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...david.gardner@ft.com Letter in response to this column: Back-channel influence on Saudi Arabia is a fiction / From David Alton, House of Lords, London, UK...
...Sisterliness in the office space Andrea Kramer and Alton Harris are respectively a lawyer and a writer....
...One could counter a few others: the boy-king Louis XIV (we are in Paris, after all); or the child-star Macaulay Culkin....
...Not the revamped Crillon in Paris, nor the Lungarno in Florence, I am on my way to Staffordshire for the grand opening of the CBeebies Land Hotel — the world’s first hotel themed around the BBC’s TV channel...
...Merlin’s Alton Towers resort continued to be affected by a rollercoaster crash in 2015. The company said it did not think visitor numbers would return to 2014 levels until the end of next year....
...The FTSE 100 group added trading at its UK theme parks, which include Thorpe Park and Alton Towers, have been “adversely affected in recent weeks by the terror attacks and subsequent heightened security...
...Alton Estate, Roehampton Inspired by Le Corbusier’s L’Unite d’Habitation in Marseille, the Alton Estate was one of Britain’s finest social housing developments....
...Merlin, owner of Alton Towers theme park, dropped 5.4 per cent to 406.7p after JPMorgan Cazenove turned negative on valuation grounds. It also moved to “neutral” on Tui, down 4.9 per cent to £11.94....
...After so many setpieces, possessing a Chanel show ticket has become something akin to owning a freedom pass at Alton Towers: a fully realised first-class experience which is less about the fashion and all...
...Including transportation, a rise of 3.2 per cent is expected due to orders placed during the recent Paris Air show....
...A consortium, initially including Alton Towers, at first proposed converting it into a theme park before coming up with plans for a hotel, shops and offices....
...DWA’s Merlin deal is the studio’s first foray into a space dominated by Walt Disney, which operates vast theme parks in California, Florida, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Paris....
...per cent on its first day of trading in Paris, a week ago....
...The revival of European flotations continued with Tarkett, the French supplier of flooring products, announcing on Monday that it will be listed on the NYSE Euronext Paris exchange....
...In 2009, she went to Disneyland Paris dressed to perfection as the fictional heroine of a fairytale, and was asked to leave by park employees on the grounds that she “was not the real Snow White”....
...Its outgoing chief executive announced that the show’s main competitor for the public’s free time and money was the nearby theme park Alton Towers, and declared that what it needed in order to compete was...
...Disney’s experience with Paris shows international expansion is not a one-way bet....
...He played less of a role in building and running the business than Alton Irby, who had been the fourth partner at Hambro Magan....
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