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...“I’d say there has been less activity with the glitzy kind of Russian sale at the super-prime level,” he says....
...Starters, £9-12; mains: £18-22 (£68 for a whole turbot) Myrtle (Chelsea) 1A Langton Street, London SW10 0JL Good for: Refined Irish cuisine....
...Australian auctioneers Langton’s have created a lively market for the country’s most collectable wines, but that is strictly a phenomenon within Australia....
...In Ericeira we’d walk to the beach of a thousand streams and my father would fish. Sometimes we’d eat fish stew cooked on the beach. I liked the little rock pools. Tiny worlds....
...Official labour market figures published this Tuesday may make Mr Hammond wish he’d been a little bit more circumspect....
...Mark Brumby, analyst at Langton Capital, said Wetherspoons’ like-for-like sales figures were “industry leading,” but noted that “the group does not operate in a vacuum and, if competitors continue to cut...
...Mark Brumby of leisure industry consultancy Langton Capital points out the commercial imperatives behind the way pub companies are responding to the legislation....
...(FT) FT Health reader event Air pollution and health , May 21 Join FT journalists and our guests Laurie Laybourn-Langton of the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change; Ian Mudway, air toxicity specialist...
...We talk to Dr Maria Neira of the WHO and Laurie Laybourn-Langton of the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change....
...Perhaps if I’d called the speech ‘Muslims are awesome!’ they’d have left us alone. Disgusted.”...
...The group said that it had plans to open 15 new pubs this financial year, which Langton analyst Mark Brumby noted was on the “lower end of prior expectations”....
...Andrew Langton, an estate agent with Aylesford International, comments: “The bush telegraph is efficient in our business....
...“The ‘living wage’ will increase costs but it will also put more money in the pockets of would-be JD Wetherspoon customers,” said Mark Brumby, analyst at Langton Capital....
...In turn the coffee operators have had to up their game, says Mark Brumby, an independent analyst at Langton Capital. “There’s no market for bad service and bad coffee....
...According to Langton analyst Mark Brumby, JD Wetherspoon was raising barriers to entry by keeping prices low and paying staff well – “but, whilst the costs are immediate, the benefits are not”....
...“The low (and falling) margin here has the capacity to annoy, confuse and complicate things in equal order,” said Mark Brumby, a leisure analyst at Langton Capital....
...With the change leftover, I’d buy a seaplane to allow weekend access – and a few decent stags.”...
...“There have been two overlapping trends,” said Mark Brumby, analyst at Langton Capital....
...As Mr Langton puts it: “This treaty was formed on the basis of pragmatism. It is being hijacked by politics by the two biggest players on the world stage.”...
...“I’d said I hadn’t got any compensation - the CICA must have read it. They contacted me personally and said that they’d received a signed letter from me saying I accepted ₤2,500 as an interim payment....
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