The colliery band that inspired the hit film Brassed Off is to field a female musician in competition for the first time in its 93-year history – 14 years after the same thing happened in the movie.
The Grimethorpe Colliery Band has recruited Sheona White, an internationally acclaimed horn player, for the British Open competition in Birmingham in September.
Miss White, a former BBC Radio 2 Young Musician of the Year who performed on the chart-topping 1997 BBC charity single Perfect Day, is the first woman to play for the South Yorkshire band in a musical competition.
2010-07-27
Posted in Women In the News
Susan notes: best take down of Fox News I've ever seen. I'm still laughing...
2010-07-26
Posted in Women In the News
Susan notes: this video is from a documentary series called Women on the Frontline presented by Annie
Lennox and produced by UNIFEM; it shines a light on violence against women and girls. Read more about the series below.
2010-07-19
Posted in Women In the News
Making a woman a priest is as sinful as abusing a child, the Roman
Catholic Church declared yesterday.
New religious rules published
by the Vatican set both sins at the same level of gravity and
recommended the same punishment for guilty priests.
Church
officials in Rome insisted that the new version of Canon Law showed it
was 'very, very serious in its commitment to promote safe environments'
But
it had the appearance of an own goal by Pope Benedict XVI in his
attempt to cool the scandal over Catholic cover-ups of child abuse by
paedophile priests.
2010-07-17
Posted in Women In the News
Susan notes: According to the Rebecca Project, more than 100,000 American girls are sexually trafficked in the United States. Their first sexual encounter, on average, is between the ages of 11 and 14.
Related links:
The Rebecca Project
2010-07-07
Posted in Women In the News