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...Newcomer Giorgio Bulgari used coral cabochons in his Giorgio B collection that launched in 2023. “It’s a deep red Mediterranean coral,” he says....
...Konstantine Arkoudas There was just one business professor who tested ChatGPT on five exam questions from his course and concluded that the answers would get a B minus to be great....
...Joni Mitchell once said, “I’m a painter first, and musician second”. Do your music and art coexist or are they independent partners? They coexist for sure....
...Musician Joni Mitchell turns 80 on Tuesday. As someone who felt the loss when she pulled her songs from Spotify, it’s time to enjoy her latest album, reviewed here by the FT’s Ludovic Hunter-Tilney....
...Or at least it is for DIY retail group Kingfisher, owner of brands including B&Q, Screwfix and Tradepoint....
...M&B’s share price was down 5.1 per cent to just above 128p in early morning trading in London....
...Take Mitchells & Butlers, owner of chains including Toby Carvery and All Bar One. Net debt — borrowings minus cash — has reached an ugly £1.7bn including leases. Its shares are worth £800mn less....
...Spoken word, folk, hip hop and R&B are placed alongside traditional opera....
...British opera director Katie Mitchell is at the helm....
...It takes the framework from Joni Mitchell’s album Blue and it’s beautifully written....
...July 7-9, northseajazz.com Wireless, London This London weekender brings the best in hip-hop, grime and R&B from both sides of the Atlantic to Finsbury Park....
...M&B, which operates 1,482 pubs nationwide, reported a 0.9 per cent increase in like-for-like sales in the 13 weeks to July 16. Drink sales were down 1.3 per cent over the period....
...Mitchells & Butlers, the UK’s largest listed pub group, said on Thursday that cost pressures presented a “major challenge” to the business and the wider hospitality sector....
...Two of the UK’s largest pub groups have warned that cost pressures are a “major challenge” to the industry and have forced them to axe discounts, reduce energy use and simplify their menus.Mitchells & Butlers...
...And more than half of working-age adults are estimated to have low basic numeracy. 5 is going to be B. Good....
...“Founders have always been a core pillar of a successful brand,” says Margaret Mitchell, chief commercial officer at SpaceNK....
...When Frank came out, she was briefly labelled the “British Badu” due to the influence of one of her favourite artists, the innovative US soul and R&B singer Erykah Badu....
...Coffey has vowed to focus on “A, B, C, D” — ambulances, backlogs, care, doctors and dentists....
...In the US, Saudi Aramco already owns a 630,000 b/d oil refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, which is the biggest refinery in the country....
...“Through a time of unique crisis in this country, every single leader who had a door A, door B choice to make around the politics of further division versus the politics of ‘calm things down’ have chosen...
...M&B noted in particular that it faced particularly steep utility and employment costs as the sector battles acute staff shortages....
...Cause for celebration at Mitchells & Butlers, the group behind pubs, bars and restaurants including Browns, All Bar One and Toby Carvery....
...Mitchells & Butlers, the UK’s largest listed pub group, has warned that a sharp increase in utility bills could severely hamper its recovery as it reported a return to profit for the first time since the...
...Urban said M&B would normally expect an uplift in sales of at least 3 per cent at the end of January compared to a normal Friday and Saturday....
...The case in Tianjin was confirmed after the Municipal Epidemic Prevention and Control Headquarters performed a genome sequencing analysis that indicated it was the B.1.1.529 strain, known as the Omicron...
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