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...There are hugely enjoyable performances too from Ruthie Henshall as Dorothy Brock, the embittered star-on-the-slide, and from Josefina Gabrielle as savvy, straight-talking writer-producer Maggie Jones....
...Bracelet, model’s own Models, William Darby and Charlie Brock. Hair, Charlie Brock at Goodmans barbers using Uppercut Deluxe. Photographer’s assistant, Robin Bernstein. Digital operator, Luke Bennett....
...Hair, Charlie Brock at Goodmans barbers using Uppercut Deluxe. Photographer’s assistant, Robin Bernstein. Digital operator, Luke Bennett. Fashion assistant, Mitja Olenik....
...“Operation BROCK”, roared the audience gleefully, baying the name that an unwary bureaucrat assigned to the pre-Brexit testing of Kent’s highways in case of Brexit blockage....
...After a round of brock golf, distancing from Miss Badger is not being observed. After lockdown, I will therefore agitate for brock-down....
...A week later they gave the code name “Operation Brock” to their feeble preparations for no deal. A little convoy of lorries trundled on to the motorway near Dover, test-driving Brock....
...Operation Brock simulated a storm by staging one in a small British teacup. Storms have unintended consequences. A consequence of this one was a shift in brock behaviour....
...Dealing with badgers In the 19th century our house was called Brock Leys and so we should have been ready for a continuous badger party along the lines described by the FT’s Robin Lane Fox in his new year...
...Branches of prickly holly are a reader’s tip as an anti-brock defence, but my branches blew around in stormy December and the leaves were a pain to me too....
...Hard Broxit it will have to be, or a Great British Brock Off will take a chunk out of every politician’s trousers....
...Robin Niblett, director of London’s respected Chatham House think-tank, observes that he is in “the small camp that believes it is possible to do a fairly complete deal” by March 29, 2019....
...Stay Off, Mr Brock, I find myself muttering in order to remind me to use it next autumn....
...Long before the Romans, Brock the badger made Britain great. Should he be diluted by euro-badger migrants or should the line still be drawn in black and white?...
...Photographs: Susan Brock; Keith Hoffmeister...
...Mr Karvinen has headed Stora Enso for seven years, and will continue in his position until a successor is found, chairman Gunnar Brock said in a statement....
...These great pictures had some effect – in six months of showing them at his house in Bath’s Brock Street, Wright made £22 from the sale of shilling tickets – yet the Bath experiment was not a success....
...They do not discuss my stripy-pawed digger, Mr Brock himself. Cat-a-Pult is even less effective against badgers than a government-sponsored shoot....
...According to Molecaire, the Reverend Paul Flowers has been contacted to lead the preliminary hymn, “Brock of Ages”....
...On the first night of the official British cull, my resident old Brock decided to have a retaliatory assault on the crocuses planted in grass....
...Round lesser pots and buckets I now wind strands of barbed wire to teach Brock a lesson. Paws Off would be a valuable addition to these two books which are otherwise well up with fashion....
...If someone is the first bishop of England, surely he should replace this rock-intruder with the features of a stripey British brock? The proposal went through on a unanimous show of paws....
...At Broadleigh Gardens near Taunton, Lady Skelmersdale knows only too well what dear Mr Brock can do to nursery beds in springtime....
...Mr Brock began by ploughing up a few of the newly planted muscari, or grape hyacinths, which I had buried in the lawns to replace his previous diet of fine crocuses....
...“Brock of ages . . . ” ought to make the badger go away....
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