Hints and tips:
...In 2019, Eton borrowed another £15mn for 45 years at 2.61 per cent fixed, again around 1 per cent over gilts, with this round “used to leverage the property portfolio” (again, p39)....
...“Winchester was high on our list but only has one grammar school. Tunbridge Wells has three.”...
...In July, Sunak made a joke about Starmer’s age, claiming he was 61. In true technocrat form, the Labour leader noted he was actually 60....
...Starmer said: “Winchester College has a rowing club, a rifle club, an extensive art collection, they charge over £45,000 a year in fees....
...For those who want a small-city fix, Winchester is a 20-minute drive away....
...There was a crazy market where they sold everything from black market rifles to horse milk and bearskin jackets....
...Over two days, 11 shootings left 15 people dead and 61 injured, according to the Gun Violence Archive. NPR described “a spasm of gun violence”. Yet the figures were far from unusual....
...“And the only way he could get those was to rifle through the garbage in my hotel room,” she told me. “Just think about what that takes.”...
.../ From Judith Martin, Winchester, Hampshire, UK...
...They were a Winchester and 10-gauge shot gun. But it was in college that I really was taught by a former Special Forces soldier about guns....
...Born in Kenya in 1959, where his father was serving in the King’s African Rifles, he later attended Winchester College and planned to study English at Oxford or Cambridge....
...Having said that, shares in the manufacturers of handguns, shotguns and “modern sporting rifles” such as the old AR-15 had a pretty good run from July 2020 to early this year....
...Workman, a solicitor from Winchester, put his success down to “a huge slice of luck”....
...Olin Corp, owner of the Winchester brand, said earlier this month that its commercial ammunition business had seen its strongest quarter since 2016....
...Authorities said the shooter carried an assault rifle and three handguns, and believe he was acting alone....
...In a storeroom, in sealed boxes apparently straight from the factory, were the unassembled parts of 117 M16 automatic rifles. It was the biggest haul of illicit weapons ever seized in Brazil....
...A 62-year-old with an ageing rock star’s mullet hairstyle, Martinez polices 944 square miles of parched brushland from a wood-panelled office decorated with a cactus statue and a rifle cabinet....
...Winchester topped the table of house price growth over the past decade, with prices rising by 79 per cent....
...We will probably never know,” said Manuel Rosada, 61, who had driven to the site with his wife Iris. “To me, the way [Mateen] put his picture on Facebook, he had a problem,” he said....
...The raids have led to more than 20 arrests and to the seizure of more than 30 weapons, including Kalashnikov assault rifles and a rocket launcher....
...To see the House of Commons meeting in Winchester or York would be to know that a progressive future can draw on the wellsprings of the past....
...Worth’s men were confiscating “very old-school Winchesters”. Now they are finding state-of-the art Czech rifles....
...The son of a lieutenant-colonel, he was a product of Winchester and Sandhurst who served 12 years in the Rifle Brigade....
...Russia’s three biggest defence partners – absorbing 61 per cent of Russian exports between 2009 and 2013 – are India, China and Algeria, according to SIPRI data....
...(Financial Times) Germany will ship armour-piercing missiles, thousands of assault rifles and other military equipment to aid Iraqi Kurds against jihadi militants, breaking a post-war taboo on the shipment...
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