Dame Patricia Routledge  died on 3 October 2025. She has rightly had many obituaries in the press, and it's wonderful to see how she was respected and loved. We've lost a National Treasure. Dame Patricia has taken an active interest in our association for years now, and she was corresponding right up until the last few months of her life. Our Patricia Routledge competition ran this July, and she was keen to know the details, and wanted to know how it had gone. She has very generously...

AESS is very sad to hear of the recent death of Cleo Laine .   Dame Cleo was, of course, a legend of song and music theatre, well-known...

"Our organisation runs five competitions over the year, and I am very proud to present five winners from this year's competitions. These...