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...He blamed Tory central government austerity and pointed to his pledge for 1,300 more police, police community support officer and special constables, and his vow to bolster investment in youth clubs....
...“You don’t know what’s going to happen from one minute to the next,” said the 34-year-old constable in the passenger seat of an unmarked car, one of a specialist team tackling a spate of watch thefts in...
...“I wouldn’t say there’s a credit crunch currently or one looming,” said Lisa Attenborough, head of debt advisory at Knight Frank Capital Advisory....
...manicured parkland, an elegantly railed garden square or a thoughtfully planted parterre has long been considered a positive attribute, but it was not until the advent of Romanticism that painters such as Constable...
...According to Mike Tracy in Knight Frank’s Hampstead office, Hampstead is “the prime north London spot, a notch above Highgate”....
...Here, they confer with Constable’s “White Horse”, whose calculated naturalism dominates the quiet alcove and makes the Turners seem showy....
...Why At hand, Dedham Vale and the Stour valley are “Constable” country. Who Winkworth Follow @FTProperty on Twitter or @ft_houseandhome on Instagram to find out about our latest stories first....
...Weren’t constables meant to walk slowly to the scene of an incident with the blow of a whistle, and deal calmly with circumstances?...
...But the real recruiting sergeant has been whoever scrapped the rule requiring volunteers to be as fit as full-time constables....
...It has to be open and frank.” Kettle says a “multi-layered approach” can ease the strains of passing on art....
...The Great Room hosted the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition in the era of Turner and Constable but in recent years has been subdivided and cut off from natural light....
...Constable, who copied “The Mill”, called it “the first picture in which a sentiment has been expressed by chiaroscuro only”....
...The artist’s possessions included a Corot, a Constable, the painter’s notebooks and early drawings, as well as the largest privately owned collection of works by his friend, the figurative painter Frank...
...Wallace is frank about the difficulties. “It will always be a moving, living thing, Prevent, and it will not always be 100 per cent successful,” he says....
...Distinct from the Cotswolds, which typically attracts buyers from the media world, this part of the countryside is more “earthy”, argues Knight Frank’s Edward Cunningham....
...Past students include JMW Turner, William Blake and John Constable. Imagine buying their work first....
...Near the village of Nettlestead, just north of Dedham Vale, a seven-bedroom, Grade II-listed house with an outdoor pool and tennis court is on sale for £1.75m with Knight Frank....
...Kensington Edward Burne-Jones, William Russell Flint, John Everett Millais, Lucian Freud Chelsea JMW Turner, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, James Whistler, John Singer Sargent, Augustus John Hampstead John Constable...
...When the artist John Constable was painting “A Bank on Hampstead Heath” (c1820-22) the five-mile journey to the City would have been a coach and horses affair....
...Frank Bennett Apprentice waterman and lighterman The 21-year-old works on tugboats while completing his five-year apprenticeship, which he is due to finish this year....
...Turner and Constable stoked the sales effort by celebrating waterside beauty and Britain’s seafaring might....
...Chief constable Colette Paul – appointed last year to sort out the financing and operational problems facing Bedfordshire – is open about its deficiencies. “I’m going to be really frank,” she says....
...Former Hampstead residents include John Keats and John Constable, and throughout the 20th century the area attracted well-heeled members of the intelligentsia....
...With lone works dotted about, there is no sense of the scale, breadth and development of Constable, Bacon or Freud – artists that a British art museum ought to boast about....
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