The News Review:
- Plane Festival Keeps Controllers on Toes
- Extra day for National Hunt Festival
- Derbys re-arrange festival games
- Festival-goers service complaints
- Could Manchester rival Edinburgh as the summer’s cultural…
Plane Festival Keeps Controllers on Toes
Washington Post – Jul 25, 2007
– Michael Sparks believed this summer would be his last as an air traffic controller. The 26-year veteran thought he’d seen it all.
Extra day for National Hunt Festival
RTE.ie – Jul 25, 2007
A revised racing calendar for the week will see the addition of a ¤ 220000 handicap hurdle as the centrepiece on the new Festival Saturday. In addition the traditional charity race will be transferred from Friday to the Saturday and a number of new races have been added to the five day calendar. Festival Saturday will also act as the concluding day of the Irish National Hunt season providing the opportunity for the sport to celebrate the successes of the previous year. At least two grade one races will be run on each day of the festival with a minimum of seven races each day and total prize money will increase to approximately ¤2.
Derbys re-arrange festival games
BBC News – Jul 25, 2007
The festival will begin with a Pro40 game against the Dynamos on 4 September and will continue with a Championship fixture against Notts from 6 September. Chief Executive Tom Sears said: “We are delighted that we have been able to reschedule the Chesterfield Festival. “We look forward to a very successful week albeit later than planned.
Festival-goers service complaints
BBC News – Jul 25, 2007
About 200 people expressed disappointment with their treatment at shops and restaurants. The customer service project behind the feedback scheme Who cares Wins put it down to the high number of people who attended the festival on Lewis. A staff bank is now being considered to provide support during busy periods. Lisa Maclean project co-ordinator for Who Cares Wins funded by development agency HIE Innse Gall said the feedback was surprising for a part of the world famed for its hospitality.
Could Manchester rival Edinburgh as the summer’s cultural…
Independent – Jul 25, 2007
But he shifted to a more tragic gear in the bedrooms where Parkin was revealed as a man who had made the mistake of thinking that the objects in a home are more important than the people who live in it. As a theatrical concept it was a touch ham-fisted but Vegas carried it off with such bravura – so larger than life yet so intimate with his little audience – that at the end it was all I could do not to reach out and lay a hand on his shoulder out of human fellow-feeling. The director of the new festival Alex Poots was determined from the outset that his new venture would be nothing if it was not different. The world is after all chock-a-block with festivals. “I didn’t see the point of being a second-rate Edinburgh or Glastonbury” he says. He laid out four prerequisites for success. “First you can’t just plonk a festival on a city like icing on a cake – it has to grow from the traditions of the place… “I didn’t see the point of being a second-rate Edinburgh or Glastonbury” he says. He laid out four prerequisites for success. “First you can’t just plonk a festival on a city like icing on a cake – it has to grow from the traditions of the place. Manchester was the world’s first industrial city so it needed to be about innovation. That meant a festival of new works. Second the city and local businesses would have to put quite a lot of money into it. Third the festival had to be a limited company completely independent of the Labour council so that there would be no question of anyone saying ‘Sorry you can’t do anything critical of the war in Iraq.