Hints and tips:
...Last month Mr Ashley’s group made a bid for Patisserie Valerie, the British café chain that suffered an alleged accounting fraud, but walked away two days later complaining of being locked out of the bidding...
...Neil Bennett, chief executive of Maitland, said no one had raised any concerns about him sitting on the committee. “If they have any issues, they should raise them and we should try to resolve them....
...In the 47 years between Eliot’s death (in January 1965) and hers, Valerie zealously protected his legacy....
...Meat and art After Alan Bennett v the National Trust last week, I am reminded by the death of Valerie Eliot, widow of the poet T.S. Eliot, of another story involving the playwright....
...He continued working, shooting old friends such as Dave Brubeck and Tony Bennett last year....
...Valerie Bloom, the poet. Roger Blundell, for services to the construction industry. Adrian Bowrey, external and government affairs executive, West of England Aerospace Forum....
...Natalie, Matthew and Georgia, from his second marriage, to Gill Bennett, live with her in Britain, while Emma, from his third marriage, to Valerie Bercher, is in Florida....
...The New York Times has finally offered a lengthy explanation of Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Judith Miller’s role in the Valerie Plame affair, the outing of a CIA agent that is now threatening the highest...
...More obliquely, Alan Bennett’s The History Boys also belongs in this elite category. Descending to sub-literary depths, Jack Osbourne’s 21 Years Gone memorialises a hopelessly lost boyhood....
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