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...Who played Peggy Mitchell in EastEnders? Click here for the answers...
...Carol Brayne, professor of public health medicine at the University of Cambridge — and the lead investigator for one of the longest established dementia studies, the Cognitive Function and Ageing Studies...
...Pre-Covid, the army organised a carol service here each Christmas for those with links to the commandeered villages....
...In the canon of Christmas carols, this one is unlikely to trump the partridge in a pear tree and two turtle doves original....
...It’s a haunting piece of theatre handled with transfixing skill by director Katie Mitchell....
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...Eileen Agar’s “Marine Object” (1939), a broken amphora found on a beach near Toulon and studded with crustaceans, and Carol Bove’s immaculate equilibrium of seashells, coral and feathers “Le Sphinx Rouge...
...In Carol Rama’s 1967 work on paper “Spurting Out”, plastic googly eyes cluster at the edge of a flesh-coloured crater encrusted in something that could be dried blood....
...Tom Mitchell is the FT’s Beijing bureau chief Photographs: Jasper James...
...Mr Lam’s muse recalled a folksy, mid-1970s Joni Mitchell, glammed up by a millennial minimalist....
...In my teens I wanted to be Joni Mitchell but I realised I wasn’t slim or pretty enough, though music was always an important part of my life. Public school or state school?...
...Alongside covers of the likes of Joni Mitchell (“The River”) to The White Stripes (“In the Cold, Cold Night”), Thorn has penned a “secular carol”, “Joy”....
...For villas in the area try www.cottagestocastles.com, www.cvtravel.co.uk, www.gamberorosso.it … Carol Marlow, managing director, P&O Cruises I’ll be going to California....
...The final question came from Carol from Milton-under-Wychwood Book Group, who appeared not to have noticed heavy hints about library closures....
...This was “likely to remove any stigma associated with Yahoo selling shares in Alibaba.com”, said James Mitchell, an analyst at Goldman Sachs, in a research note....
...Additional reporting by Tom Mitchell in Hong Kong...
...Katrina Mitchell, theatre director. Paul Morrell, for services to architecture. Charles Morrison, board member, Scottish Enterprise. Robert Mulvaney, glaciologist....
...Rhett Butler’s People By Donald McCaig MacMillan £17.99, 480 pages FT bookshop price: £14.39 A sequel to Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind told from Rhett Butler’s perspective....
...The one “pop” choice was The Silky Veils of Ardor from Joni Mitchell’s album Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter....
...Meetings see Friends reading their favourite pieces of poetry (inescapably, “The Journey of the Magi”), or possibly singing a carol or, adventurously, playing a tune on the violin....
...They include one of Bolton’s own compositions called A Kiss for the Baby, one of a set of 10 carols and interlude for boys’ voices and harp called A Garland of Carols that took him seven years to write....
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