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The Caterer.com
March 24, 2018
Mark Thatcher, the former executive chef of the House of Lords, has died after a short illness. News of Thatcher's passing earlier this week was revealed by David Dorricott, Thatcher's friend and colleague, who worked as executive chef of the House of Commons. The pair went on to work together forÃÂ ...
The Indian Express
February 18, 2018
According to estimates, they have a $3.4 million estate in Johannesburg called Sahara Estate. The estate comprises of at least four mansions and a helipad. Apart from this, they are also the owners of Sir Mark Thatcher's former Cape Town house. The Gupta properties have also been raided as part of theÃÂ ...
News24
February 17, 2018
Cape Town – With members of the Gupta family on the run from the Hawks, their Constantia mansion appears to be abandoned. But it seems the controversial brothers from Saxonwold are not all that's been left running. Despite the drought, someone in the Gupta-owned compound in the affluent suburb ofÃÂ ...
The Times
January 17, 2018
Her daughter, Carol, was “upset that there's no handbag”, according to Ivan Saxton, co-founder of the Public Memorials Appeal. Jennings's design would instead depict the former prime minister in the regalia of the Order of the Garter. Carol Thatcher and her brother, Sir Mark Thatcher, are also said to fearÃÂ ...
Daily Nation
January 4, 2018
Francois Lounceny Fall, the UN envoy for West Africa who who has been dispatched to Equatorial Guinea for talks after authorities in the oil-rich country said they had put down an attempted coup by foreign mercenaries. PHOTO | KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV | AFPÃÂ ...
The Times
January 3, 2018
Mr Obiang was the alleged target of the Wonga coup launched in 2004 by the British mercenary Simon Mann, whose backers included Sir Mark Thatcher, son of the former prime minister. The latest alleged attempt to end his reign over the nation of 1.2 million people emerged with the arrest by Cameroon ofÃÂ ...
Times LIVE
May 28, 2017
The Guptas are splashing out on a new palace, this time a Cape Town mansion that used to belong to Mark Thatcher, son of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher. The plan to renovate the Constantia home - which includes lopping off the thatched roof, building a double-storey second dwellingÃÂ ...
The Guardian
July 21, 2016
I also agree with the Daily Mirror, which is particularly exercised by the files on Mark Thatcher remaining secret. Two of them - “Cementation contract: Mark Thatcher and the Omanis” - will be “retained” until 2053. Two others - “Mark Thatcher and the Omanis; other allegations against Mark Thatcher” andÃÂ ...
The Guardian
July 21, 2016
Commenting on the Mark Thatcher files, a Cabinet Office spokesperson said: “A small number of records have been retained because they contain personal data about individuals and sensitive information relating to other countries. This is in line with the requirements of the Public Records Act.”à...
BT.com
January 11, 2016
Mark Thatcher, son of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, was reported missing in the Sahara desert while competing in the Paris-Dakar rally on this day in 1982. Thatcher, 28, his co-driver and mechanic had last been spotted two days previously, driving in convoy with two other cars near the borderÃÂ ...
The Guardian
October 5, 2015
Margaret Thatcher's son Mark was in effect forbidden to live in Britain after being repeatedly warned that he was damaging his mother's reputation, according to her new biography. Senior Whitehall mandarins believed Sir Mark Thatcher's business dealings were “driven by greed” and his mother's attitudeÃÂ ...
The Independent
October 4, 2015
Sir Mark Thatcher speaks to the media outside his mother's house in Belgravia yesterday, where he said the family was 'enormously proud and grateful' that the Queen is to attend the service at St Paul's Cathedral next Wednesday. 'I know my mother would be greatly honoured as well as humbled by herÃÂ ...
The Independent
October 4, 2015
Sir Mark Thatcher speaks to the media outside his mother's house in Belgravia yesterday, where he said the family was 'enormously proud and grateful' that the Queen is to attend the service at St Paul's Cathedral next Wednesday. 'I know my mother would be greatly honoured as well as humbled by herÃÂ ...
The Independent
April 9, 2013
Amid the hundreds of voices heard across the world following the death of Margaret Thatcher, one was conspicuous by its silence, that of Mark, the son she adored and helped rescue from the travails of a life full of misadventures. Sir Mark was in Spain, near Marbella, with his wife, Sarah Jane Russell.
The Independent
April 9, 2013
Amid the hundreds of voices heard across the world following the death of Margaret Thatcher, one was conspicuous by its silence, that of Mark, the son she adored and helped rescue from the travails of a life full of misadventures. Sir Mark was in Spain, near Marbella, with his wife, Sarah Jane Russell.
Kauno diena
December 31, 1999
2008 — buvusios britų ministrės pirmininkės Margaret Thatcher (Margaret Tečer) sūnus Mark Thatcher (Markas Tečeris) per slaptą ceremoniją Gibraltare dar kartą vedė. 54 metų M.Thatcher sumainė žiedus su 42 metų Sarah Russell (Sara Rasel), su kuria draugavo trejus metus. 2009 — po kovos su vėžiuÃÂ ...
KNPR
December 31, 1999
They even hired Mark Thatcher, son of Margaret Thatcher and a motorsport enthusiast in his own right, as a pit-lane reporter. But things didn't go so smoothly. For one, even in October the desert heat proved far less comfortable than the mild continental climate F1's retinue of Europeans was used to, andÃÂ ...
AllAfrica.com
February 20, 2018
With members of the Gupta family on the run from the Hawks, their Constantia mansion appears to be abandoned. But it seems the controversial brothers from Saxonwold are not all that's been left running. Despite the drought, someone in the Gupta-owned compound in the affluent suburb of ConstantiaÃÂ ...
Politicsweb
February 19, 2018
The mansion formerly belonged to Mark Thatcher, son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. In January 2005, Thatcher pleaded guilty to an attempted coup of Equatorial Guinea, after he was arrested for funding the operation from within the (ironically) thatch-roofed building. It seems fitting thatÃÂ ...
The Indian Express
February 18, 2018
According to estimates, they have a $3.4 million estate in Johannesburg called Sahara Estate. The estate comprises of at least four mansions and a helipad. Apart from this, they are also the owners of Sir Mark Thatcher's former Cape Town house. The Gupta properties have also been raided as part of theÃÂ ...
News24
February 17, 2018
The mansion formerly belonged to the Mark Thatcher, son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. In January 2005, Thatcher pleaded guilty to an attempted coup of Equatorial Guinea, after he was arrested for funding the operation from within the (ironically) thatch-roofed building. It seems fittingÃÂ ...
Classic and Performance Car
February 6, 2018
Lancia won the Group 5 championship that year, as it had the previous year, but the Beta Montecarlo's work was done and 1009 was sold to privateer team Scuderia Sivama di Galliate for the 1982 season. It worked hard, survived Mark Thatcher at Monza and Silverstone, and achieved a few good resultsÃÂ ...
STRATFOR
January 27, 2018
When the country has made the news, it's been because of seemingly outlandish plots to overthrow the government, such as an attempt by foreign mercenaries in 2004 that included British national Mark Thatcher, son of the Iron Lady herself, Margaret Thatcher. But in light of another failed coup attempt inÃÂ ...
BizNews
January 17, 2018
You might call them transnational crimes. The sort of cases they looked into, for example, were involving mercenaries that travelled from SA to other countries to wreak havoc, or we had the situation with Mark Thatcher, the son of the late prime minister of the UK, where he was involved in some hanky-pankyÃÂ ...
The Times
January 17, 2018
Her daughter, Carol, was “upset that there's no handbag”, according to Ivan Saxton, co-founder of the Public Memorials Appeal. Jennings's design would instead depict the former prime minister in the regalia of the Order of the Garter. Carol Thatcher and her brother, Sir Mark Thatcher, are also said to fearÃÂ ...
BBC News
January 14, 2018
On this day. 1982 The prime minister's son, Mark Thatcher, is found safe and well after going missing in the Sahara for six days during the Paris-Dakar rally.
Swindon Advertiser
January 12, 2018
1952: Sir Noel Arkell spoke on Chinese snuff bottles at a meeting of St Paul's Fellowship, Swindon. He described the material, skills, art and design used in making the bottles and he displayed some of his own collection. There were about 45 present at the meeting, and the Rev W E Lambeth presided.
Metro Newspaper UK
January 12, 2018
... died in Melbourne, Australia, where he had emigrated in 1950. 1970: Nigeria's civil war ended when the Biafran army surrendered. 1976: Dame Agatha Christie, the world's most successful detective story writer, died aged 85. 1982: Mark Thatcher disappeared in the Sahara while on the Paris-Dakar rally.
Swindon Advertiser
January 12, 2018
1952: Sir Noel Arkell spoke on Chinese snuff bottles at a meeting of St Paul's Fellowship, Swindon. He described the material, skills, art and design used in making the bottles and he displayed some of his own collection. There were about 45 present at the meeting, and the Rev W E Lambeth presided.
Deutsche Welle
January 9, 2018
In 2004, South African mercenaries conspired to replace Obiang with a more business-friendly figure. The group, however, was stopped while in Zimbabwe. The so-called "Wonga coup” caught international attention due to its backing by a prominent British financier, Mark Thatcher, son of Britain's formerÃÂ ...
Daily Nation
January 4, 2018
Francois Lounceny Fall, the UN envoy for West Africa who who has been dispatched to Equatorial Guinea for talks after authorities in the oil-rich country said they had put down an attempted coup by foreign mercenaries. PHOTO | KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV | AFPÃÂ ...
Daily Nation
January 4, 2018
Francois Lounceny Fall, the UN envoy for West Africa who who has been dispatched to Equatorial Guinea for talks after authorities in the oil-rich country said they had put down an attempted coup by foreign mercenaries. PHOTO | KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV | AFPÃÂ ...
africanews
January 3, 2018
Equatorial Guinea is one of sub-Sahara's biggest oil producers but a large proportion of its 1.2 million population still lives in poverty. In 2004, mercenaries attempted to overthrow Obiang in a coup thought to be largely funded by British financiers. Mark Thatcher, son of former British prime minister MargaretÃÂ ...
Business Day
January 3, 2018
Mark Thatcher, son of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, was reportedly involved in the funding and was convicted and fined in SA. In October last year, a French court handed down a three-year suspended jail term to Obiang's son, Teodorin, who is also vice-president, after convicting him ofÃÂ ...
The Times
January 3, 2018
Mr Obiang was the alleged target of the Wonga coup launched in 2004 by the British mercenary Simon Mann, whose backers included Sir Mark Thatcher, son of the former prime minister. The latest alleged attempt to end his reign over the nation of 1.2 million people emerged with the arrest by Cameroon ofÃÂ ...
gulfnews.com
December 30, 2017
YAOUNDI: Cameroonian police have arrested a group of nearly 40 heavily armed men who were headed into neighbouring Equatorial Guinea, a military source said Friday. Equatorial Guinea's Ambassador to France, Miguel Oyono Ndong Mifumu, referred to the incident as an “invasion and destabilisationÃÂ ...
Times LIVE
May 28, 2017
The Guptas are splashing out on a new palace, this time a Cape Town mansion that used to belong to Mark Thatcher, son of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher. The plan to renovate the Constantia home - which includes lopping off the thatched roof, building a double-storey second dwellingÃÂ ...
The Guardian
July 21, 2016
I also agree with the Daily Mirror, which is particularly exercised by the files on Mark Thatcher remaining secret. Two of them - “Cementation contract: Mark Thatcher and the Omanis” - will be “retained” until 2053. Two others - “Mark Thatcher and the Omanis; other allegations against Mark Thatcher” andÃÂ ...
The Guardian
October 5, 2015
Margaret Thatcher's son Mark was in effect forbidden to live in Britain after being repeatedly warned that he was damaging his mother's reputation, according to her new biography. Senior Whitehall mandarins believed Sir Mark Thatcher's business dealings were “driven by greed” and his mother's attitudeÃÂ ...
The Independent
October 4, 2015
Sir Mark Thatcher speaks to the media outside his mother's house in Belgravia yesterday, where he said the family was 'enormously proud and grateful' that the Queen is to attend the service at St Paul's Cathedral next Wednesday. 'I know my mother would be greatly honoured as well as humbled by herÃÂ ...
ESPN
December 31, 1999
When Mark Thatcher played at Lord's for Harrow against Eton in 1971 (he got John Barclay out, since you ask), Alec apparently went in to the dressing room and barked "You don't know me - but I know your mother very well!" Helen Ticket office typist Helen was vaguely surprised when Alec and Eric BedserÃÂ ...
Independent Online
December 9, 2017
Kouwenhoven's legal team includes Anton Katz SC - who was one of the advocates who successfully defeated Equatorial Guinea's request to extradite Sir Mark Thatcher to face charges relating to a botched coup. Kouwenhoven was known in Liberia as “Mister Gus”. He ran two timber companies in theÃÂ ...
Daily Maverick
November 21, 2017
Another widely publicised case was that involving Mark Thatcher, son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, whose group was incidentally arrested in Zimbabwe while en route to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea. According to the AU, another form of unconstitutional change is ...
expressandstar.com
November 13, 2017
Or that she lobbied the Qatari family on behalf of the Clintons (what were saying about Mark Thatcher and the Saudi's?) Or that her Law Firm took a very large chunk of change from the Maldives Government so they could fight against the deposed President who was appealing his sentence. A deposed ...
Inquirer.net
October 25, 2017
Soon, Reyas said, her services were requested by socialites such as Blaine Trump, Nancy Reagan, Mark Thatcher, Lally Weymouth, Prince ...
Telegraph.co.uk
October 11, 2017
... government to financiers linked to those involved with the coup – was funded in part by Sir Mark Thatcher, son of the former prime minister.
Times LIVE
May 28, 2017
The Guptas are splashing out on a new palace, this time a Cape Town mansion that used to belong to Mark Thatcher, son of former British ...
Independent Online
November 20, 2016
Cape Town - A multimillion-rand Constantia mansion previously owned by disgraced UK businessman Mark Thatcher could soon get a major ...
The Guardian
July 21, 2016
The release of historic documents to the National Archives often provides revelatory stories, and the latest batch covering the 1986-88 period ...
BT.com
January 11, 2016
Mark Thatcher, son of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, was reported missing in the Sahara desert while competing in the Paris-Dakar ...
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