However, siphoning both productions off in the festival’s administrative HQ, the Hub, highlighted the venue’s inaccessibility and inadequacies. I’ll shy away from lobbing more balls at Jordi Milan’s Aunt Sally of a show, Nuts CocoNuts, which should have been on the Fringe, where at a ticket price of a tenner it might have won more prizes. Theatre has often felt like a sideshow to the...

With its out-of-tune strings, its fishy-sounding ocarinas, it joins galactic mystery to a childlike quality, notably in the second movement, which Tetzlaff began with naive simplicity, trawling a weary melody out of some distant century. Christine Brewer is a great Isolde, and Christian Franz, the Tristan, is an artist of taste and dramatic force, with a mettlesome heroic tenor. Brewer’s limitless flow...

He will be suspended against Wales and will also not now be reunited with Carragher at Liverpool.”We have spent a lot of money on strikers,” Carragher said. “We’ve got big players who are at big teams and they’re not used to getting beat,” Carragher said.One of those “big players” is his friend Michael Owen. Terry beat him to the overall title and Carragher said:...

This phenomenon, known in the market as a “bear squeeze”, can quickly cause investors spiralling losses.Finally, Telspec ticked 0.75p higher to 18.5p after the telecoms equipment maker put itself up for sale.. Elan has been an easy target for short sellers after it suspended its all-important Tysabri drug for multiple sclerosis on safety grounds. But an upgrade of Elan by the US broker AG Edwards...

So VT’s shipbuilding division, once something of an embarrassment, has actually generated a £5.4m profit in the last six months, up four-fifths on the same period a year ago. It has been making the bow sections (about one-third of the ship) of the new Type 45 destroyers for the Royal Navy. Call it an old-fashioned credit squeeze if you like.j.warner independent.co.uk. It is possible to make decent money...