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...LondonMetric, led by chief executive Andrew Jones, has in recent years shifted away from retail parks, offices and residential property to focus on warehouses....
...Claire Jones Trade links The Peterson Institute’s Chad Bown on the false allure of managed trade....
...The geological upheaval of an ice age took place within a few decades, and the valleys of Merlin, myth and the Mabinogion were turned into the Mordor of the quarries....
...Members only . . . but shares for everyone The key to Nick Jones’ business is discretion....
...There are two very different sides to Merlin Hanbury-Tenison’s Cornish farm. One is almost magical woodland, intact for centuries, and rich in oaks and beard lichens....
...Merlin’s drooping hand and stupefied eyes stand out against the flat linear window-like design....
...Ivor Jones, analyst at Peel Hunt, said in a note: “The shift (but not reduction) in capex to higher-return projects is a reasonable response to changed market conditions.”...
...And, finally, Merlin Entertainments, operator of theme parks around the world, has shown more signs of recovering the tragic roller coaster accident at its Alton Towers attraction in 2015....
...Thomas Cook and Merlin Entertainments both provide case studies....
...Most memorable of all were Steve Reich’s ingeniously intricate Music for Pieces of Wood and the six percussion duos from Mauricio Kagel’s Rrrrrrr, which saw Merlin Jones and Sam Wilson don stationmaster...
...Ivor Jones, Numis analyst, said: “This is a global business with multiyear capacity growth plans and a track record of sound execution....
...News of the two contracts – to maintain the army’s Apache attack helicopters and refit the RAF’s fleet of Merlin helicopters for use by the Royal Navy – was announced by the Philip Hammond, secretary of...
...One of these will see 25 Merlin helicopters, operated by the RAF, converted for use at sea with the Royal Navy’s Commando force. Joint Forces Command will own the helicopters....
...The Funding for Lending Scheme and Project Merlin, the government’s flagship initiatives to spur lending to Britain’s households and businesses, have so far failed to reverse the decline....
...The coalition’s early loan targets for banks, Project Merlin , proved ineffective and was quickly dropped....
...Carolyn Miller, chief executive, Merlin, the health charity. Ric Parker, director of research and technology, Rolls-Royce. Arlene Phillips, choreographer....
...The Bank’s own data for gross lending – on which lenders are judged under Project Merlin – is £53.3bn, a little over half the amount the Project Merlin data show....
...As the data only cover up to 2010, the impact of Project Merlin, the government’s flagship scheme to support lending to business which was unveiled this year, cannot be measured....
...Maria imbued his art with a new erotic consciousness: she is the pouting, sultry goddess in his “Venus” paintings, the adored statue in his “Pygmalion”, the temptress in “The Beguiling of Merlin”, the faces...
...“The investing environment has changed and those who don’t acknowledge that fact are on the wrong side,” says Rick Bensignor, chief market strategist at Merlin Securities....
...Lord Green – there is just a hint of a smile when he hears Lord Jones’ remarks – doesn’t see if that way. “I’ve enjoyed it enormously. It’s a wonderful new challenge for a retired banker”....
...“The majority of the biggest donors have nothing to gain or lose from Project Merlin,” said one big donor....
...Barclays revealed that net lending last year had fallen, highlighting the challenge implied by Merlin’s £190bn new lending target for this year....
...Costs to the sector of complying with the government’s low-carbon policies are likely to rise seven times by 2020, says David Merlin-Jones, the report’s author, as a result of tough policies....
...It is a league away from Shameless (E4 Thursdays) – which the political commentator Owen Jones, in his recent book Chavs, sees as one among many ways in which the media insult the working class....
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