Beryl Manthorp in 1996
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A prominent Norwich ballet teacher who taught hundreds of pupils to dance over eight decades has died just ahead of her 100th birthday.
Beryl Manthorp, the founder and former principal of the city s Guildhall School of Dancing, was a life member of the Royal Academy of Dancing, the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing and a recipient of the Royal Academy’s President’s Award for services to the academy.
Beryl Manthorp has died aged 99
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Born February 22, 1921, in Colchester, Essex, she was the only child of Harry and Felicia Manthorp.
Her love of dancing began at the age of four when her parents were encouraged to enroll her in ballet classes to correct a slight curvature of the spine. At the end of her second class, she declared she would teach ballet when she grew up.
The Globe and Mail Anna Porter Published February 12, 2021
Why should anybody care when publishing house Penguin Random House swallows competitor Simon & Schuster?
Back last November when Penguin Random House (PRH) announced its successful bid to buy Simon & Schuster, there was a flurry of comment in the United States. The New York Times protested that the new, enlarged company would “profoundly reshape the industry, increasingly a winner-take-all business.” The Washington Post declared that the deal would be bad for readers: “As the number of publishers shrinks, authors find themselves with fewer potential buyers for their proposals and manuscripts. Bookstores are beholden to a smaller number of distributors. And readers face a shelf of titles further dominated by familiar bestsellers most likely to earn big payouts for massive corporations.”
Precious Soles in Potters Bar
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A Potters Bar shoe shop has claimed its vulnerable customers have been left in tears after it was forced to close due to the Tier 4 restrictions that came into force on Sunday.
Peter Varnavas, who set up his business in 2002 to address the lack of medically-based footwear providers in the UK, said it was rubbish his company Precious Soles is restricted to click and collect .
He explained: “Because of Tier 4 restrictions we have been forced to close over the Christmas period, but our phones are still ringing off the hook with demand for well-fitting shoes and our medical services.
David Cornwell, aka John Le Carré, the master of the spy novel, died this week. There are a thousand obituaries of Le Carré online, but perhaps it is worth the
Mekong Review remembering the author’s writing on Asia. For those obsessed with South East Asia Le Carré’s
The Honourable Schoolboy, published in 1977, is without doubt the most engrossing espionage novel of the region. For Le Carré fans it is the novel in which his greatest character George Smiley begins to rebuild an effective British intelligence service in the wake of the unravelling of “the Service” following the revelation of a senior Soviet mole in