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October 15, 2010
Alternatively, a three-night break costs from £490 on the same basis. There are reductions available for children aged under 16.Further informationFinnish Tourist Board (020-7365 2512; ).. What are they?
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Opened in 1897, Harrogate’s Royal Baths were once Europe’s premier destination for hypochondriacs and the pampered rich, with politicians and royalty among [...]
October 15, 2010
Mr O’Hanlon believes that the United States needs at least 15 airstrips, if not 20, to make the operation feasible.. It bears the innocuous name of “Internal Look”. But the American military’s elaborate command-and-control exercise, which begins at a base in the Qatari desert today, looks very like a dry run for a war [...]
October 15, 2010
No doubt Marx, Lenin and Castro would be horrified to hear their names taken in vain in such elitist circumstances, but for the wannabe ski adventurer, totalitarianism has never had it so good.The FactsGetting thereSki Independence (0870 555 0555; ) offers seven nights in The Wort hotel in Jackson Hole from £769 per person, [...]
October 15, 2010
It was worth £612m four years ago.Cox’s shares are likely to rise on the back of news of the informal offer, which would put more pressure on Mr Wood and his backers to raise their price.Mr Wood’s approach is believed to be backed by the banking group HBOS, with which he has set up [...]
October 15, 2010
“We own the Michelin building [in South Kensington] and people find them when they are out and about and give them to me,” he explains.Perhaps all the design treatment has been saved for his penthouse apartment upstairs. “I love living here,” he says in his soft voice with rounded vowels. “I sleep out the [...]
October 15, 2010
Downing Street’s attempts to draw a line under the row over Cherie Blair’s purchase of two flats with the help of a convicted fraudster received a setback last night after it emerged that the Prime Minister’s blind trust was used to buy them. A spokesman said the committee was concerned that its calls for [...]
October 15, 2010
Next year fabrics will be down to earth, linen, corduroy, nothing far-fetched.”Wayne Hemingway, designer:”I have a big down on the use of celebrity designers as a cynical marketing exercise. They lend their names and just tinker at the edges, and they are selling themselves and the public short Another growing trend I hate is [...]
October 15, 2010
We are all sadly familiar with the shameful saga of genocide, persecution and atrocity that led to the creation of the Jewish state of Israel, but Palestinians have their own tragic history. In Search of Fatima is, I believe, the first account in English of the suffering endured by an ordinary Palestinian family, but [...]
October 15, 2010
His own debut for Northern Ireland, in February 1972, supposedly a home fixture against Spain, had to be moved to Hull, of all places, because of the escalating Troubles in Belfast. Neil said ‘the team doesn’t need this’.”McIlroy insists that he and his superiors at the Northern Ireland Football Association are working hard to [...]
October 15, 2010
Wasabi is Japanese horseradish paste, from a similar root to our own, but it’s green. Vegetable oil for frying 200g ultra fresh tuna, cut into 21/2cm-thick steaks, then sliced into 21/2cm wide strips Wasabi Thick soy sauce, Japanese dipping soy or Malaysian ketchup manis Rub a heavy-bottomed frying pan with a little vegetable oil [...]
