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ADVERTISEMENT Ill. Justices Urged To Strike Countys Firearms, Ammo Taxes Law360 (May 13, 2021, 6:33 PM EDT) -- A gun rights advocacy group urged the Illinois Supreme Court to strike down Cook Countys taxes on firearms and ammunition sales on Thursday, arguing the taxes unconstitutionally burden individuals ability to exercise their Second Amendment rights. Illinois-based Guns Save Life Inc. told the state high court that an intermediate appellate panel applied the wrong analysis when it said C...

Died: April 8, 2021. PETER Terson, who has died aged 89 after suffering from Parkinson’s disease, was a playwright who brought to the stage and screen authentic representations of working-class culture inspired by his childhood in the industrial north-east of England. His first major success, Zigger Zagger, staged at the Jeanetta Cochrane Theatre, London, by the National Youth Theatre in 1967, opened a window on the world of football hooliganism. The 90-strong cast stood in a speciall...

Last modified on Thu 15 Apr 2021 13.20 EDT In 1967 the National Youth Theatre in London performed the first new play it had ever commissioned, with 80 performers arranged on a set depicting a football stand. The play would be revived with new casts eight times over the next 20 years, and again at Wilton’s Music Hall in London in 2017. It was televised twice, and entered the school curriculum. The play was Zigger Zagger, and its writer was Peter Terson, who has died aged 89. The story of teena...