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...George Pascoe-Watson, chair of the UK PR firm Portland and a former political editor of The Sun newspaper, has been poached to head the new business alongside Victoria O’Byrne, a former communications director...
...1960s were a hotbed of textile talent, today a new generation has been making a significant mark on the medium — from queer South African artist Igshaan Adams’s vast beaded tapestries (recently shown at Thomas...
...Her own doctor, William Jenner, described Victoria’s grief as “a form of madness”. The historian Thomas Carlyle’s forthright wife went further, calling the queen “mean-natured and half-distracted”....
...“There is a curious thing about Robert Kime’s work: you recognise it at once, and yet it has very few ‘signature moves,’” writes Sir Nicholas Coleridge, chair of the Victoria and Albert Museum, in the foreword...
...“Some people are expecting pots,” says Wood, but she highlights this year’s contribution by deaf artist Nina Thomas. “She’s responding to the experience of former deaf workers in the ceramics industry....
...The 300 new planning officers promised by Labour if it wins the next UK election is a start, but it needs “another zero on the end” said the RTPI’s chief executive Victoria Hills....
...The initiative targets companies rather than individuals, says founding director Victoria Siddall....
...sheer fabrics” and Victoria Beckham’s edgier cropped styles in lightweight cotton and subdued tones....
...Victoria Atkins, a government minister conducting the Sunday morning broadcast round, told Sky’s Sophy Ridge: “These are very, very serious allegations.”...
...full-length portrait by Edvard Munch in 1885 of his friend Karl Jensen-Hjell (estimate £2.5-£3.5mn) — “a really important, much-discussed early work” which marked a turning point in his Impressionist style, says Thomas...
...“I love that I can create clothes that I desire and what I believe women also want to wear,” said Victoria Beckham, who presented a more arty collection of wardrobe separates, including three new trouser...
...Inspired by the concept of death and the underpinnings of Queen Victoria’s mourning dress, corsetry and undergarments-as-outerwear formed her autumn/winter24 collection....
...Among those sipping a winter cocktail was Gemma Martinez de Ana, who has moved to the area with her fiancé from Victoria Park in east London....
...That split is physically represented in Rosa Maggiora’s set, which slices the stage in two horizontally, with Queen Victoria and her courtiers on a platform and the Indian immigrants below, grappling to...
...“We are determined to make the UK the best place in the world to do business, which is why from today businesses can start to benefit from the raft of tax cuts on offer to boost their growth,” said Victoria...
...I have never read Thomas Hughes’s Tom Brown’s School Days....
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...The government’s finances “have benefited” from high inflation, said Victoria Scholar, head of investment at Interactive Investor, an online investment service....
...The lack of access to affordable housing has forced many women into substandard housing, says Thomas Wernham, research economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)....
...Victoria Woodcock and Maureen M Evans travelled as guests of The City of Tampere (tampere.fi)...
...Victoria Atkins, Treasury minister, confirmed that £30.7bn had been recovered through compliance efforts in 2021-22, compared with £36.9bn in 2019-20, the year before the pandemic fully hit, in response...
...“I missed the night view of Victoria Harbour the most,” said Peter Yin, 25, an IT engineer in Shenzhen who is visiting a friend for two days....
...Centre stage in the Victorian gallery is Sarah Forbes Bonetta, Queen Victoria’s protégée, a slave born Omoba Aina; her photograph as a determined though wary young bride is today “one of the most searched...
...Even this more generic material was invigorated by Måneskin’s multipronged jolt of personality, from bassist Victoria De Angelis swaying across the stage like a druidical rocking-stone, to guitarist Thomas...
...Victoria Billings, director of marketing at the boiler manufacturer Worcester Bosch, on Tuesday welcomed the government consultation, which runs until March 21....
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