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Three UK teachers shortlisted for million dollar ‘world’s best teacher’ prize

The Independent 13 Dec 2018

Emma Russo, a physics teacher from London, Andrew Moffat, an assistant headteacher from Birmingham and music teacher Jimmy Rotheram from Bradford are all in the running for the Varkey Foundation Global Teacher Prize, which is now in its fifth year....

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'The Phantom of the Opera' is coming to Dubai in 2019

The National 12 Dec 2018

Adapted from Gaston Leroux’s 1910 novel, The Phantom of the Opera, which opened in London’s West End in 1986, tells the story of a ......

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Amy Winehouse's ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil says reports on their drug use were exaggerated

The Independent 12 Dec 2018

Amy Winehouse arrives at the annual 'Nationwide Mercury Music Prize' at the Grosvenor House on September 7, 2004 in London ... 10, 2008 in London, England ... Amy Winehouse arrives at the annual 'Nationwide Mercury Music Prize' at the Grosvenor House on September 7, 2004 in London....

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London outperforms other regions in UK in gross value added growth

Xinhua 12 Dec 2018

LONDON, Dec ... London registered a GVA growth of 3 percent in 2017 in real terms compared to 2016, according to the ONS ... Looking at the industrial composition of London, the motion picture sector, video and television program production, sound recording and music publishing activities saw the highest growth of 21.9 percent....

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Changing Fortunes: Vashti Bunyan & James Yorkston In Conversation

The Quietus 12 Dec 2018

... Yorkston served a customer called “Vashti” in an Edinburgh bookshop shortly after hearing music from Just Another Diamond Day for the first time, little did he realise she was the singer who had left 60s London and the music business behind to wander the land by horse and cart....

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'Mary Poppins Returns': Film Review

The Hollywood Reporter 12 Dec 2018

Belated Hollywood sequels have sunk more often than soared in recent years, but Disney shrugs off those odds with Mary Poppins Returns, an enchanting movie musical that picks up the threads of the studio's cherished original more than half a century after its 1964 release ... Music ... Executive music producer ... Music supervisors....

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House of Vans pop-up headed to Detroit in January

The Voice 12 Dec 2018

"Detroit has a rich and eclectic history across music and art, along with a burgeoning skate scene that closely aligns with Vans' own history and Mindset," Vans' Brooke Burt said in a statement ... It has two permanent locations, in Chicago and London ... Gary Graff is a multimedia journalist covering music and entertainment for Digital First Media....

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Tencent Music IPO; Trump on Huawei; Brexit uncertainty

CNN 12 Dec 2018

London (CNN Business)1. Tencent Music IPO. The listing of Tencent's music business failed to raise as much money as the internet giant had hoped. Tencent Music, which dominates music streaming in China, said Wednesday that its listing priced at the bottom of its targeted range....

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Welsh-language pop culture is having a party – and everyone’s invited | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

The Guardian 12 Dec 2018

Growing up in rural Gwynedd, Welsh-language music was an everyday part of our lives ... The UK live music scene is in trouble – in February, the first live music census found that a third of Britain’s small venues outside London are fighting to survive in the face of high business rates and noise restrictions....

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Thomas Baptiste obituary

The Guardian 12 Dec 2018

On arrival in 1950 in London, where his mother, Pearl, joined him later, he promptly took a factory job, enrolled at Morley College to study the rudiments of music and began mixing with artistic types ... He won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music, London, but sensing little ......

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Vans shoes to transform old Detroit school for January pop-up

Detroit news 12 Dec 2018

The former Jefferson school site, located at 950 Selden Street in Detroit, will be transformed into a cultural hub to celebrate art, music, action sports and street culture, bringing Vans' "Off The Wall" ethos to life, officials said ... House of Vans locations in Chicago and London....

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Kevin Buhr, 61

The Grand Island Independent 12 Dec 2018

PHOENIX — Kevin Buhr, 61, of Phoenix, Ariz., passed away on Oct. 24, 2018, of heart failure ... He loved music, his four-legged “buddies” and his Harley Davidson motorcycle — on which he traveled many miles ... They performed in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Paris and London under Mr. Pinberton, the music director at Grand Island Senior High ... ....

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Mary Poppins Returns reviews: Emily Blunt saves practically imperfect sequel

Entertainment Weekly 12 Dec 2018

“ it’s a lavishly high-spirited and, at times, nearly fetishistic recreation of a ’60s studio-back-lot musical, with cobblestone-streets-of-London sets that look like sets, dance numbers driven by a touch of Gene Kelly athletic-hoofer vivacity, and, more than that, a tone ......