Hints and tips:
...(I’d call that “pod hogging”....
...The clue you wished you’d written From October’s Independent on Sunday (Hoskins): “Souls essentially dressed in rags?” (7) is still fresh in the mind, it is a great clue (answer below)....
...The pressure to produce another success is considerable, but Nagel is well versed in making a bestseller: she co-created the powdery hit Narciso Rodriguez for Her, masterminded the sugary Miss Dior Chérie...
...Well he’s Tony and Cherie’s heir apparent, who according to the Daily Mail is now worth £73m after the start-up he founded, Multiverse, an ed-tech start-up that wants to “empower a new generation of pioneers...
...It all felt eerily like an out-take from The Long Good Friday, which starred Bob Hoskins as an East End villain trying to go legitimate by developing the docks with American money....
...The altitude gain is only 70m — but ride it 16 times and you’ve done the equivalent of climbing Alpe d’Huez. 2....
...Instead of preparing for Downing Street, she’d be walking from Land’s End to John O’Groats holding the iPhone while he talks to strangers....
...There I was told by the talented Canadian winemaking couple Cherie Spriggs and Brad Greatrix that the earliest this luxurious new bottling would be released by Nyetimber — producer of the first English sparkling...
...However close your colleagues, there are times when you don’t want to ask their advice, even though you’d like it....
...They’d prefer we didn’t think about how a third of the land in Britain is still owned by aristocrats and the traditional landed gentry. They’d prefer we didn’t think about them at all....
...Harwood said he’d never seen the female roles [in The Dresser] played so gloriously because normally those roles don’t attract actresses of the stature of Sarah Lancashire and Emily Watson.”...
...If Aliko Dangote, the billionaire businessman behind what even he calls his “crazy” $12bn project, can pull it off, he will go down as the continent’s John D Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie and Andrew Mellon...
...It is the sort of idea that most of us, if we’d come up with it, would have had a chuckle about and then forgotten....
...And then we’d need some techno wiz kids to come up with an app that would sort out the rebates for pub users automatically....
...Cherie Spriggs, 38, one of the few female sparkling winemakers in the world, was appointed head winemaker at the Nyetimber vineyard in 2007....
...“He’d get in his pyjamas and go to bed to have lunch.”...
...It’s a great idea, but it needs an onstage raison d’être, so Bailey and writer Simon Brett have come up with a framework, turning the comedy proper into a play within a play....
...“But if people are saying it’s more important to help people locally, there I’d have to disagree. Ultimately you can help people in the very poorest countries by 100 times as much.”...
...Leading environmentalists James Lovelock, formulator of the Gaia hypothesis, and Brian Hoskins, director of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College, London, told the BBC if more attention...
...A camel carries no whiff of scandal, as did the “Bokassa diamonds” given by an African dictator to French president Giscard d’Estaing in the 1970s....
...She’d asked her young son what he thought he might do when he grew up: “Stay at home, like daddy,” he said....
...We talked about Martin Scorsese or Rudi Giuliani, but we settled on James Gandolfini, who’d just finished a series of The Sopranos....
...You’d never have caught Richard Burton coming out with that kind of thing....
...Grapey nose and light, medium-sweet palate with lower acidity than, for example, a typical Moscato d’Asti. An entertaining mouthful of lively grape juice and nicely refined mousse. An afternoon wine?...
...“I’d been wanting to do something with this music for a long time,” he says....
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