The marshes are one of the last examples of semi-natural wetland in Greater London. They contain many plants such as neutral grassland types, sedge marsh, reed swamp, sallow scrub and areas of tall herb vegetation. Plants and animals that are rare in other parts of London live here.
Plants
Many species of plants are in the marsh including:
Butterflies
Birds
Armando Uribe
Armando Uribe Arce (28 October 1933 – 22 January 2020) was a Chilean writer, poet, lawyer and diplomat. He was born in Santiago. He served as Chile's ambassador to the People's Republic of China from 1971 to 1973. He published many works on politics, religion, criminal law and mining. He was a member of the Chilean Academy of Language and the Royal Spanish Academy. Uribe won his country's National Prize for Literature in 2004.
Uribe died on 22 January 2020 in Santiago. He was 86.
The Stage
The Stage is a British weekly newspaper and website about theatre. It was first printed in 1880. It contains news, reviews, opinion, features, and job adverts, for people who work in theatre and the performing arts.
The first edition of "The Stage" was published (under the title "The Stage Directory – a London and Provincial Theatrical Advertiser") on 1 February 1880 at a cost of 3 old pence for twelve pages. Publication was monthly until 25 March 1881. It was then printed weekly. The name was shortened to "The Stage" and the publication numbering restarted at number 1.
"The Stage" competed with other theatre newspapers (including "The Era"). The price was dropped to one penny and was soon the only remaining theatre newspaper.
The newspaper has remained in family ownership. Upon the death in 1937 of Charles Carson's son Lionel, who had assumed the joint role of managing director and editor, control passed to the Comerford family. The current managing director, Hugh Comerford, is founder Maurice's great-grandson.
In 1959 "The Stage" was changed to "The Stage and Television Today". It had a pull-out supplement of TV news and features. Derek Hoddinott, the main paper's TV editor, became editor of the new supplement.
In 1995, TV coverage was put back into the main paper. The name changed back to "The Stage".
In 2006, the paper introduced a blog on television, named "TV Today".
From 1995, the newspaper has awarded The Stage Awards for Acting Excellence at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
In 2004, 96-year-old contributor Simon Blumenfeld was recognised by "Guinness World Records" as the world's oldest weekly newspaper columnist. The column continued until shortly before his death in 2005.
In 2010, The Stage Awards were started. They are given each year. They recognise outstanding organisations working in theatre and beyond. They have the following categories: London theatre, regional theatre, producer, school, fringe theatre, theatre building, unsung hero and international.
In August 2013 "The Stage" started The Stage Castings, an online casting service with a video audition function.
In May 2019, "The Stage" partnered with the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation and UK Theatre to start Get Into Theatre, a website dedicated to theatre careers.
In 1956, writer John Osborne submitted his script for "Look Back in Anger" in response to an advertisement by the soon-to-be-launched Royal Court Theatre.
Dusty Springfield responded to an advertisement for female singers in 1958.
Harold Pinter gained his first job after responding to an advert in The Stage
In April 1981 the Editorial of The Stage announced the founding of Internationalist Theatre founded by Angelique Rockas with patron Athol Fugard implementing "a multi-racial drama policy, with an even mix of performers drawn from different cultural groups", starting with the revival of the London performance of Genet`s The Balcony.
Ricky Tomlinson responded to an ad for "United Kingdom", another "Play for Today", in 1981.
Television presenter Maggie Philbin won her first major role, as a co-presenter of "Multi-Coloured Swap Shop", after answering an advertisement in "The Stage".
A number of pop groups have recruited all or some of their members through advertisements placed in the newspaper, most notably the Spice Girls in 1994, Scooch in 1998 and 5ive in 1997.
Lee Mead got his first professional job, working on a cruise ship, through a recruitment ad in the paper.
Television presenter Ben Shephard auditioned for GMTV children's show Diggit following an advert in "The Stage". While he did not get the part, he met Andi Peters, who subsequently hired him for the Channel 4 youth strand T4.
Charles Dance landed his first role in a Welsh theatre after seeing an advert in The Stage.
Alexandra Burke stated in an interview her family purchased the paper to find auditions when she was starting out: "My mum used to buy "The Stage" all the time for auditions for me. That’s how I got to go on [BBC TV talent show] "Star for a Night" with Jane McDonald."
Olivier Award-winning actor Sharon D Clarke found her first role at Battersea Arts Centre through an audition advert in the paper.
Lisa Scott-Lee revealed pop band Steps were formed through an advert in The Stage.
Sir Michael Caine stated in an interview with Steve Wright on BBC Radio 2 that at the beginning of his career he applied for acting roles he found in The Stage newspaper
The paper's full content from 1880-2007 is available digitally via subscription.
Screen One
Screen One is a British television anthology drama series, produced by BBC Studios and distributed by BBC Worldwide. It was shown on BBC1 between 1989 and 1998. Sixty films were made over six series. Some were shown as stand-alone specials.
The BBC's "Play for Today" ran from 1970 to 1984. After it ended, Kenneth Trodd was asked to make a new series of one-off television dramas. These became "Screen Two". They were shown on BBC2 in 1985. "Play for Today" had often been a studio-based form of theatre on television. "Screen Two" was shot entirely on film.
In 1989, the series was adapted for more mainstream audiences on BBC1 as "Screen One". It followed the lead taken by Channel 4, whose television films had later been released in Cinemas. "Screen One" had actors familiar to television and film audiences, including Alfred Molina, Sean Bean, David Thewlis, Ray Winstone, Alan Bates, Judi Dench, James Fox, Keith Allen, Bob Peck, Alun Armstrong, Marina Sirtis, David Jason, Brenda Blethyn, James Bolam, Adrian Edmondson, Alison Steadman, Timothy West, Clive Russell and Janet McTeer. Several actors also made their on-screen debuts during the series, including Keira Knightley in the fifth series episode "Royal Celebration".
In 1993, the BBC moved away from single dramas to make series and serials. In 1994, "Screen One" was a six-episode series. This was the last full-length series of "Screen One". Eight one-off specials followed. The last one was shown on 15 February 1998.
Ewen Bremner
Ewen Bremner is a Scottish actor. He is best known for his role as Daniel "Spud" Murphy in "Trainspotting" (1996) and its sequel "T2 Trainspotting" (2017). His other credits include "Naked" (1993), "Snatch" (2000), "Pearl Harbor" (2001), "Black Hawk Down" (2001), "Alien vs. Predator" (2004) and "Wonder Woman" (2017).
Bremner was born in Portobello, Edinburgh. He has a daughter with actress Marcia Rose.
Irvine Welsh
Irvine Welsh (born 27 September 1958) is a Scottish writer. He is a novelist, playwright and short story writer. He is best known for his novel "Trainspotting" (1993). It was made into a 1996 movie of the same name. He has also written novels such as "Filth" (1998), "Glue" (2001), "Porno" (2002), "The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs" (2006), "Crime" (2008), "Skagboys" (2012) and "The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins" (2014).
Welsh was born in Leith, Edinburgh. He has been married twice. Both marriages ended in divorce. He lives in the United States.
Robert Carlyle