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...So they may publish headline-grabbing lists of comments from the supposed malefactors, complete with Dick van Dyke-style cockney....
...It is rather like telling the Dutch they are fools to build dykes and levees because no anti-flooding system can keep out every drop of moisture....
...Lord Hall, who lost out to Greg Dyke for the director-general role in 1999 before joining the opera house, will be leaving a British cultural institution seen as innovative and thriving to join one suffering...
...By 1550, a Dutch botanical garden grew tobacco plants: on his first voyage, Christopher Columbus had seen Taino Indians roll up leaves for a smoke....
...In its heyday, Agnews handled major Old Master paintings: Reynolds, Gainsborough, Van Dyke and Rembrandt, as well as selling watercolours and British paintings....
...Both Christopher Dow and John Fforde had interesting minds, but Fforde’s thoughts were often obscured in elaborate, metaphor-laden memoranda (frequently involving analogies drawn from his RAF experience)...
...The pretty village west of Shrewsbury, with Offa’s Dyke at one end and a disused pub at the other, straddles the Welsh-English border. In Wales NHS prescriptions are free, in England not....
...Somerville’s full walk review, click here Polderlands and winter birds on the edge of the Ijsselmeer Take the train from Amsterdam to Hoorn, the bus from Hoorn station to Avenhorn, and then follow dyke...
...Sir Christopher Bland, a former BBC chairman, argued in a letter to the FT this month that “if the government wants to subsidise ITV, it should do so directly, not by laundering money raised for an entirely...
...He had already worked with Mr Dyke at LWT before its takeover by Granada....
...Internal rows over grammar schools, accusations that he sees himself as the “heir to Blair” and an ill-fated attempt to recruit Greg Dyke as a candidate for London mayor have hampered Mr Cameron’s attempts...
...They include a failed bid to secure Greg Dyke as candidate for the London mayoralty, Mr Cameron’s last-minute cancellation of a planned appearance at the CBI’s annual conference and a row over an “A-list...
...Mr Dyke would have been a controversial choice for the Conservatives....
...Among others, Tory Christopher Soames, son-in-law of Sir Winston Churchill, was made ambassador to Paris; and Chris, now Lord, Patten, governor of Hong Kong....
..., Barry Cox and Sir Christopher Bland....
...Dyke, former BBC director-general; and by Lord Burns, chair of the independent panel advising the culture department on the review of the charter (of which I was a member)....
...In July 1972, Ms Fonda, intending to show that US bombers were targeting civilian dykes, travelled to North Vietnam. Other anti-war activists had done the same, but Ms Fonda made two mistakes....
...Additional reporting by Guy Dinmore in New Orleans and Christopher Swann in Washington Should New Orleans be rebuilt? Give your views...
...All the people I have worked with really well - Greg Dyke, John Birt, Gerry Murphy [former chief executive of NFC], Ben Verwaayen - have absolutely been men with their own minds."...
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