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Doubleontherocks and Its Pointless, leaders in their respective divisions, look to add to their impressive resumes in a pair of California Sire Stakes that headline the Sunday (April 4) night menu at Cal Expo. There will be 12 races presented under the Watch and Wager LLC banner and the program will get underway at 4:55 p.m. The Sire Stakes for the four-year-old colts and geldings will be decided as a non-betting race prior to the regular card. Doubleontherocks has accounted for two of three Si...

Celebrate Norfolk to hold virtual showcase during 2021 Celebrate Norfolk has announced that this year it will be holding a Virtual Celebrate Norwich & Norfolk showcase, rather than a physical event at The Forum in Norwich in June, due to the Covid-19 public health restrictions. The charity has also announced that its project director, John Betts, has stepped down from the role after over ten years at the helm and, in the light of this, it will be consulting on its future direction. Chair of...

Norwich Passion Play postponed from Easter 2021  The Passion Play, set to be performed in Norwich city centre on Easter Saturday 2021, has been postponed due to the Covid-19 uncertainty and restrictions, but the team behind it is fully committed to a future date. Celebrate Norfolk is co-ordinating a bid to bring well-known professional Christian theatre company Saltmine to perform a Passion Play in Norwich and some funds towards the costs have already been donated.   But because of the cu...

Kents forgotten jail - Canterbury Prison which held the Kray twins and double murderer Michael Stone  |  Updated: 15:32, 29 January 2021 The quiet market town of Canterbury began to swell in the 19th Century, ramping demand for a new jail house, or gaol. And so Canterbury Prison was built on land adjoining the Roman road of Longport, which exists today. Canterbury prison. Photograph: Alan Wells Architect George Byfield in 1805 drew plans for not only a jail but a separate workcamp, or ‘h...

With continued economic uncertainty ahead, the City of Bryan passed its annual budget, with about a 9% reduction in total funds appropriated compared to the 2020 budget. City officials thanked the city administration, department heads and finance committee for working to limit their expenses wherever possible. “It’s a very good budget,” council President John Betts said during their special year-end meeting on Wednesday, held virtually to avoid contributing to the surging coronav...

Posted: December 18, 2020 Fund aims to help forest sector with COVID-19 costs The Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development announced Dec. 16 it is delivering $9.3-million in relief to small- and medium-sized forestry businesses for the extra costs of keeping employees and communities safe, while operating through the COVID-19 pandemic. “Our government worked with forest contractors to plant 300 million seedlings this year with no recorded COVID-19 transmi...

Help us bring a Passion Play to the streets of Norwich Celebrate Norfolk is co-ordinating a bid to bring well-known professional Christian theatre company Saltmine to perform a Passion Play on the streets of Norwich. Saltmine produced and performed a Passion Play in Birmingham city centre in 2019, which attracted audiences of several thousand people. Now a first play in Norwich at Easter 2022  is being planned and churches and individuals who share a vision to see this take place are being ...

author speaks about being a lawyer and the role that law plays in contemporary fiction with a panel of the national press club in washington d.c.. this is a little over an hour. >> everybody got quiet so i guess we can begin. thats my cue. good afternoon. i am very pleased today to welcome all of you to the nodule celebration and preservation of the harper lee prize for fiction. nell harper lee of monroeville alabama attended our law school in the 1940s and published "to kill a mocking...