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Tributes have been paid following the death of a founder member of a well-known Queen tribute act.
Mark ‘Tommo’ Thompson passed away suddenly at his Fenpark home at the age of 61.
The grandfather-of-five was the original lead singer of Queen tribute act QEII and played to huge crowds in the UK and overseas.
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May 10, 2021 A typical Midhurst cottage with its distinctive yellow trim as chosen by the Cowdray Estate. Credit: Alamy Stock Photo
The colours that estate owners choose to paint their buildings and cottages lend them a highly distinctive feel. Eleanor Doughty finds out how and why the different shades are chosen.
If you drive through Midhurst in West Sussex, you’re likely to spot a house or two with their timbers painted neatly in saffron yellow. There has long been a tradition for estate owners to paint exterior timbers to signify ownership, but Cowdray’s yellow must surely be the most recognisable. It derives from when Liberal politician Weetman Pearson, 1st Viscount Cowdray inherited the Cowdray estate in the 1920s and matched his political colours to his cottages painting the roses yellow, so to speak.
Every pub in the Peak District with a five-star hygiene rating
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The Bridge Inn at Calver is one of several Peak District pubs to achieve a five-star hygiene rating. (Image: Google Maps)
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Choosing where to stop for a bite to eat on your weekend walks is not always a hard choice - normally it s just wherever is closest.
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In 1967 the National Youth Theatre in London performed the first new play it had ever commissioned, with 80 performers arranged on a set depicting a football stand. The play would be revived with new casts eight times over the next 20 years, and again at Wilton’s Music Hall in London in 2017. It was televised twice, and entered the school curriculum. The play was Zigger Zagger, and its writer was Peter Terson, who has died aged 89.
The story of teenager Harry Philton and his friend Zigger Zagger, who draws Harry into a band of rioting football fans, has as its timeless theme the poverty of choices faced by a young, working-class male. Terson continued his exploration of this subject the following year with his next National Youth Theatre play, The Apprentices (starring Barrie Rutter), in which exploited young men turn cruelly and violently on each other.