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...The allocation includes £800mn earmarked for offshore wind projects as the government tries to revive the sector after failing to attract any bids from maritime wind farm developers in 2023 because the level...
...Half the farms went bankrupt,” says Laura Schoeman, the owner of Berluda ostrich farm....
...The pod was christened XLII, or 42 in Roman numerals, a reference to Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, in which the number is said to be the answer to the meaning of life....
...The 379-acre Banstead Manor Stud is the European headquarters of Juddmonte, which owns eight stud farms across America, Ireland and the UK....
...But the extensive farm audits it carries out to enforce its standards sometimes — perhaps inevitably — bring infringements to light....
...The house’s frame is made from oak from the old barn, reinforced with local Douglas fir and clad in larch and sweet chestnut....
...“They were his barns, not mine,” says Hibbert of the painstaking restoration of the 16th-century tithe barn and the neighbouring ox barn, which feature poured and polished concrete floors and Douglas-fir...
...(Another being S’Estaca, now the holiday home of Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones.)...
...“HVDC [high-voltage direct current] becomes economic at about the 60km mark” for subsea systems, says Ian Douglas, chief executive of cable company XLCC....
...This can give wind farm operators advance notice of how much they are likely to generate from individual turbines, aiding their trading in power markets....
...Whisky is just water, yeast, barley and wood, and the farm already had its own water supply from the private (and man-made) Loch Dubh....
...Forget “42”, Douglas Adams’ “meaning” in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The true meaning is “compost”....
...Douglas Stuart, on the other hand, was terribly disappointed that, due to Covid-19, he and Shuggie Bain spent their entire 2020/21 Booker year on Zoom interviews from a sofa in New York....
...But most have taken the opportunity to publicly recognise those who helped them behind the scenes — even Sir Alec Douglas-Home, prime minister for less than a year....
...Taking direct inspiration from Animal Farm, with the animal citizens of Jidada (a fictionalised Zimbabwe) living in the shadow of the Old Horse, their frail but despotic leader, Glory revels in the absurd...
...Hanging above the globe is an antique lantern that Leith commissioned her niece Amy Douglas to customise with gold leaf and copper cut-outs of birds and monkeys....
...It is spring and the ice is melting when Paustovsky, in his final year at high school in Kyiv, receives a telegram telling him his father is dying on the family farm on an island in the middle of the river...
...Taking its name from the tributary that runs through Bloomstein’s family farm in upstate New York, Green River Project quickly gained a following for its raw, artist-made aesthetic....
...The decisions were taken after Boeing’s merger in 1997 with McDonnell Douglas, a much more financially oriented company that focused on cost-cutting and minimising financial risk....
...“The residential part of the building starts on the 53rd floor,” says Georgina Atkinson, an associate partner at Knight Frank that, in association with Douglas Elliman, is marketing apartments starting from...
...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 Campbell (her uncle); artist Michael Wishart (brother); Douglas...
...The seasonal food options for summer include monkfish, chicken dumplings, and homemade “burrata” style cheese, made every morning using milk and cream from a local dairy farm. 1 Haddington Place, 0131-557...
...He liked to recount how, as a boy, he realised he held promise as a runner when he pulled ahead of his older brother Douglas as they outran a neighbour in the fields chasing them with a shotgun....
...The city of the future may look a lot like the city of the past, just cleaner: bicycles, farms and 18th-century-style homeworking rather than flying cars....
...When I moved to New York a decade ago, I thought “activists” were profit-hungry, bloodsucking, arch-capitalists — like the Gordon Gekko character played by Michael Douglas in the film Wall Street (remember...
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