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Bentley Bentayga - The all-purpose SUVIP Quiet in the back, Mr Traditionalist: Bentley’s first 4x4 tackles off-road challenges with all the refinement you would expect. *********************************************************************** Bentley Bentayga Engine 5950cc, W12, twin turbo, petrol Power 600bhp @ 5000rpm Torque 664 lb ft @ 1350rpm Transmission 8-speed automatic, four-wheel drive Performance 0-62mph: 4.1sec Top speed 187mph Fuel 21.6mpg (combined) CO2 296g/km Road tax band M (£1,100 for first year; £505 thereafter) Price £160,200 Release date On sale now Verdict First class ************************************************************************** SO HERE comes the Bentayga, a £160,000-and-upwards SUV — and just like that, the world changes. I’m on an off-road course in Spain, incongruity ringing a five-bell alarm in my head as I ease 2¼ tons of pristine superformed aluminium and handstitched camel-col...

The Man Who Saved The Comic Book Stan Lee, creator of Hollywood’s favourite superheroes, has just written his memoirs. He’s not as rich as Iron Man, he insists, and, no, he didn’t know Iceman had turned gay. Stan Lee can’t remember the first time he wrote a story down. Sitting in his Beverly Hills office, surrounded by memorabilia from a long life spent creating world-famous comics, he grabs a pen to show how it is done. “It was probably something like this,” he says, sketching furiously. “Start with a horizontal line, then a man moving fast — superfast — then a bad guy with a gun or something and you have got the start of a story.” Lee is 92 now and has just published his memoirs, Amazing Fantastic Incredible (in graphic novel form, of course). But the man behind Spider-Man and most of Marvel’s most successful comic-book characters still brims with boyish enthusiasm. It is clear that despite his creation of some of the biggest franchises in Hollywood history, th...

Complete List of Banks Owned/Controlled by the Rothschilds “Give me control over a nations currency, and I care not who makes its laws” – Baron M.A. Rothschild   ROTHSCHILD OWNED BANKS: Afghanistan: Bank of Afghanistan Albania: Bank of Albania Algeria: Bank of Algeria Argentina: Central Bank of Argentina Armenia: Central Bank of Armenia Aruba: Central Bank of Aruba Australia: Reserve Bank of Australia Austria: Austrian National Bank Azerbaijan: Central Bank of Azerbaijan Republic Bahamas: Central Bank of The Bahamas Bahrain: Central Bank of Bahrain Bangladesh: Bangladesh Bank Barbados: Central Bank of Barbados Belarus: National Bank of the Republic of Belarus Belgium: National Bank of Belgium Belize: Central Bank of Belize Benin: Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO) Bermuda: Bermuda Monetary Authority Bhutan: Royal Monetary Authority of Bhutan Bolivia: Central Bank of Bolivia Bosnia: Central ...