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...Sunday 26 March, 10am, Exeter College: Marquee, £7-£12.50 The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal HistoryJeremy Bowen, the BBC’s international editor, speaks to Mary Hockaday, former controller...
...“I bought my first piece around 1985, from a primitive painter called Gretta Bowen who didn’t start making work til late in her life. I’ve still got it. It’s joyful.” Nicky is a trained artist....
...Caroline Flint, the housing minister, said £200m would be put into a fund to buy up new-build homes and rent them out....
...This week, Stuart Bowen, the inspector-general for Iraq reconstruction, said the $18.4bn allocated in 2003 for reconstruction would run out by year-end and warned that funding was at “a critical point”....
...Last month Stuart Bowen, the inspector-general, found that of 3,200 projects initially proposed, 1,887 had been completed while more than 400 contractors had been killed....
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