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...Marks and Spencer posted a better than expected performance in food and clothing over the Christmas trading period, in a further sign that its turnaround strategy is paying off after years of false dawns...
...Blast from the past Over 130 armed police swooped on a house in Berlin just after dawn yesterday morning, firing shots and detaining several people in connection with the search of wanted far-left militants...
...John Lewis’s back to basics strategy is similar to that of Marks and Spencer, which has made notable progress with its turnaround efforts in recent years after decades of false dawns....
...It was the dawn of an era in which soaring stock markets created vast fortunes for a growing number of hedge funds run by imperious managers....
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...The nurserymen were enchantingly helpful, paragons of Pakistani kindness, but I struggled to put names to many of their houseplants....
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...She is an exceptional woman, whose courage, strength and kindness I admire. When I grow up, I want to be her. How fit are you? I am not....
...It asks the mourners to never forget the kindness and goodness of the dead child, and to let their own memories of youth serve as an inner moral compass....
...She still exudes that “timeless cool”, he says, while “her kindness and energy are contagious”. “I have to like the people I’m going to be working with,” says Moss....
...The country students who wanted to get home in time for the celebratory build-up usually took a shift that began the evening of the 23rd and finished at dawn....
...And for visitors heading into the sprawling colonial-era house of Laura Cheung, founder of luxury interior design studio Lala Curio, the most striking sight at first is the pearl-embroidered wallpaper with...
...“It was fun working with Laura who is bold, not at all fearful,” she says....
...Additional reporting by Najmeh Bozorgmehr in Tehran and Katrina Manson in Washington laura.hughes@ft.com...
...Additional reporting by Laura Hughes...
...At college, it began to dawn on Scaringe that he would need huge amounts of capital to start a car company....
...Left wingers Rebecca Long Bailey, Dawn Butler and Zarah Sultana will be worth watching, as wellas respected MPs Rosie Cooper and Barbara Keely....
...Kindness towards staff, restaurateurs and the hospitality industry is really what is needed.”...
...Dawn had barely broken on the morning after the June 2016 Brexit referendum when Martin McGuinness demanded a plebiscite on whether Northern Ireland should leave the UK and unite with the Irish Republic....
...But Labour has had these false dawns that end in electoral setback, and they haven’t forgotten them....
...Too much festive fare in one go has a tendency to bring on a sugar rush, so it’s good to report that Dawn French brings a lip-smacking dash of vinegar to this sweet Christmas offering....
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