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...But campaigners reacted angrily, saying the rules fell badly short by only explicitly excluding the financing of electricity production from, and the mining of, coal and peat....
...News of the possible lay-offs came in a letter, seen by the Guardian newspaper, from King Charles’s top aide Sir Clive Alderton....
...I remember an etching made by the visionary William Blake that quoted the Old Testament: “I have said to the Worm: Thou art my mother and my sister”....
...The Duchy of Cornwall now passes to his heir Prince William....
...William Dyson runs a nursery specialising in salvias at Great Comp near Sevenoaks in Kent....
...The son of an illustrious family — Sir William Peat, his great-grandfather, was one of the founding partners of what eventually became KPMG — Peat himself became a partner at KPMG in 1985....
...In an old family album, there is photograph of my father and me, standing by a donkey loaded with peat. I must have been six. I was in short trousers....
...As well as serving as the chief executive of Imperial Tobacco between 1996 and 2010, Mr Davis has served as chair of the bookmakers William Hill, Ferguson, the building materials business and DS Smith, the...
...At those moments, I hear William Blake: “You throw the sand against the wind, and the wind blows it back again.”...
...Mr Davis, a Hanson alumnus, has led Imperial and chaired William Hill, DS Smith and Ferguson. He has seen no end of board fracas....
...Also of local provenance is a throne carved from bog oak — wood preserved in peat for thousands of years — by the Lisburn company Curran & Sons for the 1851 Great Exhibition....
...Dark peat and rubble climbed halfway up the windows at the rear of the house, and water roared through its rooms when it rained....
...It’s pure William Blake, though no sign of Jerusalem. At Bewerley, Emma is there to drive me back to Ramsgill....
...It was full of other people’s leavings: oatcakes and freshly cut peat in a creel, shiny cutlery and coffee pots....
...We came back lightly coated in an island marinade of sea-salt, peat and perspiration, and rewarded ourselves with a chilled drink in the bath....
...Nathaniel Peat Co-founder and CEO, Gennex 18. Hani Kablawi Executive vice-president and CEO, EMEA asset servicing, BNY Mellon 19....
...Mr Saïd counts Lord Powell of Bayswater, Thatcher’s former adviser, and Sir Michael Peat, former private secretary to the Prince of Wales, among the trustees of his foundation....
...edition, William Bligh, Vice-Admiral of the Blue, gives his own account of the infamous plant-hunting voyage that led to the most famous mutiny in history....
...In recent years, Wm Sinclair has been hit by wet weather, poor peat harvests and pricing pressures....
...When we speak of England, we might think of Elgar or Vaughan Williams, Hardy or Manley Hopkins....
...This left a more concentrated material with a consistency like peat, to which the team added “cement bypass dust”, a waste product of cement manufacturing....
...With strong links to the wild Scottish Highlands, whisky has a reputation for being natural, comprising ingredients of water, barley and an admixture of peat....
...A Turkish company has just signed up to invest $220m transforming peat from marshland in the south into megawatts....
...Also, the peat and dark of the Highlands, especially in winter – and above all in the short, unheated lives of the past – have always had an edge that needed taking off....
...There are few smells or tastes in this book, and we don’t glean much about the landscape beyond its “indifference”, its peat and its heather. But perhaps this is missing the point....
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