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"A little more restraint in the number of extra notes would help let things shine": Camel break out the complexity but fail to enthral on Mirage

Mirage: a flute-heavy mix of symphonic sweep, jazz fusion and melodic subtlety

Louder

Designers find the beauty in much-maligned plane trees

Widely-hated plane trees are everywhere on urban streets. A Design Week exhibition shows beautiful objects can be crafted from their wood.

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Nothing to sneeze at: one of Melbourne’s most-loathed trees wins a second act

Furniture designers and artists create stools, tea tables, lighting and vases out of the ‘shimmery’ timber of a London plane saved from the mulch pile

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The accidental Shrimper: American student becomes Southend fan after boarding wrong boat

A 21-year-old student from Arizona accidentally became a Southend United supporter on Saturday after boarding the wrong boat in London

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‘I never wanted to work indoors’: Andy Ward on 40 years as a cricket groundsman

Andy Ward tells Simon Burnton that he is happy to leave the long days behind after 40 years after at Leicestershire

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s gritty and it’s real’: finding a proper resting place for Australia’s unclaimed funeral ashes

The not-for-profit Sustainable Funerals Group honours the passing of people with unclaimed ashes by sending them out to sea

The Guardian - AU

Take away Lidia Thorpe's right to protest at your peril, armchair critics

Letters: 'Anyone would think she committed murder.'

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Fugazi: A great title but no songs to go with it… even the pathologically casual Marillion started to worry they’d never write the record, and they’d never get a drummer to play on it if they did

The story of how Marillion made their second album, 1984's aptly titled Fugazi

Louder

“Genesis, Floyd and ELP all received so much more popularity… I’ve always just accepted who and where we were and I don’t think about why we didn’t reach those same heights”: Andy Latimer is happy if Camel managed to matter

Despite having once discovered that “orchestras are a bunch of little kids and hooligans,” the band leader wanted to return to the Albert Hall after reinventing The Snow Goose

Louder

Groovin the Moo festival’s cancellation is expected to have a ‘profound ripple effect’. So what went wrong?

Six regional towns have been left reeling after the festival cancelled just eight days into ticket sales. What’s behind the change in consumer behaviour – or was it a line-up issue?

The Guardian - AU

Newy, Newie or Newcastle? City's nicknames are terms of endearment

We even have shortened suburbs for the same reason.

Newcastle Herald

NightQuarter entertainment and hospitality precinct closes on Sunshine Coast

The Sunshine Coast's recovering music industry has been dealt a major blow with the largest live music venue in the region suddenly shutting its doors permanently.

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Booking.com, On The Beach and JMW Solicitors: The 35 latest North West hires and promotions

BusinessLive rounds up the latest North West hires and promotions

Birmingham Post

Letter: Andy Ward obituary

Mary Newburn writes: Andy Ward’s latest book, Orderly Britain, has just been published

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Andy Ward obituary

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