Banksy work showing MPS as chimps goes on display for ‘Brexit day’
5 years ago
GRAFFITI artist Banksy has said his piece depicting politicians in the House of Commons as chimpanzees has gone on display “to mark Brexit day”. The artwork, named Devolved Parliament, has been put on show at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery in time for the original deadline of March
29. It was first shown there in 2009 as part of the Banksy vs Bristol Museum exhibition. Devolved Parliament was then purchased by an unnamed collector, who has loaned it to the museum to mark a decade since its unveiling. Banksy gave his permission for the piece, which is four metres wide, to go back on display. A photograph of Devolved Parliament was posted on the artist’s Instagram account yesterday.
10 years ago SCOTLAND’S women have moved up one place to a bestever 19th in the FIFA rankings ahead of next Saturday’s World Cup qualifier against Poland at
Fir Park. The Scots also play Bosnia-herzegovina on April
10. “We’re delighted that we’re continuing to progress up the world rankings,” said coach Anna Signeul. “It gets more difficult once you break into the top 20, so every step now is a huge achievement. It’s good news for everybody involved – coaches, players, the clubs and our partners. Achieving our highest ever ranking gives us a boost before the World Cup qualifiers against Poland and Bosnia.”
25 years ago
THE protection of rare and endangered birds will reach a landmark today, with the number of EC designated sites passing 100, Scottish Environment Minister Lord Sewel will announce. The Ness site on Lewis will become the 100th Special Protection Area (SPA) under the EC Wild Birds Directive. It is important for its corncrake population – Scotland’s only globallythreatened species of bird. Lord Sewel will announce three further SPAS, at Kilpheder to Smerclate on South Uist, Eoligarry on Barra, and North Uist machair and islands. The latter will receive additional protection, being listed as a so-called Ramsar site under the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance, bringing that Scottish total to 48.
50 years ago
FREE family planning help to the tune of £1m a year was included in a wide-ranging package of upgradings in social security benefits announced yesterday in the House of Commons by Mrs Barabara Castle, Secretary of State for Social Services. In the resumed Budget debate Mrs Castle announced:
Increases in supplementary benefit discretionary allowances. Increases in the family income supplement. A reduction in the range of those to whom prescription charges apply. Her measures, she said, were directed at helping the troubled, the deserted, the handicapped, sick, the incapacitated and disabled, the lonely, and the poor.
100 years ago
A SONG recital was given by Miss EB Barbour before a large and appreciative audience in Hillhead Burgh Hall, Glasgow, last night.
The programme submitted was an exacting one, containing as it did compositions by Bach, Brahms, Rubinstein, Schubert, Schumann, Handel, and Tchaikovsky. Her rendering of Be Thou Still, by JW Franck, exhibited a capacity for delicate expression, while her singing of Lusinghe Piu Care, from the opera Alessandro (Handel) possessed the necessary spirit and colour. Other outstanding items were Der, Asra (Rubinstein), Ritouinelle (Chamwiade), and None but the Weary Heart (Tchaikovsky).