She still remembered some of their names in the last years of her life. Thanks to her memory I was able to begin this project [about the history and culture of Lithuanian Jewry], and two years ago found 486 files of documents of her school, the Gymnasium Yavne. The faces of several of her classmates and teachers appear there. My mother has kept three class photographs from that past time [above and at the top].
Best explanation of British success abroad Boy band One Direction won a prize for global success Adele led the way, but Mumford and Sons, Calvin Harris and even Ellie Goulding have followed in her footsteps. British acts are massively successful overseas, at a time when the US seems to be struggling to produce a new mainstream pop star. Mulligan has been filming a new adaptation of The Great Gatsby, while Mumford And Sons have been busy touring their new album, Babel. The couple were married in April last year, but have had to spend a lot of time apart since.
I prefer reggae.”
Biggest mistake A double award-winner at last year’s Brits, Ed Sheeran suddenly went white with fear at this year’s show. The Gerald Ratner Award for putting your foot in it “Make some noise for Coldplay!” shouted Olympic gymnast and Strictly winner Louis Smith as he handed Chris Martin’s band the award for best live act. n”To be honest, I’m not a massive fan,” he told the press.
Backstage, though, he seemed a little less enthusiastic.
I see it as my legacy. My assumption is she was a practical woman who wanted to be able to grind spices and food for her family. I do not know if they were acquired in the US by my great grandmother, or brought from Poland, but I know those treasures were also valued. It is handed down through the female line. From my father’s side I have my grandmother’s Sabbath candle holders.
That is all we had left, except for the clothes on our backs. We had to leave everything behind, except for a few photos and a couple of beautiful amber necklaces that my mother had made from amber that my older sister and I had found on the beaches of the Baltic, not too far from our home.
I have had those few “keepsakes” he brought out of the camps mounted with a description of what they were and what they meant to him. These are the treasures that my family retain, so as never to forget what he went through or the manner in which he conducted himself during that ordeal (he once volunteered to take 25 lashes in place of a man who he did not think would have survived that punishment).
My father did not take much from the camps, but he did take a few “mementos”. He was a leading member of the underground resistance in all of these camps, which, along with his courage and strength allowed him to survive all those years. These include his red triangle designating him as a political prisoner, his camp number badge, a scalpel from the typhus barracks in Buchenwald where he worked and was hidden prior to liberation and a handkerchief from a close friend of his who had been murdered in front of him by the SS in Dachau.
The front of the postcard that ultimately allowed Alfred Fiks to get a French visa Alfred Fiks, Escazu, Costa Rica: Treasures my mother and I took with us from our home in Berlin to Paris, in the summer of 1939 on one of the last trains to make that run (WWII began on 1 September, 1939) were: Old family photos, my Berlin birth and vaccination certificates and the postcard that saved our life.
Fiks and her son are requested to call at the French Consulate, with their passports, between 10 and 12 o’clock, for the purpose of issuing them visas for two months.” Ian Carr-de Avelon, Wroclaw, Poland: In 1945, my wife’s grandfather was forced onto a train in Lwow (then Poland, now Ukraine) with his wife (both of them afraid they would be exposed as self-employed and shot as capitalists) and their two children. The main text reads: “Mrs.
So a miniature Chilean flag made of silk on a brass flag pole was also brought to Sweden. Although my parents sometimes have very different perspectives on society they always unite over the love for their home country. I believe that the books and the flag define who they are and represent what is important to them in times of need.
The silver rose medal (l) kept by Claire Kulagowski’s father Ramon (r) Claire Kulagowski, East Lothian, UK: My father was 17 when the Nazis invaded Poland: he escaped and eventually made it to Britain, when he became one of the early members of the First Polish Parachute Brigade and took part in the liberation of Europe. My earliest memories are of a small silver rose attached to the wristband of his watch.
He never saw a single member of his family ever again, as it was impossible to return to Poland after the war. It was a holy medal of St Therese of Liseux, and along with two or three photographs, this was the sum total he had managed to carry with him in the long journey across occupied Europe.
A much-travelled heirloom.
Rocio, Sweden: My parents came to Sweden from Chile as political refugees in the 80s during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. My mother, because of her Catholic faith, brought with her a Bible given to her on her First Communion. My father, because of his political beliefs, brought with him a book about communism in a Latin American context. A trunk, without the gowns, originally bought in Paris in 1938, finally made it back when I moved to the “City of Light” [Paris] from London in 1990, it having travelled with my grandmother through Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine and Egypt as she moved with the Polish Core of the Eighth Army.n”This is an album I wrote because I didn’t have the confidence to say these things in person. Most humble acceptance speech “I think I’m a very unlikely pop star,” said Emeli Sande as she won the night’s biggest prize – album of the year. For me, that so many people have connected with this album and found strength in these words makes me feel incredible and it doesn’t make me feel as lonely.”
The difference is, she will get to meet them.”
The former Culture Club star assured the BBC the teenager would not be exposed to any of the “debauchery” that accompanied Brit award shows in the 1980s.
“These days, people are a bit more grown up,” he said. “She wants to meet One Direction, like every other teenager in the country,” he told the BBC.
Her floor-length wedding dress has already set tabloid tongues wagging – they reckon it was a dig at ex-boyfriend Harry Styles, who was watching in the audience. nThen, halfway through her performance of hit single I Knew You Were Trouble, she ripped it off to reveal a racy black bodice. But US pop singer Taylor Swift managed not one, but two, eye-popping costumes in the space of four minutes. What it had to do with the song is anyone’s guess, but it made great television.
Leslie Melnick, Utah, US: My grandparents left Russia and Poland (as Jewish refugees) in the early 20th Century. I don’t know what treasures, if any, that they all were able to take. The one treasure that I know of, handed down to me, by my mother, is a very heavy mortar and pestle, which my maternal great-grandmother brought from Warsaw.
First, we were dirt poor. Of course it is a sad picture and it may be kind of weird to take a photo of a dead person at home nowadays. But at that time it was common. Further, to get on this Red Cross train for children was so hard, no further thoughts but longing for safety. I was seven or eight before I got my first toy. Didn’t know what to do with it.
Herbert Francl, Banyoles, Spain: [We took] absolutely nothing.
It was a remarkable act of pragmatic foresight and a strong grasp of geopolitical realities. Amongst the few possessions my grandfather was able to take was a German-Russian dictionary, although he spoke both languages fluently. However, in the end, it wasn’t of great use as they were finally able to settle in the UK after the war.
Least present winner “Hello everyone,” beamed Adele, sitting in front of a tasteful brown curtain, somewhere in Hollywood. Sorry I can’t be with you tonight, I’m in LA rehearsing for the Oscars.”
But at least she bothered to film an acceptance speech. Rock duo The Black Keys did no such thing, leaving Dave Grohl to shuffle off stage with their award.
I recognise some of the characters in them from when my father tried to tell me about them – an activity we would now call bonding with me, but which didn’t have a name then.
Everything else was lost, but I still have a couple of feather beds and the photo albums. They also entrusted the family photograph albums to him. Richard Schmidt, London, UK: My father left Frankfurt am Main on 3 July 1939, two months before war was declared. His parents sent him away with a household’s linen, as the plan was that they would follow, but they never did. Maybe I should have spent more time with my father, to let him explain who was who, and where the pictures were taken.
What I discovered was a zenith of Jewish education for girls, combining high religious standards with excellence in all the secular subject matters. I am now developing an exhibition. My mother passed away in August and I consider myself as privileged, blessed and also responsible for this precious legacy.
Least mobile pop star The red carpet was freezing, but that didn’t stop the population of planet pop from wearing skimpy, revealing outfits. n”Keeping with the skydiving thing, it’s like when you’re at the door about to jump”. Backstage, he was asked how it felt to be recognised. It feels like skydiving,” he beamed.
And what does it feel like when they open the envelope, just before the name of the winner is announced? Poor Little Mix looked like they might turn into Little Mixicles about five minutes after they arrived.
Let’s hope he packed a parachute.
It wasn’t a night of high fashion.
Best costume change Let’s be honest. Sadly, she failed to elucidate on what that work of art might be. We’re hoping it was a clay pot, or one of those magic eye paintings. Ben Howard could only manage a baggy grey t-shirt, Robbie Williams’s suit was so aggressively blue it needed an Asbo, and Justin Timberlake had apparently made a dinner jacket out of liquorice.
For my father who cared relatively little about worldly possessions, the most prized “possession” he brought to the US was the knowledge that he had saved his immediate family from tyranny to raise his boys to be fine amateur musicians and athletes in their youth, and physicians in adulthood. My father saw the handwriting on the wall in 1935 and it took him two years to arrange our emigration from Nazi Germany in a timely fashion with all our family possessions and savings discounted by 75%.Below are some readers’ examples of items salvaged as they or their relatives were forced to flee persecution or conflict. When the Nazis assaulted Lithuania, her father was able to escape with all the family because he was a carriage driver.
Isabelle Rozenbaumas, US: My mother rarely referred to the extermination of her neighbours, classmates, and friends from childhood and adolescence spent in Telz [Lithuania].
I still have all of these. My grandfather never made much money, but ran a tailor/furrier shop in Chicago. The family of five lived in one room behind the store. Many died of hunger, thirst, cold and disease on the way.
Andy Zdan-Michajlowicz, Potters Bar, UK: My father, his sister and father were taken from Vilnius, now the capital of Lithuania, and put on a train to the interior of the USSR in 1941, like millions of other Poles and Eastern Europeans, and indeed Soviet citizens too.
The [Communist secret police] NKVD arrived at 4am and gave my grandmother 30 minutes to pack for “a journey”. Julian Glowinski’s much-travelled heirloom Julian Glowinski, Le Bar sur Loup, France: My grandmother, father and uncle were deported from Eastern Poland to Siberia in early 1940.
It has the whole of my new record on it. n”That’s not good, is it?”
Best use of metaphor R&B singer Frank Ocean was a popular winner of the best international male prize, having picked up two Grammys 10 days ago. “I’ve lost my phone,” he said, panic building as he patted down the pockets on his suit.
“It’s not locked. And it has quite a few phone numbers that shouldn’t be released.
“If they hear about One Direction, or Rita Ora, or Olly Murs, they can type it into Google and find out who we are instantly. If you look at their chart compared to our charts, they’re pretty similar. The recipient of best international female started off well, with a traditional “thank you” and a line about how much she loves her UK fans. That didn’t happen before.”
Most pretentious acceptance speech Good old Lana Del Rey. They can find the songs, the videos, anything.
“The crossover is huge. Then she thanked her record label for “helping me turn my life into a work of art”.
n”I got the call Thursday night. Genevieve and Michael – married on Wednesday in Arizona “I never thought I’d hike in a wedding dress.”
As an endurance athlete, Genevieve Jeuck knew how to push through in tough situations. But when she found out that her Grand Canyon dream wedding would be off limits, she stopped in her tracks. I was freaking out, and then I thought I was turning into a ‘Bridezilla.'”
Biggest Twitter outrage The success of low-key songsmith Ben Howard sparked a frenzy of fury from Twitter’s notoriously easy-going contributors. WHY IS HE WINNING ALL THESE AWARDS?”
“I hate Ben Howard because he took the award when it belonged to Olly Murs,” stated Kira Evans.
“WHO IS BEN HOWARD” they demanded, their fingers angrily jabbing at the caps lock key.
nAnd with less than six days until the 2 October wedding, all options were on the table. Jeuck, a violinist, and her fiance Michael Sallemi, a Harley Davidson salesman, hadn’t connected the dots between the government shutdown and the national parks closing. But then the New Jersey couple were able to relocate to Sedona, Arizona, and the last-second wedding included an unexpected hike in the white dress.
Today, I have that holy medal – it is one of my most cherished possessions. In the end, all my dad had left to remember Poland was a silver rose and a couple of photographs. It depicts the diving eagle of the First Polish Parachute Brigade, along with the motto “tobie ojczyzno ” – for thee, my country. I have a tattoo in memory of my father.
Everything else was lost and could never be recovered.
This machine, together with ball gowns, came to save their lives, as she managed to convert the gowns into wedding dresses in the camp in exchange for food. “Where are we going?” “You’ll find out soon enough,” was the reply. Amazingly she managed to get the Soviets to load a Singer sewing machine onto the cattle track that was to be her and her sons’ home for two weeks.
I’ve only just got to grips with who Ed Sheeran is.”
Michelle Robek wondered: “Is he related to Frankie?”
Most considerate uncle A newly-slimline Boy George walked down the red carpet with a mysterious female guest on his arm. He’d given her his spare ticket so she could meet her idols, One Direction. “Seriously who is Ben Howard?” pleaded Daniel Griffin. nIt later transpired she was his niece, Molly.
n”Nobody wanted to talk to me.” I was here last year and I walked down the red carpet straight past all the journalists,” she laughed.
Still, she was happy just to be noticed. Rita Ora was relatively well covered-up in a dress by Russian designer Ulyana Sergeenko, but the long train made it impossible for the singer to move around without an assistant.
When I was 16 the Germans were about to invade Paris, where I lived with my parents. We packed up and left overnight. I live in New England with my parrot. Ludmila Rockwell now has a parrot called Aku Ludmila Rockwell, Massachusetts, US: I am going to be 90 in a month!
“Sometimes we even take 5 dinars from people who can’t afford to pay much.”
Atef runs a wedding dress hire shop in the refugee camp Atef’s wedding shop is an example of how the UNHCR, the UN’s refugee agency, is trying to create a sense of normality in the camp by encouraging trade and services. We rent the dress for 10 dinars (around $14) whether it’s people inside or outside the camp. “The profit is not that much but we are doing ok.
The owner of Wooden Nickel Ranch, two hours away from their original venue, found out about the couple’s story in local media and then discovered she had a cancellation for the same Sunday. Still a bit shaky from the entire ordeal, Natasha praised her wedding day hero: “She was really an angel for us.” nFeeling for the couple’s misfortune, she knocked down the starting price by 90%.
“The sad sense of reality has come in, that residents are here to stay,” said Mr Kleinschmidt.
“Homes are being built with cement floors and water; toilets, showers and kitchens are being added.
“Some even have a fountain to show that it is just like home,”
So how does he intend to tackle the camp’s burgeoning black market?
“We are saying, brothers, maybe now is the time you pay for electricity because I checked with a few of my friends who are grilling and roasting chickens.
Emeli Sande and Ben Howard were the big winners, taking home two prizes each – but there is more to the Brits than the awards.
On a night of celebration, disappointment, costume changes and “challenging” hairdos, who were the real winners and losers at the Brit Awards?
“If I can just share a little of the advice I’ve been given during my engagement, I might be able to help us all out. It’s called compromise. Because we are in this for the long haul and there are enough real problems we will have to weather – there is no need to create ones you can prevent.” n”I hear you have to do a lot of it in marriage, and it seems to me that you should have to do a lot of it in your job, too. You can’t just give up if you don’t get your way. n”And you have to pay your bills on time.
Juan Sepulveda, Heredia, Costa Rica: When I left Pinochet’s Chile, at 22, I took my bunch of rock ‘n’ roll LPs. My sister Marcela, though, we couldn’t find her, and she is still on the “desaparecidos” list. My parents brought the family photo albums.
nSo when she found out that the bohemian ghost town would be closed for her big day, she was crushed. I had no idea what to do.” “The second that we stepped on the property, I knew it was where I was going to get married and we were jumping up and down and giddy,” gushed bride-to-be Natasha. I immediately had a nervous breakdown and started crying at work, it was awful.
Earlier this year, a collection of 1,500 artworks looted by the Nazis in the 1930s and 1940s was found in Munich, Germany.
Readers responded by sharing their stories behind some of their family heirlooms. The news was made public earlier this month.
Some were seized from Jewish families, but the BBC’s David Mazower pointed out in his story that most European Jews had no such riches and were left with very few reminders of their pre-war lives. A recent Magazine article discussed the items that refugees take with them when forced to leave their homes.
The “what are they on about” award The video inserts introducing each of the best album nominees were an abject lesson in why pop stars should never be asked to describe their “creative process”. almost an acceptance of myself emotionally,” whispered Paloma Faith.
“That’s why I do any kind of artistic expression, is to try and evoke something out of another human being,” pontificated Plan B.
I want to encourage any underdog to achieve their dreams.”
As Radio 1 DJ Huw Stephens noted, “you’re the most successful underdog here tonight”. Backstage, she added that her decision to leave medical school to pursue music had finally “paid off”.
“I was an underdog,” she said, “Nobody wanted to sign me.”
“When people don’t believe in you, you want to prove them wrong.
nAngry and impassioned, Jeuck has vowed that her days of apathy are over. Though she never cared for politics before, the new bride has spent her honeymoon closely following the effects of the shutdown throughout the country. Now, I’m sorry I’m following and I’m voting and I’m doing everything I can to have a say.”
MaiLien and Michael – wedding Saturday, Washington DC
“Ironically,” Drake noted, “we chose it because we thought it would be stress-free.” But with the park closed, the Brooklyn couple are scrambling to put together a plan B wedding in San Francisco, a five-hour drive away.
In the midst of her hectic attempts to salvage her big day, Lucas, a grant-writer at Human Rights Watch, has some words of wisdom for Congress. Continue reading the main story “Start Quote You have to pay your bills on time”
End Quote Drake Lucas From the flowers to the venue, everything has to be found in less than a week, which means nothing will be quite as they envisaged.nAtef’s business in is the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, home to about 120,000 people who have fled the conflict in Syria.
His container is located on a street that aid workers have nicknamed the Champs Elysees, due to the hundreds of shops and businesses. I had stepped into Atef’s wedding dress hire shop, a business that serves as a reminder that romance blossoms in the bleakest of environments.
We want to see people who have not necessarily been to the theatre before,” a spokesman for the scheme says.
There is no booking fee or packaging charges for these tickets.
Each theatre production decides individually what proportion of tickets will be made available for the cut-price promotion.
However, theatregoers may have to be flexible over which show they want to see and when. “We want to make theatre as inclusive as possible.
It may be the quietest time of year for the theatre, but some shows are still very popular. As a result, it is extremely unlikely that the cheaper tickets will be available for shows on a Friday or Saturday night.
But the lack of demand means that flights can be cheaper, although this depends on whether the destination is in low season for tourists.
Some of the seven-day deals on offer for the start of January have included four-star self catering in Madeira for £195 and four-star all inclusive deals in Egypt for £405. Holidays Holidaymakers may be searching for some sun in January Flights from the UK are far less packed with holidaymakers and business travellers in the first weeks of January – a time sometimes referred to as the “dead zone”.
If I was in his position, I would do the same. Wherever you are, there is always a way to make a fire and cook. He chose to take his camping stove and his daughters now think he was an idiot. We should have photographs, we should have our family bible, all we have got is a Primus stove.”
A German newspaper featuring August Cohn, plus his red triangle, camp number, a scalpel from the barracks and the handkerchief of a close friend Howard Cohn, Connecticut, US: My father, August Cohn, a political opponent of the Nazi rise to power in Germany, was arrested in February 1933 and spent the next 12 years in Nazi prisons and concentration camps, including Esterwegen, Sachsenhausen, Dachau, and Buchenwald. Any group of people will always look after the children first.
Theatre tickets January is the quietest time of year for the West End Cut-price tickets are available for West End shows from the start of January to mid-February,
The Get Into London Theatre scheme, an annual promotion that has run for more than 10 years, sees discounts of between 25% and 55% on the face value of 45 productions. “January is one of those months where people are not doing a lot, they might need a lift after Christmas, and they are less likely to be shattered or hungover as they are in December,” she says.
nIt is the front line in the battle against illegal trade.
To give me a sense of the scale of the camp, Mr Kleinschmidt showed me around the camp’s 8km (five-mile) perimeter road. nContinue reading the main story “Start Quote The sad sense of reality has come in, that residents are here to stay” The man tasked with tackling the camp’s black economy is Kilian Kleinschmidt, the UNHCR-appointed “mayor” of the camp.
Blocking smugglers A veteran of humanitarian work, he has managed refugee camps in South Sudan, Somalia and Kosovo.
Natasha and Sean – wedding Sunday 6 October, Los Angeles When Natasha Juliao and Sean Coughlin walked on to Paramount Ranch just outside Los Angeles, they knew they had found their perfect wedding venue.
Perhaps they were her surrogate daughters she never conceived. For my mother, the trove of household possessions we were able to bring with us, which included books, china, silverware, furniture, clothes and the like, were all important. Their names were subsequently immortalised in “Stolpersteine” (literally translated as “tumbling blocks” that are small, cobblestone-sized memorials) embedded in the sidewalk in Regensburg, Germany in front of their residence from which they and their parents were deported and exterminated in Piaski, Poland in 1942. However, the most prized possession she emigrated with was a small photograph of my father’s three nieces.
Kilian Kleinschmidt, the UNHCR-appointed mayor of the camp, has a plan for the camp The map shows his plan to create district councils to help bring calm and stability to the camp. n”Sure,” he says, “John Kerry [US Secretary of State] played with it when he came to visit.”
After moving cake to where food is distributed, Mr Kleinschmidt explains that as the war drags on in Syria, a sense of permanence is taking hold in the camp.
“Is it ok to take a photo of this map?” I ask, not sure if it is for UNHCR eyes only.
End Quote Kilian Kleinschmidt “Mayor” of Zaatari refugee camp He points out of the window. We’re blocking the supply routes to the smugglers,” he says.
Next, he draws my attention to large rectangular scratch marks in the earth: plots of land, marked out by rival gangs laying claim to the territory. An informal property market is also blossoming in the camp. Plumes of black smoke rise from bulldozers as they plough up mounds of soil.’Opportune time’ Announcing its intention to float, the company cited figures from the Office for National Statistics and retail specialists Verdict predicting that the number of women over the age of 55 – its target market – would be 16% higher in 2018 than in 2008.
For a start, they do not have to wait for the new year.
Yet, it is not just High Street retailers that are offering bargains for cash-strapped consumers.
Despite the advance of internet shopping, the image of snaking queues outside department stores is still how we picture the sales season. Many retailers started advertising cut-price deals well before Christmas.
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He beat fashion designer David Emanuel in the final on Sunday.
Egan said: “It’s been such a team effort. It was probably one of the best three weeks of my life.”
Runner-up Emanuel, who designed Princess Diana’s wedding dress, said the singer was “a great guy – he thoroughly deserves it. Everybody in here is a king and queen.
And, with the looming prospect of a hefty credit card bill arriving in January, people are trying to save money by looking for cheaper options.
So what discounts and money-saving tactics are around in the first month of the year? nWeddings and civil partnerships There are some weddings over Christmas but few in January Love is blind to everything but the calendar.
Official statistics show there are usually about a sixth of the number of weddings in January that there are in August.
So easily he makes $200 profit a day.
The main street of the Zaatari refugee camp has been dubbed the Champs Elysees Before my day’s visit to Zaatari is up, I take one last stroll along the Champs Elysees.
“So am I going to cut him off? But I’m going to tell him I will supply him with the electricity but he will pay. “One of them told me he’s selling a hundred chickens a day.
“So roughly he makes a $2 profit on one chicken. A father and his child are spinning candy floss, ready for an evening of brisk trade.
“And you know what, they are smiling and saying yes,” said Mr Kleinschmidt.
Back in Mr Kleinschmidt’s meeting room, my eyes are instantly drawn to an interactive map complete with Lego bandits and sage-looking Smurfs. As we get closer, it becomes clear that it is a residential container, towed on a makeshift rig on wheels. Halfway around the loop, what looks like a caravan is being pushed by a group of men.
The containers, mostly donated by Gulf nations, are being sold to, or acquired by, gangs who either trade them in the camp, or cut them up and sell them outside.
Farmers had taken pity, fed us and kept us for a month. When the moment came to jump in the car and go I had hidden a little parakeet inside my coat so my father would not see it. When it was time to leave again to take the train to go to Spain, and from Spain to New York, I gave my little bird to the daughter of the farmer. After a few days we were given a barn to sleep in, in the Poitou area. She found a little cage for it and hung it in her window. After a few miles I let him peek, my father saw it but did not make any comment.
Drake and Zach – wedding 13 October, venue unknown Hoping to create an intimate setting for their families’ first encounter, Drake Lucas and Zach Kouwe spent more than a year poring over Pinterest, planning a low-key wedding in California’s Yosemite National Park.
nCivil partnerships are a little more spread out over the year, according to quarterly data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
“Suppliers who only work in the wedding industry will come up with good offers in January, and they expect people to negotiate and haggle now,” she says.
Yet, overall, good offers are available for these events, according to Sandy Moretta, director of the UK Alliance of Wedding Planners. With only about 6,000 or so weddings in England and Wales in the first month of the year, there is room to haggle for good deals on venues, photography and cars.
The end of December and start of January is traditionally the time that the travel industry launches its best deals for the summer, according to Sean Tipton, of travel association Abta. n”It is very much a buyers’ market,” he says.
Charity shops Retail tends to make a lot of January sales, and this can extend to charity shops Shoppers may have flocked to charity shops to pick up Christmas cards in early December, but they might not necessarily put these stores on their list of January sales destinations.
These can include discounts and free places for children.
Table displays can be cheaper if there is a winter feel of sprayed twigs, rather than much more expensive flowers. Although there is a specific cost to some services, such as food or a wedding dress, there are often deals available as “some work is better than no work”, she adds. The cost of drinks is also generally lower, with couples often choosing to serve mulled wine and hot chocolate to guests rather than champagne.
Bonmarche says it has 1.8 million customers in its loyalty club. nThe chain has the licence to use the David Emmanuel name, one half of the team that designed Princess Diana’s wedding dress in the early 1980s. It has 264 stores but also sells online and through mail-order systems, including a TV channel.
Bonmarche was owned by fashion chain Peacocks, but was bought in 2012 by investors Sun European Partners when Peacocks went into administration.
Continue reading the main story “Start Quote If it wasn’t so serious the facts of this case have all the markings of a comedy”
End Quote Charles Lander Barrister So as she got dressed on the morning of the wedding he slipped out of the house, went to a phone box and, disguising his voice, told the receptionist at Liverpool Register Office, which is part of St George’s Hall: “This is not a hoax call.
That means that the new stock in the new year feeds through to increased sales a few months later, known in the industry as the “spring bounce”.
In contrast, very few properties are marketed in November and December, which means very few sales are completed in January. Seller behaviour means that the free time over Christmas is when many families come to a final decision about whether to put their home on the market, according to Jan Hytch, president of the National Association of Estate Agents.
makes this an opportune time to bring the company to AIM [London’s junior share market].” Bonmarche says there are a limited number of rivals serving this market.
The firm’s chief executive, Beth Butterwick, said: “The success and strong performance enjoyed by the business over the last 18 months…
At least that’s the theory. nSince the camp opened last year, there has been black market activity, with rival gangs attempting to control the illicit sale of aid goods and the siphoning off of camp electricity supplies. If people can look after a shop and turn a profit, then peace and stability in the camp improve. nSmugglers wait at night on the outskirts of the camp ready to take away UNHCR tents and food supplies.
I never expected to be here in the final. I’m absolutely gobsmacked.” n”That’s still a lot but even so he has 1.75m more than me so it’s like, what has happened? It’s way beyond my expectations. The singer confessed he had not expected to beat reality TV star Joey Essex in the outback.
“I have a fan base of Westlife fans but nothing like what Joey has – he has over two million followers on Twitter, I have 250,000.
But nobody cares about that because we lost the war. In 1946 the family were thrown out of their house in Danzig by Polish occupiers. One in particular is a photo of the deathbed of my great-grandmother inside the old house in Danzig in 1940. Michael Kneisel, Fulda, Germany: My grandfather with his family were refugees too.
The family saved some photographs. The beating and raping was horrible, as I in my later years discovered. And so I sometimes look at it and imagine how the rest of the house was like. It is the only known picture from inside our house.
Liverpool’s St George’s Hall was evacuated following the bomb threat But his would-be in-laws were already suspicious, the court heard, and a row broke out with Miss Williams’s sister telling a “flustered” McArdle: “You probably done the bomb scare yourself.” “There’s a bomb in St George’s Hall and it will go off in 45 minutes.”
The call, 11 days after the Boston Marathon bombing, provoked “terror” and the building was immediately evacuated and emergency services called.
Miss Williams was left standing outside in her wedding dress with her mother and the rest of the wedding party.
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In 2013, the British Heart Foundation said it had turned to opening larger furniture and electrical shops to build profits.
The latest figures show that, in 2012, the average weekly turnover per charity shop from January to March was £2,087, compared with £2,038 for the same charities in the same quarter a year earlier. Yet, figures from the Charity Retail Association show that like-for-like income has been increasing in the first quarter of the year, compared with previous years.
A spokesman says that specific January sales are usually limited to the bigger charity stores.
Transaction figures from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) show that sales in January and February are around two-thirds of the levels seen in the summer. And one store where there will be no sale Some like to plan ahead and replace Christmas decorations when they are taken down It is surely the most seasonal of stores, but the owner of the Nutcracker Christmas Shop says he has never needed to have a sale in January.
As strangers started donating to their wedding gift registry, Cassesso and Le directed the funds to The Covenant House, a charity for homeless young people, a group the couple think will be adversely affected by the shutdown.
They have found another venue for Saturday’s wedding in Washington DC, and he says the ordeal has a silver lining.Pre-marital agreement
A pre-marital agreement from a wealthy man who lived in Cheshire which listed an extensive spousal maintenance package if the marriage did not work out was left in Brighton.
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“We are still keen to speak to anyone who was in the area at the time who may have information that will help our investigation.
“The lady had been at a fancy dress party nearby and was dressed as a bride wearing a full white wedding dress and a veil.”
She added: “Although a lot of people were no doubt dressed up for Halloween parties, I think it is very possible that someone may have seen her as she walked along the street.
She had been to a fancy dress party nearby. The 35-year-old woman, who was dressed as a bride in a white wedding dress and veil, was raped in a car park in Bridge Street, the Gorbals, at about 02:30 on Sunday.
“Women used to come here and say they had weddings but they couldn’t find dresses. He fled the fighting in Daraa, about 30km (20 miles) away in Syria. It is a city rich with businessmen thanks to a long history of cross-border trade with Jordan. Atef has been in the camp for over a year now.
“We have two weddings a day and there are people who come from outside the camp to rent dresses because it is cheaper here. n”We started this as an abaya (robe for women) shop,” says Atef. So we bought two dresses for rent and it worked out well.
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nHaving worked in politics, the couple are no stranger to Capitol Hill antics, but that didn’t soften the blow as their wedding became a casualty of the latest Washington crisis. MaiLien Le and Michael Cassesso had planned a romantic wedding at the Jefferson Memorial, where they met for their first date more than four years ago.
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The couple in fancy dress were seen on CCTV at the time of the attack.
The victim was walking through the car park when she was pulled into the bushes by a man, who attacked her before running off towards Eglinton Street.
The woman, who received cuts and bruises during the attack, managed to make her way to the road where she stopped a passing taxi.
He was described as white, Scottish, with dark hair and dark clothing.
Homes The new year tends to prompt a pick-up in housing market activity With house prices starting to rise sharply again across the UK, there are unlikely to be many bargain basement deals in the housing market. Meanwhile, the spokesman says that local charity shops are trying new measures in January to get themselves noticed on the High Street.
However, estate agents say January is the time when the a whole host of new properties are put up for sale.
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The taxi driver and a man and woman who helped her have been traced by police.
Busy area Det Insp Liz McLean, from Police Scotland, said: “From CCTV, another couple, a man and woman both wearing fancy dress, are seen in the car park at the time of the attack. I would appeal to them to come forward as they might have seen something that could help us with our inquiries.
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