Hints and tips:
...Omaze is scrupulous in making clear that it is not a charity raffle or house lottery, which would expose it to British gambling regulations, but a prize draw....
...The pieces will be sold in a social media raffle, the first one coming later this month....
...It was Jean-Claude Van Damme....
...(The last two finance directors, American Bruce van Saun and Kiwi Ewen Stevenson, were bankers brought in to oversee a vast restructuring.) For another, she’s a Scot....
...Afterwards, there is a raffle in the bar with a possible jackpot of A$3,300. “Don’t win,” warns a cheery Canadian. “You’ll be lynched before you get back across the road.”...
...Kremer Museum architect Johan van Lierop says: “To design a museum without gravity, plumbing or code regulations is a dream.”...
...Deliveroo specialises in food from better eateries, so its vehicles have scope to become social signifiers as potent as Ocado vans....
...Meanwhile, it’s an easy pleasure for guests in the Raffles Hotel next door. Nusr-et fourseasons.com Qbara qbara.ae nicholas.lander@ft.com...
...Hotels such as Raffles in Singapore, and the Mount Nelson in Cape Town, sell a similar line of colonial nostalgia. (“That elegant British colonial overtone never fades,” applauds Cape Town Magazine.)...
...Ours, Makoto Takeishi, meets us in the car park where he has spent the night in his camper van, welcoming us with coffee brewed on his stove....
...In 2004, the UK’s Tibbett & Britten was acquired by US-based Exel, which the following year was bought by Deutsche Post, which had already acquired DHL Express....
...The answer was “yes”, prime minister, you’ve just come face-to-muzzle with the division’s mascot, a cub won in a Red Cross raffle....
...Our ambassador has borrowed a van to drive us to Brussels. I don't have any official papers but we can wing it. If in doubt, vote no....
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