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The current world record for the largest functional Christmas cracker was pulled at Ley Hill, near Chesham, on December 20, 2001. The record has…

IT was rather distressing to see the UK Business Secretary, appropriately enough dressed in a business suit, when he arrived at a site in northern…

The Dancing Master, Buxton International Festival review - doing it on the radio | reviews, news & interviews The Dancing Master, Buxton International Festival review - doing it on the radio The Dancing Master, Buxton International Festival review - doing it on the radio Snappy rhythms and lovely tunes make a ‘lost’ opera by Malcolm Arnold live again by Robert BealeMonday, 12 July 2021 How would you solve the problems inherent in a production of Malcolm Arnold’s  The Dancing...

Political correctness has unfairly consigned this innuendo-packed farce to obscurity. Is there a director brave enough to bring it back?

Died: March 30, 2021 MYRA Frances, who has died of cancer aged 78, was an actress who became a taboo-busting pioneer when she shared British television’s first romantic kiss between women. That was in Girl (1974), James Robson’s play for BBC Birmingham’s Second City Firsts series of short standalone dramas by relatively new writers. Frances played Christine Harvey, the seemingly stern army corporal who appears opposite Alison Steadman’s discharged pregnant squaddie, Jackie. As J...

Last modified on Fri 30 Apr 2021 06.58 EDT Once a year, I went to see the Queen with my friend Helen Smeed. Helen, who has died aged 77 from a heart attack, was a long-time parliamentary researcher and personal assistant in the House of Lords. We would wait across the street from the Sovereign’s Entrance during the state opening of parliament and watch the resplendent horse-drawn carriages arrive. Afterwards, during lunch in the Lords’ canteen, Helen would always show her appreciation to th...

Many groups visit the Weekender twice a year, year after year - Credit: Tracey Stephenson A group of festival-goers who lost a court battle with an events organiser after they refused to refund their deposits have said they "treated loyal customers with contempt”. Caister Soul Weekender in Great Yarmouth, run by Soul Music Enterprises (SME) and held at Parkdean’s Vauxhall Holiday Park for the last 26 years, was due to take place on May 2, 2020.  But despite the pandemic forcing its cancel...

Sunday 1 January 9st 3 (but post-Christmas), alcohol units 14 (but effectively covers 2 days as 4 hours of party was on New Years Day), calories 5,424. 11.45pm Ugh. First day of New Year has been day of horror. Having skulked at home all day, hoping hangover would clear, I eventually gave up and set off for the Turkey Curry Buffet far too late.  When I got to the Alconburys and rang their entire-tune-of-town-hall- clock-style doorbell I was still in a strange world of my own — nauseous, vile...

As the French comedy airs its fourth season on Netflix, there's no doubting its ritzy, star-studded appeal

By Dan Atkinson December 11, 2020 14:54 GMT On hearing that plans are advancing for a new theatre in Londons West End, some may be tempted to echo the fictional civil servant Humphrey Appleby and declare it a "courageous move". In this context, of course, "courageous" means "foolhardy". Co-Founders of Trafalgar Entertainment, Dame Rosemary ...