Hints and tips:
...What’s the nickname of Derby County football club? What’s the world’s bestselling brand of American whisky? What’s the British equivalent of an American bachelor party?...
...“My memory of Oxford,” they maddingly say (or Trieste, or Rorke’s Drift, or the Kentucky Derby), “is not in the least like the evocation of it in your book.”...
...Another Rolls-Royce engine from the same Trent family as the one on Qantas’s A380 suffered a failure as it was being tested at the manufacturer’s Derby base in England, also in August....
...The incident focused attention on an engine test failure Rolls-Royce suffered just over two months ago at its Derby headquarters of another engine in the same family....
...Alan Joyce, Qantas chief executive, has said that investigations revealed oil leaks in some engines and Singapore Airlines said it had found oil “staining”....
...This came shortly after one of the company’s new Trent 1000 engines blew up on a test bed at its Derby headquarters....
...It was built 82 years ago by Shropshire-based JB Joyce, which goes back to 1690 but is now owned by the Derby company....
...seen the last of this year’s BP Summer Big Screen relays, Barber of Seville, relayed live – and free – to 15 different towns and cities across Britain, from Trafalgar Square in London, to Bradford and Derby...
...Even when Suffragette Emily Davison died under the hooves of the king’s horse at the Derby of 1913, there was limited sympathy....
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