INDEPENDENT Yorkshire retailer Duttons for Buttons returns to Ilkley in July with a new concept: Mrs Duttons Wondrous Workshops. The all-new destination for needle and textile crafts repurposes the former haberdashery shop at 3 Church Street after major renovations. The creation of a crafting destination is a response to changes to the high street country-wide, accelerated by Covid-19 and the growth of online shopping and home working. It is not the first step-change for the 100-year-old family firm. From a trimmings merchant supplying the burgeoning tailoring trade in Leeds in 1906, it embraced home dress making post-War, added supplies for Knit and Natter groups at the turn of the new century, workshops in York for crafters and, most recently, an online shop to give the handmade movement nationwide access to its thriving ‘bricks and mortar’ shops in Harrogate and York.
Some of the options being consulted on by the Government would appear to also allow the continued use of small, lower-heat coal-fired boilers, but these do not appear to be the Government’s preferred option. Dairy giant Fonterra, which is a major coal user, has supported the idea of a ban and last week said it intended to stop using coal boilers by 2037, which would align it with the Government s proposal. But some smaller food producers had reported more concern about the potential impacts in the run-up to the Government’s announcement on Thursday. Tomatoes NZ general manager Helen Barnes said it had yet to study the proposal.
Musical journeyman had one of the great, distinctive Australian voices
By Glenn A Baker
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1946-2021
“He’s big, this cat” wrote one Roger Aldridge in the September 20, 1969 issue of
The Age. “Broad shouldered, big armed. And hairy. A wild mass of tight curls halo a broad tawny green saturnine face from which burn the most honest eyes you ever saw. His wide mouth is humorous and framed by a hairline moustache which drops to two chin tufts.”
Doug Parkinson rarely went unnoticed – for his voice, his physique, his very presence. From the moment he appeared as a participant in Australian popular music in 1966 he commanded attention. Decades later he became a true household name – one of the great distinctive Australian voices.