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...’s involved with a new UK £1bn Fintech Growth Fund (Sky News) — Exploiting uncertainty makes products more profitable (Lucas F Costa) — RNS watch: interims from Legal & General, Ab*rd**n, InterContinental...
...Guns N’ Roses’ “November Rain” is playing, when the volume is suddenly turned up several notches. Applause breaks out on the patio, and then there are cheers of “We love you!”...
...Amount of money raised so far: £2.8m Valuation at latest fundraising: n/a Major shareholders: Sarah Willingham, Charlie Songhurst, John McAndrew and Graham Lund....
...Songs stomp along to sturdy one-two riffs, yeoman rock ‘n’ roll of the mutton-chopped variety. But the richly layered production teems with other forms of musical life....
...New frontiers (2): A year ago, Philip Hammond was a Member of Parliament in the UK and also the chancellor of the exchequer....
...As Magritte might have observed of the current curious state of British politics: “Ceci n’est pas un gouvernement.” Additional reporting by James Blitz...
...Alliance leader Philip Hammond is undecided. Number crunching UK polls give the Tories an eight percentage point average lead over Labour....
...The ministers, Philip Hammond, chancellor of the exchequer, and Liam Fox, international trade secretary, also urged a “time limited interim period” to avoid a “cliff edge”....
...Mr Hammond believes Britain should take a hard-headed view before severing ties with the customs union....
...“Hammond wants to make sure that this is not a well that they keep coming back to,” said one official....
...(FT) Trump lashes out at China after N Korea launch Donald Trump said he would no longer allow China to “do nothing” on North Korea, which tested another intercontinental ballistic missile, tweeting out...
...The Treasury has been a slave to “two fiscal events” since the 1975 Industry act compelled the government to publish at least two economic forecasts “with the aid of a[n economic model]” which is “maintained...
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...The encore, an all-hands-to-the-pump “Jump ’n’Jive”, merely whetted the appetite for more. royalalberthall.com...
...Current chancellor Philip Hammond is no slouch, either. In November, he decided insurance premium tax would rise, doubling the rate in little more than a year....
...Bahrain, which hosts the US fifth fleet, is a decadent autocracy that Philip Hammond, Britain’s foreign secretary, this year said was “travelling in the right direction” on human rights and political reforms...
...Letter in response to this report: Last chance for UK to hold China accountable / From William N Kring...
...“[A]n intention to domicile in Canada should be a clear signal that the potential deal is about inversion more than anything else.”...
...A Mexican car, said Mr Hammond, was bound to be “lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight”....
...Davis’s mix of R’n’B licks and modern jazz lines was also good value, and his soul-flecked phrasing on “Lover Man” was a duet highlight of the second set....
...“The infrastructure here is a nightmare,” says the managing director of Artee Group, the Nigerian retail chain that operates Spar and Park ’n’ Shop throughout the country....
...From RNS: Following the announcements made by BAE Systems plc (“BAE Systems”) and EADS N.V....
...In a statement following publication of the report, Philip Hammond, defence secretary, said: “Our continuous submarine-based nuclear deterrent is the ultimate safeguard of our national security....
...Their rival, Youssou N’Dour, whose popularity knocked them into a 15-year hiatus, is off the scene to campaign for the presidency of Senegal; some years after their last album, and with no follow-up in sight...
...Others who also failed to answer were Liam Fox, Philip Hammond, David Willetts and Eric Pickles....
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