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...16,105: David Keith Martin, Teddington J & S Hoare, North Yorkshire; Christina McKittrick, Kingston Polymath 1,011: Dr S Bailey, Swindon Crossword 16,099: Suzanne P Wilson, Windermere; D Barter, Cumbria; Jean-Marc...
...I spent the last month in Scotland, in a beautiful little village called Lago on the coast of Fife because my daughter was doing a summer school at St Andrews university....
...I wore jeans and kept my coat on. As I sat in the long stretch of roadworks on the M90 back to the city, I found myself thinking of southern Europe – of Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece....
...The election on Thursday in the Fife constituency will have significant repercussions at Westminster....
...Cheshire, the Grangemouth oil refinery in Scotland; Staythorpe power station near Newark in Nottinghamshire; the Petroplus-operated Coryton oil refinery in Thurrock, Essex; a Shell gas site in Mosmorran, Fife...
...Wales; the Grangemouth refinery in Scotland operated by Ineos; BP’s Kinneil oil and gas terminal also at Grangemouth; Longannet and Cockenzie power stations in Scotland; ExxonMobil’s ethylene plant in Fife...
...He becomes agitated when discussing a Harvard Business Review article from 2008 by Jean-Pierre Garnier, the former chief executive of GlaxoSmithKline, on the future of drug development....
...interest in the creative accounting employed by the Treasury to help the Ministry of Defence press ahead with key procurement projects – notably the two aircraft carriers being built near Gordon Brown’s Fife...
...“It looks like the fat cats are just going to get fatter,” said Janice Thomson, a clerical assistant with Fife council....
...He has left our itinerary to me, and soon we are speeding north to a late lunch in the Fife fishing town of St Monans....
...In two decades as MP for North East Fife, Sir Menzies built an enviable reputation in parliament, particularly on foreign affairs where he played a core role in the Lib Dems’ opposition to the Iraq war....
...Rankin was raised in Cardenden, a working-class former mining community in Fife, a few miles from Kirkcaldy, the childhood home of Gordon Brown....
...This is followed by more potential discomfort on Thursday when his party faces a by-election in the normally safe Labour seat of Dunfermline & West Fife....
...Scotch wrath Meanwhile, Brown has troubles closer to home, where he is pushing MEP Catherine Stihler’s nomination for the vacant Dunfermline and West Fife seat in the UK parliament....
...He enters quietly through swing doors, pale skinned, his jacket, shirt and brogues black, his jeans peat brown. There the darkness ends....
...After I left Holloway, I went north to St Andrews, the medieval university town on the north Fife coast....
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