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Justice For Megrahi committee appears on stage for Q&A after David Bensons play Lockerbie: Unfinished Business. Dr Jim Swire taking part in the question and answer session. St Johns Church, Edinburgh, copyright Julie Howden Newsquest JIM Swire tells a story about a visit he made to the man convicted of the bombing of Pan-Am 103, the atrocity that killed 270 people including his daughter Flora. In the late stages of cancer, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi sat on his bed propped on pillows. By this point...

Ideally located on the banks of the River Wey, The Anchor offers the perfect vantage point for watching the colourful canal boats of Pyrford Lock pass by. The beautiful beer garden runs directly alongside the river, where visitors can enjoy a menu of traditional pub favourites and libation or two in the open air. There are plenty of attractions nearby, including RHS Wisley, and the pub has even devised its own 3.2 mile walking route, which takes in some beautiful waterside scenery and offers vi...

This weeks best-selling books Newsroom 4 hrs ago © Provided by Newsroom Editor’s note: The opinions in this article are the author’s, as published by our content partner, and do not represent the views of MSN or Microsoft. This weeks biggest-selling New Zealand books, as recorded by the Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list and described by Steve Braunias In the photo above: We resume our series of photos of authors nominated for the 2021 Ockham New Zealand national book awards w...

YORKS Theatre Royal is all set to open its doors to the public next month. A celebration of York’s creativity, solo shows featuring Ralph Fiennes and Julie Hesmondhalgh, a new drama about writer Graham Greene and spy Kim Philby and Strindberg’s Miss Julie transposed to 1940s Hong Kong are among highlights in the reopening Love Season at York Theatre Royal. The theatre will reopen on May 17 with Love Bites, celebrating local artists – poets, performers, singers, dancers, digital arti...

Greene King confirms plans to reopen 11 Surrey pubs from April 12 Some venues will have reduced opening hours and menus The Wheatsheaf Hotel in Virginia Water is planning to reopen on April 12 (Image: Darren Pepe) Get the latest email updates for Surrey with our FREE daily newsletterInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe here When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for ...

N Family Club grows to 10 settings Katy Morton Tuesday, March 9, 2021 Expanding nursery group N Family Club has acquired three settings in Surrey, taking its total number of nurseries to 10. Red Balloon nursery in Ockham, Surrey - one of three new settings for N Family Club Register now to continue reading Thank you for visiting Nursery World and making use of our archive of more than 35,000 expert features, subject guides, case studies and p...

Five "undervalued" women architects Part W is creating Wikipedia pages for Womens architecture collective Part W is one of several organisations working to increase the number of female architects listed on Wikipedia. On International Womens Day, Sarah Ackland has picked five significant women that she believes should have pages on the site. The current and historic gender imbalance of those working in architecture is well documented and is reflected on Wikipedia, where many significant women ...

Paula Morris on the Ockhams most diverse shortlist ever 5 Mar, 2021 07:00 PM 5 minutes to read Hinemoana Baker. Photo / Ashley Clark The shortlists for the Ockham NZ Book Awards, announced this week, revealed one big and long-awaited surprise. Just last year, Kiri Piahana-Wong — convenor of judges for the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry — said she was dismayed "to see that only a tiny number of writers of colour" were in contention for the prize. Now, for the first t...

Friday, 5 March 2021, 4:41 pm Magnolia , the new poetry collection by Wellington writer Nina Mingya Powles (27), has now been shortlisted for the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry as part of the Ockham NZ Book Awards. Last year it was shortlisted for the UK’s prestigious Forward Prize for Best First Collection. The UK edition was published by Nine Arches Press in 2020, with the New Zealand edition due to be formally launched on 13 March 2021 by Powles’s local publisher Seraph Press. �...

Whanganui writer Airini Beautrais a finalist in Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 3 Mar, 2021 12:00 AM 2 minutes to read Airini Beautrais reading her poem at Pakaitore in a video from 2018. Whanganui writer Airini Beautrais is a finalist in New Zealands most prestigious book awards. Beautrais first short story collection Bug Week and Other Stories was published in 2020 and made the longlist for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards last month. Her book is now shortlisted to win the $57,000 Jann Medli...