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With the permission of the author Vivian Avraamidou Ploumbi and Dimitris Toumazis, we present poignant excerpts from the book The Silence of Captivity, featuring testimonies from Toumazis about his experiences during the 1974 war and his captivity in the Adana prisons.Dimitris (Kakis) Toumazis was b

Levellers wowed audiences at the Button Factory on 7th December 2023 with the signature anti establishment energy

I didn’t intend to become a lawyer. I’m the first of my family; we’ve been teachers and priests. My brother got a place at Oxford to study law.

<strong>Other lives:</strong> Researcher and statistician who loved singing and cricket, and was a keen crossword solver

The former Labour MP and Oscar winner was much admired for her acting talent and her strong sense of justice

A Hurstpierpoint resident and logistics industry ambassador has received an MBE in the 2022 New Year Honours list.

Not Just Energy, But Everything , Fresh-lands Environmental Actions The criticality of the global energy situation is emphasised by the release, on schedule (18-5-21), of the eagerly awaited “Net Zero by 2050" roadmap (NZE) from the International Energy Agency (IEA). Please share this article - Go to very top of page, right hand side, for social media buttons. Not only does this document delineate the gargantuan quantities of energy currently used by humans on Earth, mainly from the fossil f...

Simon Upton Arabella Lennox-Boyd – softly spoken and supremely elegant – has created 800 gardens across the world for the most glittering of personalities, including Sting, the 6th Duke of Westminster, Queen Paola of Belgium, the Rothschilds and half the titled families of Europe. At 83, the Hon Lady Lennox-Boyd has a formidable, almost regal demeanour that makes you feel you should sit up straight in her presence. ‘There is that connection of the plants, which is like a thread that ties ...

Trevor Dannatt obituary Elain Harwood The Royal Festival Hall, London, is an enduring legacy of the cultural optimism of the Festival of Britain, seven decades ago. In 1948, a hand-picked team of architects was brought in by London county council (LCC) to design the concert hall on the South Bank in which the festival would hold its main show. Among them were eight members selected by their former tutor, Peter Moro, at Regent Street Polytechnic, who, along with Leslie Martin, le...