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Art and sci-fi meet in the latest exhibition opening at Firstsite

5:20pm Sunday 20th May 2012

Firstsite’S next exhibition looks set to be out of this world.

Da Bungalow Ian is back on stage

5:10pm Sunday 20th May 2012

HAVING gunk flung at you every Saturday morning would probably not be considered a career highlight by most Rada-trained actors.

Micky is back on the road with new tour

10:10am Sunday 20th May 2012

EAST End funnyman Micky Flanagan has announced his largest UK tour.

Brian Mooney’s 1,322-mile Rome trek

10:30am Friday 18th May 2012

I WALK because I’m an anarchist and it is one of the last activities that isn’t regulated,” those are the words of award-winning journalist Brian Mooney, who travelled on foot from his home in Coggeshall to Rome.

Son Sydney Estcourt's pilgrimage to wreck of doomed M2 submarine

10:20am Friday 18th May 2012

A FORMER sailor is planning a pilgrimage to the wreck of where his father’s body still lies, 80 years after one of the Royal Navy’s worst peacetime submarine disasters.

Developing skills for success in theatre

9:00am Thursday 17th May 2012

COLCHESTER’S cutting-edge theatre company, Real Circumstance, is launching a series of artist development workshops.

Performers do battle

9:00am Thursday 17th May 2012

COLCHESTER’S got talent – and it will be on show all summer.

A parkland setting for the Bard’s finest

9:00am Thursday 17th May 2012

WHEN you have a backdrop as beautiful as Wivenhoe Park, why wouldn’t you put on an open air production?

Hidden from our tastebuds too long

9:00am Thursday 17th May 2012

WHEN I told my wife, Danielle, we were going to the Peldon Plough, her response was: “Where’s Peldon?”

Beauty found in folklore is Claire’s art inspiration

9:00am Thursday 17th May 2012

COLCHESTER artist Claire Heaton is back at Les Livres Gallery, this time with a show about English folklore.