Ronnie Byrne

With just days to go before The Hunchback of Notre Dame opens to the public, The Lincolnite went behind-the-scenes to speak to the stars of the show.

The production, performed by The Starring Lincoln Theatre School, launches on May 23 and runs until June 4.

The Lincolnite Podcast host Ronnie Byrne took the short walk to the cathedral to speak to the two biggest stars of the show; Indrija Kustov, playing Esmeralda, and 20-year-old Andre Buhagiar, playing the role of Quasimodo.

Ronnie also caught up with creative director Ben Poole, to talk about the challenges of putting a show of this scale into place.

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Tickets are still available for the show, and can be purchased on the Lincoln Cathedral website.

After garnering media attention from around the world, residents of Grantham have had their say on the new Margaret Thatcher statue.

The Lincolnite Podcast host Ronnie Byrne travelled to the Iron Lady’s birthplace to ask passers-by what they made of the £300,000 memorial.

Of the 17 people asked, all 17 supported the statue as a tribute to the former prime minister’s legacy, but only three were willing to express their views in a recorded format.

While the new erection was gauged by all as a fitting memorial to Thatcher’s legacy, not all assessments were without complaint, with one person describing it as “a bit boring”.

Another was shocked the figure was missing her signature handbag.

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The statue has been the subject of international headlines this week, after footage appeared online of a man launching eggs at the effigy, just hours after its installation.

The man was later identified as 59-year-old Jeremy Webster, the deputy director of the Attenborough Arts Centre at the University of Leicester.

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