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...Today, Cubitts, still based in King’s Cross, has 16 stores — up from 10 since the pandemic — and employs 142 people, including 13 opticians....
...“I’ve never felt I was the historian for queens and kings . . . It’s the others who need me,” Davis told the University of Toronto magazine in 2010. Her methods did not wholly convince everyone....
...(That didn’t happen with the Rodney King beating.) In Europe, both the “woke” movement and much of the alt-right reaction against it are American imports. And the US isn’t even trying to do this....
...According to Natalie Ceeney, chair of Cash Access UK, those who are increasingly using cash include digitally savvy people in their 20s and 30s and workers on zero-hour contracts who need to budget....
...East won with K♣, and led a third diamond to West’s king. The case for the defence began immediately: “Both finesses wrong — as usual — couldn’t be made.”...
...The trial of one of America’s most famous Black citizens in a Los Angeles courtroom unfolded four years after the brutal beating of Rodney King, a Black man, by LA police, and racial tensions in the city...
...Hip-hop’s biggest names are hurling insults at each other — a veritable feast of roasting and grilling from the self-styled kings, gods and goats of US rap....
...His Simpson’s reboot, meanwhile, sounds like it will be comparable to previous revivals of The Ivy and J Sheekey. “Hopefully, I know how to do Simpson’s,” he says....
...At the sturdier side of the market are brands such as Davy J, inflected by the trend for cold-water swimming....
...Conservative MP Natalie Elphicke said on social media on Monday that “in all my years of helping people who are homeless . . . at no time, ever, has anyone said the answer lies in the removal of tents”....
...Speaking after the late evening verdict, district attorney Damian Williams said Bankman-Fried had tried to make himself “king of crypto”....
...Ripley traces black’s popularity from mourning kings and queens in the early courts of Europe, into practical Protestant dress and then the industrial 19th century, when it became the colour of the professional...
...Seligman started his journey to America in 1837 on a horse-drawn cart from a Bavarian farming town and went on to make a fortune as the founder of J & W Seligman & Co, which became famous for trading US...
...However, when West continues with K♥ and J♥, you ruff high in dummy and East shows out. How does that change your plans? West is now marked with six hearts headed by ace-king-jack....
...Having drawn trumps, South took the diamond finesse, losing to East’s king. East exited passively with another diamond....
...The club’s executive chairman is one Daniel J....
...A simple idea brilliantly executed.whereareyougoing.co.uk Think Twice Fourteen years after the death of Michael Jackson, Slow Burn and Fiasco creator Leon Neyfakh reassesses the one-time King of Pop’s...
...The beauty of South’s play was this: even if West wins the third club trick with J♣, declarer was safe. What could West lead?...
...Jae5 has given it a London stamp, especially through his work with leading UK rapper J Hus....
...At the first table, declarer won in dummy, and played a spade to ace and cashed the king. When Q♠ failed to drop, he was one down....
...Sailing Alone: A History by Richard J King Particular Books, £25, 512 pages Wavewalker: Breaking Free by Suzanne Heywood William Collins, £20, 416 pages Victor Mallet is an FT journalist based in Paris...
...“The majority of Jamaicans are financially excluded,” said deputy governor Natalie Haynes in 2022....
...Mandy Madden Kelley, entrepreneur I would never part with my Ox Chair, originally by Hans J Wegner....
...At trick 2, South leads J♣, not covered by West, runs it, and is relieved when it holds....
...It’s 11am on a Friday and the busiest counter in Space NK’s King’s Cross store in central London is Rare Beauty, the make-up line from singer Selena Gomez....
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