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...July 1 to 14; further information and ticketing advice here Henley Royal Regatta As much a social shindig as a sporting event, Henley is a key event in the British summer....
...“Cheese toasties are a magnificent thing,” says Rose Grimond, owner of Nettlebed Creamery near Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. “Underestimate them at your peril.”...
...The lonely guitar from Don Henley’s “The Boys of Summer” lingers on the sea breeze. Nobody on the road, nobody on the beach. The sun goes down alone....
...“Cinema is now where you go to play safe,” says Peter Miskell, professor of international business and media history at Henley Business School....
...They would be focused on some of the key corporate hospitality events of the British summer — the Royal Ascot race meeting, Henley Royal Regatta and the Open golf championship....
...It sets the seal on Wright’s adaptation of Patrick Hamilton’s 1947 novel, but it sustains a number of disparate yet parallel interpretations....
...I knew there was one Chablis in the tasting, a Valmur from Patrick Piuze (which suffered from a poor lot of corks), but I thought two of the non-Margaret River Australians could have been Chablis, so austere...
...The shirts worn with them were often henleys. Ties? Come on! This is 2016. “It’s easy tailoring,” he said. “I love wearing suits. We want to claim the suit back.”...
...At 18 he left Oundle School with less than excellent results and became Foulkes’ junior partner in his shop in Nettlebed, a village not far from Henley-on-Thames....
...Patrick Connolly, of financial adviser Chase de Vere, said: “Neil Woodford’s job was to manage money....
...Mark Barnett this month succeeded Neil Woodford as head of UK equities at Invesco Perpetual, the Henley-based investment group....
...An MBA at Henley costs 200,000 rand (about $18,000)....
...“We loved it,” says director Patrick Bourne. “There was a great feeling and we did decent business.”...
...Henley-on-Thames, that bastion of prosperous Oxfordshire respectability, has been overrun by men in leather caps, chaps and black vests....
...Ferfecki’s contacts come through the Henley network, others through him digging. “I know lots of people and they know me,” he says....
...In one case – that of the comedian Patrick Kielty – his deadpan narration of his father’s murder by loyalist terrorists was affecting. But it didn’t save the rest of the programme....
...Everyone in this series, which is filmed in edgy Henley-on-Thames, is fabulously Boden....
...The docklands redevelopment is being spearheaded by the city’s socialist mayor, Patrick Janssens....
...Patrick Duffy, a tall, theatrical Irishman, presides over the London Palace, one of the biggest and busiest bingo clubs in the country....
...Special thanks to the following for contributions: Hedda Bird, Henley on Thames Waldemar Paclawski, Warsaw, Poland Ms N Holden, Leeds Russell Wheeler, Winchester, Hants Ojay McDonald, Manchester Jonathan...
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