Lenny Henry as Troy Maxson Date: 15 March 2013

As previously tipped, the Theatre Royal Bath revival of August Wilson's Fences starring Lenny Henry will transfer to the West End's Duchess Theatre in the summer.

The production, which is directed former Talawa artistic director Paulette Randall, opened in Bath last month and is currently on a UK tour. It will run at the Duchess from 19 June to 14 September 2013.

Wilson's 1983 play, which forms part of the late dramatist's epic ten-play cycle about the black experience in 20th-century America, centres on Troy Maxson (Henry), a former baseball star who is now a garbageman and consumed by bitterness.

Fences was written in 1983 and made its Broadway premiere in 1987, starring James Earl Jones. It went on to win a Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play, which is set in Pittsburgh in 1957, was recently revived on Broadway in an acclaimed production starring Denzel Washington, though E8831272620162 rumours of a West End transfer failed to materialise.

It was previously seen in the West End in 1990, in a production at the Garrick Theatre starring Yaphet Kotto and Adrian Lester.

The play marks the latest in a line of theatre roles that Lenny Henry - best known as a stand up comic and presenter of Red Nose Day - has tackled recently. He starred in the title role of Northern Broadsides' production of Othello in 2009 and the National's modern dress staging of The Comedy of Errors in 2011.

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The Wildlife Department will erect two electric fences in the upper areas of Lunugamvehera and Udawalawa to combat the growing human - elephant conflict in the Uva province, Wildlife Director General H D Rathnayake said.

The length of each fence will be 40 kilometres, he said. Plans are underway to build the fences within two weeks, Rathnayake said.

This will help reduce the human - elephant conflict by 90 percent, the Director General said.

Common Differences will be screened at 25/1, Centre Road, Battaramulla on March 21 at 6 pm. It will be hosted by former Sri Lankan ambassador to the UN in Geneva Tamara Kunanayagam and followed by a discussion chaired by South African ambassador Geoff Doidge.

Common Differences is a documentary film that as Parliamentarian Eran Wickremaratne advocates in the moving opening sequence, attempts to provide a balanced insight to the Sri Lanka ethnic conflict. It explores the reasons for and the development of conflict in Sri Lanka through interviews with a wide range of stakeholders. The film also opens up the question as to where and how Sri Lanka should proceed.

Given the emotions involved, the production team of Suren de Silva and Daniel Ridicki refrains from commentary, instead simply using interviews by Sri Lanka political, academic, media and NGO stakeholders. These include the Bishop of Mannar, the Secretary of Defence, journalists Iqbal Athas and C A Chandraprema, NGO activist Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu, academics Dayan Athukoralage, Imran Furkan and Stanley Samarasinghe and politicians Vinatagamoorthy Muralitharan and Eran Wickramaratne.

The telling of the story also leads to constructive propositions for nation building. A sequel entitled Healing the Wounds is now in pre-production phase. The screening will be followed by a discussion of the issues with Jeevan Thiagarajah, Javid Yusuf, Jehan Perera and Prof Rajiva Wijesinha who were also interviewed. They will answer questions and provide clarifications as possible. Contact 011-2559191 during working hours to confirm participation or email rajiva.wijesinha@googlemail.com.

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Published: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 at 9:23 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 at 9:23 p.m.

Putting up front yard fences will be easier for residents and some LED window signs for businesses will now be allowed as Burgaw town officials decided Tuesday night to make changes to the town's Unified Development Ordinance.

Burgaw resident Joe Bordeaux requested in December that commissioners consider a change to the town's ordinance that would allow him to put a fiberglass fence in his front yard.

Burgaw Planning Administrator Rebekah Costin said concerns about the height and design of front-yard fences in 2007 led commissioners to adopt an amendment to the ordinance requiring residents to a obtain a conditional use permit for any front-yard fence.

The permit process requirement included a $300 application fee and a public hearing before the board of commissioners. Costin said the process seemed to have deterred some residents from putting up fences.

I've had questions from property owners over the last few years about putting up a front-yard fence to keep pedestrians from crossing their yard on a regular basis, and when they found out about the conditional use process, no one was willing to take it further, she said.

Now a resident may pay $30 for a zoning permit for their fence and would generally complete the process in one day versus undergoing a month-long process.

Residential front-yard fences cannot exceed 4 feet in height and must be constructed of certain materials listed in the ordinance, including wood and stone. Commercial front-yard fences still require a conditional use permit.

Although signs consisting of LED lights were prohibited in Burgaw prior to Tuesday night, several businesses already were using such signs in their windows, particularly signs that say open. Costin estimated about 30 or 40 businesses, including about 10 in downtown Burgaw, had the signs. Costin said the town prohibited LED or LCD signs because of the difficulty of making sure they are not too bright to interfere with passersby.

The approved ordinance amendment allows incidental LED and LCD window signs, but prohibit such signs that flash, scroll or contain moving lights, pictures or text.

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TRAVERSE CITY Homeowners in Traverse City can continue to build fences of any type, height, or material they choose without a city permit.

Some residents had objected to the recent proliferation of 10-foot tall blockade-style fences and walls along Division Street. A letter from Pat and Dennis LaBelle in December had the city planning commission ready to climb all over the controversial question of erecting a fence ordinance. But aware of rickety support in the past for a fence ordinance, planners decided to get the city commission's perspective first.

"They don't want to spend a lot of time and energy (on it) because I guess there's some history of doing that and not having it accepted," said commissioner Jeanine Easterday, who also serves on the planning commission.

The city has no guidelines for fence building outside of restrictions on barbed wire. Planners have considered a fence ordinance four times since 1977 but never acted.

Easterday polled city commissioners Monday night about planners setting up standards for fences.

"I don't think so," Commissioner Mary Ann Moore replied. "We just did beekeeping and those people have to have fences. There's the Division (Street) noise, ones for the yard, privacy. I just think it's not something we should get into."

Other commissioners concurred.

"I don't think we want to deal with it," Commissioner Barbara Budros said.

Pat Labelle said she's not surprised and understands the commission's reluctance considering past efforts.

"It was worth a community discussion," LaBelle said. "I was just concerned because the large walls can occur anywhere in the city, not just on Division Street, and I don't think there is anything anyone can do once they go up."

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Bratton must mend community fences

In observing the coverage and conversation around new Oakland Police Department consultant William Bratton, much of it has been focused on the narrow scope of his extremely expensive contract and fears of the infamous stop-and-frisk tactics Bratton employed in Boston, New York and Los Angeles.

Now that Bratton is here to stay, it is my hope that he can mend fences with the grass-roots citizens groups who were his initial opponents to better inform his work.

Whether his contract was worth its price will be proven by the outcomes of his tenure, and he will undoubtedly find success difficult to achieve if he views the community as adversaries of his agenda rather than allies in reducing violent crime in Oakland.

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Children should take bow for oratory

Lafayette Elementary School, located in Oakland, took first place at the second Regional MLK Jr. Oratorical Fest. The event was held Feb. 15 at Acts Full Gospel Church.

This means that every individual class at Lafayette Elementary that participated in the event won its own first-place award for its performance. Children, we share in your success. Take time to feel great joy and pride for the city of Oakland, pride for the community and special pride for Lafayette Elementary School.

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Hawthorn development coach Chris Fagan, coach coach Alastair Clarkson, player Brendan Whitecross and Blaze Aid team leader Vivian Walker with property owner Rob Turner behind Picture: Kim Eiszele Source: The Mercury

IT WAS the sweatiest, hardest, dirtiest work they will do all year.

Hawthorn coach Alastair Clarkson, head of coaching Chris Fagan, and repatriating star Brendan Whitecross went bush at Boomer Bay yesterday to rebuild fences destroyed in the Dunalley bushfires.

The digging was hot and hard, and the rocks unforgiving.

The Hawthorn men worked in blackened bush to put in steel droppers and huge straining posts cut from nearby trees and rolled into place.

Despite actual blisters on their hands, they plan to do the same again today for nothing more than a sandwich, bottle of water and a well-earned thank you.

The fences may have been as straight as a politician's promise, but the trio revelled in the challenge.

It was Clarkson's idea to put together a crew to work in the Dunalley area.

He left his team behind in Melbourne to prepare for Saturday's NAB Cup clash against Richmond at Aurora Stadium.

Clarkson, who will joined them when they arrive in Launceston tomorrow, was hardly prepared for the damage caused by the fires.

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This shows lions in Phinda Private Game Reserve, South Africa. Credit: Luke Hunter/Panthera

Published: March. 6, 2013 at 3:28 PM

NEW YORK, March 6 (UPI) -- Almost half of Africa's lions are facing extinction and fencing them in -- and keeping humans out -- may be their only hope for survival, conservationists say.

Writing in the journal Ecology letters, researchers said nearly half of Africa's wild lion populations might decline to near extinction during the next 20-40 years without urgent conservation measures, including fenced reserves.

"It is clear that fences work and unfenced populations are extremely expensive to maintain," Craig Packer of the University of Minnesota said.

Conservation costs are lower and lion population sizes and densities are greater in reserves secured by wildlife-proof fences, Packer said.

Separating lion and human populations will be essential for the species' survival, researchers said.

"These findings highlight the severity of the lion conservation crisis today and the limited choices we have to ensure a future for the species," Luke Hunter, president of big-cat advocacy group Panthera, said.

"No one wants to resort to putting any more fences around Africa's marvelous wild areas, but without massive and immediate increases in the commitment to lion conservation, we may have little choice," he said.

It is estimated that fewer than 30,000 lions remain in Africa in just 25 percent of the species' original natural habitat, a Panthera release said Wednesday.

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