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Direct from the Met in HD for your delectation: as part of its spring opera series, the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar presents Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda, live in HD direct from The Met in New York on Saturday, January 19 at 5.55pm. Stunning mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato takes on the virtuosic bel canto role of the doomed Mary Queen of Scots. Director David McVicar turns to the second opera of Donizetti’s Tudor trilogy, which explores regal characters at fateful moments of their lives. Elza van den Heever sings Elizabeth I, and Maurizio Benini conducts.

Now that was a sad story about the millionaire owner of the Segway company, who died after falling from cliffs while riding a Segway motorised scooter. Jimi Heselden (62) crashed into the River Wharfe while riding the vehicle round his estate in West Yorkshire last week and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Our Marble City’s 400th birthday was celebrated with a weekend of colourful and cultural activities which took place over the Easter Bank Holiday weekend at the castle.