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...county and its people....
...of Economics and Political Science Felix FitzRoyUniversity of St....
...St Paul’s to the three parks (6 miles) Good for: distilling the essence of the city into a couple of hours Not so good for: escaping the crowds FYI: the colony of pelicans in St James’s Park began as a...
...way it looked on St Stephen’s Day in 1519 when they were first hung....
...Each July, thousands of pilgrims, many of them barefoot, walk up the rugged slopes of Croagh Patrick mountain in County Mayo in honour of St Patrick, the country’s patron saint....
...The median age of our neighbours is perhaps 80, and the street is known as Calle de las Abuelitas, or “granny street”. All of which helps keep things real....
...In 1928, living in cushioned comfort in Top Meadow in Beaconsfield, the revered man of letters, all 250-plus pounds of him, was visited by a couple of excited schoolboys from his old alma mater, St Paul’...
...Email paul.mcclean@ft.com Twitter @psmcclean...
...From private collections have come “Bouquets de Lilas à Saint-Paul”, painted in 1978, and “Couple with Lilies of the Valley”, from 1973....
...Under a dome compared to that of St Paul’s, the public circular space featured counters in walnut and brass radiating from a central ornamental clock....
...“If you have the habit of regarding certain people as inferior, then it can upset a society to see people of different religions, colours, cultures reach the summit of society thanks to football.”...
...Summer’s Crown: The Story of Cricket’s County Championship, by Stephen Chalke, Fairfield Books, RRP£20 A wonderfully researched, very well written and lovingly produced history of the county championship...
...The statue of Christ the Redeemer above the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro and the Sphinx and pyramids of Egypt are bathed in soft green lighting....
...But from Portimão I turned tail, drove to Cape St Vincent, Portugal’s south-westernmost point, then rounded the corner and came upon a different world....
...It centres on the Madigan family and their house, near an unnamed town, on the coastline of County Clare....
...out on a journey through the county on his doorstep....
...He changed his name to George while at St Paul’s private school in west London, telling friends it sounded more prime ministerial....
...Well integrated and interesting. 14% £9.75 Jeroboams Cave de Roquebrun, La Grange des Combes 2011 St-Chinian Roquebrun Great value from the local co-op....
...of crime fiction to expose the faultlines in Scandinavian society....
...France begins Financial ethics discussed St Paul’s Cathedral hosts a lecture on the relationship between regulatory reform and the culture, identity and meaning of the financial sector, by James Featherby...
...Vincent Mifsud, head of technology (Europe), Cobham, defence industry contractor. Paul Noon, general secretary, Prospect, the trade union....
...She looks downcast as she begins to eat a banana, and seems not to notice that a picture of Edna St Vincent Millay, the activist Greenwich Village poet, hangs on the green room’s wall as I ask what the focus...
...His elucidation of works such as the St Matthew Passion makes you want to listen to the music afresh....
...In Bernard’s picture, a trio of white-capped women wait above the shoreline, gazing abstractedly over a murky, eau-de-nil sea lit to a curious shade of primrose yellow by the sun....
...There were quite a few American owners in the yard and one of them, Ambrose Clark, introduced Paul Mellon to the stable in 1935....
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