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...Ping An isn’t the first HSBC shareholder to call for a split, but it’s by far the most significant, the FT’s Tabby Kinder and Stephen Morris write....
...Antony McCammon, Switzerland Crossword 16,135: Neil McIndoe, London; Julian Cooke, London; Ashley Witts, Vancouver Polymath 1,016: Amy De Jesus, Hong Kong Crossword 16,129: FJ Chalton, Liverpool; Nik Morrell...
...Interspersed with invented letters between the well-known dramatis personae — Lytton Strachey, Leonard Woolf, Clive Bell, Roger Fry, Duncan Grant, Lady Ottoline Morrell and of course Virginia — the diary...
...Luke Treadaway’s portrayal of a teenage boy with autism, in Simon Stephens’ stage adaptation of the acclaimed novel by Mark Haddon, garnered the best actor title at the awards in Covent Garden’s Royal Opera...
...Tennant, Lady Ottoline Morrell, Siegfried Sassoon and their circle of aristocratic young friends, keen to escape the cloying sentimentality and heavy hand of Edwardian society that had reached such a ghastly...
...The emails also show that Michael Morrell, deputy director of the CIA, asked for details about suspected al-Qaeda links to the attackers to be edited out....
...Almost 150 years after that was written, by a Miss Jemima Morrell from Yorkshire, I’m standing in the same spot watching the same sunrise, and it’s lost none of its appeal....
...Stephen Brown, a partner at a local letting agent, says rents are down 20 per cent from their peak....
...Stephen Wadsworth’s probing production finds King Roger troubled from the start, mistrustful of his wife Roxana and appalled yet fascinated by the Shepherd....
...Murder as a Fine Art, by David Morrell, Mulholland Books, RRP£13.99, 336 pages Opium eater Thomas De Quincey should never have written that essay about murder; it has made him the chief suspect in a case...
...Meanwhile, Stephen Bosworth, the US special envoy on North Korea’s nuclear programme, said after a meeting in Beijing that the US was considering whether to go to the Security Council over the country’s...
...Paul Morrell, for services to architecture. Charles Morrison, board member, Scottish Enterprise. Robert Mulvaney, glaciologist....
...Canada will withdraw its soldiers from Afghanistan next year unless Nato sends additional troops to the southern region of Kandahar, Stephen Harper, the Canadian prime minister, said on Wednesday....
...“Our allies are not in a position to provide [more troops], so we are now looking at perhaps carrying a bit of that additional load,” Geoff Morrell, Pentagon press secretary, told reporters....
...Geoff Morrell, the Pentagon press secretary, had earlier told reporters that it was “too soon to judge the size of footprint” that the US believed the UK should maintain next year....
...“It is our intention to proceed with the construction of missile defence in Europe,” said Geoff Morrell, Pentagon spokesman....
...Separately, Stephen Lloyd, chairman of the Charity Law Association and senior partner of the law firm Bates, Wells and Braithwaite, has become a trustee in the place of Stephen Howard....
...“Believe me, it will be a very big campaign in the US,” says the New York wine merchant Peter Morrell....
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