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Locals can voice their opinions and learn about the £15.9m Ashbourne Reborn Town Centre development. New loading bay and wider pavement on St John Street Ashbourne With the town's revamp in progress, additional drop-ins have been scheduled for the public and local businesses to ask questions and...
by Admin - 3 hours ago
Humans have always had a connection to the birds around us throughout the world. Ancient Egyptians dedicated fields to feeding Peregrine Falcons and the African Sacred Ibis, and Hindu writings describe “bhutayajna”, the act of providing food for birds; it is believed this practice would help balance...
Focus / Culture - 14 hours ago
(Rough Trade)Jarvis Cocker and the band’s first album in 24 years delivers a refreshing take on middle age, with all the the skewed observation and joyful melodic flourishes of oldTime has been particularly kind to Pulp. As Jarvis Cocker points out on Spike Island, the lead single from their first a...
Focus / Culture - 15 hours ago
How did an ancient poet and painter who died in obscurity come to obsess everyone from Oscar Wilde to David Hockney, Robert Mapplethorpe, Derek Jarman and David Bowie? The writer of a new book explains his glorious allureWilliam Blake may be known for seeing angels up in trees, for writing the alter...
Focus / Culture - 16 hours ago
You can read it from either end, and go round again, as memoir collides with invention in a brilliant interrogation of art, faith and relationshipsFrom her debut, Nobody Is Ever Missing, to 2023’s Biography of X, Catherine Lacey’s work has tested the forms and fabric of the novel with brilliant unea...
Focus / Culture - 16 hours ago
Chloé Aïcha Boro’s watchful documentary charts the disharmony and legal wrangling caused by a dispute in her family over sacred burial landEconomic and financial woes cast a dark shadow over family bonds in Chloé Aïcha Boro’s contemplative, searching documentary. Returning to her Burkina Faso villag...
Focus / Culture - 16 hours ago
The extraordinary story of history’s most famous female author continues. Plus: Nathan Fielder’s awkward social experiment. Here’s what to watch this evening9pm, BBC Two Continue reading...
Focus / Culture - 18 hours ago
They made music like sonic warfare, using steamhammers for drums and annoying anyone they could. As the band return, they relive the mayhem years – and their soundtrack spinoffs, from Attenborough to ChernobylFifty years ago, Cabaret Voltaire shocked the people of Sheffield into revolt. A promoter s...
Focus / Culture - 18 hours ago
At 22, the singer and reality TV star has lived most of her life in the limelight. What’s it like to be managed by your mother, run a billion-dollar business in your teens and be dismissed as ‘the lesbian’ by a Hollywood legend?A week before JoJo Siwa entered the Celebrity Big Brother house, she had...
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