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South Wales Argus
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- South Wales Argus
VJ Day 80th anniversary service in Blaenavon, Torfaen
Torfaen County Borough Council is organising the event to commemorate Victory over Japan Day, which marked the end of the Second World War in the Pacific theatre. The service will be held at 7pm on Friday, August 15, at St Peter's Church in Blaenavon. Councillor Anthony Hunt, leader of Torfaen County Borough Council, said: "VJ Day marks the final chapter of the Second World War and the beginning of peace after years of global conflict. "As we gather to reflect 80 years on, we honour the courage, resilience and sacrifice of those who served in the Pacific theatre. "Their legacy is one of peace, and it is our duty to remember and uphold the values they fought for. "Everyone is welcome to join the service in Blaenavon to pay tribute to this extraordinary generation." The service will be led by Reverend Dr Chris Walters and will include a slow march of standards and clergy, accompanied by processional music from Matthew Bartlett, known as The Welsh Wedding Bagpiper. Readings will be given by Phillip Alderman, HM Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Gwent, and The Rt Hon Nick Thomas-Symonds MP. The Toodle Pips, a South Wales vocal trio, will perform wartime classics including We'll Meet Again and Mr Sandman. Earlier this year, Torfaen marked VE Day 80 with a service at St Gabriel's Church in Cwmbran. The VJ Day service is open to all and aims to provide a space for reflection on the sacrifices made to secure peace and freedom. For more information about the event, contact Chris Slade on 01495 762200 or email
Yahoo
16-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Ann Curry's Life After the ‘Today' Show: Here's What Happened to the Journalist
For millions of Americans, NBC News journalist was a quintessential part of their daily morning routine. Beginning at 7 a.m., Curry, 68, would serve as news anchor at Today, holding the gig from 1997 to 2011 until she was promoted to coanchor following Meredith Vieira's exit. After barely a year cohosting Today alongside Matt Lauer, Curry left the NBC morning show in 2012. While her exit caused much chatter in the press, the journalist chose not to publicly discuss the departure until many years later. 'During those darkest days, one by one, these wonderful women reached out,' Curry told People in 2018. 'Jane Pauley, Connie Chung, Paula Zahn, Deborah Norville, they took me to lunch, one by one. Meredith wanted dinner. Oprah [Winfrey] called. They all gave me words of wisdom and comfort. All these years later it still resonates — these kindnesses.' The Most Dramatic 'Today' Show Exits Over the Years: Hoda Kotb, Matt Lauer and More Despite leaving Today, Curry stayed with NBC News before announcing her exit from the network in January 2015. At the time, she told fans that she was founding a NBCUniversal-funded media startup with a focus on original reporting and curation of content on the national and global scale. 'In today's world of fragmented media, this is the time to seize the opportunity to improve the way we distribute and even tell stories," she shared in her announcement at the time. "I want to expand my drive to give voice to the voiceless to emerging platforms and produce both scripted and non-scripted content, in addition to continuing to report on-air about stories that matter.' The move was met with support from those close to Curry, who admired her desire to focus on stories around the world that often don't receive the coverage they undeniably deserve. "She was nominated for five Emmys and did well-received segments on climate change, reported on the Central African Republic and interviewed the President of Iran,' a source told Us at the time. 'NBC could have used her more but she's been busy. This new venture is a great use of Ann's talents." The mother of two made her return to TV in 2018 with the PBS docuseries We'll Meet Again. The show captured dramatic reunions of people whose lives crossed at pivotal moments. Since leaving NBC News, Curry has been less active on social media. Her last post on X was a photo of when she met Alexei Navalny's widow, Yulia Navalnaya, in November 2024. Before that, she shared a selfie from a polling station in November 2022, confirming she voted in the election. Instagram and Facebook provide a little more access into her private life, as she appears to remain in New York City. In February, she shared a video of her dog enjoying the snow. One month earlier, she documented a disco ball at an establishment in Brooklyn, New York. One thing she hasn't stopped doing is exploring the world. To end 2024, Curry made a trip to Antarctica. In between admiring penguins and islands, Curry's journalism background came out when she documented the changes in icebergs. 'It is summer in Antarctica, but the science remains overwhelming, that humans are causing the melt to accelerate,' she wrote via Facebook in December 2024. 'That means we can slow it down.' A Guide to the 'Today' Show Hosts' Families: Get to Know Their Kids and Spouses With each and every post, Curry is inundated with supportive messages from longtime viewers. 'Miss you on TV being one of the few soft spoken classy, caring kind hearted and intelligent voices,' one user wrote via Facebook. 'Something you did not see often and specially today with all the madness.' Another follower via Instagram wrote, 'You popped up in my Facebook memories, your interview with the Dalai Lama so looked you up. Hope you're doing well. You are a fantastic journalist. Miss you ❤️.'
Daily Mirror
08-06-2025
- General
- Daily Mirror
'I cried saying goodbye to my Butlins lover - 33 years later we were married'
For Sue Palmer-Conn and Bill they thought their romance came to a end with their summer job at Butlins, but decades later - one message led them back to each other Most people either marry their first love... or they don't. They move on, build new lives, and often never cross paths again. But for Sue Palmer-Conn and Bill, what started as a teenage summer romance at Pwllheli Butlins in 1971 didn't end on that bridge - although it took 33 years, missed letters and one unforgettable message for fate to bring them back together. The then-teens met during a 10-week season working as lifeguards and they hit it off immediately. They spent every spare moment together, but the moments that really stayed with Sue were the quiet ones at the end of the day. 'We were inseparable,' Sue told the Mirror. 'That summer we just hit it off and talked about everything.' They'd share hot chocolate and a doughnut, winding down after their shift - but like all summer jobs, it eventually had to end. 'He was driving away, and I was standing there on the bridge waving to him, tears were rolling down my cheeks,' she said. 'I hoped I would see him again.' Sue returned to Butlins the following two years, hoping she may be reunited with him again. But he had started a sandwich course and couldn't return. Still, she remained hopeful even writing him letters. But he never got the letters. 'His mother intercepted them,' Sue said. 'She didn't want him distracted by another girl - he'd already failed his A-levels once over love.' And just like that - they never saw or heard from each other for decades. They both moved on. Sue stayed in Liverpool, became a teacher, married a university student who became a dentist, and had two sons. After 25 years of marriage, the relationship ended when, as Sue puts it, 'I got a PhD and he got a girlfriend'. They divorced in 2001. Meanwhile, Bill had moved to London, trained as an accountant, married, had four children and divorced in 2002. It may not have felt like it at the time, but those endings quietly cleared the path for a new beginning. Sue joined the website Friends Reunited, putting in her profile: 'old, free and single.' Around the same time, Bill performed in a local production and one of the songs was We'll Meet Again. 'In Butlins on a Friday night, all the Redcoats line up at the back of the stage and we'd link arms and sing We'll Meet Again,' Sue added. That memory triggered something in Bill. He searched for Sue and found her. 'Ho-de-ho, fancy you remembering me,' he wrote. 'Hi-di-hi, oh, fancy you remember,' Sue replied. From there, everything changed. By Sunday, they'd moved to phone calls. 'We talked and talked, it was amazing how many times our life paths had crossed,' Sue said. 'We talked morning, noon and night after that.' Then on Thursday, while on the phone to Bill, Sue received a delivery at work. 'There was a bouquet of 33 red roses, and it said: You're my first, my last, my everything - one for every year I've missed you.' A few weeks later, they reunited face to face, at the old camp back at the same bridge where Sue once stood in tears. 'We met up on Valentine's Day and that's where he proposed,' she added. At that moment, it didn't feel like 33 years had passed. 'It felt as if he'd gone out for a paper,' she said. 'It wasn't even a question - I said yes.' Bill later asked her mum and her sons for permission to marry her. Nine months later, they tied the knot and in their wedding they danced to You're My First, My Last, My Everything. Today, Sue is a divorce coach and bestselling author of 'Plan the Marriage, Not Just the Wedding: Essential Conversations You Must Have Before the Big Day'. 'You have to get to know them as a friend, get to know all their ins and outs before you actually get married - no nasty surprises,' Sue said. She believes their love stood the test of time because their friendship came first. 'We talked and talked in the months between getting in touch and getting married. There was nothing we didn't know.' she said 'You've got to like somebody before you love them.' Now 21 years married, Sue hopes their story reminds people that second chances are real and it's never too late for love. 'We defied the odds. After 33 years, we picked up where we left off - we've been married 21 years this November,' she said.
The Herald Scotland
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Herald Scotland
'Spectacular': Review: The Lion, Witch & Wardrobe @ Festival Theatre
Festival Theatre, Edinburgh Neil Cooper Five stars A World War Two soldier is playing We'll Meet Again on the piano at the start of this latest tour of C.S. Lewis' classic morality tale. The melancholy melody is about the most down to earth thing you're likely to see over the next two hours of a show that turns its dramatic world upside down in epic fashion. Scaled up by director Michael Fentiman from Sally Cookson's 2017 version at Leeds Playhouse, the result is spectacular. The opening song sets the tone for the wartime evacuation of the four Pevensie children, who are decamped to Aberdeen, where the allure for their new home's spare room proves too much for the eternally curious Lucy. Before she knows where she is she has gone beyond the flea ridden fur coats and landed in Narnia. As imagined by designer Tom Paris and original designer Rae Smith, the Narnia under the queendom of Katy Stephens' White Witch's more resembles some Fritz Lang styled dystopia driven by a constructivist chain gang who seem to have stepped out of a 1970s adult SF comic. Read more Yes, the White Witch has got the power, as she proves with her jawdropping metamorphosis at the end of the first act, but Spring is coming. This is the case even if Lucy's daft brother Edmund sells out his siblings for a bumper sized box of Turkish Delight personified by way of Toby Olié and Max Humphries' larger than life puppetry. Fentiman's slickly oiled machine is driven by Barnaby Race and Benji Bower's chamber folk score played by the cast of more than twenty throughout. Despite the show's grandiose staging, it is the humanity of the piece that gives the show its heart and soul. This is even the case with Stanton Wright's messianic looking Aslan, embodied by a life size lion puppet beside him as he spars with the White Witch and her well drilled minions. As Shanell 'Tali' Fergus' choreography navigates the cast from dark to light, it is the Pevensie clan who shine. Joanna Adaran as Susan, Jesse Dunbar as Peter, Kudzai Mangombe as Lucy and Shane Anthony Whiteley stepping up as Edmund for a Thursday matinee briefly halted by technical gods all rise to the occasion in a big show that never loses sight of the eternal story at its heart.
Daily Record
09-05-2025
- General
- Daily Record
VE Day's 80th anniversary marked at South Lanarkshire Council HQ
Provost Margaret Cooper led a short event where a commemorative flag was raised. A commemorative flag was raised at South Lanarkshire Council headquarters in Hamilton yesterday (Thursday) to mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day. Provost Margaret Cooper led a short event for invited guests, who included Lord Lieutenant of Lanarkshire Lady Susan Haughey, local and national politicians, members of the Royal British Legion, local clergy, emergency services personnel and senior council officers. Also invited were representatives of the Cameronians, Scotland's only rifle regiment of the British Army, disbanded in 1968, and now memorialised in a unique permanent exhibition at Hamilton's Low Parks Museum. Members of the community music group Soundsational, dressed in fashions from the war era, performed 'Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree' and 'Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy' and the wartime classic, 'We'll Meet Again', as the guests took their places. Rev Ross Blackman, Minister of Hamilton Old Parish Church, then led an opening prayer before Laurence Binyon's famous words, 'They Shall not Grow Old', were read. The 'Last Post' then sounded before a two-minute silence was observed and the anniversary flag raised to mark eight decades since Germany surrendered to allied forces on May 8, 1945. After a final prayer, the ceremony ended with the playing of the national anthem and final sounds from a lone piper. Provost Cooper described VE Day as 'one that must never be forgotten'. She added: 'I have no doubt that Victory in Europe Day is one that those who lived through it would remember for the rest of their lives. It must surely have been a day full of hope and joy, and genuine celebration. 'Yet, there would also have been sadness for so many as they remembered loved ones who gave their lives on a foreign battlefield to make sure that this day of victory would come. 'And that is why we are here. It is why, not just on this 80th anniversary, but every year, we honour the sacrifices they made. 'Eighty years on from the end of WW2, there are very few of our 'greatest generation' still with us, which makes it even more important we, who enjoy the freedoms they fought for, ensure that their voices will live on. 'Coming together today in remembrance, and to raise this special flag is the very least that we can give them, and we do so with pride.'
