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Teens accused of fatally beating a 73-year-old man with a traffic cone ordered to stand trial

PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia judge on Monday ordered that the two young teens accused of fatally beating a 73-year-old man with a traffic cone in North Philadelphia last summer should stand trial for murder.

The Philadelphia Inquirer · Feb 28, 2023

The week in classical: Rusalka; The Rhinegold

Royal Opera’s new staging of Dvořák’s watery Rusalka finds fresh resonsances, while the ENO’s updated Ring cycle is really starting to shine

The Guardian - UK · Feb 25, 2023

The Rhinegold review – witty and insightful, Jones’s production delivers an emphatic win for ENO

The Rhine shimmers, the gold dazzles and the gods posture – Richard Jones has by and large gone back to Wagnerian basics for his assured and cogent staging. In the pit, Martyn Brabbins and ENO’s orchestra add lustre

The Guardian - UK · Feb 19, 2023

Met uncertain about producing Richard Jones' Ring Cycle

The Met Opera will not start a new production of Wagner’s Ring Cycle in 2025 and is not sure whether it will move ahead with plans to present a staging of the tetralogy by director Richard Jones

The Independent UK · Jan 17, 2023

Atom Valley: Andy Burnham’s vision for regenerating Greater Manchester

The regional mayor has taken levelling up into his own hands with the ‘nuclear option’ of a hi-tech manufacturing hub named for the city’s role in splitting the atom

The Guardian - UK · Jan 7, 2023

Pensioner dies after driving his mobility scooter off beach promenade

Richard Jones misjudged the edge of the promenade and fell to his death.

Daily Record · Jan 6, 2023

Pensioner dies after driving mobility scooter off promenade

Richard Jones died at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd six days after falling off the promenade in Prestatyn

Wales Online · Jan 6, 2023

Social media may threaten the Welsh language, study reveals

Academics at Swansea University compared minority and majority language speakers’ social media responses.

The Independent UK · Dec 31, 2022

Social media is threatening the future of the Welsh language, a new university study has claimed

Research also found that more than 10% of pupils analysed had a "high level" of social media addiction

Wales Online · Dec 23, 2022

Sophie Ellis-Bextor used new album as ‘an outlet to make sense of things’ following stepdad’s death

Exclusive: The Murder On The Dancefloor hit-maker also opens up about the trip to Japan she was never meant to meant to take which is at the heart of her seventh studio album

Evening Standard · Dec 22, 2022