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office, complete with its chintz curtains and pine fireplace, is that they are buying a style. Labelled by ..

... for their business. As one agent, a former Guards’ officer, puts it; “The best developers come to people like us because we speak their language, know exactly what the market wants and can value accordingly and correctly. There is a certain amount of snobbery ...

Published: Tuesday 01 September 1987
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 163 | Page: 59 | Tags: none

Players on the piste

... that Benjamin Franklin was a Victorian philosopher and scientist who electrocuted himself by flying a kite. I met her twice, speaking of “synchronlcity”, or coincidence. The first occasion was when she and Ron, uninvited, turned up at a party of mine in Primrose ...

Published: Tuesday 01 September 1987
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 627 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Indeed, one could overestimate the ideological content of any Labour group. What matters is that Tribune, the ..

... name than is widely realized. But another Prescott talent is for talking to the party and to the unions as one of them. He speaks their language. What he will not be, despite his trade union credentials, is a friend of inefficiency, statutory over-manning ...

Published: Tuesday 01 September 1987
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 788 | Page: 41 | Tags: none

‘Metropolitan curator von Bothmer was deeply involved in the acquisition... going so far as to pay for some of ..

... contention that there is not a single, cohesive treasure. In legal terms the museum throws the burden on the Turks who, unable to speak of single treasure, must identify each object separately and prove its provenance. Small wonder, then, that the museum has ...

Published: Tuesday 01 September 1987
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 839 | Page: 50 | Tags: none

London’s falling standards

... most indices of deprivation, the ILEA is well above the national average. More than one in five of its comprehensive pupils speaks a language other than English at home. Some of the outer London boroughs, such as Barking, Haringey and Newham, have social ...

Published: Tuesday 01 September 1987
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2483 | Page: 69 | Tags: none

claimed to have made while talking to Mohamed Al-Fayed. The transcript is alleged to portray the Al-Fayeds as ..

... ‘Tiny’s ‘secret’ trade gems”. It was a perplexing investigation which must have left the readers somewhat puzzled. Broadly speaking it alleged that Rowland ordered the stockpiling of amethysts from mine in Zambia. The story also claimed that there had been ...

Published: Tuesday 01 September 1987
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1083 | Page: 26 | Tags: none

Shaw by a father about his daughter Ellie and persistendy failing to get it quite right. Then she had suggested

... walls. As it was they were in Oxford facing the rain, alarming cookery and walls of honeycoloured stone. “These walls—they speak to you if you let them,” said Gister. They wouldn’t actually say much as Balliol is dreadful architectural hotch-potch, most ...

Published: Tuesday 01 September 1987
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1170 | Page: 35 | Tags: none

COVER

... Whisky,O! When people wereht drinking The ilenlivet, they were singing its praises. Freemasons! to the Major drink- Wd daurna speak, but we can wink, An’ heaven be lhankit, we can think, Another Scottish writer went even further He was Christopher North ...

Published: Tuesday 01 September 1987
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 963 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

What makes men nervous of this woman?

... misery and disillusion to the women in his life, ‘Money can’t buy me love,’ as the Beatles were singing at the very time we speak of. They were only partly right. Men do seem able to buy it; women not. How unfair the world is! If men were like children ...

Published: Tuesday 01 September 1987
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1188 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Cheshire Homes are all about caring... in so many ways Founder, Group Captain Leonard Cheshire, VC, OM, DSO, ..

... Homes are very severely handicapped men, women and children suffering from a wide range of conditions. Sometimes unable to speak, or to move much more than a hand or foot. A Cheshire Home offers them much more than just physical care. It gives them the ...

Published: Tuesday 01 September 1987
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 127 | Page: 67 | Tags: none

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... foreign language. Eryl D'Souza, of Parkfield Avenue, Hillingdon, attended the University of Kent at Canterbury. Eryl, who also speaks French, begins a course in teaching English as a foreigh language in FEMALE gardeners, cooks and craft enthusiasts have six ...

Published: Wednesday 02 September 1987
Newspaper: Uxbridge & W. Drayton Gazette
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1657 | Page: 64 | Tags: none

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... UXBRIDGE ID, studio flat * 2 8611,950 WHINY Of THE bed split level mars 1179,500 ‘64,500 * Gas central heating PHONE US NOW AND SPEAK TO ideal for those with * *Fitted kitchen *SPOCIOUS family PlOrne *Double glazed windows *Built in wardrobes BART BONITO ON ...

Published: Wednesday 02 September 1987
Newspaper: Hayes & Harlington Gazette
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 848 | Page: 31 | Tags: none