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...For Icke, who grew up in Stockton-on-Tees, north-east England, the litmus test for a show is whether it would appeal to the 14-year-olds he knew at school....
...I thank the Members for Stockton South, Barrow and Furness and East Devon for their tenacious campaigning on this issue....
...Retail drove out everything else in town centres,” says Mark Robinson, chair of the UK government’s High Streets Task Force and co-founder of mall investor Ellandi....
...“It’s gotten harder to steal stuff,” lamented on stage Howard Marks, the Oaktree Capital founder who at Citigroup in the late 1970s had been one of the first buyers of Milken’s revolutionary debt....
...That’s music to the ears of the likes of Paul Stockton, chief executive of Rathbones, a firm dating back to 1742. “We bring a level of engagement and reassurance,” he says....
...“We’ve ended up with a retail monoculture,” says Mark Robinson, a property industry executive who also chairs the UK government’s High Streets Task Force....
...“This list of new Peers marks a lost opportunity to reduce numbers in the House of Lords,” he said. “The big opportunity was for the present government to take forward this movement for reform....
...Harley, Stockton-on-Tees, England Crossword 16,284: J Vercoe, Dorchester, UK; Anna Bruce, Wiltshire, UK; J Ireland, Bristol, UK Polymath 1,041: Phoebe Sutherland, London Crossword 16,278: Peter Bromwich...
...As chairman of HS2 between April 2012 and December 2013 he is in effect being asked to mark his own homework. Tim Stockton London NW5, UK...
...The Budget package This Budget will mark the moment the Conservatives put the final nail into austerity’s coffin....
...All photographs by Mark Pinder/FT...
...So are Silicon Valley tycoons Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes is helping fund a pilot in Stockton, two hours drive from San Francisco....
...Some of the towns on the list, such as Stockton, have also seen branches of Marks and Spencer close, robbing high streets of vital footfall....
...Alex Cunningham, the MP for Stockton North, said the decision to close the M&S in the town was a “huge blow.”...
...Rival Marks and Spencer has also committed to full-priced sales, and is operating in fewer locations than last year — Basildon, Bournemouth and Stockton-on-Tees are among the towns that still have a Debenhams...
...The first steam railway ran between Stockton and Darlington. The first television was invented by a Scot....
...The redevelopment should be finished by 2025, in time to mark the 50th anniversary of the museum and the bicentenary of the opening in 1825 of the Stockton & Darlington Railway....
...behind Burning Man — Emily Witt in the New Yorker I’m not black, I’m Kanye — Ta-Nehisi Coates in the Atlantic What you’ve been saying Being gay has to be more than a corporate privilege — letter from Mark...
...The impact will be concentrated in the UK’s three regional steelmaking hubs of Teesside, Scunthorpe and South Wales, says Mark Firmin of KPMG....
...While the Darlington and Stockton railway opened earlier, the Manchester line was far busier and the original station survives....
...Letter in response to this article: Network Rail crew now in charge at HS2 / From Tim Stockton...
...Although Mr Farage claimed the correct figure should be 14.6 per cent, he admitted the party had fallen back in national polls since a Ukip high water mark last autumn following victories in two parliamentary...
...Tory commentator Mark Wallace, commenting on Lord Ashcroft’s findings on the ConservativeHome website, said: “Both parties have stepped up their campaigning as the election approaches....
...On the surface, their forecast of employment was also quite close to the mark....
...In May 2012, 12 towns, including Stockton-on-Tees and Croydon, were allocated £100,000 to invest in schemes, including pop-ups....
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