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...Lucy Wood, a former senior curator of furniture at the V&A, has recently overseen a project to restore two chairs designed by the 18th-century architect William Kent....
...Even two large Tory counties in the more prosperous south, Hampshire and Kent, have warned of the risk of effective bankruptcy....
...Balderton only has one director, Richard Kent, who according to one of Tripathi’s acquaintances is an old friend of the entrepreneur....
...“On the whole mainly local issues dominated the campaign,” said Martyn Cox, who served as leader of Bolton council in Greater Manchester....
...The stage is transformed into 1800 Rome under Jonathan Kent’s direction....
...According to V-Dem, a Swedish research institute, almost three quarters of the world’s population now live in autocracies against less than half a decade ago....
...Coastal locations of east Kent, Torquay and Portsmouth and wider areas of the Lake District and mid-Wales showed a larger than average slowdown in prices over this year....
...He loves it,” says Strong, the former head of the V&A and author of some waspish diaries in which few of the rich, famous and powerful are spared....
.../ From Eric Chalker Tonbridge, Kent, UK...
...huge strides forward” in the fight against coronavirus but warned that early evidence suggested that the B.1.617.2 variant of the virus was “more transmissible” than the B.1.1.7 variant first detected in Kent...
...In Bolton, cases are rising fastest among young, mostly unvaccinated groups, with rates relatively flat among older and vaccinated populations....
...Saleem points me toward the mosque in the Old Kent Road, built largely by immigrants from Nigeria: “It was a Victorian pub with a dining room upstairs....
...Henry V would blush. If your truck is capable of more than 56 miles an hour, regardless of what speed you are doing, they can fine you. They love to check your tacho....
...The B.1.617.2 strain in particular appeared to be more transmissible than the Covid-19 variant first detected in Kent last year, “though we don’t know by how much”, Johnson said....
...It has also introduced increased vaccinations in B.1.617.2 hotspots such as Bolton and Blackburn with Darwen....
...Later evidence showed that the shot, along with others approved in the UK, held up well against the Alpha variant, which was first discovered in Kent....
...He said there was “a high degree of confidence it transmits faster” than the dominant variant in the UK, which was first detected in Kent....
...The rapid march of the new strain in places such as Bolton and Blackburn suggests it is set, as the Kent variant did, to become the dominant form of the disease....
...In contrast, in Bolton the variant accounted for 289 out of 337 cases....
...Cases are clustered around Bolton, Blackburn with Darwen, Bedford and London and some parts of the Midlands, where the number of cases associated with other strains has continued to fall....
...“We expect over time this variant will overtake and come to dominate in the UK in the way that the Kent variant did.”...
...The three-way wiring between media, crown and public that reshaped the modern monarchy did not, in fact, begin with Elizabeth II, but with her grandfather George V....
...“Dinner for 400 at the V&A, standing reception for 800 at the Natural History Museum — that sort of thing,” he says, rattling off his favourite venues in a wistful tone. Who can blame him?...
...Officials are now watching closely to see whether it spreads faster than the so-called Kent variant — B.1.1.7 — which was first discovered in the UK....
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