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Residents of this quiet community of about 40 homes worried the truck stop would bring unwanted noise, traffic and other dangers.

Residents of this quiet community of about 40 homes worried the truck stop would bring unwanted noise, traffic and other dangers.

Residents fear a truck stop in Ramsay will be a danger to the community by increasing truck traffic and people passing through.

Residents fear the truck stop will be a danger to the community by increasing truck traffic and people passing through.

Residents fear the truck stop will be a danger to the community by increasing truck traffic and people passing through.

Last modified on Wed 5 May 2021 04.18 EDT Alfred Fagon was many things before becoming a playwright at the vanguard of the black British theatre movement of the 1970s and 80s: welder, champion boxer, railway worker, army man, poet and actor, with a colourful circle of friends including the model Christine Keeler. “He put no limits on himself and he didn’t want to follow any pattern,” says his friend Yvonne Brewster, the actor and director who, after his death, co-founded the Alfred Fagon ...

Hampstead Theatre has announced its first live productions for 2021.  Alfred Fagons darkly compelling, The Death of a Black Man will run from 28 May until 10 July having originally premiered at the theatre in 1975.  46 years on, this rare revival from the Black British playwriting canon, raises many of the same questions we face today surrounding identity, capitalism and sexual politics.