Hints and tips:
...Abi Pickersgill, head gardener at the National Trust’s Belton House in Lincolnshire, says it is easy to make your own eco-friendly wreath....
...I'm a Gypsy with a library. I'm a Gypsy with a PhD. I'm a Gypsy who went to university. Now, that doesn't get associated. I don't fit the nice raggle-taggle Gypsy mode....
...Russian invasion because of changes in society,” said Tony Williams, a former managing partner of Clifford Chance, who added that large firms’ profits were much more reliant on areas such as real estate and M&...
...I’m delighted that this attack on our journalism has failed.”...
...Marc FilippinoI’m Marc Filippino and here’s the news you need to start your day....
...“I’m very much afraid this attitude will not be forgotten easily.”...
...I’m joined by Catherine Belton, the author of the definitive study Putin’s People, which in recent weeks has been top of the bestseller lists in the UK, Germany and elsewhere....
...I’m not a real estate agent.” Britain’s ruling party swims in Russian money....
...I’m Lilah Raptopoulos....
...I’m sure people will focus on me for three or four days but it will pass. They’ll forget who I am, and I like that.”...
...I'm Gideon Rachman, the chief foreign affairs commentator of the Financial Times, and I'm joined by two of my esteemed FT colleagues....
...Warwick's got about 520 hectares of forest on what I'm now seeing as a large and varied property. Well, this is obviously all part of it....
...In Putin’s People , former FT Moscow correspondent Catherine Belton looks beyond the Russian president to the ex-KGB men who have dominated his regime....
...(FT) M&A risks for buyers and sellers Global dealmaking is locked down: last week, no merger or acquisition worth more than $1bn was announced for the first time since 2004....
...“They started hiring people in M&A and project finance. It started losing revenue and people started to leave. “I didn’t think it would collapse....
...But whether this increase in regulatory work will compensate for the tailoff, I’m not sure it will,” he said....
...America is a great power — please correct me if I’m wrong.”...
...I’m horrified myself.”...
...“I’m having enough trouble funding the newspapers,” he quipped. The charges come amid a wider crackdown against the opposition....
...versus its Russian and global peers, with an exceptional asset portfolio offering considerable growth potential and thus an attractive public market investment story,” said David Waring, head of energy at M&...
...Gazprom still has the world’s largest reserves – 35tn cu m. But a lot of this gas is in hard-to-reach fields, including Shtokman....
...“This cleans up BP’s structure, with the result that it becomes more attractive as an M&A target,” said Chris Wheaton, an energy fund manager at RCM/Allianz, which owns BP stock....
...I’m convinced that it will be impossible to do this in Russia,” he said, adding that he believed the issue would disappear after the elections....
...However, Mr Powell told the BBC: “There’s not much you can say, you can’t really call up and say ‘I’m terribly sorry about that, it won’t happen again’. I mean, they had us bang to rights.”...
...But by 2007, “the domik had grown into a huge palace”, expanding to more than 4,000 sq m in total. “This whole transformation took place between 2004 and 2010. It is very dangerous for the country.”...
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