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...Northern Irish short An Irish Goodbye won an Oscar this year; Ridley Scott’s new blockbuster Napoleon was produced by Northern Ireland’s Mark Huffam; and other award-winning productions include TV comedy...
...A song sung in English by a Swedish group is blithely comparing Napoleon’s Anglo-Prussian defeat at Waterloo in 1815 with a coup de foudre....
...Played by 30-year-old Austin Butler in Baz Luhrmann’s riot of a biopic, the young king of rock ’n’ roll is transformed into an ethereal dandy....
...The Chadian army is considered the most effective in the Sahel, and a key partner of France’s 5,000-troop Operation Barkhane, which is based in N’Djamena....
...Michael Jackson famously awarded himself the title of “King Of Pop” — perhaps, like Napoleon, no one else was fit to crown him....
...● Peel Hunt upgraded Restaurant Group to “hold” from “reduce” in response to the stock’s decline this week, which followed the Frankie & Benny’s owner agreeing to buy noodle chain Wagamama....
...Peel Hunt analysts note that, with consumer confidence falling markedly, Restaurant Group has had to offer 50 per cent off mains at its core Frankie & Benny’s, Coast to Coast and Chiquito outlets....
...Analysts at N+1 Singer saw upside to the theoretical ex-rights price within 12 months. But did no investor choke audibly over the price?...
...We find it difficult to argue further re-rating of already high valuation multiples in coming quarters.”Jefferies ● HSBC upgraded Restaurant Group, the Frankie & Benny’s owner, to “buy” from “hold”....
...How had the promising revolutionary uprising of 1848 ended three years later in the seizure of power by the upstart nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte? 1848, it turned out, was not a genuine revolution....
...N+1 Singer added the Frankie & Benny’s owner to its “buy” list. Car insurer Admiral was up 4.4 per cent to £19.10....
...N+1 Singer, a broker, downgraded the company on the news. “We believe that damages are likely to be awarded against Genus....
...Sahill Shan, consumer analyst at N+1 Singer, says even experimenting with delivery will not safeguard traditional restaurant chains....
...Henry Cavill’s Napoleon Solo is a series of expensive suits awaiting human occupation....
...The group’s Frankie & Benny’s chain, which was once a key focus for growth, appears to have lost its appeal with diners....
...Restaurant Group This time last year, Restaurant Group (RTN), the owner of chains including Garfunkel’s and Frankie & Benny’s, was a leisure sector darling....
...The fears of an overweening power in Brussels echo those from other centuries, whether of an emperor or a Pope in Rome or a Napoleon in Paris....
...Mais ce n’est pas la guerre.” It certainly wasn’t. The re-enactment of the most important battle of the 19th century was sold as education....
...Markus N Reitan, Oslo, Norway...
...Its active psychedelic ingredient is N, N-Demethyltryptamine, or DMT, illegal when synthesised but not in its naturally occurring state....
...In the annals of disastrous comebacks – Napoleon at Waterloo, Björn Borg at the 1991 Monte Carlo Open, Guns ’N Roses’ Chinese Democracy album – special mention must go to Kevin Rowland....
...If in doubt, simply note that Dior’s show was held in the environs of the Invalides – aka Napoleon’s tomb....
...pogrom, it had never occurred to me that a daily smoked salmon lunch, worse, complaining about having to eat it all the time, might get up the nose of boys doomed to Shippams shrimp paste, or the steak’n’...
...Three years later: “Why did the English poison Napoleon?” “Well, I’m not sure that was ever proven.” 2. Crimes against food The French are passionate about food....
...After yet another of their periodic public spats, Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel are trying – yet again – to mend fences, this time on the margins of the U.N. poverty conference in New York....
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