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...My father came to the UK in 1968 – an Indian doctor responding to the NHS call for workers. He spent his first week at the YMCA Indian Student Hostel in Euston....
...Birmingham Royal Ballet’s ode to the festive season returns, with Tchaikovsky’s gloriously Christmassy score....
...Conservative MPs and peers expressed concerns that an invitation had been extended to Xi Jinping, president of China, although it is likely that vice-president Wang Qishan will represent the country....
...by arguing for greater hygiene among obstetric doctors (Bristol Old Vic, from January 20)....
...Back to the crosswords The following people are winners of the Monday and Saturday puzzles Crossword 16,425: Bill Stewart, Leicester; R Harpur, Herefordshire; Martyn Abbott, Lincolnshire Polymath 1,065...
...the shimmering globule that is Birmingham’s Selfridges building (2003) – its skin of thousands of aluminium discs likened by the architects to “the sequins of a Paco Rabanne dress”....
...Idexx said in October that the animal health market had experienced a “V-shaped recovery”....
...Last year, the government announced a tax subsidy scheme designed to lure overseas talent to the Greater Bay area on China’s south coast, giving high earners an effective tax rate as low as Hong Kong’s,...
...economy since January might well be followed by a second-quarter rebound — the much vaunted “V-shaped recovery”....
...safeguards, said Hongying Wang of Canada’s University of Waterloo, who has studied the bank....
...But when it launches in July next year, the game will still feature bat v ball, a duel of willow against leather over 22 yards on a grass pitch....
...Too much academic evidence shows that M&A is for many companies the same as tearing up pound notes. The greater the distance between acquirer and acquired, the greater the destruction....
...Michael Pritchard, director-general of the RPS, said he was confident that moving the archive to the V&A, which already has 500,000 objects in its photographic collection, would allow more people to see...
...“Wendy Ramshaw’s Room of Dreams” is at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery until May 22 2016....
...(2010), “the plan turned into farce as the Argentina bus got lost, taking two hours to cover the 30 miles from their base near Birmingham”....
...use a precisely faceted blade of the sort introduced, for greater efficiency, after about 1810....
...and the Hang Seng off a battered 8 per cent. Usual caveats about longer term timelines apply but this v v obviously ugly. As as aside, never ever mention price discovery in this type of environment....
...Weibo Wang, UK head of BCEG, said the link would attract other investors....
...The Scottish Secretary and I have agreed the new fiscal framework with Scotland. We’re also opening negotiations on a city deal with Edinburgh; we back the new V&A in Dundee....
...And which is the home of the developer of 2013’s best-selling video game, Grand Theft Auto V? The answer is not London....
...(B) The medium term outlook for the UK with Brexit is positive. One way to picture the economic impact of a Brexit may be the shape of a letter ‘V’ or a ‘tick’....
...and Birmingham’s Selfridges (2003)....
...Art Museum in Japan; the architect Wang Shu; and Peter Aspden, the Financial Times arts writer....
...It is a far cry from when Central Library was opened in July 1934 by King George V. It was used as a means of educating an illiterate population and employing people in the Great Depression....
...“The decline in commercial vehicle sales is mainly due to the economic slowdown and will probably be even worse in the second half,” says Wang Liusheng, an automotive analyst at China Merchants Securities...
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