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Swanhilda in Coppelia? She refuses to put up with a love rival, goes to investigate and then runs rings around the men...

Scotland & Northern Ireland had their own separate agencies for the 2011 Census. Not sure about N.I. but there is a website for the Scottish data but being separate they don't necessarily display data in the same format as England & Wales.

Just want to point out that your choice of seeing BRB Swan Lake in January is limited to just Southampton. They were in Birmingham a couple of weeks ago.

Yes, the contrast between McRae & Kish in the same role has me intrigued too.

Yes do make full use of a Vaporetto pass. As well as the Grand Canal Janet mentioned do take one that goes up the Giudecca and around to the Station and then around Cannaregio to get a fuller picture of life in Venice. You can give the lines that go to Tronchetto a miss unless you have an interest in cruise ships and car parks. Venice is certainly small enough that you can get everywhere on foot as long as the water doesn't block you. Like Anna C we spent every evening walking around the area between St Marks and the Rialto, admittedly because our hotel was in that area. If you do go to Burano, you may as well go to Torcello as well. Not a lot at Torcello and a fairly mundane walk from the Ferry stop but it is where the original Venetians came from. You didn't want any museums, but can I put a word in for the Ca' Rezzonico. A pretty quiet museum in a very nice building, although I'm sure your guidebook will give you enough info to decide if it is your kind of thing.

Good question. You can go back 4 hours from current on the time-bar below the screen but beyond that I've not managed. The BBC Arts page that is also hosting World Ballet Day has got a small selection of earlier pieces available. It does appear that there has been a general agreement that once the day is over the footage will be available for 30 days as several ballet companies have issued PR to this effect.

Additionally a lot of ballet DVDs are in NTSC broadcast format rather than the European PAL format. There are a number of DVD players out there that are not NTSC compatible.

No, Hirata/Caley are scheduled for the Thursday evening. It is the Sakuma/Atsuji cast you are probably thinking of.

BRB rarely perform R & J, last time was 2010. Kessels was appointed by BRB as Music Director that year but he may have missed out on R & J, I can't remember. He didn't do a lot of conducting for BRB at first because he had pre-booked commitments elsewhere.

Slightly more complicated than that. Enigma has at least 3 casts. I think Kin might have as well but it's difficult to tell with names in different order and the listing not all being on one page.

I think it is just the links on BRB website to the Hippodrome that don't work. I didn't go as far as booking but the Hippodrome site seemed to be working fine, although it too is a new design!