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...Preston Llewellyn: No....
...She is aided and abetted in her mission by her adoptive brother Francis, a Brazilian slave also taken in by her father, and a rival gang from the neighbouring town of Rye....
...Now Francis Spufford has followed up his dazzling debut novel, Golden Hill, with a book that seeks to step into the reflection of The Bridge of San Luis Rey, asking not what brought a group of people to...
...Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwellby John Preston, Viking £18.99 The colourful career of the media magnate and his mysterious death — did he fall from his yacht in 1991, or jump?...
...“The proof of the pudding will be once the wheels of the market actually start turning again,” Preston says. Ratibor remains hopeful....
...Francis Egan, Cuadrilla chief executive, said the current planning conditions required all drilling and fracking to be completed within a period of 30 months from the date the first well was drilled at Preston...
...It has also written to Pope Francis, asking him not to allow the exhumation team access to the basilica without the consent of the Franco family and the Benedictine monks who run the complex....
...Fracking the second well at Preston New Road would provide further detailed data....
...Francis Egan, Cuadrilla’s chief executive admitted this year that it was not possible to produce shale gas commercially within the rules currently governing the industry....
...The company’s chief executive, Francis Egan, has applied to the UK’s oil and gas regulator to carry out an expert review of fracking rules amid claims the current regulations around seismicity levels are...
...Francis Egan, chief executive of Cuadrilla, in October claimed that the government’s so-called traffic-light system, which requires fracking work to cease if tremors exceed that level, risked “strangling...
...UK shale gas company Cuadrilla has paused fracking activity at its Preston New Road site in Lancashire, north-west England after a tremor exceeded the “red light” limit permitted by its operating license...
...Cuadrilla said it had been unable to complete tests of a shale gas exploration well at its Preston New Road site in Lancashire, north-west England, blaming rules that dictate work must be suspended if earthquakes...
...Francis Egan, Cuadrilla chief executive, said on Friday he was “delighted” to be starting operations at the Preston New Road site in northern England....
...“The volumes of gas returning to surface at this stage are small,” said Francis Egan, Cuadrilla’s chief executive....
...A slightly larger tremor of 0.78 occurred on Saturday, after the company had ceased operations at the Preston New Road site at 1pm....
...“We are very pleased to be the first operator in the UK to have been awarded final consent to hydraulically fracture the UK’s first onshore horizontal shale exploration well,” said Francis Egan, chief executive...
...Francis Egan, Cuadrilla chief executive, called it “a major milestone towards getting Lancashire gas flowing into Lancashire homes”....
...“This gives us great confidence as we start drilling what will be the first horizontal well drilled into UK shale rock,” said Francis Egan, Cuadrilla chief executive....
...These include Sebastian Faulks’s A Week in December , whose main character was a hedge fund manager, or Alex Preston’s This Bleeding City , also set in the world of the deal, and garlanded with plenty of...
...Francis Egan, chief executive of Cuadrilla, said: “We are . . . pleased to make this second payment direct to local householders, after listening to their views . . ....
...Francis Egan, Cuadrilla’s chief executive, said: “Developing an indigenous source of natural gas is critical for UK energy security, our economy, jobs and the environment.”...
...Alex Preston is the author of ‘Love and War’ (Faber) The Essex Serpent, by Sarah Perry, Serpent’s Tail, RRP£14.99, 432 pages...
...HOK was founded in St Louis but its UK arm was recently responsible for the Francis Crick Institute in King's Cross, together with PLP Architects....
...Frack Off, a coalition of local groups, has called for a demonstration at Preston New Road on Saturday and vowed to try to disrupt drilling....
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