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...Rebecca Watson Yes....
...“Tile painter Debra has gone from doing Art Nouveau tulips to semi-naked men in leopard-skin underpants,” laughs Watson, who produces tiles designed by French artist Louis Barthélemy....
...Forever associated with her role as Hermione in Harry Potter, Watson has lived under such punishing scrutiny during her adult life that it’s a miracle she’s remotely sane....
...Chris Watson loves France, and the French....
...Jefferies analysts said the premium growth and accompanying commentary were positive, but the adverse claims development and largely unchanged solvency ratio were “likely to disappoint”....
...Former chief executive Robin Watson then decided that a big acquisition would plump up Wood Group’s market value....
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...Beatrix Potter and Kenneth Grahame soon made way for Enid Blyton and CS Lewis. My early teenage years were infused with the escapades of Holmes and Hannay, the Bagginses and Harry Potter....
...“The Jefferies Group should be in no doubt as to the strength of feeling among its professional clients with regard to these potential conflicts of interest,” the activists’ legal adviser Robert Ogilvy Watson...
...Another side of me says that Emma Watson and her Harry Potter co-stars are the biggest ingrates on the planet for having excluded their creator — the woman who made them superstars — from the anniversary...
...At the University of Hertfordshire, head of student experience Mairi Watson is “concerned for our students’ wellbeing” and says the university is reviewing the help it offers them....
...David Katz, an analyst at Jefferies, warned pent-up spending can only go so far. As inflation bites, big-ticket items such as holidays could easily be hit, he said....
...Elsewhere in European start-ups this week, online grocer Rohlik raised €100m and became a unicorn worth more than $1bn; Emma Watson, the Harry Potter star-turned-campaigner, invested in a new way to solve...
...But as this was his own property, he had no deadline and he had the right industry contacts (and he didn’t mind the friendly builder turning up at 9pm to potter around), costs were relatively low....
...AlixPartners has hired Jessica Clayton, Lee Watson and Joe O’Connor from EY as managing directors in its UK turnround and restructuring practice....
...One thing to start: the US Justice department has sued to block Aon’s takeover of Willis Towers Watson, threatening a $30bn deal intended to create the world’s biggest insurance broker. More here....
...Whole productions were sometimes ruthlessly dismissed: he describes a Scheherazade in 2000 as having “all the erotic charge of a Bath bun”; in 1995 a double bill of Tales of Beatrix Potter and Peter and...
...Douglas Watson’s eight-person Oxfordshire studio has built an international reputation on handmade reproductions of Delft tiles, used by the likes of interior designers Emma Grant and Beata Heuman....
...Analysts at Jefferies said that despite the recent conditions, Wood’s first-half results “ironically appear the most stable we have seen since [the] AMFW merger”....
...Emma Watson: Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films, who has the same initials as Hugh Grant....
...“I am watching . . . the whole system, throwing fireballs like in Harry Potter,” said Roy Badaro, a Lebanese economist. “I don’t know who is Harry Potter and who is Voldemort.”...
...One showcases pots inspired by international exchanges between potters from the UK and China, India, Japan and Korea....
...There are the gangs of starlings that swoop in to fossick about in the turf for leatherjackets; slug-munching toads (who have inexplicably been christened “Jeffery” by my nine-year-old son) found hunting...
...According to Willis Towers Watson, the broker, the premiums demanded for US property catastrophe cover jumped 66 per cent between 2000 and 2002....
...As well as forecasting a deceleration in global industrial production activity, Spirax was at risk from slowing growth from its Watson Marlow pumps business, Goldman said....
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