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Artist Deborah's self portrait and one of her rescue dog Mavis - Credit: Deborah Mason Artist Deborah Mason needs help to complete 100 portraits in 50 hours for the Captain Tom 100 challenge.  She wants subjects to sit for portraits to raise money for Bethnal Green's Magic Me inter-generation arts charity.  “Sponsorship is welcome but what Deborah really needs right now is willing subjects,” the charity’s Deborah Mason told the East London Advertiser. “People can ‘sit’ in person via Zoom or even go to her front garden in Maidenhead.”  Sittings take 20-30 minute...

Bleak - a coffin is carried through Canvey during a protest in May 1973 Canvey residents have never been afraid to make their voices heard in various protests through the years. Last week, the Echo reported on plans to more than double the amount of fuel stored at the Oikos plant on the island. The announcement has prompted anger from campaigners, who have called it a “recipe for disaster”. If given the green light by the Government, Oikos would expand its storage facility from 290,000 m3 to 600,000 m3 at the site off Haven Road. The plans also involve new giant tanks on the sou...

Bleak - a coffin is carried through Canvey during a protest in May 1973 Canvey residents have never been afraid to make their voices heard in various protests through the years. Last week, the Echo reported on plans to more than double the amount of fuel stored at the Oikos plant on the island. The announcement has prompted anger from campaigners, who have called it a “recipe for disaster”. If given the green light by the Government, Oikos would expand its storage facility from 290,000 m3 to 600,000 m3 at the site off Haven Road. The plans also involve new giant tanks on the sou...

Terry Sanford and JFK Just before the January 6 attack on the Capitol, I wrote about Governor Terry Sanford’s inauguration speech in January 1961. He summoned North Carolinians to “give our children the quality of education which they need to keep up in this rapidly advancing, scientific, complex world.” That speech 60 years ago was the subject of a recent column in The Washington Post by John Drescher, former executive editor at The News & Observer and now a national politics editor at the Post. His column was “How a Courageous Southern Governor Broke Ranks with Segregationists in 19...

North Carolina has taken a wrong turn Published January 7, 2021 Sixty years ago this week, a new Governor set North Carolina on a new course. In his inauguration speech on January 5, 1961, Terry Sanford said the state should build its future not on low taxes, but on better education. Calling education “the rock upon which I will build the house of my administration,” he said: “We must give our children the quality of education which they need to keep up in this rapidly advancing, scientific, complex world. “They must be prepared to compete with the best in the nation, and I dedicate m...