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...Gabriella Dickens, economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said she expected the ONS house price index to continue to decline in the next two months, but said it was likely to later “start to rebound, as the...
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...But the archival record of their cases is unusually rich — thanks, in part, to an energetic young journalist by the name of Charles Dickens, who visited Newgate prison where the condemned men were being...
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...Film references are not the only element: also present are nods to Christie, Dumas, Daphne du Maurier and Dickens....
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...Gabriella Dickens, economist at the consultancy Pantheon Macroeconomics, said: “We expect households’ real expenditure to rise by about 1.2 per cent next year, with retail sales following a similar trend...
...To be told I had whooping cough — an officially notifiable disease — felt akin to waking up in a Dickens novel where characters are succumbing to diphtheria or consumption (“Oh aye, master Robert is taken...
...Gabriella Dickens, economist at the consultancy Pantheon Macroeconomics, said that because the ONS measure lagged data from Nationwide — which reported a peak annual drop of 5.3 per cent in September — “...
...Charles Dickens could stride for miles at night and never worry about a thing; George Sand had to dress as a man to do the same....
...“We must go very far to the right to end up in the centre,” said Dickens Bart, a dairy farmer and president of the Farmers Defence Force Belgium, who was protesting outside the European parliament yesterday...
...Gabriella Dickens, economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said the ONS house price index would come down in 2024 “with the nadir coming early next year”....
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