Laing said with local authority budgets stretched, keeping The Box free to visitors was “difficult”.
“It’s a continual conundrum about how you keep funding an institution like The Box,” she said.
“It’s no secret that local authority budgets are…

Laing said with local authority budgets stretched, keeping The Box free to visitors was “difficult”.
“It’s a continual conundrum about how you keep funding an institution like The Box,” she said.
“It’s no secret that local authority budgets are…

“It felt like there was a movement to try and change the relationship between human beings and nature,” Rother councillor Nicola McLaren said, “so we thought it was a great opportunity to be part of that movement.”
The Liberal Democrat, who…

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CDDFTA doctor who was unfairly dismissed by an NHS trust has been awarded £85,000 in compensation at an…

“A lot of the tools I use have existed for millennia nearly,” she said.
“For earliest man, leather was his textile and he knew it inside out.
“I would take great pride in the idea that if there’s ever a part of them where they are looking down at…

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The Titanic’s final 160 minutes above sea are relived in real time for this sombre but fascinating four-part series. Actors read from first-hand testimonies, letters, memoirs and telegrams to show the stories…

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BBCLucy Cushley’s career began with a single request for some craftwork – now almost a decade later she is officially a…

Most of the papers look ahead to Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky meeting in Florida to discuss the latest plan to end the war between Russia and Ukraine.
The Observer says the two leaders are seeking a “New Year’s resolution”. The paper also…

For reasons that may already be apparent, and that are currently playing on BBC One, I have spent much of 2025 watching people cook scallops and souffles in a windowless television location unit in Digbeth, Birmingham. MasterChef, despite being…

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