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...Dana White will continue as president of UFC....
.... £10.50 The Wine Society Sagesse Rouge 2020 Pays d’Oc 14%Mark Savage MW blends this, and an equally good white version, with great care every year....
...White had long vowed to never let women fight but, after meeting with Olympic judo medallist Ronda Rousey in 2012, he changed his mind....
...Like Pedro Franca Pinto, Austrian businessman Manfred Bodner had had no previous involvement with agriculture when, in 2005, he bought a derelict livestock farm in the Serranía de Ronda....
...Malaga and the mountaintop city of Ronda are both a little over an hour’s drive away. Strapped for time between naps one morning, we go to Marbella in search of a better beach....
...In summer the lands may be seared tawny but from autumn to spring this is a green landscape, punctuated by the white villages which cling to the hillsides....
...Drinks bottles had colour-coded nozzles — red for energy; white for water — and each rider received a personalised Scicon race bag....
...The religious high point of the week-long fiesta is a procession attended by much of the local population as well as a white-frocked assembly of priests....
...Mr White, the public face of UFC, owns 9 per cent while the remaining 10 per cent was bought by Flash Entertainment, a division of Mubadala Development, the investment arm of Abu Dhabi....
...“People think the Sella Ronda is a dream; but it’s really a nightmare!”...
...Our final day of riding is by far the most scenic, taking us north from the busy port of Algeciras on the winding back roads to Ronda....
...“Have you heard of Ronda Rousey?” he asks. On his phone he shows me a clip of the bantamweight champion....
...It now has 16 rooms decorated in white Swiss pine which gives a modern twist to the dark wood panelling of old alpine chalets....
...He also has an outpost in Dubai, Ronda Locatelli at the Atlantis Palm....
...To the north, you can see the green depths of the Serranía de Ronda, presided over in the distance by the bare rock pinnacles of the Sierra de las Nieves....
...I’m not very good at holidays but some years I rent a house on Formentera [the Balearic island] or stay with friends in the Ronda, Spain....
...Instead, head inland and upwards to the mountain town of Ronda, with its showcase bullring and vertigo-inducing gorge....
...“Millionaires have passed through El Avapies before crossing the outer belt of the Rondas and turning into drunken beggars,” he wrote....
...In 1970, he moved to White Weld, the securities trader co-owned by Credit Suisse, staying at the bank for the next 27 years. Steady promotions took him to the executive board....
...But his real home was the Christina, a sleek, 325ft, shimmering-white yacht named after his daughter....
...The most sought-after plant for connoisseurs was a lovely white with a dark central blotch on its big, ruffled flowers....
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