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...Ticket sales have been strong for the two operas — Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore — and there will also be youth events, two oratorios in performance and Christmas concerts....
...Van der Velden’s designs come to life at an L-shaped bench, with the typical half-moon cut into it enabling the jeweller to work up close. A tool display board hangs above it....
...McDermott Will & Emery has added Anthony Fine to its London infrastructure practice from K&L Gates....
...The team’s sixth sense for selecting, commissioning or collaborating on l’objet juste has made the department an obligatory port of call even for representatives of leading jewellery houses....
...The group said the 40 per cent reduction in pre-tax profits to £25m was due in part to increased interest charges from its acquisition last year of A&L King, a Perth-based housebuilder....
...A&L is one of the most shorted stocks in the FTSE 100. First Group, the bus and trains group, was the best performer in the FTSE 100, rising 4.7 per cent to 553p....
...Management will have to clear stock and this could yet hammer the second-half P&L.” Seymour Pierce cut its estimate for the year by 3.7 per cent to £680m and for next year by 12.6 per cent to £800m....
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