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...Meanwhile David Eads, Ralph’s son, has renovated the six-bedroom château on the estate, which is now available for holiday lets of the most indulgent order....
...He gestures towards a framed still of Narcos’ Wagner Moura as Pablo Escobar hanging on the wall behind him. “Every once in a while, someone asks if we’re glorifying these people....
...A probe by Human Rights Watch found that weeks after they arrived, mercenaries operating alongside Malian troops executed an estimated 300 men in the town of Moura, including suspected jihadis and sympathisers...
...Still, US buyers are flying over in order to find a property, says David Moura-George of estate agent Athena Advisers. “We’ve hardly anything to show them. They don’t want a fixer-upper to renovate.”...
...Most foreign buyers in Porto are Chinese or Brazilian, drawn to the city as it is between 20 and 30 per cent cheaper than Lisbon, says David Moura-George, director of Portugal and Spain at Athena Advisers...
...Chinese applicants still make up around half of the total but there’s been a notable uptick in Lebanese and Vietnamese buyers, says David Moura-George of Athena Advisers, for whom 80 per cent of current...
...Over the same period, Porto’s property prices have risen at a rate of 15-20 per cent each year, says David Moura-George, director of Spain and Portugal at Athena Advisers....
...“I have nothing to complain about,” Moura told me in his front room, where the only noise was the chatter of local boys waiting on his doorstep for him to emerge....
...Helen’s grandmother, Moura, had been an exotic, aristocratic figure, lover to Maxim Gorky and later H G Wells....
...Ana Moura Moura (Blue Wrasse) For a Fadista, Ana Moura can sound surprisingly sunny: after the slow opening burn of “Moura Encantada”, “Fado Dançado” has a peppy bounce, and “Dia De Folga” a trotting...
...The Israeli pianist Idan Raichel is joined by a stellar cast of guests for this album: Ana Moura starts singing in unison with Raichel in Hebrew on ‘Sabe Deus’, before the song opens out into a languorous...
...(Damon’s underplaying is light years from Copley and Moura’s scenery-chewing.)...
...A Man of Parts: A Novel, by David Lodge, Harvill Secker, RRP£18.99, 576 pages “Who would read a novel if we were permitted to write biography – all out?” asked HG Wells in 1934....
...The two stations at Stazione Municipio, by Portuguese architects Alvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura, respond to the remains of antiquity with exhibition areas defined on one side by ancient walls and...
...Ana Moura’s breathy but earthy mezzo told arrestingly in Portuguese fado songs....
...Other names from the visionary Zaha Hadid to the classically minimal David Chipperfield are building truly great things (albeit abroad)....
...Eduardo Souto de Moura’s grass-roofed villas are embedded in the landscape like terraces, their long, low fronts exposed to the distant sea view....
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