South Pacific with social distancing, and an outdoor festival to be revealed!
Norfolk and Norwich Festival – The festival will kick off from 18 May with socially distanced experiences set to run.
Royal & Derngate – The theatre will be welcoming audiences back to live performances from 17 May, with its rescheduled National Youth Theatre co-productions of
Animal Farm and
Othello.
Nottingham Playhouse – The venue has announced its new Spring Loaded season, which includes both online and live events (from 17 May).
Hampstead Theatre – Reopening with social distancing from 28 May with a revival of Alfred Fagon s
The Death of a Black Man.
Shakespeare s Globe
Theatre Royal Bath – Reopening from 25 May with Ralph Fiennes new version of T.S. Eliot s epic poem
Ten COs of Courageous, with Best fifth from right
Commander Rupert Best, who has died aged 77, was Britain’s most highly decorated midshipman, and a cider-maker who revived Portland harbour.
On the night of December 11/12 1962, after an insurrection had broken out in Brunei, 19-year-old Midshipman Best, while still under training, was made second-in-command of one of two Z-craft or motorised barges, which ferried L company of 42 Commando, Royal Marines, commanded by Captain Jeremy Moore (the future Commander, Land Forces in the Falklands War), upriver to Limbang in Sarawak.
There, Communist-inspired rebels were holding hostage the district officer, his wife and a dozen others. At dawn, all appeared quiet on the final approach to Limbang, when “all hell let loose”. The well-armed insurgents, positioned on rooftops and in trees, fired down on the barges, and the first attempt to land the marines had to be aborted when the petty officer at the wheel was shot.
Chesmar Homes receives donated materials for GHBA Benefit home
March 13, 2021
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Chesmar is building its Hillcrest plan in Lago Mar, a Texas City community developed by Land Tejas.Photo courtesy of GHBA
Chesmar Homes announced that to-date more than 60 of their vendors and suppliers have signed on to donate to the construction of Chesmar’s seventh Greater Houston Builders Association’s Benefit home. This commitment is key to Chesmar building the Benefit home at low cost, so when sold at market value, it will raise funds for two local charities HomeAid Houston and Operation Finally Home. Since the GHBA fundraiser began 41 years ago, more than 12 million dollars has been raised.