MP's PLEA FOR D'OYLY CARTE.

From: Birmingham Evening Mail (England) | Date: April 1, 1998 | Copyright information

THE independent MP Martin Bell and a Tory peer today joined forces in an unusual Parliamentary move to save the Midland-based D'Oyly Carte opera company.

Mr Bell was calling in the Commons for the Arts Council to permanently support the ...

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