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...The local authority’s auditor, Grant Thornton, has struggled to audit its books and only this month completed the 2018-19 financial year....
...Travis & Emery, 17 Cecil Court, London WC2; travis-and-emery.com...
...Cecil Beaton, the great society photographer, used all sorts of tricks to flatter his subjects after replacing what he called “hazardous candid camera shots”....
...In 2018, grime icon Wiley, was awarded an MBE by Prince William. Last year, former US president Barack Obama listed tracks from Stormzy, Dave and Central Cee on his annual playlist....
...John Williams’ grinching be damned, last week’s Fed pivot was a bona fide Christmas miracle....
...Bloodlines, designed by Tristram, depicts peasants tilling a field alongside caricatures of ladies and gents who converse in speech bubbles with words plucked from William Barnes, the 19th-century poet....
...It was in 2017, while Phoebe was painting the Cholmondeley children in William Kent’s Palladian interior, the great Stone Hall, that the idea for the exhibition began to unfurl....
...Williams called on audit firms’ clients to hold their feet to the fire....
...Glance at almost any photograph of the late Queen Mother and there he is: William Tallon, more faithful than a shadow....
...Jeffrey’s tartan stretches along the back of a House of Hackney sofa covered in a William Morris textile, in front of a wall full of antique Punch and Judy puppets, which give the room its name....
...He talks about buying “a Regency/William IV Mahogany Four-Poster bed (As Found)”, as the auction house’s catalogue described it....
...At five, the first movie he sees is Cecil B DeMille’s lurid The Greatest Show on Earth; it leaves part of him forever petrified....
...William Cecil, Elizabeth’s chief adviser, saw Mary as a threat to his Protestant aims for England, and put a stop to further plans....
...Following a brief first marriage, she wedded William McCormick Blair Jr, the former US ambassador to Denmark, in 1961....
...Additional reporting by Jasmine Cameron-Chileshe and Jennifer Williams...
...William Blair’s Nicholas predicted that the deal wave would continue, despite headwinds from rising interest rates and economic uncertainty....
...Wonnacott is lyrical, comic, playing the ornately gilded surrounding against contemporary dress and informality — lanky William, Harry clambering over a sofa....
...Almost all these works belong to the Atlanta-based Souls Grown Deep Foundation, whose collection of 160 artists was begun by William Arnett in the 1970s....
...For pianist Angelica Sanchez, an angular rhythmic strand stretching from Duke Ellington to Cecil Taylor figures prominently; both pianist/composers are name-checked here along with Mary Lou Williams, whose...
...Cecil Beaton photographed the royal family from 1939 to 1979, the year before his death....
...The song’s sickening violence would have been familiar to the Edwardian folk-song researchers who worked under the likes of the composer-collector Cecil Sharp, Percy Grainger and Gustav Holst....
...The chef during my visit was Anna Williams. While she set up the food, there was no shouting or tension in the kitchen....
...diarist, several books on French artist couple Les Lalanne – “I’m the world expert on them, bizarrely enough” – as well as a formative acting job, as the chubby-cheeked child star of the 1970s TV series Just William...
...Phil Thornton: If the mark of victory is achieving the 2 per cent target then that will more likely occur in 2025 than 2024....
...When we last speak, Pharrell Williams has just been appointed creative director of menswear at Louis Vuitton....
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