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Jul 26, 2024 | 
dewsburyreporter.co.uk | Sarah Miles
Watch more of our videos on Shots! and live on Freeview channel 276Visit Shots! nowThe West Riding is putting the blues into Dewsbury. In September, the pub at Dewsbury train station will be hosting some of the best blues artists, many of them fresh from the long established Great British Rhythm and Blues Festival in Colne, over three days from September 13-15.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
africasacountry.com | Alex White |Sarah Miles
Who founded the Black Star Line? Which country did Kamuzu Banda rule? Which nationalist movement was targeted by Le Main Rouge? And what does uhuru truly mean? Together, these questions make up part of the first edition of Afra-Crosstic—an designed for the September 1965 edition of The African Review. To solve the puzzle, readers are instructed to answer 21 trivia questions about the history, politics, and culture of the continent.
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May 29, 2024 | 
yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk | Sarah Miles
Watch more of our videos on Shots! and live on Freeview channel 276Visit Shots! nowWith Back to Basics DJ and founder, Dave Beer, due to appear soon at Beerhouses' music venue, The Terrace in Dewsbury, should they consider changing the name to The Dave BeerHouse for the night on 8th June?
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
dewsburyreporter.co.uk | Sarah Miles
For one night only, The Terrace became the Dog & Hammer.While the offer of The Terrace in Dewsbury is to 'Hire Your Own Pub', two local businessmen took that concept to an entirely new level by changing the name, creating their own beer mats and posters, and even changing the signage!Watch more of our videos on Shots! and live on Freeview channel 276Visit Shots! nowThe Terrace in Dewsbury is a private hire and music venue, and its slogan is ‘Hire Your Own Pub’.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
dewsburyreporter.co.uk | Sarah Miles
Classic Beer Week, at all Beerhouses pubs across West Yorkshire and Stalybridge, celebrates traditional brews and brewers, with beers such as Bass, Old Peculiar, and Wobbly Bob on the bars. Watch more of our videos on Shots! and live on Freeview channel 276Visit Shots! nowThe modern beer industry is innovative and exciting with new styles developing all the time, but it's important to pay tribute to the classics too.
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Feb 7, 2024 | 
dewsburyreporter.co.uk | Sarah Miles
A beautiful pub cake, multiple specially brewed collaboration beers, and money raised for charity. All these things came together on a cold Monday evening in January, when a well-loved, packed-out railway pub celebrated its 30th birthday!Watch more of our videos on Shots! and live on Freeview channel 276Visit Shots! now“It was amazing to see so many people coming together to celebrate The West’s 30th birthday.
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Dec 10, 2023 | 
dewsburyreporter.co.uk | Sarah Miles
Three Yorkshire businesses - a coffee roaster, a spirits distillery and a pub group - have got together and created a truly Yorkshire collaboration product. Watch more of our videos on Shots! and live on Freeview channel 276Visit Shots! nowHuddersfield based artisan coffee roasters Bean Brothers, Barnsley distillery Waterton’s Reserve Gin and Dewsbury pub group Beerhouses have joined forces to brew up a collaboration tipple, Mocha Mocha Coffee Liqueur.
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Dec 9, 2023 | 
dewsburyreporter.co.uk | Sarah Miles
Dewsbury is probably not the first place that comes to mind when you think about dance and electronic music. Watch more of our videos on Shots! and live on Freeview channel 276Visit Shots! nowIt may not have the reputation (or weather!) of Ibiza, nor the big city pull of Leeds or Manchester, but there are some big-name acts lined up in this small West Yorkshire town, so it's definitely the one to watch.
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Nov 21, 2023 | 
africasacountry.com | Sarah Miles |William Shoki |Peter Karibe Mendy
By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master? Following Hamas’s October 7 attacks on Israel that caused more than 1,200 fatalities, there was a barrage of injunctions from Western mainstream media, politicians, and pundits insisting that anybody wishing to express an opinion on the events and the ensuing Israeli war crimes and genocide in Gaza, first denounce Hamas before expressing any other view.
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Jul 21, 2023 | 
africasacountry.com | Alex White |Sarah Miles
In the summer of 1961, the African American novelist Julian Mayfield escaped the US under cover of darkness. A veteran civil rights activist and communist sympathizer, he and his family had long been targets of FBI surveillance. In August, however, police harassment increased after Mayfield was named as a material witness to the kidnapping of a Ku Klux Klan member near his North Carolina home.
