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...Mike Brearley, the former England captain, told me about a batting partner of his at Middlesex named Mike Smith, a very good county player but one with “an off-putting technique”, in which he shifted clumsily...
...The writer is a science commentator The A3 poster hangs off the bottom of the kitchen blackboard, just below the Middlesex County Cricket Club fixture list and the bin lorry timetable....
...The case was filed in Middlesex county, New Jersey, and lawyers working for talc claimants say it could be the first of many claims filed against Kenvue and other J&J divisions not previously named in lawsuits...
...Incidentally Somerset, the Arsenal of the county cricket world, are standing on the edge of greatness in this year’s T20, having won their first six games. What could possibly go wrong?...
...“All those involved in leading the game are aware of how fragile cricket’s future is if we do not address the issues laid bare by Azeem and others,” said Mike O’Farrell, chair of Middlesex Cricket....
...Derbyshire, England Polymath 1,056: B Wardhaugh, Manchester, England Crossword 13,365: Michael Eve, Rye, England; Christopher Barrat, London; Suzanna Anslow, Surrey, England Polymath 1,055: Roger Forster, Middlesex...
...Round on the Links The link was British counties, past and present Cleveland ‘Down Down’ Earl of Avon Victoria Derbyshire The Only Way is Essex Middlesex Bruce Kent Graham Sutherland Leonard Cheshire...
...The main concern of ministers was the need to move a recently built sludge works belonging to Middlesex county council. This had taken “two years to complete and cost £500,000”....
...CV Eddie Milbourne Born Croydon, south London, May 1958 Education Harrow County Grammar School....
...In 1900, London County Council opened arguably the world’s first council estate....
...First going to work for Middlesex County Council, Brown designed five new schools and then set to work on a small terrace of modernist houses for himself and friends in Winscombe Street, in London’s Highgate...
...Nor to Yorkshire, the Yankees of county cricket, aiming for their 33rd success and the third in a row....
...For many homeowners across the county of Staffordshire, last week’s announcement of the latest part of the HS2 route — phase “2a” from Lichfield to Crewe — sealed their fate....
...Argonaut Capital has hired the former captain of Middlesex County Cricket Club as a UK salesperson. More recently, Ben Hutton held an equity sales role at Berenberg....
...But this would not stand in the way of rebuilding council estates, Lord Adonis said, adding that as the freeholder of the site, councils could pay off leaseholders and take possession of their homes....
...Then, in 1965, Middlesex was completely abolished, and chunks of other counties also incorporated, to create Greater London. Fifty years later that hardly begins to do the capital justice....
...of the more obscure county grounds....
...The “Potters” is the nickname of Stoke City, Staffordshire’s leading club, reflecting the area’s pottery industry. The Potters beat their county rivals 2-1....
...In 1988 Taylor entered the colossal Friern Hospital (originally called the Second Middlesex County Pauper Lunatic Asylum), which would be taken out of service less than five years later....
...He made his county debut for Middlesex at 16, the youngest player to do so since Fred Titmus in 1949, and had a short spell playing for the New Zealand side Otago Volts in 2011....
...Though there are hundreds of leagues all across the country, counties mainly pick and choose from their main regional one....
...In the 18th century, the grand Middlesex Sessions House, fronting the west side of the green, was built (1782) to dispense justice for the county of Middlesex; in short order, the Sessions House had to deal...
...This would be a fair guess, since it was built in 1913 as the HQ and Guildhall of the matchbox-sized county of Middlesex, cruelly abolished in 1965....
...Angus Fraser, chief executive of Strauss’s county Middlesex, said: “When you get a good system in place, it’s more likely that you can make a seamless and less dramatic transition.”...
...Strauss might have opted to discard the cares of captaincy while remaining in the ranks. He could have retired from England and played on lightheartedly, maybe for years, for his county Middlesex....
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