Hints and tips:
...Ronnie Campbell, a northern Labour MP for 32 years, recalled his decades down the pit as “a hard slog”. “The conditions could be brilliant if you knew the pit....
...… In Perth, I meet Major Ronnie Proctor, a veteran of the real Black Watch....
...The set took off with “Born Under a Bad Sign”, the rhythmic oomph of Darian Gray (drums) and Melvin Brannon Jr (bass) delivered with casually intense authority....
...The scandal over MPs’ expenses – while not necessarily justifying such behaviour – shows that elites do not possess higher standards, Ronnie says....
...Roger Lane-Smith, chairman, was asked whether Mr Ronnie was seeking to take the company private. He said the strategies pursued by Mr Ronnie and the board were right and would bear fruit....
...Chris Ronnie, who was appointed chief executive last year, owns 29 per cent of the company with Exista, the Icelandic investment group. Shares in JJB fell 1¾p to close at 88¼p....
...The winter flu virus helped the company – which once organised the burials of east London gangsters Ronnie and Reggie Kray in ceremonies that attracted thousands – boost pre-tax profit in 2007 from £27.2m...
...Ronnie: The Autobiography By Ronnie Wood Pan Macmillan £20, 358 pages FT bookshop price: £16 Roguish anecdotes tumble from Ronnie Wood’s autobiography: horseplay with Rod Stewart and Keith Richards, a wife-swapping...
...Ronnie Chappell, BP spokesman, declined to comment. The settlement, announced last month, has yet to be approved by a judge....
...Oscar Wilde’s view of smoking, expressed in The Picture of Dorian Gray, is a masterpiece of intellectual elegance and rigour. “A cigarette”, he wrote, “is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure....
...Counterpoint from the excellent Larry Gray added interest and rhythmic impetus – his pitch-perfect moaning, bowed bass solo a highlight....
...Back at the office, Tippett’s boss, Sheriff Ronnie McBride, is the very picture of rural law enforcement....
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