Hints and tips:
...Books by long-term owners of good private gardens raise our sights. They are a genre in which English gardeners excel....
...His fellow board governor Michelle Bowman will be speaking on “Monetary Policy and the Economy” at a Utah Bankers Association breakfast in Salt Lake City....
...“They have converted what used to be wooded areas into grassy meadow,” says María Medina Muro, a landscape architect who has worked on other historic parks in Spain....
...A week-long trip to Tokyo from Hong Kong can cost at least HK$159,000 for each pet and owner....
...BoE executive director Charlotte Gerken is due to talk at an Association of British Insurers prudential regulation meeting....
...I once spent a week in a Devon holiday cottage on a riverside smallholding whose owner was managing it for nature....
...Private equity firm Silver Lake has agreed to take Endeavor private in a $13bn deal, opening a new chapter for the owner of sports agency IMG....
...Investors in the UK pulled £13.6bn on a net basis from their home funds in 2023, according to the Investment Association, up from £1.1bn a year before....
...Tax reliefs are only attached to new shares, which means someone buying them from the original owner or subsequent owners will not benefit....
...The Washington Commanders opened the first sportsbook within a National Football League team stadium this autumn....
...The unusual inclusion of the lobby group’s letter among the official government documents published alongside the Autumn Statement will not help City mutterings that the group, which has done a lot of work...
...It felt akin to an English village’s rare plant show, but with more variety, masterminded by an owner who has been executive president of the European Historic Houses Association....
...A cool $50mn has been spent transforming its 68 rooms, now an essay in white oak and woven textiles in homage to the town’s Bauhaus associations....
...A balmy Berlin played host to the annual get together of football big wigs this week, as the European Club Association met to elect its new board....
...The German Heat Pump Association (BWP) said it supported moves to update the European f-gas directive, which would establish uniform rules for the whole of the EU single market....
...Yet the relationship between Nats and its airline customers is complicated because some, including British Airways, easyJet and Virgin Atlantic, are also part owners....
...Martin Muirhead Chairman, Association of Practising Accountants, London EC2, UK...
...The Phoenix Suns took on the Denver Nuggets in the National Basketball Association conference semi-finals this week....
...In response, many business owners sent their wives to give birth in the US or transferred their entire families there....
...There are also truffle hunts in autumn, or skiing (yes, there are some decent local runs) and fireside après relaxation, complete with gorgeous massif views, in winter....
...“Virtually all of us can expect to be worse off,” Paul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies think-tank, said in the wake of the Autumn Statement....
...Expect a grand mix of owner show-arounds, good wine and convivial conversation, staying in a 17th-century manor outside Bridport....
...Last autumn, with sales up 17 per cent on the previous year, it was unable to meet all the requests and the owners have taken on new land to increase capacity....
...But I’m wondering if the subtext to Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement is sacrificing our comfortable retirements....
...A look online showed the slick cabin I’d expected was part of the new fleet of Nightjets that won’t launch until this autumn....
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