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...John JarvisLondon E7, UK...
...Number 10 said Mansour — who provided the Tories with £5mn last year which at the time amounted to their biggest donation since 2001 — would become a knight bachelor....
...His new album Glass Knight is a loosely connected song cycle....
...The Chief Arbiter ruled that they had prearranged the moves, which featured a knight dance around the board where the b1 and b8 knights ended up at g1 and g8, switching places with the other knight pair....
...the top boards would sometimes be future England players showcasing their talents, though not always successfully: in both 1929 and 1930 the Cambridge top board hung his queen in the opening, once to a knight...
...In 2024, England is the No1 nation in senior chess for over-50s and over-65s, with several gold and silver medals in recent world team championships, plus individual world titles for John Nunn and Michael...
...Tom Bill, head of UK residential research at estate agency Knight Frank, said: “The economic data has fluctuated since Christmas but the direction of travel for the housing market is up as mortgage rates...
...For one thing, co-founder Phil Knight was a fan of Woods from his days as a teenage prodigy....
...Ray Boulger, senior technical manager at broker John Charcol, said: “The movement we’ve seen in gilt yields and swap rates over the last week or so is going to give lenders scope to cut rates....
...They are sensitive about certain targets, such as their leaders, drone and missile storage sites, and irreplaceable helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft, Michael Knights of the Washington Institute for Near...
...The over-50 squad fields five grandmasters, the over-65s are led by former world top 10 GM John Nunn, while all five of the England over-50 women hold Fide titles....
...Produced by Laurence Knight and Philippa Goodrich. Our executive producer is Manuela Saragosa. Sound design is by Breen Turner, with original music from Metaphor Music....
...That’s why they have to react so quickly,” said Simon Gammon, a mortgage broker at Knight Frank. At the end of 2023 there was a rally in bond markets that prompted lenders to lower mortgage rates....
...john.gapper@ft.com...
...Take a break from the news It looks like video games may be coming for the novel, writes Imogen West-Knights....
...The MP for Bromsgrove, who served Johnson as chancellor and later as health minister before quitting in July 2022, becomes a knight bachelor....
...John Halman, chair at Gascoigne Halman estate agents, said the end of the year had ushered in a slight increase in activity compared with previous expectations....
...Michael Knights, a military analyst at the Washington Institute of Near East Policy, described the incident as “neighbourhood-sized [improvised explosive devices] . . . with civilians living on top”....
...“He may be temporarily useful, but he is no shining knight.”...
...Dominic John, a 58-year-old director of a business coaching company from Buckinghamshire, recently moved from Val d’Isère to La Légettaz, 1km away, to upgrade from a two-bed to a three-bedroom apartment....
...“There’s a nervousness in the market and people aren’t offering [on a property] unless they hear someone else has made an offer on it,” says James Waight of agent John D Wood....
...It came after D’Costa, Black in a French Defence 1 e4 e6, flagged in a winning position with knight and two pawns against a bishop....
...Gaza City also has about 60 buildings of six floors or taller, versus almost none so tall in Mosul, according to Michael Knights at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy....
...The chortling knights reported back to the monarch that the townsfolk were clearly mad, and John accordingly spared them....
...Nde5, losing time with the knights, made it worse. Puzzle 2546 White mates in four moves....
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