The full-time Central School of Ballet in London offers a three-year course for 16- to 19-year-olds from Britain and around the world, with students going on to have careers in classical ballet, contemporary dance and musical theatre. In the final year, students join the school’s graduate touring company, Ballet Central, and work towards obtaining the BA (Hons) degree in Professional Dance and Performance.
“Christmas at Kew Gardens” in London, England lights up this part of the city heading into the holiday season.
Part of an art installation called ‘Boots on the Ground, Water & Air’ created by artist Mark Humphrey is pictured as part of a Remembrance Art Trail in association with the Royal British Legion ahead of Remembrance Sunday at Canary Wharf in east London on October 31, 2016.
The ‘Beyond Limits’ exhibition features nineteen monumental sculptures from leading artists including: Zaha Hadid, Cristina Iglesias, Bruce Munro, Lynn Chadwick, Joana Vasconcelos, Aristide Maillol and Richard Hudson. The exhibition is spread across the grounds of Chatsworth, the ancestral seat of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire.
Day 1 of Royal Ascot races commences at Ascot Racecourse on June 14, 2016 in Ascot, England.
Once, coal fueled the British Empire, employed armies of men and shook the power of governments.
On Friday, workers at Britain’s last operating deep coal mine finish their final shift. The last haul of coal from the pit is destined for a museum, as a once-mighty industry fades into history.
Defiant to the end, miners at Kellingley Colliery in northern England sang a hit by Tom Jones — the son of a coal miner — as they headed underground for their final shift.
“This is what makes us very special, the mining community,” said Nigel Kemp, who worked at the mine for more than 30 years. “The men have gone down today singing ‘My, my, my, Delilah.’ Every single man on the cage, you could hear them 400 feet down singing. And I do believe they’re going to come out singing as well.”
At its peak in the 1920s, Britain’s mining industry employed more than 1 million people, as coal drove trains, fueled factories and heated homes. After World War II, the country had 750,000 underground miners at almost 1,000 coal pits. But the industry’s days were already numbered.
With gas and nuclear power on the rise, hundreds of coal mines had closed by 1984, when a showdown between the government and miners fixed the industry’s central — and contested — place in Britain’s national mythology.
A Russian spacecraft carrying a three-man Russian-British-American crew blasted off Tuesday, bound for the International Space Station.
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