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...In Cassowary House in Penang, barrister Robert Hamlyn and his wife Lesley are awaiting a visitation: Robert’s old friend Willie, now an internationally acclaimed playwright, short story writer and novelist...
...Stylist’s assistants, Connie Ng and Rachel Allison. Make-up assistant, Simone Svantnerova. Retouching, Touch Digital. Production, Sophie M Productions. Shot at the National Gallery, London...
...People use jargon to “soften the blow,” says Allison. “But then no one knows what you mean.”...
...December producer price index (PPI) inflation rate data Results: Alstom Q3 sales update, ASML FY, AT&T Q4, Boeing Q4, CMC Markets Q3 trading update, easyJet Q1 trading update, Givaudan FY, IBM Q4, Kimberly-Clark...
...Smart read An argument that motorsport science could help save the world ranks among Pilita Clark’s list of the best new books on climate change....
...CBS journalist Lesley Stahl, who turns 79 next month, was at the centre of a more recent Trump story last week, after the president abruptly got up and ended her 60 Minutes interview with him in the White...
...figures on the list include Andrew Parker, head of MI5, the domestic security service, Alex Younger, head of MI6, the secret intelligence service, and James Wates, an adviser to business secretary Greg Clark...
...“We are becoming tougher and faster,” said Lesley Titcomb, its chief executive....
...Read Pilita Clark’s feature: Inside Antarctica: the continent whose fate will affect millions...
...Like first world war, whose causes Christopher Clark has recently clarified, the Peloponnesian war was an unnecessary war, stemming from a series of contingent failures of imagination....
...Lesley Knox, chairman of the brewer’s remuneration committee, wrote in the annual report: Underlying revenue, EBITA and adjusted EPS growth resulted in above target bonuses for the year....
...“Our annual funding statement for this year pointed out, that in the tranche of companies due to do their (pension) valuations this year, that there was a level of increased profitability,” said Lesley Titcomb...
...It is a story that “illustrates the whole ethos around our move to change our hiring practices”, says Lesley Martin, L&G’s head of diversity and inclusion....
...Prof Clark said decisions about which drugs to continue funding had been based on “rigorous, evidence-based clinical analysis” of cost-effectiveness....
...Highlights included Golden Globe nominated Orange is the New Black star Taylor Schilling’s backless Ralph Lauren gown, and Girls’ Allison Williams’ gem-encrusted Armani Prive number....
...La Voix humaine was designed as a star turn for Lesley Garrett, returning to staged opera after several years’ absence....
...Mark Padmore gave Macheath a martyr-like stature, leaving John Tomlinson and Felicity Palmer to huff and puff as the Peachums and Allison Bell to purr as Polly....
...COMMANDER, CBE Lesley-Anne Alexander, chief executive, Royal National Institute of Blind People. James Bayley, formerly chief executive, London and Continental Railways....
...Here I’m particularly thinking of Lesley Garrett’s warbling rendition of the national anthem after Bradley Wiggins won the Tour de France....
...Clark seems to have been the love of his life, though his return to poetic form at the end of his life owed much to the happiness of his final three years with the actress Mary Wimbush....
...OBE: Nigel Clark, former chairman, British Chamber of Commerce, Beijing. Anthony Reilly, former director, British Council in Iraq. Stuart Rutherford, microfinance adviser. Piers Sellers, astronaut....
...This time she takes shoe designer Blahnik’s colourful life story – he was born on a banana plantation and designed shoes for Ossie Clark in the 1960s – and blends it with the narrative of “The Elves and...
...“The fund is actually a composite of other funds on the platform but it is the board, not the members, which now selects those underlying funds,” says Lesley Williams, group pensions director at Whitbread...
...Among those prompting the unspoken response: “We’re certainly not going to have our baby here,” are Rudolph’s former work boss (Allison Janney), a potty-mouthed banshee rearing two kids in Arizona; Krasinski...
...Ms Clark has found another benefit – increased interest from the workforce in the training she sets up....
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