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Monthly Archives: May 2011

Package holidays, backpackers and music festivals

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, May 27, 2011 — Culture

John David Penrose is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Weston-super-Mare

It’s not that long ago – well, 50 or 60 years, to be honest – that the idea of travel abroad was something beyond the reach of any but the very rich or those for whom it was an exotic by-product of their job.

News from the front line on the war against red tape

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, May 20, 2011 — Culture

John David Penrose is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Weston-super-Mare

I shared my thoughts with you last time about the Red Tape Challenge which, as I explained, was a chance for those people who actually work in the leisure industries to name and shame the rules and regulations that make their working lives that bit harder than they should be.

Henry VIII, arsenic, chloroform, ice cream vans and the joys of the packed lunch

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, — Culture

John David Penrose is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Weston-super-Mare

As everybody knows*, the traditional English ballad Greensleeves was written by Henry VIII as a lament for his singular lack of progress – at the time – in wooing Anne Boleyn. That this venture by the much-married monarch should have proved to be so spectacularly enduring is just one of those happy chances that history…

Behind the scenes at Streetwise Opera

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, May 6, 2011 — Culture

DCMS Jerwood Creative Bursaries Scheme Graduate

What is it really like to work in an arts organisation? What do graduates on the DCMS Jerwood Creative Bursaries Scheme work on during their year-long placements? Patience Ofosu-Asaa, one of the graduates on the scheme, takes us behind the scenes in a video blog about her role as projects assistant at Streetwise Opera –…