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...While what’s regularly referred to as the “beer renaissance” is more recent history, Vancouver, out in Canada’s wild west, has always had an independent streak, so it’s no surprise that the dawn of craft...
...When she was looking for a new home in the south-west of England, Emma Turner says she was very open-minded about location as long as there were good transport links and schools....
...Pete Arredondo, chief of police for Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District, confirmed that a “mass casualty incident” took place just after 11.30am local time at the school, which has children in...
...West Kabul is home to what for decades was one of the great visual clichés of Afghanistan’s tragic modern history....
...In early March, Fritz Ihler, a local GP, helped set up a drive-in centre, manned by people in white and orange protective suits, in a central car park. It was soon inundated....
...At a primary school in west London, a class of 10-year-olds are acting out the story of the gunpowder plot....
...On another wall of the tiny, spotless dining room was a handwritten list of concoctions made of watermelon juice, pineapple juice, oranges and mint....
...Le Corbusier, who was born Charles-Édouard Jeanneret and died 50 years ago this August, has a mixed reputation in the west....
...In the process it became Russia’s best-known human rights organisation, with an international profile, donations from the west and offices in other countries as well as throughout Russia....
...Several businesses in the “independent district” are boarded-up. One shop’s window displays the other shops for sale. “Oldham can be a cynical town — and rightly so,” says one long-term resident....
...London mayor Boris Johnson made his first public appearance with David Cameron at a nursery school in southwest London as he consolidated his place on the campaign trail after a debut in South Thanet on...
...Zhukova went to a small, sporty private school – Pacific Hills – in West Hollywood (alumni include Monica Lewinsky and Drew Barrymore), which she loved and describes as “a kind of weird utopian community...
...But the arts scene is to get a boost with the relocation of Cornerhouse – the much loved home of independent cinema and visual arts – from its cramped Oxford Road base....
...If you’re tired of Flying Fish and the other open-window shrimp joints in the River Market district, you can go to elegant Ashley’s in the Capital Hotel....
...Ukraine, whose economy is near collapse, uses Russia for leverage with the west....
..., owning property there and sending their children to British private schools....
...He recalls how he “discovered loneliness” when he arrived to study at the London School of Economics in 1947....
...With its orange-foam chairs and stack of magazines, her reception area has the no-nonsense feel of a dentist’s surgery....
...A journalist specialising in eastern Europe, he covered the Orange Revolution for London’s Independent with a passion which he has now poured into this book....
...There are orange raincoats and plastic helmets hanging on hooks along the walls, and a large number of empty beer bottles on the rough brick floor....
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