Hints and tips:
...Richard Beeching, an experienced business manager, was appointed in 1961 to reform British Railways, a state-owned monopoly that was losing eye-watering amounts of money....
...Pressure is mounting on Richard Sharp to stand down as chair of the BBC after some of the grandees of UK media warned that conflict-of-interest claims against the former Goldman Sachs banker made his position...
...Job moves Housebuilder Redrow named as its new chair Richard Akers, formerly of Land Securities. Akers will succeed John Tutte in September....
...Many composers have found refuge and inspiration in the Alps — Richard Strauss actually wrote an Alpine Symphony — and every summer they are dotted with music festivals....
...Despite the share price fall, James Wheatcroft, like many analysts, said that GVC was still his preferred pick among UK gambling companies....
...Geoffrey Wheatcroft argues that Prime Minister Theresa May should not take much comfort from the result....
...Matthew Wilson is a garden and landscape designer and horticultural consultant Photographs: Richard Bloom, Dorling Kindersley / Getty Images, Bloom Pictures, Alamy...
...Richard Bernstein: EM central banks are doing Fed’s dirty work US investors are increasingly fearful of inflation, says Bernstein, chief executive of Richard Bernstein Advisors LLC....
...If anyone should have known that it was Richard Holbrooke, the architect of the 1995 peace deal in Bosnia, who died on Monday after a lifetime as an American diplomatic trouble-shooter....
...Patience Wheatcroft, editor of the Wall Street Journal Europe, might suit too, were she not a journalist and therefore in Mr Lambert’s mould....
...Since sympathy for him has been in short supply in some quarters, it should be recorded that he was not at all a bad newspaper proprietor and that he is a clever man: his biography of Richard Nixon, coincidentally...
...Patience Wheatcroft, former Sunday Telegraph editor, will become a director of Barclays as part of a reshuffle bringing “a diverse wealth of experience” to the board....
...A case in point is Richard Jenkyns’ review of the Harry Potter books in “Potter in the past”, which examines the peculiarly English (boys public) school story genre....
...Investec analyst James Wheatcroft said the earnings enhancing deal looked sensible and retained his “buy” rating on the stock....
...Richard Ratner of Seymour Pierce welcomed Mr Shaplan’s appointment as a good choice but commented that the real focus for investors was still whether there would be a takeover bid....
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