Category: England, United Kingdom

Mayor set to enjoy a cuppa for Fairtrade Fortnight

Dudley’s Mayor – will be calling into the Fairtrade Break Coffee Morning at St Thomas’s Church Hall, Market Street, Stourbridge, on Saturday March 11 which is being organised as part of the annual campaign. The coffee morning, running from 10am to 12.30pm, is being organised by Stourbridge Fairtrade, who were instrumental in achieving Fairtrade status for Stourbridge in 2010.

Marco Silva is described as “intense” by his players

It would have been so easy to dismiss the Hull manager as a club puppet, brought in to oversee a fire sale ahead of near certain relegation. They were bottom of the Premier League when Silva took over Hull on January 5 and given even less chance of survival when they sold Robert Snodgrass and Jake Livermore during the transfer window.

Kyo-Shin-An Arts to Present Kammerraku Show at Tenri Cultural Institute This Month

A 2016 and 2013 CMA/ASCAP Adventurous Programming Award Winner, KYO-SHIN-AN ARTS is a contemporary music organization dedicated to the integration of the Japanese instruments koto, shakuhachi and shamisen into Western classical composition. Kyo-Shin-An Arts’ award-winning concert series at the Tenri Cultural Institute in Manhattan features a blend of KSA commissions with World, American and NY premieres, traditional and contemporary music for Japanese instruments and Western repertoire.

Horrified Press Launches in the Briar Chapbook

Nathan Rowark, editor of Horrified Press in London England, has released “In the Briar,” a chapbook written by Florida author Cynthia Morrison. Morrison, a writer of horror fiction, was compelled to include Florida’s Cassadaga psychic community as well as the infamous urban legend of the “Devil’s Chair” of Lake Helen cemetery located in close proximity.

MP says hospital will ‘succeed’ despite remaining in special measures

Watford MP Richard Harrington says he remains “committed” to Watford General Hospital after it emerged yesterday that it would remain in special measures. England’s chief hospital inspector Mike Richards said West Hertfordshire Hospital Trust, which runs the hospital along with St Albans and Hemel Hempstead, still required improvement despite it making progress since 2015.

London Homeowners Are Desperately Slashing Prices

More London home sellers are having to cut the asking price of their homes, and they’re offering deeper discounts as political uncertainty and high values dampen demand. “Price cuts seen in prime central London in the immediate aftermath of Brexit are now filtering through to outer boroughs,” said Savills Plc residential research director Lucian Cook.

London Homeowners Are Desperately Slashing Prices

More London home sellers are having to cut the asking price of their homes, and they’re offering deeper discounts as political uncertainty and high values dampen demand. “Price cuts seen in prime central London in the immediate aftermath of Brexit are now filtering through to outer boroughs,” said Savills Plc residential research director Lucian Cook.

City Seeks Space For Its Virtual Reality Hub

The city’s Economic Development Corporation and the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment are planning to create the nation’s first publicly-funded virtual reality and augmented reality lab, announcing Monday a request for proposals for a space that will include $6 million in public and private funding. The city is looking for bidders who will be able to provide space for VR and AR entrepreneurs with affordable, shared access to tools and technologies and gather academic, start-up and business communities to increase the talent pipeline and funding opportunities, as DNAinfo previously reported.

New York City plans to open 90 new homeless shelters

New York plans to open 90 new shelters as city officials struggle to get a handle on homelessness, which has risen over the past few decades to its highest level in almost a century, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Tuesday. The move is intended to ease crowding in current shelters and allow the city to move away from housing people in so-called “cluster sites,” which have been criticized as expensive and unsafe.

Man from Banbury reported missing

Keith Michael Jervis, 53, was last seen on February 16 at the caravan park, Corner Meadow, Farnborough Road, Mollington, near Banbury. He may have been in the Milton Keynes and Newport Pagnell area and is known to have links to Pembroke Dock in South West Wales.

In the Courts – latest update

Magistrates imposed a community order with 20 days of rehabilitation activities and a year-long restraining order. He must pay A 100 compensation, an A 85 victim surcharge and A 200 prosecution costs.

Melvyn Bragg gives wife huge pay-off but NO divorce

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Lord Melvin Bragg gives his wife a huge pay-off… but NO divorce: Broadcaster said to have bought her a house as part of their ‘amicable settlement’ When the distinguished broadcaster Melvyn Bragg confirmed to me last June that he had separated after 43 years from his wife, author Cate Haste, many of his friends assumed divorce proceedings would soon follow. However, I can disclose that the Labour peer, 77, who presented ITV’s flagship arts programme The South Bank Show for more than 30 years, has agreed a huge financial settlement with Lady Bragg, 71, that will, unusually, involve the couple remaining man and wife.

Locally produced food and drink on the menu at new Holiday Inn restaurant

BENNETT’S ice cream from Worcester and ales from the Wye Valley Brewery near Bromyard are just two of the local products to be found at the newly opened Cow on the Hill restaurant at Bromsgrove’s Holiday Inn hotel. The new restaurant offers a steak and grill menu with the emphasis on provenance of ingredients – all the steaks are from beef matured and grass fed on organic pastures in Northern Ireland’s Glenarm Estate.

Standing while eating could eventually make you fat

That’s what nutritionists and doctors say about eating big meals upright – that shameless habit you have of feasting on takeout over your kitchen counter, or at trendy new standing-only restaurants. At Ikinari Steak, a Japanese joint that opened its first U.S. location in the East Village last week, customers eat the steakhouse’s grub standing up.

Residents face 3.44% council tax rise after budget approved

Residents face an increase of 3.44% with total revenue collected from council tax expected to rise from A 6.1 million in 2016/17 to over A 6.365 million. Executive Leader for Fareham Borough Council, Sean Woodward said: “The increase is one of the lowest in Hampshire, giving Fareham residents good value for money and we are delighted.

James Hugh Gascoyne. The photo which his daughter sent to Tyrrells

His daughter, Lynda Clifton, had taken a photo of her dad enjoying a cup of tea and a packet of Tyrrells crisps just after his 100th birthday and had sent it to Tyrrells, based near Leominster . Members of staff then visited Mr Gascoyne at Christmas and gave him a big packet with lots of smaller packets inside of the different flavours of crisps.