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Southland brass group wins regional compition and is now fundraising for national finals to be held in Christchurch.

REVIEW: Despite the usual, crowdpleasing showing-up-the toffs and subverting expectations storylines, it’s the tale's heart that really pulls you in.

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Toni Collette and a Welsh town raise a racehorse in Euros Lyn's feelgood drama. Read the Empire review.

Dream Horse review: A sentimental underdog story about a horse For nearly thirty years, British film has specialised in a certain type of underdog comedy. Stories about people from small, usually downtrodden towns reaching for their dreams and achieving the impossible (it also helps if it’s vaguely inspired by a true story). In the 90s films including The Full Monty and Brassed Off set a formula that was continued in the 21 st century by Billy Elliot, Calendar Girls, Kinky Bo...

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Chumbawamba in 1998 Credit: Shutterstock In 1997, out of nowhere the English anarchist punk band Chumbawamba sold more than five million albums. In attaining triple-platinum status, in the United States the 12-track Tubthumper became the bestselling loud rock LP by a British group of the past 24-years. Suddenly hopping with the jet set, by way of celebration the boisterous octet decided to double their wages from 30 to 60 quid a week.  If there’s a more remarkable late 20th Century success s...

Wednesday, 10th February 2021 at 5:49 pm In season two of The Bay, Morven Christie and her colleagues at Morecambe’s police station are joined by guest stars including James Cosmo, Joe Absolom, Sunetra Sarker, Sharon Small, and (very briefly) Stephen Tompkinson. Advertisement Christie stars as family liaison officer Lisa Armstrong, an important member of the police department who works closely with families and friends of crime victims. In season one, she took on a missing persons case afte...

BBC News Published Yorkshire brass bands say 2020 has been their most challenging year, with many fighting to stay afloat. The sound of brass bands playing carols on a bustling high street is synonymous with the Christmas run-up, yet is absent this year. Coronavirus restrictions have decimated incomes, bands said, with groups relying on online donations. Performers said the lack of rehearsals and meet-ups has also had a detrimental effect on their wellbeing. The Barnsley-based Brass Bands Engl...

John nichols and chrystia freelander and author of a great new book "the plutocrats." let me start with you. this kind of old -- it reminds me of brassed off, a british labor and tory party fight where the men on the hill, four or five of them, live in the big houses, look down on the people and tell the coal diggers, you better vote republican, or in that case tory. this doesnt smack 6 the 21st century. >> or maybe the new 21st century. the income inequality -- the gap for the bosses on the hil...