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...J García-Carrión, Europe’s largest wine exporter, was paid more than €10mn by the bank. In 2021, Spain’s largest hotel group, Palladium, took its case to London’s high court seeking €500mn in damages....
...Last week, BRB was on home turf with a double bill (Carlos Curates: R&J Reimagined), pegged to its revival of Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet....
...The wider allegations have led to the departure of two senior Deutsche bankers and out-of-court settlements, including a €10m payout to Europe’s largest wine exporter, J García Carrión....
...The back-story is that the owner, the J Safra Group, and the architect of the Gherkin, were peeved that their bullet-shaped tower — arguably the building that kicked off the reimagination of the London skyline...
...Review by Jan Dalley ‘J’, by Howard Jacobson Two misfits meet under a shadowy future regime....
...Howard Jacobson, J (Jonathan Cape) The British comic author won the Booker in 2010 with The Finkler Question....
...Kevern doesn’t know why his father always drew two fingers across his lips when he said a word starting with a J....
...… Joshua Ferris Author of ‘To Rise Again at a Decent Hour’ (Viking) My favourite novel of 2014 is Zachary Lazar’s I Pity The Poor Immigrant (Little, Brown)....
...David J Bentley, Oldham, Greater Mancs Dept of Speculation, by Jenny Offill On the face of it, this is a story of marriage and motherhood in modern America....
...… To Rise Again at a Decent Hour, by Joshua Ferris, Viking RRP£16.99/Little Brown, RRP$26 Paul O’Rourke, a New York dentist, insomniac and serial monogamist, finds his world turned upside down when someone...
...Asterix and the Picts , by Jean-Yves Ferri and Didier Conrad, translated by Anthea Bell, Orion, RRP£10.99/$14.95 With the blessing of Albert Uderzo, surviving co-creator of the indomitable Gaul, Ferri and...
...Edinburgh Instruments Edwards Group (I) Electrocomponents Electronic Temperature Instruments Elekta Element Six (I) Elitehill Trading t/a Duo Energy and Power Eurobath International t/a Vado F Claire Ferris...
...In a purple sky, lightning flickered over the Ferris wheel behind the eastern stand of the stadium in Sidon, Lebanon....
...Wood has since graduated to pink Hunters when she walks Ferris, a Spritz crossbreed: “I go for quality.” ....
...In one street there is a giant, garishly painted Ferris wheel, wedged improbably between tall buildings as though the London Eye were somehow to have been set spinning on the side of the Lloyd’s Building...
...Burt Lancaster’s J.J. Hunsecker passes a drunk being flung on to the sidewalk and exclaims: “I love this dirty town.” It is now hard to love Times Square in quite those kinds of italics....
...It has been used to crystallise future revenues on projects ranging from the London underground train system to ticket sales on a Singapore ferris wheel....
...SeaBritain is chaired by David Quarmby, former British Tourist Authority chairman and, in the more distant past, former joint managing director of J Sainsbury....
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