33 m. ago Detained Chinese immigrants carved their anguish into a wall a century ago. Those words inspired a ballet

Oakland Ballet Company takes on a harrowing chapter of US-Chinese history with a piece about Angel Island, ‘the Ellis Island of the west’One sunny March day on Angel Island, a hilly landmass in the middle of the San Francisco Bay, a dancer with a 40-ft braid attached to her head glided across a narrow concrete walkway. The audience sat on chairs in front of a long wooden building: a former detention center where – from 1910 to 1940 – half a million people, the majority Chinese, were held for months, even years, in prison-like conditions.Sometimes called “the Ellis Island of the west”, Angel Island’s immigration station is the unlikely setting, and inspiration, for an ambitious new work by the Oakland Ballet Company. It’s based on the people from 80 countries who were confined to the the island’s detention center, which was the result of the Chinese Exclusion Act and other racist laws designed to keep Asian people out of the United States. In response, the detainees carved over 200 p...

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72 m. ago Championship roundup: Luton stun Coventry in huge boost to survival hopes

Baptiste’s 90th-minute winner hurts City’s playoff oddsPromoted Burnley rout QPR 5-0 to improve title chancesLuton climbed out of the Championship’s bottom three for the first time since January thanks to Shandon Baptiste’s 90th-minute goal as they beat playoff-chasing Coventry 1-0 in a game where both sides had a man sent off.Luton looked as if they would go to West Brom next weekend with their destiny definitely out of their own hands, only for Baptiste, who had been on the field for just 11 minutes, to find the net and lift the roof off Kenilworth Road. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Residents 'trapped' in Welsh village because tourists make it impossible to leave

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7 h. ago Welsh rugby team forced to play two matches in 24 hours but have perfect response

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8 h. ago Can Mel Robbin's viral 'Let Them' theory really change your life?

Scarlett Dargan imagines this week's generational debate

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8 h. ago UK Eurovision hopefuls Remember Monday ready for unforgettable contest debut

The trio, Lauren Byrne, Holly-Anne Hull and Charlotte Steele, are bringing their track What The Hell Just Happened? to the Eurovision stage on May 17

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10 h. ago Chris Eubank Jr vs Conor Benn undercard, running order and exact fight times

Chris Eubank Jr and Conor Benn will take centre stage at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium tonight - but there is also plenty of action on the undercard

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10 h. ago 'I gave up English city life to move to stunning rural Wales – then disaster struck'

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11 h. ago The small Welsh village where 119 people are fuming about one house

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11 h. ago 15 best Welsh ice creams worth travelling for to make sunny days even sweeter

It's ice cream season - who are we kidding? It's always ice cream season

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11 h. ago Dozens of women's skeletons found lying in Welsh beauty spot, as strange new discovery made

Scientific testing is being carried out on a ritually buried skeleton discovered near to a popular tourist attraction in Wales

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11 h. ago List of every single Welsh beach where dogs will be banned within days

A blanket ban on dogs across a range of beaches in Wales will be introduced in May

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11 h. ago Welsh town full of good pubs and brilliant restaurants is sat on an island you won't want to leave

While some may have considered the likes of Beaumaris or Benllech as the go-to destinations of Anglesey, Porthaethwy has firmly been added on that list

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14 h. ago 'Sometimes I think "Why me?" And I scream at God... but you can't be so scared of dying you become afraid of living': TRISHA GODDARD reveals incurable cancer treatment in first interview

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16 h. ago Pope's funeral will be a 'masterpiece' in stage managing 'big egos', says UK cardinal

Mourners were in a queue yesterday (Fri) for their last chance to see the body of Pope Francis, who died on Easter Monday aged 88, but as global leaders attend the funeral it will be a be a “masterpiece” in stage managing “big egos”

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17 h. ago Student gospel singers take stage at New Orleans festival known for celebrity acts

The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival each spring is known for hosting some of the world’s most famous jazz, funk and rock acts

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18 h. ago JoJo Siwa's partner at Celebrity Big Brother final but 'refuses to meet star onstage'

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18 h. ago Something just happened in part of Wales that hasn't happened for 250 years

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