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A WIRRAL dance teacher who toured the world during a career spanning more than 50 years in showbusiness has hung up her tap shoes for good.

In 1936, she learned of her future title – the next 16 years made our Queen in waiting

Despite appearances on the West End stage and in early British movies, the name of pioneering black actor Ernest Trimmingham is virtually unknown. Angela Cobbinah talks to an author keen to set the record straight

Despite appearances on the West End stage and in early British movies, the name of pioneering black actor Ernest Trimmingham is virtually unknown. Angela Cobbinah talks to an author keen to set the record straight

Poet and historian Aberjhani said, “Rainbows introduce us to reflections of different beautiful possibilities so we never forget that pain and grief are not the final options in life.” These words are in the introduction of a book called "Where the Rainbow Ends," produced by Oklahoma City Public Schools Language and Cultural Services department as part of Project Voice, in partnership with the Oklahoma History Center. "Where the Rainbow Ends" is an anthology of life exper...

Diana Payne-Myers Credit: family Diana Payne-Myers, the dancer and actress, who has died aged 92, had a 70-year stage career of phenomenal variety, beginning in the postwar music hall boom, continuing through the heyday of West End revue, and rising to an unlikely burst of stardom in her seventies and eighties in cutting-edge contemporary dance. Her ballet skit supported Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis on their British tours, she danced with Sadler’s Wells Opera Ballet, and she spe...