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South Warwickshire Tourism Ltd said it had been ”forced” to close the centre after Stratford-on-Avon District Council decided not to renew its annual funding of the company.
South Warwickshire Tourism Ltd said it had been ”forced” to close the centre after Stratford-on-Avon District Council decided not to renew its annual funding of the company.
The partnership, which trades as Shakespeare Country, confirmed that its collapse had resulted in 17 job losses, as well as the closure of the tourist information office in nearby Leamington Spa.
In a statement, the district council said it was fully committed to tourism and aimed to reopen a tourist information centre in Stratford as soon as possible.
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Alfred Fagon was many things before becoming a playwright at the vanguard of the black British theatre movement of the 1970s and 80s: welder, champion boxer, railway worker, army man, poet and actor, with a colourful circle of friends including the model Christine Keeler. “He put no limits on himself and he didn’t want to follow any pattern,” says his friend Yvonne Brewster, the actor and director who, after his death, co-founded the Alfred Fagon awards to recognise black British writing talent.
Born in Jamaica into a sprawling household of 10 siblings, he left school to work with his father on the family’s orange plantation at 13 and emigrated to Britain in 1955, at the age of 18.