Robin's latest objects of desire
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UK Foreign Secretary Robin Cook is determined to promote British design. He has converted a bookcase in his office into a display cabinet for innovative British design, and the Foreign Office is to head a larger promotion. This will include the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, by Norman Foster and the regional headquarters for Marseilles, France, council by Will Alsop. There has been a shift away from insisting that items designed in the UK should also be made in the UK.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1998
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Sir Robin Brook
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Merchant banker Robin Brook was educated at Eton and Cambridge, England, gaining a Double First in Economics. He served during the second world war in the Ministry of Economic Warfare and then in what would later be the Special Operations Executive. He became a director of the Bank of England at the age of only 37, and in 1949 became Deputy Chmn of the Colonial Development Corp. He made a lot of money, much of which he donated to charitable causes.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1998
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Robin Hood reigns in the city of lacemakers
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The annual Goose Fair in Nottingham, England, was traditionally the event at which families purchased the goose which they would eat for their Christmas meal. Nowadays, it is a funfair which runs for three days. It has many traditional fairground attractions, and is well worth visiting. The city of Nottingham itself is also very interesting. Of particular interest is the Lace Market, an area of streets where lace is made and sold.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1996
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