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...Letter in response to this article: Final frontier tourism plunges to new lows / From James Bamber, Devon, UK...
...Her equivalent of Dover Beach is Clovelly, the North Devon tourist trap where she enjoyed “a lovely day in the midst of an otherwise disastrous relationship”....
...“My employer has increased my salary materially, as they saw me as a flight risk,” says Chris, a man in his 50s who had just bought a new electric vehicle and family house in Devon, in the south of England...
...In 1588, a chain of signal fires along the south coast of England warned Francis Drake that the Spanish Armada had been spotted off the coast of Cornwall....
...Classic menswear brands such as Drake’s fly the flag for the old stalwarts’ semi-formal attire: soft-shouldered jackets, knit ties, and so on. But these are niches....
...When I am not in London I am in Devon with my family and I’ve always fancied myself as an amateur farmer, although I’m not especially green-fingered....
...than hankering after an EU agreement”, Mr Martin said, referring to the myth that Sir Francis Drake played a game of bowls before taking on the Spanish armada....
...Waterside living allows us to play out this national narrative and connect with a canon of maritime heroes, from Francis Drake through to Captain Cook and Admiral Nelson....
...Rural Devon doesn’t feel quite right for a session working on my pétanque skills with one of the country’s leading players....
...A promenade known as the Hoe overlooks Plymouth Sound – the bay where the America’s Cup yachts will race – and claims to have been the scene of Sir Francis Drake’s famous bowls match before facing the Spanish...
...British Land has teamed up with Universities Superannuation Scheme, the pension fund manager, to buy the Drake Circus shopping centre in Plymouth for more than £230m....
...sold other assets through administration, such as the Silverburn shopping centre in Glasgow, but has been working consensually to realise value from assets with borrowers, including the ongoing sale of Drake...
...Land Securities is one of a number of real estate investment trusts to consider bidding for Drake Circus in Plymouth, which was put on the market by David Ross’s Kandahar after the bank that lent for the...
...Sir Francis Drake, admiral and privateer, born in Tavistock, Devon. The scourge of Spain. 5. Sir Walter Raleigh, poet and explorer. An early coloniser of Virginia. 6....
...Morgan Stanley Real Estate, best known in the UK for leading the takeover of Canary Wharf two years ago, has contributed Drake Circus, a 560,000 sq ft shopping centre in Plymouth worth about £250m....
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