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The West Gate Bridge disaster looms large over Melbourne. A new play can’t fully capture its grief

Every Melburnian knows the West Gate Bridge, crossing the Yarra River north of its exit to Port Phillip Bay. It looms, it hums, it holds memory, it writhes.

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West Gate review – jaw-droppingly staged production recounts Melbourne’s tragic bridge collapse

The stage feels dangerous from the opening seconds, in a play that has its faults but hums with dread as it builds towards a mighty crash

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Former rugby player to take on world-record swim with Scottish Canals

A FORMER professional rugby union player has teamed up with Scottish Canals to attempt a deeply personal and ambitious challenge whilst setting a…

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John Seed obituary

Other lives: Author, poet and academic whose books often fused history with verse

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The Great When by Alan Moore review – a riotous tour of occult London

With bravura brilliance, the Watchmen author conjures up a hyperreal fugitive city, populated by rogues and reprobates

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New nature writing genre brings wild and tricky aspects of climate crisis to life

We live in an age of climate emergency and eco-anxiety. This is, after all, the Anthropocene – a geological period defined by the bootprint of humans on Earth. Bearing witness to our place in the world is critical now more than ever but writing about nature during an eco-crisis without…

The Conversation

Booze, bleach and bad blood: writer Iain Sinclair recounts tales of old Soho

Joanna Taylor discovers how one forgotten photographer helped forge the legend of Soho past — and immortalise the likes of Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud forever

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‘All of them were drunk’: Iain Sinclair on Freud, Bacon and the postwar Soho arts scene

The author on his new book about photographer John Deakin, being at ease in his 80s – and walking amid London’s fast-moving phone zombies

The Guardian - UK

‘Deliberately obscure’: how to locate the weird world of hidden public art

Not all art is made to be hung on walls. From pinhole dioramas stashed in bollards to sculptures you need scuba gear to see, we meet the artists playing hide and seek with their viewers

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Falkirk becomes fifth Scottish council to call for ban on single-use, disposable vapes

All councillors agreed that discarded vapes are a major litter problem and a fire hazard

Daily Record

Bid to ban disposal vapes set to be backed by Falkirk Council

SNP councillor Iain Sinclair, the administration's climate change spokesperson, hopes that other parties will support his call for the Scottish Government to ban disposable vapes.

Daily Record

Falkirk to increase cost of using electric vehicle charging points

The money being brought in by charging points has been falling short of the cost of running them, and now the council has agreed to bring in new charges.

Daily Record

Falkirk Council's 'net zero' plans at risk over £50m funding shortfall

A new climate change report shows the scale of the challenge facing Falkirk in its fight against climate change

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Brian Catling obituary

Performance artist and fantasy writer whose gothic imagination found inspiration in the ‘wrongness of actions’

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Daily Record

Falkirk's grass cutting pilot will be rolled out despite concerns

Hundreds of volunteers signed up to help plant flowers and trees - but the project also had many critics

Daily Record

Falkirk flats plan gets go-ahead despite concerns about impact on parking

Councillors worried that parking on the busy road near the town's retail park could worsen

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The Gold Machine review – Iain Sinclair confronts imperial ancestors in Peru trek

In the film of Sinclair’s book, the writer ends up rerouting the story of his great-grandfather’s expedition to the Amazon to its own psychogeographic musings

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Falkirk Tories struggle to pick up transfer votes as they lose three councillors

Falkirk Conservatives had an unexpected win in Falkirk North despite losing three seats.

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Daily Record

Falkirk Council election 2022: New faces, but no majority for SNP

SNP fail to get their hoped-for majority despite being largest party, taking 12 of the council's 30 seats, with Labour once again the second biggest party.

Daily Record

Falkirk Council Election 2022: Voters go to polls on quiet day that could bring big change

The campaigning is now over, the votes have been cast and all the candidates for Falkirk Council can do is wait.

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