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...“When the big retailers such as Marks & Spencer and Laura Ashley started to do off-shore sourcing in the ’80s and early ’90s, that was the death of a lot of textile companies in the UK,” Woodhouse says....
...In January, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen of The Row presented unattainably priced shallow V-neck sweaters worn with tailoring....
...The then prime minister Spencer Perceval responded by sending troops to northern mill towns. The Luddites, meanwhile, stockpiled arms and melted down machine metal for bullets....
...Dramaturge Christian Longchamp sketches a trilogy: Oedipus; the Virgin Mary; Macbeth. Why? This, too, is confusing....
...In the early 1960s, Rothschild met Serena Mary Dunn at the house of Nancy Astor, the first woman to take a seat in Britain’s parliament....
...Among titles hailing from Cannes, Berlin and Venice, Richard Linklater’s Hit Man left Toronto movie-goers with wide grins thanks to its screwball-perfect yarn about an ordinary dude (Glen Powell) who falls...
...Lord Michael Spencer, founder of interdealer broker ICAP and a Tory party donor, said: “The UK should maintain corporation tax at no higher than 20 per cent to put us in the most competitive bracket globally...
...“Lady Diana Beauclerk” portrays his friend, the original Lady Di (born Spencer), at a Grecian fancy dress ball in 1763....
...Mary Barra, CEO and chair of General Motors, led other sections of the carmaker following her time as vice-president of global HR....
...Mary Brueggemeyer, a Republican from Fairborn who is retired from the Air Force, said she saw Russia’s war on Ukraine as “unjust”....
...But Rogano, the historic Art Deco oyster bar — which, according to legend, is equipped with carpets and fittings smuggled out of the Clydebank shipyard that launched the Queen Mary — hasn’t reopened since...
...It’s taken about 20 minutes, but I’ve finally managed to persuade Mary Spencer Watson to buy me a glass of Cheddar....
...Glen Senk, executive chair, told the Financial Times there were major opportunities to sell more womenswear in the US and to become less dependent on catalogue marketing....
...Spencer – an ancestor of Diana, Princess of Wales....
...The leather Mary Jane shoes and Gucci-esque loafers look more designer than the £55-£89 price tag, and, importantly, are actually comfortable....
...Lady Diana Spencer, like Alexandra almost a century before, induced a choker frenzy in the 1980s....
...Lady Diana Spencer, who married Prince Charles in 1981 to become Princess of Wales, would quickly become an international celebrity who outshone her husband and mother-in-law....
...Essential comment before you go Has Silicon Glen’s time finally come?...
...Elizabeth Alexandra Mary was born in London on April the 21st 1926. The eldest child of the former Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon and Prince Albert....
...Latest to join the number are Oliver Spencer and Fila, which together have devised a new menswear capsule (from £69) made up of sporty separates and twists on heritage athletic style....
...The songs (Alan Silvestri and Glen Ballard) channel the periods — such as a peppy Fifties number in praise of gasoline and DDT — and there’s a nice streak of self-mockery. “Who are the girls?”...
...They are now offered by many well known UK retailers, such as Marks and Spencer, JD Sports, Asos and Boohoo, and typically offer the opportunity to split payments into three interest-free instalments....
...His tall, always elegantly dressed figure was a staple in opera houses and ballet venues across the world, and the many books he co-authored with Mary Clarke over the years remain classic texts....
...Fermoy (Georgie Glen) around to assist....
...Even financially solid retailers such as Marks and Spencer and John Lewis are closing stores....
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