You don't look at a tree and say, well, I've cut the branch here and cut it here and all of a sudden I've got a baseball bat.

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Just months after opening his first eatery in Europe, a branch of CUT, serving high-end dry aged prime beef, in the revamped and luxurious 45 Park Lane Hotel in London, he has made an even bigger impression in the City of Angels.

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Rodger Holmes, chairman of the Gloucestershire and Herefordshire branch of the IWA said grass around the lock is no longer being cut, there are potholes in the car park and the lock's winding gear is "falling apart".

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Its private-sector loans have been fully provisioned, its payroll cut from 34, 000 to 22, 000, and the more ambitious bits of its branch network (such as outposts in Amsterdam and Moscow) shut down.

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