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...Battersea Park in Concert A long weekend of concerts spanning everything from jazz to West End hits in the south-west London park; last year’s event included the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra and Ronnie...
...I talked to Fiona Smith, a minister who was appointed last year as principal clerk to the General Assembly of the Kirk....
...Jazz Sunday Lunch, £39.50pp The Cinnamon Club (Westminster) The Old Westminster Library, 30-32 Great Smith Street, London SW1P 3BU Good for: Experiencing some of London’s best Indian food Not so good...
...Last year, General Atlantic bought Tripp Smith’s credit firm Iron Park as it decided to push into debt-based investments....
...The storied area conjures up images of the swinging ’60s, Carnaby Street punks, Ronnie Scott’s jazz club and seedy sex shops....
...Saxophonist Walter Smith III and guitarist Matthew Stevens are high-profile sidemen with bands of their own....
...Barrett is a fan of Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, who reads Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London series. “Marvellous diction.”...
...The best one Atkins was given was when the comedian Ronnie Barker told her to look credible, not noticeable....
...Like many clever but reticent pop bands, they were sidelined by the euphoric force of the Smiths, with whom they shared a UK label....
...Then there are the anti-psychiatry centres: David Cooper’s Villa 21 near St Albans, and Ronnie Laing’s Kingsley Hall in east London....
...He was duetting with Sam Smith, behind whom was a mirror showing a reflection of the British singer’s own Grammy awards....
...If Halfords doesn’t do a Ronnie Rosenthal and miss this open goal, the shares are going to continue their outperformance for a good while. We reiterate our Buy stance, and upgrade the TP to 250p....
...In June, 15 Labour MPs defied their whip to vote against the UK staying in the EEA, including Caroline Flint, Ronnie Campbell, Rosie Cooper, Laura Smith, Jim Fitzpatrick and John Spellar....
...Bessie Smith’s “Sam Jones Blues” was delivered with a barrelhouse growl, The Beatles’ “And I Love Her” (here becoming “him”) with affection, and “Never Will I Marry” with confident defiance....
...We meet on the morning before that first night (of two) at Ronnie Scott’s....
...Smith & Nephew, the UK medical device maker and perennial M&A target, said its chief executive Olivier Bohuon will retire at the end of next year....
...As in his recent Ronnie Scott’s residency, Elling reworked “Little Drummer Boy” into a transcendent celebration of rhythm....
...“I bet you’ve never heard it like that before,” said Smith. The second set was longer, looser and just as thrilling....
...While most of the unions still support Mr Corbyn, the GMB and Usdaw have backed Mr Smith....
...It’s been 46 years since US saxophonist, poet and playwright Archie Shepp appeared at Ronnie Scott’s as a firebrand member of the jazz new wave....
...And Nate Smith’s time-conscious drum solo that grew inexorably out of a duet with the leader was a set-closing highlight....
...With tempo and key set, a rattle and thump from Nate Smith’s drums cued the lilt of calypso and the theme “Good Hope”....
...On Monday, Judge Nicholas Loraine-Smith jailed Ronnie for four years for the fraud offences and one year for the two charges relating to the loan document. The sentences will run concurrently....
...I never see them, to be honest,” says John Smith, who has sold antique cutlery and dinner sets at the Monday antiques market on the edge of Covent Garden square for three decades....
...She debuted in the UK at Ronnie Scott’s in 2014 and sold out a show during this year’s London Jazz Festival....
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