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...Even the UK government would struggle to pass off the presence of double-digit numbers of dancers, drummers and pipers as anything other than a party....
...Nine Lessons and Carols church service....
...She swore by Maris Pipers and would traipse from greengrocer to greengrocer until she found them....
...The Lost Landscape: A Writer’s Coming of Age, by Joyce Carol Oates, Fourth Estate, RRP£20/Ecco $27.99, 368 pages...
...In the hands of the scouts, this means Arabised takes on Scottish airs, hymns and Christmas carols, and Palestinian traditional and patriotic songs....
...Paul Cummins and Tom Piper, who were behind the Tower of London’s “Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red” are made MBEs....
...“Although there will be lip-service paid to maintaining financial innovation, there will be pressure on firms to keep to simpler products,” says Michael McKee, a partner at DLA Piper....
...Nigel Knowles. chief executive, DLA Piper International, the law group. David Lewis, former lord mayor of London. John Madejski, chairman Reading Football Club, for charitable services....
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