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...According to Ricky Burdett, professor of urban studies at the LSE, the system of directly elected mayors introduced in 2000 has achieved a lot already, and despite efforts by Conservative ministers to dilute...
...Then, last year, Ricky Lightfoot (yes, that’s his real name) beat the horse by two minutes with a time of 2:22:23....
...Chef Ricky Saward’s rotating set menu is an extension of his “root-to-leaf” philosophy, with seasonal ingredients such as celeriac, gooseberry and red cabbage plucked from the restaurant’s own permaculture...
...HSBC has some discussion about V and W shaped recoveries; its own model resembling “the Nike swoosh” is made by combining a proper V in mainland China forms and more of an L among Western European and American...
...It gives you a good idea of dreams v reality ratio.” I pause here to reread that last line: “It gives you a good idea of dreams v reality ratio.”...
...Vaughn, who has previously been banned by Twitter....
...‘David Bowie Is’, V&A, London, from today until August 11. www.vam.ac.uk...
...Ricky Burdett, who founded the London School of Economics’ Cities Programme, says: “These surveys always come up with a list where no one would want to live....
...Also at the V&A: Sebastian Wrong and Richard Woods’ “Bench Press”, the reclaimed materials installation “Wasted”, and “In Praise of Shadows”....
...It was George V, her grandfather. SCOREBOARD Second NPower Ashes Test (Lord’s) Second day: England 425 (Strauss 161, Hilfenhaus four for 103). Australia 156 for eight (Anderson four for 36)...
...The dramatis personae of Obama v McCain included Joe the Plumber, Joe Sixpack and vice-president elect Joe Biden....
...Yet when the approach works – the mud-caked verismo of Henry V, the Tuscan sun and skittishness of Much Ado About Nothing – the singleness of purpose intensifies the energy and vision....
...Ms Aronson, the donor activist, is helping raise money for the play, which will premier next April in New Orleans in conjunction with the 10th anniversary of V-Day, a global movement to stop violence against...
...FA Cup quarter-finals: Middlesbrough or West Bromwich Albion v Manchester United or Reading, Arsenal or Blackburn v Manchester City, Chelsea v Tottenham, Plymouth v Watford....
...The players are expected to shut up, although Ricky Ponting, Australia’s captain, said this week that he thought the extra teams had no business being there....
...But really, was it, as S+V and the DVD’s title claim, the “greatest Test ever”?...
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