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...It aims to open next month with a programme that includes comedians Jon Richardson, Frank Skinner and Alan Carr. This year’s panto will be Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs....
...The Carr wildfire in California and a windstorm in Ontario also proved costly for the Swiss group....
...The Carr fire earlier this year cost $2bn on its own....
...The dog cost £6,500 and its owner, Micah Carr-Hill, says he had trouble finding insurance elsewhere. Despite all the new entrants, penetration has only increased slowly over the past few years....
...Oliver Ralph is the FT’s insurance correspondent The shape of things to come?...
...Analysts will also no doubt also press chairman Sir Roger Carr on his thinking about succession when Mr King retires — expected in 12 months or more....
...Populism, as the Anglo-German scholar Ralph Dahrendorf wrote in a recent essay, is powerful only in opposition; in government, it inevitably disappoints, since it cannot give “the people” what they want...
...In late December, a police investigation was announced into a leak that came from finance minister Ralph Goodale’s office - a national scandal that was larger than Ignatieff’s local conflict....
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