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...A “baby bank” offering parents help with infant essentials has also seen demand soar, founder Chris Boucher said....
...It contains internationally renowned works such as “The Laughing Cavalier” by Frans Hals, “The Lady with a Fan” by Diego Velázquez and treasures from French painters of the 18th century including Boucher...
...Ruskinland: How John Ruskin Shapes Our World, by Andrew Hill, Pallas Athene, RRP£19.99,305 pages Bruce Boucher is the director of Sir John Soane’s Museum in London Join our online book group on Facebook...
...As for the future, the British TV series Downton Abbey has lent new lustre to what Henry James called “the gilded bondage” of country houses....
...James Eadie QC, representing the government, said the legal challenge had been brought too late, would cut across the current role of parliament and “the world has now moved many miles on.”...
...Best of the rest Trump’s infrastructure plan has intended winners and losers — Tom Toles in The Washington Post Why Macron is struggling to impose his ideas — Eric Le Boucher in Les Echos (in French)...
...Richie Boucher, chief executive of Bank of Ireland, says: “As far as investment banking is concerned, the presumption that it is a competition between London and another European centre has a degree of naivety...
...While some have blamed FBI director James Comey for Mrs Clinton’s defeat, and his decision to open a new FBI probe into Mrs Clinton’s emails one week before the election, others rejected this suggestion,...
...The drawings have a gentle French Rococo swirl reminiscent of Boucher or Fragonard....
...Reporting by Matthew Garrahan, Shannon Bond and James Fontanella-Khan in New York and Barney Jopson in Washington...
...“Like playing baseball with Babe Ruth,” said Rich Boucher, a Democratic colleague....
...Vocalist Megan James errs too much on the sweet side....
...And then there was the land-locked duo recital at Aldeburgh Yacht Club by tenor Robin Tritschler and guitarist James Boyd....
...Designed by James Gibbs and Colen Campbell, with interiors by William Kent, every inch of Houghton was conceived to best show off the statesman’s collection, so carved details and ornate murals were specifically...
...Savonnerie carpets cover the floors; the walls are dressed with tapestries designed by François Boucher and paintings by Gainsborough, Reynolds and Guardi....
...The Musée Cognacq Jay has paintings by Boucher, Chardin and Fragonard in a 16th century townhouse and is a stone’s throw from the Place des Vosges, Paris’ oldest square....
...“In a perverse way, the crisis has ensured Ireland can price its way back into the market,” says Richie Boucher, chief executive of Bank of Ireland. “The boom had made us terribly uncompetitive.”...
...Pierre Rosenberg, the French curator and collector, “describes collecting the way novelist André Gide described reading, as an unpunished vice”, according to James Stourton in his rewarding book on art collecting...
...The debate shifted on Thursday to the US Senate, where senior administration officials defended themselves against the findings of a high-profile report co-authored by General James Jones, who until the...
...Ali bowled a full-pitch no-ball first delivery that Mark Boucher pulled for four....
...The former US negotiator, James Kelly, retired last month. Mr Boucher said it was possible the five nations would meet without North Korea. There would be “an active pace of discussions”, he said....
...The hosts finished on 241 for nine, with contributions from captain Graeme Smith (47) and Mark Boucher, (44)....
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