The Thicket

An art gallery opened on Saturday at ‘The Thicket’, to raise funds for the Norwood Library, Crystal Palace.

Lightbox, a local developer, in conjunction with Bigger Picture Gallery organised the art exhibition to re-develop a former local pub, ‘The Thicket’ and raise funds for the greatly underfunded Upper Norwood Joint Library.
Neville De Souza, Director of Lightbox and a resident of Gipsy Hill said: “Lightbox is donating the exhibition space free to the local artists and twenty-five percent from the artwork sold goes to the Upper Norwood Joint Library, Westow Hill, Crystal Palace”.

“We raised funds to acquire the old pub – ‘Thicket Tavern’  which was in a dilapidated state and keep it as one of the edifices in our community. We have applied for it to be listed as a national structure. This present effort is a show of our commitment to community development and creating an avenue for local artists to make good money for their quality works’’ he noted.

De Souza added: “This is an opportunity to showcase some of the best talents we got from the thriving artistic community in Crystal Palace and the surrounding areas. Members of the public would  have the opportunity to meet the artists”.

Edward Robert
Art Gallery Visitor

Edward Robert, 81, a resident of Crystal Palace and a visitor at the exhibition said: “ I am entirely supportive and grateful for the development here. I just hope it would last, because it would be most disappointing to find a pub taking over The Thicket again”.

The artists exhibiting include; Angelique Hartigan, Michael Burles, Roy Peterson, Amanda Bracken, Staffan Gnosspelius, Liz Charsley-Jory, Dan McDermott, Tim Goffe and Guy Beggs.

L-R:
Liz Charsley-Jory and
Tim Goffe (Artists)

Angelique Hartigan, one of the founders of Bigger Picture Gallery said: “We are delighted to work with Lightbox to launch its latest project on Anerley Hill – The Thicket. We are also very pleased to support our much loved local library”.

“We will assist in sustaining a significant arts movement and hope to return our local area to the cultural destination that it once was” Hartigan added.

Robert Gibson, representing of the Upper Norwood Library Campaign said: “This is a very generous initiative from a community orientated developer and our local artists. Crystal Palace is very proud of its unique independent library which serves all five boroughs of Crystal Palace”.

Gibson acknowledged that the entire community has rallied round to protect the Norwood Library. “Local musicians have already raised money for the library and now our artists. It makes me very proud to be a resident of Crystal Palace” he said.

Artworks on exhibition at The Thicket, Anerly Hill, Crystal Palace.

The gallery is open to the public free, from 10am to 4pm on Saturdays and Sundays from June 15 until August 11.

Pic: Fin Fahey

“There was a tidal wave of gay pop music in 1984, the charts were the gayest ever,” said Alex Petridis, Music Editor as the Guardian at the Stoke Newington Literary festival on Sunday.

In a “Juke Box Fury” discussion hosted by Richard Boon, a panel of guest judges Petridis and the contributors Jude Rogers, columnist and music writer for The Guardian and Observer, Peter Paphides, previous chief rock critic of The Times, and Dorian Lynsky, a music writer for the Guardian, all discussed their music inspirations.

Boy George, Mark Almond, Pet Shop Boys, Bronski Beats, Adam Ant were amongst some of the icons whose highly sexualised lyrics were discussed. Pop music was perceived by the panel as “ambitious” in desensitising the public and breaking the social stigma around the gay community.

Prolific artist Adam Ant’s bondage stage routines, and subversive sexual interests in sexual behaviours ranging from transvestism, voyeurism, exhibitionism, attempted to challenge traditional sexual conventions is what Petridis said made Adam Ant “fucking brilliant,” he described how he went to school in the 1980’s after watching Adam Ant on Top of the Pops to promote his claim, much to his disappointment, “[Adam Ant] was not my ticket to enormous popularity I wasn’t merely gay I was a gay lord.”

Rogers reminisced about buying Small Town Boy, a 1984 release by Bronski Beat, on a Hit 84 in a cassette shop sale at the age of 16. Rogers describes how she was unaware of the homophobic attitudes in British society due to her naivety around sexuality, “I didn’t quite understand the story behind Small Town Boy. I knew I had to work it out.”

The song narrates the story of a young man, Jimmy Somervile, leaving his “small town,” Glasgow because of his sexuality.  “Mother will never understand/ why you had to leave/ but the answers you seek will never be found at home.” Somervile’s lyrics addressed family rejection.

The panel perceived music as a “gateway into the adult world where relationships are ambiguous,” popular culture was regarded to bridge the gap between adulthood and childhood. Lynsky said, “music gave me a little glimpse into the adult world.”

Lynsky recalled how his 13 year old adolescent self was unaware of the sexual inferences in the 1987 song “Rent” by The Pet Shop Boys.  Written by the pop duo Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, the song divulges into the relationship of the submissive “rent boy” dependent on his paymaster.

John Knox, an audience memberfrom Stoke Newington said, “it was true at the time there was these people that would appear on TV and children’s programmes and they would play their music with all these sexual undertones, of gay sex and things and it would not be apparent to the hosts. There was this disconnect between how people saw these things, their beliefs and the innocence of music, without realising whom the subjects were. Looking back it was really strange.”

Popular lyrics in the 1980’s naturalized the gay experience by increasing awareness, Lynsky said, “pop music made being gay a none gay issue.”

Caitlin Moran Pic: ELL

Women are made to feel like a problem, feminist author Caitlin Moran told her audience at the Stoke Newington Literary Festival last weekend.

The talk was the first memorial event in honour of Mary Wollstonecraft, the 18^th century feminist writer who lived and worked in the area. Wollstonecraft argued in her time that women are not naturally inferior to men, but only appeared to be because they lacked education.

Anna Birch, the host of the event, wanted to raise awareness about a project aiming to build a memorial statue of Mary Wollstonecraft, or “the mother of British feminism.” “She married William Goodwin and gave birth to Mary Shelley who went on to write Frankenstein. The significance of this woman is not in doubt, this woman is a world leader.” said Birch.

Mary Wollstonecraft. Pic: Wikipedia

Feminist writer Suzanne Moore who interviewed Moran about her book, How To Be A Woman asked, “you are not very angry in the book. Was that a strategy?” “Very much” Moran said, “I don’t want to argue with anyone at all. I just want to convince people, I want people to hear me, and I want to change their minds.”

”If you write with anger, people will just respond with anger.” she added. Discussing how people might be looking at the word ‘feminism’ as something negative, Moran said, “if we would stop talking about ‘feminist issues’ and start talking about ‘problems of humanity’ then that would make a massive difference.”

Moran said, “when you open a woman’s magazine, it tells us; ‘Hello, really disgusting person! I got 374 suggestions on how you can use money, time and pain on becoming… marginally better!’” “Mens magazines, on the other hand, are like ‘TITS! YAAAY!’” she added.

Caitlin Moran and Suzanne Moore, representing modern British feminism. Pic: ELL

 Moran explained that feminism “means being equal to men. That’s all that feminism means. And if you believe in that, then you are a feminist.” She maintained that if someone would say to her that they were not a feminist, she would get quite “edgy”.

Topics like equality, abortion, myths, body issues, parenting and menstruation were all discussed during the event. Whilst Moran and Moore discussed modern feminism in a fresh and quirky matter, the audience responded with applause and good-humoured laughter.

The event sold out and approximately 500 people attended, where about 100 of them queued to get Caitlin Moran’s autograph after the talk ended.

Caitlin Moran signing books. Pic: ELL

Sam Van-Rood, 39, from Bethnal Green, said, “she is even smarter and better in real life. She is an entertainer.” Rowena Cox-Willmott, 21, from Stoke Newington, agreed, “she is a bit like a religion, she is fantastic!”

“She is a very important woman with good ideas, and I love the fact that she’s an entertainer” said Han Ates, 44, owner of a local restaurant which supported the festival.

To read ELL’s exclusive preview of the festival, click here.

Dee Kartier, Joivan Wade and Percelle Ascott Pic: Lucy Johnson

East London Lines went to Lewisham to interview the team behind “Mandem On The Wall”,  featured in the E4 series Youngers.

Youngers, a Peckham-based comedy drama series, which finished broadcasting on E4 in May 2013, follows the story of two sixteen year olds aiming to become the next big thing in urban music.

The series, created by Benjamin Kuffuor and Levi David Addai, is inspired by the mainstream success of British urban music. The popularity of London based artists such as Dizzee Rascal and Tinie Tempah became inspiration and models for Youngers lead characters Jay and Yemi.

Viewers of the show will also be familiar with the three local boys who sit on the estate wall in each episode, and animatedly discuss Jay and Yemi’s latest news.

The three were not cast together by chance. After establishing and developing the Brockley-based YouTube series Mandem On The Wall, they were suggested for the show by Addai, after he had watched and followed the online series.

The ten episode long Mandem On The Wall web series revolves around the lives of the three young men and the wall in Vulcan Road, Brockley, where they meet. The episodes also see the group taken away from the safety of their wall, and follows them into a number of strange adventures.

Dee Kartier plays wildcard Yungah Baker, Joivan Wade takes the role of ringleader Failia and Percelle Ascott plays sweetheart Yungah Baby Tinie Winie.

Releasing their first online episode on December 24, 2011 the series has proved popular with young viewers with an increasing viewership alongside the E4 broadcast.

The channel has already amassed over 30,000 subscribers and their videos have had over 2.5 million views.

The web series has also branched its own video spin offs on the MOTW YouTube channel, including music videos to short comedy skits, which are set to be released soon.

The interview coincided with the release of the Mandem On The Wall App -now  available on iPhone and Android, which aims to keep fans updated with the latest content and news from the MOTW team.

Mandem On The Wall also shared their successes and their plans for the future, including the possibility of one day owning a Wayans Brothers-style media empire.

There’s no denying the entrepreneurial and creative spirit in this team. Wade, Ascott and Kartier have also branched out to found entertainment company JPD3 Entertainment, first formed in September 2012.

For those who want to follow in the footsteps of Mandem On The Wall, Wade suggests: “Don’t shy away from having a team, because you will get to a certain point where you cannot do it yourself and you need people around you.”

The three guys are certain there is nothing they would rather be doing.

“There’s something that we say as a team, and it can sound quite extreme but it’s what we believe in. If we’re not doing what we love every day it feels like we’re dying.”

“It’s that painful, sickening sort of feeling – I’m drowning if I can’t do what I love” – said Ascott.

Director Freddie Osborne is the man responsible for bringing together the finished product. He is also an independent film-maker with his own company, Fredeo Films.

Osborne delivers wise words to those striving for success: “Grab hold of your goal and don’t let go, I think that’s the best piece of advice I’ve been given really. Just when you feel like you can’t hold on any more, hold it tighter.”

Listen here for the audio of the East London Lines interview with the team involved with Mandem On The Wall.

Follow Mandem On The Wall on Twitter or subscribe to their YouTube channel to keep up to date with the latest episodes.

Attendees at a previous edition of the Stoke Newington Literary Festival Pic: Stoke Newington Literary Festival

A host of literary and cultural figures will be taking part in this week’s “biggest ever” Stoke Newington Literary Festival, which opens today.

Liz Vater, festival director, said “The tickets for the major events sold out instantly.”  And EastLondonLines has two pairs of free tickets to give away to two of the top events taking place next weekend.

The festival audience has also become much wider in comparison to previous years. The reach has increased from local boroughs of Hackney and Islington to Greater London and even from outside the capital with attendees coming from Portsmouth, Cambridge and Leeds.

Vater said: “A lady even drove all the way from Bedfordshire to book the Mark Billingham event.” Billingham is one of the UK’s most acclaimed and popular crime writers.

This year’s eclectic programme of over 90 speakers will include Irvine Welsh, John Niven, Caitlin Moran and Suzanne Moore.

Irvine Welsh, the author of Trainspotting and the director of the new film Filth that comes out this summer, will be host a conversation with John Niven in the Stoke Newington Town Hall on Monday. Niven is a best selling novelist and a good friend of Welsh, both of them are also self-appointed twitter tennis commentators.

Vater thanks a lucky coincidence for putting her in touch with Welsh – “Back in March I tweeted a photograph of Clissold Park looking beautiful on a sunny day and Irvine replied saying “Ah Stokey, how I miss you”.

Welsh was himself a resident of Stoke Newington where Vater said he used to develop properties.

Another highlight at the festival is writer and Times columnist Caitlin Moran, “A fascinating commentator on modern feminism”, in conversation with Suzanne Moore, the award-winning columnist for the Guardian. The event “has gone like gangbusters and was sold out in 24 hours” according to Vater.
Vater’s personal favorite is “a cult event of the festival”, Juke Box Fury, that will take place on June 9 at Stoke Newington Town Hall.

The host of Juxe Box Fury is “the world’s coolest librarian” Richard Boon, who used to manage the Buzzcocks and now works in the Stoke Newington Library. He will bring a panel of music writers together to play the track that inspired them to start writing about music.

Another one of Vater’s special picks is the event by Martin Rowson, a cartoonist for the Guardian, who “writes a political story every day in one picture”. Rowson was ‘Cartoonist laureate’ for London when Ken Livingstone was the mayor and he was paid a salary of one pint of London Pride per year.
This year Rowson hosts a “fantastic foul-mouthed hilarious event about 37 thousand years of visual satire.”

Stoke Newington has got a history of writers going back to Daniel Defoe and Edgar Allan Poe.

Vater has lived in Stoke Newington for 25 years and was inspired to start Stoke Newington festival when she visited the Henley Literary Festival with her husband who is a writer.

“It was like a bolt came down from the sky” Vater remembers, as she thought “Why on earth is there no literary festival in Stoke Newington? And so here we are, four years in.”

Eastlondonlines has two pairs of free tickets for Juke Box Fury and Martin Rowson events this weekend to give away in a prize draw. Just email your contact details to ‘news@eastlondonlines.co.uk’ including a mobile telephone number before 9am on Thursday.  

Juke Box Fury - 18:00 Sunday, Stoke Newington Town Hall

Martin Rowson - 17:00 Saturday, Library Gallery

For more information on the events visit Stoke Newington Literary Festival website :

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Digital Shoreditch Festival predicts what the future holds for East London Pic: Natalia Talkowska

A new website/app from Transport for London and a free pop-up university are just two of the many glimpses into the not-so-distant future that are currently on display at Digital Shoreditch.

From Monday May 20, thousands of techies, entrepreneurs and investors are gathering in Shoreditch Town Hall for the third annual Shoreditch Digital Festival.

The festival is the culmination of an all-year round celebration of the technical and creative talent of East London, specifically the Tech City area between the Olympic Park in Stratford and Old Street in Shoreditch.

The offices of several technology giants like Facebook and Google, alongside more than 500 small and medium enterprises, are currently located in Tech City.

One of the presentations that was surrounded by a lot of buzz on the opening day was that of the City Unrulyversity -  a free pop-up university in the heart of Tech City.

It is a collaboration between City University and Unruly, a video technology company, aimed at combining “Academic rigour and a commitment to pushing the boundaries of knowledge with practical relevance from the world of business.”

The idea for #cityunruly is to do something different through a partnership between cass business school and unruly twitter.com/CityUnruly/sta…

— City Unrulyversity (@CityUnruly) May 20, 2013

Transport for London was also at Digital Shoreditch to launch an exclusive sneak peak of their new website and accompanying app, which were very well received.

Many participants as well as speakers at Digital Shoreditch expressed their enthusiasm for the new app on Twitter. Alex Shebar, Yelp London Community Manager and speaker at the festival wrote:

The new @tflofficial app looks fantastic, and the video that goes along with it is pretty damn adorable. #ds13 twitter.com/yelplondon/sta…

— Alex S (Yelp!) (@yelplondon) May 20, 2013

Besides celebrating the many technology-based start-ups, the festival can also be seen as a tribute to the development of East London in general.

In April this year, Mayor of London, Boris Johnson pledged to boost tech investment through a £22m start-up fund focused on financing tech startups as well as helping other creative industries beyond technology.

Gordon Innes, CEO of London & Partners, the official promotional organisation for London, said “The amazing growth that has taken place in east London over the last few years has been significant to the city’s economy and reputation. Without a doubt London’s success is being driven by centres of excellence such as Tech City, and forms a key part of London’s business future.”

Kam Star, who founded Digital Shoreditch, told Tech City News that the growth of tech initiatives in Hackney has actually been a challenge for the festival in terms of staying relevant when there are so many other offers in the area.

“We need to keep finding interesting ways to engage the community, that’s the real challenge. How do we stay relevant? The only way we can do this is through our crowd. (…) Digital Shoreditch is a community thing. Everything I do is based on the feelings, the emotions, the direction I’m getting from the rest of the community.”

The festival will run from May 20-31 and is expected to attract around 15,000 UK and international visitors.

Two winners shortlisted Pic: Saskia Black

Students at Hackney Community College have been shortlisted for their anti-smoking film What Will You Do About It? for the National Cut Film Festival awards.

The Cut Film project aims to dissuade young people from smoking.

It was started by the Deborah Hutton Campaign group, a peer to peer smoking prevention charity, in memory of Vogue journalist Deborah Hutton who died of lung cancer aged 49 from smoking in her teens and early adulthood.

Riad Ahmed, 17, and Dushane Ashani Brown, 17, told East London Lines that they “didn’t have the words” to describe how excited and proud they were to have their talent recognised by being shortlisted.

Riad wrote the film  from the perspective of a cigarette, acting was by Dushane. They both hope to pursue careers in the creative industries.

As part of the festival, Cut Films gave 10 schools across Hackney training in video and film so they could learn transferable skills, as well being informed about the dangers of smoking.

The Deborah Hutton charity began the Cut Film project to inform teenagers about the dangers of smoking in a way that would attract their attention. Emma Wrafter, the charity director, said: “We wanted to target teens in a way that would engage and resonate with them and film seemed like the best option.”

The key aspect of the project is that it is teenagers telling other teenagers about the health risks from smoking, rather than adults.

Dushane thinks this approach works: “I think I’d rather learn about the danger of cigarettes from people the same age as me, because I can connect to them more easily. I think as well that teenagers are more honest; they say things from the heart and believe in what they’re saying.”

All the films are available online, which Emma Wrafter hopes will give teens the chance to “share them on social networking sites with their friends, family and local community.”

Diane Abbot, MP for Hackney, has backed the project, saying: “Hackney Cut Films Competition is an important and inspiring project, which raises awareness of the dangers of smoking, peer pressure, and the shocking effects of smoking.  It’s projects like this that are giving young people a voice.”

There will be an award ceremony at Hackney Picturehouse mid-July (date still to be confirmed) to celebrate the films made in Hackney.

Winning film to be announced at BAFTA HQ in July. Pic: Bafta

Then on July4 the students at Hackney Community College who participated in the project will attend a national award ceremony at the headquarters of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (Bafta) to find out who has won the Cut Films Festival.

Modernisation and new management plan for Croydon’s Fairfield Halls

Fairfield Halls will be working more closely together with Croydon Council in the future management of the venue. This comes after 27 million pounds has been earmarked by the council for modernisation and refurbishment.

A restoration plan for the venue, celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2012, has been on the drawing board for years, but not until now has the decision been finally implemented.

Fairfield Halls performs a key role in showcasing local amateur societies and up and coming artists. The hall has hosted many famous musicians, including a performance from the Beatles in 1963.

On top of the recent renovation funding, the halls will also receive their yearly one million pound grant as well as a further economic commitment to the musicians in residence, the London Mozart Players.

The council will be represented through membership of the Fairfield Halls which makes them able to exercise their “member’s rights” and step in should their investment be considered poorly managed.

Both Simon Thomsett, chief executive of Fairfield Halls and Simon Funnell, chief executive of the London Mozart Players have expressed their excitement about working more closely with the council in the future.

Fairfield Halls, Croydon Pic: Google

Local community groups, on the other hand, are concerned about the council having a greater role in the management of the venue.

Charlotte Davies, chair of South Croydon Community Association, said her members did not share the optimism being expressed about the future: “If anything they feel it is going to reinforce poor quality management and lack of vision”.

Councillor Tim Pollard defends the move saying that it is only in very unlikely circumstances that the council would exercise any kind of control over the running of Fairfield Halls.

The presence of the council, he says, is meant to ensure that the investment is “not spent unwisely.”

He said that the council would step in if there were financial problems, but he did not think it would come to that as “the Fairfield board are much better at running an event’s programme than the council could ever be.”

Charlotte Davies, of The South Croydon Community Association, is concerned about the lack of a buffer between the funding authority and the institution.

She fears this might have an effect on other investors in the future who may “see [Fairfield Halls and LMP] as effectively Croydon Council and therefore charities won’t fund them.”

Other concerns include affordability for local amateur societies to use, and differences of opinion about the nature of the building’s refurbishment.

Croydon Council and local residents hope the Halls can regain the reputation they had when first built in the early 1960s.

Visitors to the Halls, Frank Edwoods (67) and Trevor Baker (61) said that were a number of opportunities for improvements, such as updating the toilets and film facilities.

Councillor Pollard says the council wants the venue to be up to date for the audience and performers of today with better management and accessibility:

The modernisation would be completed faster and at a lower cost through a complete shut-down but a decision has been taken to keep two thirds of the Halls open.

“Local organisations and schools in particular use it for a lot of performance works, so it really is in the heart of the community,” the councillor says.

Reporter: Dea Cisar

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The Horniman walrus being hoisted from his ice floe
Pic: Alex Braun/Horniman Museum and Gardens

The walrus at the Horniman Museum has not moved from his artificial ice floe for more than 100 years, but this week he is leaving his long-time home and making a trip to the Kent coast for the summer.

He is going to be one of the star exhibits at the Turner Contemporary for their new show of novel and strange objects, called Curiosity: Art and the Pleasures of Knowing.

The walrus being cleaned before his trip
Pic: acapmedia/Horniman Museum and Gardens

Getting the walrus packed up and ready to go has been a sizeable operation, involving a team of about 20 people. First of all, he was cleaned last week by a specialist taxidermist. This happens annually, but he’s had an extra-special brush down this year as it is the first time he has been removed from his artificial ice floe for so long.

He has also had an X-ray, to find out what exactly is inside him. He weighs in at about a tonne, and measures roughly 2 metres long. Due to his size and weight, scaffolding had to be built within the natural history room at the Horniman to hoist him out. He was then wrapped up tight to prevent him being damaged on the journey.

The walrus is something of a unique character. He was acquired by Frederick Horniman in the 1890s from a hunter who exhibited the specimen in South Kensington.

The walrus is tucked in tight ready for the journey
Pic: Horniman Museum and Gardens

Jo Hatton is the keeper of natural history at the Horniman Museum. She says that, at the time, it was all the rage to bring exotic and interesting animals from around the world back to Britain to be displayed in museums. Frederick Horniman, Victorian tea trader and philanthropist, wanted to show off the world to the people of London.

As an exotic animal, there may have been few accurate pictorial documents of a walrus in the late Victorian period. It is thought that the taxidermist did not really know what one looked like, which is why the Horniman’s specimen has been over-stuffed.

Hatton explained that the walrus is something of a mascot for the museum, and that visitors hold him dear to their hearts.

“People do come back and see him over and over again,” Hatton said, “And people remember him and reminisce about him quite fondly.”

The Horniman have kept a blog of the progress of moving their walrus, with sketches to explain the logistics.

The natural history exhibit at the museum will re-open on Thursday, and there will be a replacement sculpture to fill the empty space.

The walrus will return in September, well-rested.

Goldsmiths celebrated student music at Pure Gold Pic: © Brett Ashley Bridges / Eleven|5

The South Bank Centre resonated with the music of emerging artists on the evening of Thursday, May 9, for the double-launch of Pure Gold and NX Records. Final year undergraduates and alumni from the Department of Music at Goldsmiths, University of London took to the stage across three venues to showcase their talent.

The Front Room of the Queen Elizabeth Hall featured acts from NX Records and the Popular Music programme at Goldsmiths, whilst the Purcell Room was host to a range of classical musicians and vocalists. Artists from the Electronic Music Studios in the department took over the darkened main Queen Elizabeth Hall for an evening of experimental electronic music and sonic art.

NX Records was launched in collaboration with Accidental Records.  They released an online mixtape as part of the launch. Matthew Herbert, founder of Accidental, spoke at the event. He said he was excited about collaborating with Goldsmiths:

“The impetus maybe is to make great things rather than to make great money. Not that the two are inseparable, of course.

“The exciting thing for me really is thinking about… giving the artists creative control, but also helping them to own their own music, to make informed business decisions about themselves.

“I’m just very happy to be part of the next generation and to be able to support exciting new music.”

The Pure Gold festival of music is taking place in Deptford and New Cross over the next six weeks.

Watch a slideshow featuring music and interviews with artists performing at the event below:

Reporting by Dennis Funk & Sean Mullervy