Talk about history repeating itself. It’s 28 years since Lady Di broke up with Prince Charles and announced she intended to carry on being an independent member of the Royal Family. I can remember writing at the time that it was a bit like Bianca Jagger, after getting divorced from …
Read More »Recording the choral works of William Mathias
I had the privilege of meeting William Mathias in Bangor in 1998. I was 10 years old at the time, and a chorister at St John’s College Cambridge, directed by another eminent Welsh musician, George Guest. We were in Wales to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the translation of the …
Read More »Escape for man, 86, asleep on sofa as his Fife caravan goes up in flames
An elderly man was saved from his burning caravan by his family when a massive blaze broke out. The 86-year-old was asleep on his sofa when the static van caught fire on Wednesday evening. Relatives who were elsewhere on their smallholding near Windygates saw flames and leapt into action. They …
Read More »Royal Navy helicopter pilot helps Australian wildfire evacuation effort
A Royal Navy helicopter pilot has helped evacuate people trapped by the devastating wildfires in Australia. Lieutenant Commander Nick Grimmer, who is on exchange with the Royal Australian Navy, has been flying rescue missions for the last two months, the Royal Navy said. The 35-year-old, from Great Yarmouth, is flying …
Read More »Five ways retailers can mitigate poor Christmas trading | Analysis
It’s been a mixed bag for retail this Christmas. As the trading updates come rolling in, feedback has ranged from “better than expected” to “unusually challenging”. While it’s not all doom and gloom, there are some retailers nursing post-Christmas hangovers as sales failed to meet expectations. How can these retailers …
Read More »Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
French oil refinery workers join strikes; nurses walk out in Northern Ireland Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa 10 January 2020 The World Socialist Web Site invites workers and other readers to contribute to this regular feature. Europe Strike and blockade by French oil refinery workers French oil refinery …
Read More »'Queen sad, Charles furious': Britain's media reacts to Megxit
The Metro led with “Harry and Meghan: We quit,” while the Daily Mail promised readers that Thursday's paper was a “royal bombshell special issue. Source link
Read More »Royal Navy helicopter pilot helps Australian wildfire evacuation effort
A Royal Navy helicopter pilot has helped evacuate people trapped by the devastating wildfires in Australia. Lieutenant Commander Nick Grimmer, who is on exchange with the Royal Australian Navy, has been flying rescue missions for the last two months, the Royal Navy said. The 35-year-old, from Great Yarmouth, is flying …
Read More »How royal aides fought bitterly for 24 hours to urge Harry and Meghan not to announce their plans
It was early November when the call came through to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s taxpayer-funded home, Frogmore Cottage, at Windsor. On the line, unusually, was the Queen. It is important to stress from the start of this insight into what has unfolded over the past 48 hours that …
Read More »Games: Untitled Goose Game honking good fun in an old-school ‘Advanced Goose Simulator’ kind of way…
Untitled Goose Game (Multi) By: Panic ONE goose that’s lasted beyond Christmas is the star of Aussie developer House House’s annoyance simulator, Untitled Goose Game. Bearing all the hallmarks of idiosyncratic (and very British) Spectrum titles like Skool Daze or Jack the Nipper, the emphasis here is on local hi-jinks …
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