Hints and tips:
...Snacks by William Blank (ex-Lyle’s) will include oysters, salt beef sandwiches and burnt butter affogato. There will also be a 20-seat terrace that I’m sure will be packed, come summer....
...The Fraud is Smith’s first historical novel, taking as its inspiration a trial that commanded public attention and provoked riots in the street: that of Arthur Orton aka Roger Tichborne aka Thomas Castro...
...Murphy, who chairs Burberry and Tate & Lyle, will step down from the latter in September....
...Unilever veteran Isabelle Esser has joined the board of Tate & Lyle as a non-executive director....
...McDonagh is a consummate phrasemaker: at various moments his lines sound like Pinter, Orton or even 1970s sitcom writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais....
...T& L Sugars, the former Tate & Lyle business, was bought by ASR Group of the US in 2010, and is fighting the allegations....
...In the early 1870s, Arthur Orton, an English stockman and butcher living in Australia, impersonated a lost baronet called Roger Tichborne to claim an inheritance....
...An earlier authorised biographer, Lyle Leverich, finally escaped the “stranglehold” (Lahr’s word) of the estate to publish his early life, Tom, in 1995; Lahr sees no need to cover that ground again....
...John Loughhead, executive director, UK Energy Research Centre.David Lyle, chief executive, LyleBailie International advertising agency.Graham Marchant, for services to the arts....
...Best of all in the future-promise stakes is Thomas Dolié as the rebel Roger, a polished baritone who serves the music rather than the decibel count....
...The TV director, Peter Orton, caught a great performance with the sublimely subtle David Soul in the lead. I was happy the piece was going out for anyone to see for free....
...Sir David, now at Tate & Lyle, is a good choice, given the constraints. But the government still has to name a deputy and a team of non-executives....
...Brands such as Vernon’s Pools, Tate and Lyle, Triumph and British Leyland quit the city or closed and tens of thousands of people followed them....
...Iain Ferguson, chief executive of Tate & Lyle, the sweeteners group, has mentored a senior woman who has now been offered a non-executive directorship....
...Barclays trod water at 603p on news that Roger Davis, head of UK banking, was leaving the company....
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