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...Granada Studios, a TV production studio, once revelled in portraying the sense of a distinctive, neglected North of decaying industry but still-strong community....
...There was still time to board P&O Pioneer as a foot passenger, departing at 1.45pm....
...Now the waterfront — which forms part of Liverpool Waters, Peel L&P’s £5bn, 30-year project to transform the city’s northern docks — is taking on a new life itself....
...It was for her that he designed a Little Black Dress and the fragrance L’Interdit....
...“There are no equivalent 100 per cent mortgages in the standard market,” says David Hollingworth of UK mortgage broker L&C....
...The company had some $188m of cash on hand at the end of September to weather a downturn, S&P and Moody’s data showed. Publicly traded fitness chains have also been hit....
...And I have two from his first own-label couture line, furiously fought over by customers and department stores, with aprons of taffeta and fichus worn à l’Arlésienne, like 19th-century portraits....
...L’Oréal Sector: cosmetics / HQ: Paris, France Key stat: Online sales jumped 53 per cent in the first quarter....
...A backstreet abortionist, Madame P-R, is eventually located; the scene, a two-room apartment in a shabby arrondissement of Paris, is set; the 400-franc fee is found, borrowed from a female acquaintance....
...At first, she had considered her apartment project a one-off....
...The Guardian newspaper is considering a move from London to the historic Granada TV studios in Manchester and has made inquiries about temporary city centre apartments to tempt its staff to move north....
...I also enjoyed frequent visits to the Washington Square apartment of the veteran Hungarian photographer André Kertész to deliver cases of SX-70 film, accompanied always by conversation and glasses of Lillet...
...S&P Global and Fitch rated the new debt A-plus, while Moody’s assigned an Aa3 opinion....
...The 49-year-old beauty industry veteran is speaking in her light-filled apartment overlooking London’s Hyde Park. “I’m fed up with ‘miracles’,” she continues....
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...Have some mint tea and a corne de gazelle by the fountain, after a walk in the Jardin des Plantes nearby. 2bis Place du Puits de l’Ermite, 5th arr Le P’tit Fernand This restaurant is an institution and...
...Even the city’s adoption of the great but patronised northern artist L.S. Lowry as local symbol emphasised cobbled quaintness rather than imaginative grandness....
...This is the director of the L’Esquive and Couscous: the man who can make the intimate seem epic and the epic intimate. Movies are made in heaven, life is made on earth....
...A homage to The Wizard of Oz, Disney’s Oz the Great and Powerful tells how the endearing charlatan who ruled Emerald City in the 1939 film from Frank L....
...This is an edited extract from ‘The Art of the Restaurateur’ by Nicholas Lander, published by Phaidon (£24.95) Reader offer: FT readers can get 30 per cent off ‘The Art of the Restaurateur’ (plus p&p)...
...According to the Mei Moses World All Art index, investment grade art grew in value by 10.2 per cent in 2011, outperforming both the S&P 500 and the FTSE All Share total return indexes....
...“The lady’s reaction to the economic crisis in Russia was to buy large sizes of everything,” recalls Mr McDonald of his visit to the suburban apartment....
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...They serve as a trompe l’oeil, mimicking the 1935 Eugène Printz palm wood doors that separate the entrance foyer from the living room....
...Given a lack of defaults, the instruments should perform fine if one can survive the P&L volatility of the tranches....
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