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...commissioners as it prepares to apply for the mining permissions that the county oversees....
...Chris GilesI think we’re not quite living in the era, but he is one of the most consequential chancellors of the postwar period and certainly in the last 40 years, only Gordon Brown as chancellor would rival...
...Boutique groups are small and specialised so they don’t have as much capacity or expertise to instantly become a big player in the restructuring business....
...Guy Schooling, chairman of Sworders, an auctioneers based in Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, says: “It took a while for online bidding to take off, but in many ways it saved our bacon....
...The software company’s investment will give it a large minority stake in OpenAI’s for-profit arm, as well as a seat on its board....
...Policy moves since such as the extension of furlough and the stamp duty holiday have led to a concealed boom in the Home Counties with very little positive across much of the North. 2021 will see further...
...Job moves TPG co-founder David Bonderman is stepping down as chairman of the board of Ryanair as part of a broader shake-up at the Irish airline group. More here....
...Martin banned music in his pubs, as well as naming some The Moon Under Water, after Orwell’s mythical ideal pub....
...A former finance director at fashion chain Topshop, Hind was described by his barrister in court as an “odd geek”, someone who had built up a reinforced store of food and water in case the financial crisis...
...Owned by the founder’s grandson, Tom Swan, now chairman, it is run day-to-day by his son, Harry. Founded in Consett in 1926, it has stayed loyal to the County Durham town....
...He offers lots of plates to share — a terrific meat and cheese board (homemade pastrami, jamon, brown butter figs, spicy peach chutney, Utah Gruyère, Brie and toasts)....
...Simon Schama Author of The Face of Britain and FT contributing editor “Gigantic above all in the capacity for joy” is the way Primo Levi characterises Rabelais — an unlikely choice of literary hero for...
...The Fishermen, by Chigozie Obioma, One, RRP£14.99/Little, Brown, RRP$26 When their father moves away, four brothers in Nigeria consider themselves released from his ambitions for them: instead of studying...
...“We’ve been talking about this for at least two decades,” says Colin Skellett, chairman of Wessex Water who also leads the West of England Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), one of 39 public private bodies...
...Rod Bransgrove, chairman of Hampshire County Cricket Club, which will host the third Test of the coming series, says: “In 1959, the Indians came here on sufferance, now the English want them to come because...
...The sense of a cabinet in crisis was underlined on Monday as Downing Street refused to say if and when Mr Paterson would return to his role as minister responsible for dealing with the floods....
...His business specialises in finding interim board directors for big companies, and he says: “Talking to clients, the mood is definitely more positive but all it will need is for the front pages to highlight...
...Tate acknowledges as much with permanent solo presentations of Henry Moore and William Blake; Turner in the Clore gallery remains the model....
...2008 and then swept the board in 2012....
...” … In the first decade of this century, the number of suburban poor Americans – defined as $23,000 a year for a family – rose twice as fast as in the cities....
...Moreover, Essex player Mervyn Westfield was jailed for four months in January for accepting £6,000 to concede 12 runs in an over of a county game in 2009, becoming the first English player to be convicted...
...Umbrella , by Will Self, Bloomsbury, RRP£18.99 Ambitiously conceived and brilliantly executed, this novel is in the high modernist tradition but updated for an era of circuit boards and microprocessors....
...His pugnacious reputation grew as he had worked his way up to the top, joining the nine-member Board of the Inland Revenue in 2000....
...His hair, slightly flecked with grey, is swept back from a face that still has the pink glow of a childhood spent in the quiet, rural prosperity of England’s home counties; it is as if a gust of Chiltern...
...His strategy was to risk his lead ships in order to break the coherence of his enemy’s fleet....
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