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...His business, Ronan Group Real Estate, is involved with France’s EDF and Fred Olsen Seawind in the Codling Park offshore wind farm that has successfully bid to supply 1,300MW to the national power grid....
...Truss’s tribe — some linked to rightwing think-tanks such as the Institute for Economic Affairs — are seeking to curb restrictions on onshore wind farms....
...Cambridge-educated (and born in the Cotswolds to minor aristocracy), Vaughan Williams seems to have felt ill at ease among the hop-pickers and farm labourers of East Anglia, but in a rough part of King’s...
...For them, UK farm work does pay a premium compared with the jobs at home. When the premium shrinks, they stop coming....
...Rose-Anna Waudby Ahmet, a 24-year-old art student from Bristol turned picker on one of Mr Davison’s farms, agreed....
...Michael Davison Deputy chief executive, Hogan LovellsMichael Davison seeks to use data as a predictive tool to improve the firm’s performance and shape its strategy....
...What A 251-acre farm. The main house has wood-clad interiors and large stone fireplaces. Why The buyer would be part of a dairy and cheese business, Moon Hill Farms....
...Set in 35 acres, it includes a trout farm and stained-glass windows by Edward Burne-Jones....
...Other Conservatives in the north-east share Ms Davison’s view....
...What This former farm has 18 acres with a main house, two cottages, an office, entertainment barn, a pool and agricultural barns. Why The main house is made from local limestone with clay roof tiling....
...Who Christie’s International Real Estate, tel: +353 (86) 255 4536 Cosford Farm, Bedford Lane, Thursley, Surrey, UK, £2.25m Where In hilly countryside near Thursley in Surrey....
...People started trying to farm truffles by more scientific methods in the 19th century....
...Who Knight Frank, tel: +20 7861 1727 Rill Farm, Colston Road, Buckfastleigh, Devon, UK, £2.6m Where Overlooking a valley on the outskirts of Dartmoor National Park....
...What A traditional Lakeland farm on 80 acres, with sheep-grazing rights on Saddleback Common. The farmhouse has three bedrooms and a two-storey barn has planning permission for a holiday let....
...What A 1,929-acre farm with a main six-bedroom house built in 1819. There is also a guest house and a caretaker’s house, each with two bedrooms....
...What The 948-acre farm includes a six-bedroom house built in the 18th century....
...Another of its projects can be seen in Qinmo village, Guangdong province (2009), where teams renovated an old courtyard school building into a community centre used as a “demonstration household farm” to...
...“As a sop”, says Davison, Orwell was asked to review a book about the civil war, The Spanish Cockpit by Franz Borkenau....
...Patronlondon.com; bigfernand.co.uk; lechabanaislondon.com Photographs: Jack Davison...
...“We had a small farm and we were very poor. It fell to me to get things going.”...
...He had already cycled through Mexico and Central America, “lived like Tarzan” while hunting jaguars and ocelots in the Amazon jungle, ran a mink farm in Argentina and made a million dollars smuggling guns...
...Even he was eventually called home, in 1970, for the mandatory internal exile to a farm. The Cultural Revolution over, he became China’s first ambassador to Canada in 1971....
...Robert Neil Butler was born in Manhattan in 1927, but that same year his parents split up and he was sent to his maternal grandparents’ chicken farm in Vineland, New Jersey....
...To keep predatory seals away from salmon farms, he invented a loudspeaker system that imitated the sound of a killer whale but he had to admit that it was less successful than his ATM idea and seemed to...
...To those who thought he must be nuts, he could point to his various degrees, his teaching at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his salmon farm, his founding of a top law school, his...
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