Hints and tips:
...It is easier for some to believe that nefarious agents, be they Bill Gates or George Soros, concocted the virus rather than accept that events are more frequently in the lap of the gods than we acknowledge...
...Sir George said he agreed with the construction group Sir Robert McAlpine to proceed “on a handshake”, not paying them for three months, while he scrambled to secure the money....
...“Judging by my email traffic . . . a lot of people are beginning to be quite unhappy,” said George Kerevan, an economist and former SNP member of the UK parliament, who is critical of the currency plan....
...It was spun out of Tarmac in 1999 before acquiring the builders George Wimpey, Mowlem and Alfred McAlpine....
...Formed out of the demerger of Tarmac in the late 1990s, Carillion’s sprawling network had grown to encompass builders George Wimpey, Mowlem and Alfred McAlpine, taking in projects from the building of the...
...The storm also cost the corporation the job of George Entwistle, its newly appointed director-general. Did the associated stress cost McAlpine his life?...
...Those who could be first in line to receive legal letters include Sally Bercow, the Speaker’s wife, and the Guardian columnist George Monbiot....
...The developments came as it emerged that the BBC’s governing body had ruled out re-advertising for a director-general following George Entwistle’s resignation last weekend after only 54 days in the post....
...These include Sally Bercow, the Speaker’s wife, and the Guardian columnist George Monbiot. Mrs Bercow tweeted to her 56,000 followers: “Why is Lord McAlpine trending? *innocent face*”....
...Solicitors to Lord McAlpine said they were in the process of preparing writs and would take legal action “against all media who have defamed Lord McAlpine’s reputation and published defamatory statements...
...George Entwistle said although the decision to run the story by staff at ‘Newsnight’, where he has now suspended all further investigations, was passed up the editorial chain, he as editor-in-chief did not...
...Additional reporting by George Parker and Helen Warrell...
...George Brock, head of journalism at City University in London, said: “For once, the BBC has done the right thing....
...Several dozen Twitter users, including George Monbiot, the Guardian columnist, as well as the BBC face the prospect of legal action. Mr Monbiot apologised yesterday....
...Mr Thompson issued a statement saying: “I feel immense personal sympathy for George who is someone I know to be of great integrity and talent....
...The 185-page report, which cost £2m, painted a picture of “chaos and confusion” in senior management and adherence to “rigid management chains”, also criticised George Entwistle, the shortlived director-general...
...These decisions, both widely seen as misjudged, have engulfed the BBC in crisis, leading to the resignation of George Entwistle as director-general after just 54 days in the job....
...Social media sites identified the perpetrator as Lord McAlpine, a former Conservative treasurer, but on Thursday the main witness retracted his accusation, saying it was a case of mistaken identity....
...Anyone hearing George Entwistle’s hesitant, career-ending interview on the Today programme on Saturday might regard the affair as a personal tragedy....
...The replication of the original wallpaper in the Sir George Gilbert Scott Suite alone cost £47,000....
...in the Sir Robert McAlpine civil engineering firm....
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