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...When Henry Higgins agreed to transform Eliza Doolittle from “guttersnipe” to “duchess” in George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, his first command was a new wardrobe from Whiteley’s....
...On Thursday, Ireland’s president Michael D Higgins praised migrants in a televised message ahead of St Patrick’s day, which falls on March 17....
...But Patrick Williams, half of the Bath-based interior design practice-cum-shopkeeper Berdoulat, is among the professionals who have shared their knowledge and aesthetics on Instagram....
...Her whole climate list: –Alec Russell recommends Sentient by Jackie Higgins and Free by Lea Ypi –Edwin Heathcote recommends Public House: A Cultural and Social History of the London Pub....
...Sentient, by Jackie Higgins, takes you into the life and mind of the peacock mantis shrimp, the spook fish, the grey owl and other remarkable species....
...She gives to an absolute plethora of charities – Terrence Higgins Trust, Oasis, Centrepoint, the Elton John AIDS Foundation and more – and started doing so even as a student....
...Police said a second presidential candidate Patrick Amuriat, had also been arrested in the northern town of Gulu....
...Another corporate controversy is explored in Patrick Radden Keefe’s “secret history” of the Sackler family, Empire of Pain (Picador, May)....
...Nigel Higgins: Shrinking feeling Barclays’ new chairman formally assumed his role barely a month ago. But Nigel Higgins has wasted no time trimming excess at the UK lender....
...Though Mr Higgins himself often takes the Tube, he hasn’t eschewed the car pool altogether....
...Shepherd’s Market is a step back in time, and I love HR Higgins for coffee and local colour....
...As my colleague, Patrick Jenkins, reported last month, when the new chairman of Barclays bank, Nigel Higgins, formally took up his new role, he lost little time shrinking the grand corner office of his predecessor...
...Coincidentally, Nigel Higgins, Rothschild’s outgoing deputy chairman, will start as Barclays’ chairman in May, where he will have to oversee a bitter row between activist investor Edward Bramson and the...
...Nigel Higgins: City challenge Friends of Nigel Higgins are worried about how the veteran banker will adapt to the boardroom at Barclays, where he is due to take up the chairman’s role after next year’s...
...Much missed was David Higgins, the star lawyer who quit recently for Kirkland & Ellis in a reported $10m deal. Charlie Hayes, another partner, was in attendance though....
...Others hiring magic circle partners include Latham & Watkins and White & Case, which poached Patrick Sarch, Clifford Chance’s global banking co-head. But Mr Higgins’ $10m move is most startling....
...petrol engines Volvo Cars announced that every car model it launches from 2019 would be pure electric or a hybrid, making it the first leading carmaker to phase out the internal combustion engine, writes Patrick...
...In his graveside oration, Mr Adams invoked Patrick Pearse, leader of the 1916 Easter Rising, who is perhaps the most venerated figure in Irish republican iconography....
...“It’s in their best interests to keep you as a customer, so they will probably be willing to help,” says Ms Higgins....
...“We are in a low-rate environment so taking advantage by issuing long-dated debt makes sense,” says Patrick Jacq, senior strategist at BNP Paribas....
...Sir David Higgins, chairman of the planned High Speed 2 project, who has also worked on Network Rail and the Olympics, admitted the new trains were long overdue....
...But John Higgins at Capital Economics warned that dollar strength was still likely to keep a cap on Wall Street in the months to come....
...SH arcolatheatre.com, 020 7503 1646, to May 16 Outside Mullingar, Ustinov Studio, Bath Sam Yates directs a bittersweet romantic comedy by John Patrick Shanley set in rural Ireland in 2008....
...The Transpennine and Northern franchises are among the most crowded in the country and rely on outdated diesel trains on many lines, but transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin had to overrule civil servants...
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