Young samba band leader Lucy Woolcock is making a double donation to charity on Saturday (22 October), with her hair raising funds for a good cause.
Lucy’s treasured tresses are to be lopped off to raise funds for Meningitis Now – and her lovely lost locks will be donated to the Little Princess Trust, which makes wigs for child cancer sufferers.
Lucy, aged 26, has been a member of Exeter-based community samba band Street Heat for five years. The band has over 50 members of all ages and Lucy and was recently voted its joint music co-ordinator.
Supermarket Morrisons is to cut prices on meat, veg and fruit this week.
A spokesman said it would be reducing prices on nearly 160 products by an average 12 per cent on the items, in the latest round of its Price Crunch campaign. The latest move comes just a month after Morrisons trimmed the price of more than 1,000 products, including toiletries and seasonal fruit and vegetables, by an average of 18%.
Retailers believe that food price inflation is unlikely to arrive until the autumn when the supply of UK-grown fresh produce reduces and they are forced to buy more food...
The Cut Up's first show here in ages. Their new ip Buidling Bridge.Starting Here came out in September on Household Name Records - the band's third lp, and the first for for years! Think Billy Bragg meets One Man Army, plus Fugazi!
Onsind from Durham. While acts like Plan B are held up as "true protest singers", Onsind actually live and breathe a life of counter-cultural rebellion! They're coming all the way from the North East just for this show.
Bedford Falls from Cardiff. Independent in every sense of the word! Brilliant indie rock!
