Robert Herring (Robert Herring Williams, b. 13 May 1903–1975) was a Welsh writer and poet, remembered as an early film critic and editor of the literary magazine, Life and Letters To-day. His father, Arthur, made a substantial fortune in business in South Africa but died in England whilst Herring was still a child. An elder brother remained in South Africa to manage the family interests but Robert and his mother stayed in Britain. Herring was a cousin of the British writer, translator and polymath Edward Heron-Allen. He was educated at Clifton College, Bristol and later Tonbridge School, in Kent. At Clifton he was a protege of R.P. Keigwin. Herring would remain friendly with his former tutor for the rest of Keigwin's life. He then took a second class degree in the English Tripos at Kings College, Cambridge, where his tutor was F.L. Lucas, graduating in 1924. He associated with the "Bright Young Things" in mid 1920s London, being friends with Inez Holden, and invited to Elizabeth Ponsonby's notorious "Bath and Bottle Party" of 13 July 1928. For most of the late 1920s and 1930s Herring lived in a large new apartment at 1 Irvine Court, Porchester Terrace, to the north of Hyde Park, sharing it with his mother, a maid and a chauffeur. The building was destroyed in 1940 by a direct hit during the Blitz, a few months after his mother's death from illness. In June 1937 Herring had moved to 52, Upper Cheyne Row, in Chelsea, sharing it until early 1938 with a friend, Johnny Cole, a 22 year old former officer in the Grenadier Guards. He began his writing career with a whimsical, fictional travelogue set in Andorra, The President’s Hat (1926) whilst also undertaking editorial work and introductions for a series of new editions of Restoration comedies for the highly reputable publisher Macmillan, starting with The School for Scandal in 1927. His talent was attractive enough for him to be contracted to the literary agency Curtis Brown, and his second book, the satire Adam and Eve at Kew, or, the Revolt in the Gardens, written in late 1926, would eventually appear in early 1930 with illustrations by the fashionable young artist Edward Bawden. Early in his career, Herring worked for the publisher Allen & Unwin. He was assistant editor of The London Mercury from 1925 to 1928 and a regular contributor, particularly of film criticism, until the journal was sold to new owners in 1934 and J.C. Squire ceased to be editor. At the same time he contributed film criticism regularly to the magazine Drawing and Design: The Magazine of Taste, up to 1929. He became film critic at The Manchester Guardian in mid 1928, being one of the newspaper's best paid freelance contributors for several years. From 1932 onwards he reviewed ballet for the newspaper. He also became London Correspondent for the film magazine Close Up, contributing 38 feature articles between late 1927 and 1933, making him the journal's third most prolific contributor behind the editor Kenneth Macpherson and Oswell Blakeston. He was a regular contributor of talks about the cinema for the BBC and was published several times in The Listener, included two specially commissioned pieces, which were rare in a journal whose content had to be almost wholly the transcripts of earlier broadcasts. On several occasions the BBC considered hiring Herring as its contracted film correspondent. In 1938 he became film critic of the Glasgow Herald. Herring also delivered what was almost certainly the first official lecture on cinema at Cambridge University, on 13 August 1934. He took over editorship of Life and Letters in 1935, when it was purchased by Bryher, and held it for about 15 years, working initially with Dorothea Petrie Townsend, an old school friend of Bryher's who was a highly experienced editor with commercial magazines. The magazine's title was modified to Life and Letters To-day, the content of the magazine changed radically, with a large film section being included, directly under Herring's control, and the circulation expanded.The first issue featured the following articles : Mary Butts - "The Guest" Murray Constantine - "The Power of Merlin" H. D. - "The Dancer" Havelock Ellis- "Rousseau To-day" Kenneth Macpherson - "Out of the Air" Lotte Reiniger - "Bristol" Gertrude Stein - "English and American Language in Literature" The issue also included contributions by Sergei M. Eisenstein, André Gide, Horace Gregory, Osbert Sitwell and Eric Walter White. White's essay was probably the first substantial critique of Bertolt Brecht published in English. It continued to publish major figures, including Henry Miller and Dylan Thomas. The title of the magazine was Life and Letters Today, but reverted to its pre-Bryher title, Life and Letters, when the publication took over the London Mercury and Bookman titles during World War Two. Herring became close friends of the Pool Group (H.D., Bryher and Kenneth Macpherson), having associated with them since their interest in experimental film in the late 1920s. Herring played the pianist in Macpherson’s avant-garde production, Borderline (1930). Herring died in a fire at his home in Cambridge in 1975, which destroyed his personal archive.

Kashmir Solidarity Day (Urdu: یوم یکجہتی کشمیر‎) or Kashmir Day, is a national holiday in Pakistan and also observed by Kashmiri nationalists on 5 February each year. It is in observance of Pakistan's support of and unity with the people of Indian-administered Kashmir, the nationalists' efforts to separate from India, and to pay homage to Kashmiris who have died in the conflict. Solidarity rallies are held in , Pakistan and by Mirpuri Kashmiris in the United Kingdom.
Kashmir Solidarity Day (Urdu: یوم یکجہتی کشمیر‎) or Kashmir Day, is a national holiday in Pakistan and also observed by Kashmiri nationalists on 5 February each year. It is in observance of Pakistan's support of and unity with the people of Indian-administered Kashmir, the nationalists' efforts to separate from India, and to pay homage to Kashmiris who have died in the conflict. Solidarity rallies are held in , Pakistan and by Mirpuri Kashmiris in the United Kingdom. Kashmir Day was first proposed by Qazi Hussain Ahmad of the Jamaat-e-Islami party in Pakistan in 1990. In 1991, the then-Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif called for a "Kashmir Solidarity Day Strike". Sharif had come to power with the help of Jamaat the previous year. The 1991 event still a Jamaat affair. The present Kashmir Solidarity Day was started by the Pakistan minister of Kashmir Affairs and Northern Areas in 2004.