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...Kevin Preston, managing director of Hinton Perry & Davenhill, which owns companies that make 8.3mn roof tiles and 6mn bricks annually, said it faced “a cliff edge scenario” once its energy supply contact...
...Despite towering over his lover, Harry Alexander is a damaged, heartbreaking Butterfly and Stan West manages to lend nuance to the boneheaded Preston....
...The scheme will be wonderful so long as it does not stop at hyped-up number-planting: “100,000 new trees in dynamic Preston”, whether or not they live....
...It was set up by Harry Latham, a personal friend of the Colonel’s, who later founded the Miss Millie’s chicken-shop chain....
...Meyer spawned another publishing phenomenon: that of EL James’s Fifty Shades trilogy, which in 2012 occupied all three top best seller slots, and outstripped both Brown’s The Da Vinci Code and Harry Potter...
...Twitter: @TimHarford Illustration by Harry Haysom...
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...Harry and The Dinosaurs Go On Holiday!...
...38 In which country was the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 delayed to make way for a film called The Founding of a Party?...
...Bloomsbury, publisher of the Harry Potter series, on Wednesday enlarged its footprint in the world of academic and professional publishing with the purchase of Tottel, a leading independent for £9.96m in...
...And the pre-mission training is gruelling: held at one of two dozen training centres around the world (one is in Preston, Lancashire), “you get up early and work 12 hours a day”....
...But Preston, much as he did in a previous novel, The Ice Limit, wrongfoots the reader....
...Harry Eyres’ ‘The Slow Lane’ …………………………………………….....
...If another outfit seems to be presenting some direct competition, Direct Wines tends to buy it, as it did between 2002 and 2005 with Virgin Wines, Warehouse Wines of Preston and even the venerable Averys...
...Books such as Jay Griffiths’ Wild and Richard Preston’s The Wild Trees explore natural and cultural phenomena uncontaminated by consumer society....
...(Christopher Howse and Richard Preston, Constable, £5.99); and I Before E (Except After C): Old-School Ways to Remember Stuff – eg, “30 days hath September”, (Judy Parkinson, Michael O’Mara, £9.99). 2....
...Three managers in the space of four months is never a good sign, and it may well be that Harry Redknapp, the present incumbent, forces them to employ a fourth in a little over a year if he feels Sir Clive...
...So inured to “total war” were the politicians that Harry Truman, the US president who spent part of his childhood castrating pigs on the family farm, said it was “no great decision” to use the atomic bomb...
...Saccher Managing Director, Vispo Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover KG Rickie Seghal Managing Director, Transputec Computer Harry Sherrard Principal, Sherrards Employment Law Human Resources Michael Slade...
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