Archive | July 21st, 2010

Still time to catch the last day of the Maydance a fusion of Latin American ballroom and highland dance

Posted on 21 July 2010

Still time to catch the last day of the Maydance, a fusion of Latin American, ballroom and highland dance, but things don’t really get underway before Sunday’s May Day celebrations in George Square, with music and street entertainments.To 31 May May Day celebrations: 11.30am. Firstly, with the two-day “Living Picture Show” in which actors guide [...]

And quite apart from their intrinsic interest as aesthetic enquiry this would seem at least as valuable a social function as any

Posted on 21 July 2010

And quite apart from their intrinsic interest as aesthetic enquiry, this would seem at least as valuable a social function as any doctrinaire attempt to simulate the spirit of the Notting Hill Carnival all the year round.n `John Tilbury plays Howard Skempton’ is on Sony CD SK 66482. In fact the Renaissance, Baroque, Classical and [...]

Teenagers aged between 16 and 19 were most likely to be users with one in

Posted on 21 July 2010

Teenagers aged between 16 and 19 were most likely to be users, with one in five claiming to have taken drugs in the past month against 46 per cent ever.A breakdown of under 30s who took stimulants at some point found 14 per cent had tried amphetamines or speed, 13 per cent poppers, 10 per [...]

We cannot manage that many steps

Posted on 21 July 2010

We cannot manage that many steps.”We may just call it a day and cancel our tickets altogether. It will be such a shame, but there is no point spending money for seats that are no good.”Susan Halpern, who has sat behind the Brownhills with her husband, Jeffrey, for 28 years, accused the club of not [...]

On Sunday he had lost his temper furiously on three occasions and lashed out at one of the residential social workers

Posted on 21 July 2010

On Sunday he had lost his temper furiously on three occasions, and lashed out at one of the residential social workers in the home who was working closely with him. But on the third occasion, he controlled his fury for the first time.The methods of the home has been tried and tested, says Babs Seymour, [...]