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Life & Arts
The $1bn gamble to bring cricket back to America
...In the past three weeks, stars including England’s Jason Roy, Australia’s Aaron Finch and Afghanistan’s Rashid Khan have been paid six-figure sums to descend on Cawley’s town of Morrisville, North Carolina...
July 29, 2023
HTSIThe HTSI editor picks her favourite reads of 2021
Luscombe Farm and the rediscovered world of a postwar cultural dynasty
...poet Laurie Lee (Yasmin’s biological father); beauty and muse Lorna Wishart (her mother, who was married to publisher Ernest Wishart and was the lover of both Laurie Lee and Lucian Freud); to the poet Roy...
July 2, 2021
FT Live
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Saturday, 7 September London, UK
FT Magazine
Arcane, hereditary, all-male — and at the heart of British democracy
...Strathclyde, or to give him his full name Thomas Galloway Dunlop du Roy de Blicquy Galbraith, recalls: “I said: ‘Just in case.’ And had another drink.”...
November 11, 2021
House & Home
Postcodes from the edge: how an upstart app is changing the world’s addresses
...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....
February 6, 2021
FirstFT
FirstFT: Today’s top stories
...Voter suppression in America must end, writes Katica Roy....
September 29, 2020
FT Wealth
The Rich Column: More business dynasties would survive if only families learned to talk
...Or, as in Devon for the past 500 years, simply above the shop door. Matthew is reading . . ....
September 4, 2019
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Gardens
How light pollution affects the lives of garden creatures
...This body banquet may be one of the reasons that slugs seem to thrive in illuminated areas, according to Roy van Grunsven, a Dutch scientist....
January 10, 2020
Lunch with the FT
Robert Harris: ‘Johnson must fancy himself as Caesar’
...Harris used to dine here with Roy Jenkins, who lived nearby until his death in 2003....
December 20, 2019
FT SeriesBooks of the Year 2017
Best books of 2017: Fiction
...So they up sticks from London to a curiously cheap cottage in the depths of Devon....
December 1, 2017
FT SeriesSummer books 2017
Summer books of 2017: Fiction
...The Ministry of Utmost Happiness , by Arundhati Roy, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£18.99 / Knopf, RRP$28.95 Arguably the biggest publishing event of the year, this is Roy’s first novel since her 1997 Booker Prize-winning...
June 23, 2017
The Life of a Song
The Life of a Song: ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’
...Placing the drums in an echo chamber and adding strings, producer Roy Halee transformed Simon’s modest hymn into a grand, stirring Phil Spector-ish number. But who was to sing it?...
April 1, 2016
Letter
We haven’t all fallen under Sturgeon’s spell
...Roy Taylor Kingskerswell, Devon, UK...
April 9, 2015
Life & Arts
Why buyers will pay more for a waterside home despite flood risk
...The 550 sq metre platform is outside UK territorial waters and Bates soon declared himself Prince Roy of the Principality of Sealand, which he claimed as an independent sovereign state....
September 4, 2015
Life & Arts
Victorian Britain’s horticultural dynasties – and why so few remain
...The Veitch family, from John (1752-1839) to Harry James (1840-1924) founded powerhouse nurseries in Exeter, Devon, and Chelsea, southwest London – the wonderfully named Royal Exotic Nursery....
September 26, 2014
Westminster blogJim Pickard
Culture committee riven by party political divide ahead of report
...With five Labour MPs and five Tories on the committee, the casting vote could end up with Adrian Sanders, a mild-mannered Devon MP who is its only Liberal Democrat....
April 30, 2012
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
UK companies
MPs divided over tone of hacking report
...With five Labour MPs and five Tories on the committee, the casting vote could end up with Adrian Sanders, a mild-mannered Devon MP who is its only Liberal Democrat....
April 29, 2012
FT Magazine
Football’s best managers
...Meanwhile, other ex-star players such as Roy Keane, Bryan Robson and Diego Maradona are no longer in demand as managers of serious clubs....
January 27, 2012
PeopleCompanies
Out of Exeter
...Exeter has been feeling the effects of the collapse of its two listed maintenance companies – Rok, led by Garvis Snook, and Connaught, where former Centrica chief Sir Roy Gardner attempted a rescue....
December 18, 2010
FT Magazine
The really new Beaujolais
...Roy Richards, of Richards Walford, imports into the UK the wines of several top-notch Beaujolais producers....
July 29, 2011
Construction sector
Watchdog to probe PwC over Connaught
...In July, Sir Roy Gardner, Connaught’s chairman, brought in Deloitte to conduct an internal investigation of the company’s accounting treatment for mobilisation costs – ex-penses incurred during contract...
November 29, 2010
Construction sector
Rentokil lines up Connaught assets
...Under Mark Tincknell, son of the founder, Connaught transformed itself from a Devon-based concrete repairer into an outsourcing leader....
February 1, 2011
Construction sector
Connaught calls in administrators
...The company, chaired by Sir Roy Gardner, had prepared a fresh business plan in an attempt to win over its lenders, which had already provided a short-term £15m cash injection....
September 7, 2010
Property sector
New invoice hole in Connaught debt
...But the former FTSE 250 company collapsed into administration two months ago, after Sir Roy Gardner, who became chairman earlier in the year, failed in his attempts to turn the company round....
November 4, 2010
Construction sector
Gardner shakes up management at Connaught
...The group evolved from a Devon concrete repairer in the 1980s to become an outsourcing industry leader collecting litter, replacing windows and mending leaks on council estates....
July 8, 2010
Life & Arts
Surfboard shaping in North Devon
...The board templates – 7ft strips of paulownia wood glued together – are made by Roy Stewart and imported from New Zealand....
August 29, 2009

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