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https://dioceseofyork.org.uk/bishop-whitby-qa/#:~:text=The%20Revd%20Barry%20Hill%20will,of%20Whitby%20on%2010th%20October. i read this morning on Facebook that the new Bishop of Whitby is an Albion Fan. Sure enough, googling came up with this - his introduction to the Diocese of York, which...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c62348nw4yqo as someone who was a Liverpool fan in my early interest in the game in the mid 1960s, this bloke was a legend….

Only picked this up today, if anybody else interested in World Music. Master of the Kora, a traditional African Instrument, but doing all sorts of different music with it. I was lucky enough to see him and his “Symmetric Orchestra” at the Royal Festival Hall a few years ago - Upbeat dance music...

Aged 80 after years of illness and supporting euthanasia. but I remember her from the 1960s, being good at French at School and going on to do a Modern Languages degree, I think I fell in love with her! Wrote her own songs, lovely gentle and enchanting voice and…….. somewhat...

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/apr/18/dickey-betts-dies-allman-brothers-band?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other the other guitarist in what is probably my favourite band of all time - The Allman Brothers Band. Often considered and ranked the greatest live band of all time. He wrote Blue Sky, which...

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/oct/18/carla-bley-dead-aged-87-jazz-pianist-composer-dies?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other a real iconoclast. And funny too.

surprised this hasn’t come up on here, and have just done a search to check. Charges have been dropped against him for rape and assault, Manure seem to be working towards bringing him back, but there is plenty of opposition to it - Rachel Riley, for example. On the one hand, what happened to...

One of the true greats of the twentieth Century. Contributed greatly to the peaceful demise of all-powerful Communism in the Eastern bloc. I can remember feeling dreadful seeing pictures of him with his head in his hands when Thatcher and Reagan refused to support him in trying to oversee a...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-11085383/I-need-TWO-DAYS-recover-game-Graham-Potter-discusses-life-Brighton-boss.html?fbclid=IwAR3HXRQWo-ZmqIuCC_bDkrb6sMX3y4i28gpC5fD31UzQa2Xw0E_H0kDR6fE Daily Mail (sorry) article about Mr Potter. I admire the man even more after reading it...

Just seen that Judith Durham, lead singer with the Seekers, has died at the age of 79. Holds a special place in Albion folklore, I believe, as being the vocalist on the Carnival is Over, the song played after the last match at the Goldstone…..

Just watched Dispatches on Channel 4 tonight and found it devastating, about 3 kids growing up in one of the poorest wards in the Country in Luton and the effect it has on them and their education. If anybody thinks levelling up is going to be a piece of cake, or that the ending of the £20...

Just checked it out for this weekend to see if any Brighton players were in it, given our performance yesterday. Not only were there none in there (fair enough, perhaps) but the result was not mentioned in his introduction - Brighton’s first home win of the season.... or lacklustre Spurs without...

http://https://www.brightonandhoveindependent.co.uk/sport/football/albion/brighton-and-hove-albion-young-striker-breaks-european-record-with-eight-goals-in-a-single-match-for-switzerland-1-9148294 OK it was for Switzerland U19, and OK it was against Gibraltar, but 8 goals against any opposition...

Immense and influential figure from my time as a young man dr John has died. What a voice. What a piano. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-48551452

I am due to be having a Hip Replacement operation in a couple of weeks' time. Everyone assumes I must be in agony when I tell them that, which I'm not. I am well aware that something is wrong, but I am also on 3 different painkillers. I am not worried about the operation itself, even though I...

http://https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-46036314 This was on South Today tonight. A vulnerable Polish man being kept in dreadful conditions. Two people arrested for it this morning This was in Chilworth in Southampton - just down the road from me, a couple of miles away. It is...

Hugh Masakela has died A great jazz trumpeter and an anti-apartheid campaigner to boot. A hero for me on two fronts. :angel: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-42786749

Having had a very good day working in the garden and doing a lot of things I had wanted to do for a long time, then coming in to watch the glorious Albion stick it on Wolves, a few minutes in to the second half we received the message that we had a brand new grandson!!! I'm suggesting they call...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-37288843 Did anyone else watch the programme about the "troubled" Southern health trust. I may be biased because I live near Southampton, where it is based, and know someone who has been involved in protests about the operation of the trust as she has two...

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/628252/Jeremy-Corbyn-under-fire-again-for-comparing-Christmas-to-SOCIALISM Mr Corbyn under fire again from the Daily Express. Although I am left-leaning, I am not a supporter of Mr Corbyn. But as a person of faith, I happen to think he has a point - in fact...