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...“I just don’t see producers getting all excited about near-term price and I think we are going to see continued [price] volatility,” said Rick Muncrief, chief executive of Devon Energy, an Oklahoma City-based...
...“Your country needs you” pleads UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt to the over-50s, echoing the concerns of Jay Powell at the Federal Reserve about the “excess retirements” which have drained America of 2mn workers...
...Meanwhile, the Devon crab is sweet and moist, accompanied by thinly sliced avocado. Thatcher and Heseltine were initially political soulmates....
...For the Lib Dems, their anxiety is about those former seats they used to hold in Devon and Cornwall....
...Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell is the symposium’s headline act — he is due to speak on Friday — with the audience keen to hear guidance on the US rate-setting path....
...Chef Patrick Powell’s modern-classic dishes have also been well received, from his poussin roasted over coal with cracked wheat, preserved lemon and green chilli (£21), to slow roasted lamb shoulder cooked...
...Dawn Powell’s diaries, known for their harsh satirical tone, stood in place of my more brittle, highly strung friends. I missed people I hadn’t seen for 25 years....
...For National Poetry Day last year, the owners of a copse in Devon asked community members to write poems based on words generated by the mapping app. The poems were then posted up in the woods....
...Hugo Bugg, who designed the flagship M&G garden for the show’s main sponsor in 2020 with studio partner Charlotte Harris, told me there are plants in his garden in Devon that he never gets to sees in bloom...
...Crime writer Ann Cleeves was born in Herefordshire in 1954 and grew up in Devon. Cleeves is the author of 31 novels and has been translated into as many languages....
...As we look out over the large lawn at the back of Leighton House, Page points out one that belonged to the film director Michael Powell until 1971....
...“The central feature is a reconditioned shipping container that has been turned into an artist’s studio [the art, and furniture, is provided by a young Devon-based artist, Henry Bruce],” says Dunnett....
...“He more than anyone I know has the ability to act decisively when others are caught in the headlights,” says Mike Powell, who formerly headed global markets at HSBC under Mr Gulliver and now manages Thematic...
...Among the other sources of exceptional edibles are Devon Wild Beef, black foot ham at Brindisa’s deli or its corner tapas bar....
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