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...As spring swells, so too do publishers’ fiction lists, and among them this year is Andrew O’Hagan’s bravura piece of storytelling, Caledonian Road (Faber & Faber, 22 hrs, 51 mins), read by actor Michael...
...“That would never have happened even a decade ago,” says curator and art consultant Andrew Bonacina. “It shows that they’re expanding their view of weaving beyond more experimental artists.”...
...As Andrew Bailey, governor of the Bank of England has reminded the House of Commons Treasury Committee, “Banking is an international industry and the UK is a significant financial centre.”...
...It’s been a mainstay venue for many years, and restaurateur Andrew McConnell has become an elder statesman of the local food scene....
...Twelve teams – the 10 test nations plus Afghanistan and Ireland – will be pursuing a place in the final on October 7 and a shot at the title won two years ago by Paul Collingwood’s England team....
...It was Friday morning when Andrew Strauss probably felt the hand of history lightly brush his shoulder....
...Stuart Broad and Graeme Swann will be seen as the main spearheads in the bowling attack, Collingwood as the gentle slow medium pacer if required....
...Andrew Flintoff lasted 90 minutes, though he is not an obvious rearguard-action kind of chap; then came Graeme Swann, who stayed almost as long before he played a horrid wipe across the line....
...Andrew Strauss won the toss (for the fourth time out of five), batted first and led from the front....
...Collingwood 65, M. J. Prior 56) v Australia....
...Angus Collingwood-Cameron, north east regional director of the Country Land and Business Association, says: “Farmers traditionally are price takers rather than price makers....
...Kevin Pietersen made a distracted 32; Andrew Flintoff, in what we now know will be his last Lord’s Test, was out for four; even Paul Collingwood, the hero of Cardiff, played a wretched shot....
...Barnsley: BNP gains with ‘protest vote against establishment’ It is “collier’s Monday” at the Collingwood pub in Bolton-on-Dearne near Barnsley ....
...Alastair Cook, Andrew Strauss and Michael Vaughan have not yet managed a century between them in this series. Vaughan is the biggest worry....
...The South Africans were so ragged and ineffectual that the main contest of the day was the internal English battle for the right not to be dropped when Andrew Flintoff comes back....
...Middlesex opening batsman Andrew Strauss, who was omitted from the Sri Lanka tour, was recalled to the 16-man Test squad....
...Vettori’s dismissal of Andrew Strauss (43) with a delivery that was tossed above the eye line, luring him into a drive before turning sharply to take the stumps, was a collector’s item....
...Andrew Flintoff’s tumble off a pedalo at last year’s World Cup in the West Indies was aptly symbolic of the team’s own fall from their pedestal....
...After opting to bat, Collingwood needed a clear statement from his opening pair. He got a stutter....
...Rafique caused more consternation when Andrew Flintoff and Ravi Bopara were bowled but the two Pauls, Collingwood and Nixon, saw England home....
...Andrew Strauss, having got away with feathering Nazir behind, promptly edged him to Younis Khan at second slip, and suddenly England were 67-2....
...Collingwood was replaced by Bell, seemingly the weakest link of the Ashes line-up, a man too diffident to impose himself at the crease....
...Speaking after the match, captain Andrew Flintoff defended England’s decision to play just one spinner – Ian Blackwell, who again bowled with impressive control....
...England had managed to wipe just 10 off the deficit by the close for the loss of Andrew Strauss....
...Paul Collingwood, cricketer. Andrew Flintoff, cricketer. Ashley Giles, cricketer. Stephen Harmison, cricketer. Matthew Hoggard, cricketer. Geraint Jones, cricketer. Simon Jones, cricketer....
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