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...Her recollections of west Sheffield, where her family lived, are striking....
...With it, the folklore of her rivalry with Margaret Drabble entered the cultural mythos....
...Born in 1970 in Sheffield to a Tamil Sri Lankan family, she studied drama at the University of Hull....
...We’re all touching the brake guiltily, from Wandsworth to Sheffield to the Scottish borders....
...Then came the Margaret Thatcher era. A wave of privatisations, strikes and recessions, depicted in the 1997 film The Full Monty, ensued....
...Sheffield, UK...
...Lucy Fisher In the past week alone, I’ve seen the headlines — Yorkshire Water fined 150 grand for dumping sewage in Sheffield’s River Don, in the Isle of Man, their utility company confirming that raw sewage...
...MDCs have their roots in the urban development corporations (UDC) established by Lord Michael Heseltine, when he was a cabinet minister in the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s....
...A short story about the imagined assassination of Margaret Thatcher, 20 years in the writing, courted controversy too....
...Like the building of Rome, another city of seven hills, Sheffield was not to be conquered in a day....
...More Much Ado arrives in September, this time at Sheffield’s Crucible Theatre. ★★★★☆ To September 10, nationaltheatre.org.uk; Shakespeare’s Globe to October 23, shakespearesglobe.com; Sheffield Crucible...
...The larger venues, which boast the highest-profile matches, retractable roofs and air conditioning, are more expensive: tickets to the Rod Laver Arena started at A$109, and the Margaret Court Arena from...
...Directed by Vicky Featherstone and Audrey Sheffield, the show is vibrant and peppered with humour....
...This article has been updated to clarify that some of Margaret Court’s Grand Slam titles occurred before the Open era....
...Large scale voluntary transfers of social housing stock under Margaret Thatcher’s premiership in the 1980s from local councils to housing associations — which later amalgamated — enlarged associations, leaving...
...“There are two words in the book which I asterisk,” he says, “one is Margaret ******** [Thatcher] and the other is the word you just said....
...Juta Shoes started at St Hilda’s in 2016 and then moved to a community space run by St Margaret’s House, although that location ran out of room earlier this year....
...Then in July this year, Johnson authorised the Ministry of Defence to buy defence manufacturer Sheffield Forgemasters, albeit for a modest £2.6m....
...The government has also shown — at times — a more interventionist approach to industrial policy: it has taken a stake in satellite broadband operator OneWeb and nationalised Sheffield Forgemasters, a supplier...
...Since Margaret Thatcher took over the party in 1975, it has shunned stimulating demand through spending, opting instead for tax cuts....
...There were two things that really vexed me — the live transport of animals, and seal culling — and I used to be constantly writing letters to Margaret Thatcher.”...
...Next through the door is Margaret Thatcher, hanging her handbag on a deer’s antler....
...But with memories fading, these are some of the places that overturned 40 years of enmity to vote Conservative at December’s general election, while big cities in the north such as Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield...
...It is taken as read that a government based in London, and long detached from the historical recall that motivated Michael Heseltine to defend Liverpool to the rest of Margaret Thatcher’s cabinet as a city...
...Lady Margaret Hall, the Oxford college, has launched a foundation year course to prepare promising students for the admissions process. It is now being expanded across the university....
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