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...“M on K”, my initials. And, increasingly, the monastic tonsure forming on my ageing pate. Real name Mark Kelmanson. Where are you? West Yorkshire, a hat’s throw from Ilkley Moor....
...Sign up here with one click He says that few needed serious repair and some are even on the water with bay views and a place to moor a boat....
...Sirius Minerals remained under pressure as analysts and investors picked over potential financing solutions for its $5bn potash mine on the North York Moors....
...The bond is required to unlock a $2.5bn financing package for the project, which involves sinking two 1.5km shafts below a national park on the North York Moors....
...while it was originally feared the ship would be set up as a mobile tax haven, this never came to pass because it had to sail under some sort of internationally recognised flag (Bahamian, in the end) to moor...
...Chris Fraser, the British-born Australian, who has spent more than five years pursuing his dream of a giant potash mine under the North Yorks Moors, was the calmest man among Sirius’s cheering shareholders...
...Last week, Sirius Minerals won planning permission to extract 13m tonnes a year of white pellets of so-called polyhalite from under the North York Moors national park....
...The Moor’s Account, by Laila Lalami, Periscope, RRP£9.99/Vintage, RRP$15.95 The Moor in question is Estebanico, a slave mentioned in passing in a 16th-century record as being one of only four survivors...
...In the early 15th century, its shipyards launched Prince Henry the Navigator’s expedition against the Moors, as well as subsequent voyages of exploration....
...We spend our second night at the French Horn, an inn in the village of Sonning, where Jerome K Jerome, author of Three Men in a Boat, wrote that one could “dream of bygone days”....
...The York Potash project is located in the North York Moors national park, but Sirius is burying the well head to minimise its impact....
...It is relatively rare for Japan’s conservative big shipping lines – which also include K Line and Mitsui OSK – to take stakes in other companies....
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