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...“It will have performance spaces and rehearsal rooms; it’s next to Westfield Stratford and the V&A East – it’s going to be a cultural quarter almost,” says Bargh....
...Also in February, Game of Thrones star Kit Harington plays Henry V in a new, modern staging of Shakespeare’s play that promises to explore our relationship with Europe and what it means to be English (Donmar...
...Gold for December delivery settled 0.3 per cent higher to $2,039 a troy ounce....
...Gold pushed towards $2,000 a troy ounce, adding 0.9 per cent to touch a record high of $1,983.36....
...A V-shaped recovery is clearly emerging, notwithstanding subsequent waves. Elsewhere, it’s still too early to tell and is dependent on western demand....
...Traces of liquidation remain visible with gold down at a three-and-half-month low of $1,473 a troy ounce, while copper touched a four-year low, before finding some buyers....
...Astor v Vanderbilt: battle of the belles Even prominent society figures of New York’s Gilded Age were not above displays of petty one-upmanship, writes Georgina Varley....
...“There is a lot of potential here — this is the only business centre here in Arizona,” says Troy Newberry, warehouse manager. “As a company, we have a huge presence in Mexico....
...Finally, Troy Herion’s jaunty, literal and neatly conventional New York Symphony gave us stylised urban landscapes for the eyes, relatively easy, polite electronic jumbles for the ears....
...The future Charles V happens to be in love with the same woman as the hero, however – Doña Sol, herself engaged to be married to her uncle....
...The V&A has the greatest Italian Renaissance sculpture collection outside Italy, and an entire gallery is devoted to the works of one of its masters, Donatello....
...The promise by the G20 to keep rates low has led to hopes that the economic recovery will be V-shaped, which is only encouraging the bulls to buy equities, commodities and other riskier assets....
...Gold also suffered, falling 1 per cent to $928.70 per troy ounce. Commerzbank Dresdner Kleinwort analysts advised investors to adopt a cautious approach to the gold market....
...In London, spot bullion dropped to a one-month low of $783.80 a troy ounce. It later was down $45.30 to $802.80. In New York, Comex futures for December were at $804.20 an ounce....
...He raised Troy after the marriage to Troy’s mother failed and used to take his young son digging for the mythical cave of Dick Turpin, the 18th-century highwayman....
...“Sales are down as the price goes up,” says V. Govindraj of Tanishq, India’s largest jewellery chain, in Bangalore....
...But the 160bhp 90-degree V-twin engine used on both bikes is identical....
...E.V. Rieu’s translation of The Odyssey was published in 1946 as the first in the Penguin Classics series. Over the next decade it sold an unprecedented three million copies....
...A Hundred Highways: American V Johnny Cash Lost Highway Cash’s final album, made in the months between June Carter Cash’s death and his own, is a fitting epitaph....
...Odysseus’s cunning is put to the test when he meets a group of raucous enemy asylum seekers from Troy....
...Last year, Hytner began his first season at the National with Shakespeare’s Henry V....
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