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...Chief executive Robert Perrins and his wife Vanessa snapped up £1.85mn-worth of shares at 3,695p a share, adding to the £3mn Mr Perrins bought in July last year at an average of 4,606p a share....
...PIG: Palm, Ireland, George MAN: Melon, Andy Murray, Nightingale OWL: Oliver Twist, Wilson (Jacqueline), Liverpool Picture Quiz 1 and 10 (Joe Sugg and Suggs) 8 and 2 (Kelly Brook and Louise Brooks) 3 and...
...Jane Doe Inc, a victim advocacy group, applauded the effort, calling it “the type of forward-thinking and responsible behaviour needed by all companies to help ensure the safety of their employees and customers...
...The Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network said it was an "important step", while Jane Doe Inc, a victim advocacy group, called it "forward thinking"....
...December 1-2, free entry, tate.org.uk St Katharine Docks Christmas Floating Film Festival What could be better than enjoying some visual Christmas kitsch while floating on a giant pontoon in St Katharine...
...But this year Jane’s is forecasting that global defence spending will rise 3.3 per cent to $1.7tn — the fastest rate of growth in a decade and a post-cold war high....
...It is a town with “a strong brand”, says Christopher Bailey, partner at Knight Frank Exeter. And this is reflected in the high housing costs....
...The FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival takes place from Saturday March 25 to Sunday April 2....
...blazers (from £1,140) and the 1970s-style silk-chiffon dresses (from £2,870) as “being among the new core staples”....
...of France (2007) — but his latest book sees a return to his native UK, and an esoteric five-year mission to catalogue all 2,002 cols of the British Isles....
...Carl Wilkinson Poetry The Poems of TS Eliot: The Annotated Text, Volumes 1 and 2, edited by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue, Faber, RRP£40 each/Johns Hopkins University Press, RRP$44.95 and RRP$39.95 respectively...
...… Jane, the Fox and Me, by Fanny Britt and Isabelle Arsenault, Walker Books, RRP£15 Hélène is a lonely, bullied schoolgirl who draws consolation from Jane Eyre....
..., translated by Jay Rubin and Philip Gabriel, Harvill Secker £20 (volumes 1 & 2); £14.99 (volume 3) Fans who have come to expect baffling and surreal occurrences in Murakami’s fiction will be well served...
...My wife, Jane, and I are out walking the pathways of Arne Heath in the company of RSPB warden Mark Singleton and his colleague Rob Farrington....
...Mestizo 103 Hampstead Road, Camden, London NW1 1 litre sparkling water £3.90 Horchata (sweet rice drink) £1.80 2 x mixers shots £1.60 Small sparkling water £1.90 3 x Don Julio Reposado tequilas £39.00...
...Thus, should Chinese, Indian and Middle Eastern oil demand continue to grow at a robust pace, underlining steady global oil demand growth, a $100 oil is extremely likely in the next 2-3 year horizon, as...
...Minmetals’ A$2.6bn takeover Oz Minerals....
...Prices for 2,000-3,000 sq ft houses and 5,000-10,000 sq ft mansions (before rehabilitation and conversions) ranged from 960,000 cordobas ($50,000) to 2.8m cordobas respectively between 2000 and 2002, and...
...In Scotland, which provides a full list of all baby names used at least once each year, 3,736 different names were given to girls last year, almost 1,000 more than the 2,745 names given to boys....
...But central to the deal is the assumption that savers and borrowers are more likely to entrust their financial affairs to Sir Richard and his Virgin brand than to a private equity investor such as Christopher...
...The decision by consumers such as Ms Seel to rein in spending was the main reason for a sharp slowdown in UK economic growth last year to 1.7 per cent – its weakest in 13 years – from 3.2 per cent in 2004...
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