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...The child of a tyrannical father, who made his daughters work hard on their small farm in rural Cheshire, Parker had to sneak off in secret if she wanted to play....
...1,016: Amy De Jesus, Hong Kong Crossword 16,129: FJ Chalton, Liverpool; Nik Morrell, London; Ian Dempsey, New Jersey Polymath 1,015: Richard Otley, Wakefield Crossword 16,123: Michael Baylor, France; Scott...
...Britain’s 41-year-old health secretary began a morning television interview looking like a glummer version of the chipper, Cheshire-born economist he was before he became an MP 10 years ago....
...Two more ladies at lunch stop by to ask him his Christmas plans: Clarke tells them he is heading off to Cheshire to be with his family. He remains a technophobe....
...I ask Sue Watson, a retired financial analyst from Hartford in Cheshire. “Yes, it’s amazing. It’s magical.”...
...Andy Clarke Former CEO, Asda Sir Ian Cheshire Chairman, Debenhams Lord Rose of Monewden Former CEO, Argos; former Chairman and CEO, Marks and Spencer Lord MacLaurin of Knebworth Former Chairman, Tesco...
...“I have had difficulty sleeping for as long as I can remember,” wrote a reader named Heather, from Cheshire. “I’ve learned to live with it, but I don’t think it has been good for me....
...Take BNN Technology, the ever-changing Cheshire-based Chinese group that started out a decade ago “supporting” the Chinese lottery and now facilitates online payments, working with the likes of Xinhua news...
...The philosophy of rural policy dates to the 1942 Scott Report on land use, which lyrically argued that farmers and foresters were “the nation’s gardeners” and that “there is no antagonism between use and...
...“Our diversified business model together with good cash generation and reducing debt means that Debenhams is in good shape to withstand a market background that remains uncertain,” said Sir Ian Cheshire,...
...Sarah Wood and Scott Button received OBEs after selling their video advertising company Unruly to News Corp for up to £114m....
...The Victorian age saw a great wave of revivalism, with architectural styles ranging from High Gothic to Baroque, as architects such as George Gilbert Scott — responsible for the Midland Hotel at London’s...
...The textile artist, whose studio is in Cheshire, often comes to London to explore the fabric shops of Soho....
...Tatton, the Cheshire constituency held by Mr Osborne — and before him by the disgraced politician Neil Hamilton — is one of many to fall well outside the legal range of 71,031 to 78,507 registered voters...
...The pubs only stock own-brand drinks, including Walker and Scott’s vodka and rum. The brewery retains a team of dray horses to deliver beer around Tadcaster and a cooper to make wooden barrels....
...Scott Fitzgerald, there are no first acts in action blockbusters, just briefing, geography lesson, then wham, bang, thank you, men....
...What A six-bedroom house designed by the British artist and architect M H Baillie Scott in 1929. The house has three reception rooms, a conservatory and indoor pool....
...I’ve got advance copies of Scott Cheshire’s amazing High as the Horses’ Bridles, and Matthew Thomas’s We Are Not Ourselves, which is incredible....
...Scott Arnold, chief executive, said that the growing threat of hackers combined with an increase in homeworking had driven record levels of business....
...And drummer Carmen Intorre was functionally urgent, rolled and splashed for his crowd-raising showcases and grinned like a Cheshire cat from first to last....
...“If we decide to make 250 or 500 tonnes, we might want to go somewhere like Runcorn [in Cheshire] where there are large production assets.”...
...The dormouse is Mallymkun, the Cheshire cat Chessur, the caterpillar Absolem. Soon the throng is joined by dragons who seem to have come from Avatar....
...Michael Oliver, owner of Oliver Valves, in Knutsford, Cheshire, says: “We have little debt and plenty of cash. We concentrate on gross margin.”...
...In 2001, the Royal Institute of British Architects launched an architectural competition to design Grafton Hall in Cheshire as a contemporary country house....
...A single-track road then takes you down to Abbotsford, Sir Walter Scott’s riverside mansion, and the way continues along the banks of the Tweed into Melrose....
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