Hints and tips:
...Reminiscent of John Lennon’s request to Beatles producer George Martin to make a song sound like an orange, this herbivorous command is the latest in a long line of eccentricities from the cult group....
...Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, the longstanding MP for The Cotswolds, one of the safest Tory seats in England, has accused Elliot of waging a secret campaign to undermine him in order to fight the seat himself...
...Clifton says it is easy to criticise the flaws in such initiatives, but adds: “If they’re nudging the peanut forward in the right way, they should be encouraged as well as monitored.”...
...This is effective in imposing minimum standards in matters such as executive pay, but it does not amount to engaging deeply with corporate strategy in the same way as activist investors, John argues....
...Of course, that also has the effect of making South African property look very cheap to foreign buyers, with one local agent reporting an “acute, exceptional shortage of stock for sale” in Clifton, one of...
...Lastly, John Walsh, of Abraham Moon & Sons in Guiseley, showed them a vertical mill, where scouring, dyeing, carding, spinning, designing and weaving happens in one building....
...John Authers explains how changes in corporate behaviour have helped Abenomics recover almost all of the ground it had lost with investors....
...The Mitfords sold the estate to John (later Lord) Forster....
...Connell founded the Noise Abatement Society (NAS) in 1959, when the UK had no consistent legislation in place or authority to turn to on matters of noise pollution....
...Could it be that the man who wrote “dullness in matters of government is a good sign” took his own dictums too literally?...
...HAMPSTEAD I am sitting in a sunny and perfectly ordered garden in north London, engaged in tea and conversation with my neighbour David Cornwell, the writer John le Carré....
...I’m frightened of stopping or slowing down; I made the decision at 70 to write the five books of The Clifton Chronicles to drive me from 70 to 75....
...The Japanese bitter orange and yuzu are both hardy to below -10C, but both are inedible. Matthew Wilson is managing director of Clifton Nurseries in London...
...As a matter of interest, when the new 45% tax rate comes in (if it does) those with high amounts of dividend income will find themselves with a top rate on dividends of 37.5% !...
...Phil Couch, London Rita Clifton: The growth of ethical branding is down to a number of factors, and played out in different ways in different countries....
...: Ethical brands Q&A with Rita Clifton, chairman of Interbrand the marketing consultancy, and Chris Davis, head of GfK NOP’s brand strategy centre of excellence....
...Rents have risen roughly in line with inflation while the cost of the average property in the UK jumped by 54 per cent from December 2002 to December 2006, with the average home now costing £186,035, according...
...So too will the local passion of a player like fellow-threequarter Sean Marsden, a product of Clifton Juniors....
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