Last Sunday, the pool at West Wight Sports and Community Centre (WWSCC) in Freshwater was asplash with people swimming 100 laps, to qualify for the Solent Swim on Sunday, July 4. Among the swimmers this year is Britta Aggar, a popular West Wight cabbie, who will be celebrating her marriage a couple of days earlier. “I am a first-timer,” said German-born Britta. “It’s going to be an unforgettable week – I am also marrying my partner, Andy Cotton.” Britta’s training has combined pool swimming, boot camp and running – up to nine times a week. Britta is raising money for Mountbatten as well as WWSCC.
Our latest E3 video newscast on the latest Nintendo Direct is available to view, or download in podcast form.
Today, Chris Dring, James Batchelor and Brendan Sinclair are joined by Guha Bala of Velan Studios to talk about Nintendo s E3 Direct event, plus we discuss the role of E3 and what we d like to see from 2022.
We also share some stories of our favourite E3 moments.
You can watch and listen in the YouTube video above, or you can listen right here. It is also available via Spotify, iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Overcast, Player FM, TuneIn and other widely-used podcast platforms.
Emma Batchelor. Photo: Jesse Petrie.
A YOUNG writer who has long been part of Canberra’s arts community is the winner of the $20,000 Vogel Literary Award for 2021.
Emma Batchelor, 32, has won a publication deal with Allen & Unwin, which launched the Vogel in 1980, for her debut auto-fiction novel âNow That I See Youâ, based on her experiences when her partnerâs emerging transgender status shattered their relationship.
Batchelorâs connections to the Canberra arts community run deep.
Her mum, Wendy, has worked at the Canberra Theatre Centre for 14 years, while Emma has also worked at the box office there on and off for 13 years, and still does weekend shifts, while holding down a full-time job with advocacy organisation the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility.