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...Receipts in the three months to June were up 11 per cent year-on-year to £2bn....
...“Annuities are increasingly better value, with current rates improving by 20 per cent in the past 12 months, as of June 2023,” said Standard Life’s managing director for individual retirement, Claire Altman...
...Over the past year, chief executive James Sturrock has launched a “rebuild strategy” that involves boosting brand awareness and expanding into other products apart from mattresses, which now make up 24 per...
...Love from Boy: Roald Dahl’s Letters to His Mother, edited by Donald Sturrock, John Murray, RRP£20, 336 pages...
...Love from Boy: Roald Dahl’s Letters to his Mother, edited by Donald Sturrock, John Murray, RRP£30 A collection published ahead of the centenary of the late British children’s author on September 13....
...On a chilly day in June, I had my first swim in a natural (man-made) swimming pond....
...Slideshow photographs: Bloomberg; John Sturrock; Berkeley Homes PLC...
...There’s no shortage of witty lines, especially those of Augustus Gloop as he falls into the chocolate river, but Donald Sturrock’s libretto is otherwise short on sophistication and poetry....
...Tristan Sturrock and Lyndsey Marshal are excellent as Peter and June: passionate, plucky and touching. And Douglas Hodge is very likeable as the wistfully lovelorn doctor....
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