Ballot box-room
A couple have transformed the hall in their four-bedroom home into Britain’s smallest polling station. June, 70, and Graham Thomas, 74, have hosted general and local election voting in Winwick, ...
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I don’t think anyone cares about what we’ve lost
You talked about libraries in a previous edition. The following is how I feel about mine (and we are told there will be more cuts). My feeling is that no one in local government actually cares about l ...
Dickens with a difference: two shows in one theatre. What the Dickens!
Robert Tanitch reviews Sikes & Nancy and Miss Havisham’s Expectations at Trafalgar Studios 2, London SW1 These two monologues are quite separate, each lasting an hour. One is based on Charles Dick ...
It’s pantomime time – Oh no it isn’t , Oh yes it is!
In the United Kingdom, the word “pantomime” means a form of entertainment generally performed during the Christmas season. Most cities and towns throughout the UK have a pantomime, and I a ...