The ‘hard-to-find’ plants range from 45cm to over 165cm with leaves that can span up to three meters. And even better they can be delivered straight to your front door, meaning you can have Kew-inspired plants come directly to you. The Palm House Collection. (Sproutl) Prices range from £80 for …
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In today’s InternetRetailing newsletter we’re reporting on how retailers from the Co-op to The Works continue to find new ways to get close to shoppers at a time when spending is becoming more squeezed by rising inflation. The latest ONS retail sales figures suggest that in April shoppers spent …
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Platinum Jubilee ‘sideshow’ could ‘overshadow’ Queen and cause resentment among royals like Sophie Wessex who ‘do the daily grind’ of duties, royal expert claims Duke and Duchess of Sussex could ‘destabilise’ the Platinum Jubilee celebrations Princess Anne and Sophie Wessex will be resentful of the …
Read More »Emerson Royal’s Tottenham transformation mirrors his side’s upturn under Antonio Conte
Emerson Aparecido Leite de Souza Junior had already anticipated the angle of attack and predicted where this interview was likely to start as he settled into his chair. ‘Why do you call yourself Royal?’ was the question and the Tottenham and Brazil defender laughed loudly. ‘What did I tell you,’ …
Read More »Kenilworth folk in stitches as town gets royally ‘yarn bombed’
The seed has been sown, or rather sewn, for a right royal knees up in Kenilworth. The town is taking its celebration of The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee not all that seriously with a procession of embroidered Beefeaters along the town’s main thoroughfare. Crocheted guards have taken pride of place on …
Read More »Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder steps down at Rosneft
Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder steps down as director at Russia’s top crude oil producer Rosneft By Milo Pope For The Daily Mail Published: 16:50 EDT, 20 May 2022 | Updated: 03:44 EDT, 21 May 2022 Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder has stepped down as director at Russia’s top crude …
Read More »The Mailbox from Post Office to high-end shopping and offices in 16 pics
Fine dining by the canal, shopping for designer clothes, fancy hotels – the Mailbox is the pinnacle of posh landmarks in Brum. It wasn’t always that way, though. Get too close in the 70s and 80s and you might hear the din of thousands of workers and machines sorting Birmingham’s …
Read More »Rare northern Michigan tornado kills one person and injures more than 40
At least one person has been killed and more than 40 injured after a rare northern Michigan tornado battered a small town. The twister hit Gaylord, a city of about 4,200 people roughly 230 miles (370 kilometres) northwest of Detroit, at around 3.45pm local time on Friday. Mike Klepadlo, who …
Read More »B.C. government to make business case for spending $789-million to rebuild Royal BC Museum
The Royal BC Museum in Victoria.CHAD HIPOLITO/The Globe and Mail Next week, the British Columbia government will lay out its business case for spending nearly $800-million to rebuild the Royal BC Museum in Victoria. The announcement, made May 13, was a shocker. B.C. Premier John Horgan promised a “safer, more …
Read More »Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Sproutl team up to launch new exotic plant collection
The ‘hard-to-find’ plants range from 45cm to over 165cm with leaves that can span up to three meters. And even better they can be delivered straight to your front door, meaning you can have Kew-inspired plants come directly to you. The Palm House Collection. (Sproutl) Prices range from £80 for …
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