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Hay Festival

Threat to Hay on Wye Mark II

Kate Holmes | Posted 15.11.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Hay Festival, Brecon Beacons National Parks, Tesco, Kraftwerk, Arriva Trains, First Great Western, Powys County Council, UK Lifestyle News
Kate Holmes

The Globe festival have had their license revoked and are going to appeal as I speak. 5 people complained!!!!!!! ( even the local B and R paper though this a total joke) so a major source of income for Hay has been denied to its local shop-keepers. Clever Council!!!!!

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Post Traumatic Festival

Kate Holmes | Posted 19.06.2012 | Home
Read More: Hay-on-Wye, Baileys, How-the-Light-Gets-In, Faber and Faber, Hay-Festival, Toast, How Soon Is Now, Alan McGee, Home News
Kate Holmes

The busiest 10 days of Hay On Wye 2012 has now passed as the town is left in a kind of post apocalyptic mess of muddy fields, empty portaloos and dirty windswept awnings leftover from the Hay Literary Festival.

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Sam Parker

A Summer Festival ...Of Philosophy?!

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Parker | Posted 20.12.2012 | Home
Read More: Hay-on-Wye, How the Light Gets In, Video, Hay Festival, Literary Festivals, David Blunkett, David Aaronovitch, Ruth Padel, Home News

Every summer in Britain we flock in our thousands to outdoor festivals promising music, comedy and theatre, always hoping to experience those sublime ...

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Rankin's Rebus Returns

PA | Posted 05.08.2012 | Home
Read More: New Books, Hay Festival, Books, Standing in Another Man's Grave, Rebus, Ian Rankin, Jackie Leven, Home News

Crime writer Ian Rankin has confirmed Inspector Rebus will return in a new novel out later this year called Standing in Another Man's Grave. The Ed...

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Letter From the Country: Weather Watch

Kate Holmes | Posted 08.04.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Alex Gooch Bread, Hay-on-Wye, Giffords Circus, Hay Festival, Schools, Plan B for Hay, Powys County Council, Hay on TV, Snow, Powys Schools Modernisation., UK Lifestyle News
Kate Holmes

Hay-on-Wye has its own micro-climate, being in a dip with not much winter sun. It always seems a degree or two colder than everywhere locally. Each day I nip in to the centre to grab a loaf of Alex Gooch's beautiful sourdough bread from the local deli and have a quick chat with the shopkeepers.

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