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...Kingston Polymath 1,011: Dr S Bailey, Swindon Crossword 16,099: Suzanne P Wilson, Windermere; D Barter, Cumbria; Jean-Marc Sellier, California Polymath 1,010: Robert Jelly, Warwickshire Crossword 16,093: V...
...(FT) Cushman v the cleaner Last year, Sonia Mercado took an $18-an-hour cleaning job with Cushman & Wakefield in New Hampshire....
...A dead baby was found discarded on a beach in Kerry; another buried at a farm in the same county....
...The farming families toiling away in the make-believe county of Borsetshire have had more than their fair share of drama....
...“It was a ‘get out of jail free’ card,” says Rajiv Gupta, chief executive officer of Skyhigh Networks, a US internet security company. “It was reassuringly simple to make that claim.”...
...If you stand in Ridge Vineyards’ historic Monte Bello vineyard — famous for its sterling performance in both the 1976 and, especially, the 2006 iterations of the Judgment of Paris France v California taste-off...
...escape jail; here, the black man whom Atticus is supposed actually to have cleared is not named....
...Aurora, by Kim Stanley Robinson, Orbit, RRP£18.99/RRP$26 Another masterpiece of future-building from Robinson. A vast starship travels to colonise a distant moon....
...Maria Crawford Science fiction Escape From Baghdad!...
...We’re also opening negotiations on a city deal with Edinburgh; we back the new V&A in Dundee....
...… Lila, by Marilynne Robinson, Virago, RRP£16.99/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, RRP$26 Having published only four novels in 35 years, “Marilynne Robinson is America’s most highly acclaimed and respected,...
...Robinson says there is good reason why elected African-American officials spend a lot of time talking about purely “symbolic” issues....
...It continues to offer music and films for download from a website with a Swedish domain name with, for instance, the current number one US album – Chapter V by Trey Songz – available....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
...European exceptions include sommelier Colm McCan at Ballymaloe in Ireland’s County Cork and the modern temple to connoisseurship Monvínic in Barcelona....
...The Rage , by Gene Kerrigan, Vintage, RRP£7.99 Naylor is a professional thief barely out of jail when he plots his next heist....
...The most distinctive were those called by locals simply “County”, meaning that they come from the relatively new Prince Edward County region that is even cooler than the benchland just west of Niagara Falls...
...A judge in Regina v....
...“Nick Robinson [BBC political editor], who was sitting in front of me, said the last time he had seen a shaky Blair hand was sixteen years ago....
...In German wine, dry v sweet is a highly contentious issue with some critics of Germany’s new wave of dry wines sceptical that a wine made from Germany’s most famous grape, Riesling, can be both good and...
...“It’s hard to compete when you’re being outspent two to one,” says Paul Blackford, party chairman in Crawford County, Ohio....
.... £12,000 www.lyonandturnbull.com ii Fall-front desk American This desk was made around 1800 in Berkshire county, Pennsylvania....
...GFT is made up of Paul Neale, Andy Stevens and Nigel Robinson and is known for its work in both two and three dimensions....
...Mainar was detained at the county jail. But in his first court appearance on Sunday, February 4, Mainar filed a not-guilty plea to the charge of murder....
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