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...Lucien, a French-style bistro, is perfect for these occasions. Its steak au poivre is the best....
...Designer Agnès Troublé bought a self-portrait by Basquiat back in 1983, and it ended up as one of the best-selling artist’s T-shirt designs in her Agnès b fashion line....
...Sell: Mitchells & Butlers (MAB) Given the backdrop, we feel M&B chief executive Phil Urban has his work cut out....
...Rest of the best: Cranswick, WH Smith, Dunelm, BSky B....
...A £30,000-£50,000 target has been put on “Phantom @XI B-II” (2007) by the Indian duo Thukral and Tagra....
.... ——————————————- Hold: Numis (NUM) Numis is currently in a sweet spot, but the shares are not cheap on 18 times historic earnings, writes Jonas Crosland....
...Indeed, so established are crus such as Morgon, Moulin-à-Vent, Fleurie and Juliénas, all villages in the Beaujolais hills, that their wines, perhaps confusingly, don’t even have the B-word on the label....
...With net debt of £1.77bn, M&B is no less financially exposed than the others, but it is much further along in its turnround plan....
...Nor it is a coincidence that, on her current sold-out Loud tour, R&B superstar Rihanna sports a dress made of dog tags and a bondage body-suit....
...“It’s hardly surprising – genes will out – her grandfather is Lucien (Freud) and her great-grandfather Jacob Epstein.”...
...Vodafone can track the whereabouts of each phone to within 500 metres and monitor its movement, says Luciën Groenhuijzen, managing director for TomTom Mobility Solutions....
...Is Lucien Pellat-Finet’s skull-studded version of a Chanel knit jacket brilliantly tongue-in-chic or a knock-off? (Personally, I think the first.)...
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