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August 12, 2013

Best of the Weekend: Art and trade, Goldman Sachs and the Great British Bake-Off

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We’ve picked the best items from the weekend’s media so you don’t have to

We’ve picked the best items from the weekend’s media so you don’t have to

1. Art helps UK trade deficit narrows as exports surge to highest on record (Guardian) 

Britain’s trade deficit narrowed in June, helped by a jump in art exports after big sales of impressionist and contemporary art at London’s top auction houses.

2. Goldman Sachs has how many VPs? (via Twitter)

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3. His signature dish is one raw nerve and a dollop of bile (Sunday Times, £)

Marcus Wareing (pictured above) has two Michelin stars but upsetting others and his feud with former mentor Gordon Ramsay seem to inspire him more

Read Marcus Wareing’s guest edit of Food Friday

4. Come in, Agent Dawkins, your job is done (Telegraph)

There can be no doubt, after his latest outburst, that the arch-atheist is doing the Lord’s work

5. Behind the scenes at The Great British Bake Off (Observer)

They bicker, they tease – and watch Mad Men together. On the set of the new series, we meet the team behind a TV phenomenon

 

 
 

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