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...I had been invited to spend two months in Madrid as a guest of Writing the Prado, a programme dreamt up by the museum’s director, its head of international relations and Valerie Miles, editor of the Spanish...
...Amy Winehouse’s cover of “Valerie” plays on a faraway radio. “Can I badmouth them?” he asks. I tell him he can. After all, he hasn’t been invited here to expose corporate fraud....
...The complex, about 25 miles from the coastline of the Persian Gulf, is the size of about 350 football pitches....
...Three years from foul to fine counts as lightning fast for the accounting watchdog, which this morning fined Grant Thornton over the Patisserie Valerie fiasco....
...Lying one hundred miles from the English coast, the island resembled Sandra’s known world, but it had its own currency . . ....
...“Yes, it’s more expensive but I always dreamt of a project like in Under the Tuscan Sun,” says Valérie Monset, 47, referring to Frances Mayes’ best-selling memoir that centres around a restoration project...
...Neighbouring Slovenia shut down its only nuclear power plant, 60 miles from the epicentre, as a precaution....
...Brcko, a 99-square-kilometre territory, that straddles the Sava River, borders Croatia and sits less than 10 miles upriver from Serbia....
...Beyond the Square Mile Blank-cheque companies have already surpassed last year’s fundraising record in the first quarter of 2021, reflecting the insatiable appetite for special purpose acquisition companies...
Shipments will have diplomatic impact as Beijing seeks to exploit transatlantic tensions
...Rome Miles Johnson Living in Rome means being in such regular proximity to historical monuments that, somewhat shamefully, you can start to take them for granted....
...Additional reporting by Valerie Hopkins in Budapest, Richard Milne in Oslo, Miles Johnson in Rome and Victor Mallet in Paris...
...“The Cube has his own voice,” he tells south-east Europe correspondent Valerie Hopkins. (FT) Video of the day Who will receive the Covid vaccine first?...
...“Our postal workers are working without masks or gloves, threatening their health with every delivery,” said Valérie Mannevy, a representative for the CGT union at La Poste....
...Both of us were fortunate gainers in earlier years from Valerie Finnis, the queen of alpines and small hardy plants....
...Reporting by Michael Peel in Brussels, Miles Johnson in Rome, Tobias Buck in Berlin, David Keohane in Paris, Daniel Dombey in Madrid, James Shotter in Warsaw,Valerie Hopkins in Budapest, Jessica Dye in New...
...GT has had to invest to improve the quality of its audits after scrutiny from regulators over its work for Patisserie Valerie, which collapsed amid an accounting scandal. More here....
...One reason, as she points out, is that Brussels is only 100 miles away from Rotterdam, arguably Europe’s main centre for design: “Ghent and Antwerp are also very avant-garde — the Flemish and Dutch generally...
...Additional reporting by Victor Mallet in Paris, Miles Johnson in Rome, James Shotter in Warsaw and Valerie Hopkins in Budapest...
...Valérie Pécresse, president of the region Île-de-France, admitted that there were tensions with RATP and SNCF who said they might be forced to shut down lines and stations if they could not manage social...
...But De La Rue’s options are diminishing as fast as banknotes in the Square Mile or in Tesco stores....
Austrian politicians are not the only ones to be seeking deals with Moscow
...The current is extremely strong, and some of the survivors were pulled from the water miles from the accident, which happened in pouring rain on Wednesday night, according to local media....
...Closing Quote Lombard The Bell Pottinger and Patisserie Valerie scandals show clawback clauses must be sharper....
...The palace in question is in Catskill, 123 miles from New York, a turn-of-the-century brick warehouse that has been rebuilt by her husband, a bee keeper....
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