Hints and tips:
...Belatedly, I have started reading Mick Herron’s Slough House spy thrillers, and have been devouring them at a rate of knots, for two reasons. The first is that they are very good indeed....
...If you do that well, you can be excellent, but when you lose focus on the basics, everything falls apart and what the public sees is that Slough’s call centre takes 40 minutes to answer.”...
...Caller’s challenge will “on a different scale to elsewhere”, he said: “A barren 10 years in Slough is bad for Slough....
...Dame Meg Hillier, the committee chair, said that case, along with similar financial crises at Croydon, Slough and Thurrock, “should serve as flashing red signals for the government” to get a grip on the...
...William Wallis (Laughter) Yes, they do. Lucy Fisher Thank God. Now, Birmingham follows Thurrock, Croydon, Slough and Northamptonshire in issuing a so-called Section 114 notice....
...But on Thursday, the company showed the market it could slough off the past and embrace a future filled with cardboard boxes and jiffy bags....
...Leicester recently became one of three English provincial cities — including smaller Slough and Luton — where no ethnic group is in the majority, according to researchers at Manchester University....
...Segro (formerly Slough Estates) focuses on business parks and provides warehouse space to online retailers....
...Today the nation’s capital is in the slough of despond because they did not even make the play-offs, in spite of a season of Ruthian proportions by their 22-year-old slugger, Bryce Harper....
...Gareth Williams SkyScanner British Williams and two friends founded Skyscanner, the flight-comparison website, in 2001, after struggling to find cheap travel deals online....
...Even Princes William and Harry arrived to help with sandbags yesterday....
...At its 350KW pilot plant in Slough, Berkshire, electricity is used to cool air to its liquid state at minus 196C, which is stored in insulated containers....
...We spend the entire performance wallowing in the Slough of Despond, instead of progressing to a celestial climax....
...Nick Williams, chairman of the Fanderson fan club, described him as an “unassuming but determined man”....
...The group employs 89 people at the Prudhoe plant and 131 in Slough. Mr Williams said there would be net job creation in the north-east....
...He was hailed in his day as a genius who, with a “poet’s feeling and painter’s eye”, could raise up visionary landscapes – even to a critic like the poet William Cowper he was the “omnipotent magician”....
...Located near the town of Slough, it is sometimes mocked as ”Slough Comp” (in other words, Slough Comprehensive, like your average school in Britain’s struggling state-run education system)....
...For example, transactions were down by 72 per cent in Thurrock, by 67 per cent in Luton and in Slough....
...I got a management job based at Slough, west of London....
...At present we have simply the premier league (the Queen, Prince of Wales, princes William, Harry) and the rest – what we might term the lumpenroyals. Even here the distinctions can blur....
...William Morrison advanced 3.9 per cent to 328p in heavy volume of 78m shares after the supermarket group issued a reassuring trading statement....
...Segro, formerly Slough Estates, gained 1.3 per cent to 725p as talk that a Middle East consortium had financing in place for a bid refused to die down....
...Segro, the former Slough Estates, fell 2.4 per cent to 700p. In the mid-caps, FKI added 2.6 per cent at 140p as take-over speculation refused to die down....
...William Hill closed flat at 643½p as David Harding, William Hill’s chief executive, made about £2.5m by selling 385,000 shares in the company under an executive director incentive plan, at 648½p each....
...Away”, the excruciating ballad from the film Top Gun, painfully brings to mind a juvenile romance that ended badly when an ardent letter that I had written was wrongly delivered to a Radio Rentals shop in Slough...
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