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ESSAY Mike Scott of The Waterboys with local singers and musicians who took part in a community performance of Room to Roam as it became Huntly’s ‘anthem’ AS the sun sets on a winter afternoon, Huntly is a place of deserted streets and closed-down shopfronts. A once prosperous market town in the agricultural heartland between Aberdeen and Elgin, Huntly (population 4400, average household income £23,000) now tells the sad story of many small towns: economic decline, the slow withdrawal of services. But a set of rooms at the back of the library are a quiet powerhouse of socially dis...

Early Years Maybelle Addington was born on May 10, 1909, in the Copper Creek community near Nickelsville, in Scott County. One of ten children of Hugh Jack Addington and Margaret Elizabeth Kilgore Addington, she learned a variety of traditional Appalachian songs and tunes from her banjo-playing mother as well as from siblings, relatives, and neighbors. Performing as a child at social gatherings with her family’s informal band, Addington sang and played the banjo and autoharp, although by her teenage years she had adopted the guitar as her primary instrument. Her style of playing, modeled lo...

Events Under Canvas owner Jenna Ackerley. - Credit: Gregg Brown A luxury Suffolk-based tipi company is getting around eight cancellations or postponements every week as uncertainties continue over the easing of lockdown.  Events Under Canvas, based in Capel St Mary, suffered a devastating year in 2020, with almost all of its events and weddings cancelled as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.  Inside the winter dining tipi at The Weeping Willow, Barrow near Bury St Edmunds Picture: Emma Cabielles - Credit: Archant Many of these bookings were rescheduled for early this year in the hope r...

Islamabad to have first ‘Urban Forestry Park’ Islamabad January 24, 2021 Islamabad:After developing the first ever ‘Wetlands project’ near Bari Imam on the fringes of Diplomatic Enclave, the Capital Development Authority (CDA) has planned to develop Islamabad’s first ‘Model Forestry Park’ over 350 acres of land in Malpur area alongside the banks of Rawal Lake. The park, first of its kind, will also have a water body over an area of 35 acres. Rana Tahir, the Director Environment, who is the Project Director for ‘Model Forestry Park’ said that the access to this park will be...

Casa has since received an overwhelmingly positive response from customers and has said it will continue to offer a takeaway service in future – with Maria even going as far as to expand her restaurant’s premises to create more space dedicated to takeaways.  “During the first lockdown, the adjacent building became available so we gained an abundance of extra space, but rather than using it for seating, we’ll use it for takeaway prep.”  With lockdown showing no signs of easing just yet, Maria is rolling out a handful of new initiatives at Casa - including vacuum-packed cold platter...