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...The role leading Europe’s largest infrastructure project has been vacant since Allan Cook quit six months early in July 2021....
..., founder of Lagos Space Programme, and Rukky Ladoja of the socially responsible label Dye Lab; artists like Dennis Osadebe....
...Thompson’s appointment, first reported by Sky News, will be effective immediately and ends a protracted search for a replacement for previous HS2 boss Allan Cook, who left in July 2021....
...United has 5,900 captains and 7,500 first officers flying planes, according to Thompson....
...Before long, Matilda is sent to a school run by the child-hating authoritarian Agatha Trunchbull (a lavishly scowling Emma Thompson)....
...Allan Monks, chief UK economist at JPMorgan, said the package would help “steer the economy away from recession,” in the short term, but would come at a price of interest rates higher than the current 1...
...“Beano #452 was the first to feature Dennis the Menace [in 1951] and is hugely popular; that’s easily a £500 comic, or £1,000 if it’s in really good condition,” says McAlpine....
...At Fiac, his gallery was showing works by the late land artist Dennis Oppenheim (€100,000 each)....
...Jenner is nothing if not thorough, talking to a vast array of experts, among them academics, politicians, journalists, commentators, lexicographers and the former Paralympian Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson...
...Two opera companies evidently agree, and are offering new online filmed versions of a pair of operas based on Gothic stories by Henry James and Edgar Allan Poe....
...Tullow Oil chair Dorothy Thompson said she would leave the Africa-focused oil and gas explorer in the coming months, weeks after the company secured its future via a $1.8bn refinancing....
...Dennis . . . the love and affection of the people of Bolsover are very much still with you.”...
...Allan Carruthers, a retired civil servant who described himself as an inveterate remainer and attending for his grandchildren, said: “It couldn’t be at a more critical point,” nodding to the palace of Westminster...
...“We have four shopping centres anchored by a Primark and we do view them as significant footfall generators that bring wider benefits to a location,” said Allan Lockhart, chief executive of property group...
...Fashion outlets included Dennis Basso, where she spent £131,000 in November 2013, Balenciaga, Ralph & Russo and Dolce & Gabbana, with purchases ranging from two to six figures....
...John Allan, president of the CBI business lobby, said mandatory joint audits “will add cost and complexity for business with no guarantee of better outcomes”....
...The seed of his skill was planted, McQueen tells me, by his tutor at Goldsmiths, Jon Thompson, who told him always to carry his camera. But Super-8 film was too expensive to waste....
...Dennis Holzman Antiques, 111 Remsen Street, Cohoes, NY 12047 (+1518-326 2061; holzmanantiques.com)....
...Murray’s comments were so thought-provoking, according to the Australian poet Dennis Haskell, that, “I wanted to have my poems rejected”....
...There was Shakespeare galore; there was Edgar Allan Poe, George Eliot and TS Eliot; Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, Gerard Manley Hopkins, for Christ’s sake, but no Smike, no Estella, no Jellabys, no Bumbles...
...The mood of daring was summed up by Green’s fellow contributor Hunter S Thompson, the wild man of American letters. Everyone appears to have slept with one another and hoovered up drugs....
...While Hutchings recruited guitarist Richard Thompson, drummer Dave Mattacks and producer Bill Leader, Carthy was painstakingly learning Lal’s songs....
...Dennis Kelleher, who runs the advocacy group Better Markets, described the pay increase as “indefensible” and noted that Citi has had trouble meeting financial targets....
...Putting a label on Dennis Scholl is difficult....
...Previous CBI vice-presidents, including Clive Thompson and Helen Alexander, have gone on to be elected president....
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