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...The Wren Coffee at St Nicholas Cole Abbey 114 Queen Victoria Street, London EC4V 4BJ Good for: Ambience and a quiet space to work Not so good for: Thursday lunch meetings....
...Hebborn once told the great art journalist Geraldine Norman, “I like to spread a little confusion”. He succeeded....
...Jesse Norman, financial secretary to the Treasury, recognised that this would be a “major change” and create cash flow difficulties for many companies and households because they would have to pay two years...
...“Their pain was coming much more from the sense that they had violated values that were critical to their being,” says Sonya Norman, director of the National Center for PTSD’s consultation programme, who...
...He also serves as the chairman of Marks and Spencer, chairman of Signal AI, and adviser to Lazard & Co and Coles Group....
...When Jez, a bored radio journalist is tasked with making a programme about Thurlbury in its anniversary year, he’s delighted to find that his key interviewee, the jolly lady from the Norman castle, can’t...
...Her family was musical — her grandparents owned a harmonium which, she wrote in her memoir, was “the most exotic thing I had ever encountered” — and at the age of 10 or 11 she discovered Nat King Cole, James...
...At the time of the deal, Mr Norman was an adviser to Coles, Wesfarmers’ grocery business, not its Bunnings DIY business. He joined the advisory board of Bunnings UK and Ireland after the acquisition....
...David Cole Dunmow, Essex, UK...
...Veteran British retailer Archie Norman will step down as deputy chairman of Coles and an adviser to Wesfarmers’ board. He will become an adviser to the new Coles board....
...Letter in response to this article: French can surely make their own sandwiches / From David Cole, Dunmow, Essex, UK...
...It has prompted a shift of strategy at the conglomerate under chief executive Rob Scott, who has shed several assets and is spinning off its supermarket business Coles....
...WH Smith and survival of the most cynical: letter from Caroline Cole, London SE19, UK Reading your articles about WH Smith, made me realise what a cynical world we live in....
...But the news of Mr Norman’s warning is likely to raise new questions over the process, just as Mr Scott considers the future of the UK chain....
...James Baldwin, Norman Mailer and Saul Bellow, to name only three, all spent time in Paris in the late 1940s as it recovered slowly from the trauma of Nazi occupation....
...She didn’t want to commit to a further five years in the job, as new chairman Archie Norman apparently wanted from his FD, so she’s off prematurely....
...Michael Cole-Fontayn, European chairman at Bank of New York Mellon, warned of the “pretty enormous” costs that financial services firms would face if Brexit forced them to split the pool of capital and margin...
...Department store operator Myer and electronics retailer Harvey Norman are seen as likely to lose market share to Amazon, and were down 3 per cent and 2.7 per cent respectively....
...But Norman Blackwell, chairman of Lloyds and a well-known Brexit supporter, sought to turn the debate on its head by telling a conference on Thursday: “Rather than a Jenga tower, I think of a Tower of London...
...The fine house and studio built in Melbury Road in 1877 by Richard Norman Shaw for Luke Fildes, in which the latter painted Edward VII, is now owned by singer Robbie Williams, by way of film director Michael...
...JULY … Blind Spot, by Teju Cole, Faber, RRP£20/Random House, RRP$40 (June) A marriage of words and photography from the author of Open City....
...ITV declined to comment on succession plans for Mr Norman. The 61-year-old also leads the board of investment bank Lazard London and acts as deputy chairman of Coles, an Australian supermarket chain....
...Cole’s 1836 painting “The Oxbow” idealises the combination of the wild and the civilised....
...Archie Norman — dubbed the “turnround king” for his restructuring of UK food retailer Asda in the 1990s — is chairman of Lazard London, deputy chairman of Coles and a former finance director of Kingfisher...
...She discovered Nat King Cole and James Brown around the same time but the Met broadcasts became her Saturday ritual, and she would regale her classmates with detailed accounts on Monday mornings....
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