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Television
The Avengers: sex and subversion at 60
...Like so many of the fashions of the 1960s, Rigg only lasted a couple of seasons....
January 22, 2021
Property
Walk this way: where to buy property with a trail on your doorstep
...“While the hordes head to Scafell Pike [England’s highest peak], I prefer to head to the fells of Whin Rigg and Illgill Head, where scree slopes plunge down towards Wastwater, the deepest lake in England...
July 17, 2020
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
ReviewLife & Arts
Breaking the Waves, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia — review
...They are glowingly sung by Kiera Duffy in a superb portrayal that contends no less well with demands for nudity, and John Moore personifies Jan’s masculine strength....
September 28, 2016
Renewable energy
Scotland unveils world’s largest tidal stream power project
...“The Pentland Firth is a nightmare for most mariners,” said William Bremner, a skipper on the ferry that runs from nearby John o’Groats....
September 12, 2016
ObituaryWorld
Pat Summitt, college basketball coach, 1952-2016
...She was regularly mentioned in the same breath as her great contemporary male coaches: John Wooden, Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski....
July 15, 2016
World
Raymond Moore quits as tennis tournament boss after sexist comments
...Former player Billie Jean King, who beat Bobby Riggs in a so-called “Battle of the Sexes” tennis match in 1973, said she was “disappointed” by Mr Moore’s comments, saying it was “wrong on so many levels....
March 22, 2016
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
Life & Arts
Shakespeare in art
...Ophelia in fantastic garlands floats in John Everett Millais’s painstakingly delineated Pre-Raphaelite stream....
March 24, 2016
Oil
Small-cap Week, June 13
...Founder and executive chairman John Rigg suggested the company had turned a corner having “bounced round the bottom for years”....
June 12, 2015
Greece debt crisis
A capital way to defuse Greek timebomb
...john.dizard@ft.com...
February 19, 2012
US downturn
Mormons boost Romney momentum in Nevada
...“He would bring a lot of publicity for the church, whatever he did,” added David Riggs, a mechanical engineering student....
February 3, 2012
ReviewLife & Arts
Film releases: March 17
...Macy, John Leguizamo). Putting the moves on a set of villains as venal as any outside a Ken Loach film, McConaughey plies his elaborately hick southern accent....
March 16, 2011
Fathoms-deep in fantasy
...Macy, John Leguizamo). Putting the moves on a set of villains as venal as any outside a Ken Loach film, McConaughey plies his elaborately hick southern accent....
March 16, 2011
Climate change
Britain’s ‘energy coast’: West Cumbria is eager to be a centre of power
...The plan was launched in July 2008 by John Hutton, the then secretary of state for business. The Energy Coast stretches from Silloth in the north to Barrow-in-Furness in the south....
May 26, 2010
NotebookWorld
Frying tonight, a very British story
...St George’s Minster, built by Sir George Gilbert Scott, was described by Sir John Betjeman as “Victorian gothic at its very best”....
January 25, 2010
Property sector
UK commercial property recovery to hold up
...John Rigg, head of international investment at Savills, said: “Concerted central bank action and the fall in sterling combined with London’s intrinsic attractions are causing a rapid recovery to certain...
December 29, 2009
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
Life & Arts
From the kitchen to the screen
...the early postwar TV’s housewife-mentor, Marguerite Patten, through the domestically powerful working-class women of the sitcoms of the 1960s and 1970s, the fantasy dominatrices Honor Blackman and Diana Rigg...
June 19, 2008
Life & Arts
The Cherry Orchard, Chichester Festival Theatre, West Sussex
...Frank Finlay is rather too dignified to dodder as elderly valet Firs, whereas John Nettleton is every inch the elderly, shabby-genteel scrounger as neighbour Simeonov-Pischik....
May 28, 2008
Life & Arts
BBC dames and Page Three Girls
...Simpson is one of the grandes dames of the BBC, a Diana Rigg to John Humphrys’ Judi Dench and Jeremy Paxman’s Helen Mirren....
October 12, 2007
UK economy
Concessions help UK regain role as tax haven
...Jacob Rigg of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, which represents advisers, said: “There are definitely some people leaving but much more limited numbers than there would have been.”...
April 15, 2008
Climate change
Big suppliers out in the cold
...These are mostly onshore, such as the 48MW, 21-turbine Causeymire operation 30km south-west of John O’Groats, which started generating electricity in 2004....
February 3, 2008
Life & Arts
Mother of all adaptations
...John Huston’s film of Joyce’s The Dead springs to mind, and Leonard Cohen’s musical settings of poems by Lorca and Cavafy....
September 7, 2007
US & Canadian companies
Boutique bank back from the dead
...The bank, which lost 67 workers in the attack, including chief executive John Duffy’s 23-year-old son, is now nearly twice its pre-September 11 size and earned $17.4m in 2005....
September 8, 2006
Life & Arts
Power of London
...Economist Jacob Rigg, from the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, has studied the factors driving price rises and says it is too simplistic to blame the rich....
October 26, 2007
Global Economy
Son of African leader linked to $35m house
...This came after a US Senate inquiry in 2004 found that significant portions of the country’s oil revenues were held at Riggs Bank in Washington DC....
November 7, 2006
US politics & policy
Gen Myers dismisses criticism of Rumsfeld
...Retired Major General Charles Swannack, who commanded the 82nd Airborne division in Iraq, criticised Mr Rumsfeld this week for micro-managing the war, while retired Major General John Riggs accused the defence...
April 16, 2006

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