Hints and tips:
...After Mike Tyson bit Evander Holyfield’s ear in 1997, boxing became too barbaric for the mainstream....
...Sainsbury’s chief executive Mike Coupe (pictured above) is finally out (of the money). It took long enough....
...Mike Pompeo, US secretary of state, will be in Mexico today for emergency talks just as President Enrique Peña Nieto has sent police reinforcements with riot gear to his southern border....
...Troyka Ornithophobia (Naim) Troyka’s third studio album is themed on a dystopian vision of a London ravaged by a virus that turns people into human-sized birds — the idea evolved from guitarist Chris Montague...
...Mike Strachan gave up his job running a pet food shop to take charge of the Yes campaign office in Dundee....
...Chris Montague’s grimy chords still crunch with menace over Joshua Blackmore’s paired-down beats and Kit Downes continues to conjure underworld revels from gritty keyboard sounds....
...Trish Clowes’ airy, slightly pensive tenor sax sits well over her core quartet’s confident modern pulse and the dense thicket of chords provided by guitarist Chris Montague....
...The deal was renegotiated between three local councils – Kent, Dartford and Gravesham – and developers, and was brokered by Grant Shapps, housing minister, and Mike Penning, transport minister....
...Guitarist Chris Montague and Kit Downes on keyboards are an uncannily tight fit; drummer Joshua Blackmore underpins the brooding soundscapes with rattling cycles of awkward beats....
...And just as it all gets a bit too episodic, guitarist Chris Montague or keyboardist Kit Downes delivers a blistering, though rarely orthodox solo....
...Guitarist Chris Montague and keyboardist Kit Downes conjured bleak, shape-shifting, soundscapes over drummer Josh Blackmore’s sparse, knowing and cleverly constructed rhythms....
...The Hundred Decker Bus, by Mike Smith, Macmillan, RRP£6.99, 32 pages A double-decker bus driver leaves his route and heads off on an adventure....
...Sir Adrian Montague and Mike Biggs, the chairmen of Friends Provident and Resolution, will sit down together on Monday to see if they can agree a way of combining the two companies following the unveiling...
...Sir Adrian would step down and Mike Biggs, current Resolution chairman, take that position for the combined group....
...Yours sincerely Adrian Montague Related links: Resolution suffers Friends setback – FT Overpaid and over there – Sunday Times...
...Mike Biggs, Resolution’s chief executive, is also seen as a possible candidate to replace Mr Moore, although some people are sceptical he would take the role....
...Sir Adrian Montague, the Friends chairman, will act as executive chairman until a replacement for Mr Moore is found....
...Mike Biggs, Resolution chief executive, is expected to run the combined group....
...Resolution chief executive Mike Biggs will take the same position at the new group....
...The life assurer’s merger with Friends Provident sees both Clive Cowdery, its chairman, and Mike Biggs, chief executive, retain their leading roles in the enlarged company....
...Sir Adrian Montague, Friends’ chairman, and Clive Cowdery and Mike Biggs, respectively chairman and chief executive of Resolution, were the other sides of the unwieldy quadrilateral team that would have...
...My favourite: “The last kid picked / running his fastest / to right field” by Mike Dillon....
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