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MAGISTRATES have ordered six Bolton people to pay more than £400 each after they were caught making short train journeys without valid tickets.

Pianist John Owings concert for the Crystal Valley Concert Series features works by Beethoven, Ravel and Chopin.

Several times during his career, John Owings has prepared and performed the complete cycle of 32 Beethoven piano sonatas. For his first concert engagement post-lockdown, Owings seized on precisely the right one for the occasion. The Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-flat major, Opus 110, is a musical depiction of Beethoven’s own health traumas and his return to vitality. Its restorative powers are a perfect fit for a zeitgeist that sees a society ravaged by COVID-19 start to thrive again after weat...