Hints and tips:
...They have held their value for years, but occasionally prices will soar; a copper tortoise from the period recently sold for a record £2,000 at Brighton & Hove Auction....
...If it does, the last laugh will be yours, so please don’t bother sending the usual all-caps emails telling me I’m an idiot — they’ll just go in the file with the others....
...The eccentric is Kempton Bunton, played by Broadbent, retired bus driver and keen autodidact. He will later end up on trial at the Old Bailey, charged with a notorious art theft....
...I’m often envious of the interior designers I work alongside as a landscape designer, who revel in their “antiquing” trips to Kempton Racecourse and auction showrooms....
...Instead, the action revolves mainly around how Kempton will keep the painting hidden from the authorities — which is to say the prying eyes of the police and her downstairs (much like Alec Guinness’s gang...
...“The creation of national standards will not be enough, and we should ban the use of predictive policing programmes,” she said....
...Goad is a regular at Kempton, a twice-a-month market west of London, and visits even when she does not need to buy. Knowing the layout helps you become a more effective shopper, she says....
...Two scheduled jump fixtures will go ahead at Musselburgh and Plumpton on 13 February, as well as all-weather fixtures at Southwell and Kempton....
...It remains unclear whether the plans will come to fruition, and with much reliant on the Jockey Club’s plan to redevelop Kempton in South West London....
...But I had never seen him quite so agitated as he was that day at Kempton....
...It is working on controversial plans to sell Kempton Park in Surrey to Redrow, the housebuilder, which will allow it to plough in more. It is not all gloom for the industry....
...His wife will not let him smoke near them and he can only do so in a little room on the other side of the corridor. He calls this the study although it has no desk....
...In the ring, horses are always beautifully turned out, even at a small evening meeting at Kempton, Windsor or even, in those days, Alexandra Park....
...Citi has tapped Simon Kempton, who last month stepped down as Deutsche’s head of international prime brokerage, as its head of prime finance in Europe....
...Emperor Akihito, the 125th emperor, will be 80....
...But in Westminster as at Kempton Park, it is hard to predict winners. That was the lesson that Labour and the unions failed to learn from the Rover debacle....
...Simon Bazalgette, chief executive of the Jockey Club, whose racecourses include Newmarket, Epsom Downs, Sandown Park and Kempton Park, said the new format was an initial step....
...Members of Bassa, Unite’s main cabin crew branch, wore yellow ribbons in support of colleagues who had been sacked or disciplined at their meeting at Kempton Park racecourse near London....
...My HF for Brighton Kempton asked me to help small cities too – no doubt with his own city in mind. I agree. £50m will be available for smaller cities too....
...Edward Gillespie joined United Racecourses, owner of Epsom, Kempton Park and Sandown Park racecourses, as a trainee manager in 1974. In 1980, he became managing director of Cheltenham....
...So we will have Tim Geithner, but also Ben Bernanke and Chris Cox.”...
...With an authority that showed he was back to his majestic best, Kauto Star won his third successive Stan James King George VI Chase at Kempton Park on Friday....
...This weekend’s Grand National will be one of the showpiece events of the British sporting year....
...[In these] there emerged a consensus between us that we need to accept the need for fundamental change, that all forms of discrimination will have to go, that we will have to move towards a system of everybody...
...As so often, the King George will see a fascinating contest between the established names and the emerging hopes....
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