Your Roots Are Showing – Ireland’s international folk, roots and traditional music conference – is promising its “most ambitious and authoritative programme to date” ahead of its arrival at the ICC in Belfast from…
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John Carey obituary | Books
John Carey, who has died aged 91, bestrode the ever-narrowing bridge that connects the academic teaching of English literature to the world of literary journalism like a colossus. An Oxford don for more than 40 years – 25 of them as Merton…
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Stockton gymnastic studio revamp to benefit more students
Enovert Community TrustGymMad say more students can now use the facility to train Owners of a gymnastics academy say they can now welcome hundreds more students thanks to a £45,000 refurbishment of its training facility.
GymMad Gymnastics Academy…
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Spend Christmas Day above the city at 24 Stories
The 24 Stories chefs have created an exclusive, three-course menu featuring festive dishes such as London-cured smoked salmon with Avruga caviar, roast Norfolk turkey with pork and sage stuffing, and 42-day aged beef fillet with confit carrots…
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‘Like a mini Louvre’: two generations of Rothschilds fight over treasure trove of artworks | Europe
After three generations of genteel discretion bordering on secrecy, the international banking family the Rothschilds has been riven by rival claims to a vast collection of masterpieces that are part of the family’s multibillion-euro fortune.
The…
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Saturday Night Live: Josh O’Connor is lumped with a laugh-light episode | Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live opens with Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson) talking to reporters aboard Air Force One. From behind “curtain”, the Ambien and Adderall-riddled commander-in-chief “openly simp[s]” over his press secretary Karoline…
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Gateshead Interchange toilets to remain closed
Neptug said some passengers had contacted them to say they had missed their next available connection at the interchange after having been forced to look for toilets elsewhere.
It said: “At the very least there should be an operational disabled…
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Tractors shine as 170 join a merry motorcade in Yorkshire Wolds
More than 170 illuminated tractors and trucks have paraded through the Yorkshire Wolds.
The fourth annual charity run set out from Driffield on a 30-mile route around the surrounding villages on Saturday evening.
The event, which raises money for…
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Chertsey Town FC fan cycling to every away match
A football fan is cycling to every one of his team’s away matches this season to raise awareness of inflammatory bowel disease.
Jake Warner, from Chertsey, Surrey, said he had not seen the fixture list before he decided on the challenge in support…
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‘I’m going to be heartbroken. This is a landmark’: cherished Times Square dive bar faces eviction | New York
Founded by Jimmy Glenn, a former boxer turned trainer, in 1971, Jimmy’s Corner has stood, defiantly unchanged, as Times Square has boomed around it.
The neighborhood bar, a New York City institution which attracts locals and tourists alike, has…
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