Hints and tips:
...Around us, business meetings were in full swing with groups of (mainly) men in crisp white shirts and V-necks talking quietly over pots of coffee....
...Identittiby Mithu Sanyal, translated by Alta L Price, V&Q Books £12.99 Questions about race, culture and belonging abound in this entertaining debut by German journalist and academic Mithu Sanyal....
...Nasa asked Raymond Loewy to help turn the hull of the third stage of a Saturn V rocket into a home in which a three-man crew could live for three months at a time....
...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....
...The Bureau of Past Managementby Iris Hanika, translated by Abigail Wender, V&Q Books £12.99 Hans Frambach works at the Berlin bureau that gives the novel its title, whose mission is to help the country...
...The British championship and a GM tournament were staged in Hull. and an invitational in North Tyneside....
...Nick Pert, the top seed, captured his first British championship title at age 40 on Sunday in a tight contest at the University of Hull....
...Next up, in October, are the US championship in St Louis and the British championship at Hull....
...John V Baldwin Cernobbio, Italy...
...Centre console, deep V planing hull for saltwater fishing. Seriously overhorsed, with what looks like three 200hp Mercury outboards....
...The laser-cut plywood stools are neat too, their V-shaped legs an echo of the stitching in the bellows, a detail picked up again in the delicately pierced patterns of the window shutters....
...The advanced hull design, with a deep-V, 22-degree angle of deadrise along the keel to cut through the seas, is a marvel....
...crossword: Mark Thornber, Durham, England; Andrew House, San Francisco; Jane Robinson, London Polymath 1,053: Martyn Haley, Conwy, Wales Crossword 16,350: PJ Morsan, Winchester, England; Andrew Palfreman, Hull...
...They sailed from Hull to Oslo, and then took a train to Bergen, from where they sailed down Hardangerfjord, staying en route in the small village of Oystese....
...It also echoes the colossal hull of one of the ships they used to build here on the banks of the Tay....
...There’s a mesmerising film of wax models of streamlined hulls being carved, set against the brute force of rivets being smashed into plates....
...It’s a glamorous do at the V&A....
...V. Students and steers I know precisely two things about Christ’s Hospital when the Mini rolls into the parking lot....
...While here in London we’ll help the British Museum, the Science Museum, and the V&A move their collections out of storage and on display....
...We’re also opening negotiations on a city deal with Edinburgh; we back the new V&A in Dundee....
...A Mile Down, by David Vann, William Heinemann, RRP£18.99/Da Capo, RRP$14.95 On holiday in Turkey, Vann comes across the steel hull of a 90ft boat and, fulfilling a dream, he decides to rebuild it and sail...
...Further up the river, Braehead shopping centre stretches along the banks towards King George V Dock, which is still operational....
...The classic wide-bellied hull is there, but the superstructure is a single air-conditioned contemporary suite in teak, whites, bright limes and scarlets....
...He became a lecturer in mathematics at Hull university, having failed to secure a post at Cambridge....
...The shortlisted cities of Dundee, Hull, Swansea Bay and Leicester feel they have something to prove....
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