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...Lobb collected a £25,000 cheque from Cynthia Payne — that’s Madame Payne, who ran a famous brothel in Streatham during the 1970s, where she took payment in Luncheon Vouchers....
...Yes, the numbers are bigger, but the shock, while not a V is shorter and sharper than that crash, and the pre-crisis fiscal situation was strong....
...Letter carriers hated these makeshift mailboxes: they were often dirty, too small and the wrong height. The need for a personal mailbox was a recent one....
...Elizabeth Russell had unwittingly secured Shakespeare’s long-term success and his indelible association with the Globe....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Fredric Rolando, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers union, is right to call this an “irrational business formula.”...
...Brass letters rose to a shine against black iron: Lieutenant Godrej Khodadad Mugaseth King George V’s Own Bengal Sappers and Miners Below that an epitaph: He lived as he died, everybody’s friend....
...Letters from a Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, 1913-1976: Volume 6: 1966-1976, edited by Philip Reed and Mervyn Cooke, Boydell Press RRP£45 The sixth volume of Britten’s letters covers...
...National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) (i) It is widely acknowledged that the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, (NREGA) first implemented in February 2006, has been a magnificent success...
...As he shakes hands with the ambassador on the tarmac, we run for the revving people-carrier and dive in....
...“Look at the Parent Teacher Association,” he said. “Less than a generation ago, every school had a PTA and it was part of a national network....
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