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The effects of last weeks flooding are still being felt

LAST Thursday my wife and I had our Covid jabs.

As the stately progress of the improvements in the Central Car Park and Fisherton Street get ever more stately, we have learned to avoid Salisbury…

Join us for Tristan Mailliot Quartet: Remembering Chick Corea Jazz Legend, Pianist and Composer Chick Corea, who passed away a year ago, has left a remarkable…

The Clark Tracey Sextet will play a gig at Herts Jazz at the Maltings Theatre in St Albans.

The Clark Tracey Sextet will play a gig at Herts Jazz at the Maltings Theatre in St Albans.

What is Canadian architecture? For author Leslie Jen, a former associate editor at Canadian Architect, there is no single satisfactory response—but exhibiting sensitivity to local contexts, creating socially-minded places, responding to urban intensification, designing for health and aging, and meeting ecological challenges all play a role. Her book Canadian Architecture: Evolving a Cultural Identity (Figure 1 Press, 2021) […]

Credit: andy hepburn/pa SIR – When I saw the headline, “BBC Four to become repeats channel”, I laughed, as the majority of programmes are already repeats. As I read on, my amusement turned to anger, since the money the BBC hopes to save is to be spent on “young-appealing programmes”, instead of a few documentaries for the oldest viewership. Having now charged these very people the licence fee, this is the final insult. Linda Davis   SIR – I thought the BBC already had a repeats cha...