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Summer and snow? It’s just a great mash up

6:00am Thursday 16th May 2013

WHO would have thought a couple of extreme metalheads and two acoustic singer-songwriters would get together to create an exotic bluesy rock sound.

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My singing break was a fairytale

9:00am Thursday 2nd May 2013

SHE made her name playing characters like Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady and Elphaba in Wicked, and Kerry Ellis’s rise to stardom itself is the stuff of fairytales.

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Cheeky, charming...and yes, you do get the Full Monty

8:00am Thursday 2nd May 2013

THE story of six jobless Sheffield steel workers who shed their clothes, along with their troubles, to raise some cash by going the full monty was an instant classic when it hit screens in the Nineties.

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Dark brooding theatre from East 15

2:42pm Thursday 14th March 2013

The dense, dark, winding corridors of Gormenghast will be brought to life at Clifftown Theatre next week as East 15’s physical theatre students take on a stage adaptation of the classic novel in an ambitious production.

Changing the image of disability

10:00am Wednesday 3rd October 2012

IF there’s anyone who knows how the face of disability is evolving it’s Paralympian Hannah Stodel.

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Mike and Angela have 200 children...who live in Africa

8:00am Wednesday 3rd October 2012

MIKE and Angela King don’t have their own children – apart from their 200 kids in Africa that is.

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Olly aims to hit top with Pop

11:10am Friday 28th September 2012

AFTER narrowly missing out on the job of his dreams, Olly Pike took matters into his own hands.

They’re just not like any other pizza you’ll eat...

9:20am Wednesday 19th September 2012

ESSEX is awash with pizza parlours, but there is only one place where you can acquire authentic Sicilian pizzas – held by many, and not just the Sicilians themselves, to be the best in all Italy.

Palace players hooked on this family favourite

3:40pm Wednesday 22nd August 2012

IT’S one of the best-loved stories of all time and complete with pirates, Indians, mermaids, fairies and plenty of flying. Peter Pan will be this year’s Palace Theatre ’s Summer Youth Project.

There’s a lot of Sax Appeal for jazz fans

3:00pm Wednesday 22nd August 2012

TOP notch sax playing provides the soundtrack as the Jazz Mix kicks off its new season with a visit from Sax Appeal.