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...Regarding the letter from the former Conservative MP Douglas French (“In Thatcher’s time, MPs worked much longer hours”, March 25), readers might care to know that all-night sittings took a new departure...
...Douglas Webster and Douglas Mitchell were particularly grateful in 1929 for the whisky someone had left behind at Corrour, which they used for hot toddies to wash down their “hoosh” (Antarctic survival stew...
...And as Warrington’s debt has grown, so too have its links with a financier based 1,000 miles away on the French Riviera....
...Who Douglas Elliman Find out about our latest stories first — follow @FTProperty on X or @ft_houseandhome on Instagram...
...ballistic missiles at Riyadh 600 miles away by 2016....
...As the miles accumulate, so do the stories: of who lives here, and how, and where....
...Those on the bus route are just as likely to get lucky with a passing cab as those who face a five-mile walk in a downpour....
...It’s all well and good saying you’ll take out 10 per cent of the workforce but profit margins are still a million miles away from where they need to be.”...
...Three thousand miles away in San Francisco, a home purchase has never felt further away for Michelle and her husband. The couple, who work in tech, were both laid off last summer....
...Who Douglas Elliman House, McLean, VA, $22mn Where In McLean, northern Virginia, about 10 miles from Washington, DC. The drive to the city takes about half an hour, depending on traffic....
...What A 6,236 sq ft, four-bedroom main house and a two-bedroom guest house built with Douglas fir logs, on 87 acres....
...Labour’s shadow City minister has unveiled 10 advisers from the Square Mile, insisting her party has long stopped “sneering at business”....
...Her home among a small cluster of houses in Missouri Heights, 28 miles north-east of Aspen, comes with eight acres of land and views over Mount Sopris....
...The fires were fanned by strong winds from Hurricane Dora, passing hundreds of miles south of Hawaii, and were exacerbated by dry conditions....
...His name was made when wildlife documentary makers Malcolm Douglas and Steve Irwin, both soon friends, arrived to make films....
...An unofficial prerequisite of working for Bet365’s UK operations was to live within 30 miles of Stoke, according to a person familiar with the matter....
...Miles Beale is the thoughtful chief executive of the Wine and Spirit Trade Association....
...Conservative commentator Douglas Murray revelled in “the delicious schadenfreude” of it all....
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...Endearingly, Douglas-Fairhurst says: “It’s surprising just how ignorant most academics are. My own knowledge is like a few tiny frontier towns separated by miles of empty scrubland.”...
...A few miles inland from Cannes, on the French Riviera, the hilltop town of Mougins has become a popular spot for affluent Parisians and those from abroad seeking a home in which to enjoy the summer holiday...
...and its hospital, and about 2.5 miles from the Fox and MGM studios....
...“It’s the opposite of last year,” says Martha Gundersen, a local agent with Douglas Elliman....
...The city’s international airport is 5 miles away. What A five-bedroom, seven-bathroom Georgian mansion that measures almost 6,000 sq ft, with a separate three-bedroom coach house....
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