Hints and tips:
...Police chief Peter Newsham last week conceded he had heard “disturbing” details about police beating protesters during the Swann St mass arrest....
...Over the past two years, the company has brought in Kate Swann as chair and Stephen Clarke as chief executive — both former bosses of stationery chain WHSmith....
...The spirit of her late father, Michael Flanders, half of the legendary comic song duo Flanders and Swann (hits included “The Sloth”, “Mud, glorious mud” and “Bed”, on the delights of sleep and laziness)...
...In an interview with the Financial Times in 2007, Martin said his early work with comedians such as Flanders and Swann, Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan had helped lay the groundwork for the musical inventiveness...
...Labour MP Peter Kyle doubts whether the current apprentice programme will do this....
...Now Peter Moores has gone — again — after an extremely poor World Cup and lacklustre tour of the Caribbean....
...Sam Swann’s Peter is not just an ageless but also a mannish boy, summoning his comrades with Junior Wells-style blasts on a blues harp (there’s even an argument over whether a white boy can play the blues...
...Dwelling in Possibility by Howard Mansfield, a book to be published next year called The Zhivago Affair by Peter Finn and Petra Couvée, and I’m rereading Swann’s Way by Proust....
...“Touché,” wrote BBC chairman Sir Michael Swann, graciously putting his hands up after she had caught him in a rare moment of inconsistency. “You do your homework extremely well.”...
...WH Smith slipped 3.9 per cent to 537p on news that Kate Swann, the retailer’s chief executive since 2003, had sold 425,000 shares....
...Bresnan took three wickets while Graeme Swann, a naturally expansive bowler, curbed his inclinations and bottled up one end as tight as a cork....
...Led by Kate Swann, the retailer is successfully altering its product mix....
...The truly scary aspect of this is the lack of understanding from [PM Kevin] Rudd and [Treasurer Wayne] Swann towards equity risk premiums....
...Its former railway station was memorialised in “Slow Train”, a 1964 song by Flanders and Swann that lamented the Beeching cuts. What now?...
...Then Flintoff ripped out the off-stumps of both Nathan Hauritz and Peter Siddle, his fifth victim of the innings....
...This will inevitably increase product cost,” says Nadia Swann, financial regulation partner at Linklaters, the law firm....
...Then Graeme Swann, the off-spinner, got one to rip, and it shot through on to his stumps, as the Aussies say, like a Bondi tram. The cheers for that were quite legitimate....
...Half the West Indies’ 14-man squad are left-handers and Graeme Swann may yet be preferred to Monty Panesar for spinning duties....
...Kate Swann has been incentivised to cut costs during her first four years in the job....
...“Peter creates a better climate, a lot better. The communication is unbelievably good....
...Another poor performance would have raised serious questions about the regime of coach Peter Moores, about which the jury remains out....
...But he and Wayne Swann [shadow Treasurer] will spend a lot of time getting it right. It is the one area that they will work extremely hard on.”...
...In June unemployment remained steady at 4.6 per cent but Peter Morici, professor of economics at the University of Maryland, said the jobless rate would rise unless employment growth accelerates....
...But it was improvising sound effects in comedy recordings – with Flanders and Swann, Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan – that later helped him deliver the stunning inventiveness of Beatles records....
...“With interest rates rising and demand for new home ownership slowing, it is likely that stronger demand for rental properties will push rental rates up at a higher pace,” said Peter Kretzmer, senior economist...
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