Attempted robbery outside petrol station leads to police appeal AN ATTEMPTED robbery outside a Mortimer petrol station has led to police seeking witnesses, after a man suffered injuries after being punched in the face. At around 8pm on Wednesday, May 5, a victim, a man in his fifties, was getting out of his car on King Street car park, opposite the Budgens store, where he dropped his wallet. A man then came up to him and tried to take the man s wallet, and punched him in the face. The victim fought back, and the man ran from the scene without taking anything. Unfortunately, the victim sustained a cut above his eye, but did not require hospital treatment.
Jane Manning: always amenable and a friend to composers whatever their demands
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Jane Manning, who has died aged 82, was the go-to British soprano for contemporary music and an indispensable friend to many modern composers, giving the first performances of more than 350 works by the likes of Richard Rodney Bennett, Harrison Birtwistle and her husband Anthony Payne.
The critic Edward Greenfield wrote in awe of how she was able to defy the laws of musical gravity when tackling avant-garde music’s craggy altitudes. Where many singers would be fearful of damaging their voices, she was willing to try anything, with new challenges and variety bringing out the best in her.