Debbie from Glenfield to star in Carmen at Concordia

A GLENFIELD resident is playing the lead role in Stanley Opera’s Carmen next month at the Hinckley Concordia Theatre.

Debbie Dubberley - pictured right - first performed 40 years ago as a child in Leicester Opera’s performance of The Queen of Spades. She began her adult appearances in Carmen in 1998.

Last year Debbie received a great review of her performance as Gilda, in Knighton Opera’s version of Verdi’s opera Rigoletto. Writing in the Leicester Mercury, Roger Cairns of Swannington said : “Dramatically she lived the part, musically she swept us away and bowled us over.” He singled out Caro nome chi il mio cor, and added “I have never heard it sung so movingly, so beautifully simple. Or do I mean so simply beautiful?” More details and tickets for Carmen can be found at https:// www.stanleyopera.co.uk/nextproduction.

Norman Griffiths

ST. PETER’S CHURCH, GLENFIELD, LE3 8DP www.stpetersglenfield.org.uk

‘West End to Covent Garden’ to

Glenfield

A summer concert with

Octave

singing songs from Musicals and well-known arias from Opera

Saturday, 13 th May 2023

7.00pm

Tickets £10 (Refreshments included) Advanced booking recommended

Tickets from Doreen Denney 0116 233 8604 Claire Clark Tola Shotinwa 07392298544

Million Eyes

By C R Berry

WHAT IF we’re living in an alternate timeline? What if the car crash that killed Princess Diana, the disappearance of the Princes in the Tower, and the shooting of King William II weren’t supposed to happen?

Ex-history teacher Gregory Ferro finds evidence that a cabal of time travellers is responsible for several key events in our history. These events all seem to hinge on a dry textbook published in 1995, referenced in a history book written in 1977 and mentioned in a letter to King Edward III in 1348.

Ferro teams up with down-on-her-luck graduate Jennifer Larson to get to the truth and discover the relevance of a book that seems to defy the arrow of time. But the time travellers are watching closely. Soon the duo are targeted by assassins willing to rewrite history to bury them.

Cold and flu remedies are being withdrawn from UK market over health fears

AS REPORTED IN MAILONLINE, some of the best-known cold and flu remedies are being urgently pulled from shelves over allergy fears.

A total of twenty products are being withdrawn, including those made by Day & Night Nurse and Covonia — as well as ownbrand versions sold in Boots and Superdrug. Medical regulators have withdrawn the medicines from the UK market ‘as a precaution following a review’, it emerged today.

Evidence was found that pholcodine, which is found in cough syrups, could in rare cases cause an allergic reaction if the user undergoes surgery and needs a general anaesthetic which involves the use of a muscle relaxant.

The review concluded that the benefits of pholcodine-containing cough and cold medicines ‘do not outweigh the increased risk of the very rare event of anaphylaxis’.

Pholcodine is mostly found in household cough syrups and the recall includes syrups and lozenges which are on shelves across the country

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), which polices the safety of drugs used in Britain, said there is evidence of an increased risk of anaphylaxis ‘in patients who receive general anaesthesia involving neuromuscular blocking agents (NMBAs) during surgery’.