pop into his orchestrations....
...Either way, a sign above the alley invites the traveller to “rest and refresh yrself” in an “ancient tavern” enjoyed by luminaries such as Charles Dickens and Samuel Butler....
...The Old Dr Butler’s Head 2 Masons Avenue, London EC2V 5BT Good for: Swift pint after work Not so good for: Formal occasions FYI: It’s easy to miss this pub, which is well hidden down an alley Website...
...This includes pubs, restaurants, hotels and guest houses, and clubs, with amusement arcades, snooker halls, bowling alleys and bingo halls also opening....
...Indeed, it is more or less unimaginable to be a woman who lives in a city and not to know what it is to have a dark alley or a quickening footfall make your heart run cold....
...Solicitous, discreet and with elegant tastes, Lee once hoped to be a butler for a wealthy family....
...Liz Alley, head of financial planning operations at Brewin Dolphin, said: “Knowing how the other person visualises your future together is key.”...
...The most evident intervention is a clever recasting of the “forgotten” alley between the two oldest wings, hitherto a place to which (as Rainbird puts it) “rats went to die”, into an airy triple-height roof-lit...
...“Your private butler will organise a hammock for you under the most suitably shady tree, the spa team will pamper you with their unique African treatments, while the chefs serve the freshest seafood to you...
...They had already created one hedge labyrinth at their first township in Butler County, Pennsylvania, when the Harmonists upped sticks and moved west to the frontier....
...Stein, a former editor at the Paris Review who used the same technique with Edie, her biography of the model Edie Sedgwick, weaves together the words of family members, business partners, butlers, lovers...
...his life Fortuny took photographs of all sorts of things and people — he was an early user of the wide-angle lens to show the Grand Canal and the Piazzetta San Marco, but he studied the shadows in the alleys...
...He receives strong support from Ron Cook as a spluttering uncle, the underrated Anthony O’Donnell as a drunken, revolutionary butler and Forbes Masson in a clutch of roles from a Women’s Institute officer...
...The boardroom at Mitchells & Butlers has undergone another shift with Bob Ivell taking on the role of executive chairman, while interim chief executive Jeremy Blood has stepped down....
...Continued growth in food sales in the past two months at Mitchells & Butlers, prompted analysts to upgrade their earnings estimates for the pub group ahead of annual results later in the year....
...AMF already owns 33 bowling alleys in the UK....
...Investors had some reason to expect something much bigger, following the company’s disposal of £500m in drinks-led pubs, bowling alleys and hotels this year....
...But the French film is more comfortable when it flees grand statements into the by-alleys of hypnotic subplotting....
...Mitchells & Butlers has become the latest pub operator to scrap its final dividend and slash capital spending plans to try to reduce debt....
...M&B, owner of restaurants, bowling alleys and the All Bar One chain, had planned to sell Mr Tchenguiz a 50 per cent share of 1,300 pubs with associated rents of £240m a year....
...The volatility in the credit markets claimed another victim on Thursday, as Mitchells & Butlers was forced to shelve a £4.5bn pub joint venture with Robert Tchenguiz, the property billionaire....
...Mitchells & Butlers, the pub and restaurant group, could return up to £1bn to shareholders from a refinancing of its pub portfolio....
...Mitchells & Butlers is in discussions with Robert Tchenguiz, the property investor, over a joint venture for its property assets, valuing them at £4.5bn, after coming under pressure to unlock the worth of...
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