Hints and tips:
...Now in the V&A museum, but once housed in a Hertfordshire coaching inn, it measures more than 3m wide – nearly twice the size of the typical Elizabethan bed....
...Monday The UN Ocean Conference, co-hosted by the governments of Kenya and Portugal, begins in Lisbon UK, the Wimbledon tennis tournament begins at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in south...
...It’s a stark reminder that digital inclusion is a vital next step (see Lord Holmes of Richmond for some thoughts on this)....
...Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond to March 28 orangetreetheatre.co.uk Pass Over Antoinette Nwandu’s searing play fuses poetry and politics to deliver a potent message about race relations in the US....
...Arch 2, Fieldworks, 274 Richmond Road, London E8. The last music I downloaded was How to Disappear Completely by Radiohead....
...Washington DC’s Smithsonian Museum, which was to have taken space here, stepped back, billed now as a “co-curator” with the V&A, and the museum has shrunk to less than half its original size; its storage...
...Labour has fared poorly in recent by-elections in Witney, Richmond and Sleaford and is more than 10 points behind the Conservatives in national opinion polls....
...David Rubenstein, Carlyle’s co-chief executive, said it had been a strong quarter with $5bn in gross new fund commitments and $5.3bn in realised proceeds....
...Like many innovators, he furthers collaboration — he co-founded the collective e-studio Luanda, which represented Angola at last year’s Venice Biennale....
...We’re also opening negotiations on a city deal with Edinburgh; we back the new V&A in Dundee....
...My Honourable Friend for Richmond Park has been campaigning on affordable home ownership in London. Today we back him all the way....
...Kim Wilkie, who designed the V&A’s renowned John Madejski Garden, will discuss his life and work at the V&A on Monday June 18, 7pm-8.45pm £15 (including reception and book signing), tel: +44 (0)20 7942 2277...
...Touring Bath, Brighton, Richmond and Newcastle; then Wyndham’s Theatre, London from March 22 www.trch.co.uk...
...Walgreen is at risk of losing $5 billion in annual revenue over a dispute with Express Scripts over how much the pharmacy benefits manager pays Walgreen to fill prescriptions....
...The Doping Control Laboratory at the Richmond Olympic Oval – also the venue for speed skating – will perform some 2,000 blood and urine tests, two-thirds more than during the Turin Games in 2006....
...Ian Sayer was born in Norwich in October 1945, only a month after V-J Day, and raised in Feltham, west London....
...diane@dianesummers.co.uk...
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