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...An early critic compared it to “an enormous whale stranded pitifully on the banks of the Seine”....
...“F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E” and “Sorted for E’s & Wizz” were ticked off like rites of passage from someone moving from Sheffield outsider to Britpop in-crowd....
...June 20 to September 8; further information and tickets here ‘Naomi’, V&A South Kensington An ode to the life and work of supermodel Naomi Campbell....
...At the moment, 64 separate carbon pricing initiatives cover about 21.5 per cent of emissions globally, according to figures from the World Bank....
...V, and to those who added a storey and the stair tower in the early 17th century....
...Bourque’s neon-light-strewn workshop would once have been surrounded by scruffy studios where the Kinks, Bowie and Rolling Stones made their first recordings....
...Stalita gold-plated stone earrings, £79....
...For Rampling it is “Magnifique, n’est-ce pas? Un amour comme ça? Sublime, n’est ce pas?”...
...For Cristina, a managing director at an investment bank in London, resetting the engagement ring her husband gave her 14 years before was a no-go....
...To get there, Ant is building Alipay+ into a universal QR code, so a Korean user of KakaoPay e-wallet or a Malaysian user of Touch ‘n Go e-wallet can pay for a taxi in Singapore by scanning the Alipay+ code...
...N R Bhanumurthy, vice-chancellor of the Dr B R Ambedkar School of Economics University....
...We even met a “bank walker”, Adam, one of an endangered breed employed to patrol the banks looking for weak spots. In winter the canal is drained for maintenance....
...“At one point there were 36 woodcarving workshops,” says Orhan Niksic, a former senior economist with the World Bank, whose great-grandfather founded a workshop in Konjic in the late 1800s....
...Bank Holiday battles on the seafronts of Brighton and elsewhere put dry-haired Mods against Rockers, the latter’s style greasily stuck in a bygone age....
...“It’s an interesting circular economy story,” says V&A festivals curator Meneesha Kellay....
...BNPL was a stepping-stone to acquiring customers, something it has done spectacularly....
...“But places like the George V [in Paris], they like bands to come in and bash it up, as long as they pay for it,” he adds, taking a ruminative puff on his e-cigarette....
...“This is a market that will be supply-constrained for many years,” says Edison Yu, an analyst at Deutsche Bank....
...He also pushed hard for a new lending bank focused on low-carbon projects, an idea that led to the creation of the National Infrastructure Bank....
...That, in turn, has softened the coronavirus economic crash in March and helped spark a subsequent rebound — creating a growth chart that looks like the “b” and “n” shape in the shorthand sign for “bank”....
...Hipgnosis, the hyper-acquisitive music rights fund run by former Guns N’ Roses manager Merck Mercuriadis, has bought a 50 per cent share of Rick James’s songbook....
...Easter family quiz Round One Pacific Georgia The Stone Roses by the Stone Roses Aldermaston (home of the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment) Glasgow Rebel without a Cause Okinawa Pride and Prejudice...
...Amount of money raised so far: Holvi raised a total of €4.3m between 2011 and 2015. Valuation at latest fundraising: N/A Major shareholders: In 2016 Spanish banking group BBVA acquired Holvi....
...The Salton Sea is not a true sea, but the vestige of a great flood: the consequence of the Colorado River breaching the banks of an ill-built irrigation channel in 1905....
...From August 14, Nichols’s company will present Henry V and The Merry Wives of Windsor....
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