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...“No one would expect a CEO to take notice of a junior executive at the time,” he said, “but that was Jim. He would go the extra mile to connect with people.”...
...“The latest numbers show inflation going up, so you don’t want to intervene too fast if you’re a central banker,” said Evi Pappa, professor at the Carlos III University in Madrid....
...Even thousands of miles away from the Midtown galleries, Mitchell had to suffer the sting of New York prejudice....
...It now enjoys a life as the star exhibit of the new Perth Museum, a couple of miles from Scone (rhymes with moon)....
...Finally, I think that the Basel principles are a very useful construct for the banking industry. I mean, you hear a lot of complaints about Basel III....
...Natives of Britain’s Scilly Isles are a tough bunch. After all, the tiny archipelago 28 miles off Cornwall’s coast quietly held off the Netherlands during their 335 year war....
...70th of Roger Bannister breaking the four-minute mile....
...The activities have been organised by the RSPCA as part of the Big Help Out, a nationwide initiative of 55,000 charitable events to mark the coronation of King Charles III....
...wolves that are one of the stars of this week’s episode of Planet Earth III....
...— with a sovereign grant....
...And, on the morning of King Charles III’s coronation last month, Smith and seven other activists were arrested near Trafalgar Square and the Mall as they prepared a protest....
...In 1760 George III surrendered hereditary revenues from the Crown Estate in return for a fixed annual payment....
...A spokesperson for UK prime minister Rishi Sunak in Downing Street, nearly 800 miles from the islands, said Britain was “stronger united” and questioned their ability to break away....
...British retailers, pubs, hotels and restaurants are all hoping for a boost in sales prompted by the coronation of King Charles III on Saturday after three years of subdued consumer demand....
...Planet Earth III came out a month ago, and I have not yet worked up the strength to get through a whole episode in one go....
...Because the Crown Estate includes ownership of the seabed out to 12 nautical miles, this means that the royal family, as well as the government, would have been the beneficiary of a huge windfall generated...
...“He started a craze,” says Paul Wood, the author of London is a Forest. Soon, avenues of planes were sprouting all over the place, from Chiswick in the west to Mile End in the east....
...Charles III was formally proclaimed king on Saturday during an Accession Council that was televised for the first time, in an indication of the new monarch’s determination to modernise and streamline the...
...On Monday the 73-year-old King had joined a procession for the Queen along the narrow length of Edinburgh’s Royal Mile, but Wednesday’s display of pageantry was of an entirely different order of magnitude...
...In 2005 Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, spent their honeymoon at Birkhall, a few miles from Balmoral....
...King Charles III will lead a procession through the heart of London on Wednesday as the focus of mourning for his late mother Queen Elizabeth II returns to the British capital....
...The queue to attend the lying-in-state has spread along a two-mile distance of the Queen’s Walk....
...The coffin is draped in the Royal Standard and atop it are the imperial state crown and an orb and sceptre, with King Charles III’s Body Guard keeping watch....
...The Queen’s coffin will be taken on Sunday from Balmoral to the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, and on Monday it will be carried in procession along the Royal Mile to St Giles’ Cathedral....
...The late Queen’s children, King Charles III, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew, and Prince Edward will hold a separate vigil at 7.30pm....
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