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Dec 4, 2024 | 
the-tls.co.uk | Children's literature |Nat Segnit |Lucy Fleming |Imogen Russell Williams
The title of Alex Bell’s new fantasy adventure for nine- to twelve-year-olds sounds like a Wizarding World knock-off churned out by an AI. It’s a pity, because The Glorious Race of Magical Beasts is terrific, alive with invention, dramatically taut and equipped with a metafictional fifth gear that, although reminiscent of certain classics of children’s literature, is anything but derivative.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
the-tls.co.uk | Children's literature |Lucy Fleming
Winner of the 2024 Niche Market Newspaper of the Year Award and proudly niche since 1902. Welcome to the TLSFor children of all agesWhy we love the books we read in youth
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Oct 1, 2023 | 
1africafocus.com | Lucy Fleming
The Federal Republic of Nigeria is celebrating her 63 years of independent nationhood and President Bola Tinubu has just made a national broadcast. The broadcast is a rehash of the same old message. Nigerians should be patient in hardship whilst the leaders revel in mismanagement of resources. There is the old appeal of unity in diversity which even those in the corridors of power do not believe in.
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Sep 12, 2023 | 
1africafocus.com | Lucy Fleming
This video can not be playedTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.By Lucy FlemingBBC NewsRescue teams in Libya are struggling to retrieve the bodies of victims that have been swept out to sea in tsunami-like flood waters.At least 2,300 have been killed, according to the ambulance authority in Derna, the worst affected city.Two dams and four bridges collapsed in Derna, submerging much of the city when Storm Daniel hit on Sunday.About 10,000 people are reported...
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Sep 12, 2023 | 
1africafocus.com | Lucy Fleming
This video can not be playedTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.By Lucy FlemingBBC NewsRescue teams in Libya are struggling to retrieve the bodies of victims that have been swept out to sea in tsunami-like flood waters.At least 2,300 have been killed, according to the ambulance authority in Derna, the worst affected city.Two dams and four bridges collapsed in Derna, submerging much of the city when Storm Daniel hit on Sunday.About 10,000 people are reported...
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Sep 12, 2023 | 
1africafocus.com | Lucy Fleming
This video can not be playedThe death toll from floods in Libya in one city alone stands at more than 1,500, a minister who visited the eastern port of Derna has told the BBC. “I was shocked by what I saw, it’s like a tsunami,” Hisham Chkiouat, from the eastern-based government, said. Much of Derna, which is home to about 100,000 people, is under water after two dams and four bridges collapsed.
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Sep 12, 2023 | 
aljazeerah.info | Lucy Fleming |Samy Magdy
11,300 Deaths Accounted for, About 10,000 More Expected in the Libyan City of Derna Alone, as a Result of the Storm Flood September 15, 2023 A damaged road in Shahhat, which is about 20km inland from the coast, September 12, 2023 Aftermath of hurricane Daniel, outside Derna, Libya, September 12, 2023 A Marj city street after the storm, September 11, 2023 almasar tv An overview of Al-Marj city after the storm, September 11, 2023 almasar tv A street view in Derna, Libya, September 12, 2023 A...
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Sep 1, 2023 | 
1africafocus.com | Lucy Fleming
Many buildings in the centre of the South African city of Johannesburg, where a horrific fire has killed more than 70 people, are deemed unfit to live in. Yet these old blocks, abandoned by their owners or the city authorities, are full of families often paying rent to criminal gangs who run them. The buildings, which lack running water, toilets or a legal electricity connection, are then said to have been “hijacked”. Scores of people often live in one room, often former offices.
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Aug 31, 2023 | 
1africafocus.com | Lucy Fleming
Many buildings in the centre of the South African city of Johannesburg, where a horrific fire has killed more than 70 people, are deemed unfit to live in. Yet these old blocks, abandoned by their owners or the city authorities, are full of families often paying rent to criminal gangs who run them. The buildings, which lack running water, toilets or a legal electricity connection, are then said to have been “hijacked”. Scores of people often live in one room, often former offices.
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Jun 24, 2023 | 
1africafocus.com | Lucy Fleming
Linda Elmquist, of Tucson, Arizona, smiled broadly as she held her little dog aloft. Finally, Scooter was being recognized for his best qualities on Friday as he was given the title of the World’s Ugliest Dog. The competition, held as part of the Sonoma-Marin fair in Petaluma, California, for the past 50 years, is a world-renowned event that promotes dog adoption and showcases extraordinary canines that have defied adversity – and celebrates their imperfections.
