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Civic chiefs refused to approve plans to fell trees at Marlhill Copse. It comes as previous plans to fell trees at the site proved controversial and a decision to fell trees in May 2020 was quashed by the High Court - although the work was subsequently approved as some trees were deemed unsafe. As reported, Southampton Airport - which owns the land- tabled new plans to fell an extra 116 trees. But after a long debate, members of the Planning and Rights of Way Panel at Southampton City C...

Every seven years, he followed the lives of 14 British youths; he also made “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” “Nell” and other feature films.

Michael Apted, filmmaker behind innovative ‘Seven Up!’ documentary series, dies at 79 Tim Greiving Michael Apted, the innovative filmmaker behind the “Up” documentary series, which chronicled a group of British people for more than 50 years, who also made such varied feature films as “Coal Miner’s Daughter” and “The World Is Not Enough,” died Jan. 8 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 79. Cort Kristensen, a producer at Mr. Apted’s film company, confirmed ...