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York expecting to see covid bounce this summer as visitors descend from Teesside and other areas York is one of the most popular places for Teessiders enjoying a pint or a shopping trip, with packed trains the norm pre-pandemic 14:07, 13 MAR 2021 Updated Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. OurPrivacy Noticeexplains more about how we use ...

An innovative new music venue is coming to Gloucester Ambitious plans for a new music venue and recording studio for young people in Gloucester, by county charity The Music Works, are well and truly on track. Ambitious plans for a new music venue and recording studio for young people in Gloucester have been unveiled. After years searching for a place to create a live music venue and studio for young people in Gloucestershire the dream was close to a reality, then came the pandemic – and th...

A few dozen attendees came out to demand better protections for New Brunswick tenants Thursday. ACORN N.B. hos...

Crowds are expected to return to the city centre as York gets a ‘Covid bounce’ YORK is expecting to see a “Covid bounce” with more people visiting the city than usual this summer - and residents are being warned it could come as "a shock". Council chiefs say their focus will be on keeping people safe by creating more outdoor seating areas, launching traders’ squares throughout the city which will be managed by nearby businesses and putting in extra toilets and bins. “The challen...

The Coldest Night of the Year in 2020 had quite the turnout. (Photo: Jenna Kong) The Coldest Night of the Year was a success, but the fundraising isn’t over yet. Outflow’s event coordinator, Andy Alford, said Saturday night’s event went great. “The fundraising effort this year went great. We’ve raised $67,600 to date and we’ve 170 walkers so far. We raised 135 per cent of our goal,” he said. “We had lots of walkers walking throughout February. We had one lady that was walking ev...

Posted: Feb 07, 2021 8:00 AM AT | Last Updated: February 7 Saint John writer Anna Minerva Henderson, pictured with her graduating class of 1905 at Saint John High School. (Submitted by Saint John High School) comments Grey wharves that know the way of wind and tide, Dim, drifting fog, the sea-gulls plaintive cry, A city, old and assured, wearing the pride  Of epic memories and heritage …. Few poems have so perfectly captured the grit and dignity of Canadas oldest incorporated city.  Th...

The Insider’s guide to travelling without moving: Power, empathy and threads that connect at the Göteborg Film Festival 5 Feb 2021 A scene from Swedish provocateur Anna Odell’s film, Undersökningen (The Examination). (Courtesy of Göteborg Film Festival) I am naked from the waist down, my weight balanced at the top of my tailbone and my feet up in the air with legs splayed out by plastic stirrups.  I am exposed, vulnerable and only vaguely preoccupied with the paranoia that if the screen...

Gloucester’s former Debenhams building could be ‘under offer’ The former Debenhams building in Gloucester could be ‘under offer’, SoGlos has been told, but does a Facebook post hint at who the potential new mystery owner might be? The former Debenhams store in Gloucester, from Northgate Street. A Facebook post from the firm redeveloping Gloucester’s King’s Quarter shows plans for a successful transformation of a former department store, but does it signify it has an appetite for ...

Posted: Jan 29, 2021 5:32 PM AT | Last Updated: January 29 The three-storey, modern-design addition incorporates an opaque-glass façade. (Submitted by the Saint John Theatre Company) comments The Saint John Theatre Company plans to put a three-storey addition on the former county courthouse on Kings Square while still preserving much of the historic buildings architecture and features. The group unveiled its design plans for the almost 200-year-old building on Friday afternoon. The additi...

Gloucesters Debenhams building will not become another department store, says council leader The building is said to be under offer at the moment, but its future is unknown. 11:34, 29 JAN 2021 Debenhams in Gloucester. GET THE LATEST NEWS FROM ACROSS THE COUNTY IN YOUR INBOXInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. SIGN UP When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsle...