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‘Threaded with warmth, compassion and hope for the future’: A review of ‘He sings the broken cities’, by Mike Jenkins
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Our Culture: Our history, their risk assessment – Why the grade listed buildings of today are the Lidls of tomorrow
In this edition of Our Culture Jack Clarke takes us on a tour of Salford and the stops includes several buildings that have been abandoned. Here Jack critiques the likes of the listing of buildings and heritage policy that sounds good on paper but does little in reality if the building isn’t in the right postcode. He finishes with some suggestions on how policy changes can be made to give local communities more power over the protection, maintenance and restoration of local buildings.
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Airtins is available here By Geoff Bottoms For those of us who are “sassenachs” this collection of poems in the Scots language can be a challenge for…
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