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By Jemma Slingo2021-04-04T10:48:00+01:00 The chair of the Bar Council has questioned the legal profession’s tendency to group black, Asian and minority ethnic lawyers together, saying the BAME label may ‘disguise the fact that there's massive under-representation of black members of our community at the bar’. Giving a Gresham College lecture about diversity, Derek Sweeting QC said ‘progress has been very slow in some areas’. ‘I think we need to be honest about why that's the case and why sort of some bits of the bar are still what people thought they were years ago… dominated...

Close The perfect river best for a romantic dip or thoughtful walk is the Wharfe River in the region of Yorkshire in northern England. The river breezes and weaves past stony beaches, tall trees, and bright green boulders covered with moss for 65 miles. At a point, the river weaves past the pleasant Bolton Priory from the 12th-century. Though the river also has a disreputable history perfect for a horror movie, especially at the portion beside the priory known as the 'Bolton Strid.'  It is known as the Bolton Strid because the water is so dangerous that if someone mistakenly slips into the r...

Date Time Share Prime Minister has appointed Dr Simon Thurley CBE as Chair of National Heritage Memorial Fund and National Lottery Heritage Fund Dr. Simon Thurley is Provost of Gresham College, London’s oldest higher education establishment, founded in 1597 to give free public lectures in the City. He serves on the Sponsor Board and the Delivery Authority for the Restoration and Renewal of the Houses of Parliament, is chairman of Lloyd-Webber Theatres’ restoration of the Theatre Royal Drury Lane and is a trustee of the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation and the British Library. He has been p...

Sailor in leather boat challenged theory Columbus first to America We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Sailor in leather boat challenged theory Columbus first to America January 6, 2021 — 12.52pm Normal text size Advertisement Tim Severin, a British adventurer who for 40 years meticulously replicated the journeys of real and mythic explorers like St. Brendan the Navigator, Sinbad the Sailor and Marco Polo, died aged 80 on December 18 at his home in West Cork, Ireland. In May 1976, Severin left Ireland on his most audacious voyage: following ...

Tim Severin, seafaring recreator of legendary journeys, dies aged 80 We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Tim Severin, seafaring recreator of legendary journeys, dies aged 80 By Richard Sandomir Normal text size Advertisement Tim Severin, a British adventurer who for 40 years meticulously replicated the journeys of real and mythic explorers such as St Brendan the Navigator, Sinbad the Sailor and Marco Polo, died on December 18 at his home in West Cork, Ireland. He was 80. His daughter, Ida Ashworth, said the cause was cancer. In May 1976, Sever...