His work over the years included sketches, paintings, linocuts, book covers, posters, cards and mugs – even soft furnishings – all showing the beauty of the natural world. Always immaculately executed, it was usually bold in design, with clear lines and subtle yet vibrant colours. The sheer volume of Gillmor’s …
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The City of London’s diary is packed for the coming week, with many FTSE 100 giants and FTE 250 favourites coming to market with results or trading updates, including Greggs, Royal Mail, Vodafone, Aviva, Imperial Brands and easyJet. With the cost of living crisis on everyone’s minds, updates from the …
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The Queen made a secret trip to see her own horses as she missed the first day of the Royal Windsor Horse Show, it is understood. The show, which kicked off yesterday and will run until Sunday, is the Queen’s favourite event of the year but Princess Beatrice stepped in for Her Majesty in …
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The City will be looking out for signs that Royal Mail has made significant cost savings following substantial job cuts when it updates the market next week. arlier this year, the company announced plans to axe 700 management jobs in a bid to reduce costs by about £40 million a …
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Read More »Listening to the Queen’s Speech this week, I immediately thought of Five Links, a 1970s housing estate in Essex once nicknamed “Alcatraz”. Why, you reasonably ask. One of the many legislative announcements by the government was “giving residents more of a say over changing street names”. After redeveloping Five Links, …
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The Royal Mail wants to buy up to 200 drones over the next three years, which will transport mail on more than 50 routes around small islands off the British coast. In the long term, the fleet of mail drones should even grow to 500, it is said. However, the …
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The UK Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal by a mail order company seeking repayment from HMRC of sums it claimed should have been regarded as recoverable VAT. About this case: Citation: [2020] UKSC 15 Judgment: Court: UK Supreme Court Zipvit Ltd, which had mistakenly never been charged VAT for …
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The Queen has arrived at the Royal Windsor Horse Show to watch her animals take to the parade ring. The 96-year-old was driven on to the showground in a Range Rover. After missing the State Opening of Parliament, there had been speculation that she would not attend the annual event, …
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The Queen has a ‘ring of steel’ around her to protect the monarch from appearing in Harry and Meghan’s Netflix documentary, a royal expert has claimed. Royal commentator Russell Myers mades the comments during an interview with Australian news programme Today, while discussing whether any footage from the upcoming Platinum …
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