St Margaret’s Hospice is on the search for talented sewers to take part in their Sewing Bee Challenge. The hospice is inviting people to buy materials up to the value of £10 from one of their charity shops and transform them into an item which can be worn throughout theContinue Reading
W atercooler moments are back, and the subject to know is Squid Game. Netflix dropped the dystopian South Korean drama on Sept 17 and in just a few weeks, it’s on track to become the streaming site’s most popular series of all time, leaving reigning number one, the spoon-licking frill-festContinue Reading
A nyone who has had builders in over the last few months, with the associated availability nightmares, the doubled prices and the scarcity of materials, will feel sympathy with Eva Langret. Tomorrow, the artistic director of Frieze London opens the organisation’s first permanent gallery space at No. 9 Cork StreetContinue Reading
K risten Stewart has said she was conscious that her new film about Diana, Princess of Wales not be exploitative and that the project comes from “a genuinely careful and considerate place”. The eagerly anticipated movie Spencer was unveiled in the UK with a premiere at the BFI London FilmContinue Reading
On Saturday 18th September Winkleigh & Bow YFC held a tractor run in memory of Matt Vanstone. Matt was a popular young farmer who sadly took his own life last year. All in all, there were 111 tractors on the run and the event raised £3817.50. With the majority of the proceedingsContinue Reading
Review at a glance T he Roys are back in town and thankfully they have not lost their knack for scheming. “F**k the weather,” declares Kendall Roy (Jeremy Strong) in the first episode of the long-awaited third series of Succession. “We’re changing the climate.” He may be referring to hisContinue Reading
I n the opening episode of the BBC’s new Sunday night drama Ridley Road, our heroine Vivien (Aggi O’Casey), who has absconded from her comfortable but stultifying family home in Manchester to London in pursuit of her old flame Jack (Tom Varey), stumbles out onto Trafalgar Square after finishing herContinue Reading
West Coast Railways Class 33 No 33207 Jim Martin and 37706 working the return Plymouth to Theale loop, having worked a steam dreams rail tour Mayflower to Devon and Cornwall Rail Tour, for the Plymouth North Road Leg to Penzance passing Coryton Cove on the Dawlish Seawall on the 01/10/2021Continue Reading
On Friday Morning on the 01/10/2021 Ex LMS Jubilee Class 4-6-0 No 45596 Bahamas and Ex LNER B1 Class No 61306 Mayflower Double Headed the Return Mayflower to Devon and Cornwall Rail Tour, the rail tour came down on Tuesday Evening from London Victoria to Exeter St Davids and onContinue Reading
T wo statues with links to the slave trade look set to stay standing after the City of London Corporation was told to ignore an earlier plan to remove them. The monuments to Sir John Cass and William Beckford – both of whom made fortunes on the back of slaveryContinue Reading
