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...Last, I have been following on Instagram the curator Simon Costin’s restoration and decoration of a very old house in Launceston, Cornwall....
...I’m 5ft 1in, so it’s a perfect fit.” Rob Hubbard, car specialist at auctioneer Bonhams, puts some of the revived appeal down to broader market forces....
...I’m unlikely to throw my driving gloves in the ring, but I did put the car through its paces earlier this year....
...This year, 1882 Ltd will also take on its own space in the factory of another pottery stalwart, Wedgwood. Success stories are being written elsewhere in the city....
...Givenchy paid for the restoration of the palace courtyard, where similar stags’ heads had been destroyed during the revolution....
...Their losses have torn through communities, making them receptive to Mr Trump’s fierce gospel of social conservatism and economic restoration....
...Cathedral restoration is unending, as ancient monuments crumble under the assault of the elements. One drawback of the job is that some of your work is only seen by jackdaws....
...No, I’m not worried at all.” Counterintuitive thinking is part of the Comme mindset. It has a history of opening stores in uncharted retail waters....
...I’m not sure he or I really believe him....
...“I’m just back from delivering a catamaran where we were sailing across Biscay at 29 knots with no trouble at all. It was calm below,” says Mr Larsen....
...Spire restoration fund The runner who puffs towards the finish line at the tail-end of the field gets only halfhearted applause....
...Herbie Hancock looked around at the crumbling temples and declared: “I feel near the gods when I’m here.”...
...Nick Allott, managing director of Cameron Mackintosh Ltd, which owns seven London theatres, said the company had spent almost £50m on restoration in the past 15 years....
...Based on a medium-fusty stage whodunit by Frederick Knott, in Hitchcock’s care and this restoration the film comes up as fresh as new scenery paint....
...Schlumberger’s subsidiary M-I Swaco provided lubricating drilling fluid or “mud” used for the Macondo well, and employed two of the 11 men killed in the blast on April 20 2010....
...“I’m fascinated by the art form of silent movies but I’m not nostalgic,” he says. “If I was, then that would suggest I was dealing in an outmoded art form, which I don’t believe to be the case....
...“We will make this right,” BP said, promising long-term support for economic and environmental restoration....
...I’m greatly concerned that it seems to be untrue,” he says....
...“I think I’m a diligent worker and very focused on my tasks, and also I’m reasonably intelligent,” is all he will say of his own abilities....
...Tim Congdon, International Monetary Research Ltd: Developments in the banking system are critical....
...What: Four separate buildings: a 1,100 sq m villa, situated on three levels, with eight bedrooms and an elevator; a 16th-century farmhouse with 430 sq m of living space; a villa from the 1960s; and a rustic...
...“I’m not sure China is handling this all that well....
...“If M&A bidders emerge they are likely to be well received,” says Ken Brown, head of ECM at Nomura....
...What you’ve got going for you if you’re a risk investor is the restoration of value. Ultimately when the policy starts to work, the turnaround will be huge. Interviews by Esther Bintliff...
...be added to the £300m expenditure, which represents the Treasury’s official estimate of the compliance cost to business of adapting to the 2.5 percentage point cut in the VAT rate to 15 per cent and the restoration...
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