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...The DCMS has allocated a further £250k to providing open-air chess tables in parks throughout the country, and there are numerous reports of these being successfully introduced....
...The restaurant, however, is modern Italian, presided over by chef Marco Ortolani....
...I was doing an exercise” — the nimble fingers sketch a shape in the air — “and the spine separated a bit.” He winces at the memory....
...In reality, “a lot of them ended up at the V&A”....
...Find market stalls between Central and Bellevue, as well as open-air live music from bands and DJs....
...Between 2019 and 2022, the number of patrons at the V&A grew by 11 per cent whereas at the Royal Academy, where private money is critical due to the lack of any government funding, there was a 45 per cent...
...But by the time it was completed in 1819, the then monarch, Ferdinand VII, decided that the royal art collection (shaped by his predecessors Charles V and Philip II) should be exhibited instead....
...There is a moment during my lap of the Monza track when the Aston Martin DBX707 I am in is moving so fast it feels like we are about to launch into the air....
...The King and Queen will travel in the Diamond Jubilee State Coach, built in Australia in 2012 with an aluminium frame and air-conditioned interior....
...In July, Austria joined Switzerland in signing a declaration of intent to join Sky Shield, a European air defence system....
...Monday UK, Royal College of Nursing members in England continue a 48-hour strike over pay, forced to end today by a High Court ruling....
...The consortium, which includes aero-engine group Rolls-Royce, the Royal Air Force and the defence research agency DSTL, hopes to fly a demonstrator vehicle as early as the middle of this decade....
...By the time they reached the actual show, held in the colonnade of the British Museum on the eve of Queen Elizabeth II’s state funeral, those veils assumed an elegiac air....
...Daniel Lee’s Burberry debut swept through London Fashion Week like a breath of fresh air....
...But the official, David Grusch, is an Air Force veteran who worked with the Pentagon team charged with investigating unexplained flying objects....
...His father, Geoffrey Pope, was a distinguished aeronautical engineer who’d served as director of the Royal Aircraft Establishment in Farnborough, Hampshire....
...There is still an air of anxiety sparked by the election campaign....
...When Queen Elizabeth II is taken to her final rest on Monday, the ceremonies will have an immutable air....
...She is a former Royal Air Force engineer whose father once worked at Dormobile, the UK camper-van company....
...This autumn he will curate an exhibition of work by prisoners in London’s Royal Festival Hall....
...The bulk of Luhansk territory seized by Russia was taken soon after the invasion began in February, said Oleksandr V Danylyuk, head of the Kyiv-based Centre for Defence Reforms, a think-tank....
...Plus another strike threat looms with a ballot for industrial action at Royal Mail over plans to remove 542 frontline delivery managers amid wider restructuring....
...In first world war descriptions of an artillery barrage, there is the whistle of the approaching shell, then a flash, a concussive blast and the air is filled with flying metal....
...On April 19, after Russia announced it would focus its military efforts on south-eastern Ukraine, intensive air strikes and artillery bombardment rained down across the broad arc of the contact line running...
...Monday Philippines, newly elected president Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr delivers his first State of the Nation address. He has promised to “sweat” on Filipinos’ behalf....
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