Hints and tips:
...William Carver, a veteran BBC reporter — Hanington was a BBC journalist in a former life — is on the trail of several climate scientists who have gone missing....
...Co-chaired by Hank Paulson (pictured), the former Republican Treasury secretary and Erskine Bowles, the former Democratic White House chief of staff, the report underlines the severity of climate change...
...William Wilberforce, the anti-slavery campaigner, supported a ban at the turn of the 19th century....
...The then Labour MP Shirley Williams was recalled from a visit to China moments after landing, turning around and getting straight back on to the plane....
...Quinn’s skill lies in picking a surprising route through familiar terrain, blurring the boundaries of fact and fiction in a style that calls to mind William Boyd....
...In that time, Britain’s second-biggest retail bookmaker has fallen behind rival William Hill, with online profits plunging from £62.7m in 2010 to just over £8m in 2013....
...William Hill, the leader, has 15 per cent of the market....
...Peter Erskine, chairman of Ladbrokes, said that Mr Mullen’s appointment followed an extensive search that included an initial list of 15 candidates, two-thirds of whom were from outside the gambling industry...
...He was given an ultimatum from the board and chairman Peter Erskine that performance had to improve....
...Under Mr Glynn, Ladbrokes has been slow to develop an online business to compete with fleeter rivals including William Hill, Bet 365 and Betfair....
...William Hill would be down by 13 per cent, it forecast. Ladbrokes lost 4.9 per cent to 158.6p and William Hill ended down 1.8 per cent to 355.4p....
...Mr Glynn’s appointment was accompanied by a call from chairman Peter Erskine to instil “more passion and urgency” into the business....
...Since the election setback, Mr Obama has scrambled to repair ties with industry, including the appointment of a new chief-of-staff, William Daley, who has close ties to business and banks....
...It helps that the commission’s co-chairs, Democrat Erskine Bowles and Republican Alan Simpson, are determined to break the current gridlock, in which conservatives refuse to consider raising taxes while...
...Mr Erskine talks about a company that had “got a little bit silo” in its thinking. For now Mr Erskine and Mr Glynn have a favourable outlook....
...Bell’s decision will come as a surprise to the leisure industry, although several analysts have been notably more favourable towards Ladbrokes’ key rival, William Hill....
...Insiders said Mr Bell had raised the subject of his succession shortly after Mr Erskine took the chairmanship....
...I’m trying to run the business in the way William and Jeff would like it run, and William is my sounding board.”...
...In the early 1990s, the architect Ralph Erskine designed the Ark, a vast ship-like building next to the Hammersmith flyover in west London, as the perfect space for open-plan working....
...Most successful, he says, was the now largely forgotten William Le Queux, whose Spies of the Kaiser (1909) warned of the German threat, a theme also explored by Erskine Childers’ Riddle of the Sands (1903...
...Douglas Erskine-Crum, Ascot’s chief executive, is confident that won’t be necessary....
...William McDonnell CC: It’s hard to think of any sectors that would benefit if the whole global economy took a catastrophic hit from a severe pandemic....
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