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Kevin Rush
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Retired teacher, now running Leicester International Music Festival. Interested in all kinds of music, theatre, art, books, walking, cycling, wildlife, cooking, watching sport. Leicester Tigers STH for 30+ years!
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What a great lunchtime concert by the Paddington Trio yesterday at Hansom Hall - their playing is so nimble and full of energy. We would love to have them back!
October 24, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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What a great start to a new season! We welcomed a large audience to Hansom Hall and Sasha Grynyuk kept them enthralled with a sparkling hour of magnificent playing. As someone said on the way out, our Steinway sounded like an orchestra today.
October 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Great to hear the cheers for our marvellous players at the end of last night's concert - the first of our four-day festival.
Join us at Hansom Hall 1pm today for our lunchtime concert with Nicholas Daniel (oboe); Anna-Liisa Bezrodny (violin) and Charles Owen (piano). wegottickets.com/event/672184
September 18, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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Sanders: “What are the long-term implications for the well-being of our kids and the country if faith in vaccine science is undermined?”

Dr. Monarez: “Preventable diseases will return. I believe that we will have our children harmed for things that we know they do not need to be harmed by.”
September 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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A week today, we will be enjoying our 2025 Festival Lunchtime Concert at the lovely Hansom Hall, with Nicholas Daniel (oboe) Anna-Liisa Bezrodny (violin) & Charles Owen (piano). Join us for great music by Schubert, Ravel & our composer-in-residence, Emma-Ruth Richards. wegottickets.com/event/672184
Leicester International Music Festival 2025: Concert 2, 'The Wanderer'
Anna-Liisa Bezrodny (violin) Nicholas Daniel (oboe) Charles Owen (piano) Ravel: Sonata for violin and piano 18’ Ravel: Waltzes Nobles et Sentimentales 15’ Emma-Ruth Richards: De Stamparare for solo o...
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September 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him
September 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Our government is not defending us www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/09... The UK is facing the greatest existential threat since WW II and Labour is hoping we won’t notice.
Our government is not defending us
As The Guardian reports this morning: Prominent women including cultural figures, politicians and campaigners have signed a letter criticising rightwing attempts to link sexual violence in Britain to...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
September 2, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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#LIMF2025 featuring Franz Schubert, who still breaks and mends hearts in equal measure; Maurice Ravel, whose 150th birthday we celebrate, and Emma-Ruth Richards, who brings a bold and deeply personal voice to the festival. Join us 17-20 September.
www.leicesterinternationalmusicfestival.org.uk
August 6, 2025 at 7:18 AM
World-class chamber music in the East Midlands this autumn! #Leicester
Pleased bring you exciting news of our Festival September 17-20, with a great team led by Nicholas Daniel. Vibrant Landscapes: Franz Schubert, Maurice Ravel & Emma-Ruth Richards.
More info at: www.leicesterinternationalmusicfestival.org.uk/limf-2025
LIMF 2025 — Leicester International Music Festival
www.leicesterinternationalmusicfestival.org.uk
August 5, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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They are supposed to be an organisation that protects wildlife - not sanctioning the hunting of birds! Shame on @naturescot.bsky.social
July 31, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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UK cheesemaker welcomes new EU deal – but says it comes four years too late

Simon Spurrell was forced to sell his business because of £600,000 loss caused by Brexit red tape

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
UK cheesemaker welcomes new EU deal – but says it comes four years too late
Simon Spurrell was forced to sell his business because of £600,000 loss caused by Brexit red tape
www.theguardian.com
May 20, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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Please highlight this story.

ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.

kfor.com/news/local/w...
'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects
A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …
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April 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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That's 95k!

We're 95% of the way to 100,000 signatures on our petition, which means we get a ban on driven grouse shooting debated in parliament.

Only 5k to go! Please share & sign: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
April 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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We’re looking forward to this and would love you to join us at Hanson Hall, Thursday 1pm: wegottickets.com/event/630543
March 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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A magnificent lunchtime recital by Fiachra Garvey at Hansom Hall today, and it was great to that there was a capacity audience to enjoy such wonderful playing and such incredible sounds. Impossible not to be moved by the 'Great Gate at Kiev' which closed the concert - an anthem for our times.
March 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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We have a fabulous piano recital for you this Thursday lunchtime, 1pm at Hansom Hall, Belvoir St. Fiachra Garvey will play Gershwin 'Rhapsody in Blue', Debussy, Albéniz, Mendelssohn & Mussorgsky 'Pictures'. We'd love you to join us! Full details & tickets: wegottickets.com/event/630538
Fiachra Garvey (piano) - LIMF Lunchtime Concert 11
1st prizewinner at the 2012 Jaques Samuel Competition, London, Fiachra Garvey ARAM, has performed in venues from the Fazioli Auditorium in Italy to London’s Wigmore Hall. ‘…brings a deep and infectio...
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March 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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That's 70.000 people who want to see driven grouse shooting banned.

We're nearly 3/4 of the way there to our target of 100,000 signatures.

Do you want a ban? If so, please like & share this post!

Sign here: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
March 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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If Trump was President in 1940
March 3, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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This ridiculous @telegraphnews.bsky.social story www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02...
clearly placed by BASC, should persuade you to sign this act.wwt.org.uk/page/160992/... asking Defra to ban lead ammunition.

It's the ammo that is poisonous, silly!
Boss of wildfowl charity who suggested ‘all game is poisonous’ attended meat awards
Charity is accused of shooting itself in the foot after it emerges Sarah Fowler, its chief executive, was a guest at Eat Game Awards
www.telegraph.co.uk
February 16, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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The Papua New Guinea Courier's overseas correspondent on America's Coup Klux Klan...

mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/the-papua-...
The Papua New Guinea Courier's overseas correspondent on America's Coup Klux Klan
To America where Elon Musk, the world’s most economically wealthy and spiritually impoverished man, is staging a coup.
mrhenrymorris.substack.com
February 6, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Looking forward to presenting this today - I'd love to see you there!
January 16, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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We’re all immune to it at this point but we have to remind ourselves that this is an abomination. A catastrophe. A grotesque corruption.

And a betrayal of the millions who fought and sacrificed in the great wars of the 20th Century to escape a world that works like this.
Today in this is not normal:

(courtesy @atrupar.com who keeps an eye on trump for the rest of us...)
January 7, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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“The whole of the UK is multicultural.

We’ve always had people from different parts of the world come and be with us. It’s how we make the most of everyone, how we make it work.

Because when it works, it is beautiful and it is something to be celebrated.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Tory focus on immigration helped stoke riots, equalities committee chair says
Exclusive: Sarah Owen warns Reform MPs are making task of strengthening UK communities more urgent
www.theguardian.com
January 1, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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What a superb lunchtime concert today by Mathilde Milwidsky & Huw Watkins at Hansom Hall - a great way to end 2024 😍
December 12, 2024 at 4:44 PM
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We have a lovely concert for you in #Leicester today (1-2pm): Mathilde Milwidsky and Huw Watkins at the historic Hansom Hall, playing music by Ravel, Boulanger, Marsalis and Huw Watkins himself. Do join us! wegottickets.com/event/630522
Mathilde Milwidsky (violin) and Huw Watkins (piano) - LIMF Lunchtime Concert 6
“The performance, needless to say, was a tour de force… it made this second concert in the Musica Viva Series probably the finest violin and piano duo recital heard in the city for a number of years.”...
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December 12, 2024 at 7:08 AM