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Last month, people of all ages around the country were urged to 'Squeeze in a Read' by Ireland Reads, a public libraries initiative, in partnership with publishers, booksellers, authors and others under the Government's 'Keep Well' campaign, while World Book Day was celebrated on last Thursday, March 4th. Librarian Anna Collins works with Cork County Council Library and Arts Service in Kanturk and was among the many staff members in libraries throughout the country who were delighted to highlight the pleasures of reading, a wonderful recreation that brightens the darkest of these days of lock...

BOWLS looks such a genteel game but in Darlington it had an explosive start. Part of the town centre blew up, killing a lad and reducing a yard to rubble and dust, but out of those ashes, exactly 125 years ago this week, the first bowls club was formed. And today that club is exploding again, only this time in a pleasant way with scores of new members raring for a roll up when the green reopens next month. The South Park Bowling Club was formed on March 11, 1896, at a meeting in the Mechanics Institute which may still have been surrounded by the rubble caused by the explosion on October...

‘GOD made each maid a husband, But men on Earth must fight. So just in case there aren’t enough, He made Miss Florence White’ (Virginia…

FLAGS will fly at half-mast and bells will toll across Bradford on Saturday in honour of Captain Sir Tom Moore and to mark the day of his funeral. The Keighley-born former British Army officer, who raised almost £33million for NHS Charities Together in the run-up to his 100th birthday last year, died earlier this month. Flags on civic buildings will be at half-mast across the Bradford district and the bells of Bradford City Hall clock tower will play Abide With Me and You’ll Never Walk Alone at 12pm as a tribute. The bells of Bradford Cathedral will also toll 100 times from 6pm, on...

"She said there had been a couple of times when her suspicion had been aroused, such as questioning James’ strange voice, but that James had become angry and often violent whenever she questioned him, so she avoided probing." Other parts of the exhibition focuses on the discovery of a person’s identity; a rector from Essendon had to flee the county after accusations of gross indecency, and Oscar Wilde, an Irish playwright and friend of Lady Desborough of Panshanger, was sent to prison for his same-sex relationships. Edward John Edwards took up the post as domestic chaplain to Lord Sali...