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...Three other project managers — Balfour Beatty, Skanska and a joint venture between Bouygues and J Murphy & Sons — each oversee construction of different sections of the project....
...This green tweed has a wonderful texture that keeps your interest and keeps you warm. drakes.com J Nismes-Delclou armagnac, £230.50 for 500ml I love Armagnac in the winter....
...J Sheekey, 28-32 St Martin’s Ct, London WC2; capricebookings.com Isla at The Standard A flower-fringed outdoor garden terrace with retractable awning offering cuisine that is light and flavoursome....
...There’s a famous photo [by Andrew J Russell] of Promontory Summit, and the golden spike being driven in.”...
...Sailing Alone: A History by Richard J King Particular Books, £25, 512 pages Wavewalker: Breaking Free by Suzanne Heywood William Collins, £20, 416 pages Victor Mallet is an FT journalist based in Paris...
...For example, Little Ram Oysters can ship oysters and they have a great oyster shucking video, so I would put that together with a beautiful set of oyster knives from Erica Moody....
...“Without them there would be no integrated transport system, represented by the Overground, and the Oyster card....
...Chief among them was the ultra-conservative archbishop of LA Cardinal James Francis McIntyre, who resented the IHM sisters’ liberal approach....
...Braemar is the repository of a greater number of bizarre collections than I have ever encountered (rolling pins, Stone Age hand-axes unearthed on the property, the shell of every significant oyster Hamilton...
...But some of my proudest moments are all the artists we’ve cooked for over the years, including Francis Bacon, Cornelia Parker and Edmund de Waal....
...In the plush living room of the new Capella Sydney hangs a large-scale reproduction of Francis Fowkes’ famous 1788 map of the British settlement at Sydney Cove....
...Try the pairing of six Lindisfarne oysters with a cool gin martini (£35) for the full experience. 28-32 St Martin’s Court, WC2; book at j-sheekey.co.uk...
...As a reward, Kate is opening us some oysters, just a couple each, probably Irish, with a little shallot vinegar, accompanied by a round of oyster-shell martinis, a Perelló olive in each one....
...But gossip at work is essential, according to Dominique J Darmon....
...Best known for his explosive, unpredictable turn as Sonny Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather (1972) and for playing the compulsive, self-destructive Axel Freed in Karel Reisz’s The Gambler...
...In his afterword, Preston explains that his novel was intended as a “grown-up” take on J Meade Falkner’s classic children’s tale Moonfleet (1898)....
...Also included here are poems including “The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock” and “Journey of the Magi”, all of which will repay repeated listening....
...“We’re all a little more careful, especially here in the mountains,” said manager Francis Schwery. “We just don’t know if the government will close things down for one or even two months....
...I was visiting friends in Geneva and decided to stop there for oysters and wine on a sunny day....
...Roman Coppola, 56-year-old son of director Francis Ford Coppola, wants to change the world of film finance for investors....
...The Beaumont, 8 Balderton Street, Brown Hart Gardens, London W1K 6TF St John, Spitalfields What The French House in Soho was for Francis Bacon, Augustus John and Lucian Freud in the mid-20th century,...
...In London, the Royal Academy cracks out an important Francis Bacon retrospective for the start of the year while the newly reopened Courtauld Institute — whose revamp has been pretty much universally lauded...
...Noble Francis: The second half of 2023 is expected to see a rise in UK GDP as inflation eases....
...In 1898, J Corbet Anderson published a book called The Great North Wood: With a Geological, Topographical and Historical Description of Upper, West and South Norwood....
...On Tuesday, J Allen Brack, a top executive at Activision Blizzard left the company in a management shake-up that promised to bolster “integrity and inclusivity”. Read the FT’s story here....
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