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The company had reported increased losses of £3.1m last year and has failed to secure either rent reductions to reduce its costs, or find a buyer to rescue the business, which was founded in Bournemouth. … [Read more...] about Beales goes into administration with 22 stores and 1,300 jobs at risk

It’s not an industry that most of us think about very often, though meat consumption has become one of the big discussions of our time. But most of us struggle to grasp the full complexity of the modern farming system, where an animal may be born in one location before being transported to another for most of its life, to a third – if it is a beef cow – for fattening, and at last to a final place for its death. … [Read more...] about Animals farmed investigates: the huge global trade in live animals

Beethoven’s 1808 benefit concert was one of classical music’s most remarkable evenings: it featured four premieres, including the 5th and 6th symphonies and the 4th piano concerto, and lasted four hours. Yet, in this recreation of that freezing December night in Vienna’s Theater an der Wien – six months before Napoleon invaded the city for the second time – it was not just the event’s scale that created the impact, but the sense it engendered of a genius at work. For the St David’s Hall audience, the buzz came from being part of something where history was being relived, giving substance to the Beethoven 250th celebrations. Here, it took two each of orchestras, conductors and pianists to realise what Beethoven – composer, fixer, conductor and soloist – effectively achieved alone. … [Read more...] about Beethoven: the 1808 concert review – a remarkable evening, then, and now

Hosted at radiohead.com, the site features archival material grouped around each of the band’s nine studio albums, including music videos, live TV performances, artwork and the group’s quarterly w.a.s.t.e. newsletter series. It also links to the frequently bizarre, nightmarish and labyrinthine previous iterations of their website. … [Read more...] about Radiohead Public Library: archive of band’s work goes live

Competing to deputise for Vunipola in the back row are Tom Curry, Lewis Ludlam and Ben Earl. Earl is among eight uncapped players who travel to Portugal on Thursday for a pre-Six Nations training camp with the exciting Saracens prop joined by hooker Tom Dunn, wing Ollie Thorley, centre Fraser Dingwall, full-back George Furbank, lock Alex Moon, prop Will Stuart and fly-half Jacob Umaga. … [Read more...] about Jack Nowell dropped from England’s squad for Six Nations