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South Cambridgeshire's first repair café of 2017 has been hailed a success with numerous personal belongings being fixed by skilled experts. The roving repair café concept, launched last year, aims to tackle throwaway culture and reduce the number of items going to waste. |
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This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on Jan. 18, 1941. A new book came to my desk last week, written by a German novelist whose books were burned by the Nazis in 1934. This story, entitled The Life of My Mother, was begun in Czechoslovakia and finished last summer in New York. |
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Rising TV star Blathnaid Treacy has said young women should use their talent and brains to get ahead – instead of getting their kit off. The 27-year-old is the presenter of Can’t Stop Dancing, the spin-off preview show of RTE’s Dancing With The Stars. Blathnaid, who hosted teen show Two Tube, said.... |
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Political violence and government repression intensified in 2016 as President Joseph Kabila clung to power beyond his constitutionally mandated two-term limit, which ended on December 19, 2016, despite widespread opposition and international condemnation. |
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Large-scale and unprecedented protests swept through Ethiopia's largest region of Oromia beginning in November 2015, and in the Amhara region from July 2016. Ethiopian security forces cracked-down on these largely peaceful demonstrations, killing more than 500 people. |
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Against the backdrop of an economic downturn, Kazakh authorities in 2016 jailed peaceful protesters, targeted outspoken activists on vague and overbroad criminal charges, and prosecuted independent journalists. Parliament adopted laws placing unjustified burdens and restrictions on nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). |
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More than three decades after pledging to "reform and open up," there are few signs the Chinese Communist Party intends to change its authoritarian posture. Under the leadership of President Xi Jinping, who will remain in power until 2022 and possibly beyond, the outlook for fundamental human.... |
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SIX Swansea schoolboys who helped found one of the first hospital radio services in the UK have celebrated their 50 th anniversary with a reunion. The Swansea Hospitals Radio Service was created by school friends Clive Thomas, Rob Rees and David Vaughan and operated out of a small studio at.... |
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HARARE - 0 comments After years of persecution and blacklisting of his songs which were deemed politically incorrect by the public broadcaster, ZBC Holdings, Zora music star Leonard “Karikoga” Zhakata is still standing. And it was not only the public broadcaster that shunned his politically-charged.... |
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Krystian Seibert's article "Government of the people" (January 9, p12) and your editorial "Destroying Canberra to save it?" (January 12, p16) hit the nail on the head. Siebert mentions the need for proper and sincere community engagement which is severely lacking in the Canberra planning processes. |
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Krystian Seibert's article "Government of the people" (January 9, p12) and your editorial "Destroying Canberra to save it?" (January 12, p16) hit the nail on the head. Siebert mentions the need for proper and sincere community engagement which is severely lacking in the Canberra planning processes. |
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