an opera house in Nuremberg and the battle for the soul of Germany

When audiences enter Nuremberg’s Staatstheater in four years’ time, they will find themselves in an 800-seat cube swathed in lush greenery. To get there, they will have to walk through a giant horseshoe-shaped building best known as the “Nazi Colosseum”—one of the largest structures still standing from the party’s building spree of the 1930s, where … Read more

Mid Cheshire Camera Club is celebrating 50 years of beautiful photography

Mid Cheshire Camera Club is celebrating 50 years of beautiful photography MID Cheshire Camera Club celebrates its 50th anniversary. Five decades ago, the popular club started as Winsford Camera Club in 1974 and now has 34 members. The budding amateur and professional photographers meet every Wednesday evening at 7.45pm at St Andrew’s Church in Winsford … Read more

Richard Truly, space shuttle astronaut and NASA administrator, dies at 86

Richard “Dick” Truly, one of the first astronauts to fly the space shuttle and later led NASA as its eighth administrator, has died at the age of 86. Truly’s death on Tuesday (Feb. 27) was confirmed by the Association of Space Explorers, a professional organization for the world’s astronauts and cosmonauts, which considered Truly a … Read more