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...Nonsense, Roper-Curzon corrected me, as we primed six Zecchi canvas boards with different pastel shades — each of us will, in fact, be completing at least two paintings a day and should return home with...
...London’s Christians have a history of hospitality dating back to Norman times (the Royal Foundation of St Katharine in Limehouse, just beyond the Roman city walls, has provided bed, board and worship since...
...I live in a civil parish in Oxfordshire, smaller than Sedgley, and can list all its local attractions in order of popularity....
...She added that many children were going hungry at holiday times without school dinners....
...His granddaughter, the countess Sabine von Norman, is part of Germany’s reclusive ultra-rich....
...It’s also Britain’s strongest legacy of the social democratic 1945-79 era, present in almost every parish and catering to almost the whole population....
...Whether it be a parish council, school or multinational corporation, the non-executive board, he writes, plays a critical part in their success: “They do not run it; they watch over it, they supervise it...
...As for community projects – beehives, schools, roads, health clinics – supported by tourism outfits, they were largely luxuries for the good times, and they’re going fast.”...
...Sabine Richards, head of admissions at Gordonstoun in Scotland — Prince Charles’s alma mater — says the school has a strict policy of taking a third of its students from Scotland, a third from England and...
...Sharon Tighe-Mooney was still in school when the Pope came to Ireland in 1979....
...“They’re from parishes up in north-east Louisiana that have private parish jails. And they’re waiting for somebody to get convicted....
...Building peaked in 1968 at about 426,000 homes, while Grenfell was on the drawing board....
...Sabine Lautenschläger, a member of the European Central Bank’s executive board, also weighed in, saying: “Banks today are on average much better capitalised than before the crisis, and a lot has also been...
...For 38 years we have survived every economic downturn by reinventing ourselves, taking on board new suppliers, creating new products and ramping up our export drive....
...Sabine Vinck is an associate dean at London Business School. When the Belcea Quartet decided to set up a trust to help young groups she was happy to join the board....
...Europe takes more of a pick-and-mix approach, producing strong players across the board....
...“When I was a kid I would walk to school and all the houses were occupied. Now they are all empty. There are so few locals left.”...
...His Open Society Foundation provided heating fuel last winter to schools, orphanages and old people’s homes....
...Levitt bought it at an auction at his children’s school....
...Cranfield School of Management is celebrating the success of its team at the 16th annual Venture Capital Investor Competition at London Business School....
...Sabine Plattner takes pride in her affinity with nature....
...After a happy childhood, Chancellor says her confidence took a knock when she was sent to board at St Mary’s School, a convent near Shaftesbury....
...“I ran for school board in a district that was 30 per cent white, and I was elected twice. I don’t want to say we are ever beyond that, but that it’s no longer the first lens that is looked through.”...
...But if every parish and hamlet had joined in, Potterne would have been unperturbed. They are the epitome of the new cricket....
...She credited a spartan boarding-school education with toughening her; she lived without “extravagant” central heating even in old age....
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