There were cheers and applause in Wythenshawe today as the town welcomed back its ‘iconic’ Tudor Hall.
28.09.2022 - 20:47 / dailyrecord.co.uk
The final closure of Falkirk Town Hall (FTH) is set to go ahead - but will be delayed to allow the children's theatre group Big Bad Wolf to go ahead with its show in February.
The minority SNP administration agreed to support an amendment from the Conservative group urging Falkirk Council to delay the closure.
The council's director of Place Services, Malcolm Bennie, wanted councillors to put an end to years of wrangling over a replacement for Falkirk's town hall and the adjoining municipal buildings, which are currently being demolished.
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The report made clear that any new building would not contain any office space and would instead be a new town hall, containing a theatre, rather than the long talked about HQ and arts centre.
He said that FTH would need to close for a year to safely disentangle it from the municipal buildings at a cost of £2.4 million, before repairs that would cost another £4 million.
But his plan to close FTH after the pantomime finishes in December met with outrage from local members of the arts community, who said they had been "blindsided" by the news.
At a meeting of Falkirk Council today (Wednesday), Amy Sutherland from Falkirk Operatic Society told councillors that her company stood to lose thousands of pounds as their sets, costumes and performing licence was already paid for.
She spoke eloquently about the impact that the loss of FTH would have on members of her group and others and said that a closure of five to ten years would mean groups would almost certainly not survive.
She warned councillors that many would go to other local authorities to spend their money in their facilities, fatally
There were cheers and applause in Wythenshawe today as the town welcomed back its ‘iconic’ Tudor Hall.
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King Charles will today pay special thanks to the Scots who helped organise and support Queen Elizabeth II's final journey from her beloved Balmoral estate in Aberdeenshire following her death.
Phillip Schofield's £1million We Buy Any Car deal has been dropped after five years.
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The Helix Visitor Centre in Falkirk has been given permission to sell alcohol from 10am every day to help tourism.
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The American Cinema Editors has stitched together a date for its 2023 ACE Eddie Awards. The 73rd annual gala is set for Sunday, March 5, at UCLA’s Royce Hall in Westwood.
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Theatre and dance groups are furious that Falkirk Town Hall could close its doors for good on December 31 - while its replacement is still to be decided.
K.J. Yossman The worlds of publishing and screen have paid tribute to author Hilary Mantel, who died on Thursday (Sept. 22) at the age of 70. Peter Kosminsky, who directed the BBC adaptation of Mantel’s novel “Wolf Hall,” told Variety: “A great light has gone out. The word ‘great’ is used very easily these days but nobody could dispute that it’s an appropriate epithet for Dame Hilary Mantel. If you look at the scale of her achievements, the impact she’s had, the breadth of her knowledge and reading… She’s someone whom people went to for thoughts and opinions on a variety of different novels ad nonfiction works. People recognized her for the massive intellect as she was. It’s hard to imagine a world without her.”
the Booker Prize-winning author who turned Tudor power politics into page-turning fiction in the acclaimed “Wolf Hall” trilogy of historical novels, has died. She was 70.Mantel died “suddenly yet peacefully” surrounded by close family and friends, publisher HarperCollins said Friday.Mantel is credited with reenergizing historical fiction with “Wolf Hall” and two sequels about the 16th-century English powerbroker Thomas Cromwell, right-hand man to King Henry VIII.The publisher said Mantel was “one of the greatest English novelists of this century.”“Her beloved works are considered modern classics.
A long-running planning application to create a permanent pitch for a gypsy/traveller site near Falkirk has been delayed again after confusion over ownership of the land.
Falkirk Town Hall could close its doors for good after this year's pantomime run as a proposal to refurbish it would cost millions while the building would still not be fit for purpose.
Mourners who have not already joined the queue to visit Queen Elizabeth have been told not to "set off. " The late monarch - who died on September 8 at the age of 96 following a 70-year reign - is currently lying-in-state at Westminster Hall in London before her funeral on Monday (19. 09.