Rubika Shah’s energising film charts a vital London protest movement. Rock Against Racism (RAR) was formed in 1976, prompted by ‘music’s biggest colonialist’ Eric Clapton and his support of racist MP Enoch Powell. White Riot blends fresh interviews with queasy archive footage to recreate a hostile environment of anti-immigrant...
An update from BCP council:
Cllr Mark Howell, Deputy Leader and Portfolio Holder for Regeneration and Culture, said:"We are aware many Poole residents value the Lord Baden Powell statue highly and the Council has a duty to take reasonable steps to protect it for the benefit of generations to come.
Council...
Rachel Smith-Ruffle lives in Manchester but her mum is from Somerset and she spent a lot of time in Dorset and Somerset growing up.
This is her story. Hope you enjoy!
I broke my neck in a diving accident abroad when I was 23 when I was hit by...
On the 19th May 1935 Thomas Edward Lawrence was killed as he drove his motorbike near his Dorset home.
Lawrence was fatally injured in an accident on his Brough Superior SS100 motorcycle in Dorset close to his cottage Clouds Hill, near Wareham, just two months after leaving military service. He was 46. A dip in...
There has been an annual festival at Tolpuddle, Dorset, since the 1930s. It has grown over the years and today it sees thousands of trade unionists from all over the world gathering to celebrate the memory of the Tolpuddle Martys.
It was here in 2018, 100 years after women...
Love is more thicker than forget,launch audio in new window.
How's your legs. Legs is fine.You want I climb the bell towerand shout all from the Town Hall.
Do that thing about love.
Reading the sonnetsrickety english, nah.Where were we in ninety-six,you have to look inside the spaces.
Do that thing about loveGeezer,...
We're over this quarterand don't know whyinspection revealsan over estimationon advice lines
that sent us overover asking advice aboutincreasing our resilience to advice.
Piss off, said one, you idiotspawning advice from a call centrein Mumbai, like he'd know.
Trouble is, by the time the lights go outwe'll have forgotten how to use...
Make no more of it than it is.small benefit nothing, this way comesAt first strike not felt plays heartand intertwined you welcome griefwhose time makes of no herald sung.
At her age grandma came to stayhouse too small pain spread like breath.So days out to the workhouse madeonly for sun...
Wonderful poem celebrating all of our care comrades up and down the country.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKSJY6QP0oo
Olly and Hayley are stars x
Who says we cannot still have fun? Amazing feel good fun for all the family and no one gets hurt.
Let's keep it that way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5mT0hhSU3o&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR0iiKnA9YQoZ_3DT5BssI5-UZ-lsKGL8V4WIr1iQZc5SIY5ooRk5QnZJCk
Penny Lane
