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...Hong Kong residents spent about HK$50bn in mainland China in 2023, estimated Heron Lim, an economist at Moody’s Analytics, about 12.5 per cent of his forecast total retail value for Hong Kong for the year...
...“The economy is resilient,” said Heron Lim, greater China economist at Moody’s Analytics. “But in terms of strong growth, that is still missing.”...
...Wagtail, 68 King William St, London EC4; wagtaillondon.com The Terrace at Norma A slice of Sicily on a corner of Fitzrovia....
...back; the First Witch (an infernally peaty 19yo Islay malt) flings her arms in the air in an evil rapture; while King Duncan (a distinguished 56yo, single-cask Glen Grant) looks on, as statuesque as a heron...
...in the house”, suggests Adrian, and a reminder, adds Joan, of many trips to see the Herons in St Ives (a few smaller Herons are also dotted around the house, including one in the downstairs loo)....
...William Peck, power market analyst at ICIS, a commodity analytics firm, said the higher electricity prices reflected traders increasingly predicting that extremely tight gas supplies would persist for at...
...Queen’s Management School has a course on bubbles and crashes, the subject of Boom and Bust, Turner’s latest book with colleague William Quinn....
...In an obscure glass cabinet we stumbled across the death certificate of William McKinley, who was assassinated in Buffalo in 1901. “Occupation: President of the United States,” it said....
...More recently, the baton of managing the family’s hotels and holiday cottages has been passed on to their daughter-in-law, Laura Burlington, wife of their son, William....
...At the time of the first Bloody Scotland crime writing festival in 2012, William McIlvanney initially seemed a slightly forlorn figure — a major talent, now neglected and mostly out of print....
...He nurtured and promoted other talents, including the designers Heron Preston and Matthew Williams, who is now the creative director of Givenchy, another LVMH brand....
...Instead, he rose to prominence in his early twenties creating costumes for his then romantic partner Lady Gaga, later collaborating with Virgil Abloh (now of Louis Vuitton) and Heron Preston on the streetwear...
...Holbein’s delicate 1527 drawing of Sir Thomas More’s daughter, Cecily Heron, shows only that the lacing down the front of her rich garb is loosened, though the gentle swelling of her body is unmistakable...
...Lorna Wishart — older, married, a sophisticated muse — perfectly played into his ideal of a transgressive life: she brought him a dead heron as a gift; he painted it....
...The works, currently on show, include paintings by Ben Nicholson, Ivon Hitchens, Peter Lanyon, Patrick Heron, John Piper and William Scott – handpicked by Tennant and Cawdor themselves....
...The American slam poet Saul Williams fires off aphorisms as the band set down a barrage of percussion and Nkosi and Mokone sing backing vocals, the whole thing more like Gil Scott-Heron or The Last Poets...
...Sotheby’s sale also features works by the modern British favourites Henry Moore, Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth, alongside major works by Euan Uglow, Frank Auerbach and Patrick Heron....
...“B&M has delivered excellent growth in the UK and retains significant potential through its core rollout and convenience rollout post the acquisition of Heron Foods....
...Bonhams, July 5 One of the highlights here is a recently discovered portrait of the English civil war turncoat Thomas Pope by William Larkin, with an estimate of £40,000-£60,000....
...was one item at February’s meeting of the parish council of Iddesleigh, a tiny village near Dartmoor first recorded as Edeslege in William the Conqueror’s Domesday Book in 1086....
...At the Heron, Savills is selling a four-bedroom penthouse for £13.5m....
...Land art works such as “Red Slate Line” by Richard Long are now included in self-guided trails that also highlight the park’s heron colony, and Henry Moore’s fascination with drawing sheep....
...He was similarly ahead of the pack with William Kentridge, whom he calls “as important an artist as is working in the world today”, whose work he first bought in 1987....
...Yet he continued to champion emerging British artists; John Hoyland, Patrick Caulfield and William Turnbull were among the first to show at his own gallery, which he opened in 1966....
...William Wordsworth’s former home in Grasmere remains a place of pilgrimage....
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