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A new theatre show from a Westcountry performance company is on its way to Dartington. Green Eyed Zero Theatre Company - headed up by University of Exeter's Rachel Pollard - fuses daring contemporary circus high jinks, innovative digital media and physical performance in the new show, In the Shadow of Picture Frames. Described as an 'imaginative and spectacular performance that has the audience on the edge of their seat', In the Shadow of Picture Frames takes to the stage in Dartington's...

Budget Rent A Car has opened a new and improved, expanded rental facility at London Gatwick Airport, the second largest airport in the United Kingdom. The new location is conveniently located to serve both leisure and business customers both at the airport and the local community, comprised of the Crawley district and surrounding areas. Budget Gatwick Airport offers customers a variety of vehicle options from a Ford Fiesta to a Ford Focus, executive vehicles such as Mercedes C180s and E200s...

ANYONE who wants to try their hand at playing African music will have their chance on Saturday. The Coventry Refugee Centre, in Bishop Street, is holding a free workshop in Ugandan traditional music. Leamington-based Embaire is running two sessions from 2pm to 3.45pm for youngsters and from 4.15pm to 6pm for adults. Call 024 7622 7301 ext 226 or e-mail dimitrik@covrefugee.org (c) 2008 Coventry Evening Telegraph. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All rights Reserved.

A STRING of special events have been organised to celebrate Coventry's pensioners as part of International Older People's Week. The opening event will be held tomorrow at St Mary's Guildhall, Bayley Lane, city centre, from 10.30am-5pm. It will feature information stalls and Walsall Senior Citizens Orchestra. Other inter-generational activities will include Walk About Talk About, with pensioners showing children around the city and telling them what it was like in their day, silver surfer...

EDGE Hill university's new pounds 14m Teaching and Learning Faculty of Health building in Ormskirk has been shortlisted for a Times Higher Education award for sustainable development. (c) 2008 Liverpool Echo. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All rights Reserved.

By LIZA WILLIAMS LIVERPOOL is today anticipating its most starstudded event of the year, after it was confirmed R&B superstar Beyonce Knowles will perform at the city's MTV Europe Music Awards. The 27-year-old singer is the first major act to be named for the event at the Echo Arena, Liverpool, and it is thought many more high profile nominees from the upper eschelons of the music world will be joining her. The remaining performers will be announced in the coming weeks but nominees...

By Dave Blackhurst Bowlers have been turfed off a 170-year-old green to make way for a health centre. The Kings Arms bowling club, which played on the site of the Meir pub, has been made homeless as Stoke-on-Trent Primary Care Trust (PCT) prepares to flatten the site. Bulldozers will move in over the next few days to make way for a three-storey health centre serving tens of thousands of people. Club secretary Roy Ward - also chairman of the Kings Arms Action Group - said: "The bowling...

Another dead porpoise has been washed up on a South Devon beach - the fourth already in September. Brixham Seawatch campaigner Lindy Hingley said: "This is quite unusual. The 5ft long female found on the beach at St Mary's Bay is almost full grown, very fresh and pretty healthy with good body weight. "I'm at a loss to know why it died. There were no signs of being caught in inshore gill nets or any other obvious cause. "Usually if it is netting, their heads are badly damaged when they are...

LIVERPOOL'S John Lennon airport was operating normally today after a computer glitch caused travel chaos. A technical problem at the UK's main traffic control centre in Swan wick is believed to have disrupted flights at most UK airports. At JLA, 13 outgoing flights were affected last night and up to 1,000 people delayed, although airport officials said they suffered only a two-hour delay at worst. Only flights heading over airspace in the south east of the UK were affected. JLA...

THE travel plans of thousands of air passengers - including those travelling from Liverpool - were thrown into chaos last night when a computer fault at the UK's main air traffic control centre led to serious flight disruptions. The problem started when a fault occurred at one of the systems at Swanwick Air Traffic Control Centre in Hampshire. This led air traffic control company NATS to restrict the number of planes entering UK airspace, as well as those taking off from major UK...