Royal Mail has missed its delivery targets for another year, but said more first-class mail has been sent on time over recent weeks after pledging to invest £500 million in improving its service. Some 75.7% of first-class mail arrived the next working day over the 12 months to the end of March, according to the latest quality of service report. This was slightly less than the 76.3% achieved […]
Katie Boulter has called for the French Open to remove advertising boards at the back of courts after a doubles player tripped over one and was forced to retire. Turkey’s Zeynep Sonmez had played only two games of her second-round women’s doubles match on court six when, chasing a ball, she caught her foot on one of the foot-high Lacoste signs and fell into the back fence. British […]
Dartford warblers saw a record year in 2025 as the species continues to bounce back from the brink of extinction in the UK, the RSPB said. The small charismatic birds, which are currently on the “amber list” for conservation concern, suffered a population crash in the 1960s because of cold winters, which left only a few breeding pairs in Dorset. But more than 264 pairs […]
After a two week absence Dave and Carol are back with a packed show. They discuss, with different opinions, A Single White Female which is currently playing at The Regent Theatre. There's a passing nod to the New Vic's Around the World in 80 Days. Of course there's the all important What's On's. Dave speaks to Jennifer Hague about The Sorcerer's Apprentice which is an interesting collaboration between the Buxton […]
Review by Dave Stringer from A View from the Wings Podcast Thirteen years after its first showing, a history that includes success on Broadway and seven years after being mothballed due to the pandemic, Around The World In 80 Days is back home. And how delighted we all are that such a splendid piece of enjoyment is back where it truly belongs. Wonderful theatrical experiences such as this deserve a […]
Review by Dave Stringer The original Single White Female was a film from the 1990s that became a cult classic that has lived well beyond the sell-by date. Rebecca Reid has taken the concept of the original film and brought it right up to date. Now set in the Uk, it tackles the difficulties faced by a single mum in a world of sexting, social media influence and even Ozempic. […]
An Austrian court has convicted a man of planning to attack a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna nearly two years ago. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison. The state court in Wiener Neustadt found the 21-year-old defendant, an Austrian citizen known only as Beran A in line with Austrian privacy rules, guilty on charges including those related to the concert, the Austria Press […]
The number of young people neither working nor learning could reach 1.25 million within the next five years, a review by an ex-Labour health secretary will warn amid fears of a “lost generation”. Its author Alan Milburn is expected to say the first rung of the career ladder is “simply out of reach” for many young people and conclude it is not this group’s fault but rather “failure […]
The heatwave that has seen record temperatures set for the month of May in recent days is expected to ease slightly across the UK on Thursday. The Met Office forecast a temperature high of 31C in London on Thursday, while the Midlands and North West are expected see highs of 28C, noticeably lower than the 35.1C recorded at Kew Gardens in west London on Tuesday. […]
A Sikh man has been found guilty of the murder of an 18-year-old university student by stabbing him to death with a Sikh kirpan ceremonial knife with a 21cm blade. Vickrum Digwa told police a “wicked lie” that he was the victim of a racist attack after he stabbed finance student Henry Nowak, from Chaffod Hundred, Essex, five times in the incident in Belmont Road, Southampton, on December […]
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