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...In the south of France, Julia Blackburn, whose The Emperor’s Last Island is one of the few books on Napoleon that reads like prose poetry, inspected what a museum there proudly claims are his pickled testicles...
...Jeanes eventually found a building manufacturer in Blackburn, who made the table from clay moulds that were fired and glazed using a delicate technique developed in ancient Egypt called faience....
...In other former cotton towns such as Blackburn and Burnley, the virus has taken hold among families of south Asian heritage who often live in smaller houses with three generations under one roof....
...It looks more like a treadmill than a sustainable business. 4,000 holes in Blackburn, Lancashire There are 900,000 English potholes, and fill-’em-in-Phil is throwing an extra £45m into them to reduce the...
...Photographs: Christopher Nunn...
...They point to a doomed 1971 legal case against the government brought by Raymond Blackburn, who argued that Britain’s entry to the European Common Market would be unlawful because it involved surrender of...
...John Blackburn, MD of Canterbury Bears toy company. Michael Both, director of engineering, Race. Tech, the motorsport company. Doreen Miller-Charlton, board member, Miller, the manufacturer....
...Christopher MacLehose, publisher. Wayne McGregor, choreographer. Steve McQueen, for services to the visual arts. Michael Oglesby, for services to business and to charity....
...Next month, with the retirement of rector Sir Christopher Frayling and design products professor Ron Arad, the college will enter a new era....
...Jean-Pierre Blackburn, the Canadian labour minister, hailed the Peru free-trade deal as part of a “new generation of accords that Canada will sign with our neighbours in the region”....
...“Carbon calculations are still almost at the back of an envelope stage,” says Martin Christopher, chairman of the Cranfield Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management....
...“The steep rise in the price of oil means that for the first time people are taking this issue seriously,” says Mr Christopher....
...The Department for Transport has just refused funding to improve the rail service between Blackburn and Manchester....
...With chances at a premium, it was no surprise that Blackburn’s equaliser came from a corner, Christopher Samba heading home from David Bently’s delivery....
...Mr Straw, leader of the House of Commons, whose parliamentary constituency in Blackburn is home to a large Muslim community, caused controversy on Thursday when he told a local newspaper that he asked Muslim...
...Oldham, Blackburn with Darwen and Wear Valley were lost to no overall control....
...First-year students were required to study architecture, calligraphy and craft – an approach that, according to the RCA’s current rector Sir Christopher Frayling, “led to the Bauhaus”....
...One of his latest projects, for example, is designing a range of rugs for Christopher Farr. And then there is the maintenance of LongHouse....
...Mr Feroze is from Blackburn....
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