Hints and tips:
...National Galleries of Scotland from May 25 and Manchester’s Whitworth in 2025, tate.org.uk Letter in response to this article: Art or activism — Tate Britain is right to update its remit / From Michael Ann...
...In 2010, when I created a rainforest garden with the help of gold medallist Ann-Marie Powell and three women from the Baka community to raise awareness about the pressures faced by the indigenous people...
...Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, the 2008 and 2012 champion and the 2016 bronze medallist, is favourite after running 10.63 at a race in her native Jamaica in June, the second-fastest time in history....
...Each novel is only about 200 pages, and Powell has a light funny style similar to his contemporary Evelyn Waugh, so it’s not a deep dive....
...Ann Widdecombe. Evelino Pidò conducts this revival, which is a lot more fun than Donizetti’s wafer-thin comedy really deserves. ★★★★☆ To July 20, roh.org.uk...
...Heather Cox Richardson’s provocatively titled How the South Won the Civil War (OUP RRP$27.95/£18.99, April) upends common assumptions about the outcome of the conflict as the US enters election year....
...But Louise Richardson, Oxford vice-chancellor, weighs in on behalf of the sector, arguing that it is one of the things Britain does best....
...Cycling couple Jason and Laura Kenny both become CBE, while women’s hockey captain Kate Richardson-Walsh becomes OBE and her wife, Helen, and the rest of the team all become MBE....
...Fleming married Ann Charteris (previously the wife of the second Viscount Rothermere) in March 1952, with Coward as a witness....
...Oxford College Gardens, by Tim Richardson, Frances Lincoln, RRP£40 Richardson’s well-informed narrative and Andrew Lawson’s superb pictures conjure the gardens at their peak, from my colleague Robin Lane...
...A small black-and-white photograph of the actress Ann Sheridan, given to my mother by my father as a forget-me-not in the 1940s....
...Topman’s design director Gordon Richardson says: “I’ve never owned leather trousers as I’ve always instinctively thought I couldn’t carry them off.”...
...Last time I visited the gardens, the glories that Evelyn describes had been joined by some 21st-century abstract sculptures. What a mess. I mentioned this to Smithers the 007 gardener....
...The US triumphed over their Caribbean rivals in a keenly contested women’s 200m final as Allyson Felix sprinted to gold in a time of 21.88s, with Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce – who took gold in the...
...However, they also laid out a magnificent “rock” garden at Madresfield Court for Lord Beauchamp, the family that inspired Evelyn Waugh’s top-drawer fiction, Brideshead Revisited....
...As I look down the list of Mary Ann, Martha and Elizabeth, I say it seems rather a lot. “Yes,” says Sister Dahl, a little less confidently....
...Gweneth-Ann Jeffers pumped out impressive, verismo-style singing as the tomboy who longs to be kissed by the tenor, though Wally’s lyrical passages suit her less well....
...Jeremy Richardson, formerly chief executive, Injured Jockey’s Fund, the housing group. Mark Ridgway, MD, Group Rhodes, the machinery company....
...Having spent four years in Jakarta – where he lived from age six to 10 with his mother, Ann Dunham, who married an Indonesian – Mr Obama’s interest at least is assured....
...Although Mellon was close to her own father, Vidal Sassoon co-founder Tommy Yeardye (he was her earliest champion, giving her $150,000 to start Jimmy Choo), she has called her mother, Ann, “a sociopath”,...
...Romantic and exuberant, he was also a friend to Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh....
...Newby and Carless arrived here in benign early summer, having driven up overnight from London, and immediately set out for the crags with Dr Richardson, their gentlemanly volunteer instructor....
...In February, David Slade, a respected Bristol-based dealer and former president of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association, was jailed for 28 months for stealing 68 books worth £230,000 from Sir Evelyn...
...Mr Dorricott trained as a Chartered Forester, but switched full-time into running AFD computers in 1985, operating the business with his late wife Ann, from their home in the west of Scotland....
...But, hey, you’ve got Ann Marie and me, your very own live-in bloggers instead!...
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