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played characters who are assertive, strong and definite. From
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stage; from Evelyn in the Marigold Hotel movies, right through
to 13 years playing Jean, the comedic mainstay of classic BBC
comedy As Time Goes By, there has always been a strength
present.
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much those same qualities in real life. How else do you explain
the fact that, despite lockdown, the York-born doyenne remains
ensconced in one of the busiest periods of her acting career?
“I think the intention was that when I stepped away from Bond
I’d be calming things down a bit,” she begins. “What actually
ended up happening was I found more roles coming my way,
as would, I guess, any actor breaking free of a big character.”
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cornerstone of British drama simply can’t say no. During 2020,
while the world’s acting fraternity were sitting back doing very
little as the entire industry fell into a state of dormancy, Dench
was still busy promoting four projects – films Artemis Fowl, Blithe
Spirit and Six Minutes to Midnight, as well as an appearance
on Staged, the widely acclaimed lockdown-themed TV series
starring David Tennant and Michael Sheen.
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feature films. First up is Off the Rails, a drama about a group of
friends recreating an interrail journey across Europe, in which she
appears alongside Kelly Preston, Ben Miller and Sally Phillips.
Then, in Belfast, Jamie Dornan co-stars in a drama about a
working-class family in Northern Ireland in the late 1960s.
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fly halfway around the world for a few minutes on camera, or
the brief means being away from home for weeks on end in
some inhospitable backwater, I’ll say no. The truth, though, is
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performed Hamlet, or first stepped in front of a television camera
at the end of the 1950s.
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but if you want to keep busy and you want to find yourself things
to do, then those things are out there, no matter where you are
in the world or in your life,” says Dench, who has now been two
decades without husband Michael Williams, who died of lung
cancer aged 65.
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to paint a stone and add it to the snake. Today, there welcome that.”
are around 500 stones. Councillor Ciaran White, Havering member
Arlene said Havering Council has given the go- champion for young people, said the stones were due
ahead and the stones should be embedded in the to be moved from their current location last month so
May half-term. the glass perimeter could be cleaned and maintained.
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business, and the Thames bid will be an ‘automotive
hub’, focused on developing electric and autonomous
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trust and, as I write this column in March, the picture on vehicles. The Chancellor also outlined measures to
COVID-19 in Queen’s Hospital is much improved. We help our local high streets, including restart grants, a
now have a new mass vaccination site at The Liberty business rates holiday, cuts to VAT and a new Help
in Romford and I am pushing for local pharmacies to to Grow scheme. I hope that non-essential retail will
deliver the vaccine throughout the constituency.
My team and I ran another successful online jobs fair
open this month and encourage everyone to support
the high street when the time comes.
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W ith the arrival of spring, a renewed sense

of optimism is, I believe, in the air. At
the same time as we mark one year from the
Our attention should now turn to how we want the
future to look. For too long, Havering has been subject
to the control of London. A great city, but one we visit
beginning of this awful cycle of lockdowns, for work and leisure, not one that we are actually
we finally have a roadmap to freedom and a part of. Indeed, Havering has never really been part
plan to return to normal. Children are back to of London. We are a collection of Essex towns and
school and the weather is warming. On June villages on the outskirts of London. We are, and always
21, we hope this will all be over. will be, Essex. Nothing will change that - whatever the
This is a particularly poignant moment to reflect on current mayor may like to think.
our nation’s sacrifice, because it is also the moment Hornchurch and Romford remain historically,
when billions of Christians all around the world culturally and geographically a part of Essex. So
remember another sacrifice – that of our Lord and maybe it’s time our proud borough took back control
Saviour Jesus Christ, who gave his life for our sins. of its own affairs.
Urchins backed in Wembley bid

A s Hornchurch FC prepared to take on Notts County FC in
the semi-final of the FA Trophy last month, Premier League
team West Ham United got behind their bid to reach Wembley.
The Urchins achieved six ties to reach the semi-finals of
the competition for non-league clubs, including upsets over
National League sides King’s Lynn Town and Maidstone
United.
Hornchurch have long held links with West Ham United and
its fans, with the club close to joint chairman David Sullivan’s
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human body was simply not capable of – running a result of event nine, the one mile: first, number 41,
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to meet a collective of pacemakers keen to do their which – subject to ratification – will be a new English
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Travelling alone, he caught the train from British Empire and World Record. The time was
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Of course, in the years to come, several athletes
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lap had 59 seconds to run the final 400m. chunks of time out of Bannister’s. In the 1980s, Seb
He finished, and a crowd of more than 3,000 Coe, Steve Ovett and Steve Cram each set a new
HAVERING’S PREMIUM ESTATE AGENT spectators awaited the verdict, offered by future world record, although the most recent PB belongs
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