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A photo of the Arctic Professor Jonathan Bamber University researchers have helped secure £13million for an Arctic research project that will track the rapidly changing fortunes of the frozen north. The Arctic is on the frontline of global climate change, warming at twice the speed of the rest of the world. Last year alone saw record summer temperatures in Siberia, wildfires rage across sensitive northern tundra and Arctic sea ice shrunk to its smallest ever extent. N...

A new biography of the British painter has a fine sense of his precocious talent – and real feeling for his rakish charm

La Agencia de Compras de las Fuerzas Armadas del Perú (Acffaa) ha designado a los miembros del comité técnico especializado que se hará cargo del proceso de contratación corporativa de los seguros de aviación, vehicular, marítimos y fluviales en...

IN the long history of Celtic and Rangers only a few players have ever played for both sides.

Don’t believe The Pursuit of Love – not all aristocrats are bigots, buffoons and bounders Are the English upper classes an absurd alien race? The makers of The Pursuit of Love – and many more TV dramas – certainly seem to think so Lily James as Linda in The Pursuit of Love Credit: BBC Emily Mortimer’s production of The Pursuit of Love presented her with an interesting conundrum. She was not just bringing the eccentric aristocracy to the screen, she was adapting them from Nancy Mitfo...

Yale, pp.384, 25 Charm is a weasel word; it can evoke the superficial and insincere, and engender suspicion and mistrust. But charm in its most authentic sense was surely the defining quality of the painter John Craxton, and it flavours this lively and richly coloured account of his life. Ian Collins only met the elderly Craxton — by now sporting the moustaches, shepherd’s stick and general demeanour of a Cretan chieftain — in the last decade of his life (he lived to 88), and was immediat...

The writer Ian Collins says that after his chance meeting with the British artist his “life changed forever”

By John Hyde2021-04-29T08:57:00+01:00 A law firm’s decision to sack its chief executive was not influenced by his blowing the whistle on alleged financial irregularities, an employment appeal tribunal has ruled. Mr Justice Cavanagh ruled in favour of Cheshire firm Hilary Meredith Solicitors after Peter Watson had brought a protected disclosures claim. The judge said the employment tribunal, which found in favour of the firm, was entitled to find that Watson’s behaviour was ‘separate and...

Thornalley, Jason (For the People not the Party) Electoral rules and regulations say that frequent checks should be made during the production of postal ballot packs. Labour candidate Ben Cook said: “It just makes you wonder just what is exactly going on at Boston Borough Council. At the minute it seems extremely disorganised.” Boston North resident Marion Pheonix said: “This is a huge incompetence on behalf of the council not checking they are printed properly before sending the ballot p...

Texas Hill Country’s Sisterdale Distilling Debuts New Straight Bourbon Whiskey Texas Hill Country’s Sisterdale Distilling Debuts New Straight Bourbon Whiskey Sisterdale Distilling is new to the Texas whiskey scene, and the brand recently introduced its new straight bourbon whiskey to restaurants, bars, and retail stores throughout Texas. Founded by longtime friends and entrepreneurs, Chad Gailey and Peter Watson, the distillery sits on a 1,200-acre working ranch just off Sister Creek north ...