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CMAT owns Halifax: an honorary Brontë sister brings the house down
CMAT walked into the crowd last night, and 6,000 people parted for her like water.
That is the image that will follow this show around. Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson — sequinned, six-foot-something in heels, entirely in command — asked the courtyard to split down the middle, stepped off the stage into the gap and danced with the audience. Not a photo opportunity. Not a stunt. A pop star who genuinely wanted to be down there with everyone else.
It was the emotional peak of a set that confirmed what the festival circuit has been saying about her for two years: CMAT is currently one of the best live performers working anywhere.
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A Base for Yorkshire: Why The New Royal Oak Is Halifax’s Smartest New Stay
A Grade II-listed Halifax landmark has been reborn as a six-bedroom boutique hotel above a proper traditional pub. Paddy Fitzgibbon’s New Royal Oak makes the case for Calderdale as a base for exploring Yorkshire.
Halifax has always been a town worth passing through. The question, until recently, was where you would actually want to stay once you have arrived. The New Royal Oak answers it, and in doing so makes a compelling case for basing yourself in Calderdale and letting the rest of West Yorkshire come to you.
The building itself is reason enough to look twice. A Grade II-listed landmark on Clare Road, built in 1931 from the salvaged timbers of HMS Newcastle, it is the kind of handsome old pub that gives a town its character…
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Women of Substance: Minal Patel
She left Gujarat with a clear head and a strong belief. Twenty years on, the head chef at Prashad has a Bib Gourmand, a Chef of the Year title and one thing still firmly in her sights.
Some people tell you who they are. Minal Patel shows you, and she does it on a plate.
Sit down at Prashad, the family-run vegetarian restaurant in Drighlington, and the first thing that reaches you is not the awards on the wall. It is the food. Gujarati cooking, done properly, built from herbs and spices and the kind of care you cannot fake. One mouthful and you understand why people travel from all over the world to eat here. This is a woman who has spent two decades getting one thing exactly right, and it shows.
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