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...When Lily Jones, aka Lily Vanilli, was thinking how to mark 15 years of her East London bakery – which has made cakes for everyone from Elton John and Madonna to the V&A and 10 Downing Street – she knew...
...“F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E” and “Sorted for E’s & Wizz” were ticked off like rites of passage from someone moving from Sheffield outsider to Britpop in-crowd....
...Von der Leyen and Sunak made the announcement in front of a portrait of King George V, who inaugurated Northern Ireland’s parliament in 1921 with an appeal for unity....
...A century ago, the London Society, an influential civic group, produced a plan for London’s future made up of contributions from such leading Edwardian architects as Edwin Lutyens and Aston Webb....
...The Russian Direct Investment Fund, the Kremlin’s state wealth fund that has financed the Gamaleya Institute’s Sputnik V vaccine, declined to comment on the Mexico trials but said approval by national healthcare...
...“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....
...Andrew Lloyd Webber once saw it in the window of a Chelsea junk shop but his granny wouldn’t lend him the £50 he’d have needed....
...The furniture is a mix of old and (then) new: 17th and 18th-century pieces meeting bespoke designs by Webb and Morris himself....
...The company has been working on a number of different designs in recent years but said it had now “converged” on the new CityAirbus that features fixed wings, a V-shaped tail and eight electrically powered...
...Merryn Somerset Webb is editor-in-chief of MoneyWeek. Views are personal. merryn@ft.com. Twitter: @MerrynSW...
...Mexico, which has one of the world’s highest Covid-19 excess deaths tallies, sent Marcelo Ebrard, foreign minister, to Russia on Sunday night to discuss plans for Mexico to bottle the Sputnik V vaccine....
...“It’s an interesting circular economy story,” says V&A festivals curator Meneesha Kellay....
...Dramatic images showed the train suspended at a 45-degree angle, snapped into a V-shape, and suspended above a mountain of rubble on the road....
...Of those received, 5.7m were the BioNTech/Pfizer jab; 3.6m were AstraZeneca; 4m were Sinovac of China and 900,000 were Russia’s Sputnik V, coronavirus tsar Hugo López-Gatell told the news conference....
...Health officials say they have only reported 11,812 adverse reactions from the BioNTech/Pfizer, AstraZeneca, SinoVac and Sputnik V jabs....
...My colleagues Jude Webber and Andy Bounds are following this developing story....
...Biden, three days earlier, had been “friendly and respectful”, López Obrador gushed about the “genuine affection” from the Russian president as Mexico prepared to receive 24m doses of Russia’s Sputnik V...
...I’d also been to the V&A and seen one of his famous japonisme sideboards: the earliest versions may date from the late 1850s but it is a spectacularly modernist piece of geometric design....
...He said he would still hold a scheduled call with Vladimir Putin on Monday morning to discuss procuring Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine and bilateral ties....
...Merryn Somerset Webb comments that as a fightback against Wall Street, the movement is hopeless: “The money that banks and fund managers make comes from trading commission and fees — not from their investment...
...Merryn Somerset Webb, the FT columnist, will be taking questions from investor readers at the FT Weekend Festival....
...and Ms Somerset Webb....
...Merryn Somerset Webb, by contrast, argues that the crisis should inject some reality into the debate around the energy transition....
...Both may be less a disaster-in-waiting and more a sign of the pent-up demand that, in normal life, would make a V-shaped economic recovery likely in the developed world....
...It is the fifth quarterly contraction in a row, dampening hopes of a speedy, V-shaped recovery....
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