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...Having survived the hell of the first world war trenches, they make their way home to Birmingham minus any semblance of moral compass and embark on a life of organised crime....
...But veteran Tory lobbyist Peter Bingle said the party had committed “hara-kiri,” adding: “Corporate affairs directors will be reconnecting with their Labour contacts and drafting a paper for their bosses...
...Rowley started his career in Birmingham and was chief constable of Surrey before joining the Met in 2011 as an assistant commissioner....
...Scholar has been replaced by a Treasury veteran, James Bowler, as the finance ministry’s permanent secretary....
...He was a US attorney in the Clinton administration and has worked on civil rights, including prosecuting two Ku Klux Klan members for the Birmingham church bombing in 1963....
...He was, he says, “not a very good student” until he was inspired at A-level by an economics teacher who got him interested in current affairs....
...It is trialling a new store design across the unlikely trio of Leicester and Birmingham in the UK and Shanghai in China. Mr Lacik says he wants customers to enjoy more “self-discovery”....
...League has been moving into central Italy and this goes hand in hand with its focus on immigration and law and order,” says Daniele Albertazzi, a senior lecturer in European politics at the University of Birmingham...
...Report of a meeting at the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs....
...Wolfgang Schäuble, Germany’s veteran finance minister, once joked. “God knows he’s not Selmayr.”...
...He was even depicted in the Birmingham Post wearing a Prussian helmet, storming across Longbridge in a tank....
...Now, the investment veteran will start at Deutsche in January, replacing Michele Faissola....
...We will provide £25 million to help our eldest veterans, including nuclear test veterans. Many members on this side have also written to me asking for support for their local air ambulances....
...Subsequent appointments have turned out to be less combustible, with safe hands such as Sir Edward Lister, a veteran of London borough politics, and Gerard Lyons, a respected City economist....
...Robert Springborg, Dept of National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, US...
...Their puzzle is why this brilliant, if idiosyncratic, veteran allowed himself to dominate the department with few checks and balances, leaving him ill-prepared for public scrutiny of his dealings with big...
...Name: Philippa Stroud Position: director of the Centre for Social Justice Age: 44 CV: after graduating from Birmingham University, Stroud spent 17 years in poverty-fighting projects and published a book...
...Gisela Stuart, MP for Birmingham Edgbaston, is another member with a track record of fealty to the leadership who signed the early-day motion on the 10p tax rate....
...A landmark trial involving a US mining company accused of conspiring to murder three Colombian union activists opens on Monday in a US district court in Birmingham, Alabama....
...The task of reviving MG and leading the first investment by an emerging Chinese automaker into an established foreign marque will test to the hilt the skills of the 20-year NAC veteran, who until his posting...
...A senior career diplomat has just been attached to the Elysée Palace to advise France’s first lady on international affairs....
...Sad to relate, Concentric is not regarded as one of the great success stories among Birmingham buy-outs. After two years of losses, it only returned to profit last year....
...The Independent, meanwhile, suggests that Number 10 sought to limit the paper trail from the affair, quoting Lib Dem peer Lord Lester as saying it constituted “a cover-up in the interests of political expediency...
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