Hints and tips:
...With only a single bar and a handful of chairs, The C&G has the feel of a private living room....
...He makes a great Elvis: he looks the part, moves well and, perhaps wisely, lets country star Ronnie McDowell do the singing....
...“C’mon, man, don’t gabble. Softly now.” Breaking for lunch, we head for the kitchen and bump into Ben Onwukwe, the only other reader in the building today....
...Helpful, then, that Halfords is the market leader in bicycle sales (c.25% market share) and PACs (c.15%)....
...Charlotte Frimand, c.frimand@sky.com. Jade Farmiloe, jadefarmiloemua.com....
...“Ronnie Scott’s is my hang here in London.”)...
...It is glowing at 1,100°C, a pool of glass crystal with 24 per cent lead, bought as “cullets” or clear chips from Dartington Glass....
...Ronnie Scott’s third International Piano Trio Festival opened with a single dampened note hovering in the piano’s middle register....
...“Cinema remains hugely influential, from the 1950s frames worn by Tom Hardy [as Ronnie Kray] in Legend, to the 1970s sports shapes in Miles Ahead.”...
...“If there is not enough to pay for new drugs and people decide to economise, then they could go for those drugs where the value added is less obvious,” says Ronnie Gal, an analyst at Bernstein....
...Chris Ronnie, the former chief executive of JJB, is already facing criminal charges....
...The picture of Ronnie and Maggie, tootling around together in a golf buggy, is a powerful, nostalgia-filled image of the “special relationship” at its warmest....
...Janette Wallis (“Pick the best”) advises that parents setting out in search of a good school need the cunning of Ronnie Biggs....
...Sir, Ronnie Chan (“The west is in danger of frittering away its freedom”, November 15) thinks that “the west is now ... too free”, in the sense that political freedom – by which he means that the right to...
...Solution (c) is equally hopeless because there is always the odour....
...“The situation is reminiscent of the 1980s corporate raiding of the industrial sector,” wrote Ronnie Gal, senior analyst with Bernstein Research, in a note last week entitled “Barbarians at the Gates?”....
...Jason Hollands, of fund manager F&C, predicted “a flurry of investors” cashing in long-standing holdings....
...Suspending Mr Ronnie was one of Sir David’s first actions, and his efforts to focus on turning the company round have since been hampered by a bitter war of words between Mr Ronnie and JJB....
...The sportswear retailer, which avoided potential insolvency earlier this year, has been without a chief executive since Chris Ronnie, the last occupant of the role, was dismissed in March, having been suspended...
...Mr Ronnie has denied any wrongdoing while Sports Direct said it was co-operating with the investigations....
...The company has been looking for a new chief executive since the acrimonious departure of Chris Ronnie in January, after it emerged his stock in the company had been seized by the administrators of Kaupthing...
...Arranged through Chris Ronnie, who was JJB chief executive at the time, it was to increase his investment in a technology company....
...That deal came within two years of Mr Whelan selling his 27 per cent stake to Mr Ronnie’s investment vehicle for £190m in 2007....
...The agreement, in the form of a letter, said that Chris Ronnie, the former JJB chief executive, had approached Mr Ashley in October 2007 about a possible short-term loan for Sir David, who, the agreement...
...But within weeks of his elevation Sir David was proving his mettle as a knight of the long knives as he dispatched Chris Ronnie, JJB’s chief executive....
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