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...Hercule Poirot’s Silent Night (HarperCollins, 8 hrs 58 mins) is read, as with the other books in the series, by actor Julian Rhind-Tutt, who manages to convey Catchpool’s long-suffering devotion to Poirot...
...Our Paris bureau chief, Leila Abboud has been gauging the mood on the ground, where as many as a third of local residents are planning to escape the city once the competition gets underway in July....
...In her accompanying article, Leila Abboud, the FT’s Paris bureau chief, writes that some 43 per cent of French farmers are set to retire in the next decade....
...But Marcos ruled out the reopening of the former US military bases of Subic Bay and Clark, saying it was against his country’s constitution to allow foreign bases on its soil....
...I have been keen to see how companies like this are faring in the coronavirus crisis, and in this piece, Leila Abboud, the FT’s consumer industries correspondent, shows it has been far from simple....
...Leila Abboud visits Paris’s palaces as they reopen. (FT, Bloomberg) Video of the day What if inflation returns?...
...Finding a solution will be far more complex than just recycling more, Leila Abboud and Leslie Hook tell Pilita Clark....
...‘The distracting horror of email’ Pilita Clark is another writer from my team who brightens my day....
...The decision was hailed by Greg Clark, the UK’s business secretary, as a vote of confidence in Britain. “A welcome decision by Unilever board having listened to shareholders,” he said....
...Greg Clark, the business secretary, is also pressing for opt-outs for industries, including ceramics. One Whitehall insider tells me this clash is proving impossible to settle....
...is approving infrastructure projects faster than its predecessors, including a subway system for traffic-clogged Manila, new rail and road projects, and a refurbishment of the international airport at Clark...
...Oliver Knussen Autumnal Leila Josefowicz, Ryan Wigglesworth, Huw Watkins (NMC)...
...When I did Leila [in Bizet’s Pearl Fishers] two years ago, I asked my daughters if I looked too old for the part. One of them replied, ‘No, Mum, from a distance you look great.’”...
...And Tom Goodman-Hill and Julian Rhind-Tutt revel in the complementary natures of the scientist and the medium....
...The recording by the original soloist, Tracy Silverman, had prepared me for its seductive slides, climbing to a state of trance-like ecstasy, but it was still a shock to behold Leila Josefowicz, in a hippy-style...
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