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...“We never had plans to open a pub,” says Paskin, “but because the building was literally in front of us, we started coming up with the concept” of a pub, restaurant and cocktail bar over three floors....
...Whitbread owns the Beefeater grill, Brewers Fayre, Taybarns and Table Table brands and said its restaurants business was narrowly ahead of the overall market....
...By close the S&P 500 rose 0.3 per cent to 1,992.37, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.4 per cent to 17,039.49. The Nasdaq Composite added 0.1 per cent to 4,532.10....
...It’s a pleasingly compact operation, the pub having only two rooms and the menu offering only five choices in each section....
...There were lectures and tea-dances, art classes, shuffle-board competitions, films, darts at the Golden Bull Pub, string quartet recitals, needlework get-togethers, table tennis tournaments, Roman Catholic...
...S for Scrooge? It's only April but HSBC's corporate, investment banking and markets division has already cancelled Christmas....
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