Hints and tips:
...Kevin McCloud, the Grand Designs presenter, estimates that the typical cost of building your own home is £1,500-£2,000 per sq m — if you stick to your original design and specification....
...In Essex, the party’s election agent was 10 minutes late submitting the paperwork, meaning none of its candidates were on the ballot paper....
...He first worked for Mr Livingstone in 1996 as his election agent. When his mentor was elected London’s mayor he became chief of staff on a salary of more than £120,000....
...In the meantime, estate agents rely on homegrown demand for their small stock of top-end properties....
...Children’s Bracelet of Bones, by Kevin Crossley-Holland, Quercus, RRP£12.99, 272 pages Historical novels for children don’t get much better than this....
...It would be much easier to be an agent of change if he had not been within the project for over a decade....
...A Rhodes scholar, he defeated the Thatcher government as a wily young barrister over its bid to ban MI5 agent Peter Wright’s Spycatcher memoir....
...Mr Blair’s agent, John Burton, cites the minimum wage, improvements in education and rising employment as key New Labour boosts for constituents....
...Consider also Foreign Correspondent, The Mask of Demetrios, Confidential Agent. In the 1950s and after, came hope, affluence, togetherness....
...The mood could hardly have been more different when Mr Bush met Kevin Rudd, leader of the opposition Labor Party, on Thursday....
...And Lex Luthor has swapped Gene Hackman’s weatherbeaten phiz for the unctuous chops of Kevin Spacey, who looks boyish even when handing a disappointed little-girl cousin the mop-head toupee in which he has...
...Tree of Smoke By Denis Johnson Picador £16.99, 614 pages FT bookshop price: £13.59 Winner of the 2007 National Book Award for fiction, Johnson’s gargantuan novel serves up a grisly feast of rogue CIA agents...
...THATCHER & SONS: A Revolution in Three Acts by Simon Jenkins Allen Lane ₤20, 384 pages Thatcherism’s true heirs, argues columnist Jenkins, are John Major, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, who continued the...
...As carriers get tough on costs, your meal or even your pilot can be bought in, writes Kevin Done....
...Wolfowitz throws his jacket on to the back seat and strides off, security agents and police hurrying after him....
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