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...Many commercial shipping companies have decided to avoid the critical shipping route, opting instead to take the longer journey between Asia and Europe around the Cape of Good Hope....
...Even when an artist is alone in their studio, they always have company....
...Of all the architects, Nairn’s great hero was John Nash, but walking up to Marble Arch I was brought up short to find the Regency fixer’s triumphal monument draped in an advert for a mobile phone company...
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...They begin with a sequel to the English King Henry V’s victory over the French at Agincourt....
...For a cash-strapped theatre company they can represent a vital revenue stream....
...A prime example of attractive modern modularity is the award-winning Marmalade Lane housing development in Cambridge, in the east of England, by Mole Architects....
...“The more it is industrialised, the more pressure there is to make something cheap,” says Cropper from his office, just down the lane from the mill....
...FURTHER READING: Complaint, Orlando Police Pension Fund v....
...We see it in To Kill a Mockingbird, the UK premiere of Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of Harper Lee’s seminal novel, with Rafe Spall playing Atticus Finch (Gielgud Theatre from March 10)....
...behind some of the most successful companies....
...“The DFDS lane is free, look!” he said (we talked cab-to-cab on hands-free mobiles)....
...Meanwhile, I spoke to Pleo, which provides smart company cards and has secured a $4.7bn valuation after a $200m extension to their series C round. As always you can reach me at sid.v@ft.com....
...The UK government asked consultancy Fraser-Nash to assess the viability of space-based solar power. And their report was published in September....
...According to Mr Finch, it is now much cheaper for companies — or scheme sponsors as they are known — to consider deals....
...Phoenix Suns‘ Devin Booker inadvertently paid homage to franchise legend Steve Nash by powering through a match with a busted nose....
...Philip Lane, chief economist at the ECB, has suggested there is no alarm surrounding transitory inflation stemming from temporary supply side bottlenecks (instead of demand overheating)....
...Tristram Hunt is director of the V&A and a former MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central....
...WHERE TO SEEThe Jewellery Gallery at the V&A, London....
...Just 30% expect a V shaped recovery in the stock market....
...Paris, Brussels and Milan have all accelerated plans to add new bike lanes for the moment when more people emerge from confinement....
...Rhys Ifans plays Atticus Finch in the UK premiere of To Kill a Mocking Bird, adapted by Aaron Sorkin from Harper Lee’s novel (Gielgud Theatre, London, from May 21)....
...We think the family-owned company, based in Billund, Denmark, will continue building a world business phenomenon....
...“Insurers have more capital as they release reserves from the back book, giving them more ammunition to write new business,” said Mr Finch at Lane Clark & Peacock....
...One has a curving V-shaped base (£12,000) and the other stands on a solid column (£8,000)....
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