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...The first half of the current $460,000 Grand Swiss in Douglas, Isle of Man, has seen a tense generation battle between established grandmasters and rising talents....
...Her Welsh-speaking parents moved home to Wales when she was two, and she was educated in Holyhead on the Isle of Anglesey where she became head girl of her school....
...Michael Adams and John Nunn scored a golden double for England at the world senior championships for over-50s and over-65s, which ended at Terrasini, Sicily, on Sunday evening....
...The isle is peopled by figures from English myth and folklore — druids, fairies, Morris men, corn dollies — portrayed by the quick-changing cast....
...Bute Fabrics has been weaving wool, alpaca, linen and silk into cloth inside a former orphanage and convent on the Isle of Bute since 1947....
...John Graham Lough’s 1862 heroising monument to civil engineer George Stephenson, who opened his pioneering locomotive works here in 1823, is just outside....
...“With the link unravelling, every seat is marginal,” said Sir John Curtice, professor of politics at Strathclyde university....
...Hopes of a top-three finish were encouraged by last week’s world seniors gold medals for Michael Adams and John Nunn....
...At the end of last year, with mortgage rates falling, Sarah Brown started searching for a home to buy on the Isle of Wight....
...Of the many accents in the British Isles, those from the West Country are among the most under-represented in pop songs; this despite the region having one of the UK’s music hubs, Bristol....
...sunrays of the Mediterranean for inspiration, but rather to the moodier, richer, more earthy flavours of our own isles....
...This is the theme of Launchpad Republic by entrepreneur-investor Howard Wolk and business historian John Landry....
...(John Elledge) — Portugal’s digital nomad bubble poised to pop (Politico) — The golden age of cocaine is happening right now (Bloomberg via Yahoo; from December but still worth reading) — An analysis...
...As he shows, most of the earliest private overseas enterprises from the British Isles were failures....
...Two of its philosophers, John Broome and the late Derek Parfit, spent their careers thinking about the moral need to account impersonally for the wellbeing and suffering of distant or future lives....
...He reels off examples of gentle density done well, ranging from Borneo Isle in Amsterdam, a new canalside development that doffs its cap to vernacular dockside buildings, to the 2019 RIBA award-winning,...
...You might have heard, for instance, that while he calls Ireland “part of [his] soul”, Biden isn’t actually very Irish at all, and that given his ancestors left the Emerald Isle almost two centuries ago,...
...But in 1876, inspired by notions of equality, Quaker merchant John Wanamaker introduced price tags at the launch of his eponymous department store in Philadelphia....
...After a string of successes, it seems that Chandos Records has struck gold with the re-formed Sinfonia of London under its conductor, John Wilson....
...Lucy FisherIt doesn’t feed into, then, as sort of John Major-esque, end of an era, sleaze and decay narrative?...
...Orkney also resonates with designer John Alexander Skelton, who presented a collection last month with a film made there, capturing clothing decorated with symbols found on Neolithic sites....
...It’s a trend confirmed by the department store John Lewis, which has recently updated and streamlined its shoe care range....
...In 1969, the American writer John McPhee spent a year living on Colonsay....
...Kaminski was previously bidding with former Chelsea and Manchester United chief executive Peter Kenyon, investment banker Michael Klein and John Thornton, chair of US miner Barrick Gold....
...He has ended up in the warmest, driest corner of the British Isles, making wines that have opened a whole new chapter in the history of English wine, even if their provenance is distinctly unsung....
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