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...Notorious laird Francis William Clark deported three-quarters of Ulva’s residents in the four years to 1851....
...This can be seen when one of his most vivid creations, the young Edward Waverley of the eponymous novel, having fallen for the dashing courage of the laird Fergus Mac-Ivor and his beautiful sister Flora...
...Laird, the shipbuilder turned electronics business, warned last month profits would be a third less than forecast and the shares halved....
...“We were very lucky for a while that we had three or four top players,” he says of the 1980s and 1990s when Sandy Lyle, Sam Torrance and Colin Montgomerie were Ryder Cup stalwarts....
...However, Colin Day, chief executive of Filtrona, the plastics and fibre supplier, said his company envisaged something “more substantive”....
...Go Giants, by Nick Laird, Faber RRP£12.99, 80 pages From the Whitmanesque listing of the title poem to the rupturing candour of pieces such as “Tuesday”, Laird’s third collection comes with as many surprises...
...Companion, CMG: Colin Armstrong, for services to UK business and the British community in Ecuador Graham Avery, for services to European affairs James Bowden, former ambassador, Kingdom of Bahrain Judith...
...Colin Jackson at Baronworth Investments Limited says, “Mums, dads, grandparents, aunts and uncles often give monetary presents to children at Christmas....
...Former secretaries of defense included William Cohen, Frank Carlucci, James Schlesinger, Harold Brown, Melvin Laird and Robert McNamara....
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