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Anne Puckridge is among half a million pensioners living abroad missing out on state pension increases

Rupert JonesSat 30 Nov 2024 07.00 GMTShare

This weekend, a few weeks before her 100th birthday, a former wartime intelligence officer will set off on a new mission: to meet with the UK pensions minister and persuade her to end an “injustice”.

Anne Puckridge is travelling 4,400 miles from her home in Canada to ask the UK government to change rules that campaigners say penalise almost half a million pensioners living overseas and leave many struggling financially.

Many of them, including Puckridge, receive a state pension that is a fraction of what they would get if they had stayed in the UK or moved to one of a list of other countries.

This is because although the UK state pension is payable overseas, it is not “uprated” annually unless there is a legal requirement to do so – for example, where there is a relevant reciprocal social security agreement in place

About 480,000 older Britons living abroad are affected by this “frozen pensions” policy. Their state pensions do not increase each year, but stay at the level reached on the date the individual moved away if they had already retired, or became entitled to the payment if they were already living overseas.

The rules apply to the old basic state pension and the new state pension introduced in 2016. The full basic state pension is now £169.50 a week, and, for many pensioners, will rise by 4.1% in April to reach £176.45.

But those Britons who emigrated or retired to more than 100 countries including Australia, Canada and South Africa will not benefit from the increase.

I can’t remember when I bought anything new, and I have to limit even essential purchases to thrift and similar stores

Some “frozen” pensioners have missed years of rises and, as a result, receive as little as £20 a week.

Puckridge says she has been punished by the British government for deciding in 2001, at the age of 76, to move to Canada to be close to her daughter. She served as an intelligence officer during the second world war, and worked on codes across the army, RAF and navy. Puckridge then returned to the UK and brought up her family, working in administrative jobs and, later, as a lecturer in Stroud, Gloucestershire.

Despite the fact she lived and worked in the UK for most of her life, making national insurance contributions throughout her career, her UK basic state pension is frozen at the 2001 level of £72.50.

Since then Puckridge has received £50,000 less than had she spent the last 23 years in the UK. She says the pension freeze has affected “virtually every decision in my life”.

She adds: “I can’t remember when I bought anything new, and I have to limit even essential purchases to thrift and similar stores. Social activity and entertainment are mainly only memories, and festive seasons such as the approaching Christmas or birthdays are embarrassing rather than exciting events.”

The End Frozen Pensions campaign says the current regime is “cruel and unnecessary”.

Puckridge is due to arrive in the UK on Sunday and had formally requested a meeting with Keir Starmer.

Her call was backed by the actor Joanna Lumley and more than 30 UK parliamentarians, including the former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.

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Duff Goldman and Lorraine Pascale in Worst Bakers in America (2016) Lorraine Pascale's first BBC cookery show, Baking Made Easy (2011), has attracted some spectacular headlines as well as some great reviews, since its launch in January 2011. Audiences have peaked at nearly 3 million during the six-week series. Her first cookery book, of the same name, has reached number one in the best seller lists, and sales are soaring.

The TV show centres on Lorraine's passion for baking, and features both sweet and savoury classics. Using her expertise as a trained chef, Lorraine gives both informed and practical advice. Her easy and approachable style, and her delicious and original ideas have proved a hit with both the public and the media. Her book, a labour of love, features 100 favourite recipes, and is packed full of ideas for every occasion, suitable for breakfast, dinner and even special occasions.

A highly successful fashion model in the '90s - Lorraine fronted campaigns for brands including Versace, Donna Karan, Katharine Hamnett and The Gap. The first British Black model on the cover of American Elle, she also worked regularly with Kate Moss, Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell and influential fashion editor Edward Enninful for i-D magazine.

But, at the start of 2000, Lorraine turned her back on her successful modelling career, deciding to pursue her long-term passion for cookery. She enrolled on Leith's Diploma of Food and Wine course, and learnt about every aspect of food. She also worked stages in kitchens including "The Square", "Petrus", "The Mandarin Oriental", "The Wolseley", "Hakkasan" and the "Hummingbird Bakery". She started her degree in International Culinary Arts In Pastry, which she is completing in 2011. In 2009, she opened her first retail operation, the Covent Garden-based "Ella's Bakehouse", a specialist and popular cupcake shop.

Lorraine supports children's charity, Barnados, and she plans to work with TACT, a charity that helps children in the care system. Adopted, herself, at the age of 18 months, Lorraine is passionate about using her skills to help children from all walks of life. Lorraine currently resides in London with her partner and her daughter, Ella Balinska.

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Barbara Blake-Hannah: how Britain’s first black female TV reporter was forced off our screens

In the 60s, long before Trevor McDonald and Moira Stuart became household names, a 26-year-old from Jamaica was a regular on the news. Then the racist letters and calls started

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In 2008, Barbara Blake-Hannah sat down to write a letter of admonishment to the Guardian. “I must put history right,” she wrote, explaining that a poster issued by the paper was incorrect. It contained, she noted, the common misconception that Trevor McDonald was the first Black person to report the news on British TV after he joined ITN in 1973 and that Moira Stuart, on BBC News from 1981, was the first Black woman. In fact, said Blake-Hannah – an author, film-maker and former Jamaican senator – in 1968 she was one of three Thames Television on-camera reporters for the current affairs programme Today, presented by Eamonn Andrews. (The BBC had hired a Black trainee reporter, Eric Anthony Abrahams, a few years earlier.)

At the time her appointment made every daily newspaper, bar the Daily Express. Blake-Hannah claims the Express held out only because “they had a rule: no Black people on the front page”. “Shirley Bassey sang regularly and there were comedians, but we were allowed in an entertainment capacity, not as serious news people, delivering serious stories.”

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As with any conurbation, there’s always a vast array of pubs for a couple of drinks after a long day, but the Black Country is particularly well-served by a number of local breweries and real ales using hand-pulled pumps.

Beer drinker’s paradise

Perhaps the three best-known are Banks’s in Wolverhampton (Bank’s Bitter is a standard tipple), Holdens in Woodsetten, near Dudley (try Holden’s Golden), and, established in 1877 and producing just a bitter, mild and Christmas ale, Bathams in Brierley Hill, one of the few breweries that still use 54-gallon hogshead casks, its home pub being The Vine (sometimes called the Bull & Bladder) on Delph Road while over on Dudley High Street, The Lamp is another celebrated local flagship.

The most famous among Black Country drinkers is Old Ma Pardoe’s, brewing its own beer at the Grade 2-listed pub with its rare vitreous enamel tiled roof. The Old Swan, on Halesowen Road in Netherton, was originally owned and run by Doris Pardoe from 1931 to her death in 1984, an even after several changes of ownership, is constantly given fulsome praise by CAMRA. Sedgeley’s Sarah Hughes, a Victorian brewery at the rear of the Beacon Hotel, is also much praised, specialising in an original recipe for an authentic strong early 20th-century Black Country mild.

There’s also several pubs around the region served by micro-brewery Black Country Ales in Lower Gornal while hopefully the Black Country Beer Festival will return to Lye Cricket Club in 2020. You should also not miss experiencing The Crooked House in Himley since subsidence gives the illusion of glasses sliding across the table.

Live music here is reasonably well served, although the Wolverhampton Civic Hall and its smaller sister Wulfrun Hall are closed until 2020 for extensive refurbishment. They do, however, have a 550 capacity cousin, The Slade Rooms (named for local heroes Slade) in Broad Street which is currently doing the heavy lifting for ‘name’ gigs as well as comedy club nights.

The Robin 2 at Mount Pleasant in Bilston describes itself, not without good reason, as the Midlands premier 700 capacity live concert venue and was recently voted the country’s best Prog venue by readers of Classic Rock, beating both the Royal Albert Hall and the Borderline. Operating seven-days-a-week it tends to specialise in heavy rock and blues, but also welcomes folk, punk, country and pop-oriented acts as well as rock heritage names from America such as Blue Oyster Cult, while, situated in Stourbridge, Claptrap has a mix of alternative and indie acts.

Perhaps the three best-known are Banks’s in Wolverhampton, Holdens in Woodsetten, near Dudley, and, established in 1877 and Bathams in Brierley Hill

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Folk fans are well served, especially by The Woodman Folk Club in Kingswinford, one of the longest established clubs on the folk scene it regularly hosts well-known names. Elsewhere singers nightscan be found at the Royal Oak in Tettenhall, or the New Crystal Folk Club and Lighthouse Folk Club, both in Rowley Regis. Sited on Enville Street, Stourbridge is also home to Katie Fitzgerald’s, a stop-off point on the folk circuit run by local musician Eddy Morton.

Over in Smethwick, the intimate and welcoming Thimblemill Library is establishing itself a strong reputation for Americana and folk-oriented gigs, frequently featuring appearances by acclaimed names from America’s roots and bluegrass scene.

Tribute acts tend to dominate most of the other venues, including Walsall Football Club, often alongside club and party nights, among them The River Rooms on Mill Race Lane in Stourbridge and The Venue restaurant and disco on Dudley High Street and The Arena at Rookery Lane in Aldridge.

There’s nowhere near the extensive gay scene as there is in Birmingham, but Bar Diva is a cabaret venue in King Street, Dudley while Wolverhampton’s School Street is home to Gorgeous and The Lion Bar and Club on Birchall Street is Walsall’s premier gay venue. There’s also no cutting-edge club nights as you might find in Birmingham, but if all you want is to let your hair down and wave the arms about, then party and disco nights can be found in abundance at the likes of Churchills on Walsall Street and MJs Bar and Venue on Bridge Street in Wednesbury, or Suede on Bridge Street in Walsall, which hosts Suave Saturdays

On the same street, Religion is split into two separate venues with four spaces the nightclub, including a bare-brick loft room leading out onto the third floor roof garden and bar where events are also staged. There’s also the adjacent party bar Poptastic with its retro arcade machines.

In Essington near Wolverhampton, The Range Bar on Broad Lane has 80s v 90s club classics on Fridays and Saturdays with its resident DJ while in Wolverhampton itself, a 40,000 sq ft event space that was once a mass production car manufacturing plant, Starworks Warehouse on Frederick Street, which rather optimistically calls itself the world’s most magical club night, also holds regular music festivals and contemporary art exhibitions

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Reggae immersive Sunday roast show
Sun 15th Dec 3pm -7pm

Meet the Lovers rock Reggae – Live band experience. Feast on a classic meal with a twist while listening to incredible Live music and immerse yourself in a Golden Era of Reggae Music.

Step inside the Iconic Eight Embankment venue for a welcome drink and enjoy a tasty 2 course Jerk Roast meal as we take you on a musical journey. DJ & Lively host Will be entertaining alongside throughout the night

A 5 piece live band performing your favourite Lovers Rock and reggae Tracks all evening.

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MPs have backed proposals to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales in a historic vote which paves the way for a change in the law.

In the first Commons vote on the issue in nearly a decade, MPs supported a bill which would allow terminally ill adults expected to die within six months to seek help to end their own life by 330 to 275, a majority of 55.

It followed an emotional debate in the chamber, where MPs from both sides shared personal stories which had informed their decisions.

The bill will now face many more months of debate and scrutiny by MPs and peers, who could choose to amend it, with the approval of both Houses of Parliament required before it becomes law.

Supporters gathered outside Parliament wept and hugged each other as the result was announced.

Campaign group Dignity in Dying said the vote was a "historic step towards greater choice and protection for dying people".

Dame Esther Rantzen, one of the most high-profile campaigners for assisted dying, said she was "absolutely thrilled".

The broadcaster, who has terminal lung cancer, said any change in the law would probably come too late to affect her personally.

But she said "future generations will be spared the ordeals we have to suffer at the moment" if the bill becomes law.

Labour MP Kim Leadbeater, who put forward the bill, told the BBC she was "a bit overwhelmed" following the vote and it meant "a huge amount" to be able to tell campaigners the bill had passed its first parliamentary hurdle.

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Bus 702 makes a stop on Church Street in Morant Bay, St. Thomas, before departing for Kingston, today (December 2), on its debut in the parish.

In another historic moment for St Thomas, the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) began operating in the parish, today (December 2) with two buses, the 701 and the 702, leaving from Yallahs Bay and Morant Bay, respectively.

Italian’ purees in UK supermarkets likely to contain Chinese forced-labour tomatoes

Mike Rudin & Sarah BuckleyBBC Eye Investigations

Published1 December 2024

“Italian” tomato purees sold by several UK supermarkets appear to contain tomatoes grown and picked in China using forced labour, the BBC has found.

Some have “Italian” in their name such as Tesco’s “Italian Tomato Purée”. Others have “Italian” in their description, such as Asda’s double concentrate which says it contains “Puréed Italian grown tomatoes” - and Waitrose’s “Essential Tomato Purée”, describing itself as “Italian tomato puree”.

A total of 17 products, most of them own-brands sold in UK and German retailers, are likely to contain Chinese tomatoes - testing commissioned by the BBC World Service shows.

Most Chinese tomatoes come from the Xinjiang region, where their production is linked to forced labour by Uyghur and other largely Muslim minorities. The UN accuses the Chinese state - which views these minorities as a security risk - of torture and abuse. China denies it forces people to work in the tomato industry and says workers’ rights are protected by law. It says the UN report is based on “disinformation and lies”.

All the supermarkets whose products we tested dispute our findings.

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Are Solar Panels Reliable During Power Cuts?

Power cuts, also known as blackouts, are unfortunate occurrences that can happen at any time. Whether it’s due to severe weather conditions, electrical faults, or maintenance work, losing power can be a frustrating and inconvenient experience. However, if you have installed solar panels on your home, you may be wondering if they can provide you with electricity during a power cut. In this blog, we will explore whether solar panels work during a power cut in the UK.

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In some cases, solar panels may continue to generate a small amount of electricity during a power cut. However, this is only possible if the solar panel system is equipped with a battery storage system that can store the excess electricity generated by the panels. The stored energy can then be used to power essential appliances during a power cut.

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SPIDER-MAN 4: Talk Of The Movie Being Delayed Appears To Be Much Ado About Nothing

Despite rumblings that Spider-Man 4's production start date has been pushed back - resulting in a release date delay - a new report suggests it's all part of Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures' plan...

NewsBy JoshWilding - Nov 20, 2024 09:11 AM ESTFiled Under: Spider-Man

Over the weekend, you might have seen comments from Jeff Sneider claiming Spider-Man 4's release date was likely to be pushed back as a result of production on the movie not starting until the second half of 2025.

He posited that Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures would push the untiled Spider-Man: No Way Home sequel by "some months," a decision which makes little sense so soon after the movie's July 2026 release date was announced to great fanfare.

Now, we have a somewhat more believable update from insider Daniel Richtman.

Confirming that Spider-Man 4 will indeed start production next summer, he explains that this minor delay is simply to allow Tom Holland to film his roles in Avengers: Doomsday and Christopher Nolan's next movie.

There's no indication of any sort of release date delay.

While Spider-Man: No Way Home found great success in the December of 2021, that was a unique situation.

For starters, the pandemic meant that Sony had no other choice than to release it then and, with restrictions lifting across the globe, it came at a time when people were eager for the big screen experience.

Spider-Man 4 could take Marvel Studios' vacant November 6 slot in 2026.

However, we're sure everyone involved wants this to be one of the biggest summer movies of that year as that isn't the most favourable month for blockbusters.

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When to appeal a parking ticket when the council parking meter is unable to print !

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Your parking ticket should be cancelled if one of the reasons on this page applies to you.

It’s free to make an informal appeal by contacting whoever gave you the parking ticket, so it’s well worth trying.

You can’t be taken to court while you’re informally appealing, so your credit rating won’t be affected. You’ll only be taken to court if your appeal is unsuccessful, and you don’t pay the ticket or appeal to a tribunal.

If none of these reasons apply to you, it's a good idea to pay your ticket early. You can usually get a discount of:

50% if you pay a Penalty Charge Notice or Excess Charge Notice within 14 days
40-60% if you pay a Parking Charge Notice within 14 days

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If a parking company put a ticket on your car and the company isn’t a member of an accredited trade association (ATA), don’t contact them unless they write to you first. They probably won’t be able to find your details - only ATA members can get your name and address from the DVLA.

Check the British Parking Association (BPA) or International Parking Community (IPC) websites to see if a parking company is a member of an ATA.

You can also call the BPA on 01444 447 300 to check if a company is a member.

Calls usually cost up to 55p a minute from mobiles and up to 13p a minute from landlines. It should be free if you have a contract that includes calls to landlines - check with your supplier if you're not sure.

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Children in care is the system fit for purpose in 2024 ?

A child who has been in the care of their local authority for more than 24 hours is known as a looked after child.

Looked after children are also often referred to as children in care, a term which many children and young people prefer.

> Find out more about language and children in care in our Why language matters blog

There are many thousands of children in care in the UK and the overall numbers have been increasing over the past decade.

> Read our Children in care: statistics briefing to find out more about the range of data available

Many children in care have experienced abuse, neglect or other forms of trauma.

It’s important that children in care are provided with the care and support they need to be healthy and safe, have the same opportunities as their peers and move successfully into adulthood.

Types of care

Each UK nation has a slightly different definition of a looked after child and follows its own legislation, policy and guidance. But in general, looked after children are:

living with foster parents/carers
living with friends or relatives, through kinship foster care
living in a residential children's home
living in residential settings like schools, secure units or semi-independent living accommodation.

Scotland’s definition also includes children under a supervision requirement order. This means that many of the looked after children in Scotland are still living at home, but with regular contact from social services.

A child stops being 'looked after' when they are adopted, return home or turn 18. However local authorities in all the nations of the UK are required to support children leaving care at 18 until they are at least 21. This may involve them continuing to live with their foster family.

Not all children in the care of someone other than their parents have ‘looked after’ status. For example, they may be in private kinship care or cared for under a special guardianship order.

Private kinship care is an arrangement made directly between the parent(s) and the relative, friend or connected person, without the involvement of the local authority.

Special guardianship is when a local authority places a child or young person to live with someone other than their parent(s) on a long-term basis. It aims to provide more security than long-term fostering for children where adoption is not the best option. Special guardianship orders are not available in Scotland.

Reasons children are in care

There are a variety of reasons why children and young people enter care.

Children's services may have intervened because they felt the child was at significant risk of harm. If this is the case the child is usually the subject of a court-made legal order.
The child’s parents might have agreed to this – for example, if they are too unwell to look after their child or if their child has a disability and needs respite care.
The child could have been lost, abandoned or there may be no one with parental responsibility available to care for them; as is the case for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.
The child may have been charged with a criminal offence and temporarily placed on remand in the care of the local authority.

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Starmer rejects calls for slavery reparation talks

Keir Starmer

Published23 October 2024

Sir Keir Starmer has said he wants to focus on the future of the Commonwealth, after ruling out compensation for the UK's historical role in the slave trade.

All three candidates to become the next head of the 56-nation organisation have called for reparations for countries that were affected by slavery.

A group of Caribbean nations has indicated it will push for the issue to be discussed at a summit of the bloc's leaders in Samoa this week.

But the UK prime minister said he wanted to address "current future-facing challenges" rather than "spend a lot of time on the past".

Sir Keir's government has ruled out making slavery reparations, continuing a longstanding British stance on the subject.

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Downing Street has also said Sir Keir will not be apologising for Britain's role in the transatlantic slave trade, and reparations will not be on the summit agenda.

Speaking on his way to Samoa, the Labour leader said there was "no question" that slavery was "abhorrent".

But he added that he wanted to focus on the challenges that Commonwealth countries were "facing right now" rather than what "will end up being very, very long endless discussions about reparations on the past".

"This is about stance really, looking forward rather than looking backwards," he said, suggesting that Commonwealth countries themselves were more interested in talking about climate finance.

The call for reparations was also dismissed last year by the then-Conservative prime minister, Rishi Sunak, who said that "trying to unpick our history is not the right way forward".

'Reparatory justice'

The Atlantic slave trade saw millions of Africans enslaved and forced to work, especially on plantations in the Caribbean and the Americas, for centuries from around the year 1500.

The British government and the monarchy were prominent participants in the trade, alongside other European nations.

The UK also played a key role in ending the trade through Parliament's passage of a law to abolish slavery in 1833.

Reparations are broadly recognised as compensation for something that was deemed wrong or unfair, and can take many forms.

Caribbean leaders have argued for some financial recognition of the legacy of slavery. Estimates for compensation from campaigners and academics have ranged from £205 billion to nearly £19 trillion.

Caricom, an association of 15 Caribbean countries, has a dedicated reparations commission to make the case for "reparatory justice" to the region.

In 2014, it adopted a list of demands including for European governments to contribute towards health and education programmes, and write off some of their national debt.

In the run-up to this week's summit, five MPs from Sir Keir's Labour Party have been pressing for the issue of slavery reparations to be discussed.

One of them, Clapham and Brixton Hill MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy, has said it would be “wrong" not to approach the issue at the summit.

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The antioxidant-rich liquid juice made from the noni plant is thought to support your immune system, increase energy and enhance physical performance levels.

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But the super juice doesn't come cheap. It costs around $38 a litre!

She also doesn't 'go a day without coconut oil', which can apparently enhance your hair and skin as well as relieving stress, maintaining your digestion, weight loss, cholesterol and metabolism levels.

Miranda said: 'I personally take four tablespoons of coconut oil per day, either on my salads, in my cooking or in my cups of green tea.'

This health habit is slightly kinder on the purse, clocking in at £12.59 ( hollandandbarrett.com) this side of the pond.

We expect sales to soar of both. Well, it's much better to buy into a natural beauty fix than a chemical one, eh?

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The UK Christmas Number 1 - a brief history

There's not many chart records that The Beatles, they're the British act with the most Number 1 singles for one, and at one point they held the record for the act with the most Christmas Number 1s – four in total. Their first three (I Want To Hold Your Hand, I Feel Fine, and Day Tripper/We Can Work It Out) topped the Official Singles Chart consecutively from 1963–1965. Hello, Goodbye was their fourth festive chart topper in 1967.

However, in 2021 the record became shared when online entertainers LadBaby (aka Mark and Roxanne Hoyle) became the first act in UK chart history to score four consecutive UK Christmas Number 1s with We Built This City (2018), I Love Sausage Rolls (2019), Don't Stop Me Eatin' (2020) and Sausage Rolls For Everyone with Ed Sheeran Elton John (2021). In 2022, with the release of Food Aid, they took it a step further and became the first ever act to earn five Christmas Number 1s.

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Spice Girls notched up three consecutive Christmas Number 1s: 2 Become 1, Too Much, and Goodbye all reigned the festive rundown from 1996–1998.

Seven Christmas Number 1s feature the word ‘Christmas’ in the title, if you include Slade’s Merry Xmas Everybody from 1973. And as Christmas is the season of goodwill, why not, eh? In 69 years of Christmas chart-toppers, 12 are genuine Christmas songs, eight are by TV talent show winners, three are by choirs and five could be classed as novelty singles.

Versions of charity smash Do They Know It’s Christmas? have topped the festive Top 40 three times: for Band Aid in 1984, Band Aid II in 1989, and finally for Band Aid 20 in 2004. The first version of Do They Know It’s Christmas? is the best-selling Christmas Number 1 of all time, with over 3.8 million copies sold.

Mary’s Boy Child has been a Christmas Number 1 twice for totally different artists. Harry Belafonte topped the charts with it in 1957 and Boney M took a one-horse open sleigh all the way to Number 1 with it (mashed up with Oh my Lord) in 1978.

The only song to get the Christmas Number 1 twice by the same artist is Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen. It first topped the Christmas charts in 1975 and pulled it off again 16 years later, following the death of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury. As a result, it is one of the longest-reigning Number 1 hits of all-time.

In 2021 Official Charts joined forces with Nine Eight Books to bring the first-ever official guide to every Christmas Number 1 single in history. The Official Christmas No.1 Singles Book is out now and available through Official Charts' online shop, as well as at Waterstones, Amazon, WHSmith* and more.

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New Cross house fire in 1981 were 13 young people died and no arrest despite allegations of murder taking place by white community members.

New Cross house fire in 1981 were 13 young people died and no arrest despite allegations of murder taking place by white community members. The contrast between the most recent Southport riots in the UK and many other places in England has been chalk & cheese, poles apart in terms of finding the real attackers / murders of the Deptford 13.

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New Cross house fireDate18 January 1981; 43 years agoLocationNew Cross Road, New Cross, south-east, London, United KingdomTypeFireDeaths13 (direct); 1 (suicide)

Blue plaque erected by Nubian Jak Community Trust at 439 New Cross Road, London SE14 6TA

The New Cross house fire was a fire that occurred during a party at a house in New Cross, south-east London, in the early hours of Sunday, 18 January 1981. The blaze killed 13 young black people aged between 14 and 22, and one survivor killed himself two years later.[1]

No one has ever been charged in connection with the fire, which forensic science subsequently established started inside the house. Inquests into the deaths were held in 1981 and 2004. Both inquests recorded open verdicts.

In the immediate aftermath of the fire, a New Cross Massacre Action Committee (NCMAC) was set up, chaired by John La Rose, which organised a "Black People's Day of Action" on 2 March 1981, when some 20,000 people marched over a period of eight hours through London, carrying placards that bore statements including: "13 Dead, Nothing Said".[2]

Fire

A forensic science report produced for the Metropolitan Police in 2011 ruled out a firebomb attack, finding instead that the fire had started when somebody in the house set fire to a foam-filled armchair in the front room of the property at 5:40 am on Sunday morning.[3] There had been some early complaints from neighbours about excessive noise from the party. A white Leyland Princess car was seen driving away from the fire.[4]

The party was a joint birthday celebration for Yvonne Ruddock (one of the victims of the fire) and Angela Jackson (who survived) and was held at No. 439, New Cross Road. It began on the evening of Saturday, 17 January 1981, and continued throughout the night and into the early hours of Sunday, 18 January.[5]

Victims

The victims of the fire were all young Black, Mixed Race, British people between the ages of 14 and 22.[6] They were:

Andrew Gooding, age 14
Rosaline Henry, age 16
Patrick Cummings, age 16
Patricia Johnson, age 15
Owen Thompson, age 16
Lloyd Hall, age 20
Humphrey Brown, age 18
Steve Collins, age 17
Gerry Francis, age 17
Peter Campbell, age 18
Glenton Powell, age 16 (died in hospital)
Yvonne Ruddock, age 16 (died in hospital)
Paul Ruddock, age 22 (died in hospital)

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Police also ruled out the theory that a fight had taken place

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If you’re contacted by someone claiming to be from your bank, stop, hang up and dial 159: the hotline designed to fight fraud. Calling 159 is a practical step you can take to challenge scammers and protect yourself. When you call 159, you’ll get through to your bank directly and securely.

The 159 hotline is managed by Stop Scams UK. Those involved in the hotline include Starling and many other banks across the UK, as well as technology and telecoms companies. Our aim is for 159 to become a universal number, similar to 111 for the NHS or 999 for emergency services.

When should I call 159?

Here are some scenarios in which you should call 159:

If someone contacts you claiming to be from your bank, even if they don’t sound suspicious, hang up and call 159 to check if your bank really did need to contact you.
If someone contacts you claiming to be an authority figure, for example the police, and asks you to transfer money, even if it seems genuine. Don’t transfer any money or provide any bank details – hang up and call 159.
If you feel uneasy or suspicious about a call you’ve received from someone asking for financial details or pressuring you into making a payment, it’s not rude to hang up. It’s a reasonable and sensible thing to do. Call 159.

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People living in bad housing - numbers and health impacts

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People living in bad housing - numbers and health impacts

People living in bad housing - numbers and health impacts

The key findings from this analysis are:

Around three in ten people live in bad housing (3.6 million children, 9.2 million working age adults and 2 million pensioners).

Bad housing is more common among those in private rented properties. Four in ten (3.3 million) private rented tenants live in bad housing.

Over 975,000 children living in social rented housing are living in bad housing. Approximately 845,000 children living in private rented housing are living in bad housing. And over 1.7 million children living in owner occupied housing are living in bad housing.

Overcrowding is more likely to affect those in social rented properties while living in non-decent housing is more common among those in the private rented sector.

Children are most likely to live in overcrowded housing compared to working age adults and pensioners. Overcrowding is also more common among those living in London.

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Reggae, riots and resistance: the sounds of Black Britain in ... Reggae has been popular in the UK since the 1970s and is characterized by its heavy basslines, offbeat rhythms, and socially conscious lyrics. The genre's messages about African, Caribbean, and colonial history played a significant role in shaping anti-racist movements in Britain. Some notable UK reggae artists include:

Reggae: the sound that revolutionised Britain

This article is more than 13 years oldPunk may have got all the headlines, but reggae proved vital in ending the rift between black and white teenagers and introducing cross-pollination to the charts

It was punk's "summer of hate", 1977, and the required pose was a sneer, a leather jacket and something hacked about – a spiky haircut, a ripped T-shirt, a sawn-off school tie. And, of course, no flares, the despised flag of hippiedom. But at the cold, concrete roots of Britain a very different aesthetic was also in the ascendant, one calling for an oversized tam, dreadlocks and a display of "the red, gold and green", the colours of Rastafari. Flares? Fine!

The two looks represented the different worlds inhabited by young white and black Britain, worlds which a year previously had been remote from each other but which by the summer of 1977 were unexpectedly and often uncomfortably rubbing shoulders. At Hackney town hall, under portraits of whiskery Victorian aldermen, I watched the Cimarons chant down Babylon while Generation X snarled their way through "Wild Youth". In Brixton, I gaped as the Slits, the acme of unruliness, shared a stage with Birmingham's Steel Pulse, the most militant of Britain's proliferating reggae bands.

More than just the "Punky Reggae Party" Bob Marley had playfully celebrated on disc that summer, these were gigs that signalled the birth of a new Britain, one in which the neofascist National Front was consigned to the margins and musical cross-pollination became the norm. Rock-reggae bands such as the Police, ska revivalists such as the Specials and home-grown reggae acts such as Janet Kay would soon occupy the charts. Further down the line would come UB40, Culture Club, Soul II Soul and then the current era in which, to quote Soul II Soul singer Caron Wheeler: "You can't distinguish between colour any more – it's just people."

These days, punk is to be found in the cultural academy, in lecture halls, art galleries and fashion history books. By contrast, British reggae remains half-forgotten and little praised, represented mainly by the Specials' "Ghost Town" as the default tune for any retrospective on the bleak, Thatcherite early 80s.

By way of correcting the imbalance comes Reggae Britannia, a BBC4 documentary in the vein of the channel's Soul Britannia and Folk Britannia, which follows Britain's romance with Jamaican music from "My Boy Lollipop", Millie Small's 1964 hit, through to the late 80s. Its broadcast is preceded by a Barbican concert featuring a selection of Jamaican and UK acts – Big Youth, Ali Campbell, Carroll Thompson and Ken Boothe among others.

Those 1977 shows, organised by a nascent Rock Against Racism, meant it had taken 29 years since the arrival of the Empire Windrush for black and white Britain to share the same stage. Preposterous though it now seems, it hadn't happened too often before. Jazz had long provided a cross-racial haven (black bandleaders such as Ken "Snakehips" Johnson were active as far back as the 1930s), but most often the only place to find the two communities mixing was in a soul club or at an Al Green or Stevie Wonder concert. As late as 1978, Joe Strummer would sing of being the only "(White Man) in Hammersmith Palais" at a reggae extravaganza (Joe exaggerated; there were at least six).

reggae terms, it had taken the emergence of Bob Marley to effect the uneasy coalition of rock fans, black youth, lofty Rastas and proto-punks that confronted each other at his celebrated 1975 Lyceum shows. After Marley, reggae was taken seriously as music of substance and innovation, where previously it had been treated at best as a novelty or simply ridiculed.

The series of reggae hits that had made the UK's pop charts in the late 60s and early 70s seemed only to harden prejudice; Tony Blackburn, in his pomp as Radio 1's premier DJ

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Reggae’s Top Child Stars

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Discover some of Jamaica’s top child stars, from classic reggae singers to dancehall DJs. Many proceeded to have successful careers as adults.

Billy Boyo

Billy Boyo was a teenage star of pre-digital dancehall. He was born in 1969 in Kingston, Jamaica. His real name was Billy Theophilus Rowe.

Legendary producer Henry “Junjo” Lawes discovered Billy Boyo when he was just 12 years old. In the early 1980s, Billy Boyo recorded some amazing hits with the powerful Roots Radics Band and the innovative young engineer Scientist. ‘One spliff a day’ is one notable example. Always under Junjo, Billy Boyo recorded the album “DJ Clash Volume 2” with fellow young deejay, Little Harry.

In 1983, Billy Boyo (together with Ranking Toyan and yet another child star, Little John) went to London to work with producer Silver Kamel. Due to various reasons, it took almost twenty years before Billy Boyo’s album, “Zim Zim”, was released.

Billy Boyo wasn’t a prolific recording artist, he was more of a live deejay rather than a recording artist. He died in 2000, according to most sources of a brain tumor.

Dennis Brown

Dennis Emmanuel Brown was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1957. He started his career as a nine-year-old singer, performing with Byron Lee and the Dragonaires in the mid-60s.

Dennis Brown cut his first hit single, No Man Is An Island for Clement “Sir Coxsone’ Dodd at the age of 10. Over the next 30 years, he would become one of the most prolific artists the world has ever seen, releasing around 80 studio albums, seven live productions and countless singles.

Bob Marley dubbed him “The Crown Prince of Reggae“, and Brown would prove influential on future generations of reggae singers. Dennis Brown died of cardiac arrest in 1999 at the age of 42.

Freddie McGregor

Freddie McGregor was born in 1956 in Clarendon, Jamaica. His music career began when he was seven years old. At that time, in 1963, “Little Freddie” formed his band “The Clarendonians” with Peter Austin and Ernest Wilson, and recorded his first song for the Studio One label.

Ever since Freddie McGregor has had an incredibly steady career. He’s spanned nearly every stylistic shift in Jamaican music, from ska to Rastafarian roots reggae to lovers rock, and even experimented in dancehall.

Little Lohn

John McMorris, or Little John, was born in 1970. This Jamaican dancehall musician is best known for his 1980s recordings when he was one of the reggae DJ child stars along with Billy Boyo and Little Harry.

He began performing and recording at the age of nine and was famous for his ability to create lyrics over any backing track. He recorded for many producers in the 1980s, notably for ‘Junjo’ Lawes, Joseph Hoo Kim, Jah Thomas, and King Jammy.

Little Harry

Little Harry was born in 1965. According to Discogs, his real name is Claude Alexander Campbell. Little Harry’s music career started when he was about 13 years old, and he became famous throughout the 1980s for his live performances with sound systems including Volcano and King Sturmars Hi-Fi.

Little Harry was an early collaborator with Yellowman and recorded the 1983 LP “DJ Clash Volume 2” with fellow child deejay Billy Boyo.

Jimmy Cliff

Born James Chambers in 1944, Jimmy Cliff began his illustrious career while in high school by entering many local talent contests.

By the time he was 14, Cliff had released several hit singles, including Hurricane Hattie. At 16 years old, he represented Jamaica at the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair. Shortly after his career took off when he was signed by Island Records. Jimmy Cliff has released more than 30 albums.

Musical Youth

This British-Jamaican reggae band was formed in England in 1979 when the ages of its members ranged between 8 and 12 years. Musical Youth is best remembered for the successful 1982 single “Pass the Dutchie”, which became a No. 1 hit around the world.

Delroy Wilson

Delroy Wilson was born in 1948 in Kingston. He began recording when he was only 13, while still attending Boys’ Town Primary. By 1962, he had recorded his first set of songs under the guidance of Clement ‘Coxson’ Dodd.

Delroy Wilson was one of Jamaica’s most soulful vocalists, and over a 40-year career he unleashed a flood of hits and masterpieces. He died at the age of 46 in 1995 following health complications.

Beenie Man

Anthony Moses Davis – better known as Beenie Man – was born in 1973 in Kingston. This Jamaican dancehall deejay started toasting at 5 years of age. He won the Tastee Talent contest in 1981. His initial stage name was spelled Beany Man. He would eventually work with Henry Junjo Lawes, Bunny Lee and Sly and Robbie – among others – achieving international stardom in the 1990s.

Nadine Sutherland

Nadine Sutherland burst onto the scene when she was 11 years old, in 1979, when she beat Yellowman in the first Tastee Talent Contest. Recording a song was part of her prize for winning the competition, and her hit single, Starvation on the Land, was produced by Bob Marley. She went on to become a successful dancehall artist in the 1990s.

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The rise of reggae: How a uniquely Jamaican sound conquered the world

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Bob Marley took reggae to a worldwide audience

It originated on a small Carribean island and grew to become a global phenomenon recognised as a cultural institution by UNESCO, the story of reggae's success is closely entwined with the history of Jamaica.

Reggae's roots, springing from the social upheaval in post-war Jamaica, are a fusion of different musical eras and styles, coupled with a message of unity and hope.

How did this musical genre, with a uniquely Jamaican twist, become a worldwide brand influencing artists like Rihanna and Sean Paul?

Mento and the birth of reggae

Mento is the name given to Jamaican folk music that emerged in the 1940s and 1950s.

Similar to Calypso, which originated in Trinidad, the sound of Mento can be traced back to the convergent society of Jamaica.

Jamaica was colonised by Spain, mainly in the 1500s, and then Britain in 1655.

Enslaved people were transported from Africa to work on the country’s sugar plantations.

The resulting mix of cultures contributed to the growth of an identifiable Jamaican sound.

Characterised by the fusion of European and African traits, with origins in enslaved work songs – created with guitar, rumba box, bongo and banjo, Mento mixed this with satirical lyrics of everyday life and verse repetition, creating a foundation from which reggae would blossom.

The growth of Ska

In the 1960s the popularity of Mento began to decline as people were influenced by R&B music from the USA, played on radio stations.

Across Jamaica musicians and singers began to cover these songs and imitate their styles.

At the same time electricity was becoming widely accessible and sound systems – mobile discos on the streets – became the new craze.

Dances were a big part of the Jamaican working class community and became a place of business with people selling food and drinks, spreading money to the wider community.

Competition was rife with sound men competing to put on the best set, even sometimes resorting to violence.

It was all about the exclusivity, getting songs from overseas no one had heard of. Music became a national obsession particularly among the young.

One school in particular, Alpha Boys School, run by nuns, encouraged music playing and helped develop some of Jamaica’s greatest musicians including Yellowman, Edward Thornton and Dizzy Reece.

The influence of R&B

Meanwhile Jamaica’s professional recording industry was also starting to take shape.

Recording studios, which had concentrated on American influenced R&B, began hiring out their facilities to local musicians who recorded original songs which were picked up by sound systems, still looking for that exclusivity.

Jamaica became independent in 1962 and Ska’s upbeat rhythm reflected the mood in the newly autonomous country.

Adopting America R&B style but adding Mento elements, the new music kept a 4/4 timing with guitar or piano used to increase emphasis on the off-beat and along with a dynamic brass section and a creeping bass line, a distinct new Jamaican sound, of local singers, was created.

Ska was also growing in popularity overseas, Millie Smalls had a top five hit in the UK chart with My Boy Lollipop in 1964.

This seeping of Jamaican music in to popular culture would continue with cult 1972 film The Harder They Come, the title track of which was performed by Jimmy Cliff, with other contributors including Desmond Dekker.

Rocksteady a slower pace

Ska was a fast paced chaotic musical genre but from the mid 1960’s the climate in Jamaica that had spawned it was beginning to change.

Streets in downtown Kingston become lawless with ‘Rude Boys’ gangsters terrorising locals.

Music mirrored this and Rocksteady, a slower paced sound, grew in popularity.

Musicians would turn to old-fashioned love songs, and singers replaced instrumentals.

Rhythms became more relaxed and songs easier to dance to.

This also gave the bass line more of an emphasis as the slower pace allowed it to be more defined.

Artists such as Alton Ellis and The Techniques thrived in this era. Some artists such as Hopeton Lewis found Ska too fast to follow and so adapted to a gentler pace.

Rocksteady, however, would prove to be a brief affair, lasting around two years.

Reggae in to the mainstream

In 1966 Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia visited Jamaica – an important moment for the religious movement Rastafari which saw him as the messiah - 100,000 Jamaicans turned out to see him.

This link with Rastafarian culture would become a vital strand of reggae.

During the late 1960’s, Jamaica was on the brink of civil war, with political unrest, poverty and volatile streets.

Reggae with the bass taking charge, and drums as part of the melody, reflected this new Jamaica.

Lyrics became more conscious and words of protest and revolution changed the vibe and identity of the sound.

Roots reggae concerned itself with the everyday life and hopes of Africans, led by the Rastafarian belief and it was this genre that Bob Marley and the Wailers took global.

Marley sang of the past oppressions of slavery and the future hopes of unity.

Sub genres such as dub also formed, consisting of recycled and remixed rocksteady and ska tunes, incorporating a toaster, essentially an MC, who spoke over the song with Rastafarian messages.

The dancehall genre also emerged using digital reggae influenced rhythms.

By 1978 a failing economy and political unease was at its peak and political issues along with the musical tradition all came together in reggae to form strong lyrics with an uplifting sound to empower.

Reggae’s presence can still be felt today, influencing genres such as punk, hip hop and rock through artists such as Eric Clapton, Sean Paul, Rihanna, Protoje and Chronixx.

Through time, Jamaicans have constantly mirrored their environment through music, creating an authentic reflection of the nation.

The power of reggae, built on a foundation of history with the spirit of the Jamaican people and messages of a better future, became a notion with universal appreciation.

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JOIN THE PAUL BOGLE & MORANT BAY MASSACRE OF 1865 .THE TOUR

PAUL BOGLES CONTRIBUTIONS TO JAMAICAN INDEPENDENCE

Bogle had become a friend of a wealthy landowner and fellow Baptist George William Gordon, a bi-racial man who served in the Assembly as one of two representatives from St. Thomas-in-the-East parish. Gordon was instrumental in Bogle being appointed deacon of Stony Gut Baptist Church in 1864. Conditions were hard for black peasants, due to social discrimination, flooding and crop failure, and epidemics. The required payment of poll taxesprevented most of them from voting. In August 1865, Gordon criticised the governor of Jamaica, Edward John Eyre, for sanctioning "everything done by the higher class to the oppression of the negroes".[4]

"Artistic Impression of Paul Bogle" in Morant Bay, Jamaica[1]

Born1822Died24 October 1865 (aged 42–43)Cause of deathHangedNationalityJamaicanKnown forLeader of the protesters in the Morant Bay rebellionWebsitehttps://paulboglefoundation.org/

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It has been almost 160 years since this most terrifying event that took place on the original residents of stony gut in spring garden, St Thomas jamaica.

And there has not been any signs of compensation for the homes that were burned to the ground and over 500 dead.

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wars around the world in particular the Ukraine, were funds have already been ear marked for the regeneration of the loss of the people of Ukraine. The leaders of the modern world has consistently closed there eyes tightly when it comes to compensating the original families of stony gut.

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Bogle concentrated on improving the conditions of the poor.[5] As awareness of social injustices and people's grievances grew, Bogle led a group of small farmers 45 miles to the capital, Spanish Town, hoping to meet with Governor Eyre to discuss their issues, but they were denied an audience.[6] The people of Stony Gut lost confidence and trust in the Government, and Bogle's supporters grew in number in the parish.

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The following web page discusses the legacy of colonialism at Trengwainton and historic slavery and includes references to histories that some people may find upsetting.

The Price family and Jamaica

The Price family owned large sugar plantations on Jamaica. They descended from Francis Price (1635-1689) who was believed to be a junior officer at the island’s conquest of 1655. Francis acquired his first Jamaican plantation in 1663, and subsequently bought further estates. In 1670, after England gained formal possession of Jamaica, he acquired 840 acres which he named Worthy Park.

Worthy Park passed through the hands of various members of the Price family, including John Price of Penzance the Younger (1838-97), Rose Price’s father. John Price was mostly absent from Worthy Park, running his plantations from England through local agents. His son Rose Price was educated at Penzance Grammar School, Harrow and then Oxford University, before embarking on a Grand Tour.

In 1791 the family estates in Jamaica, including Worthy Park, were in trouble owing to unscrupulous local agents. Rose Price travelled to Jamaica to assume direct management, where it is claimed he doubled their value.

The enslaved people at Worthy Park

Rose Price made detailed records which survive in his great plantation book, covering the years 1792-96, now held by the Library of Congress. In this we learn he expanded sugar-cane cultivation by 25% within three years. In order to achieve this, Price had expanded the number of enslaved people at Worthy Park from 355 to over 500. He also introduced adapted Cornish mining technology for mills and brought Cornishmen to assist in the plantation management.

The enslaved people working at Worthy Park came predominately from Africa. They, and their descendants, were deployed in the harvesting of sugar cane, but also worked in the production of sugar and rum. Others worked as carpenters and blacksmiths, a midwife and nurses, and in the 'great house' worked a 50-year-old cook named 'Penzance'. In his great plantation book, Price records the birth of two children with Lizette, a 13-year-old enslaved child, during the three years he spent at Worthy Park. Once older, he sent them to England to be educated.

Rose Price and Trengwainton

Rose Price returned from Jamaica in 1795 and that year married Elizabeth Lambert, niece of Lord Sherborne in Gloucestershire. His income from Jamaican estates was then around £6,000 a year, and he continued to invest in further plantations.

Price remained committed to slavery and became a staunch anti-abolitionist. In 1832, whilst living at Trengwainton, he wrote a defence entitled Pledges on Colonial Slavery, to Candidates for Seats in Parliament, Rightly Considered. This included his response to a pro-abolition article published in the West Briton on 7 December 1832. In his response, Price claimed, by giving various examples, that the treatment of enslaved people on plantations in Jamaica was better than of most labourers in England, and 'milder' than in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome. His defence of colonial slavery is followed by printed letters in support of his view.

Rose Price died soon after British Parliament passed the Abolition Act in 1833. His executors later received over £10,000 compensation awarded to owners of formerly enslaved people. Despite this large sum, Price’s finances were not sound: he had encumbered both his Jamaican and Cornish estates with substantial debts, and Trengwainton was sold by its mortgage holders in 1835.

We know that there is still work to do in interpreting and exploring this part of history attached to Trengwainton garden and are working with partners through the Inclusive Global History project. Please contact Claire North (claire.north@nationaltrust.org.uk) for further information.

Read our report addressing our histories of colonialism and historic slavery.

STONY GUT & THE 1865 REBELLION

Aftermath

The "Eyre Controversy" turned into a long and increasingly public issue, dividing well-known figures of the day. It may have contributed to the fall of the government.

Immigration to the United States, 1851-1900

In the late 1800s, people in many parts of the world decided to leave their homes and immigrate to the United States. Fleeing crop failure, land and job shortages, rising taxes, and famine, many came to the U. S. because it was perceived as the land of economic opportunity. Others came seeking personal freedom or relief from political and religious persecution, and nearly 12 million immigrants arrived in the United States between 1870 and 1900. During the 1870s and 1880s, the vast majority of these people were from Germany, Ireland, and England - the principal sources of immigration before the Civil War. Even so, a relatively large group of Chinese immigrated to the United States between the start of the California gold rush in 1849 and 1882, when federal law stopped their immigration.

With the onset of hard economic times in the 1870s, European immigrants and Americans began to compete for the jobs traditionally reserved for the Chinese. With economic competition came dislike and even racial suspicion and hatred. Such feelings were accompanied by anti-Chinese riots and pressure, especially in California, for the exclusion of Chinese immigrants from the United States. The result of this pressure was the Chinese Exclusion Act, passed by Congress in 1882. This Act virtually ended Chinese immigration for nearly a century.

Immigrants entered the United States through several ports. Those from Europe generally came through East Coast facilities, while those from Asia generally entered through West Coast centers. More than 70 percent of all immigrants, however, entered through New York City, which came to be known as the "Golden Door." Throughout the late 1800s, most immigrants arriving in New York entered at the Castle Garden depot near the tip of Manhattan. In 1892, the federal government opened a new immigration processing center on Ellis Island in New York harbor.

Although immigrants often settled near ports of entry, a large number did find their way inland. Many states, especially those with sparse populations, actively sought to attract immigrants by offering jobs or land for farming. Many immigrants wanted to move to communities established by previous settlers from their homelands.

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Rose Hall Great House Tours After Dark

Wednesday-Saturday From 6:00pm to 9:00pm
At night, Rose Hall is not for the faint of heart! Immerse yourself in the lifestyle of the 19th-century European bourgeoisie…but with a twist. You will come to know the true horrors of the “White Witch of Rose Hall”, Annee Palmer, and the many spirits that walk the halls of the Rose Hall Great House at night. Hear the spine-chilling historic tale of the notorious murders and feel the house come alive through an interactive tour set in the 19th century… Afterwards, steady your nerves with a ‘Witches Brew’ cocktail at the Dungeon Bar.

Visit us today… the White Witch awaits.

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TOUR HIGHLIGHTS

The Legend of Rose Hall
Jamaica’s ONLY Haunted Night Tour
Guided tour of the Rose Hall Great House
Tours are conducted in English. However, scripts are available in over ten (10) languages.
Haunted Night Tour is directed by Douglas Prout
Historical Museum
18th Century Graveyard
Bird Watching (Day & Garden Tour)
Nature Walk (Day & Garden Tour)
Shop at the Annee’s Treasure for authentic Jamaican arts and crafts
Witches Brew Cocktail at Dungeon Bar (not included in tour cost)
Duration – 45 minutes to 1 hour

PRICE

Day Tour: $30 USD / $12 USD for ages 4 – 11 years old
Night Tour: $35 USD / $15 USD for ages 4 – 11 years old

WHAT TO BRING

Comfortable Shoes

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Reservations are required for all Haunted Night Tours
Reservations are required for groups over 15
Transportation is not provided to tour location
Tour duration is not inclusive of travel time to tour location
All tours are weather permitting
No photos or videos are allowed in the house

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Not recommended for the physically challenged
Not recommended for people with back problems or who have had a recent back surgery
Not handicapped accessible

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