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The doors of the Oasis have been shut since the second national lockdown A CROSS-PARTY effort to get the Oasis Leisure Centre reopened is under way. Swindon Borough Council leader David Renard has set up a taskforce – known as a Cabinet Member Advisory Group – after news the iconic facility in North Star is to close after 44 years. He will chair a group featuring four of his Conservative colleagues and three Labour councillors, who will look at the options for bringing the Oasis back to life. While the council owns the land and building, Seven Capital has a 99-year lease and had spe...

The Impossible, and Birdman. So did two Oscar nominations for best actress and a reputation for tackling emotionally vulnerable roles. There have been hiccups too: her 2017 Netflix series Gypsy only ran for one season, The Book of Henry, also 2017, was critically panned and this year HBO cancelled the Game of Thrones prequel she was to star in. At her best, critics tend to describe her work in elemental terms – think “magnetic” and “electrifying” – and that emotional subtlety shines in Penguin Bloom too. Naomi Watts in Gypsy – not one of her finest works. It’s a true s...

Book World: The perfect science fiction, fantasy and genre-bending tales for the chilly days ahead Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Lavie Tidhar, The Washington Post Dec. 18, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail "The Snow Queen" and "Smilla's Sense of Snow."Tor Books; Picador Winter is here. It may have taken a long time to come in George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series, but when it hits, all you want to do is curl up in bed and lock the doors against the snow zombies. Winter has long fascinated writers. In C.S. Lewis's classic "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" the four Pevensie children mus...