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THE BOY WHO GAZED AT THE MOON

Kevin Kennedy played Caractacus Potts in the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Singapore Tour, becoming the first actor to have played both Caractacus Potts and The Child Catcher.
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ON MEETING LEANNE BATTERSBY

have happy memories of conducting a live interview with Jane Danson in front of around 400 people at the 2015 Annual Rochdale Literary And Ideas Festival
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WHEN HAYLEY CAME A CROPPER

When researching a story biography for a forthcoming subject on these pages I was, for reasons that will subsequently become obvious, reminded me of the fictional Coronation Street character of Hayley Cropper.
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ACTING FOR COMMUNAL GOOD

Her most famous role to date has been as Hayley Cropper in the ITV soap Coronation Street after first appearing open the cobbles in 1998.
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Sidetracks And Detours present PASS IT ON 32 weekly walkabout Sunday, 24th December 2023

So tonight´s Place For Poetry was in a town square, in the shadow of a Theatre´, lit by fairy lights illuminating the fountain and the wishing well .´

MANCHESTER BOOKED UP

In her memoir,  Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, Jeanette Winterson locates the city of her birth with a laser-guided accuracy: “Manchester is in the south of the north of England,” she writes. “Its spirit has a contrariness … at once untamed and unmetropolitan; yet at the same time, connected and worldly.”
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Manchester´s Biggest Ever Awards Ceremony:

The inaugural I Love MCR Awards brought together over 750 most-loved people in what was the biggest awards event the city has ever seen.
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THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN

The Jesus and Mary Chain are set to return with a new album in 2024
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HELLO DOLLY: THE ROCKSTAR.

For the project, Dolly Parton enlisted a number of the world’s most celebrated rock stars to perform new versions of their greatest hits. The result is a staggering tracklist that looks like it just stepped off the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Parton shines alongside Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, the last two surviving members of The Beatles, on a nostalgic rendition of their hit “Let It Be” that also features Peter Frampton and Mick Fleetwood. Her voice is a perfect match for The Police’s “Every Breath You Take,” with backing vocals provided by the band’s frontman and bassist, Sting, and meshes beautifully with Elton John on his soaring ballad “Don’t Let The Sun Go Down on Me.”