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#OTD in 1981 – Bobby Sands dies at Long Kesh prison on the 66th day of his hunger strike.

Fuair siad bás ar son Saoirse na hÉireann. Bobby Sands dies in prison following a 66 day hunger strike. Sands would be the first of ten men to die in an effort to gain political status in a very public battle with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. In the House of Commons Thatcher commented on Sands death “Mr. Sands was a convicted criminal. He chose to take his own life. It was a choice…

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On April 10th 1981, BBC news reported that ‘imprisoned IRA hunger striker’ Bobby Sands had been elected to the House of Commons as MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone, defeating the Ulster Unionist candidate by a margin of 1446 votes. The path to victory was cleared by the withdrawal of the moderate Catholic Social Democratic and Labour Party, so as not to split the nationalist vote.

Bobby Sands, who was four years into a 14 year sentence on firearms offences, stood for parliament on an Anti H-Block platform, referring to the division of Maze Prison holding those convicted of sectarian terrorism offences. He was also already 41 days into a hunger strike, initiated in the cause of improving brutally harsh conditions, and for a reclassification of their status to that of political prisoners. (The 'special category' status had been revoked in 1976 by Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson). According to the BBC, he was already too weak at this point to leave his bed in the prison infirmary.

His election agent, (and subsequent MP for the same constituency) Owen Carron, stated:

“…The Nationalist people have voted against Unionism and against the H Blocks. It is time Britain got out of Ireland and put an end to the torture of this country…”

Bobby Sands died on May 5th, 1981.

The Thatcher Government’s public position was that they might be receptive to some reform of prison conditions, but refused to enter negotiations or grant any concessions while the hunger strike continued. Attempts at mediation were made by Pope John Paul II, the European Human Rights Commission, the Irish Commission for Justice and Peace, and the International Red Cross. By October, 10 of the hunger strikers had died, while five prisoners were saved after their families, supported by the Catholic Church, granted permission for medical authorities to intravenously feed those who had lost consciousness.

After the strike ended, the Government announced some measures toward regime improvements. Despite the public hard-line position, some secret negotiations had been occurring through an MI6 agent, while Jim Prior, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, drove a more conciliatory approach.

The classification to political prisoner status was one compromise not considered, with Margaret Thatcher famously stating, "Crime is crime is crime. It is not political. It is crime. There can be no question of political status." She also said, "Mr Sands was a convicted criminal. He chose to take his own life. It was a choice that his organisation did not allow to many of their victims."

The Representation of the People Act was also amended, preventing other H-Block prisoners, or any prisoner sentenced to more than one year, standing for parliament.

One hundred thousand mourners attended Bobby Sands' funeral.

(Sources: BBC On This Day. Peter Taylor (BBC): "Bobby Sands: The Hunger Strike that Changed the Course of N Ireland's conflict".

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Who is Ali Jayden Maguire? Wiki, Biography, Age, Family, Cause of Death, Instagram

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Ali Jayden Maguire suffered "a serious head injury" while at an address on Park Avenue in Dungannon, Co Tyrone on Friday night. The tragic baby was rushed to the hospital where she later died. A 32-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of killing the boy. Ali's mother, Jade McGuire, is alleged to have left her daughter and her younger brother, DJ, at the property before having to return when informed of the incident, the Sun reports. The baby's mother, Jade McGuire, who is originally from Dublin but lived in the area, had left AJ and her younger brother DJ at the property before having to return when informed of the incident. She tonight she was comforting her family.

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Ali Jayden Maguire was 2 years old.

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The heartbroken grandfather of a two-year-old girl who died of a head injury has described it as his "pride and joy." Locally named Little Ali Jayden Maguire, known as AJ, was injured at an address on Park Avenue in Dungannon, County Tyrone on Friday night, Belfast Live reports. The tragic baby was rushed to the hospital where she later died. It is understood that PSNI officers and paramedics who arrived at the scene were told that the boy had been injured after falling into a chimney. A source said: “Initially it was claimed that the girl had fallen against a fireplace, she hit her head and then stopped breathing. “The police have confirmed that the first report was of a serious head injury to her. The mother was said to have just walked away after leaving the girl and baby behind when she called for her and found her daughter seriously injured. An ambulance was called and paramedics were inside the house for some time. The investigation is ongoing ". The tributes to the girl last night flooded social networks. A friend said: "You were too precious for this world, rest girl." Another said, “My heart is broken in two for all of you. You were too good for this land. Rest in peace, precious little angel. I'm thinking of you, this is all so difficult. Witnesses described seeing an ambulance arrive at the quiet cul-de-sac, taking the girl to the hospital, where she tragically died later. The police maintained a presence in the house that was recorded while the preliminary investigations were being carried out. However, within hours the situation changed and the incident turned into a murder investigation. A 32-year-old man was arrested Friday night at a different address and remains in police custody. Read Also: Who is Tom Daley? Wiki, Biography, Age, Family, Tokyo Olympics, Instagram When the news broke on Saturday morning, the area was quiet, as neighbors came one by one to place flowers along the wall of the house. One left an ornament of a crying angel. Detectives conducted house-to-house investigations while uniformed officers guarded the house, which is now the crime scene. An officer helped an elderly woman to approach the wall to place a bouquet of white flowers. Other neighbors, some of whom were crying, spoke of the tragic loss of the child they were used to seeing with his mother and her little brother. One lady, who did not want to be identified, said: “I saw the ambulance and prayed that whoever was inside was okay. "I don't think anyone knew at the time that it was a boy. But then the police came and it started to come to light what had happened. I think even then we didn't realize how bad it was. Then they told us that The child was dead. It's difficult to assimilate. Another neighbor, who also did not want to be identified, said: "We knew something had happened, but not for a minute did we expect this. “We did not learn of an arrest until this morning. God bless that child. Although the incident and an arrest on Friday night were widely known, the PSNI did not confirm the details until Saturday morning. Former Northern Ireland Prime Minister Arlene Foster said: “Another tragic death in the constituency, this time a girl. “Thinking of everyone who is dealing with this terrible event and trying to make sense of it all. Sinn Fein MP Michelle Gildernew has said the local community is in shock after the incident. Fermanagh South Tyrone MP said: “My thoughts are with all those affected by this tragedy. A police murder investigation is underway and should be allowed to proceed, and I would call anyone with any information that could assist in those investigations to contact the PSNI. " Local Councilor Clement Cuthbertson said: “Heartbreaking news in Dungannon last night, thoughts and prayers go out to the family. Barry Monteith, an independent Republican councilor from Dungannon said: “Terrible, horrible news about the tragic death of the 2-year-old girl in Dungannon last night. Words don't cover the horror of this. A community in shock. The thoughts of all of us are with those we love. A statement warned that detectives from the Lead Investigation Team are investigating the circumstances of the death of a two-year-old girl. Detective Chief Inspector John Caldwell said: “The boy was admitted to hospital Friday afternoon after the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service attended an address on Park Avenue in Dungannon with what was reported as a serious injury. in the head. The boy later died in hospital. As part of our investigation, we have arrested a 32-year-old man on suspicion of murder and he remains in custody this morning. FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK Read the full article

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Steffan Rhodri and Nathaniel Parker in THIS HOUSE at Chichester Festival Theatre. Photo by Johan Persson

Rehearsals began today (Monday 22nd January 2018) for the first UK tour of This House, which opens at West Yorkshire Playhouse on 23 February (national press night 28 February). The cast – who play a colourful host of MPs and Whips – is Ian Barritt (Batley & Morley/Woolwich West/Belfast North/Western Isles & Ensemble), William Chubb (Humphrey Atkins), Giles Cooper (Fred Silvester), Stephen Critchlow (Bromsgrove/Abingdon/Liverpool Edge Hill/Paisley/Fermanagh & Ensemble), James Gaddas (Walter Harrison), Natalie Grady (Ann Taylor), Ian Houghton (Armagh, Ambulance Man, Ensemble), David Hounslow (Joe Harper), Marcus Hutton (Ensemble), Harry Kershaw (Paddington South/Chelmsford/South Ayrshire/Henley/Marioneth /Coventry North West/Rushcliffe/Perry Barr & Ensemble), Louise Ludgate (Rochester & Chatham/Welwyn & Hatfield/Coventry South West/Ilford North/Lady Batley & Ensemble), Geoffrey Lumb (Clockmaker/Peebles/Redditch/Stirlingshire West/Clerk & Ensemble), Nicholas Lumley (Oxshott/Belfast West/St Helens & Ensemble), Martin Marquez (Bob Mellish), Matthew Pidgeon (Jack Weatherill), Miles Richardson (Speaker Act I/Mansfield/Sergeant at Arms Act II/West Lothian & Ensemble), Tony Turner (Michael Cocks), Orlando Wells (Walsall North/Plymouth Sutton/Serjeant at Arms Act I/Speaker Act II/Caernarfon/Clerk & Ensemble) and Charlotte Worthing (Ensemble). Ian Houghton, David Hounslow, Matthew Pidgeon, Tony Turner and Orlando Wells return to This House having previously appeared in the West End production.

James Graham’s critically acclaimed and prescient political drama takes on a new importance in the current political climate. Are we in the midst of a political revolution? Can the country stay united? Roll back to 1974… The corridors of Westminster ring with the sound of infighting and back biting as Britain’s political parties’ battle to change the future of the nation, whatever it takes.

In an era of chaos, both hilarious and shocking, when votes are won or lost by one, there are fist fights in the parliamentary bars, high-stakes tricks and games are played, and sick MPs are carried through the lobby to register their crucial votes as the government hangs by a thread. This House strips politics down to the practical realities of those behind the scenes; the whips who roll up their sleeves and on occasion bend the rules to shepherd and coerce a diverse chorus of MPs within the Mother of all Parliaments.

Directed by Jeremy Herrin with Jonathan O’Boyle, the production is designed by Rae Smith with lighting design by Paule Constable and Ben Pickersgill on tour, music by Stephen Warbeck, choreography by Scott Ambler and sound by Ian Dickinson.

This House is produced on tour by Jonathan Church Productions and Headlong.

Cast Ian Barritt – Batley & Morley/Woolwich West/Belfast North/Western Isles & Ensemble Theatre includes: The Life of Galileo, The Alchemist (National Theatre), The Shawshank Redemption (UK Tour), Rebecca (UK Tour) Handbagged, Remarkable Invisible (The Theatre by the Lake, Keswick), The Lower Depths (Arcola), Hamlet, All’s Well That Ends Well, The Tempest, Troilus and Cressida (Tobacco Factory), Other Desert Cities (English Theatre of Frankfurt), Othello (Sheffield Crucible), Uncle Vanya (Bristol Old Vic/Galway Festival), Kes, Separate Tables (Manchester Royal Exchange), Richard II, Corionlanus (Almeida/New York/Tokyo), Gates of Gold (Manchester Library), One Night In November (Coventry Belgrade).Television includes: Wolf Hall, The Musketeers, Attila The Hun, Doctor Who, Upstairs Downstairs, Doctors, Foyle’s War, Life On Mars, Only Fools and Horse.

William Chubb – Humphrey Atkins Theatre includes: Racing Demon (Theatre Royal Bath), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, King Lear (Old Vic), In The Depths of Dead Love (The Print Room), Lawrence After Arabia (Hampstead Theatre), Waste, Great Britain, Othello, Scenes from an Execution (National Theatre), Richard II (Shakespeare’s Globe), The Vortex, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Love’s Labours Lost (Rose Theatre, Kingston), Yes Prime Minister (Chichester Festival Theatre/West End), The History Boys (National Theatre), The Sea (Theatre Royal Haymarket). Television includes: Close to the Enemy, My Baby, Breathless, Edge of Heaven, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Law and Order, Silk, The Bill. Films include: 6 Days, Adrift in Soho, Tees, Veer, Affair of the Necklace, Mrs Caldicot’s Cabbage War, Milk, The Woodlanders.

Giles Cooper – Fred Silvester Theatre includes: The Duchess of Malfi, The Knight of the Burning Pestle, Henry V (Shakespeare’s Globe), People, After the Dance (National Theatre), As Is (Arion Productions), Great Expectations (ETT), The Talented Mr Ripley (Northampton Royal), Trilby (Finborough), Dreams of Violence (Soho/Out of Joint), Think Global, F**k Local (Royal Court/Out of Joint), A Touch of the Sun (Salisbury Playhouse), Rafts and Dreams (Royal Court), The Witches (West End), Full Circle (Triumph Ent.), The Witches (Birmingham Rep), Twelfth Night (Bolton Octagon), Across Oka, Rafts and Dreams (Manchester Royal Exchange). Television Includes: Hollyoaks, Consenting Adults. Film includes: The Lady in the Van, Pride, Apollo and the Continents, The Nun.

Stephen Critchlow – Bromsgrove/Abingdon/Liverpool Edge Hill/Paisley/Fermanagh & Ensemble Theatre includes: Filthy Business, Loyalty (Hampstead Theatre), The Men From The Ministry Reloaded (The White Bear), The 39 Steps (The Criterion Theatre), Pygmalion (The Albery Theatre), Hamlet (West End), Cyrano De Bergerac (National Theatre), A Christmas Carol, The Relapse, When We Are Married (Birmingham Rep), Soap, Time of My Life, Twelfth Night, (Theatre Royal Northampton), The Game of Love and Chance (Salisbury Playhouse), Round The Horne Revisited (UK Tour). Television includes: Downton Abbey, Guerrilla, Little Lord Fauntleroy, The Prince And The Pauper, Cider With Rosie, Heartbeat, Red Dwarf 11, Miranda, Coronation Street, Casualty, Holby City, Doctors, Skins, Hattie, Fantabuloza, The Armando Iannucci show, The Railway Murder, The Thieving Headmistress, Trial And Retribution, Blue Murder, Daziel and Pascoe, The Vice, Without Motive, Heartbeat, Walking on the Moon, Baggy Trousers, A Likeness in Stone, A Line in the Sand, The Vice, Back Up, The Bill, Monarch of the Glen. Film includes: A Way Through The Woods, Fogbound, The Calcium Kid, Churchill The Hollywood Years.

James Gaddas – Walter Harrison Theatre includes: The Girls (Phoenix Theatre), Billy Elliot (Palace Theatre), Mamma Mia (Novello), Spamalot (UK Tour), Art (Wyndhams Theatre), Peter Pan (Curve, Leicester), The Messiah (West Yorkshire Playhouse), You Never Know Who’s Out There (Drill Hall), A Passionate Woman (Comedy), Jackie, A Chorus of Disapproval (Lyric Hammersmith), Three Guys Naked From The Waist Down, (Donmar Warehouse). Television Includes: Bad Girls, Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Waterloo Road, Against The Law, Casualty, Holby City, The Camomile Lawn, Medics, Class Act, Troubles, The Bill, Backup, Dogtown, Vincent, Jonathan Creek, Grafters, Heartbeat, Between The Lines, Secrets, El Cid. Film Includes: Starter For Ten, The Human Bomb, Girl’s Night, The Black Candle, Dead Man’s Folly, A Hazard of Hearts, The Pied Piper, Last Days Of Summer.

Natalie Grady – Ann Taylor Theatre includes: Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Storyhouse Chester), Brassed Off (Oldham Coliseum), Marth, Josie and The Chinese Elvis (Hull Truck), To Kill a Mockingbird (Regent’s Park Theatre/ UK Tour), Hobson’s Choice (Bolton Octagon). Television Includes: Hollyoaks, Snatch, Trollied, Endeavour, 6 Wives, Coronation Street, Doctors, Jam and Jerusalem.

Marcus Hutton – Understudy Marcus trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Theatre includes: Private Lives (Nottingham Playhouse), Naomi (The Gate), Slave Island, Don Juan (Manchester Royal Exchange), The Scarlet Pimpernel (Wolsey Ipswich), Crusade (Theatre Royal Stratford East), She Stoops to Conquer (Oxford Stage Company), Tis Pity She’s a Whore (Exeter Northcott), Tess of the D’urbevilles (Horseshoe Basingstoke), Flags and Bandages (Colchester Mercury), Reeling (New Vic Productions), The Lady from the Sea (Portlands Playhouse), Secrets of Cherry on the Run (Riverside Studios), Table Manners (UK Tour), Sound of Murder (UK Tour), Dial M for Murder (UK Tour), Kiss Chase (UK Tour), The Ghost and Mrs Muir (UK Tour), Dangerous Obsession (UK Tour), Suddenly at Home (UK Tour), Jeckyll and Hyde (UK Tour), What the Butler Saw (UK Tour), The Wind in the Willows (UK Tour). Film includes: Made in Dagenham, I’m Here, Cycle, Deep in the Woods, The Dark Channel, The Wager, Framed, Grandma.Television includes: Midsomer Murders, Making Beach, Holby City, Dr Who, Love Hurts, Lovejoy, Diana: Her True Story, A Class Act, The New Professionals, The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries, Crocodile Shoes, Smack The Pony, Hollyoaks, Brookside. Marcus is a founder member of the Radio City Theatre Company.

Ian Houghton – Armagh, Ambulance Man, Ensemble Theatre includes: War Horse (New London Theatre), This House (West End), The Audience, Yes, Prime Minister (Gielgud Theatre), Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus (UK Tour), The Best Man (UK Tour), Boeing Boeing (UK Tour), The Fastest Clock in the Universe (Old Red Lion), Unrestless (Old Vic New Voices), What’s Wrong with Angry? (King’s Head) Moonlight and Magnolias (Hertford Theatre), Woman in Mind, Oliver! (Gordon Craig Theatre) Decade (Theatre503), Art, Gagarin Way, Journey’s End, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, The Government Inspector, Incorruptible, Absurd Person Singular, Noises Off (The Company of Players). Television includes: Harley and the Davidsons, Mr. Selfridge, Eastenders, Call the Midwife, The Great Outdoors, Waking the Dead, MI High and Moving Wallpaper. Film includes: RocknRolla and Breaking and Entering.

David Hounslow – Joe Harper Theatre includes: This House (National Theatre/Chichester Festival Theatre/West End), The Fall Of The Master Builder (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Queen Coal (Sheffield Crucible), The Empty Quarter (Hampstead Theatre), Way Upstream (Salisbury Playhouse), Too Much Pressure (Coventry Begrade), Warm (Theatre 503), Billy Liar (Liverpool Playhouse), Tamburlaine (Bristol Old Vic/Barbican), A Night At The Dogs (Soho Theatre), The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice (Royal Exchange Manchester), Holes In The Skin (Chichester), Dealer’s Choice, My Night With Reg, Perpetua, First Person Shooter, (Birmingham Rep), Tales From Hollywood, Privates On Parade (Donmar Warehouse), Alcestis (Northern Broadsides), All of You Mine, A Question Of Mercy (Bush Theatre), Othello, Henry V, Coriolanus, The Wives Excuse, Zenobia (Royal Shakespeare Company), Bent (National Theatre/West End), Fuente Ovejuna (National Theatre), Macbeth, Billy Budd (Sheffield Crucible), Our Boys (Cockpit), Treasure Island (Farnham Redgrave), The Snowman (Leicester Haymarket). Film includes: London Kills Me, Captives, Fever Pitch, The Man Who Knew Too Little, I Want You, Tabloid TV, The Flying Scotsman, The International, Defining Fay, Ginger and Rosa, Peterloo. Television includes: The Unknown Soldier, Coronation Street, Othello, Children of the North, Gone to the Dogs, The Bill, Resnick, True Crimes, Minder, Bad Company, Under The Hammer, Anna Lee, Soldier Soldier, Deadly Crack, The Cinder Path, Chandler and Co., Six Sides of Coogan, Crimes and Punishment, Turning World, Is It Legal, Peak Practice, A Wing and a Prayer, Dangerfield, Playing the Field, The Unknown Soldier, Bugs, Within Living Memory ,Casualty, Eastenders, City Central, Bomber, Always and Everyone, Peak Practice, Silent Witness, North Square, Doctors, Heartbeat, London’s Burning, Margery & Gladys, Ultimate Force, Crisis Command, Blackpool, Holby City, The Brief, Doctors, Robin Hood, Jekyll, Dalziel And Pascoe, Is This Love?, Coronation Street, Little Miss Jocelyn, MI High, Dead Set, Bonekickers, Waking The Dead, Spooks IX, Homefront, Foyle’s War, The Bletchley Circle II, Emmerdale, Moving On, Bad Move.

Harry Kershaw – Paddington South/Chelmsford/South Ayrshire/Henley/Merioneth/Coventry North West/Rushcliffe/Perry Barr & Ensemble Harry trained at RADA. Theatre includes: Mischief Movie Night (Arts Theatre), Peter Pan Goes Wrong (West End/UK Tour), The Play That Goes Wrong (West End), One Man Two Guvnors (West End), The Circle Game (Old Vic New Voices).Television includes: Peter Pan Goes Wrong (Christmas Special), Supreme Tweeter, The Interceptor, Omid Djalili’s Little Cracker, Switch, Cuckoo, Wallander, Endeavour. Film includes: Unhappy Campers, Exhibition, Unrelated, Blue Monday, Great Expectations, Skyfall, Rufus Stone, The Date.

Louise Ludgate – Rochester & Chatham/Welwyn & Hatfield/Coventry Sount West/Ilford North/Lady Batley & Ensemble Theatre includes: Iron (Traverse/Royal Court) Lanark, Sub Rosa (Citizen’s Theatre), Sex and Drugs, Greta, Class Act, First Bite (Traverse Theatre), The House of Bernada Alba, Little Otik, Macbeth, Realism, Home (National Theatre of Scotland), Strawgirl, The Adoptive Papers (Royal Exchange Manchester), Trojan Women (Tobacco Factory), World Domination, Resurrection, The Course of True Love (Oran Mor Theatre), When The Dons Were Kings, Guilty, the Course of True Love, Fishwrap (The Lemon Tree), Jeff Koons (UK Tour), Balgay Hill (Dundee Rep), 13 Sunken Years (Assembly Rooms/Finnish National Theatre). Film includes: City of the Blind, Swung, No Man’s Land, Goodbye Happy Ending, Café Rendevous, The Last Ten Minutes. Television includes: River City, Freedom, Taggart, Kissing Tickling and Being Bored, High Times, Sea of Souls, The Key, Spooks, Tinsel Town, Glasgow Kiss, Robert Burns ‘Alive and Kicking’.

Geoffrey Lumb – Clockmaker/Peebles/Redditch/Stirlingshire West/Clerk & Ensemble Geoffrey trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Theatre includes: Vice Versa, Coriolanus, Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo and Juliet, King John, Shrew, The American Pilot, The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (RSC), King Charles III (UK tour/Australia), Much Ado About Nothing (Lamb Players), Macbeth, Twelfth Night (Filter Theatre Company), Prophesy, Macbeth (Baz Theatre Productions), Fitzrovia Radio Hour Tour (UK tour), Chekhov in Hell (Soho Theatre/Drum Plymouth), Romeo and Juliet (US Tour), Rendezvous with Fear (Fitzrovia Radio Hour), His Dark Materials (Birmingham Rep/West Yorkshire Playhouse), Rendition Monologues (Bridewell Theatre/Queen Elizabeth Hall), The Changeling, Twelfth Night (English Touring Theatre), Hansel & Gretel (Northampton Theatre Royal). Television includes: Holby City, 24: Live Another Day, Doctors, Hollyoaks, Luther, Europe’s Secret Armies. Film includes: Paddington 2

Nicholas Lumley – Oxshott/Belfast West/St Helens & Ensemble Nicholas read Law at Newcastle University before training at the Bristol Old Vic. Theatre includes: Dr Faustus, Don Quixote, Beaux Stratagem, Midsummer Nights Dream, Kiss Me Kate (RSC), Great Britain, NT 50, The Magistrate, After The Dance, Never So Good, Afterlife (National Theatre), Timon of Athens (Young Vic), Sergeant Musgraves Dance, Richard II (Old Vic), Tyne (Live Theatre), Pitman Painters (Royal National Theatre/ UK Tour); Close The Coalhouse Door (UK Tour), Much Ado about Nothing (Wyndhams Theatre), The Company Man (Orange Tree Theatre) Porridge (UK Tour), Looking for Buddy (Live Theatre, Newcastle/Bolton Octagon), The Sound of Music (Apollo Victoria), The Canterbury Tales (Garrick Theatre), Chorus of Disapproval (Lyric Theatre),The Bakers Wife, Richard II, Richard III (Phoenix Theatre), Bellman’s Opera (The Pit), Brighton Rock (Almeida), Little Voice, Rope (Watermill), Oleanna, Educating Rita (Salisbury Playhouse). Television includes: Downton Abbey, Houdini and Doyle, Doc Martin, Parade’s End, Vera, George Gently, Enid, Auf Wiedersehen Pet, The Bill, Lovejoy, Kavanagh QC, Wycliffe, Catherine Cookson’s The Secret, Holby City, Crossroads, Wilderness, Eastenders, Coronation Street, Derailed. Films include: Peterloo, Where Hands Touch, Paddington 2, Lady Macbeth, Winterflight, Stormy Monday Goal!, Right Hand Drive, Across the Universe.

Martin Marquez – Bob Mellish Theatre includes: Husbands & Sons, Anything Goes, Loves Labour’s Lost, Mother Courage & Her Children (National Theatre), Much Ado About Nothing, Imogen (Shakespeare’s Globe), Ah, Wilderness (Young Vic), Cleansed, Identical Twins (Royal Court Theatre), Fool For Love, Front Page (Donmar Warehouse), The Iceman Cometh (The Old Vic), Snowball (Hampstead Theatre) Gondoliers, I Caught My Death In Venice, Insignificance, Pal Joey (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Crucible, Don Juan, Of Mice and Men (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Brothers Marquez (Soho Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (Nottingham Playhouse), Before I Leave (National Theatre of Wales), Blasted (Sheffield Theatres), From Here To Eternity (Eternity Productions Ltd), 4 Knights in Knaresborough (Tricycle), Asylum (Queen Elizabeth Hall), Biloxi Blues (Library Manchester), Boeing Boeing (UK Tour) The Dark Side of Buffoon, The Sea (Belgrade Theatre). Film includes: After Louise, Girl on a Bicycle, A Louder Silence, Les Miserables, The Business.Television includes: The Crown, New Tricks, Elizabeth, Empire, Hotel Babylon, Lead Balloon, Dead Pixels, Bounty Hunter, Modus, Decline and Fall, Suntrap, The Javone Prince Show, The Job Lot, Woody, Vera, Knifeman, Benidorm, The Whale, Twenty Twelve, Falcon – Blind Man of Seville, Holy Flying Circus, Eastenders, Heartbeat, Dirty Tricks, The Plastic Man, Murder Most Horrid, The Bill, In Suspicious Circumstances.

Matthew Pidgeon – Jack Weatherill Theatre includes: This House (Chichester/West End/National Theatre), Salome (RSC), The James Plays (National Theatre of Scotland UK/World Tour), Wolf Hall & Bring Up the Bodies (RSC/Aldwych Theatre/Broadway), Edward II (National Theatre), Midsummer (Traverse Theatre/World Tour), Much Ado About Nothing, The Mysteries (Shakespeare’s Globe), Kyoto (Traverse Theatre) The Wonderful World of Dissocia, Realism, Caledonia (National Theatre of Scotland) The Lying Kind (The Royal Court), The Cherry Orchard, The Wizard of Oz, Vanity Fair, Pinocchio, The Glass Menagerie (Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh). Television includes: Taggart, Casualty, Holby. Film includes: Daphne, The Winslow Boy, State and Main, A Shot at Glory.

Miles Richardson – Speaker Act I/Mansfield/Serjeant at Arms Act II/West Lothian & Ensemble Miles graduated from Arts Educational Drama Collage in 1982, winning the Best Actor award. Theatre includes: Macbeth, Death of a Salesman, The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Newcastle Rep) Another Country (Queens) Romeo & Juliet (Ludlow Festival) Wilfred, A Midsummer Nights Dream, An Inspector Calls, The Contractor (Birmingham Rep) Othello (Theatr Clwyd) Private Lives (Theatre Royal York) Richard II & Richard III (UK Tour) An Evening with Gary Lineker (Lyric) The Seagull (Bromley) Journeys End (Kings Head) Charley’s Aunt, The Three Musketeers (Canizzaro Park) The Picture of Dorian Gray (Westminster Theatre) The Three Musketeers (UK Tour) Romeo & Juliet (Hull Truck) Wuthering Heights, Cause Celebre, First Class Passengers (Pitlochry) The Invisible Man (Stratford East/Vaudeville Theatre/Harold Pinter Theatre) Candida, The Lovers, Playing Sinatra (New End) Lulu (Almeida/Kennedy Center, Washington DC) A Doll’s House, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Warwick) The Rivals (Wimbledon) The Moment of Truth, Dear Brutus (Southwark Playhouse), Anjin: The Shogun and the English Samurai (Tokyo/Sadler’s Wells), 12 Angry Men (Garrick Theatre), King Charles the Third (Wyndhams Theatre/Broadway) King John (Rose Theatre Kingston) Sleuth (Nottingham) Loves Labours Lost, All’s Well That Ends Well, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, Volpone, Henry IV pt1, Henry IV pt2, Henry V, Henry VI pt1, Henry VI pt2, Henry VI pt3, Richard III (RSC). Television includes: Elizabeth, Highlander, Byron, Inspector Lynley Mysteries, The King Must Die, Porterhouse Blue, Allo,Allo, The Brief, Cambridge Spies, Miss Marple, Doctors, Upstairs Downstairs, Dirk Gently, Doctor Who, Jo, Midsomer Murders, Dancing on the Edge, Sick Note, Lucan, Genius, The Crown. Film includes: Maurice, Harry Potter & The Sorcerer’s Stone, The Best Offer, Beat Girl, The Remains of the Day, Flushed away, A Princess for Christmas, Mindgame, Their Finest, A Quiet Passion, The Colour of Magic, Big Pants, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, Sabotage, Titanic, Peterloo, The Queen of Spain.

Tony Turner – Michael Cocks Theatre includes: Ink (Almeida/West End) This House (National Theatre/Chichester/West End), The Curious Incident of The Dog In The Night Time (West End) Burnt by the Sun, Her Naked Skin, Present Laughter, Playing With Fire, The UN Inspector (National Theatre), Measure for Measure, Big White Fog, Enemies (Almeida Theatre), The House of Special Purpose (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Damned United (West Yorkshire Playhouse/Derby Theatre), The School for Scheming (Orange Tree Theatre) Journey’s End (UK Tour/West End), Personal Enemy (Brits Off Broadway), One Night In November (Belgrade Theatre), The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs (Salisbury Playhouse), Mad World My Masters, Neville’s Island (New Wolsey), Madness of George III (West Yorkshire Playhouse/Birmingham Rep), The Danny Crowe Show (Bush Theatre), Christmas Carol (Stoke New Vic), Talent (Colchester Mercury/Watford Palace Theatre), Communicating Doors (Manchester Library Theatre), Macbeth, Othello (Liverpool Everyman), Romeo and Juliet (Birmingham Rep). Television includes: Delicious, WPC 56, Call The Midwife, Downton Abbey, Loving Miss Hatto, Holby City, Silk, Doctors, Andrew Osler, Maxwell, Party Animals, Gavin & Stacey, Trial & Retribution XIII, Foyle’s War, Derailed, Eyes Down, Red Carp, Coronation Street, Children’s Ward, September Song.

Orlando Wells – Walsall North/Plymouth Sutton/Serjeant at Arms Act I/Speaker Act II/Caernarfon/Clerk & Ensemble Orlando trained at LAMDA. Theatre includes: This House (Chichester Festival Theatre/West End), Noises Off, Tonight at 8:30 (English Touring Theatre), The Woman In Black (Fortune Theatre), Katrina (Bargehouse, South Bank), Our Country’s Good (Watermill), The History Boys (National Theatre), Pirandello’s Henry IV (Donmar Warehouse), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Modernists (Sheffield Crucible), The Tempest (Plymouth Theatre Royal), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Othello, Anthony and Cleopatra (RSC), Treehouses (Northcott Exeter), Deathrap (Vienna’s English Theatre), The Journey of Mary Kelly (Theatre Clwyd). Television includes: Father Brown, Casualty, Holby City, A Very British Sex Scandal, Doctors, Nowhere Left to Hide, Living the Quake, The Machioness Disaster, Slave Dynasty, As If, Trust, A Rather English Marriage, Killer Net, Mosley, After the War. Film includes: The King’s Speech, Midsummer Madness, Zemanovaload, Wilde. Orlando is also a writer for Theatre and Television.

Charlotte Worthing – Understudy Charlotte trained at Oxford School of Drama and East 15 Acting School. Theatre includes Princess Charming (Spun Glass Theatre and Ovalhouse Theatre), These Trees Are Made Of Blood (Arcola Theatre and Southwark Playhouse), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Young Shakespeare Company), Twelfth Night (Open Bar Theatre Company), The Absolute Truth About Absolutely Everything (Camden People’s Theatre), The Wind in the Willows (Open Book Theatre Company), The Just So Stories (National Tour for Red Table Theatre Company), Little Pieces of Gold (Theatre503), Wait (Arcola Theatre), The Wasabi Nut (National Theatre of Scotland). Film includes Here and Now, Souljacker, Coincidence. Television includes Panorama.

Creatives

James Graham won the Pearson Playwriting Bursary in 2006 and went on to win the Catherine Johnson Award for Best Play of 2007 for Eden’s Empire. His upcoming and recent plays include The Culture – A Farce in Two Acts for Hull Truck Theatre, Quiz (Chichester Festival Theatre, transferring to the West End this spring), Labour of Love (West End), Ink (Almeida and West End), Monster Raving Loony (Theatre Royal, Plymouth), The Vote (Donmar Warehouse), Finding Neverland (American Repertory Theater), The Angry Brigade (Theatre Royal, Plymouth and The Bush) and Privacy (Donmar Warehouse). His television credits include the award-winning Coalition (Channel 4) and his film credits include X+Y (BBC Films).

Jeremy Herrin is Artistic Director of Headlong, for which he has directed Labour of Love (a Headlong and Michael Grandage Company co-production), Junkyard (Bristol Old Vic/Theatr Clwyd/Rose Theatre Kingston), Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (UK Tour), The Absence of War (UK Tour) and The Nether (at the Royal Court and in the West End). For the National Theatre his directing credits include Common (A co-production with Headlong), The Plough and the Stars (co-directed with Howard Davies), People, Places & Things (A co-production with Headlong which transferred to the West End, toured the UK tour and played a sold out run at St Ann’s Warehouse, New York in 2017), This House (Olivier nomination for Best Director), which transferred to Chichester Festival Theatre and the West End in a co-production with Headlong, and Statement of Regret. For the RSC he directed the world premiere of Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker prize-winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, which transferred to the West End in May 2014 and Broadway in March 2015 and for which he won the Evening Standard Award for Best Director and was nominated for an Olivier and Tony Award.

Jonathan O’Boyle’s credits include: Pippin (Southwark Playhouse/Hope Mill Theatre), Dear Brutus (Southwark Playhouse), Hair (Hope Mill Theatre/The Vaults), Four Play, Sense of an Ending, Water Under the Board (Theatre503), Bash Latterday Plays (Trafalgar Studios/Old Red Lion), The Surplus, All The Ways To Say Goodbye (Young Vic), The Verb, ‘To Love’, Made in Britain (Old Red Lion), Broken Glass (Central School of Speech and Drama), Last Online Today, Guinea Pigs (Crucible New Writers’ Project, Sheffield Crucible Studio), The Monster Bride (Tristan Bates Theatre). Associate Director Credits include: An American in Paris (Dominion Theatre), This House (Chichester Festival Theatre/West End), The Judas Kiss (Ed Mirvish Theatre, Toronto/Brooklyn Academy of Music), Mack and Mabel (Chichester Festival Theatre/UK Tour), Bull (Young Vic), This Is My Family (Sheffield Lyceum/UK Tour). Assistant Director credits include: The Scottsboro Boys (Young Vic). Jonathan was selected as one of the Guardian’s Rising Stage Stars of 2014.

About Headlong Headlong creates exhilarating contemporary theatre: a provocative mix of innovative new writing, reimagined classics and influential twentieth-century plays that illuminate our world.

Headlong is one of the most ambitious & exciting theatre companies in the world. We make bold, innovative productions with some of the UK’s finest artists. We take these industry leading, award-winning shows around the country & beyond, in theatres & online, attracting new audiences of all ages & backgrounds. We engage as deeply as we can with these communities & this helps us become better at what we do.

Productions have included Labour of Love (Noël Coward Theatre), People, Places & Things (National Theatre/West End/UK Tour/New York), The House They Grew Up In (Chichester Festival Theatre), Common (National Theatre), Junkyard (Bristol Old Vic, Theatr Clwyd and Rose Theatre Kingston), This House (Chichester Festival Theatre and West End), Pygmalion (UK tour), Boys Will Be Boys (Bush Theatre), 1984 (UK and international tours and West End), The Nether (Royal Court Theatre and West End), American Psycho (Almeida and Broadway), Chimerica (Almeida and West End), and Enron (UK tour, West End and Broadway).

https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/this-house-on-tour

http://ift.tt/2DXZMmF London Theatre 1

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Constituency Preview: Fermanagh & South Tyrone

The last time the United Kingdom held a general election so close to Christmas was on December 14th 1918. At that time the territory which roughly composes the modern constituency of Fermanagh & South Tyrone was represented by 3 Members of Parliament. North Fermanagh & South Tyrone both returned Irish Unionst MPs to Westminster, while South Fermanagh elected Seán O'Mahony of Sinn Féin who abstained from Westminster and sat in the first Dáil.

Taking totals of the number of votes cast for nationalists and unionists across those 3 constituencies reveals 21908 votes for unionist candidates, and 21,080 for nationalist candidates. 101 years later so little has changed that a margin of 828 votes would be considered a comfortable victory when compared to some recent contests here.

It was to the parliament elected in 1918 that Winston Churchill, while moving the Irish Free State (Agreement) Bill for its second reading, made his now famous remark that…

“as the deluge subsides and the waters fall short we see the dreary steeples of Fermanagh and Tyrone emerging once again. The integrity of their quarrel is one of the few institutions that has been unaltered in the cataclysm which has swept the world.”

The less well known remainder of the paragraph that the then Secretary of State for the Colonies was working his way through is no less applicable to the last few years of British and European politics.

��That says a lot for the persistency with which Irish men on the one side or the other are able to pursue their controversies. It says a great deal for the power which Ireland has, both Nationalist and Orange, to lay their hands upon the vital strings of British life and politics, and to hold, dominate, and convulse, year after year, generation after generation, the politics of this powerful country.”

(https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1922/feb/16/irish-free-state-agreement-bill).

Another few generations on, the power of Ireland to hold, dominate, and convulse the vital strings of British life and politics is as strong as ever, Churchill’s grandson will step down as an MP, and this contest will be between Michelle Gildernew of Sinn Féin, and Tom Elliott of the Ulster Unionist Party.

It will be close, because it is almost always close. In 1955 it was decided by 261 votes. 447 votes in 1970. 53 votes in 2001. And the tightest result of all in 2010, when 4 votes gave the seat to Gildernew. Elections in the past having been decided by less people than could be transported to a polling station in a Renault Clio, there probably won’t be one key factor. Everything is crucially important.

Both the SF and UUP campaigns will be working, as ever, to maximise turnout from their respective communities on the day. Both will be working now to ensure that anybody who has booked a week of winter sun in the second week of December posts their ballot before leaving the country.

In 2017 there were 3 other candidates in the field. The SDLP received 2587 votes, Alliance 886, and the Greens 423. On that occasion Michelle Gildernew triumphed by a margin of 895 votes.

No candidate other than Gildernew or Elliott can harbour any realistic hope of winning this election, but the makeup of the field has the potential to be a crucial. There isn’t yet confirmation of a Green candidate at this election. Alliance will be represented by Matthew Beaumont, an unsuccessful candidate in Enniskillen DEA at the local election earlier this year. The SDLP are running a local councillor, Adam Gannon, who represents Erne West DEA.

Brexit will be a huge issue in this border constituency. The UUP go into this election, as they did the 2016 referendum, supporting Remain. In the meantime though they have support leaving the EU, and their support for remain has never felt particularly firm. Tom Elliott was the MP for this area in 2017 and voted to trigger Article 50.

If Brexit is the issue which can convince a handful of voters to vote for Gildernew rather than one of the minor parties, that may be enough to secure her position. However this constituency has been a 2 horse race for quite some time, without a steady portion of voters casting a ballot for one of the main candidates. It feels reasonable to assume the group of people still voting for the minor parties in this constituency are dogged partisans for those parties.

There seems to be a building consensus of opinion that Fermanagh & South Tyrone is slowly moving out of reach of Unionism. I do not share in that opinion. The bookies offer odds of 5/2 that Tom Elliott will triumph for unionism. Whilst I expect another very narrow victory for Michelle Gildernew, my hunch is that the price offered for Elliott represents the best value available for a punter who is looking for an upset in this election.

After all. Somebody’s Renault Clio might break down.

Prediction: Sinn Féin HOLD 

Current Odds: SF 1-4, UUP 5-2, 100-1 bar

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Survivor of Enniskillen Rememberance Day bombing labels Jeremy Corbyn 'sympathiser for terrorism'

Survivor of Enniskillen Rememberance Day bombing labels Jeremy Corbyn ‘sympathiser for terrorism’

LIES LIES AND MORE LIES DEFINITELY FALSE NEWS

The IRA’s 1987 bombing of the Cenotaph in Enniskillen killed 12 people

A survivor of the IRA’s Poppy Day massacre in Enniskillen in 1987 has hit out at Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, labeling the MP a “sympathiser for terrorism”.

Stephen Gault, whose father Samuel was one of 12 people murdered on Remembrance Sunday in the Co Fermanagh town, used the…

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Art as Politics: Journey Through Belfast’s Turbulent History.

Although it is often overlooked by tourists in favour of London or Edinburgh, Belfast is steadily becoming a must-visit Irish city. For a decade now, Belfast has been working on its public image, leaving behind bombs and sectarianism as relics of a conflict that people would prefer to move on from. One of the major draws to Belfast, however, is the incredible street art which often makes reference to the recent past of political conflict. Street art tours are fast becoming an interesting, alternative way of experiencing the city, allowing tourists an insight into different communities’ experiences of the Troubles.

In West Belfast, Catholic and Protestant communities are divided by so-called ‘Peace Walls’ which run in the middle of famous neighbourhoods, essentially protecting people from each other. These walls are the sites of incredible street art- predominately political murals which tell the stories of different communities. Along the Falls Road, (a central road within a staunchly Catholic Republican community), visitors can see a variety of murals depicting famous events and messages of solidarity with other national liberation struggles. One especially notable mural depicts a handshake between an Irish and Palestinian political prisoner, in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle.

Within the Falls community, there are other must-see murals. On the side of the Sinn Fein headquarters sits the iconic image of Bobby Sands, famously the first 1981 Hunger Striker to die, having been just elected as MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone. This is a brilliant example of how Belfast’s street art is an accessible, alternative way for tourists to learn about the city. The visual medium makes the artwork digestible and crosses linguistic and cultural barriers. 

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#OTD in 1981 – Bobby Sands was elected to Westminster in the Fermanagh/South Tyrone by-election, while on hunger strike in Long Kesh Prison, as MP for the constituency.

Shortly after the beginning of the strike, Frank Maguire, the Independent Republican MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone, died suddenly of a heart attack, precipitating the April 1981 by-election. The sudden vacancy in a seat with a nationalist majority of about five thousand was a valuable opportunity for Bobby Sands’ supporters to unite the nationalist community behind their campaign. Pressure…

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“They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn’t want to be broken” – Bobby Sands MP

Bobby Sands was an Irish republican, an IRA Volunteer and a key figure in the fight against British imperialism in the north of Ireland during the 1970s and early 1980s. He came to public prominence during the 1981 hunger strike when he led the protest by men in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh and women in Armagh Jail who sought political prisoner status. Bobby endured years of solitary confinement and beatings. During his imprisonment he was elected MP for the constituency of Fermanagh and South Tyrone.

Bobby began his hunger strike on 1st March 1981 and died after sixty-six days on the 5th May 1981.

In the aftermath of his death he has become an international figure that inspires not only Irish republicans in their pursuit of freedom from British rule, but people around the world in the fight for their rights.

The Bobby Sands Trust

It is figures like Bobby that I turn to when it comes to our present oppression. We are all political prisoners when it comes to the Global Climate Crisis, yes we still live in our homes and not locked behind bars like Bobby, but we are forced to live with a ticking clock reminding us that the so called leaders of this world hold our lives in their hands.

Arawn http://thepeoplesdruid.tumblr.com

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Wednesday 27 February 2019

Sir Dominick Chilcott was received by The Queen today upon his appointment as Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Republic of Turkey.

Lady Chilcott was also received by Her Majesty. Sir David Manning was received by The Queen this afternoon upon relinquishing his appointment as Special Advisor to The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and The Duke and Duchess of Sussex.

The Lord Carrington and the Hon Virginia Carington were received by Her Majesty and delivered up the Insignia of the Order of the Garter worn by their father, the late Lord Carrington.

The Rt Hon Theresa May MP (Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury) had an audience of The Queen this evening.

The Baroness Rawlings (Baroness in Waiting) was present at Royal Air Force Northolt this morning upon the Arrival of The King and Queen of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and welcomed Their Majesties on behalf of The Queen.

The Baroness Manzoor (Baroness in Waiting) was present at Heathrow Airport, London, this morning upon the Arrival of The President of the Republic of Slovenia and welcomed His Excellency on behalf of Her Majesty.

...

Day One of the Duke & Duchess of Cambridge’s visit to Northern Ireland: 

The Duke & Duchess of Cambridge visited Windsor Park football stadium, home of the Irish Football Association (IFA). The IFA run outreach programmes that benefit the mental and physical health of local communities. ‘Shooting Stars’ encourages young girls to play football and ‘Ahead of the Game’ works to support clubs and volunteers when dealing with mental health issues, with a focus on challenging the stigma and preventative measures.

In Fermanagh TRH saw the incredible work that the charity Extern is doing at their Roscor Youth Village, which is a residential activity centre for children referred to the charity by social workers or the Department of Justice. The site provides a safe space to help and support these young people, with particular emphasis on outdoor activities and developing independent living skills.

TRH attended a party celebrating young people who are making a real difference in Northern Ireland. The band LARKS will take to the stage, and guests will encompass representatives from Northern Ireland’s business, arts and sport sectors, including Dame Mary Peters who was today appointed Lady Companion of the Most Noble of the Garter by Her Majesty The Queen.

The Earl of Wessex, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award Foundation, this morning held a Meeting.

The Earl of Wessex Trustee, The Duke of Edinburgh's Award, attended a Reception at St James's Palace for young people who have reached the Gold Standard in the Award.

The President of the Republic of Slovenia called upon The Earl of Wessex at St James’s Palace this afternoon.

His Royal Highness later visited the offices of MI5 at Thames House, 12 Millbank, Westminster, London SW1.

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The Countess of Wessex attended the Foreign & Commonwealth Office Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative Conference at Wilton Park, Wiston House, Steyning, West Sussex.

Her Royal Highness, Patron, Toronto General and Western Hospital, this afternoon held a Meeting.

The Princess Royal Chancellor, the University of Edinburgh, held a Dinner at Buckingham Palace.

As Patron, Medical Research Scotland, attended a Researcher Showcase, Glasgow Science Centre, 50 Pacific Quay, Glasgow.

As Patron, the British Nutrition Foundation, attended a 'Cardiovascular Disease' Task Force Report Launch Conference at the Royal Society of Chemistry, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1.

...

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Theresa May’s problem was making too many compromises on Brexit, not too few, as some charge

Theresa May’s problem was making too many compromises on Brexit, not too few, as some charge

The Great Establishment Clobbering Machine will move into overtime against Boris Johnson to stop the Tories choosing him. All the other candidates will compromise on a compromise, and propose a second referendum to reject it, thus passing responsibility for humiliation from the politicians to the people

Poor Theresa. One can’t help feeling sorry for a Prime Minster so limited but so honourable,…

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Guardians seem to have paid attention to alerts not to send kids into school except if it was a final retreat, as indicated by head educators. Schools in the UK have shut to diminish the spread of coronavirus - and are just open to take care of the offspring of "key specialists" and powerless youngsters. Heads' pioneer Geoff Barton said starting reports on Monday morning recommended understudy numbers were "reasonable". There had been fears too many would show up for drained instructor numbers. In any case, Mr Barton, pioneer of the ASCL head educators' association, stated: "Beginning criticism demonstrates that guardians have paid attention to calls to utilize the crisis arrangement in schools just if they are key laborers who have no choice accessible to keep their youngsters at home." He said school staff were appreciative to guardians for reacting to alerts and any place conceivable keeping youngsters at home. This is just the principal morning and a full picture will set aside some effort to rise, however the early reports may ease worries that families would keep on sending their youngsters to class, as opposed to as a back-up possibly to be utilized if "completely essential". Youngsters have been advised to remain at home over the UK. At Enniskillen Royal Grammar School in County Fermanagh, in Northern Ireland, head Elizabeth Armstrong said "few students" were in school on Monday morning. Keeping schools open to care for the offspring of key specialists -, for example, NHS, crisis or transport staff - was expected to assist guardians with propping up to work and to keep up basic administrations. Yet, there were stresses this could be deciphered too generally and schools, with their own decreased staff numbers, would be not able to adapt. Guardians in Wales asked to keep kids out of school School just a 'final retreat' guardians told in Northern Ireland MPs to discuss crisis coronavirus powers Most recent as countries battle to end the spread of coronavirus Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, had cautioned of an absence of lucidity about which families were qualified to have their youngsters cared for in school. She said schools were having to "manage various requests from guardians". Paul Whiteman, leader of the National Association of Head Teachers, had said that even the offspring of key laborers should attempt to discover different choices to class. "This isn't the same old thing, keep your family at home assuming there is any chance of this happening," said Mr Whiteman. "Leave the couple of spaces accessible for those that genuinely have no other option." The primary morning of another sort of school For those youngsters beginning their week at home, schools have been putting exercises and coursework on the web so students can stay aware of their investigations. At Hampton Hill Junior School in Richmond, London, staff have had crisis instructional meetings in how to utilize an internet learning framework and all kids were given with a sign in so they can telecommute. "We'll be remotely accessible to address any inquiries," Tracey Banister, the school's unique instructive needs co-ordinator, told the BBC. Ms Banister said the state of mind in school, which is open for key laborers' youngsters and powerless kids, is grave. "I believe it's an altogether different state of mind toward the beginning of today," she said. "In the workforce conference, we as a whole sat further separated - there is unquestionably an alternate state of mind and perhaps anxiety." Pradeep Shetty, a carer whose girl is qualified to go to class, says the present circumstance is hard for everybody - for the individuals who will be at home those as yet coming to class. Mr Shetty says those kids who have come to class will before long discover it is altogether different from a customary timetable. "It's difficult for them to take also - it is anything but an ordinary thing, just to be here without their companions."

http://whworldnews.blogspot.com/2020/03/guardians-notice-calls-not-to-send-kids.html

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#BBCTheView Leaders Interviews: Naomi Long

Naomi Long had a bad night with Mark Carruthers. I don’t think Alliance should be too downhearted though. Party leaders having a tough time during their interview on The View is quite simply the price of doing business. Carruthers is excellent at this and obviously prepares thoroughly. And it certainly wasn’t all bad. “You can hardly say all of a sudden about something that happened 18 years ago Mark” was a scoring punch that. In that exchange at least she came out on top.

Long may have been the victim last night, but she has the advantage of going first and having her interview furthest in the rear view mirror come election day. When it comes to being beaten up by Mark Carruthers, it isn’t just Sinn Féin who will be saying tiochfaidh ar lá. That day will also come for Foster, Eastwood and Aiken.

As I remarked on Twitter though, the format is savage. The interviews are bad enough, but to have to sit there as the commentators run the rule over your performance and a director just waiting to cut a shot of your reactions must be excruciating. Alex Kane and Fionnuala O Connor didn’t quite do the ‘good cop/bad cop’ routine. It was perhaps more ‘friendly uncle/scolding schoolmistress’.

I do feel Long made a strategic error though. The bar Alliance set for themselves to clear at the European election in May probably isn’t achievable. In that election tactical voting worked in their favour and they had Long, far and away their most popular figure, on every single ballot paper. In this election they will probably lose as much as they gain in the tactical voting swings and roundabouts, and even their better known candidates like Farry or Bradshaw have nothing like the profile Long enjoys.

With those factors being the case, success or failure comes down to East Belfast and North Down. If they take one of those seats December 13th will be a good day for Alliance. If they take more than 1 seat it will be the best day in their history. Belfast South will look after itself. If they find a way to take the seat there it’s incredibly likely the same swing will also send the other 2 their way.

With that being the case and with no nationalist opponents they need to take votes from the UUP. The tactic that can deliver those votes is asking very legitimate questions about just how committed to remaining in the EU the UUP actually are.

Some of the UUP candidates cut very plausible remain Unionists, Danny Kinahan for example, but the record of others can easily be exploited. Before the show went on air the UUP announced they have selected Tom Elliott in Fermanagh & South Tyrone.  Elliott was an MP in 2017 and voted to trigger Article 50, and quick google turned up this quote from Mr Elliott in a 2016 Fermanagh Herald article

“My heart basically says to get out while my head would say that I need to reconsider that but on balance, I’m just about in favour of voting to leave Europe”. 

In 2011 as the south faced a financial crisis, Enda Kenny asked Fianna Fáil voters to "lend us your vote” and enough did to make him Taoiseach. As the NI faces into the Brexit crisis Alliance need UUP remainers and Green Party voters in 2 constituencies to lend them their votes. The “Remainer Againer” credentials of the UUP are highly questionable. Naomi Long should have done a lot more to point that out.

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Former MP Barry McElduff bidding for council seat

Former MP Barry McElduff bidding for council seat

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A former MP who resigned after angering relatives of 10 Protestants shot dead in a sectarian massacre will discover later whether he has won a council seat.

Barry McElduff is standing for  Fermanagh and Omagh District Council in the local government poll.

He stepped down last year after an outcry prompted by him posting a video of himself balancing a loaf of Kingsmill bread on his head.

I…

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(via #OTD in 1981 – Bobby Sands was elected to Westminster in the Fermanagh/South Tyrone by-election, while on hunger strike in Long Kesh Prison, as MP for the constituency.)