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The Brown Suite (c) Viktor Erik Emanuel - Fundamentally Dance

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Inside The Brown Suite: BlacBrik’s Nahum McLean and Darius Drooh on James Brown, friendship and the power of social spaces

Carmel Thomason

Six friends, one night in 1970s New York, and a soundtrack built from James Brown, Etta James and Sam Cooke — that’s the world at the centre of ‘The Brown Suite’, a full-length dance-theatre show from choreographic duo BlacBrik...

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MBE Insignia Photo courtesy of Elaine Edwards

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Bolton mum’s MBE journey: how Families and Babies grew from one woman’s struggle into a national charity

Lorraine Worsley-Carter

If someone had told Elaine Edwards back in 2004 — during the sleepless nights and uncertainty of new motherhood — that one day she would receive an MBE at Windsor Castle from HRH The Prince of Wales and see her story featured in a best-selling book...

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(L-R) Matt Freeman, Al Dunn, Nick Bunt in Oh Zeus! (Le Navet Bete) - photo credit Mark Senior Photography

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Le Navet Bete’s Nick Bunt on bringing the Greek gods down to earth

Carmel Thomason

Le Navet Bete is back with another larger-than-life comedy, this time taking on the wildly dysfunctional world of Greek mythology. When the stability of Olympus is threatened by the marriage of Zeus’ daughter Hebe to a mere mortal, the King of the...

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