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...The comparison made Alton Towers seem cramped and tatty, with extensive queues even on a damp Monday. Alton Towers will sell you, at a painful price, the ability to skip those queues....
...Until recently, the most démodé kitchen object was not a specific implement but an entire category, what celebrity chef Alton Brown calls “unitaskers”: implements that have only one function....
...Tucked down the cast list in last year’s sequinned biopic Elvis was actor Alton Mason, playing the wildcat rock’n’roller whose example shaped the young Presley....
...Hartley’s formula for a good cress sandwich was to butter slices of brown bread and to use sprigs of cress dipped in crunchy salt....
...Mike Brown, Eric Garner, Philando Castile, Alton Sterling, Freddie Gray, Breonna Taylor — these, along with dozens of others, are the names protesters chant so that they are not forgotten....
..., Freddie Gray, Alton Sterling, Walter Scott, the list goes on)....
...“Ted Baker’s strong start to the year should provide confidence in earnings and outlook”, said Wayne Brown, analyst at Liberum....
...Merlin Entertainments is turning to illusionist Derren Brown to help it conjure up fresh growth....
...Michael Brown. Tamir Rice. Eric Garner. Laquan McDonald. Alton Sterling. Philando Castile.” A list of names can be a very powerful way of invoking pathos and solidarity....
...The Dorset-based company, which owns Legoland, Alton Towers and Madame Tussauds, forecast “significant revenue synergies from this business with our own city centre attractions”, writes John Murray-Brown...
...Theme park operator Merlin Entertainments is facing prosecution by the UK’s Health and Safety Executive over an accident in June last year, when a rollercoaster crashed at its Alton Towers attraction in...
...Merlin Entertainments, the owner of Alton Towers theme park, is to be prosecuted over a rollercoaster crash last summer that left five people seriously injured....
...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....
...The strangeness of the scene is heightened by the music, a sample of Alton Ellis’s 1969 rocksteady track “Blackman’s Word”, looping the phrase “I was born a loser”....
...[Among other disposals, Mr Leslau and business partner Mike Brown sold listed vehicle Max Property in a £448m deal last year, and the freehold to Madame Tussauds for £332m in May]....
...Prestbury Investment Holdings, the company Mr Leslau runs with long-term business partner Mike Brown, is the external manager to the Reit and owns about a quarter of its shares....
...It was originally conceived as a seven-year vehicle, but Mr Leslau and his long-term business partner Mike Brown said they had no qualms about selling two years ahead of plan....
...Property entrepreneur Nick Leslau’s latest venture, a real estate investment trust that owns Madame Tussauds and the Alton Towers theme park among its £1.46bn assets, has gone public with a star-studded...
...Investors aren’t completely in the dark when it comes to valuation, says Richard Brown, head of product at execution-only broker TD Direct Investing....
...“My mother said if you scratched Ireland’s green post boxes deep enough you’d get to the red underneath,” says Alton Roberts, referring to Britain’s crimson pillar-boxes that were painted over after independence...
...Already there’s one lovely legacy, the low-slung wood-and-glass clubhouse by architects Faulkner Browns....
...Lord Alton, chairman of Britain’s parliamentary North Korea group, says he showed the officials around parliament....
...Merlin Entertainments, the Dorset-based group which operates attractions including Madame Tussauds, Alton Towers and Legoland, has scooped up the London Acquarium from County Hall Entertainment....
...They take place at her nursery near Alton in Hampshire....
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