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  • Reinventing Scarborough’s cultural offering

    Reinventing Scarborough’s cultural offering

    Scarborough’s Crescent is at the heart of the town’s cultural quarter, the location for its historic Art Gallery and creative centre Woodend. A short walk through the surrounding gardens takes you to one of the world’s earliest purpose-built museums, the iconic circular Rotunda. It completes a trio of buildings overseen by a new team which has big ideas for the North Yorkshire’s town’s cultural scene – starting with a new exhibition of work by leading contemporary British artist, Annabel McCourt.

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    May 19, 2019 No Comments
  • The Girl from Gotham City: Jackie Chambers on growing up in Leeds

    The Girl from Gotham City: Jackie Chambers on growing up in Leeds

    With her shock of blonde hair, studded leather outfits, huge smile and time-honoured rock poses, Jackie Chambers is known as the lead guitarist with all-female heavy metal band Girlschool, as well as for her latest project, Yorkshire-based rockers Syteria.

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    May 19, 2019 No Comments
  • Travel: Vedi Napoli e poi muori (see Naples and then die)

    Travel: Vedi Napoli e poi muori (see Naples and then die)

    Many people flying from the UK to Naples head straight for the Amalfi coast, put off entering the city by stories of the Camorra, handbag snatchers on scooters, crazy traffic and Vesuvius, an active volcano.

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    May 19, 2019 No Comments
  • “We’d like to make history.” The Talleyrand, Levenshulme, Manchester

    “We’d like to make history.” The Talleyrand, Levenshulme, Manchester

    Levenshulme is rising. To say it is gentrifying is perhaps too strong but it’s certainly becoming bohemian.

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    May 17, 2019 No Comments

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