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    • Tuesday, 14 February, 2023
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Sonia Boyce, Turner Contemporary — exhilarating improvisation makes new listeners of us all

      Her Golden Lion-winning work comes to the UK, full of primal sounds and social critique

      An art installation features two wall-mounted video screens with women singing amid images on the walls and shiny golden decor
    • Monday, 10 October, 2022
      Visual Arts
      Artists who say: welcome to the museum of me

      Tracey Emin and Gilbert & George are among those planning to open galleries featuring their own work

      A woman sits on a step next to metal railings outside a brick building
    • Tuesday, 20 September, 2022
      HTSI
      Mmm – Margate: where the grub is as good as the galleries

      Go for the art, stay for the food

      Inside Margate’s “coastal cooking” restaurant Sargasso
    • Friday, 13 April, 2018
      Property sector
      Margate: will the buyers keep coming from London?

      Homeowners priced out of the capital have followed artists to the seaside town

      MARGATE, ENGLAND - AUGUST 16: A man sunbathes on Margate Beach on August 16, 2016 in Margate, England. British holidaymakers and overseas visitors flock to British seaside towns to enjoy the warm weather today. After Britain's vote to leave the European Union there has been a rise in Britons taking 'staycations' as a result of the fall in the pound. (Photo by Jack Taylor/Getty Images)
    • Friday, 23 March, 2018
      FT MagazineNicholas Lander
      Restaurant insider: Kettner’s Townhouse, London – ‘A room full of happy and loquacious diners’

      Nicholas Lander wallows in nostalgia as this Soho staple reopens

    • Friday, 2 February, 2018
      Life & Arts
      On Margate sands: Turner gallery honours The Waste Land’s impact

      Works connected to TS Eliot’s modernist masterpiece lay bare its seminal influence on 20th-century avant-garde art

      T.S. Eliot
									by Patrick Heron, 1949
									© reserved; collection National Portrait Gallery, London
    • Friday, 18 August, 2017
      FT SeriesWater: a summer special
      The tidal pool: Rob Ball celebrates a much-loved Margate landmark

      The photographer marks 80 years of an eccentric institution, Britain’s largest saltwater pool

    • Friday, 15 July, 2016
      FT Magazine
      Margate’s moveable restaurant

      How architect Asif Khan designed a restaurant that has plans to travel from town to town around Britain

      The restaurant ready for diners
    • Tuesday, 10 November, 2015
      Personal & Household Goods
      Hornby signals third profit warning in three years

      Toy-train maker has faced problems with Chinese supplies to its European outlets

      Frank Martin, Chief Executive of Hornby Plc. Picture shows a Hornby train set in action.
    • Tuesday, 1 September, 2015
      Property sector
      Picture palaces fall prey to developers

      Landmark façades in high street being razed at an alarming rate

      DDMWGN Kensington Kinema, Leonard Place, Kensington, London, 1928. Artist: Bedford Lemere and Company
    • Tuesday, 11 August, 2015
      John Kay
      Miracles of productivity hidden in the modern home

      But the data framework of economic analysis is still largely the product of the second world war

      Friendly persuaders: social media sites are increasingly being used by advertisers to target consumers
    • Friday, 31 July, 2015
      Life & Arts
      Postcard from . . . Cliftonville

      The return of the sea-bathing machine is a sign that the tide is turning for this down-at-heel town on the Kent coast

    • Friday, 19 June, 2015
      UK economy
      Old meets new as Margate’s Dreamland reawakens

      One of the UK’s oldest theme parks to reopen after almost a decade

      Dreamland Margate - Ahead of Launch
    • Wednesday, 11 March, 2015
      FT Photo DiaryWorld
      Duchess of Cambridge in Margate
    • Saturday, 28 February, 2015
      UK constitutional-electoral reform
      Ukip promises electoral reform to help small parties

      Carswell tells party conference voters would get power to sack MPs

      MARGATE, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 28:  United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) member Douglas Carswell, speaks during the party's conference on February 28, 2015 in Margate, England. The anti-EU party with two members of parliament, both of whom defected from the Conservative Party, are holding their spring conference ahead of the forthcoming general election.  (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
    • Friday, 27 February, 2015
      UK general election
      Nigel Farage tries to rally Ukip with fighting election talk

      Supporters worry about absent manifesto and loss of ground in polls

      Ukip spring conference 2015
    • Thursday, 26 February, 2015
      UK Election: The Ukip surge
      UK Independence party to sign up to Tory plans to end deficit

      Party wants billions of pounds cut from Scotland funding

      United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) members wait for results of local election during the counting of votes at Trinity School on May 23, 2014 in Croydon, England. Voters across Europe have been taking to the polls to vote in the elections for the European Parliament as well as local council elections in England and Northern Ireland
    • Monday, 26 January, 2015
      Great Place to Meet
      Belvidere Place, Broadstairs

      Atmospheric dining near a spruced up seaside town

      Breakfast room belvidereplace
    • Friday, 21 November, 2014
      Personal & Household Goods
      Hornby back on track as losses narrow

      Small-cap toymaker lifts sales after litany of problems

      Frank Martin, Chief Executive of Hornby Plc. Picture shows a Hornby train set in action.
    • Friday, 28 March, 2014
      InterviewLunch with the FT
      Lunch with the FT: Edmund de Waal

      The ceramicist and best-selling author of ‘The Hare with Amber Eyes’ shares a seaside picnic with Jackie Wullschlager

      Illustration by James Ferguson of Edmund de Waal
    • Friday, 4 October, 2013
      World
      Ukip leader Nigel Farage set to contest South Thanet seat
      Nigel Farage, Ukip leader
    • Monday, 2 September, 2013
      Westminster blogJim Pickard
      Retailers are not coming back to the high street – says Mary Portas
    • Thursday, 4 July, 2013
      Climate change
      Kent wind farm boosts David Cameron’s green agenda
      .Wind turbines at the London Array project, the world's largest consented wind farm
    • Friday, 14 June, 2013
      Property sector
      Portas attacks decision to allow Tesco superstore in Margate
    • Wednesday, 20 March, 2013
      Life & Arts
      Business urged to renew support for arts
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