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Few areas have attracted so much speculation since the pandemic began as the important economic driver that is the property sector. Imdaad Sulaiman, of Converse Law, provides the clarity about where we...

Cornwalls Minack Theatre has announced its first productions for 2021. The iconic outdoor venue is planning to open to visitors from 12 April and open its first show on 17 May. This will be a production of Then Come the Nightjars by Bea Roberts, set during the foot and mouth epidemic of 2001. It will be performed by Steve Jacobs and Craig Johnson and directed by Minack associate director John Brolly. Other new productions announced today include The Cameraman (Bash Street Theatre), The Cante...

21st Annual WhatsOnStage Awards live-streamed from The Turbine Theatre March 14, 2021 Last updated: March 15, 2021 This was, frankly, mostly a concert with the actual ‘awards’ something of an afterthought: sixteen of the twenty-one winners, or ‘Angels’, were rattled off in less than a minute. Many of the names were recognisable to people in the industry, but nothing else was said about them, or why they were nominated, which frankly felt frustrating and underwhelming, and a missed oppo...

Share this article The violent protest in Dublin last weekend has highlighted the role of coronavirus conspiracy theories in towns and cities across Ireland – but what should you do if a loved one has fallen down the misinformation rabbit hole? Newstalk reporter Henry McKean met some of those involved in the protest this morning as part of a special report for The Pat Kenny Show. He also spoke to Dr Lucy Michael, spokesperson for Fingal Communities Against Racism and Commission Member of the...

Pandemic re-calibrates investment thinking on fibre networks Fibre to the x projects now seen as potential money-spinners Long-term assets will provide long-term return on investments Virgin Media in the UK has biggest ever download day? Over 20GB per subscriber Pre-Covid, demand for broadband connectivity across the world was already intense. Since the pandemic struck that demand has become insatiable. Overall, networks have held up very well and proved resilient to the enormous and increasing...

Updated / Friday, 26 Feb 2021 11:44 Cathal Nally: "Thankfully I dont suffer from depression . .but I know those that do, so I call or text them from time to time." "Ive been very lucky with the lockdowns", says film director Cathal Nally, whose film Be Good or Be Gone screens at this years Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival. "Ive spent each one in a different place both physically and mentally." Lockdown One’ (the first is always the best) I spent in Ashbourne with my brother. T...

Boris Johnson LANCASHIRE Telegraph readers have welcomed Boris Johnson’s idea of a national tier system replacing the regional ones. The Prime Minister said that a national approach to easing restrictions might be better this time round than regional tiers. The Government will set out its “road map” for the coming months on February 22, following a review of the lockdown, with March 8 targeted as the earliest possible date for reopening schools and easing other measures. When the ...

How to relieve restriction fatigue without breaking the rules 30 January 2021 • 7:00am Where are we going? Everywhere! (Provided that it is accessible by train, tube or car, does not involve international borders and remains firmly within your local area.) While holiday bans and hotel quarantines have killed off trips of the more exotic kind, one major success of lockdown is lowering what we constitute as “exciting” so effectively as to render a bus ride a hot ticket: twice as many of us ...

Advertisement An A&E doctor has been balancing shifts at a hospital with homeschooling her seven-year-old during the latest coronavirus lockdown - as parents across Britain continue to perform the ultimate lockdown balancing act, MailOnline has revealed.  One mother has taken to foraging for mushrooms to gain some much needed alone time while a mother of two autistic children has to balance their education with running two businesses. Parents were plunged into a repeat of Lockdown One when sch...

Vanese Madix has struggled with anxiety in lockdown Vanese Madix has contacted her GP over 50 times since the beginning of the pandemic and lives in constant fear she has a life-threatening illness. “I’ve called about a sore rash on my back, an ongoing condition I have with a stuffy nose that makes it difficult to breathe and I even asked for a blood test once because I was feeling weak and tired and couldn’t understand why,” says the 25-year-old writer from East London. “Every tickle...