News : 16th March 2002

A last minute item: UK television viewers may like to know that a short 10 minute programme is being aired on BBC2 at 11.45pm tonight. Dance For The Camera: Horizone is described as “Jocelyn Pook’s depiction of a strange creature emerging from a spartan desert landscape” .

Novelist Judy Astley has recently been nominated for an award. Her eighth novel Excess Baggage has been put forward by the Sierra Leone Library for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2002 .

For those who aren’t aware, Judy Astley is the wife of Jon Astley (Virginia’s brother) and Virginia’s sister-in-law.