A NEW tea rooms which transports customers back to a vintage era is causing quite a stir in Hyde. Lady Lavender tea rooms in Clarendon Square shopping centre whisks visitors back to a more gentile age when tea was made from leaves and poured into fine china cups. Clare Booth, 42, owner of Lady Lavender [..]
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A SANDWICH shop owner in Birkenhead aims to put the perfect topping on her successful business by carrying off a coveted national title. Paula Smith, who has run the popular takeaway Let’s Lunch in The Grange and Pyramids Shopping Centre for the past decade, has been chosen as one of seven from the North West [..]
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The success of opera superstar Luciano Pavarotti is inspiring a new generation of choirs at an international music festival that was his springboard to global fame. Nearly six years after he died, 34 choirs from 15 countries will sing their hearts out for the coveted Choir of the World competition which commemorates the great Italian [..]
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Two members of a German youth choir are to make an emotional return to the town of Llangollen this July, 60 years after they sang there as schoolgirls. Ursel Gaussman and Inge Volkening, then both aged 14, were part of the Obernkirchen Children’s Choir which won at the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod in 1953 – [..]
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