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...Running through the middle of it all, wavy hedges provide a backdrop for lush mixed borders of magnolias, heritage roses, hostas and white foxgloves....
...Loveday Ingram’s staging for b*spoke theatre company echoes Beckett, Stoppard and Magritte as well as the work of the two men themselves The performances are drolly enjoyable....
...Attempts to block probate rose to a record level in England and Wales last year, following a surge in the value of bequeathed property and the use of less reliable do-it-yourself wills during the pandemic...
...But their vulnerabilities were exposed last week as gilt yields rose at an unprecedented pace following the Chancellor’s “mini” Budget and thousands of pension plans struggled to meet emergency cash calls...
...France on Tuesday reported 523 Covid-19 deaths during the previous 24 hours, the highest total since April 22, and in Germany coronavirus cases rose on Tuesday by 11,409 to 449,275....
...One of them is a favourite Lloyd rose, Florence Mary Morse, an upright bush with rose-red semi-double flowers and the great merit of repeating from early summer onwards....
...But the government revealed on Wednesday that only 2,000 out of 500,000 staff had been tested for coronavirus as the daily reported death toll from the pandemic in the UK rose to a record 563....
...Meanwhile, tensions rose in relations with North Korea, as leader Kim Jong Un vowed to continue his nuclear programme and introduce a “new strategic weapon”, after his year-end deadline for the US to make...
...A few, such as Ignatius Sancho, the abolitionist campaigner, rose in society (although Sancho was racially abused on one trip to Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens)....
...The death toll nationally rose 365, led by Florida. The number of deaths in Texas increased by 62 to exceed 4,000 for the first time....
...Tensions rose in the Gulf as the UK government said a Royal Navy warship, HMS Montrose, had rebuffed an attempt by three Iranian vessels to “impede” the safe passage of a BP-owned tanker through the Strait...
...In 1899, the author and diplomat Inazo Nitobe contrasted the cherry with the thorned English rose, calling it “our flower, which carries no dagger or poison under its beauty, which is ever ready to depart...
...Global market share in the French capital rose from 4.4 per cent in 2018 to 6.8 per cent last year, the report finds, while auction sales in London fell by 27.2 per cent....
...In fact it was bred by the great English cherry grower, Collingwood Ingram, who devised the name from the first letters of what he believed at the time to be its parents’ names....
...Yesterday I glanced up from my work to see some rose bushes shaking....
...How these shortlived beauties would have been admired by the king of cherry-blossom, “Cherry” Collingwood Ingram, of whom I wrote recently....
...Interest on its Rmb1bn bond rose to 6.5 per cent this month before the new bond was issued....
...Fraser Ingram, head of CYBG’s transformation programme, will take over as interim chief operating officer at CYBG....
...The price of the yellow metal rose above $1,500 per troy ounce this month for the first time in six years....
...The yield on two-year Italian bonds rose 25bp to 1.01 per cent but remained below their most recent high....
...The yield on UK 10-year benchmark debt rose 2bp to 1.63 per cent. Equities Eurozone equity markets built momentum in early trading but subsequently lost impetus....
...It had its charms and its occasional instances of nobility, but a reading of this book reinforces the opinion that it should not be viewed through rose-tinted spectacles....
...Mr Bezos’s worth rose to $90.6bn at one point versus $90bn for Microsoft’s founder....
...Just 33, she rose to prominence as spokeswoman for the successful grassroots campaign against Munich’s bid to host the Winter Olympics in 2022....
...Tension rose in East Asia when North Korean leader Kim Jong Un launched four missiles that landed in the Sea of Japan....
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