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...Marks and Spencer has posted an increase in annual sales and profits, sending shares up almost 12 per cent on Wednesday and cementing its position as the best-performing retail stock in the UK in the past...
...It is hard to say, though, that this will mark a revival in the market for Tomlin as there is so little of his work: one catalogue raisonné puts it at 42....
...The veteran Everett attempts an audacious rewriting of Mark Twain, and delivers a story bristling with atmosphere, sadness and sly wit....
...Townsend (Whitechapel Gallery) 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX Good for: Light, local fare; decent acoustics Not so good for: Large parties....
...This transition was expressed exquisitely in Sue Townsend’s The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾: “Bought two tins of black vinyl silk-finish paint . . ....
Philippine ecommerce enabler has regional expansion in its sights
...In Milton Keynes, Lauren Townsend, an activist who had the backing of six trade unions, was left off a longlist for — among other things — liking a tweet from Nicola Sturgeon, then the SNP leader, saying...
...In June this year, there were joyful national celebrations to mark the Queen’s platinum jubilee....
...She had become interested in peat while walking with a climate scientist friend on the beach of Port Townsend, Washington. That interest, like many of her other obsessions, slowly ballooned....
...Many thought the Queen had been too harsh about her sister Princess Margaret's relationship with divorcee and commoner Group Captain Peter Townsend....
...Paul Townsend today advises Mecca’s authorities....
...The Catholic St Peter’s centre and the Protestant Townsend centre also regularly run joint projects....
...“This [Déby’s death] puts a question mark over the whole French strategy in the Sahel,” said Gaulme....
...“SoftBank will vigorously defend itself against these meritless claims,” said Rob Townsend, SoftBank’s chief legal officer....
...Last week, Kwyn Townsend Riley received a Facebook invitation to rally with other recent Chicago public school graduates against police brutality....
...SoftBank’s withdrawal marks the latest reversal for WeWork, which at one point was the most highly valued privately held group in the US....
...A team led by Robert Townsend, SoftBank’s chief legal officer, has been working on the proposals....
...Shares in Marks & Spencers are only £1.37, but their microwaveable lasagne is much more expensive. Hmmm....
...Job moves Investcorp has added Frances Fragos Townsend, the executive vice-president for worldwide government, legal and business affairs at MacAndrews and Forbes, to the group’s international advisory...
...Mark Townsend’s No Return (Faber RRP£12.99, April) is the instructive story of five jihadis whose dark trajectory towards Syria could have been prevented....
...silver and scores of canvases introducing the city’s inhabitants and cosmopolitan visitors: Rosalba Carriera’s blooming, smoothly spontaneous pastels (“Portrait of a Gentleman in Red”, “Portrait of George Townsend...
...Mark Steward, the FCA’s director of enforcement, who made his name going after frauds in Hong Kong, has beefed up the programme since arriving a few years ago....
...(WSJ) Vested interest Jan Koum, the WhatsApp founder, fell out with Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg after Facebook acquired the messaging app....
...Jeremy Townsend, Rentokil’s chief financial officer, said most of the proceeds of the deal would be used to pay down debt, reducing the group’s net debt from £1.3bn at the half-year to the end of June to...
...Mark Thurston, an executive at CH2M, was appointed chief executive of HS2 Ltd last month and will take over in March....
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