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...But the mood at the Expo Real trade fair was “sombre”, according to Lisa Attenborough, head of the debt advisory team at estate agency Knight Frank, who attended....
...With most St George’s Hill residents likely to be second or multiple homeowners and those at the top end circulating between several properties around the world, many of the biggest homes may be left empty...
...Gordon Brown came in with a fair wind, promising open, straight and principled government and media relations....
...Significantly, numerous exhibitors this year showed innovative home office designs in the main halls even though a dedicated workspace exhibition, called SaloneUfficio, was also staged at the fair....
...Bada Antiques Fine Art Fair, until March 11, Duke of York Square, London, tel: +44 (0)20-7589 6108, www.bada-antiques-fair.co.uk...
...the UK’s Habitat stores and a collection of 17th- and 18th-century damasks in bright, modern colours shown at Focus, a London furnishings trade fair, last month....
...The smoked salmon Smoking is socially, not to mention gastronomically, still de rigueur at Christmas, when it is salmon cold-smoked over a slow-burning wood (usually oak) fire....
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