Pudsey singer to bring curtain down at Leeds City Varieties
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on May 15, 2008
Pudsey’s Lawrie Briggs has played Leeds City Varieties so often she is almost part of its fixtures and fittings.
Now the popular performer says she is proud to be singing at the former music hall for one last time before its multi-million pound refurbishment.
Her Varieties history dates back more than 20 years to when she appeared [...]
A singular ‘Express’ ride
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on March 29, 2008
When Paul Theroux arrived in the Patagonian town of Esquel aboard a creaking antique rail carriage pulled by a steam engine resembling a “demented samovar on wheels”, it was his last stop on a train journey that began in Boston. Thirty years later, the Old Patagonian Express still steams out of Esquel in south-west Argentina, [...]
Spirit of Uganda
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on March 20, 2008
There is so much grief coming out of Africa that it’s good to report something upbeat for a change. Partially in order to raise awareness of the ravages of civil war and Aids, which have left an estimated 2.4m orphans, Empower African Children, a company of youngsters aged from eight to 18, is touring a [...]
Spirit of Uganda, Joyce Theater, New York
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on March 20, 2008
There is so much grief coming out of Africa that it good to report something upbeat for a change. Partially in order to raise awareness of the ravages of civil war and Aids, which have left an estimated 2.4m orphans, Empower African Children, a company of youngsters aged from eight to 18, is touring a [...]
on yer bike!
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on January 18, 2008
When a young child told Doncaster man Jim Tierney he didnt have a bike it set Jim off on an award winning journey.
Jim, who lives in Denaby, South Yorkshire, and is chairman of the Craganour Tenants and Residents Association (TARA), collected bits of old bikes to make one for this child.
It all started about [...]
Second chance for prizes
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on January 12, 2008
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Invicta: 500 years of service
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on January 12, 2008
Invicta Building Services has come a long way since it was last featured in these pages back in May 2006
Earlier this year, Invicta won the prestigious H%26amp;V Domestic Heating Contractor of the Year at the industrys awards ceremony held at the Grosvenor House Hotel. The prize was presented by the evenings host, comedian Patrick Kielty.
Judges [...]
Russia demands British Council closes offices
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on December 15, 2007
Unveiling the latest retaliation in a diplomatic dispute over the murder of ex-KGB defector Alexander Litvinenko last year, Russia instructed the British Council, the Foreign Office’s cultural arm, to close its outlets in St Petersburg and Yekaterinburg by the beginning of January.
Britain immediately vowed to defy the order, which it said constituted “a serious breach [...]