The Daily: May 24
Prince Charles and Camilla in mid-air drama; open Hay Festival 2013
The helicopter taking the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall from central London to the Hay literature festival in Powys was forced to carry out an emergency landing after developing a fault. It was diverted urgently to a nearby aerodrome landing in Denham, Buckinghamshire. They had been travelling to meet local business owners and support literacy programmes at the festival. The tour of Hay started three hours later than planned with the couple completing the journey by road. They visited an established Hay-on-Wye clothes retailer, a book store and Hay Castle. As the Prince of Wales talked with local farmers, the Duchess of Cornwall heard schoolchildren read and spoke to ex-offenders about a successful programme of literacy in prison. After the festival visit, the royal couple parted and the Prince of Wales went on alone to Cardiff to attend the Welsh National Opera's opening new production of Wagner's Lohengrin.
Scottish Coronations approved
A call to crown monarchs in both England and Scotland should Scotland become independent has been approved by the Church of Scotland's ruling General Assembly. Charles II was the last monarch to be crowned in Scotland, in 1651. This took place at Scone Palace in Perthshire on New Year's Day 1651. All British monarchs have been crowned at Westminster Abbey in London following the union of the crowns of Scotland and England in 1603. The proposal was put forward in a report written by the Church and Society Council, the Committee on Ecumenical Relations and the Legal Questions Committee.
Man Booker International Prize won by Lydia Davis
American female writer scoops prize worth £60,000 for her achievement in fiction. It is awarded every two years to a living author who has published fiction either originally in English or whose work is available in translation in the English language. The winner is chosen solely at the discretion of the judging panel. Unlike the UK Man Booker Prize for Fiction, publishers cannot submit authors' works for consideration. 66 year-old Davis is a professor of creative writing at the University at Albany in New York and has had seven collections of short stories published. Davis has won many of the major American writing awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship for fiction and was named a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government. Lydia Davis's latest short story will appear in this Saturday's special Hay Festival Review section of the Daily Telegraph and online. She will also be speaking at the Telegraph Hay Festival today at 7pm.
72 year-old wins Northern Art Prize
A £16,500 art prize has been awarded to Carlisle based Margaret Harrison. The piece is a recreation of the perimeter fence from the Greenham Common airbase during the women's peace camp in the eighties. Women camped outside the US Air Force base in Berkshire for 19 years from 1981, to protest against the deployment of nuclear missiles. Harrison visited the camp several times in the 1980s and her artwork features items including children's clothing, toys, photographs and kitchen utensils pegged to a replica fence. The other nominees were 40 year-old Rosalind Nashashibi, 34 year-old Emily Speed and the art pair Joanne Tatham and Tom O'Sullivan, both in their forties. The artist said she was delighted to be nominated for the Northern Art Prize because "it's the only prize that isn't ageist and it's in Yorkshire".
City busy bee now Bee Inspector...and having a buzzing time.
Charles Millar, a former management consultant and corporate high-flyer, decided to give up his London job for a country vocation. Now Regional Bee Inspector for the West of England, he expressed his joy at seeing the advertisement for the vacancy. "Somebody is going to pay me money to visit orchards and look at hives and meet nice bee-keepers who might give me a cup of tea. That sounds like a great time." He previously worked for Unilever and then as a financial controller at a Mayfair Investment firm.
The helicopter taking the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall from central London to the Hay literature festival in Powys was forced to carry out an emergency landing after developing a fault. It was diverted urgently to a nearby aerodrome landing in Denham, Buckinghamshire. They had been travelling to meet local business owners and support literacy programmes at the festival. The tour of Hay started three hours later than planned with the couple completing the journey by road. They visited an established Hay-on-Wye clothes retailer, a book store and Hay Castle. As the Prince of Wales talked with local farmers, the Duchess of Cornwall heard schoolchildren read and spoke to ex-offenders about a successful programme of literacy in prison. After the festival visit, the royal couple parted and the Prince of Wales went on alone to Cardiff to attend the Welsh National Opera's opening new production of Wagner's Lohengrin.
Scottish Coronations approved
A call to crown monarchs in both England and Scotland should Scotland become independent has been approved by the Church of Scotland's ruling General Assembly. Charles II was the last monarch to be crowned in Scotland, in 1651. This took place at Scone Palace in Perthshire on New Year's Day 1651. All British monarchs have been crowned at Westminster Abbey in London following the union of the crowns of Scotland and England in 1603. The proposal was put forward in a report written by the Church and Society Council, the Committee on Ecumenical Relations and the Legal Questions Committee.
Man Booker International Prize won by Lydia Davis
American female writer scoops prize worth £60,000 for her achievement in fiction. It is awarded every two years to a living author who has published fiction either originally in English or whose work is available in translation in the English language. The winner is chosen solely at the discretion of the judging panel. Unlike the UK Man Booker Prize for Fiction, publishers cannot submit authors' works for consideration. 66 year-old Davis is a professor of creative writing at the University at Albany in New York and has had seven collections of short stories published. Davis has won many of the major American writing awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship for fiction and was named a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government. Lydia Davis's latest short story will appear in this Saturday's special Hay Festival Review section of the Daily Telegraph and online. She will also be speaking at the Telegraph Hay Festival today at 7pm.
72 year-old wins Northern Art Prize
A £16,500 art prize has been awarded to Carlisle based Margaret Harrison. The piece is a recreation of the perimeter fence from the Greenham Common airbase during the women's peace camp in the eighties. Women camped outside the US Air Force base in Berkshire for 19 years from 1981, to protest against the deployment of nuclear missiles. Harrison visited the camp several times in the 1980s and her artwork features items including children's clothing, toys, photographs and kitchen utensils pegged to a replica fence. The other nominees were 40 year-old Rosalind Nashashibi, 34 year-old Emily Speed and the art pair Joanne Tatham and Tom O'Sullivan, both in their forties. The artist said she was delighted to be nominated for the Northern Art Prize because "it's the only prize that isn't ageist and it's in Yorkshire".
City busy bee now Bee Inspector...and having a buzzing time.
Charles Millar, a former management consultant and corporate high-flyer, decided to give up his London job for a country vocation. Now Regional Bee Inspector for the West of England, he expressed his joy at seeing the advertisement for the vacancy. "Somebody is going to pay me money to visit orchards and look at hives and meet nice bee-keepers who might give me a cup of tea. That sounds like a great time." He previously worked for Unilever and then as a financial controller at a Mayfair Investment firm.