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Hello and welcome to another great issue of EAST MAGAZINE. It’s the time of year when those who are getting married or are thinking about getting married start to plan their big day and look for inspiring ideas.

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We have a bumper 46 pages of them for you - brilliantly supported by our many advertisers. But it’s also a month for lovers and being romantic - we’ve some great suggestions for Valentine’s Day, and with our comprehensive What’s On section, you won’t be short of ideas for a night out. Enjoy! John Boston CONTACT Publisher Sean Thompson (01954 267696) sean@eastmag.com Editor John Boston john@eastmag.com Contributing Editor Emily Walter emily@eastmag.com Contributor Sarah Eddison Publishing Director Alan Goodes (01954 268129) alan@eastmag.com Area Manager (Arts/Norfolk) Charlie Roadley-Battin (07595 894578) charlie@eastmag.com Area Manager (Suffolk/Essex) Darren Marshall (07826 628680) darren@eastmag.com Area Manager (Beds/Herts) Stewart Hedges (07595 894557) stewart@eastmag.com Area Manager (Cambridgeshire) Jim Leishman (01954 267635) jim@eastmag.com CONTACT GENERAL ENQUIRIES Tel. 01954 268129 HEAD OFFICE Unit 4,Avenue Business Park, Elsworth, Cambridge, CB23 4HY ADVERTISING Production 01353 616000 ads@eastmag.com Fax 01353 616120 EDITORIAL editorial@eastmag.com Issue #69 February 2011 www.eastmag.com EAST magazine is published by Thompson Media Partners Ltd. All rights reserved. Reproduction, in part or in whole, without the written permission of the publisher is strictly prohibited. The views expressed by contributors are not necessarily those of the publisher.All times, prices and dates of events were correct at the time of going to press but readers are advised to ring and check before setting out.

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NEW Low running costs and high specifications are just two good reasons to opt for a new build home. Here’s some great developments across the region

Storey Homes is redeveloping the 1960s listed former town hall building in Ampthill, Bedfordshire. The new development will include the transformation of the Georgian style town hall building into 10,000sqft of office space.

In addition, the adjoining 1990s building will be restored to provide 26 apartments. Available properties will include a collection of one, two and three bedroom apartments with penthouses on the top floor offering exceptional views of the surrounding countryside. (01908 363411) www.storey-homes.co.uk Hunters Park is a stylish new development from Bovis Homes, in Cambourne, to the west of Cambridge. Hunters Park offers an appealing blend of 2, 3, 4 and 5 bedroom homes. Smart coach houses to 5 bedroom family houses with flexible rooms, modern facilities and acres of beautifully landscaped open spaces and woodland makes this an attractive new community. (0845 460 7243) www.bovis-new-homes.co.uk

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The Ingleton Group have developed a substantial bespoke property in the historic walled gardens of Woolvestone Hall, in a beautiful part of Suffolk. Alongside this, there is a small development of nine cottages on land adjacent to the Walled Garden, offering properties ranging from 2 to 4 bedrooms, starting at £265,000 (off plan).

(01206 321987) www.ingleton-group.co.uk

Stowmarket-based property developers, Laurence Homes, provides new homes of exceptional style set in the outstanding countryside of mid-Suffolk. Chilton Fields, on the outskirts of Stowmarket, is an imaginative concept of new houses and apartments with breathtaking country views. The Meadows is an exclusive development of luxuriously appointed properties in Debenham, comprising three, four and five bedroomed semi and detached houses. Tudor Park, in the village of Elmswell, has 24 homes, in a well balanced mix of 2, 3, and 4 bedroom houses, bungalows and chalet bungalows. (01449 771177) www.laurencehomes.co.uk

Hopkins Homes is a privately owned company at the very forefront of residential development in East Anglia, creating beautifully designed homes of character, style and substance. Two new developments have recently been launched; Bell’s Grange a select development of just 18 high specification properties in the historic market town of Bocking in Essex and Scholars’ Quarter; a highly contemporary development at the very heart of Norwich. Elsewhere, the company are currently developing in Aylsham, Costessey and Mulbarton in Norfolk, Halesworth, Harleston, Ipswich, Southwold and Walsham le Willows in Suffolk, Lawford in Essex and Soham in Cambridgeshire. Plans for 2011 see the launch of a further seven new sites, each carefully considered to cater for all market segments whilst ensuring that each individual property built is finished to an exceptionally high standard. Not one to rest on its laurels, the company remains very ambitious for the future and has embarked on a programme of significant land acquisition, carefully selecting locations that will allow it to further enhance its outstanding reputation for providing well planned homes and creating desirable communities whilst at the same time continuing to expand its horizons, moving further into Essex, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire.

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Exotic brights Think of this trend as shock therapy for the home – a guaranteed way to liven up any living room. Citrus greens, sunshine yellows, fuchsia pinks – mix and match exotic palettes and tropical hues to transform your house into an urban oasis.

Butterfly by Matthew William at Debenhams is just the thing to nail this look – with duvets from £50 and throws from £100. TK Maxx has some jewel-inspired throws from £29.99, Ebay Fashion Outlet’s spice rack (£14.95) should heat up your kitchen décor, while very.co.uk’s wall art is a fashionable finishing touch.

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There is something about a new year that brings out the nesting instinct. And as staying in is so much more stylish than going out in 2011, there’s every reason to splash out on a few new home comforts. Just think of all that money you’ve saved on drinks and taxi fares.

Follow our guide to the top three spring fashions on the home front and you’ll have the Joneses trying to keep up with you for a change.

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Debenhams Rocha.John Rocha metallic sequin cushion, £30.

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Crafty buys Thrifty chic is all about that homespun, make-do-and-mend look. But we won’t tell anyone if you stock up on a few of these stylish cheats. Take inspiration from Marks & Spencer’s new homeware range, a mix between vintage and craftinspired buys. Throw down a homely welcome mat (Ebay Fashion Outlet £14.95), and some retro cushions (House of Fraser). Then treat your guests to afternoon tea on this charming vintage teacup cake stand (Love Miss Daisy Vintage £45).

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Gilt and glamour Summon up the grand salons of old to bring some Regency-style sophistication into your humble abode. This grandiose sofa (House of Bath £324.95) sets the scene. Then just accessorise to the max with gilt mirrors (Matalan and very.co.uk) and plenty of sumptuous scatter cushions (Matalan and Rocha.John Rocha at Debenhams).

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LIVE | Motoring news News from two of the region’s top dealers in Volvo and Honda

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After over 30 years selling Honda cars in Bury St Edmunds and celebrating nearly 37 years in the industry, the John Banks Group are back in the bike business selling Honda motorcycles.

Honda is a world leader in the supply of motorcycles worldwide and will be introducing over 12 new models this year.

The Group’s credentials in the motorcycle field is immense: John Banks, former Motocross Champion, Runner-up in the World 1968, 69 twice and 4 times winner of the British Motocross Championship 1968, 69, 71, 73, and East Anglian Sports Personality of the Year 1969 is Chairman of the Group, while Mark Banks, Managing Director, also former British Motocross Champion (1988) will head the road bike division.

Elliott Banks-Browne, grandson of the Chairman will endorse the Honda brand this year being supported by DB Racing and although the branch will not be selling motocross bikes, parts can be supplied by their on-line parts division for both motocross and road bikes alike.

A huge range of bikes are currently in stock, ranging from the scooter range to the VFR1200FD models and the current promotional offers on bikes are astounding with 0% typical APR on most models including the CBR 600RR which starts from only £8,605otr.

A full stock of clothing is available and all products will be able to be purchased on line with a 10% start up discount on all clothing and accessories for new customers.

Not only are these bikes affordable, the quality and reliability is second to none.

The Volvo V60 is a totally captivating sportswagon.

Available in four trim levels and with a wide choice of petrol or diesel engines, the V60 sports wagon will start from £23,670 for the 150PS T3 ES model, rising to £38,785 for the flagship 304PS T6 AWD SE Lux Geartronic Premium model.

R-Design models, featuring more dynamic styling and chassis enhancements, will also be available from £26, 275. The new Volvo V60 features striking coupé-like lines and a pronounced wedge shape that enhances the car’s stance on the road and emphasises the dynamic design. Behind the wheel, the V60 feels every bit as taut as its design thanks to a chassis that has been tuned to match the expectations of enthusiast drivers. Six engines will be available at launch - two diesels and four petrols.

Standard equipment on all new Volvo V60 models starting with the new ES variant includes Electronic Climate Control, Cruise Control, 5" colour screen as part of the new Infotainment system, Information Centre, floor mats, Passenger Airbag CutOff Switch, steering wheel remote audio controls, alloy wheels and leather steering wheel and gear stick. In addition six-speaker Performance Sound Audio System, 16" alloy wheels and charcoal trim are also standard. Further enchancements will be found in the SE and SE LUX versions.

The UK is expected to be one of the largest markets for Volvo’s new S60 and V60 R-Design models with an expected uptake of 20%. The R-Design models feature enhanced styling and more dynamic driving characteristics than the standard cars. R-Design is available across both the S60 and V60 range - not just the higher-spec variants.

For evrything Volvo, pop in to MR King at Quay Street, Halesworth, Suffolk, call them on 01986 874464 or go to www.mrking.co.uk

Find out my by visiting John Banks Honda at Bury St Edmunds (01284 752382), Ipswich (01473 659591) or Cambridge (01223 359151). www.johnbanks.co.uk

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L VE | Food & Drink Romantic nights for Valentines

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SUTHERLAND HOUSE High Street, Southwold, Suffolk 01502 724544. Not only an excellent restaurant, but perfect for a romantic break, with beautifully furnished rooms. Valentines menu is available for £35 per person, but book early. www.sutherlandhouse.co.uk

Voted Most Romantic Restaurant in Cambridge in 2009, Restaurant Alimentum has a superb 7 course dinner for Valentines, with champagne to start, and singer Kyan Kuatois performing on the night. Call them on 01223 413000 to book.

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George Street, Woburn, Beds 01525 290441.

The 2 AA Rosette Olivier’s Restaurant at The Inn at Woburn serves contemporary English and continental cuisine in elegant surroundings.

Their Romantic Break package includes flowers, chocolates and Champagne on arrival, overnight accommodation for two guests with full English breakfast and a £35 allowance per person for dinner. www.woburn.co.uk

THE OLIVE TREE North Walsham, Norfolk 01692 404900.

Special Valentines menu (12-14 Feb) at this stylish restaurant with modern interior, sumptuous lounge and spectacular bar.

Inspired ‘bistro-gastro’ menu of contemporary English and international cuisine. www.theolivetreenorfolk.com

Pinnochio’s Italian brasserie in Norwich will be buzzing on Valentines night with its mix of great pasta, pizza and a la carte menu and live acoustic music. To book a table call 01603 613318.

BOATHOUSE RESTAURANT

Mill Lane, Dedham, Essex 01206 323153. In an enviable position on the banks of the river Stour, Cameron and Claire Marshall transformed this boatshed in 2002. Enjoy a fusion of style and flavours with items on the menu changing every 6-8 weeks. The Valentines set menu is £26.95pp, but you’ll have to wait if you want to take a boat out the 26 rowing boats are only available from Easter to Sept. www.dedhamboathouse.co.uk

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THE SWAN HOUSE Beccles, Suffolk 01502 713474.

Modern cuisine, log fires, cosy ambience... perfect for an intimate romantic dinner. Valentines night will be a three course dinner with entertainment by musical duo Penni McLaren and Bryan Causton. £28.50. www.swan-house.com

Rustle up a special Valentines cocktail for the one you love.

Aphrodite is the Greek Goddess of love and beauty, and Aprhodite’s Love Potion is an irresistable cocktail is a flavoursome cocktail perfect for romantic nights.

You need: Highball glass; 50z Pineapple Juice; dash Angostura Bitters; 1.5 oz Metaxa or Brandy; ice; slice of orange; Maraschino cherry.

To make: Pour brandy, angostura and pineapple juice into a highball glass 3/4 filled with ice. Stir well. Garnish with a maraschino cherry and an orange slice, and serve.

We’re in the mood for love More to the point, we’re in the mood for LoveFood week! Now in its third year, the theme for this year’s festival is Making the Most of Food, with a fantastic week-long programme of events.

We’ll have talks and demos from the Cambridge Cookery School, Cambridge Organic Food Company and Glebe Farm to name but a few. We’ll show how to make your food go further and introduce you to foraging! There’ll be themed days plus plenty of tastings and special offers. It’s a great chance to learn about the love that goes into the food on our shelves, with something for foodies and families alike!

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L VE | Valentine’s Day

Celebrate Valentines in style! Tarnia Robertson, Marketing Director at Best Western Ufford Park Hotel, near Woodbridge in Suffolk, says: “We have been trading for the last 17 years and every year we sell more tables - on the back of last year. This year we will have a Dinner Dance with a Michael Buble Tribute act in our largest function suite, and a romantic meal in our restaurant both on the Saturday and on Monday 14th February!

Personally, I think couples are making more effort now to stay together and having some quality time together with good food - and Valentines is the perfect excuse.” If you would like more information about the Velentines events at Ufford Park, more information is available at www.uffordpark.co.uk or call Events on 01394 383555.

Who said romance is dead? Well, most venues around the east of England would disagree - restaurants and hotels all traditionally host romantic meals or dinner dances to celebrate Valentines, year in year out successfully. There are plenty of other ways to treat the one you love, and, of course, to meet someone new...

Take a romantic private chauffeured punt to celebrate Valentine's Day. From Friday 11th to Monday 14th February, Scudamores Punting Company of Cambridge are offering couples a special rate.

Tours last 30 minutes and include a long-stemmed red rose. £65/£75. Must be pre-booked. Granta Place, Mill Lane, Cambridge (01223 359750)

Why not relive a scene from one of the most romantic films ever made.

The award-winning Brief Encounter restaurant at Wymondham Station in Norfolk pays homage to the classic 1946 film directed by David Lean and starring Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard. The restaurant serves wonderful home cooked lunches, morning coffees, and afternoon cream teas - all to be enjoyed in the surroundings of our beautifully restored and decorated original station building, built in 1845. There are wonderful displays of railwayana, potted palms and a piano. Open daily 9am-3pm. www.wymondham-station.com Sweep your partner off their feet with a wonderfully romantic night on the Suffolk coast at The Brudenell Hotel, Aldeburgh. Stay in one of the beautiful Superior Sea View Rooms on either 13th or14th February and they’ll treat you to afternoon tea for two on the day of your arrival, as well as luxury toiletries, a fruit basket and a box of Hotel Chocolat chocolates in your room. You will also enjoy dinner for two in the AA two rosette restaurant, served with a bottle of house red or white wine and there’ll be a rose for your loved one. Start the following morning with a decadent Champagne breakfast for two served in the cosiness of your bedroom. £199. (01728 452071) www.brudenellhotel.co.uk 28

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Why not treat your Valentine to some Oysters and Champagne?

That’s the new chocloate collection from the UK’s top cocoa grower and chocolatier, Hotel Chocolat. Better still, why not buy from the place where they are made - Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire! The Hadley Park manufacturing base in Redwongs Way now has its own shop that sells a limited range of Hotel Chocolat products, all at a special 5% discount (Tel. 01480 433281). These are milk chocolate oyster shells filled with praline and melt in the mouth champagne truffles make this a classical and decadent Valentines - also available at stores in Cambridge; Lakeside Shopping Centre, Thurrock, Essex; Milton Keynes; Norwich; and St Albans. Buy online at www.hotelchocolat.co.uk

Enjoy an evening of fun and romance at the popular annual Valentine’s Ball at Stoke by Nayland, Hotel Golf and Spa, Leavenheath, Colchester, Essex on Saturday 12th February.

Tickets are £39.50 and include a welcoming glass of Bucks Fizz, a delicious 3 course dinner and dancing to live band ‘The Untitled’. Dress code is Lounge Suits or Black Tie. To book tickets call Abbey or Debbie on 01206 265837/818.

If you’ve yet to meet the love of your life, then you might want to consider joining a singles club. Across the Room organises a range of events across Essex, Suffolk and Herts that allow you to meet new people, enjoy fabulous dinner parties and dance the night away in a relaxed social setting.

Events include disco party nights, dinner dances and black tie balls. The club also has a Dating Agency, a personalised introduction service where Imembers can be offered tailor-made one-to-one dates. If the idea makes you nervous, don;t worry becuase Across the Room make the whole process very relaxed and will quickly put you at ease. For full details about the club call 01449 722800 or visit www.acrosstheroom.co.uk Years of history and the chic yet sympathetic refurbishment of a traditional watermill combine to offer an exceptional experience at Tuddenham Mill. Situated on the Suffolk/ Cambridgeshire border, in between Newmarket and Bury St Edmunds, it is the perfect romantic rural retreat. If you’re looking for something more than the usual boutique hotel or restaurant, then you may have found it.A unique environment, a genuine passion for great food and wine, the ultimate in bedroom comforts and discreet yet attentive service. (01638 713552) www.tuddenhammill.co.uk

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hen not catering for Her Majesty the Queen and her guests at various events at Sandringham House, and overseeing the Café, tearoom and coffee shop for visitors to Sandringham, Deborah Steward Catering make simply delicious food for dinner parties, birthday parties, christenings, weddings and shooting lunches. Based at Houghton St.Giles near Walsingham, in North Norfolk, they can provide the complete dining service with a chef and waiting staff for a dinner party, organise a marquee for several hundred, and even set up a ‘field kitchen’ on site.

Deborah heads up the food; planning menus, prepping, and overseeing her ‘great team’ of loyal staff, and Kevin is, as he says, “Front of House, and very much head of ‘logistics’,” a somewhat daunting task when you are catering for up to 700 guests at one time, like they did last summer for the Mermaid Ball, at Burnham Overy Staithe in North Norfolk, which raised

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Deborah and Kevin love the variety of their work, “It keeps it interesting,” says Deborah, with summer being busy with weddings, parties and charity events, and winter more likely to be drinks parties and smaller dinners.

“If it was back to back weddings we would soon be on our knees, the diversity keeps us fresh, we`re like butterflies; we flit all over the place!”.

Having worked for the Royal Family at Sandringham for over 7 years, they were thrilled in December 2009 to be granted a Royal Warrant for Event Catering and Management,

a great honour. (They are also thrilled about the impending Royal wedding!)

“Our Royal Warrant a bit like a Michelin Star for us”, says Kevin, “as unlike restaurants and hotels, outside caterers don’t have a star grading so to speak, and it was lovely that so many people said that we deserved it.”

Deborah admits that although she and Kevin are the ‘figureheads’ of the business, it is all those who work for them that deserve praise as well. “We are very aware that they give up their weekends and evenings to work for us and we couldn’t do our job without them, we are very much a team, so it’s good to have been recognised.

Deborah’s hot picks for Canapes this year Tiny choux puffs filled with Norfolk crab mousse Warm quails egg and mushroom tartlets Mini chipolatas glazed with Walsingham honey and whole grain mustard Seared beef skewers with warm Binham Blue cheese dip Baby smoked haddock fishcakes with caper and parsley crème fraiche Sweet red onion and thyme tatins Pea, pear and Wighton cheese crostini Filo baskets filled with pink duck breast, watercress and apple jelly.

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The warrant is an accreditation of quality.”

Deborah and Kevin are keen to champion local food, taking advantage of all the lovely fish, meat, fruit and vegetables that Norfolk has to offer. Their meat comes from Graves Butchers, fish from Coles in Kings Lynn, vegetables from McArthys, and soft fruit from Sharrington.

Deborah’s father also has his own allotment in Fakenham, and so they get the pick of the crop from there, as well as trout from his fishing trips down by the river.

They make all their own bread, as well as yummy pickles, chutneys and jellies. They are

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allowed to use the apples etc. from Sandringham estate, and you can buy their medlar jelly, rosehip jelly, elderflower cordial and a rather special hot red onion relish at the café at Sandringham Estate. The day I visited Deborah’s kitchens, she was surrounded by crates of quince and walnuts - all ready to be turned into jelly - the nuts to be roasted for cakes.

“In the autumn and winter we make good use of our time, and deal with gluts of fruit, like quinces, and each year we usually make 400 jars of marmalade.”

Obviously many of my questions about their catering at Sandringham went unanswered

- or at least I am not allowed to divulge them here! Protocol and discretion being the key.

But Deborah and Kevin are keen to point out that they cater for many different kinds of people, and many different occasions. All as are important as each other. They love cooking for a small intimate dinner party in someone’s home, as well as large weddings or birthday celebrations: “Ten or a hundred guests, we don’t differentiate.”

They have also had great fun as well working to a ‘theme’; and to date have notched up an ‘Italian’ wedding, where 50% of the guests were Italian, an Indian banquet, a Moroccan buffet complete with meze and

Deborah’s (fantasy) Royal Wedding Breakfast for Prince William & Kate Middleton Potted home smoked trout and brown shrimps, with crisp green leaves and warm granary rolls.

Roast rack of Sandringham Lamb glazed with home-made Medlar and rosemary jelly.

Steamed new potatoes with mint butter Lemon glazed baby carrots Gooseberry and elderfower fool with vanilla shortbread biscuits

flatbreads, and a ‘Big Fat Greek’ wedding .

I have to say that their food looks divine as well as tasting absolutely delicious, they organise everything with military precision, which is after all why you pay someone to do all the hard work. Deborah certainly knows her stuff, combining the best use of trends and creativity, whilst never losing sight on what produce is available locally and how is all tastes, which after all is the most important bit. So all I need now is a good reason to give a party!

And the best bit about their work? What Deborah and Kevin both acknowledge, is that they are privileged to be celebrating peoples ‘high’ days.

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Hotel Felix 4 star hotel with luxurious accommodation and top restaurant. Marquee for 200; Victorian style pagoda; three first floor rooms for sixty guests. Cambridge.

(01223 277977) www.hotelfelix.co.uk.

Assembly House Grade 1 Georgian House in the centre of Norwich offering spectacular interiors and ornate architecture. Wide choice of rooms available. Norwich (01603 626402) www.assemblyhousenorwich.co.uk

Chilford Hall Grade II listed hall and vineyard. Four spaces available: small 18th century barn, beamed Gallery Hall, ornate Great Hall and a large contemporary Pavilion. Linton. www.chilfordhall.co.uk (01223 895600)

Wolterton Hall 18th century hall. The Salon Room has views over the lake, the adjacent grand Marble Hall has views over parkland.

Erpingham, nr Aylsham (01263 584175) www.manningtongardens.co.uk

Anstey Hall Country manor house hotel licensed for civil wedding ceremonies. Grand Ball Room accommodates up to 100 guests; 500 guests in the marquee. Trumpington, Cambridge www.ansteyhall.com (01223 700400)

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Barnham Broom Hotel Elegant venue, set amid beautiful countryside with a choice of three stylish, selfcontained reception suites with private bars. Barnham Broom, Norwich (01603 759393) www.barnham-broom.co.uk

Great Wilbraham Hall Barn 17th century traditional East Anglian barn with oak beamed interior, modern facilities, for ceremonies and receptions.

Great Wilbraham (01353 723 343) www.wilbrahambarnweddings.co.uk

Swynford Paddocks 17th century house hotel, restaurant and bar set in five acres of grounds overlooking a stud farm. Six Mile Bottom, Newmarket (01638 570234) www.swynfordpaddocks.com

Seckford Hall Beautiful Tudor hotel set amongst 34 acres of Suffolk countryside. 120 can be accomodated guests in the Lakeside Suite, 140 in the marquee. Woodbridge www.seckford.co.uk (01394 385678)

Peterborough United Football Club Peterborough FC’s pitch side facilities are available for wedding ceremonies and receptions. London Road Stadium, Peterborough. www.theposh.com weddings@theposh.com (01733 341050)

Best Western Ufford Park Excellent modern venue set in 120 acres of historic parkland. Intimate gatherings and large parties can be catered for.

Melton, Woodbridge www.uffordpark.co.uk (01394 383555)

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Weddings at Woburn Three unique venues set in the heart of the historic Woburn Abbey Estate The Woburn estate provides a stunning backdrop for weddings and offers three very different venues.

From the splendour of The Sculpture Gallery at Woburn Abbey, or the Inn at Woburn for classic country weddings, to the fun and unusual Safari Lodge at Woburn Safari Park, weddings held on the estate are truly unique. Weddings can be arranged for just 25 up to 250 guests and a dedicated wedding planner will ensure that every wedding is a day to remember.

The next wedding open days are Sunday 23rd January and Sunday 20th February

For enquiries and bookings please call 01525 292172 www.eastmag.com www.woburn.co.uk/weddings

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The unique wedding Venue The Elizabethan period Old School Hall at Thetfrod Grammar School is fully licensed for civil wedding ceremonies. This traditional but intimate building, with its vaulted ceiling and wood panelled walls makes a unique setting for your wedding service.

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Wedding Fayre Sunday 13th March 2011 11am ~ 3pm Featuring a variety of exhibition stands from elegant orists to professional photographers and beautifully handcrafted cakes to sleek cars.

We offer exible, bespoke Wedding Packages and our experienced coordinators are more than happy to tailor-make a package to ensure your dream day is perfect!

Your Wedding day is one of the most special days of your life... let us help make it one to cherish forever!

Entry is free

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Dragon Hall Grade 1 listed medieval timber-framed hall, with a contemporary glass gallery and enclosed courtyard garden, in the heart of Norwich. Norwich www.dragonhall.org (01603 663922)

Great Hallingbury Manor Chic boutique hotel with two licensed locations and all-inclusive facilities.

Wedding Open Day on 27 Feb. Great Hallingbury, Bishop's Stortford (01279 506475) www.greathallingburymanor.com

The Secret Garden at Burwash Manor The pretty walled garden has an elegant 1600 marquee available to hire from February to September. New Road, Barton, Cambridge www.burwashweddings.com (01223 260040)

Fennes Georgian manor house set in 100 acres of countryside. Civil wedding ceremonies can take place in a pavilion with a starlight ceiling that overlooks the gardens.

Bocking www.fennes.co.uk (01376 324555)

Hintlesham Hall 16thC Grade I listed country house hotel surrounded by 175 acres of countryside. 3 sumptuous rooms licensed to accommodate civil ceremonies. Hintlesham www.hintleshamhall.co.uk (01473 652334)

Hedingham Castle Norman keep and nearby Georgian country house. Ceremonies take place within the castle Keep, with receptions in the Banqueting Hall. Castle Hedingham www.hedinghamcastle.co.uk (01787 460261)

St Peter’s Hall 13thC hall in delightful moated grounds, licensed for civil ceremonies. Cuisine is supplied by award winning chefs at Wickedly Good Food. South Elmham www.stpetershallsuffolk.co.uk (01986 782288)

Spains Hall Elizabethan manor house licensed for civil weddings, which can take place in the Elizabethan Hall or The Stables next to the house. Finchingfield www.spainshall.co.uk (01371 811596)

Otley Hall Grade I listed 16thC house situated in 10 acres of gardens. 3 rooms are licensed for civil ceremonies, two are suitable for 60 guests, and the Parlour holds 25 guests.

Otley www.otleyhall.co.uk (01473 890264)

Layer Marney Tower Splendid Tudor palace set in parkland.

Ceremonies can be held in the Corsellis Room or in the hall of the gatehouse. Nr Colchester www.layermarneytower.co.uk (01206 330784)

Micklefield Hall Elegant Grade II Listed Georgian House in stunning location. Civil licence for up to 50 people in the house and up to 300 people in the marquee. Sarratt (01923 778898) www.micklefieldhall.com

Menzies Flitwick Manor Georgian country house hotel with award winning restaurant is furnished with fine antiques and set in acres of gardens and parkland. 3 function rooms. Flitwick. www.menzies-hotels.co.uk (01525 712242)

Ickworth West Wing Grade 1 listed building with a striking Rotunda and curved corridors. The Gallery and The Court are available for ceremonies and receptions. Horringer www.ickworthwestwing.com (01284 735957)

Bedford Lodge Licensed for civil weddings. 3 self-contained banqueting suites can accommodate from 10-150 guests and space for a marquee in the grounds Newmarket (01638 663175) www.bedfordlodgehotel.co.uk

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With 45 enchanting bedrooms, magnificent Gallery Restaurant, Medieval courtyard and a wealth of oak beams and inglenook fireplaces, The Swan at Lavenham offers the perfect backdrop for the wedding of your dreams. Licensed for civil ceremonies, we can cater for weddings both large and small and can offer exclusive use for up to 100 guests.

At the White Lion, it’s all about you. From the moment you step inside to the moment you leave, you can be assured of impeccable service, mouthwatering food and the knowledge that we never treat two weddings alike. Licensed for civil ceremonies and catering for receptions, both large and small, the White Lion’s beachfront location makes it the perfect venue for your special day.

The elegant setting of our AA two rosette Gallery Restaurant, impeccable service and delicious award-winning food blend perfectly with indulgence and relaxation.

To request a brochure or to arrange a visit, please call 01728 452720 or email events@whitelion.co.uk

White Lion Hotel, Market Cross Place, Aldeburgh, Suffolk IP15 5BJ Tel: 01728 452720 Web: www.whitelion.co.uk

The Swan at Lavenham‌ the perfect setting for your perfect day.

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A fairytale wedding needs a magical venue‌

Licensed for civil ceremonies and full of character, Thorpeness Country Club is set in an idyllic and romantic location overlooking the sea.

We pride ourselves on our impeccable reputation, our warm and friendly atmosphere, the exquisite food which is cooked with passion by Head Chef and Masterchef of Great Britain, David Ryan, and of course on our service ‌ always delivered with a smile.

To make an enquiry or to book your wedding, please call Lisa or Bruno on 01728 452176 or email weddings@thorpeness.co.uk Thorpeness Hotel & Country Club, Lakeside Avenue, Thorpeness, IP16 4NH www.thorpeness.co.uk

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Glemham Hall Elegant Elizabethan mansion set in 300 acres of parkland. It’s licensed for civil weddings, and a there’s a marquee in the picturesque gardens. Little Glemham, www.glemhamhall.co.uk (01728 746704)

Hengrave Hall Beautiful Tudor mansion, with almost fifty acres of sweeping lawns and meadows, a majestic lake, and its own idyllic chapel. Hengrave, nr Bury St Edmunds www.hengravehall.co.uk (01284 768024)

Thorpeness Hotel and Golf Club Situated near Thorpeness Meare, five minutes’ walk from the beach. Two rooms at the Country Club are licensed to hold wedding ceremonies. Thorpeness www.thorpeness.co.uk (01728 452176)

Whipsnade Zoo The wedding day can include animal feedings or a vintage steam train tour around the park. A range of suites to choose from. Dunstable www.zsl.org (01582 873831)

Norwich City Football Club Four exclusive rooms are licensed for civil weddings; The Boardroom, Top of the Terrace, Norfolk Lounge and The Top of the City. Carrow Road, Norwich (01603 218704) www.deliascanarycatering.com

Yaxley Hall Outdoor wedding ceremonies may be held in a garden temple, with outdoor seating for 150 guests. Indoor ceremonies take place in the Music Room, for up to 60.

Yaxley www.yaxleyhall.com (01379 788869)

The Pier Hotel & Restaurant On the quay in Harwich Old Town, civil wedding licence for 50. Reception facilities and stylish accomodation.

Harwich (01206 323150) www.milsomweddings.com

Hertford Castle The Castle is home to the Town Council, and a number of its historic rooms are available to hire for both weddings ceremonies and receptions. Hertford (01992 552885) www.hertford.gov.uk

Sussex Barn 18th century brick and flint barn that retains much of its old character – including a 120ft deep well in the bar area.

Licensed for ceremonies. Burnham Market (01485 210 000) www.sussexbarn.co.uk

Slepe Hall Hotel Licensed to hold civil weddings. For the reception choose between the Restaurant, Cromwell Room, or the larger Brunel Suite. St Ives (01480 463122) www.slepehallhotel.co.uk

Leez Priory Stunning 450 year old Tudor mansion, the first country house to be licensed in England to conduct civil marriage ceremonies. Great Leighs (01245 362555) www.brideshead.co.uk

Hinchingbrooke House Magnificent Tudor country house, ancestral home of the Cromwells and the Earls of Sandwich, with a number of rooms to choose from. Huntingdon (01480 375678) www.hhpac.co.uk

The Priory Barn 100ft 16th century barn licensed for civil ceremonies, making a unique venue.

Gazebo available for summer weddings.

Little Wymondley, nr Hitchin (01438 748647) www.thepriory.net

Gosfield Hall Historic mansion with magnificent interiors. Civil license, stunnig ballroom settting for receptions, luxury bedrooms.

Gosfield (01787 472914) www.brideshead.co.uk

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Wolterton & Mannington Estate 2010 Open every day from 9am. Car parks £2.00.

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Stoke Mill, a beautiful old Watermill set in the countryside just outside Norwich, is only a short distance from the Southern Bypass off Ipswich Road.

Countryside Walks and Trails

May 6th - 8th Flower Festival – Flowers with Art.

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February 6th – Early Spring Walk.

March 19th – History Day – Recent Discoveries.

We are a family run Wedding Reception Venue, offering exclusivity on your special day. The restaurant, bar and grounds are available for you and your guests to enjoy in a tranquil setting beside the river.

Whilst we look after all aspects of the Food and Drink, we appreciate that you will have your own ideas for the interior decorations, colour scheme, flowers etc., and we are quite happy for you to organise this yourselves, and we will guarantee our availability for this to be set up at your convenience.

See local press, Tourist Information or write or telephone for 2011 leaflet and booking form.

Mannington Hall, Norwich NR11 7BB 01263 584175/768444

For further information please see our Website, or email/phone if you would like to visit outside trading hours.

Music, drama, opera, talks, art exhibitions, costume and history fairs

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Website www.stokemill.co.uk or email linda@stokemill.co.uk or phone 01508 493337

Tel: 01480 463122

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In 1995 Slepe Hall Hotel was one of the first venues to gain a license to hold civil weddings. Since then we have grown to be a popular venue, with our elegantly refurbished Cromwell Room proving to be popular for ceremonies all year round. We are now able to offer ceremonies on Sundays and some bank holidays throughout the year.

A one night stay on the wedding night will be charged at £90 per room including full English breakfast. These rooms are limited and are based on two people sharing.

Wedding Receptions Following your ceremony you have the choice of the restaurant of Cromwell Room, both of which seat 45 for a meal and the Brunel Suite which can accommodate 200.

The Bridal Suite On your wedding night, enjoy our Bridal Suite with its four-poster bed or any Superior room for just £97.00, including full English breakfast,

Conferences & Seminars The Brunel Suite and Cromwell Room can provide conference facilities for 2 to 300 and can house seminars for up to 60 delegates.

The Brunel Suite is ideal for larger conferences and exhibitions.

Banqueting For groups of up to 40 people our Cromwell Room is perfect. For larger parties of up to 250 the Brunel Suite is an ideal location, being self-contained with its own entrance, bar and cloakrooms.

More information For more information on any of the above, please contact Reception on 01480 463122 or email reception@slepehallhotel.co.uk.

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The Wedding Breakfast Menu offers an individual choice of dishes for your selection, enabling you to tailor a Menu to suit all tastes.

Prices start from £26.95 pp for the 3 course Meal, plus a Drinks Package starting at £9.95 pp.

For your evening guests Buffet Menus are from £9.95 pp.

We make no charge for the use of the venue, and minimum numbers apply only on Saturdays.

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A special place

A PERFECT DAY Westminster College in the heart of Cambridge has opened its doors to the public for wedding receptions... he stunning, 19th-century Westminster College is a Grade 2 listed building and a hidden gem set in beautiful grounds in the heart of Cambridge. Built in 1899 and retaining almost all its original features, with modern facilities carefully introduced, it offers a unique wedding venue steeped in history.

Set back from Madingley Road, the college is secluded and private, yet just a short walk from the Register Office, making the venue perfect for receptions.

You can hire the venue in its entirety for exclusive use, or choose any of the many rooms, or even just the grounds alone, which have plenty of space for a marquee for up to 400 people.

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You can’t fail to be impressed by the college, which means your guests will be equally affected.

The imposing red brick frontage leads to a selection of beautiful and intimate function rooms, from the lodge (perfect for welcome drinks) to the fabulous oak-panelled dining hall, with its grand piano, striking cupola ceiling, traditional long tables, and original lighting fittings dating back to 1899. The room has a stage and tables can be re-arranged to create a dancing area.

The college’s expert chefs have a growing reputation for their innovative menus with a large choice of dishes to suit a variety of budgets. Led by head chef Jay Witt, who trained at Trinity College, they use local produce wherever possible - and it doesn’t come more local than the

fruit, herbs and vegetables used from the college garden.

They can cater for parties of between 20 and 100 people.

They also cater for 400 in a marquee. Each wedding menu is tailor-made to fit with your ideas and theme. Buffet menus are also available and there’s an excellent wine list to choose from.

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This is a truly unique location; intimate and warm, grand and elegant, charming and comfortable, unforgettable.

Every wedding should have one.

The college is also available for conferences and other events.

Call Sophie for more information on 01223 741084 or email admin@westmimster.cam.ac.uk . www.westminster.cam.ac.uk

China, Glassware, Cutlery, Linen, Furniture, Chair Covers, Kitchen Equipment, Dance Floors, Staging, Table Centres, LED Furniture, Ornamental tree hire and much more.

Please do not hesitate to call us for any advice, quotation or a meeting to discuss your function.

Space To Grow At Hethersett Old Hall School we offer an excellent education in spacious and attractive surroundings

Units 10 & 11 Pulham Market Hall, Station Road, Pulham Market, Norfolk IP21 4XF T 01379 676008 W www.banquetinghire.co.uk

Hethersett Old Hall School is an independent day school for girls aged 4 -18 and boys aged 4 -11, with boarding available for girls aged 9 -18.

Open Morning Thursday 17th February 2011 9am - 12pm Heavenly Chocolates provides Chocolate fountains, Drinks fountains, Baileys fountains and Candy Buffets, specialising in covering East Anglia, Essex and London.

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Your Wedding, Your Way at Wingfield Barns On your wedding day it’s vital that everything runs just the way you want it. At Wingfield Barns you can select one of our wedding packages, or simply hire the venue, allowing you the freedom to choose your own theme and wedding suppliers.

Whether you are planning a traditional, modern or alternative wedding, Wingfield Barns, set in beautiful, tranquil grounds, is the ideal venue for all budgets and styles of civil ceremony and reception.

Late bookings considered.

Please email, phone or visit our web site for more information or to arrange an appointment to view.

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LIVE | Weddings Hair, make-up, nails.... being happy with the way you look will relax you and give you confidence on your big day. Lucy Corry talks to some beauty experts to help you achieve the look you want...

Making up is hard to do In general terms, the style of your dress and the overall theme of your wedding should influence your make-up. There’s no need to go overboard with dramatic changes - you don’t want the assembled guests or your groom to be staring at you for all the wrong reasons!

“Steer clear of frosted make-up, which creases and looks shiny ...wearing the most garish shade of in pictures,” Bobbi advises.

“Don’t wear lipsticks that blue eyeshadow seen this side of are too pale - they look 1986. Every bride wants to look her washed out in photobest on her wedding day, but some graphs. Dark lip liner is too harsh, so opt for get so excited by the prospect that natural tones.” they slap on more powder and paint Waterproof and than a panto dame. long-wearing formuMake-up guru Bobbi Brown says it’s las will help your eye make-up last, while important that you don’t get carried face powder will away. “On your wedding day you ensure your foundashould look like yourself at your most tion and concealer beautiful,” she says. “My biggest tip stay put.

If you are inexperifor wedding day beauty is to stay enced when it comes to away from anything trendy because make-up or suspect you trends come and go. Fresh, pretty, will be too fraught to DIY on the day, consider getting and simple makeup is classic and a trusted friend or a profestimeless and you’ll enjoy looking

Here comes the bride...

sional make-up artist to help you out. Estee Lauder offer a tailor-made step-by-step bridal beauty programme which is ideal for makeup novices.

The bridal programme involves three consultations - beginning with a personalised skincare regime to ensure skin is in optimum shape. The next consultation involves expert make-up advice to help the bride decide on her look. The last consultation makes sure that the bride retains her post-nuptial glow, with advice on looking great during the honeymoon and beyond. The service is free and available at selected Estee Lauder counters indepartment stores in the UK and Ireland.

For stores with an Estee Lauder Bridal Representative call: 0870 034 2566.

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With that sparkling new ring on your finger it’s extra important that your hands and nails look their best.

There’s no need to go all out with gem-encrusted extensions (unless you really want to) - but well-cared for hands will make a real difference to your total look.

For an intensive hand treatment, slather a thick layer of hand cream all over your hands, and wear thin plastic gloves over them.

After 10 minutes, remove and massage your hands. The gloves help to raise your skin temperature, opening up the pores and helping the cream to be more fully absorbed.

Give your fingers a quick massage with a rich hand cream every day. Not only will this protect your hands, it will also be de-stressing.

To refine the fingers, massage from the tip towards the palm, or to stimulate circulation, massage the nail and cuticle.

Apply hand cream to clean dry hands, working from the tips of the fingers to the wrists, concentrating on the cuticles. Treat yourself to a professional manicure a month before the wedding, then take the chance for some more pampering the day before. By then you’ll relish the chance to sit still for an hour and not do anything!

It’s important to think about your hair as soon as you’ve set a date.

Again, it’s a mistake to adopt a radically different do for the big day - think about your dress and the general ‘feel’ of your wedding before ploughing ahead with any dramatic decisions.

Celebrity hairdresser Charles Worthington has some sound advice: “Don’t be tempted to go for a radical re-style - it’s you he has asked to marry and it’s you he wants to see at the altar,” he says.

Whatever kind of wedding you are planning, Charles says it’s essential that your dress and hairstyle work together.

“A low scooping neckline can look wonderfully romantic with loose tendrils of hair, whereas a chic bob with a sleek slash neck is exceptionally elegant,” he says. “If you have a low back on your dress, you can draw attention to this feature by wearing your hair swept up and away from your neck.”

Talk to your usual hairdresser or visit a few salons until you find someone you feel comfortable with. Talk through your ideas and be honest - it’s your wedding and your hair.

“Don’t get an attack of ‘wedding ringlets’,” Charles says. “If your style is simple. don’t let others bully you into a look you don’t feel comfortable with just because they perceive it as being more glamorous.”

If you’re worried, book a rehearsal session before the wedding to make sure you’re both happy with the outcome. Your hairdresser should also be able to advise you on making sure your hair is in tip-top condition before the big day.

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Nailing it While good skincare, a healthy diet and plenty of rest will help ensure your have a headstart to looking good on your wedding day, Bobbi says there’s no need to panic if you wake up with a pimple.

“To cover a blemish, start by applying foundation stick to the area using a concealer brush,” she says. “Gently blend the foundation with the pad of your finger - be sure not to rub, as you’ll just rub everything off. Then, set the foundation with sheer loose powder and a velour puff.”

Lastly, don’t forget to ask your mum or a bridesmaid to carry a touch-up kit with concealer, pressed powder, lipstick or gloss and lip liner, plus tissues, mints, and a mini sewing kit (for emergency clothing fixes like a dropped hem or popped button).

The finishing touch...

Estee Lauder have a gorgeous fragrance designed to capture the romance of weddings.

Beautiful Love, (£65 for 100ml) is a romantic perfume with lush magnolia blossom, rich white jasmine, mango, heliotrope and vetiver. See www.esteelauder.co.uk or your nearest Estee Lauder counter for more details.

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Trollie Dollies outside catering based in Ampthill - creating simply beautiful food since 1982.

The Dower House exclusive venue for corporate and private events, standing in extensive grounds suitable for large marquees. Weddings, Corporate Events, Christmas Parties and Fine Dining. Drinks and Cocktails in the Library. The Drawing Room seats 60-70 and can be used for many occasions including civil ceremonies.

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LIVE | Weddings Every wedding needs that something extra....

Hire a VW LoveBus - this one’s called Molly and is available from Colchester and can accomodat 6 people. 01206 520896 www.vwlovebus.co.uk

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Herts-based Edible Bouquets produce amazing ‘floral’ bouquets out of fruit and choclocate. Or try their Wedding Tower or Bride & Groom Berry Boxes - perfect for table gifts (left). 07786 005 481 www.ediblebouquets.co.uk

If you have an affection for all things old and beautiful then Norfolk-based Pretty Vintage may have just thing for your wedding. They have for hire a delightful range of eclectic vintage crockery, glassware, china, vases, tablecloths, napkins and accessories. For details call 07949 205946 or visit www.prettyvintage.co.uk

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Tinies provide a mobile creche service in Suffolk and Norfolk so that parents and guests can relax and enjoy the day while their children are safey provided for, with plenty of activiites and games for all age groups. Call 0845 643 4188 for details.

Keep guests amused by hiring a casino. Ace of Diamonds Fun Casino of Billericay, Essex can take care of everything. Call 08445 617 919

All aboard! Try a double decker bus, perfect for ferrying guests. Go for an open-topped one in summer. Vintage Bus Hire, Waltham Abbey 07050 614511

For musical entertainment with a difference, try The Rockabellas. With killer heels, killer curves and killer harmonies, this vocal trio sing toe-tapping classics from the wartime songbirds to floor-fillers from modern day chart toppers - all performed with the glamour and grace of the 1940s. And whether it's Vera or Verve, Elvis or Ella, they have just one philosophy: “It Don't Mean A Thing If It Aint Got That Swing!” (01787 463599) www.therockabellas.com

Ok, you lovebirds, how about a couple of beautiful white doves released at your wedding as a symbol of your marriage...

A Little Dove Told Me Covering Norfolk and Suffolk. (01493 302581) www.alittledovetoldme.co.uk Release a White Dove Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire. (07950 909230) www.releaseawhitedove.co.uk Essex Dove Release info@essexdoverelease.co.uk

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Norwich’s magnificent Romanesque Cathedral is open all day to visitors of all faiths and none. Set in beautiful grounds it is an awe-inspiring and welcoming building, with spectacular architecture, magnificent art and a fascinating history.

There is also a licensed restaurant beside the cloisters, housed within a striking modern building that has won numerous design and architecture awards. The Cathedral hosts a wide variety of orchestral concerts, choral concerts, jazz ensembles and lectures.

On 8 February there is a performance of a newly composed musical pageant about the life of Julian of Norwich by June Boyce-Tilman, involving singers and orchestra from local schools alongside professional performers. Open to all. admission is free. 7pm.

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EXPLORE | Cambridgeshire Peterborough’s Broadway Theatre this month reopens its doors after being closed for over year following a devastating fire in 2009. It is now part of the StageLive family, the UK’s newest theatrical venue owner and operator who will present the very best in live entertainment at the newly restored venue.

The Broadway Theatre originally opened as the Odeon Cinema in 1937, until it showed its last film in 1991. Following an £8million investment it reopened as a theatre in 2001. There’s a range of top shows lined up including the musicals Blood Brothers, Annie, and Joseph, plus stars such as Neil Morrisey, Jack Jones, Des O’Connor, Jim Davidson and Jane McDonald. This month enjoy the West End show An Evening of Burlesque (pictured), singer Steve Harley and Rick Wakeman, along with a great tribute show, Elvis On Tour.

For tickets call the box office on 0844 8500 850 or go to www.thebroadwaytheatre.co.uk

For more great places to enjoy an evening of Burlesque, see page 114 The popular BBC2 antiques programme, Flog It!, presented by Paul Martin, will be at Peterborough Cathedral on 25 February. The Cathedral will be hosting the Valuation Day. Rather like a treasure hunt, members of the public are invited to bring along the antiques and collectables they might be interested in selling.

Once valued, the owner and team of experts decide whether it should go forward for auction. If the item is chosen to be filmed, it is sold a few weeks later – often with the owner making a tidy sum. The resulting programme will be broadcast later in the year. Admission to the Valuation day is free, and everyone who goes along will receive a valuation – even if their antiques are not chosen to go forward for auction.

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Ever wondered what happens in a museum when the lights go out? Take a torch on 23 February between 4.30-7.30pm and explore Cambridge's amazing museums after dark.

Enjoy torchlight trails, family activities and late night opening at up to ten museums including the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, the Fitzwilliam Museum, the Cambridge Folk Museum, The Polar Museum and the University Botanic Garden. To help plan your evening visit www.cam.ac.uk/ twilight for more information.

If you love food, you’ll love Love Food Week at The Larder, Burwash Manor. This annual eent promises to be the best yet with more suppliers, cookery demonstrations and informative talks than ever before. Now in its third year, the theme for this year’s festival is Making the Most of Food, with a fantastic week-long programme of events between the 11-20 February. There’ll be mouth-watering talks and demonstrations from the Cambridge Cookery School, Cambridge Organic Food Company, Daisy Cakes and Glebe Farm to name but a few. There’s plenty of opportunity for culinary exploration, including cheese and ice-cream tasting, cake baking and risotto making, plus special themed days such as Vegetable Day, Butcher Day, and a fun-packed Kids Day. There’s also a 10% discount on the return visit for all shoppers spending over £25 The Larder, Burwash Manor, New Road, Barton, Cambridge (01223 264600) www.burwashlarder.com www.eastmag.com

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WELCOME TO THE REGENT HOTEL A fine Georgian Grade II listed building overlooking Parker’s Piece and only a five minute walk from the historic city centre of Cambridge.

In 1871, the building was the original home of the first five Newnham College students. It is now a privately run hotel with high standards of personal service and competitive pricing.

Whether your stay is for business or pleasure, the Regent Hotel offers contemporary, convenient, reasonably priced bed and breakfast accomodation.

All 22 bedrooms are en-suite and have climate controlled air conditioning, high-speed Internet access, LCD television, clock radio, hairdryer, trouser press and hospitality tray.

Executive rooms, with views of Parker’s Piece, include bathrobes and a complimentary basket of fresh fruit and mineral water.

All areas of the hotel are non-smoking and are designed to create a welcoming and

relaxing atmosphere with the added benefit of Wi-Fi Internet access. The bright breakfast room ans contemporary, comfortable bar area overlook the lively Parker’s Piece where famous cricketer, Sir Jack Hobbs, once played.

The hotel’s central location is ideal for visiting Cambridge’s oldest colleges, Fitzwilliam Museum, Botanic Gardens and the River Cam as well as numerous restaraunts, pubs, entertainment venues and the local sports and leisure centre.

Both coach and railway stations are within easy walking distance and Stansted International Airport is just a 30 minute drive away. There is easy access to the picturesque counties of Norfolk and Suffolk.

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FREE HIGH SPEED INTERNET: Simply book on line through the Hotel Website www.regenthotel.co.uk and put EMFWI in the comments box when making the booking to receive complimentary high speed internet access throughout your stay.

NEW STUDIO TIMETABLE NOW AVAILABLE Cambridge Passenger Cruises Regular Public Cruises 1 and 2 hour Cream Tea Cruises a Speciality.

Check the online diary at www.georgina.co.uk To Create a Public Cruise with your choice of type,date,time you will need 10 passengers 1 hour and 20 passengers 2 hours, call to check availabillity.

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You can have anything from 2, 4-hour or longer cruises.

Why not have a BBQ as your cruising down the river with a chef cooking your delicious food.

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EXPLORE | Norfolk

Dragon’s Lairs and Homes of Mayors: Heritage and Feast Experience On Saturday 19th February three iconic Norwich buildings, Dragon Hall, Strangers’ Hall and Blackfriars’ Hall join forces to present a full day of tours, talks and feasting in a packed day of medieval heritage. From 11am-5pm all the family can visit the three buildings.

Guided by professional historians and you can experience the life and rituals of medieval merchants and mayors though their homes, halls and places of worship. Beginning at Strangers’ Hall, with lunch at Blackfriars’ Hall and then finish the afternoon at the magnificent Dragon Hall where refreshments and entertainment will be provided on arrival (£45.00 per person). From 5-11pm there is an authentic and sumptuous medieval banquet underneath the spectacular Crown Post roof of Dragon Hall, accompanied by an enlightening talk from an expert food historian. (£65 per person). Or you book for the whole day for just £90. For more details or to book call 01603 663922.

2011 is an historic year for Snetterton circuit, marking both its 60th anniversary as a motorsport venue and the launch of its new ‘300’ circuit layout in the Spring. To celebrate, circuit owner MotorSport Vision (MSV) has revealed a busy calendar of two and four wheel race meetings, including hosting four of the UK’s leading national championships.

The racetrack, nr Attleborough, is currently undergoing a multimillion pound redevelopment to create a new 2.99 mile multi-configuration circuit, and a quartet of championships have confirmed that they will race on the longest configuration, the 300, in 2011.

The first event is a double headline encounter from the British F3 and GT Championships in May, bringing together an exciting combination of multi million supercars and rising single seater stars.

This will be followed by the UK’s most popular car racing series, the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship, in August.

Two wheel fans can receive their motorsport fix when the riders of the MCE Insurance British Superbike Championship, the UK’s premier domestic bike championship, tackle the 300 layout for the first time in July.

Another event that will make its 300 circuit debut in 2011 is the Lotus Festival, featuring racing and demonstrations from modern and classic Lotus machinery.

“It’s an important year for Snetterton,” says Jamie Hopper, Snetterton Circuit Manager, “and we’re particularly excited about the launch of our new 300 circuit, which will provide new challenges for drivers and increased excitement and viewing opportunities for spectators.” To find out more about Snetterton and to purchase event tickets and season passes call 0843 453 1000 or visit www.snetterton.co.uk

You simply mustn’t visit Norwich without trying some Caley’s chocolate. Caleys have made chocolate since 1883. The company’s founder, Albert Jarman Caley commenced the production of chocolate products at his Fleur de Lys works in the heart of Norwich, and laid the foundations for their reputation as one of the world’s top chocolate makers. Such was the quality and demand for their products that Royal Warrants were granted for many of them, including the famous Marching Chocolate, a familiar product in British troops’ kit bags during the Great War. Caley’s chocolate products can be bought in supermarkets such as Tesco and Waitrose, but for the real deal, you must visit Caley's Cocoa Cafe at the 15th century Norwich Guildhall.

Situated beside the historic market, and in the shadow of the city hall, Caley's Cocoa Cafe is located in the old Court of Record, a very fine example of an early Georgian Courtroom with the Judge's seat being set in the centre of a gentle curve of benches and adorned with Corinthian Columns. As you indulge in being served beverages and snacks at your table, you can enjoy the ambience of the Grade 1 listed building and also be able to purchase a selection of chocolate confections and a variety of Caley branded memorabilia and keepsakes. www.caleys.com

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EXPLORE | King’s Lynn

The magnificent Custom House has been a landmark since the late 17th century and has overlooked the comings and goings of this busy port for over three hundred years. Discover elegant rooms housing fascinating displays on the merchants, customs men and smugglers of Lynn and enjoy great views of the river and explore hands-on computer displays to find out about famous mariners of Lynn including Vancouver and Nelson. Purfleet Quay (01553 763044) King’s Lynn Corn Exchange is a grade II Listed Building on the Tuesday Market Place, home to a multi-purpose venue for concerts, shows and community use. Close by is the King's Lynn Arts Centre, a more intimate venue hosting a wide programme of comedy, music and cinema. Not to be missed next month at the Corn Exchange is the heart-warming rags-to-riches musical, Annie, starring Su Pollard (Hi-De-Hi) as Miss Hannigan and David McAlister (Hollyoaks) as Daddy Warbucks. The show tells the story of the little orphan girl with a memorable score including It's A Hard Knock Life, Easy Street and of course the legendary Tomorrow. Annie runs from 7-12 March. Tickets are £19.50 - £26.50. To book ot for details for this or other shows at the Corn Exchange, call 01553 764864 or go to www.kingslynncornexchange.co.uk King's Lynn has three small markets each week. On Tuesday and Friday, the market is held in the Tuesday Market Place, and on Saturday in the Saturday Market Place. Specialities include fish and seafood (local brown shrimp on Tuesday and Saturday), local organic fruit and veg (Friday) and a Country Market stall selling locally-produced cakes, preserves, produce and plants (Friday).

Pick up a Discover King’s Lynn guide from the Tourist Information Centre, or take a guided heritage walk with one of the King’s Lynn Town Guides. Afternoon tours are available from May to October, and evening tours can be taken throughout June and July. For details contact 01553 774297 or King’s Lynn Tourist Information Centre.

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The Hanseatic town of King’s Lynn dates back to the 12th century and beyond when it was one of England’s most important ports. The town’s rich past has left a magnificent heritage of buildings and stories to be discovered. King’s Lynn is Britain’s first member of The Hanse League (Die Hanse), an active network of towns and cities across Europe, which historically belonged to the association of merchant towns known as the Hanseatic League. The original mediaeval Hanseatic League, which comprised a group of towns around the Baltic and the North Sea, including several on the east coast of England, was an extremely influential trading association and was very much a part of King’s Lynn’s development and historic past. The Hanse works to encourage and increase contact between its member cities, promoting cross border co-operation and making a contribution to the economic, cultural and social life in Europe.

Greyfriars Tower is the last significant remaining part of a friary established in the 1230s by a group of Franciscan Friars. Of the 60 Franciscan friaries that existed in England prior to the suppression in 1538, significant remains of only 16 exist. Greyfriars Tower is one of only 3 remaining in the country, and is the most attractive and complete.

The tower is a key landmark in King's Lynn and it owes its survival to this as, for centuries, it proved useful as a seamark for traders and sailors navigating the difficult waters of The Wash.

three restaurants we love Bank House Brasserie is situated in what was the Bank’s Counting House with the Bar in the original bank manager’s office! The menu offers a mix of modern brasserie food and great British classics. Bank House Hotel 01553 660492 Bradleys is situated on the river. There’s a ground floor wine bar and the first floor restaurant has the elegance of a Georgian dining room and fine furnishing, classic British food and great views. South Quay 01553 819888 Market Bistro is an intimate, unpretentious relaxed restaurant serving consistantly interesting food, using the best of local produce.

Great room for private dining too. Saturay Market Place 01553 771483

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EXPLORE | Suffolk Marimba is a chocolatier, tarditional sweet shop and coffee shop in Sudbury. Here you will find delicious handmade chocolates and hand-poured choclate bars (made in Sudbury!), award-winning creamy Dorset fudge, and a selection of pick and mix traditional sweets. Try the Raspberry Bombe, a homemade white chocolate ganache flavoured with natural raspberry and with a generous dash of seedless raspberry jam from Tiptree of Essex, all coated with white chocolate and sprinkled with milk chocolate shavings. The cafe serves some of the finest coffee you will enjoy, along with a selection of snacks. 6 & 10, Borehamgate, Sudbury (01787 319437) www.marimbaworld.com

Why Not Adventure is a Climbing & High Elements Experience where you can have fun learning to climb, testing your nerve and pushing your boundaries.

Wearing a safety harness, participants test themselves over the various challenges, including a climbing wall, wobbly bridge, high ropes course, Jump the Gaps and more. Great for small groups, individuals or corporate team-building exercises.

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Have you ever fancied throwing a Spanish-themed dinner party but found the many dishes a bit too daunting to contemplate? The Paella and Tapas Company, based in Wickham Market, was set up to offer a genuine taste of Spain, using only the freshest and most authentic ingredients. Select your menu, then sit back and enjoy the food while they do the rest, as they take the worry out of organising parties, dinners and other social events by offering a complete service - they even use their own gas and cooking equipment for the paellas and bring their our own tables to display plates, cutlery, napkins, salad and bread. The paellas are cooked using only the freshest of ingredients, in genuine Spanish paella pans, which are wide and shallow to allow the flavours to permeate the whole dish, and there is a choice of wide range of hot and cold tapas dishes.

(01728 746599) www.paellatapas.co.uk

Over two hundred years of local, social and industrial history are illustrated on the original site of the Garrett engineering works.

At the The Long Shop Museum you can explore a superb collection of unique and fascinating exhibits, inclusing a superb collection of agricultural machinery and steam engines.

Main Street, Leiston (01728 832189) www.longshopmuseum.co.uk www.eastmag.com

Steve Rowland and Jason Jennings combined their skills and their companies when they joined forces last year to create Ultimate Flooring Solutions Ltd. Steve and Jason’s fathers did their apprentiships in the carpet and upholstery trade from the ages of fifteen back in the 1950s, and so they both grew up in that business gaining many years experience in the supply and fitting of carpets and some prestigious contracts along the way.

You’ll find their large carpet showroom in Gower Street, Ipswich, and next door is the dedicated and one of a kind Karndean design studio, showing the complete Karndean range and making them the only Karndean design studio retail partner this side of Oxford. All of their fitters are Karndean trained and Jason has been working with Karndean for over 15 years and is widely recognised, even by karndean themselves, as one of the leading experts in the UK in fitting and design work.

Steve and Jason pride themselves on taking time with customers, no matter how large or small the job may be, achieving the exact requirements for the customer.

In addition to the karndean warranties, all work is fully guaranteed by them.

The carpet showroom has recently been revamped and they are launching some new and exciting genuine offers, insluding a ‘buy one get one free’ on selected ranges - a first in carpet retail. They also have great roll deal specials and can tailor jobs to suit the customers needs. They will always beat genuine quotes on a like-forlike basis.

To contact Ultimate Flooring Solutions call 01473 728747. More information at www.carpetsolutions.co.uk and www.karndean.co.uk

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EXPLORE | Stowmarket A town at the geographical heart of rural Suffolk and on the River Gipping, Stowmarket was originally an agricultural Market Town. Industry developed upon the canalization, in 1793, of the River Gipping bringing new prosperity to the town. Now the old towpath forms an enjoyable footpath through the Gipping Valley from Stowmarket railway station to the docks at Ipswich. Even though it is growing in size and population, Stowmarket hasn’t lost its charm, with a variety of listed buildings, typical of Suffolk’s towns and villages, notably St Peter & St Mary’s Church. Not to be missed is the Museum of East Anglian Life, one of the UK’s leading open air museums.

EAT • DRINK • STAY The Cedars Hotel (above) Privately owned, family run 3 Star Hotel on the edge of town. Meals can be taken either in the Restaurant or in the more relaxed atmosphere of the Bar Lounge.

Needham Road (01449 612668) www.cedarshotel.co.uk Infuse Stylish restaurant overlooking the picturesque River Gipping, serving contemporary Italian cuisine with a Modern European flair.

Prentice Road (01449 770401) www.infuserestaurant.com The Old Counting House Great restaurant in the neighbouring village of Haughley with a menu that comprised of modern, traditional and international dishes. Old Street, Haughley (01449 673617) www.theoldcountinghouse.co.uk The Shepherd & Dog Wonderful pub/restaurant in a quiet village. Choose from ‘Posh Nosh’, set menus or bar food. Famed recently for its Wagyu Beef Burgers, made from Wagyo cattle from nearby Earl Stonham Farms, and described by the Daily Mail and possibly ‘the best beef in Britain’. Call first to check availability.

Forward Green (01449 711361) www.theshepherdanddog.com Chinese Chequers Excellent family friendly Chinese restaurant. Ipswich Road (01449 676788) Verandah House Wonderful guest house in an historic grade II listed building, a fine example of a Georgian gentleman's residence. 7 rooms in total; great Full Suffolk Breakfast.

29 Ipswich Road (01449 676104) www.verandahhouse.co.uk The Gardeners Arms Great pub off the beaten track. Combs, Moats Tye (01449 673963) Riverside Bar Large and popular trendy bar with sports screens, pool, bar food, drinks promotions. Stowupland Street (01449 675571) The Buxhall Crown Great gastro pub just outside Stowmarket.

Cosy 17th centruy building in a great location with beamed features and a lovely open fire, Highly rated for its food. Buxhall (01449 736521) www.thebuxhallcrown.co.uk

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At the Museum of East Anglian Life you can discover the history and natural world of East Anglia on the beautiful 75 acre site. Explore nearly 3km of woodland and riverside nature trails; learn about fascinating East Anglian crafts and traditional Gypsy culture’ get steamed up with the powerful engines and meet friendly animals including Major, the Suffolk Punch Horse and rare breeds of cattle and sheep. There are also 15 splendidly restored historic buildings to view and some delicious food and local produce in the new museum bistro. Open MarchOctober. (0844 556 9245) www.eastanglianlife.org.uk

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One of the jewels of the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Pegsdon Hills offers some of the best views in the county. The steep chalk hills and quiet valleys are full of wildlife, from magnificent displays of orchids and butterflies, to nesting lapwings and circling buzzards. Most of the area is managed as a nature reserve by the Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs & Northants, including the neighbouring Hoo Bit. The Pegsdon Hills provide extensive walking on rough grassland with few marked paths and although some parts are very steep and hard going underfoot, you will be rewarded with those excellent views. www.wildlifebcnp.org

Set in 250 acres of rolling Hertfordshire countryside, Knebworth House is one of England's most colourful stately homes. It is remarkable for having been in the same family - the Lyttons - for more than 500 years and for its romantic exterior complete with turrets, domes and gargoyles, which conceals a red brick house dating from Tudor times. Knebworth achieved fame in Victorian times as the home of the novelist, playwright and politician Edward Bulwer Lytton - author of the words “The pen is mightier than the sword”. Knebworth is also famous for its rock concerts. Since their inception in 1974, over 100 major artists have played Knebworth festivals, including The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Oasis, and Robbie Williams. The house and park reopens to visitors in March, when you can also enjoy the Gardens, Dinosaur Trail and Adventure Playground.

Knebworth hosts a number of events throughout the summer, including the The East of England Food Festival, The Knebworth Country Show, Salvo Fair and Medieval Jousting. The Sonisphere rock festival is held in July, headlined this year by Metallica and Motorhead. www.knebworthhouse.com (01438 812661)

B&T Brewery in Shefford, began brewing as an independent brewer in 1982 under the name Banks & Taylor’s, producing top quality, award winning cask ales. Using traditional methods and a combination of pale, wheat, crystal and roast malts along with Challenger, Golding’s and Cascade whole hops, B&T are able to produce over 30 different beers, each with their own distinct character and flavour.

Seasonal specials are produced to celebrate or commemorate the many different traditions, folk laws and historical events that have taken place locally. B&T supplies to around sixty outlets direct, including five pubs of their own pubs, The Brewery Tap in Shefford, The Wellington Arms in Bedford, The Globe, Dunstable, Elm Tree Cambridge, and The Albion in Ampthill.

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The Cottage Bakery has been supplying Wholesale and Retail Bakery goods for the past 20 years and the range of freshly baked Breads, Cakes and Pastries is phenomenal. Gary Williams has built the business from what was originally a small craft bakery into the areas leading supplier, and you can now visit any one of five different Cottage Bakery’s in the North & Mid Bedfordshire area.

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Snowdrops Celebrated as a sign of spring, snowdrops form impressive carpets of white that can be viewed at many locations around the region. Here’s some of the best places to see these perennials otherwise known as Galanthus, which is Greek for ‘milk flower’.

SUFFOLK Ickworth House, Park and Gardens The Rotunda, Horringer, nr Bury St Edmunds.

Until 20 Feb (01284 736130) Kentwell Hall Long Melford. From 14 Feb (01787 310207) HERTFORDSHIRE Benington Lordship Garden Benington, Stevenage. Until 27 Feb (08701 261709) CAMBRIDGESHIRE Anglesey Abbey, Gardens and Lode Mill Quy Road, Lode, Cambridge. Until 27 Feb (01223 810080)

Chippenham Park Chippenham, nr Newmarket. Every weekend in Feb. (01638 720221) NORFOLK Walsingham Abbey Common Place, Walsingham. Until 28 Feb (01328 820259) Sheringham Park Upper Sheringham. (01263 820550) Oxburgh Hall Oxborough. (01366 328258)

Sunday until 20 Feb (01787 460261) The Gardens of Easton Lodge Little Easton, Great Dumow. 20 & 27 Feb (01371 876979) Marks Hall Coggeshall. (01376 563796 ) BEDFORDSHIRE Moggerhanger Park Park Road, Moggerhanger. (01767 641007)

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OUT | Spotlight The Essex singer songwriter is making big waves on the music scene and is a BBC Radio 2 favourite. She’s also an ambassador for Quicksilver Woman clothing range and this month embarks a nationwide tour ahead of her second album release.

LEDDRA CHAPMAN When did you first realise that you wanted music to be a big part of your life?

Well, I have always loved singing from a very early age, but the moment I actually realised it was what I wanted to spend most of my life doing was when I picked up the guitar for the first time and started writing my own material. Then after my first public performance at 14 I knew I could never get that much of a high from anything else! It felt amazing!

sitting on a train or on a long car journey! I have to jot down all the lyric ideas I have in my head on my phone until I’m in next the studio!

How has the London College of Music experience been for you?

My college course has helped me so much; it has enabled me to grow as a singer and a live performer. I met my band members there and my teachers are very inspiring.

I feel like I am now at a comfortable stage in my musical development where I feel very confident performing in front of large audiences, but I am always striving to be a better musician. In my opinion the musical development never stops, I’m always practicing and looking for ways to get even better as a guitarist, singer and writer.

BBC Radio 2 are big fans of your music.

What does that mean to you?

The Radio 2 support has been incredible, and I still jump when I hear myself in the car or in supermarkets haha! It’s overwhelming!

I’m incredibly proud of Telling Tales, every song on the album means a lot to me. I’m very excited about album number two! There are some really fun, feel-good tracks and every song is based on my own experiences.

How would you describe your music?

I always find this question tough... but I like to describe it as story-telling, quirky folk pop.

My lyrics are very honest and I rarely hold back anything when writing, it’s very important to me to write from the heart.

Where does your inspiration come from?

My inspiration varies from my own experiences to my friends or families’ experiences, books, films, different cities... my strongest songs always occur when I least expect it; like 96

What are the most listened to songs on your iPod? A Case Of You by Joni Mitchell. It’s my favourite song of all time! She is one of my heroes along with Alanis Morissette and Regina Spektor.

You grew up in Essex. What are your memories of the county?

I still live in Essex just outside East London...when I’m not crashing at friend’s houses for my university course, haha! I’m very proud of where I grew up, and I always miss home a lot when I’m traveling.

What are your favourite Essex venues?

My favourite venue in Essex has to be the High Barn; I have played there since I was 15! It was amazing to be back there last year doing my own headline show and selling the place out! I can’t wait to go back, I’m playing there on the 5th February. I also have very fond memories of my first few gigs at the www.eastmag.com

Queens Theatre in Hornchurch and the Hermit Club in Brentwood.

Where are your favourite places in Essex?

One of my favourite spots in Essex is Wield Park in Brentwood, it’s so beautiful - I’ve been going there since I was little. One of my favourite pubs is the Black Horse, also near Brentwood - it’s a typical quaint English pub with amazing food! Aldo, being an Essex girl I obviously love a bit of shopping at lakeside!

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What do you love most about touring?

Touring is the best part of my job! I literally adore it so so much! The things I love the most about touring are firstly meeting the fans of my music (the Leddys..hehe!), and also I love being on the road with my band and traveling to different cities and having great fun on stage!!

If you could collaborate with any artist in the world, who would it be?

I would love to collaborate with an artist or band that are very different to my style of music... I’d like to be able to rock out a bit on stage... Matt Bellamy from Muse would be amazing! I adore that band.

What would be your dream come true?

To be able to keep making and performing music for the rest of my life!! And to tour with Joni Mitchell haha!

Leddra is appearing at High Barn, Great Bardfield with Ben Montague on 5 Feb. Call 01371 811291 for tickets. Her latest single Edie is available on iTunes. www.leddrachapman.com

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OUT | Theatre & Shows TUESDAY 1

HAIRSPRAY Theatre Royal, Norwich.

Starring Brookside’s Michael Starke as you have never seen him before and The Monkees’Micky Dolenz as the loveable Wilbur, Hairspray tells the story of Tracy Turnblad, a big girl with big hair and an even bigger heart as she sets out to follow her extraordinary dreams, inspire her mum and win the boy she loves. The ultimate feelgood musical. (01603 630000) Until 12 Feb THAT’S LOVE Gordon Craig Theatre, Stevenage. With song and dance routines, stand-up comedy, bitter-sweet romance and ‘grumpy old men’, this emotional roller-coaster of a play will confirm the old romantic adage that ‘truth will out’. Starring Leslie Grantham (Eastenders) and the Gordon Craig Theatre's patron Vicki Michelle (Allo Allo). (01438 363200) Until 5 Feb SENMEAFELLA! Market Theatre, Hitchin. Annual saucy panto for adults. (01462 433553) Until 26 Mar SWEENEY TODD Mercury Theatre, Colcehster. Stephen Sondheim’s musical about the demon Fleet Street Barber. (01206 573948) Until 5 Feb

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Cambridge Arts Theatre. Cambridge University Marlowe Society presents this highly entertaining Shakespeare tale that showcases the eternal battle of the sexes. (01223 503333) Until 5 Feb

THE NAKED TRUTH Key Theatre, Peterborough. Tailor-made for women, and set in a pole-dancing class, this hit comedy play from Dave Simpson, the writer of the smash-hit comedy Girls Night Out, stars Maureen Nolan and Claire King (Emmerdale), Michelle Heaton (Liberty X) and Leanne Jones (Star of Hairspray).

(01733 207239) Until 5 Feb THE LAST FIVE YEARS Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds. A poignant theatrical portrayal of the five-year relationship between an up-and-coming novelist and a struggling actress. With an accompaniment of piano, two cellos and rhythm section, Jason Robert Brown's one-act, two-actor creation provides laughter, tears, and colourful entertainment. (01284 769505) Until 2 Feb

MILES JUPP The Junction, Cambridge. Stand-up comedy. (01223 511511) CIRCUS OF HORRORS Palace Theatre, Southend-on-Sea. The Circus of Horrors is rockin' & shockin' with a fangtastic new show that is without a doubt a musical masterpiece with the pulsating devil driven Rock n Roll of Dr Haze & the Interceptors From Hell.

Imagine if Quentin Tarantino had directed Cirque Du Soleil then you would be only half way there.

(01702 351135) SPRING AWAKENING ADC Theatre, Cambridge. Based on Frank Wedekind's ground-breaking 1890s play, which was banned for over 100 years for being too sensationalist, Spring Awakening the Musical has changed the face of musical theatre forever. (01223 300085) Until 5 Feb

COMPLETE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED) Seagull Theatre, Lowestoft. The Seagull Rep present their production of the Reduced Shakespeare Company classic. Three very hard working actors take on the mighty task of covering William Shakespeare's 37 plays and 154 sonnets in one extraordinary evening. (01502 589726) FLATSPIN Assembly House, Theatre Street, Norwich. Alan Ayckbourn's second play in his trilogy "Damsels In Distress" presented by the Great Hall Players. (01603 626402) Until 5 Feb

THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE Norwich Playhouse. One of Bertolt Brecht's best loved works. (01603 598598) Until 2 Feb

WEDNESDAY 2

COMPLETE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED) Fisher Theatre, Bungay. See Tues 1. (01986 897130) Until 3 Feb

SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN Grove Theatre, Dunstable. Classic musical presnted

by Luton Light (01582 602080) Until 5 Feb THE GONDOLIERS King’s Lynn Corn Exchange. Savoy Opera presented by the Gilbert & Sullivan Society. (01553 764864) Until 5 Feb

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HOLIDAY ON ICE - ENERGIA East of England Showground, Peterborough. See panel. (0844 581 1315) Until 6 Feb HOWARD MARKS: AN EVENING WITH MR NICE Rhodes Centre, Bishop’s Stortford. Famous for his audacious cannabis trafficking and liberal opinions Howard Marks takes his show on tour to share his experiences.

(01279 651746) THE COMEDY CLUB Colchester United Football Club, United Way, Severalls Lane, Colchester. Top stand-up. (01206 755108) NO SEX PLEASE, WE’RE BRITISH! Brentwood Theatre. 1970’s farce about the taboos of pornography and pornographic material! (01277 200305) Until 5 Feb LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS Harlow Playhouse. Affectionate musical spoof of 1950s sci-fi movies. (01279 431945) TARTUFFE Maddermarket Theatre, Norwich. Norwich School Senior play. (01603 620917) Until 5 Feb

FRIDAY 4

MICKY FLANAGAN Cambridge Corn Exchange. East End funny man. (01223 357851) THE COMEDY CLUB Park View Suite, Chalkwell Park, London Road, Westcliff-on-Sea. Top stand-up. (01702 483900) THE COMEDY CLUB Ashwells Country Club, Ashwells Road, Brentwood.

Top stand-up. (01277 373828) JUST FOR LAUGHS Marina Theatre, Lowestoft. Stand-up comedy. (01502 533200) THE TALE OF BEATRIX POTTER Hertford Theatre. The story about the woman Until 5 Feb behind the classic children’s novels featuring Peter Rabbit, Jeremy Fisher and Mrs Tiggywinkle.

(01992 531500) BUTTERFLY DREAMING Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds. Variety, wit and drama combine with astute muscial choices and bold theatrical colour- this is dance at its most thrilling and enjoyable. (01284 769505)

3-6 FEBRUARY HOLIDAY ON ICE - ENERGIA Energia is more extravagant, more exhilarating and more spectacular than anything ever before staged on ice. With its revolutionary three-dimensional setting, you will be whisked into the great universe where planets spin around you in glorious colours and spectrums of light. On the ice, over 40 worldwide skaters perform breathtaking feats that will have you on the edge of your seat. Colour, excitement and fun with scintillating choreography, magnificent costumes, music composed especially for the show and not forgetting, Ein and Stein the adorable clowns.

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THANKS FOR THE MEMORY Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch. Join comedian and actor Duggie Chapman MBE for a nostalgic stroll past the comedy heroes, singers and music hall acts from the Edwardian era to the 1950s.

(01708 443333) THE EVERLY BROTHERS AND FRIENDS TRIBUTE SHOW Haverhill Arts Centre. Rock ‘n’roll music show. (01440 714140) THANK YOU FOR THE MUSIC Cliffs Pavilion, Southend-on-Sea. Abba and Bee Gees tribute show. (01702 351135) FRANKIE TITTERS ON Towngate Theatre, Basildon. Talented actor / comedian Paul Harris lays bare thew comic genius of Frankie Howerd and portrays the much loved comedy star "at his tittermost". (01268 465465) VARIETEASE BURLESQUE REVUE Norwich Puppet Theatre. From classical and neo burlesque to the down right absurd…Meet tassel twirling burlesque lovelies from all over the East of England from vibrant newcomers to quirky singing sketches. (01603 629921) LOCKERBIE: UNFINISHED BUSINESS Seagull Theatre, Lowestoft.

Using a blend of verbatim material and dramatisation, David Benson presents a grieving father’s ongoing struggle to find the truth in a hard-hitting piece of political theatre. (01502 589726) MAGNERS FUNHOUSE COMEDY CLUB Rhodes Centre, Bishop’s Stortford.

Stand-up. (01279 651746) RASH DASH The Junction, Cambridge. Combining drama, live music and passionate physicality, RashDash look at young people living in a world where ordinary isn’t good enough. (01223 511511) JESTERLARF COMEDY CLUB The Junction, Cambridge. Stand-up comedy.

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FEVER! Rhodes Centre, Bishop’s Stortford. A show celebrating the music of Peggy Lee starring legendary drummer Buddy Greco and US star Lezlie Anders and the BG All Stars Band. (01279 651746) PRECIOUS LITTLE SLEEP Marina Theatre, Lowestoft. Join Wayne Sleep and friends for a celebration of the life and career of a dance legend. A brand new show with dance routines especially choreographed by Wayne Sleep. (01502 533200) FELIX DEXTER Palace Theatre, Southend-on-Sea. Stand-up comedy. (01702 351135) THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED) Norwich Playhouse. See Tues 1. (01603 598598) JESTERLARF COMEDY CLUB Gordon Craig Theatre, Stevenage. Stand-up.

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What’s on in FEBRUARY PUSS IN BOOTS Kesgrave Community Centre. Panto presented by Springfield Follies. (01473 819051) Until 5 Feb

HALFWAY TO PARADISE Cliffs Pavilion, Southend-on-Sea. The Billy Fury Story. (01702 351135) ROCK 'N' ROLL PARADISE Towngate Theatre, Basildon. Music tribute show. (01268 465465)

SUNDAY 6

A VIENNESE STRAUSS GALA Spa Pavilion, Felixstowe. Ever popular show recreating the romance of the Viennese Festive season reminding you of a bygone age of glamorous soirees and Strauss waltzes. (01394 282126) AN EVENING WITH JAMES NAUGHTIE Cambridge Arts Theatre.

James Naughtie, one of the lead presenters on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme will talk about his long career as one of the country’s leading journalists. (01223 503333) THE ART OF BURLESQUE The Place, Bedford. A delightful evening of the pure art of Burlesque. (01234 354321) LIGHTER THAN AIR Hertford Theatre. Comedy balloon show for ages 3+.

(01992 531500) STEPHEN VENABLES: IN THE STEPS OF SHACKLETON Palace Theatre, Southend-on-Sea. The first Briton to climb Everest without supplementary oxygen, Stephen brings Shackleton’s extraordinary expedition to life, using his highly acclaimed photos and natural gifts as a storyteller to illustrate this treacherous journey and capture the thrill of climbing, skiing and sailing in a place of such haunting beauty. (01702 351135)

MONDAY 7

LIEUTENANT COLUMBO IN PRESCRIPTION: MURDER Mercury Theatre, Colcehster. Middle Ground Theatre Company present their acclaimed stage production featuring the legendary Lieutenant in his first ever case. Starring Brian Capron, best known for his role as serial killer Richard Hillman in Coronation Street, Richard Walsh (Albert “Sicknote”Quigley in London’s Burning, Alexandra Boyd (Coronation Street) and John Guerrasio as Columbo. (01206 573948) Until 12 Feb UP POMPEII Palace Theatre, Southend-on-Sea. Starring Damian Williams as ‘Lurcio’the Slave. The popular BBC sitcom that starred Frankie Howerd makes its first appearance as a stage comedy by Miles Tredinnick complete with its outrageous characters originally created by ‘Carry On’stalwart Talbot Rothwell.

(01702 351135) Until 12 Feb A VIENNESE STRAUSS GALA Gordon Craig Theatre, Stevenage. See Sun 6.

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PRECIOUS LITTLE SLEEP Spa Pavilion, Felixstowe. See Sat 5. (01394 282126) BUSY BODY Gordon Craig Theatre, Stevenage. Jack Polllewell’s hilarious comedy centres on a voluble cleaning woman who keeps telling the cops how to mind their business and who steps forward with the right evidence in every pinch. (01438 363200) Until 12 Feb THE PRODUCERS Key Theatre, Peterborough. Mel Brooks’musical comedy presented by Performing Arts students from Peterborough Regional College. (01733 207239) Until 12 Feb THAT’LL BE THE DAY Civic Theatre, Chelsmford. Rock ‘n’roll music show. (01245 606505) THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED) Pavilion Theatre, Gorleston.

See Tues 1. (01493 662832) Until 9 Feb THE SIGNALMAN The Cut, Halesworth. Common Ground have been touring East Anglia for two years, gaining critical acclaim and a loyal following. Now, they are applying their trademark techniques of physical theatre, music, storytelling and humour to the classic ghost stories of Charles Dickens, including this spine tingling tale. (0845 6732123) PRIDE AND PREJUDICE Grove Theatre, Dunstable. Jane Austen’s classic tale presented by Chapterhouse Theatre Company.

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WEDNESDAY 9

LENNY HENRY King’s Lynn Corn Exchange. See panel. (01553 764864) LOUISE JAMESON - PULLING FACES Harlow Playhouse. A popular face on our television screens for many years, Louise Jameson is best known for her time on EastEnders, although she has also starred in Doctor Who, Bergerac, River City, Tenko and Doctors. Louise is also an acclaimed stage actress and plays 12 different characters in the course of this fascinating one-hour show. (01279 431945) DANIEL KITSON The Junction, Cambridge. Stand-up comedy. (01223 511511) STEVE WILLIAMS Colchester Arts Centre. Trail-blazing whimsical Welsh stand-up comedian. (01621 890153) DR PHIL HAMMOND Norwich Arts Centre. Stand-up comedy. (01603 660352) NOISES OFF ADC Theatre, Cambridge. Michael Frayn’s classic farce.

(01223 300085) Until 19 Feb BUNNY Norwich Playhouse. Gripping drama about a fight, a car chase, and a young girl out of her depth. (01603 598598)

THURSDAY 10

CORRIE! Cambridge Arts Theatre.

Celebrating 50 ‘Golden Years’of Britain’s longestrunning and most loved soap, the World Premiere of this brand new comedy play is not to be missed. Fully endorsed by ITV, Corrie! is a funny and affectionate tribute to five decades of Coronation Street. (01223 503333) Until 19 Feb

PUNT AND DENNIS Cambridge Corn Exchange. Satircial comedy from the popular TV duo. (01223 357851) MICKY FLANAGAN Cliffs Pavilion, Southend-on-Sea. East End funny man.

(01702 351135) COUNT ARTHUR STRONG Norwich Playhouse. Comedy. (01603 598598) Until 11 Feb

THE COMEDY CLUB Waterfront Place, Wharf Road, Chelmsford. Top standup. (0845 4595656) COMEDY TURNS Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch. The greatest comedy stars from the past make an appearance in Steve Barclay’s hilarious one-man show about a small-time northern comedian preparing the ultimate comic routine. (01708 443333) THE SIGNALMAN Seckford Theatre, Woodbridge. See Tues 8. (1394 615015)

reviews during its World Cup run in London, Paul Duckworth and his forty characters return in this hilarious, lump in your throat comedy. (01473 295900) 80S MANIA Grove Theatre, Dunstable. 80s nusic tribute show. (01582 602080) COMPLETE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED) Quay Theatre, Sudbury. See Tues 1. (01787 374745) THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE JUNIOR Parkside Hall, Ampthill. 3D Youth Theatre presents this joyous musical set in the 1920s. (07973 713568) Until 13 Feb LOCKERBIE: UNFINISHED BUSINESS Bedford College Theatre. See Fri 4.

(01234 269519) ANIMAL FARM Hertford Theatre.

Magnificent solo performance of Orwell's classic satire. (01992 531500) SNOW WHITE & THE SEVEN SINS Norwich Puppet Theatre. Panto for ages 3+. (01603 629921) Until 12 Feb

SATURDAY 12

RUSSELL KANE Princes Theatre, Clacton-on-Sea. Stand-up comedy. (01255 686633)

Until 12 Feb

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds.

Shakespeare's most passionate and hot-blooded comedy. (01284 769505) Until 26 Feb BARNSTORMERS COMEDY CLUB Leighton Buzzard Theatre. Stand-up. (0300 300 8125) TONY STOCKWELL Hertford Theatre. TV’s spirit medium. (01992 531500) NOT NOW DARLING! Thameside Theatre, Grays. Classic Whitehall farce presented by Thurrock Courts Players. (0845 300 5264) Until 12 Feb

ANYTHING GOES West Cliff Theatre, Clacton-on-Sea. Cole Porter musical presented

by West Cliff Youth Group. (01255 474000) Until 12 Feb

9 FEBRUARY LENNY HENRY

An accomplished comedian, actor, writer, TV presenter and fund-raiser, Lenny still cites his first love as music. Cradle To Rave which Lenny co-wrote with Jon Carter, will take audiences on a voyage through the decades exploring the exact role music has played in his life and continues to play. It is a touching journey but, in true Lenny style there are plenty of laughs and lots of funky tunes.

King’s Lynn Corn Exchange.

FRIDAY 11

STEPHEN K AMOS Cambridge Corn Exchange. Stand-up comedy. (01223 357851) RUSSELL KANE The Junction, Cambridge. Stand-up comedy. (01223 511511) MARK STEEL Colchester Arts Centre.

Stand-up comedy (01621 890153) AN EVENING OF BURLESQUE THE ULTIMATE TEASE Cliffs Pavilion, Southend-on-Sea. Direct from London’s West End, tantalising yet tasteful, camp and colourful.

Elegant showgirls combine Parisian charm with Las Vegas glamour. (01702 351135) BEATING BERLUSCONI! New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich. Fresh from ecstatic Email your event listings for free inclusion to editorial@eastmag.com

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Stand-up comedy. (01473 433100) CHRIS PACKHAM - A WILD LIFE EXPOSED Rhodes Centre, Bishop’s Stortford. Using a series of his astonishing images Chris charts a quest to reflect the pure beauty of the nature he has long loved and dreamed of encountering. (01279 651746) IN CELEBRATION OF CHINESE NEW YEAR New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich.

An eclectic range of singing, music, dancing and drama performed by local and professional artists. (01473 295900) COUNT ARTHUR STRONG'S COMMAND PERFORMANCE Civic Theatre, Chelsmford. Comedy. (01245 606505) BOB MILLS Letchworth Arts Centre.

Stand-up comedy, plus guests. (01462 670788) PENGUIN New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich. Puppet show based on the award-winning book by Polly Dunbar. (01473 295900) WONDERFUL DAY Leighton Buzzard Theatre. Musical Cabaret celebrating the life and music of Doris Day. (0300 300 8125)

SUNDAY 13

MOSCOW STATE CIRCUS Cambridge Corn Exchange. A 35-strong cast of Russia's greatest, most flexible, award-win-

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ning circus performers push the boundaries of physical ingenuity to the limit in their new, award winning show, Legenda, which combines the legendary Russian folklore figure Rasputin with contemporary and classical circus to make a sensational show. (01223 357851) Until 15 Feb GERRY CROSS THE MERSEY Harlow Playhouse. A musical journey through the life and times of one of our greatest 60s icons – Gerry Marsden. (01279 431945) FAT CAT COMEDY CLUB The Apex, Bury St Edmunds. Stand-up. (01284 758000) SNOW PLAY The Junction, Cambridge. Interactive children’s show. (01223 511511)

MONDAY 14

MURDERED TO DEATH Civic Theatre, Chelmsford. An hilarious comedy thriller in the Agatha Christie genre, this whodunnit twists and turns with side-splitting antics and ever-increasing merriment and confusion.

Starring legendary Victor Spinetti; Sandra Dickinson from the cult classic Hitchikers' Guide to the Galaxy; Michelle Hardwick (The Royal) and Chloe Newsome (Coronation Street). (01245 606505) Until 19 Feb DANCING AT LUGHNASA Key Theatre, Peterborough. Brian Friel's Olivier Award winning play set in a remote Irish village in the 1930s. (01733 207239) Until 16 Feb CHRIS PACKHAM – A WILD LIFE EXPOSED Spa Pavilion, Felixstowe. See Sat 12. (01394 282126) SONGS FOR VALENTINES Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch. Cabaret show. (01708 443333)

TUESDAY 15

CHESS Cliffs Pavilion, Southend-onSea. Chess has one of the greatest musical theatre scores of all time including One Night In Bangkok, Pity The Child, Anthem, You And I and, of course, I Know Him So Well. (01702 351135) Until 19 Feb

THE HISTORY BOYS The Place, Bedford. Alan Bennett’s award-winning drama

presented by Swan Theatre Company. (01234 354321) Until 19 Feb RICHARD III + THE COMEDY OF ERRORS Theatre Royal, Norwich. Two Shakespeare plays presented by all-male company, Propeller. (01603 630000) Until 19 Feb TIM KEY Norwich Arts Centre. Standup comedy. (01603 660352)

WEDNESDAY 16

TIM KEY Colchester Arts Centre.

Winner of Best New Show at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2009. (01621 890153) SCIENCE MUSEUM LIVE! Bedford Corn Exchange. Spectacular science, dangerous demonstrations and extraordinary experiments as London’s world famous Science Museum takes to the stage for the first time ever. (01234 269519) Until 17 Feb ANGELOS EPITHEMIOU Palace Theatre, Southend-on-Sea. Stand-up comedy. (01702 351135) PEPPA PIG'S PARTY! Grove Theatre, Dunstable. Children’s TV show live on stage. (01582 602080) Until 19 Feb ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF AN ANARCHIST Mumford Theatre, Cambridge. Dario Fo’s sharp and hilarious satire. (0845 196 2320) NUNSENSE Sheringham Little Theatre. Musical comedy. (01263 822347) Until 19 Feb

THURSDAY 17

ANDY PARSONS Palace Theatre, Southend-on-Sea. Stand-up comedy from the Mock The Week favourite. (01702 351135) JERRY SADOWITZ Norwich Playhouse. Comedian, magician, psychopath!

(01603 598598) LILIES ON THE LAND New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich. The Women’s Land Army of World War II celebrated in this new play. (01473 295900) Until 19 Feb THE GOLDEN AGE OF MUSICAL SATIRE Haverhill Arts Centre. Presented by entertainer Peter Gill. (01440 714140)

4, 10 & 12 FEBRUARY MICKY FLANAGAN Micky draws on his East End background as he ruthlessly deconstructs the Cockney Myth with razor sharp observational wit. It's been a great 18 months for Micky Flanagan. He appeared in BBC 1's Michael McIntyre’s Road Show and the Royal Variety Show, his Radio 4 series What Chance Change? was a hit with listeners and critics alike, and he is one of a handful of comics to perform their own Comedy Central special.

Frank SKinner described Micky as 'Arguably the funniest comedian in the world… the future of comedy'.

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OLEANNA Maddermarket Theatre, Norwich. David Mamet’s provocative play.

(01603 620917) Until 26 Feb SHAUN THE SHEEP Gordon Craig Theatre, Stevenage. BBC favourite adapted for the stage. (01438 363200) Until 19 Feb THE SHAKESPEARE REVUE Sewell Barn Theatre, Constitution Hill, Norwich. A totally unserious look at the world of Shakespeare. (01603 697248) Until 26 Feb

FRIDAY 18

THE HOLLOW Harlow Playhouse.

Classic Agatha Christie whodunit. (01279 431945) Until 20 Feb AN EVENING OF BURLESQUE THE ULTIMATE TEASE Broadway Theatre, Peterborough. See Fri 11. (0844 850 0850) THE SIGNALMAN Hockwold Village Hall. See Tues 8. (01842 827268) A FISTFUL OF CHARACTERS Angles Theatre, WIsbech. Performance by mime artist Rowan Tolley. (01945 474447) PRECIOUS LITTLE SLEEP Palace Theatre, Southend-on-Sea. See Sat 5.

(01702 351135) STEPHEN VENABLES – IN THE STEPS OF SHACKLETON Spa Pavilion, Felixstowe. See Sun 6. (01394 282126) SHOWSTOPPER! THE IMPROVISED MUSICAL Norwich Playhouse.

Audience suggestions help to create a new musical on the spot. (01603 598598) ANGELOS EPITHEMIOU Ipswich Corn Exchange. Stand-up comedy. (01473 433100) A ROMANTIC COMEDY EVENING Loddon Mill Arts. Top stand-up comedy.

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SATURDAY 19

G*MANIA Broadway Theatre, Peterborough. See panel. (0844 850 0850) GYLES BRANDRETH Hertford Theatre. Stand-up comedy. (01992 531500) TERRY ALDERTON Palace Theatre, Southend-on-Sea. Stand-up comedy. (01702 351135) BRYONY KIMMINGS Colchester Arts Centre. Stand-up comedy. (01621 890153) FELIX DEXTER Norwich Playhouse.

Stand-up comedy. (01603 598598) THE SIGNALMAN Corn Hall, Diss.

See Tues 8. (01379 652241) SIMMONS & SIMMONS Spa Pavilion, Felixstowe. Comedy duo. (01394 282126) ELVIS ON TOUR Cambridge Corn Exchange. Elvis tribute show. (01223 357851) ALICE IN WONDERLAND Rhodes Centre, Bishop’s Stortford. Family show.

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THE NUTCRACKER Marina Theatre, Lowestoft. Ballet presented by Moscow City Ballet. (01502 533200) Until 21 Feb BALLET BLACK Cambridge Arts Theatre. Black and Asian ballet dancers present a mixed bill of work. (01223 503333) Until 21 Feb

DUKE'S HEADLINERS COMEDY NIGHT New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich. Top stand-up. (01473 295900) COMPLETE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED) Seagull Theatre, Lowestoft. See Tues 1. (01502 589726) SALLY MORGAN Theatre Royal, Norwich. TV’s psychic medium. (01603 630000) FESTIVAL OF THE DRAGON MOON Norwich Puppet Theatre. Ages 4 11. (01603 629921)

MONDAY 21

MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT Cambridge Corn Exchange. Award-winning musical comedy that tells the legendary tale of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table the Monty Python Way. Starring Phil Jupitus, Todd Carty and Jodie Prenger. (01223 357851) Until 26 Feb

THE HAUNTING Palace Theatre, Southend-on-Sea. BAFTA nominated Paul Nicholas (Just Good Friends) is joined by Charlie Clements, best known for playing the role of Bradley Branning in Eastenders. This gripping new adaptation of Charles Dickens’spine-tingling tales of the unexpected will have you on the edge of your seat. (01702 351135) Until 26 Feb MARK THOMAS The Junction, Cambridge. Award-winning comedian and activist. (01223 511511) Until 22 Feb THE BALLOON GARDENER Haverhill Arts Centre. Show for ages 4+.

(01440 714140) HIGH SCHOOL ROCKS Gordon Craig Theatre, Stevenage. The best hits from High School Musical 1, 2, & 3, Hannah Montana, Camp Rock and Glee! (01438 363200)

HI-DE-HI Queen Mother Theatre, Hitchin. Stage show based on the hit TV comedy. (01707 324300) Until 26 Feb SHAUN THE SHEEP Theatre Royal, Norwich. See Thurs 17. (01603 630000) Until 24 Feb

SALLY MORGAN The Cresset, Peterborough. TV’s psychic medium. (01733 265705) THE THREE BILLY GOATS GRUFF AND OTHER FURRY TAILS Norwich Puppet Theatre. Ages 3+. (01603 629921)

TUESDAY 22

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich. Headlong Theatre’s re-imagining of Shakespeare’s comedy.

(01473 295900) Until 26 Feb JOURNEY OF TURTLE Village Hall Church Road, Watlington, Kings Lynn. Ages 5+. (01553 810493) SWAN LAKE Marina Theatre, Lowestoft. Presented by Moscow City Ballet.

(01502 533200) ALAN IN WONDERLAND AND THE 3 GOATS PLUS Gazeley Village Hall. Ages 3+. (01638 751015) BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Key Theatre, Peterborough. Westward Musical Society Peterborough present the Disney Classic.

(01733 207239) Until 26 Feb ANDI OSHO Norwich Arts Centre.

Stand-up comedy. (01603 660352) WHY THE LION DANCED Brandon Leisure Centre. The story behind the lion dance

by Yellow Earth, the UK's award winning British East Asian Theatre Company. (01284 769505) THE BARBER OF SEVILLE Gordon Craig Theatre, Stevenage. Swansea City Opera present Rossini’s opera. (01438 363200) THE POTATO PEOPLE Spa Pavilion, Felixstowe. Laughter, music and mayhem for children. (01394 282126) OKLAHOMA! Plinston, Letchworth.

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic musical.

(01462 672003) Until 26 Feb POSH ADC Theatre, Cambridge. Laura Wades play about an elite Oxford student dining society. (01223 300085) Until 26 Feb

WEDNESDAY 23

AN AUDIENCE WITH COLIN DEXTER Fisher Theatre, Bungay. Author Colin Dexter will talk about his creation, Inspector Morse. (01986 897130) MACBETH Cambridge Arts Theatre.

Cheek by Jowl present their stunning production of Shakespeare’s tragedy. (01223 503333) Until 26 Feb

SARAH MILLICAN Bedford Corn Exchange. Stand-up comedy. (01234 269519) ALAN IN WONDERLAND AND THE 3 GOATS PLUS Fleggburgh Village Hall. Ages 3+. (01493 369878) FOOTLOOSE Hinchingbrooke Performing Arts Centre, Brampton Road, Huntingdon. Stage version of the hit musical.

(01480 812626) Until 26 Feb THE STEADFAST TIN SOLDIER The Junction, Cambridge. Playful retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's tale. (01223 511511) WHY THE LION DANCED St John’s Centre, Mildenhall. See Tues 22. (01284 769505)

THURSDAY 24

ZOE LYONS The Cresset, Peterborough. Stand-up comedy. (01733 265705) THE PRESS GANG CABARET Fisher Theatre, Bungay. Variety show. (01986 897130) STEPHEN K AMOS Cliffs Pavilion, Southend-on-Sea. Stand-up comedy. (01702 351135) THE COMEDY CLUB Waterfront Place, Wharf Road, Chelmsford. Top standup. (0845 4595656) GERRY CROSS THE MERSEY Gordon Craig Theatre, Stevenage. See Sun 13. (01438 363200) THE BARBER OF SEVILLE Civic Theatre, Chelmsford. See Tues 22. (01245 606505) BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Watersmeet Theatre, Rickmansworth.

Footlights Theatre Company present the magical Disney classic. (01923 711063) Until 26 Feb

19 & 25-26 FEBRUARY G*MANIA 10 stars from TV's biggest reality shows, including The X Factor and Britain's Got Talent, have been brought together to create the ultimate pop group for a spectacular concert inspired by the smash-hit TV phenomenon Glee. This high-octane, feel-good production showcases jaw-dropping choreography and brilliant new arrangements of classic tracks including Don't Stop Believin' and Gold Digger. Broadway Theatre, Peterborough (19th); Gordon Craig Theatre, Stevenage (25th)

COMEDY CLUB King’s Lynn Corn Exchange. Stand-up. (01553 764864) TWO Headgate Theatre, Colchester.

Jim Cartwright’s play. (01206 366000) Until 26 Feb

WHY THE LION DANCED Debenham Community Centre. See Tues 22.

(01284 769505) BARNSTORMERS COMEDY CLUB Grove Theatre, Dunstable. Stand-up. (01582 602080) THE NUTCRACKER Mumford Theatre, Cambridge. Performed by the Cambridge University Ballet Club. (0845 196 2320) Until 25 Feb THE CHALK GIANTS Norwich Puppet Theatre. Ages 5+. (01603 629921)

FRIDAY 25

G*MANIA Gordon Craig Theatre, Stevenage. See panel. (01438 363200) Until 26 Feb

MARK STEEL The Junction, Cambridge. Stand-up comedy. (01223 511511) ROMEO & JULIET Ipswich Regent.

Ballet performed by The Russian State Ballet & Orchestra of Siberia. (01473 433100) THE LEGEND OF SWING Cliffs Pavilion, Southend-on-Sea. Swing show.

(01702 351135) ELVIS ON TOUR Broadway Theatre, Peterborough. See Sat 19. (0844 850 0850) THE SIGNALMAN Great Hockham Village Hall. See Tues 8. (01953 498447) MILES JUPP Norwich Playhouse.

Stand-up comedy. (01603 598598) DEREK ACORAH Harlow Playhouse.

TV’s psychic medium. (01279 431945) CIRCUS HILARIOUS The Cut, Halesworth. Circus clowning show with Clive Webb, Danny Adams and cast. (0845 6732123) WHY THE LION DANCED Lavenham Village Hall. See Tues 22. (01284 769505) THE WRITING ON THE WALL The Apex, Bury St Edmunds. Winner of the BBC Radio 2 Folk Award for Best Live Act in 2001, Roy Bailey and former politician Tony Benn's acclaimed production in words and song, mixing the history of resistance to oppression and exploitation in England from the Peasants' Revolt of the 14th century up to the present day.

(01284 758000) THE RAT PACK VEGAS SPECTACULAR Thameside Theatre, Grays. Terrific tribute to Frank, Sammy and Dean. (0845 300 5264) BEDFORD COMEDY CLUB Bedford Corn Exchange. Stand-up comedy. (01234 269519) THE ELEPHANT MAN Barn Theatre, Welwyn Garden City. The true story of John Merrick. (01707 324300) Until 5 Mar

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What’s on in FEBRUARY ALICE IN WONDERLAND Hertford Theatre. Puppetry and song. (01992 531500) BIG BOX OF BANANAS Princes Theatre, Clacton-on-Sea. Comedy with CBeebies Presenter Andy Day. (01255 686633) OLD MOTHER HUBBARD Norwich Puppet Theatre. Ages 3+. (01603 629921) RED CAR COMEDY CLUB Diss Corn Hall. Stand-up. (01379 652241)

SATURDAY 26

THE CHUCKLE BROTHERS Spa Pavilion, Felixstowe. Join Paul and Barry Chuckle in their latest hilarious adventure.

(01394 282126) PINOCCHIO Colchester Arts Centre.

Children’s show. (01621 890153) ZOE LYONS Ellen Terry Suite, Gordon Craig Theatre, Stevenage. Stand-up comedy.

(01438 363200) SWAN LAKE Ipswich Regent. Ballet performed by The Russian State Ballet & Orchestra of Siberia. (01473 433100) KINGS OF SWING Theatre Royal, Norwich. Featuring the Kings of Swing Orchestra and some of the best swing vocalists.

(01603 630000) MILES JUPP Harlow Playhouse.

Stand-up comedy. (01279 431945)

THE SIGNALMAN Ashby & Thurton Village Hall. See Tues 8. (01508 480276) WHY THE LION DANCED The Guildhall, Bury St Edmunds. See Tues 22.

(01284 769505) THE NUTCRACKER Cliffs Pavilion, Southend-on-Sea. See Sun 20. (01702 351135) BOXING CLEVER Fisher Theatre, Bungay. Eight new short plays. (01986 897130) THE CHALK GIANTS Rhodes Centre, Bishop’s Stortford. Ages 5+. (01279 651746) ELMER THE ELEPHANT Hertford Theatre. Ages 3 – 7. (01992 531500) ONCE ON THIS ISLAND Buckden Millenium Centre, Burberry Road, Buckden, St. Neots. Musical adaptation of the popular fairytale The Little Mermaid. (07928 947479) THE DRAGON’S DAUGHTER Norwich Playhouse. A magical tale of adventure and friendship. (01603 598598) Until 27 Feb

STORM IN A TEACUP Norwich Puppet Theatre. Puppet show for ages 4+.

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SUNDAY 27

SARAH MILLICAN Palace Theatre, Southend-on-Sea. Stand-up comedy. (01702 351135)

VOICE OF THE HEART Gordon Craig Theatre, Stevenage. The life and music of Karen Carpenter. (01438 363200) HIGH SCHOOL ROCKS Harlow Playhouse. See Mon 21. (01279 431945) SUFFOLK’S GOT MORE TALENT Lesiton Film Theatre. Talent contest. (01728 830549) SLEEPING BEAUTY Ipswich Regent.

Stunning classical ballet performed by The Russian State Ballet & Orchestra of Siberia.

(01473 433100) ROARY THE RACING CAR Grove Theatre, Dunstable. Children’s show. (01582 602080) THE WOLVES OF WILLOUGHBY CHASE Mumford Theatre, Cambridge.

Reminiscent of Dickens and Edward Gorey, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase is thrilling, funny and spectacular with lush music and innovative staging. (0845 196 2320)

MONDAY 28

CALENDAR GIRLS Cliffs Pavilion, Southend-on-Sea. Stage version of the hit movie A group of extraordinary women, members of a very ordinary Yorkshire WI, spark a global phenomenon by persuading one another to pose naked for a charity calendar. All-star cast includes Lynda Bellingham, Jennifer Ellison,

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Trudie Goodwin, Brenda Hulse, Jane Lambert, Bruno Langley. Danielle Lineker, Ruth Madoc, Diana Moran, Joe McGann, Bernie Nolan, Lisa Riley and Gwen Taylor. (01702 351135) Until 5 Mar

LIFE OF RILEY Cambridge Arts Theatre. Starring Liza Goddard, Alan Ayckbourn’s brand new play looks backwards, forwards and sometimes sideways, with wry comic affection, on the lives we lived or might have lived. (01223 503333) Until 5 Mar OVID’S METAMORPHOSES New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich. Epic tales told through live original songs, dance, puppetry, film and darkly comic, dynamic storytelling. (01473 295900) Until 2 Mar LILIES ON THE LAND Key Theatre, Peterborough. See Thurs 17. (01733 207239) Until 2 Mar

BRYONY KIMMINGS The Junction, Cambridge. Stand-up comedy. (01223 511511) FEAR AND MISERY OF THE THIRD REICH Bedford College Theatre.

Brecht’s collection of playlets, portraying the morally defunct and distressing realities of the Nazi regime in Germany. (01234 269519) SCIENCE MUSEUM LIVE! Gordon Craig Theatre, Stevenage. See Weds 16.

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CHURCHFITTERS Hoy at Anchor Folk Club, The Ship, New Road, Leigh-onSea. Folk. (01702 715111) THE SWINGING BELLES Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch. Close-harmony trio in the style of The Boswell Sisters and The Andrews Sisters. (01708 443333) VICKI SWAN & JONNY DYER St Neots Folk Club, The Priory Centre, Priory Lane, St. Neots. Folk duo. (01234 376278)

WEDNESDAY 2

THE BLUES BAND Palace Theatre, Southend-on-Sea. A Who's Who of great British '60s hitmakers - Paul Jones, Dave Kelly, Tom McGuiness, Gary Fletcher and Rob Townsend. (01702 351135) THE PHIL BEER BAND Assembly House, Theatre Street, Norwich. Folk.

(01603 626402) RUMOURS OF FLEETWOOD MAC Cambridge Corn Exchange. Tribute.

(01223 357851) PANGAEA Norwich Arts Centre. Jazz.

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THURSDAY 3

KENNY BALL & HIS JAZZMEN High Barn, Great Bardfield. British jazz legend. (01371 811291) JUAN MARTIN Norwich Arts Centre.

Celebrated virtuoso of the flamenco guitar.

(01603 660352) MURDERDOLLS The Waterfront, Norwich. American horror punk supergroup.

(01603 508050) ONE NIGHT OF QUEEN Cliffs Pavilion, Southend-on-Sea. Tribute by Gary Mullen and ‘The Works’. (01702 351135) DENNIS ROLLINS VELOCITY TRIO Cambridge Modern Jazz Club, The Junction, Cambridge. Jazz. (01223 362550)

FRIDAY 4

JAMES TAYLOR QUARTET The Apex, Bury St Edmunds. Phenomenally-

accomplished British Hammond-led funk outfit.

(01284 758000) SHAVE THE MONKEY High Barn, Great Bardfield. One of Europe’s top folk festival bands reunite to celebrate their 20th anniversary. (01371 811291) COULL QUARTET Benslow Music Trust, Little Benslow Hills, Hitchin. Brahms, Haydn, Piazzolla. (01462 459446) RED PRIEST Auden Theatre, Gresham's School, Holt. Early music group with an all Bach programme. (01263 713444) ASAF SIRKIS TRIO Fleece Jazz, Stoke by Nayland Club, Keepers Lane, Leavenheath, Colchester. One of the world’s top jazz drummers. (O1787 211865) SOLID GOLD COUNTRY LEGENDS Palace Theatre, Southend-on-Sea. Jeanne Jordan and BJ Thomas and the Outlaw Country Band with country classics. (01702 351135) THE HONEYCOMBS + VANITY FARE Diss Corn Hall. Two top 60s groups.

(01379 652241) STEEMY DAN Fisher Theatre, Bungay. Steely Dan tribute. (01986 897130) DEEPLY PURPLE Plinston, Letchworth. Tribute. (01462 672003) PHIL BEER BAND Thameside Theatre, Grays. See Weds 2. (0845 300 5264)

SATURDAY 5

SHAKIN’ STEVENS Cambridge Corn Exchange. See panel. (01223 357851) MARTY WILDE & THE WILDCATS The Brook, Soham. British rock ‘n’ roll legend (01353 721748) LEDDRA CHAPMAN + BEN MONTAGUE High Barn, Great Bardfield.

Two fantastic radio 2 playlisted artists, not to be missed. (01371 811291) NORWICH PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY St Andrew's Hall, St Andrew's Plain, Norwich. Tchaikovsky Symphony No 4.

(01603 628319) ILIKETRAINS Norwich Arts Centre.

Leeds band. (01603 660352)

LET IT ROCK Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch. Chris “Fender” Black and his band play classic hits from the 50s and 60s. (01708 443333) RUMOURS OF FLEETWOOD MAC Ipswich Regent. Tribute. (01473 433100) TOMMY WINN Seagull Theatre, Lowestoft. Singer performs songs by the American Greats. (01502 589726) SOUTHERN SOUL MACHINE Quay Theatre, Sudbury. Terrific local classic soul band. (01787 374745)

SUNDAY 6

SHAKIN’ STEVENS Cliffs Pavilion, Southend-on-Sea. See panel. (01702 351135) JIMMY WEBB The Junction, Cambridge. Described by Frank Sinatra as being “blessed with the emotions and artistic talent of the great lyricists”, Jimmy Webb is one of the most celebrated composers and songwriters in American music history. The multi-Grammy winner is responsible for writing classics such as Wichita Lineman, By The Time I Get To Phoenix, and Up, Up and Away. (01223 511511) TINA MAY JazzNights, The Bell, Market Hill, Clare. Tina has been a prominent part of the jazz scene since 1981 and won the BT British Jazz Award 1998 for Best Vocalist.

(01787 237653) JUAN MARTIN Haverhill Arts Centre. See Thurs 3. (01440 714140) CK GOSPEL CHOIR Cambridge Corn Exchange. Premier gospel choir, as seen on Must Be The Music. (01223 357851) JAY PHELPS' QUINTET Colchester Arts Centre. Jazz. (01621 890153) THE KRISTIAN BORRING QUARTET Milestones Jazz Club, Hotel Hatfield, The Esplanade, Lowestoft. Danish jazz guitarist. 8pm.

WHITE LIES UEA LCR, Norwich.

Massively epic pop music. (01603 508050) FUNERAL PARTY Norwich Arts Centre. East LA based disco/punk band.

(01603 660352)

5, 6 & 23 FEBRUARY SHAKIN’ STEVENS It’s a big year for the Welsh ‘Elvis’. One of the mosty successful British male artists of the last century, Shakin’ commemorates the 30th anniversary of his first number one hit, This Ole House, with a nationwide tour and an appearance at this year’s Glastonbury Festival.

Shakin’ (original name Michael Barratt) has had three other number ones, Green Door, Oh Julie and Merry Christmas Everyone and a whole bundle of other hits including You Drive Me Crazy and A Love Worth Waiting For. Cambridge Corn Exchange (5th); Cliffs Pavilion, Southend, Essex (6th); UEA LCR, Norwich (23rd).

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RED BEANS ‘N’ RICE Fisher Theatre, Bungay. New Orleans jazz. (01986 897130) THE LIAM GRUNDY BAND Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch. Roadhouse blues, Americana and country. (01708 443333) STEVE KNIGHTLEY + JIM CAUSLEY Hitchin Folk Club, Sun Hotel, Hitchin. Folk music. (01462 812391) DYLAN HOWE QUARTET Campus West, The Campus, Welwyn Garden City.

Jazz. (01707 357117) THE SUSSEX JAZZ KINGS Colchester Jazz Club, Stanway Rovers Football Club, New Farm Road, Colchester.

Jazz. (01206 501891) SCHUBERT IN SPLENDOUR Holkham Hall. Concert in the magnificent setting of the Marble Hall to support the work of the Norfolk Branch of the Campaign to Protect Rural England. (01603 250239)

MONDAY 7

FRANCIS ROSSI The Waterfront, Norwich. Legendary Status Quo frontman Francis Rossi released a solo album in 2010. ’One Step At A Time’ is hugely entertaining and offers an insight into another facet of Rock’s great frontman. (01603 508050) TEDDY THOMPSON Norwich Arts Centre. A London-born singer songwriter based in New York, Teddy's work is melodic and brooding - following in the footsteps of his parents, British folk-rock icons Richard and Linda Thompson. (01603 660352) JOHN KIRKPATRICK Colchester Arts Centre. Folk singer/songwriter. (01621 890153) GOOD CHARLOTTE UEA LCR, Norwich. Edgy, melodic and emotionally acute brand of indie rock. (01603 508050)

TUESDAY 8

ANDY MCKEE Colchester Arts Centre. One of the world’s finest acoustic guitar soloists. (01621 890153) THE WILDERS Norwich Arts Centre.

Kansas band deliver a blistering fiddle / banjo/ guitar/ dobro / slap bass hoedown. (01603 660352) DAVID FERRARD Hoy at Anchor Folk CLub, The Ship, New Road, Leigh-onSea. Folk. (01702 715111) ESCHER STRING QUARTET The Apex, Bury St Edmunds. Exciting young string quartet. (01284 758000) CARDY & COKE + STEVE CHERELLE Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch.

Country music performed in the foyer. (01708 443333) QUICKSILVER St Neots Folk Club, The Priory Centre, Priory Lane, St. Neots.

Folk. (01234 376278)

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IMELDA MAY UEA LCR, Norwich. See panel. (01603 508050) THE GO! TEAM The Junction, Cambridge. Brighton based multi-national boy/girl sextet with their unique hi-octane, highwire, high kicking brand of chaotic euphoria. (01223 511511) FIVE STAR SWING Bedford Corn Exchange. Big band swing. (01234 269519) 100 YEARS OF JAZZ Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch. An entertaining journey from New Orleans to bebop, swing to Latin and hot to cool. (01708 443333)

THURSDAY 10

JIMMY WEBB Norwich Arts Centre.

See Sun 6. (01603 660352) SHLOMO Colchester Arts Centre.

Jaw-droppingly good Master of the fine art of beatboxing. (01621 890153) LO CÒR DE LA PLANA The Junction, Cambridge. Hailing from Marseille, Lo Còr de la Plana explore their Occitan musical heritage in a new way, breaking the restrictions of traditional song. (01223 511511) CREOLE CHOIR OF CUBA The Apex, Bury St Edmunds. Passionate melodies, wild harmonies and richly textured arrangements of a group of remarkable voices whose jubilant performances celebrate roots, resistance and the irresistible rhythms of life.

(01284 758000) BUBLÉ FEVER Harlow Playhouse.

Michael Buble tribute by Rickie Arthur. (01279 431945)

FRIDAY 11

THE BLUES BAND The Apex, Bury St Edmunds. See Weds 2. (01284 758000) GARY PORTER BAND High Barn, Great Bardfield. An evening of blues, rock & jazz. (01371 811291) BUDDY BOLDEN BLEW IT PROJECT Fleece Jazz, Stoke by Nayland Club, Keepers Lane, Leavenheath, Colchester. A history of the jazz trumpet told through the compositions of great jazz trumpet players such as Louis Armstrong and Bix Beiderbecke. (O1787 211865) FRANCESQA Norwich Arts Centre.

Hotly tipped Berkshire based quintet. (01603 660352) THE NEW SQUADRONAIRE ORCHESTRA Harlow Playhouse. Music of the 1940s as it was played then! (01279 431945) SOLID GOLD COUNTRY LEGENDS Haverhill Arts Centre. See Fri 4.

(01440 714140) SHOCKWAVES NME AWARDS TOUR UEA LCR, Norwich. Crystal Castles + Magnetic Man + Everything Everything.

(01603 508050)

STRANGEWORLD March Town Hall Arts Centre, Market Place, March.

Progressive folk music. (01354 652769) THE ROYAL AIR FORCE SQUADRONAIRES Plinston, Letchworth. One of the United Kingdom’s finest Big Bands. (01462 672003) CLARIDADE Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch. Brazilian music and song.

(01708 443333)

SATURDAY 12

THE THREE DEGREES Harlow Playhouse. 70s soul trio known for hits such as When Will I See You Again. Today, the line-up consists of Valerie Holiday, Helen Scott and Cynthia Garrison. (01279 431945) STAN TRACEY TRIO Quay Theatre, Sudbury. Top jazz. This trio playing together forms the nucleus of all Stan's groups: quartet to orchestra included. (01787 374745) CHRIS DEAN & THE SYD LAWRENCE ORCHESTRA Spa Pavilion, Felixstowe. Unbeatable big band swing. (01394 282126) THE GREAT AMERICAN SOUL BOOK Gordon Craig Theatre, Stevenage.

Classic soul concert with Gary U.S Bonds and Ben E King. (01438 363200) SPEEDOMETER Norwich Arts Centre. Premier funk band. (01603 660352) THE WOLSEY ORCHESTRA The Apex, Bury St Edmunds. Britten, Elgar, Rachmaninov. (01284 758000) D’UKES FEST Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch. Wonderful nine-piece ukulele orchestra, plus guests. (01708 443333) THE NEW SQUADRONAIRES ORCHESTRA Ipswich Corn Exchange.

Music of the 1940s as it was played then!

(01473 433100) TIGHT FIT Hertford Theatre. 80s favourites. (01992 531500) ENGLISH MOZART ENSEMBLE St Michael's Church, Windhill, Bishop's Stortford. Concert by Candlelight. (0870 243 0615) ISAMBARDE Headgate Theatre, Colchester. An explosive mix of traditional and original songs. (01206 366000) KATY SETTERFIELD Grove Theatre, Dunstable. Great singer who pays tribute to some of the great female vocalists. (01582 602080) WOODBRIDGE CHORAL SOCIETY Snape Maltings Concert Hall.

Beethoven, Dvorak, and Brahms. (01728 687110) BEDFORDSHIRE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Bedford Corn Exchange.

Brahms Academic Festival Overture; Dvorák Symphony No. 9 ‘From the New World’. (01234 269519) THE FLOE Cramphorn Theatre, Chelsmford. Poetic pop. (01245 606505)

JIMMY BUCKLEY The Brook, Soham. Irish country. (01353 721748)

SUNDAY 13

STEVE KNIGHTLEY & JIM CAUSLEY The Cut, Halesworth. Two great folk music talents. (0845 6732123) THE NEW SQUADRONAIRES ORCHESTRA Gordon Craig Theatre, Stevenage. Music of the 1940s as it was played then! (01438 363200) VIENNA TONKUNSTLER ORCHESTRA Cliffs Pavilion, Southendon-Sea. Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms. (01702 351135) RED BEANS ‘N’ RICE Fisher Theatre, Bungay. New Orleans jazz. (01986 897130) WE THE KINGS The Waterfront, Norwich. Pop-punk. (01603 508050) SINFONIA VIVA Civic Theatre, Chelmsford. Schumann, Stravinsky, Beethoven. (01245 606505) MIKE SILVER & JOHNNY COPPIN Hitchin Folk Club, Sun Hotel, Hitchin. Folk music. (01462 812391) BOBBY WELLINS QUARTET Campus West, The Campus, Welwyn Garden City. Jazz. (01707 357117) BRITTEN SINFONIA Theatre Royal, Norwich. A programme of some of the most beautiful English music for strings and voice.

(01603 630000) JOHNNY RODGER'S HOT SIX Colchester Jazz Club, Stanway Rovers Football Club, New Farm Road, Colchester.

Jazz. (01206 501891)

MONDAY 14

VALENTINE'S DAY CHAMPAGNE CONCERT Ely Cathedral. A unique opportunity to serenade your loved one on Valentine’s Day with an evening of romance and virtuosity from stunning violinist and a previous winner of BBC Young Musician of the Year, Nicola Loud.

With a host of show-stopping favourites and a glass of complimentary interval champagne,

the evening promises to be a romantic, enthralling and entertaining occasion. Includes music by Elgar, Massenet, Gluck, Franck and Sarasate. (01353 660349) MEDIAEVAL BEABES High Barn, Great Bardfield. A uniquely intimate and highly romantic candlelit Valentines Day concert by the all-female vocal ensemble whose modern re-working of medieval choral works has brought them critical acclaim across the world.

(01371 811291) DEVIL SOLD HIS SOUL Norwich Arts Centre. “Crushingly heavy, darkly atmospheric, emotionally poignant, and never less than utterly enthralling”. (01603 660352) NANCY KERR AND JAMES FAGAN Colchester Arts Centre. Folk.

(01621 890153) THE BIG CHRIS BARBER BAND Norwich Playhouse. The legendary band leader and his musicians play some Valentine's Day tunes. (01603 598598) ANDY MAWBEY Corinthinian Restaurant, Gordon Craig Theatre, Stevenage. Jazz swing vocalist sings Simatra, Darin etc. (01438 363200) HAYDN - THE CREATION The Chapel of St John's College, St John's Street, Cambridge. Peformed by the Choir of St John's College, Cambridge. (01223 339363) L'ART DU HAUTBOIS Library Theatre, Luton. Britten, Vivaldi Ravel, Finzi, Saint-Saëns. (01582 547474)

TUESDAY 15

TEDDY THOMPSON The Junction, Cambridge. See Mon 7. (01223 511511) THE MARTIN SIMPSON BAND The Apex, Bury St Edmunds. Twice-winner Musician Of The Year BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards and Album of the Year in 2002. (01284 758000) THE CRAVE Chinnery’s, Marine Parade, Southend-on-Sea. Brighton fourpiece playing Big Rock sing-along anthems with riffs and melodies that could echo across every stadium in the world. (01702 467305)

9 FEBRUARY IMELDA MAY With her strikingly cool but quirky 50s look and raw energy, Imelda May is taking the music scene by storm. Having fallen in love with rockabilly and blues as a nine-year-old in Dublin, she has fused them together and given them a modern twist, winning a legion of fans along the way.

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OUT | Music THE HOLD STEADY The Waterfront, Norwich. Brooklyn based alternative rockers. (01603 508050) KIRK RADDON Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch. Beat infused acoustic sound.

(01708 443333)

WEDNESDAY 16

FEEDER The Junction, Cambridge.

Formed in 1992, Feeder's heavy guitars and sugarsweet melodies have made a lasting impression on the UK's rock scene and finally gained deserved chart success in 2001 with the single 'Buck Rogers'. Despite the tragic death of drummer Jon Lee in January 2002, the band have managed to stay together. (01223 511511) ALLEN-PELLS DUO Swinburne Hall, Sheepen Road, Colchester. Classical guitar duo. (01206 712999) EMILY BARKER AND THE RED CLAY HALO Norwich Arts Centre.

Country-folk from Australia. (01603 660352) THE TRADZ Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch. Trad jazz. (01708 443333) ANTHONY JOHN CLARKE Ely Folk Club, The Lamb Hotel, Lynn Road, Ely. Folk.

(01353 740999)

THURSDAY 17

SIMON FINN Colchester Arts Centre. Dark folk. (01621 890153) RAYMOND FROGGATT Broadway Theatre, Peterborough. Popular country singer songwriter. (0844 850 0850) LITTLE COMETS Norwich Arts Centre. Feel good, jarring beat pop-rock fourpiece from Newcastle. (01603 660352) LENDVAI STRING TRIO The Bunyan Meeting, Mill Street, Bedford.

Beethoven, Schubert, Sibelius, Finzi and Martinu. (01234 269519) DINOSAUR PILE-UP Esquires, Bedford. Leeds rock three-piece. (01234 340120)

BARRY MARTYN & THE YOUNG BLOODS Electric Palace, Harwich. Jazz.

(01255 553333)

FRIDAY 18

THE FEELING Chinnery’s, Marine Parade, Southend-on-Sea. Harking back to the heady days of The Beatles and Supertramp, the Feeling are a good-time band, whose footstomping, heart-wrenching anthems will melt the coldest of hearts. (01702 467305) FOUR PARTS GUITAR High Barn, Great Bardfield. Four guitar greats, one amazing show: Gordon Giltrap, Clive Carroll, John Etheridge & Ray Burley. (01371 811291) Until 19 Feb

BLACK LABEL SOCIETY Cambridge Corn Exchange. Heavy Metal.

(01223 357851) WE CAN’T DANCE Norwich Arts Centre. (01603 660352) CARL BARAT UEA LCR, Norwich. One of the most important musicians of the last decade, former member of The Libertines and Dirty Pretty Things. (01603 508050) MOSCOW DRUG CLUB QUINTET Fleece Jazz, Stoke by Nayland Club, Keepers Lane, Leavenheath, Colchester.

Elements of 1930s Berlin Cabaret, Hot Club de France, New Orleans Funeral Parade, and Gypsy Campfire, an intoxicating and intimate musical experience. (O1787 211865) THE FORTUNES + THE IVY LEAGUE Plinston, Letchworth. Two great 60s chart bands. (01462 672003) ROBERT BROWN & THE SMOULDERING SONS The Cut, Halesworth. Folk/blues/jazz. (0845 6732123) THE MISPELT Esquires, Bedford.

Northampton-based rock three-piece. (01234 340120) THE PLONKERS AGRICULTURAL ORCHESTRA SCRUMPY NIGHT Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch. Country yokel and comedy songs. (01708 443333) BROOKS WILLIAMS Cambridge Folk Club, The Golden Hind, Cambridge.

Folk music, with Fran McGillivary and Mike Burke. (01638 603986) THE KILKENNYS The Brook, Soham. Ireland’s most exciting young folk and ballad group. (01353 721748) BEARDYMAN The Waterfront, Norwich. 2006 and 2007 UK beatbox champion. (01603 508050)

SATURDAY 19

BARBARA DICKSON Pavilion Theatre, Cromer Pier. The Sottish singing sensation celebrates over 40 years as a professional musician, the award-winning, multi-million selling recording artiste. (01263 512495) PAUL LEEGAN & THE LEGENDS Quay Theatre, Sudbury. Terrific 1950s rock ‘n’ roll and skiffle. (01787 374745) LEVELLERS Bedford Corn Exchange.

90s folk-rock exponents, promising a highoctane, hit-rich show from their extensive back catalogue of material. (01234 269519) THE GREAT AMERICAN SOULBOOK Ipswich Regent. See Sat 12. (01473 433100) LONDON WELSH MALE VOICE CHOIR Snape Maltings Concert Hall.

Internationally renowned choir, together with award winning soprano soloist Rhian Lois.

(01728 687110) CRACKED ACTORS Esquires, Bedford. Bowie meets Marley with a dash of ska thrown in. (01234 340120) BARE BONES BOOGIE BAND Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch. Classic rock ‘n’ blues ‘n’ boogie. (01708 443333) THE NEW SQUADRONAIRES ORCHESTRA Cambridge Corn Exchange.

Based on and a tribute to the original wartime orchestra. (01223 357851) HOT CLUB TRIO Westacre Theatre.

Jazz. (01760 755800) THE WILLOWS The Boathouse, Chesterton Road, Cambridge. Alt Folk band intricately weave traditional and modern roots music within well-crafted songs. Launch of EP, with guests. £4 on door. (01223 460905)

18 FEBRUARY GEORGE HAMILTON IV The International Ambassador Of Country Music, From the million seller “A Rose And A Baby Ruth” in 1956 to “Canadian Pacific” and his signature song “Abeline”, which earned his induction to the Sidewalk Of The Stars at the Country Music Hall of Fame, George Hamilton IV’s status as a superstar of country music is undoubted.

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, George hosted his own National Television series in Britain and Canada and was also the First Nashville-based artist to record songs written by Canada's Joni Mitchell. High Barn, Great Bardfield, Essex.

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THE SATURDAYS Cliffs Pavilion, Southend-on-Sea. This 5-piece girl pop group - featuring former S-Club Juniors members Frankie Sandford and Rochelle Wiseman - first toured in 2008 supporting Girls Aloud. They have since had multiple top-10 hit singles and have set the pop world alight with their high energy performances. (01702 351135) BARBARA DICKSON Civic Theatre, Chelmsford. See Sat 19. (01245 606505) GRUFF RHYS Norwich Arts Centre.

Solo gig by the main singer and songwriter for Welsh band Super Furry Animals. (01603 660352) FAIRPORT CONVENTION Cambridge Corn Exchange. British folk-rock legends. (01223 357851) BRITISH SEA POWER The Junction, Cambridge. One of Britain's most noteworthy bands. (01223 511511) JAMES YORKSTON The Junction, Cambridge. A popular figure in the contemporary music world and integral member of Fence Collective. (01223 511511) ESTELLE KOKOT JazzNights, The Bell, Market Hill, Clare. An exceptional South African singer and pianist. (01787 237653) ROY WILLIAMS QUARTET Ipwich Jazz Club, California Club, Foxhall Road, Ipswich. Jazz. (01473 231552) RED BEANS ‘N’ RICE Fisher Theatre, Bungay. New Orleans jazz. (01986 897130) PJ WRIGHT & BROOKES WILLIAMS Hitchin Folk Club, Sun Hotel, Hitchin. Folk music. (01462 812391) TIM RICHARDS TRIO Campus West, The Campus, Welwyn Garden City.

Jazz. (01707 357117) COLIN KINGWELL'S JAZZ BANDITS Colchester Jazz Club, Stanway Rovers Football Club, New Farm Road, Colchester. Jazz. (01206 501891)

MONDAY 21

JAMES YORKSTON Norwich Arts Centre. See Sun 20. (01603 660352) OCEAN COLOUR SCENE UEA LCR, Norwich. Birmingham’s emperors of rock’n’folk. (01603 508050) BRITISH SEA POWER The Waterfront, Norwich. See Sun 20. (01603 508050) MEGSON Colchester Arts Centre.

Folk. (01621 890153)

TUESDAY 22

ELAINE PAIGE Cliffs Pavilion, Southend-on-Sea. See panel. (01702 351135)

What’s on in FEBRUARY FAIRPORT CONVENTION Colchester Arts Centre. Folk legends.

(01621 890153) EXAMPLE UEA LCR, Norwich. Example continues to fuel his assault on the charts with his dysfunctional electro pop vibe. (01603 508050) GEORGE HAMILTON IV High Barn, Great Bardfield. See panel. (01371 811291) PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA Bedford Corn Exchange. Beethoven, Dvorak, Mendelssohn. (01234 269519) ALLAN TAYLOR St Neots Folk Club, The Priory Centre, Priory Lane, St. Neots.

Folk. (01234 376278) HICKMAN & QUINN Hoy at Anchor Folk Club, The Ship, New Road, Leigh-onSea. Folk. (01702 715111)

WEDNESDAY 23

ELAINE PAIGE Ipswich Regent. See Tues 22. (01473 433100) ALEXANDRA BURKE Cliffs Pavilion, Southend-on-Sea. Winner of the 2008 X Factor, Alexandra Burke grew up in North London and is the daughter of former Soul II Soul lead singer Melissa Bell. Influenced by classic soul singers and contemporary heroes such as Mariah Carey and Beyonce, her hits have included Bad Boys and All Night Long. (01702 351135) SHAKIN’ STEVENS UEA LCR, Norwich. See Sat 5. (01603 508050) THE THREE DEGREES Marina Theatre, Lowestoft. See Sat 12. (01502 533200) EMILY PORTMAN Norwich Arts Centre. Singer, writer and concertina player based in the North East of England and former BBC Folk Award nominee. (01603 660352) THE MIDNIGHT BEAST The Waterfront, Norwich. A mixture of comedy, hip-hop and electro. (01603 508050) TRUDY KERR High Barn, Great Bardfield. Jazz vocalist. (01371 811291) THE KILKENNYS Towngate Theatre, Basildon. See Fri 18. (01268 465465)

THURSDAY 24

STEVE HARLEY Broadway Theatre, Peterborough. The Original Cockney Rebel in his highly acclaimed three man acoustic show.

(0844 850 0850) THE THREE DEGREES Towngate Theatre, Basildon. See Sat 12. (01268 465465) THE GO! TEAM The Waterfront, Norwich. See Weds 9. (01603 508050) TINA DICO The Junction, Cambridge.

Danish singer-songwriter. (01223 511511) THE BOOTLEG SIXTIES Haverhill Arts Centre. 60s tribute by The Overtures.

(01440 714140) THE GREAT AMERICAN SOULBOOK Harlow Playhouse. See Sat 12.

(01279 431945)

THE WILDCARDS High Barn, Great Bardfield. Blues, swing, boogie and all kinds of retro madness. (01371 811291)

FRIDAY 25

CARL BARÂT The Junction, Cambridge. See Fri 18. (01223 511511) THE BEAT Hertford Corn Exchange.

2 Tone ska legends. (01992 442992) BINGHAM QUARTET Benslow Music Trust, Little Benslow Hills, Hitchin.

Haydn, Barber, Elgar. (01462 459446) GLENN MILLER 1940S NIGHT Burgess Hall, St Ives. Featuring top trombonist Chris Smith who toured with Glenn Miller and Frank Sinatra, supported by the String of Pearls and a 16 piece big band. (01480 388500) THE THREE DEGRESS Concert Hall, Stevenage. See Weds 23. (01438 363200) SUSAN MCCANN Fisher Theatre, Bungay. Country singer. (01986 897130) EMILY BARKER AND THE RED CLAY HALO Cambridge Folk Club, The Golden Hind, Cambridge. See Weds 16.

(01638 603986) SENSES FAIL The Waterfront, Norwich. American screamo band. (01603 508050) MUDD The Brook, Soham. Glam Rock tribute. (01353 721748) STEVE FISHWICK + OSIAN ROBERTS QUINTET Fleece Jazz, Stoke

by Nayland Club, Keepers Lane, Leavenheath, Colchester. Jazz. (O1787 211865)

SATURDAY 26

ELKIE BROOKS The Apex, Bury St Edmunds. One of the most successful singers the UK has ever produced. Since her career began in the early 1960s as a support act to The Beatles, she has had over a dozen UK hit singles, including Pearl’s a Singer and Lilac Wine.

(01284 758000) RICK WAKEMAN Broadway Theatre, Peterborough. An evening with the keyboard wizard and Grumpy Old Man, performing on the piano and telling humorous and intimate anecdotes.(0844 850 0850) TERRORVISION The Waterfront, Norwich. Bradford rock band. (01603 508050) SARAH MCCLURG Civic Theatre, Bedford. Canadian country singer. (01234 269519) BOO HEWERDINE + BROOKS WILLIAMS St Peter & St Mary Magdalene's Church, Fordham. Two outstanding singer songwriters. (01353 616991) SARA MITRA High Barn, Great Bardfield. Engaging jazz and folk-influenced singer. (01371 811291)

YUCK Norwich Arts Centre. Band formed from the ruins of Cajun Dance Party.

(01603 660352) BON JOVI EXPERIENCE Civic Theatre, Chelmsford. Tribute. (01245 606505) TOO REX Chinnery’s, Marine Parade, Southend-on-Sea. Top T-Rex tribute. (01702 467305) THE BOHEMIANS Pavilion Theatre, Cromer Pier. Queen tribute. (01263 512495) THE INDIANS West Cliff Theatre, Clacton-on-Sea. Irish country band. (01255 474000) PAT JORDAN The Brook, Soham.

Country. (01353 721748) ABBA REVIVAL Diss Corn Hall.

Tribute. (01379 652241) THE LAURIE CHESCO REUNION BAND Wickham Bishops Club of Jazz, Wickham Bishops Village Hall. Jazz. (01621 853626)

SUNDAY 27

SHAUN WILLIAM RYDER The Junction, Cambridge. Fresh from his jungle exploits, Shaun William Ryder takes to the road to perform hits from The Happy Mondays, Black Grape and solo material. Plus support from The Twang. (01223 511511) THE GREAT AMERICAN SOULBOOK Marina Theatre, Lowestoft. See Sat 12. (01502 533200) ROLL DEEP The Waterfront, Norwich. Firmly establishing their place in the main stream whilst still upholding their street roots, Roll Deep's Mexicalypso grime meets salsa hip hop. (01603 508050) JACQUI DANKWORTH Cambridge Arts Theatre. Singing a selection from her award-winning back catalogue as well as some stories about her musical heritage. (01223 503333) CHLOE HANSLIP & ASHLEY WASS Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds.

Violinist is joined by BBC Proms pianist Ashley Wass. (01284 769505) TINA DICO Norwich Arts Centre. See Thurs 24. (01603 660352) AN EVENING WITH JACKIE PITTMAN & JOHN DUTTON Hylands House, Chelmsford. Soprano and pianist.

(01245 605555) ROBERT WOLFE Empire Theatre, Butler Road, Halstead. Organist. (01621 890153) RED BEANS ‘N’ RICE Fisher Theatre, Bungay. New Orleans jazz. (01986 897130) PHIL BEER + MIRANDA SYKES Hitchin Folk Club, Sun Hotel, Hitchin. Folk music. (01462 812391)

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STAN TRACEY TRIO Campus West, The Campus, Welwyn Garden City. Jazz.

(01707 357117) NICK PAGE TRIO Letchworth Arts Centre. Jazz. (01462 670788) COLIN KINGWELL'S JAZZ BANDITS Colchester Jazz Club, Stanway Rovers Football Club, New Farm Road, Colchester. Jazz. (01206 501891)

MONDAY 28

THE STREETS UEA LCR, Norwich.

After breaking out of the UK garage scene in 2002 with the single ’Has It Come to This?’, a number of hits ensued including ’Dry Your Eyes’, ’Fit But You Know It’ and ’Blinded By The Lights’.

(01603 508050) MARY WILSON + THE CHILITES King’s Lynn Corn Exchange. The former Supremes singer with the 70s soul vocal band whose hits included Have You Seen Her. (01553 764864) DEVLIN The Waterfront, Norwich. An unbounded talent in the grime scene. (01603 508050)

22 & 23 FEBRUARY ELAINE PAIGE The award-winning musical theatre star, multi-platinum recording artist and popular BBC radio presenter, returns to the concert stage this year with a brand new evening of music and song. Elaine will perform some of the modern classics from her new album, Elaine Paige and Friends, along with a selection of her favorite standards and her greatest hits.

Cliffs Pavilion, Southend (22nd); Ipswich Regent 23rd).

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Frozen in time 15th January to 27th February 2011 “I am just going outside and I may be sometime.�

Stunning photographs taken during Scott’s fateful British Expedition of 1910-13 Saturday 5th February at 3pm in the Learning for Life Centre – Illustrated talk by Noel Riley and Christopher and Julien Courtauld about their fathers' polar expedition of 1930-31.

A temporary exhibition looking at his decorative designs and motifs Until 27 March • Free admission

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An Easter Choral Feast A programme of sacred Renaissance masterpieces Old and New Adrian Batten c.1591-1637, William Byrd 1540-1623 Edward Elgar 1857-1934, Hubert Parry 1848-1918 Charles Villiers Stanford 1852-1924 Tomás Luis de Victoria c.1548-1611

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Alexander Crowe Friday 15 April 2011 at 18.30 The Stone Hall, Houghton Hall by kind permission of Lord Cholmondeley

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Saturday 16 April 2011 at 18.30 St Mary’s Parish Church, South Creake, North Norfolk by kind permission of the Vicar, Church Wardens and PCC

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Buffet in The Old Chapel after the Creake performance £18.50 Yorke Trust 01328 823501 Rodney’s Cottage, Church Lane, South Creake NR21 9LX Tickets online www.yorketrust.org

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MAHARAJAH: SOVEREIGN, SQUIRE, REBEL Ancient House, White Hart Street, Thetford. The story of Maharajah Duleep Singh and his family’s connection to Thetford. A king at five, the Maharajah became a favourite of Queen Victoria. He lived the life of an English aristocrat but died a broken man, alone and in poverty. This fascinating exhibition brings together royal jewellery, costume, archive photographs and art work. Many of these treasures are on public display for the first time. (01842 752599) Until 11 June WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR The Town Hall Galleries, Cornhill, Ipswich. The Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition is now in its 46th year and is an international showcase for the very best nature photography. There are over 100 photographs from the competition's 18 categories in a visually stunning and inspiring exhibition that debuted at the Natural History Museum, London and is now on the first stop of its nationwide tour. (01473 432863) Until 25 Feb

TUDOR TIMES Saffron Walden Museum. Exhibition about Tudor life in the East of England. (01799 510333) Until 20 Mar HELENA HADJIOANNOU & MARK JUDSON: MINDSCAPES Artcell, Cancer Research UK - Cancer Research Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, Cambridge. Both artists create texture by the use of sand and earth. Helena uses oils and Mark uses glass, sawdust, acrylics inks and oils, and although both artists use a similar way of working the final outcome is quite different. (01223 404180) Until 27 Feb JMT200 COMMEMORATIVE TEXTILE PROJECT Jaywick Martello Tower, The Promenade, Belsize Avenue, Jaywick. In February 2010 a group of local people got together with Textile artist Vanessa Rolf and started work on project. It began by inviting people to contribute their photographs, postcards, historical facts and personal stories about Jaywick to the research. Using the research and personal memories six textile panels were designed and created by the group. The finished pieces can be seen at Jaywick Martello Tower before embarking on a tour. (01255 822783) Until 27 Mar

EAST ANGLIAN BASKETRY The Gallery, Norwich University College of the Arts, St George's Street, Norwich. Items representing the immensely rich and varied basketry culture of East Anglia. (01603 756247) Until 12 Feb

BEYOND THE FRAME Epping Forest District Museum, Sun Street, Waltham Abbey. Beyond the Frame partners five Essex museums with five Essex linked artists. Each artist has used works on paper from the museum collections as inspiration to create new artworks. (01992 716882) Until 26 Mar IN CLOSE SUCCESSION Norwich Arts Centre. A group exhibition of animated moving image work by Alice Bouttell, Trisha McCrae, Alex Pearl, Tom Wiles, and Simon Woolham. (01603 660352) Until 19 Feb A SKVADER Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery. A collaborative exhibition initiated by the Contemporary Art Society. It combines objects and paintings from various periods of art history, all of which have a particular relation to Norwich. Contemporary art from artistrun gallery OUTPOST and arts agency KaavousBhoyroo is displayed alongside rarely seen paintings from Norwich Castle's permanent collection.

(01603 493625) Until 5 June SWEET SWEET GALAXY, PIP AND POP Smiths Row, The Market Cross, Cornhill, Bury St Edmunds. See panel.

(01284 762081) Until 26 Feb THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN! Sea Pictures Gallery, Well Lane, Clare. An exhibition of art by men, for men, with a twist.

(01787 279024) Until 21 Feb JUSTIN PARTYKA : BLACK FEN THEY CALL IT... Babylon Gallery,Waterside, Ely. After completing his studies as a folklorist in 2001, Norfolk artist Partyka began a long-term project photographing the agrarian community of East Anglia.

Justin Partyka visited Isleham over a number weeks during 2010. His large scale colour photographs create a contemporary portrait of the village over thirty years since the oral history of Fenwomen was collected. In that time much has changed in Isleham, but Partyka’s photographs also reveal the timeless way of life in the Fens, the mysterious qualities of the inescapable landscape and how it continues to shape the people who live surrounded by it. (01353 669022) Until 27 Feb

DIFFERENT FRAME OF MIND Courtyard Arts, Port Vale, Hertford. A group of aspiring local artists whose shared creative passion has been nurtured at the Hertford based drug and alcohol charity, Westminster Drugs Project. (01992 509596) Until 5 Feb LIZ BOAST: MATRIX The Gallery at Parndon Mill, Harlow. An exhibition of prints and their making featuring oversize dolls which are both playful and sinister. (01279 426042) Until 13 Feb

THE ANTARCTIC PHOTOGRAPHS OF HERBERT PONTING Braintree District Museum, Manor Street, Braintree. Stunning images of early Antarctic photography taken on the 191013 British Expedition during which Scott and four of his companions, including local explorer Captain Oates, perished. You will also discover how local heroes Augustine Courtauld and Quentin Riley were involved in once of the most pioneering expeditions since Scott. See some of the artefacts held in the collection, including a sealskin suit believed to have been worn by Quentin Riley. (01376 325266) Until 27 Feb LUCIA NOGUEIRA: MISCHIEF Kettle’s Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge.

Before her death at the age of forty-eight, Lucia Nogueira had become one of the most individual voices in sculpture in this country. Combining and adapting pieces of discarded furniture and other objects, her sculptures engage with the space in which they are set. This is the first exhibition in the UK to survey her ten-year career.

(01223 748100) Until 13 Mar EXERTA The Forum, Millennium Plain, Norwich. Work by Norwich University College of the Arts students. (01603 727950) Until 5 Feb

ART WITH A CAPITAL Q The Forum, Millennium Plain, Norwich. A look at Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Trans themes in a selection of artworks from the Tate collection.

(01603 727950) Until 12 Feb ´THROUGH THE EYE OF THE COLLECTOR: A RARE GLIMPSE OF MEDIEVAL STAINED GLASS Stained Glass Museum, Ely Cathedral. The rare opportunity to take a peek into the world of stained glass collecting in an exciting new temporary exhibition. The pieces, many of which have never been on public display before, come

from the private collections of art dealers and stained glass collectors. (01353 660347) Until 25 Mar

‘ANTI-PHOTOGRAPHY’ Focal Point Gallery, Southend Central Library, Victoria Avenue. Southend-on-Sea. Artists include: William Anastasi, Mel Bochner, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Anne Collier, David Raymond Conroy, Jan Dibbets and James Welling. (01702 534108) Until 2 Apr DI MCKENNA AND CAROLYN ASHTON Fisher Theatre, Bungay.

Paintings, mainly watercolours. (01986 897130) Until 28 Feb THE THAMES WHALE STORY Natural History Museum at Tring, Akeman Street, Tring. On 19 January 2006, a sixmetre-long whale swam up theThames. Despite human efforts, the northern bottlenose whale died towards the end of a rescue attempt, under the gaze of the world’s media. In our new year’s temporary exhibition you can get up close to the incredible skeleton and hear the whale’s story, from its origins and very public death to what happened next and what we can learn from it.

(020 7942 6171) Until 2 May JOE KING AND ROSIE PEDLOW: STRANGE LIGHTS Art Exchange, University of Essex, Colchester. The starting point for this exhibition is the tale of a winter’s night in 1980, when US servicemen witnessed ‘unexplained lights’in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk. The incident quickly became Britain’s most famous UFO mystery with abounding rumours of conspiracies and cover-ups. Thirty years later, artists Joe King and Rosie Pedlow were inspired to visit the forest in search of similarly ‘inexplicable’events. Maintaining a balance between celebration and criticality, their subsequent reflections on a ‘plurality of worlds’are presented in this mixed-media and video installation. (01206 873333) Until 19 Feb

WEDNESDAY 2

GREAT AND MANIFOLD BLESSINGS: THE MAKING OF THE KING JAMES BIBLE Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge.

Marking the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Version of the Bible with a major 6 month exhibition. Narrating the histo-

UNTIL 26 FEBRUARY PIP AND POP: SWEET SWEET GALAXY A unique sculptural installation by Australian artists Tanya Schultz and Nicole Andrijevic, depicting a miniature psychedelic landscape. An amalgamation of numerous materials including coloured sugar, fine sand, cake decorations, origami, found objects and sound, this colourful sensory kingdom is being constructed directly in the gallery space in early January. The sugar used in this exhibition has been donated by Silver Spoon. As the sole producers of home grown British sugar the company supports 1200 East Anglian Beet farmers. According to Dan Gough of Silver Spoon: “the granulated sugar used in this exhibition was grown an average of only 30 miles from this gallery”. Smiths Row, Bury St Edmunds.

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What’s on in FEBRUARY ry of the translation of the Bible into English, the display includes beautiful printed volumes alongside unique manuscripts from the translating committees themselves. (01223 333000) Until 18 June

FRIDAY 4

MENDING BROKEN HEARTS Cambridge Contemporary Art, Trinity Street, Cambridge. New work especially created by top British contemporary artists for the British Heart Foundation (BHF)'s Mending Broken Hearts Appeal. A collection of 15 limited edition silk-screen prints of bespoke work by artists including Sir Peter Blake, Brendan Neiland, Bruce McLean and Patrick Hughes.

(01223 324222) Until 27 Feb

SATURDAY 5

MENDING BROKEN HEARTS Bircham Gallery, Market Place, Holt. Work by top British artists in aid of the British Heart Foundation. Plus Peter Layton glass; Jewellery showcase. (01263 713312) Until 2 Mar

MARC CHAGALL Hayletts Gallery, Oakwood House, High Street, Maldon A selection of lithographs and etchings will be exhibited in this rare opportunity to see this artist's work. (01621 851669) Until 5 Mar

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FRIDAY 10

KAT JONES - SEE THE WORDS/READ THE PICTURES Assembly House, Theatre Street, Norwich.

Work mixing detailed, linear drawings with post - impressionist style paintings. (01603 626402) Until 27 Feb

BASKETRY: MAKING HUMAN NATURE Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, UEA, Norwich. Basketry: Making Human Nature brings together traditional and contemporary basketry from Western Amazonia, North America, Oceania, Africa, Japan, South-East Asia and Europe. The exhibition reveals the extraordinary uses of basketry technology and asks us to consider its place in human culture. (01603 593199) Until 22 May CHARLES LONG: REMEMBERED LANDSCAPE Courtyard Arts, Port Vale, Hertford. “My work is about a view of the land from a kind of remembered perspective - stored memories from the many visits I have made since childhood until the present.” (01992 509596) Until 19 Feb

AN INTRODUCTION TO PRINTMAKEING Curwen Print Study Centre, Chilford Hall, Linton. 8-week evening course aimed at beginners. £250pp. (01223 892380)

SATURDAY 19

A FEW OF MY FAVOURITE THINGS Colchester Castle Museum. A range of spectacular objects from all areas of the museum: archaeology, community history, fine art, costume and natural history. The Shrine of St Helena used in the 1909 Colchester Pageant will also be on display. (01206 282938) Until 26 June

THURSDAY 24

CHRIS ROSKELL: THINGS I

WOULDN'T LIKE TO SEE IN THE SKY The Gallery at Parndon Mill, Harlow.

Exhibition of new paintings. (01279 426042) Until 3 Apr

SATURDAY 26

NICOLA NAISMITH: NEW INDUSTRIAL SPACE Norwich Arts Centre. With a focus on the tensions between historical production methods and contemporary innovations in design & manufacturing, New Industrial Space will show selected works from Naismith’s residency at Hethel Engineering Centre from 2010. (01603 660352) Until 26 Mar

SUNDAY 27

CAMBRIDGE GLASS FAIR Chilford Hall, Balsham Road, Linton. The Cambridge Glass Fair brings together around 100 exhibitors from across the UK and Europe; the ideal opportunity to find both antique glass and contemporary studio work; glass from all eras and to suit all tastes. 10.30am-4pm. (07887 762872)

Antiques Worth its weight in

By Judith Miller

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Despite the wealth and fame that paperweights brought to the French town of Baccarat, they were originally produced there for only around 15 years, between 1845-1860. This short period saw the status of the paperweight raised from functional object to decorative item, without which no desk was complete.

Baccarat paperweights typically feature scattered or close-packed millefiori canes - the word comes from the Italian meaning “a thousand flowers”.

The town’s glassworkers became highly skilled in forming thelong cylinders of coloured glass from which the canes were cut. Early Baccarat weights can often be identified from signature and date canes that were sometimes included amid the millefiori decoration.

Other decorative specialities included the intricate depiction of flowers, such as anemones or other motifs in coloured glass. The ‘Gridel’ silhouette,

unique to Baccarat paperweights, is another distinctive feature. These tiny animal forms were named after a young boy whose paper cut-outs inspired his uncle, a Baccarat executive, to try something similar in glass.

The production of Baccarat paperweights was resumed from the mid-1950s, but most collectors find the original 19th century pieces far more desirable. Prices start at around GBP400 but amounts topping GBP5,000 are paid for older examples with especially tightly packed millefiori canes, or particularly desirable Gridel silhouettes such as the swan on an aqua blue ‘water’ cane.

Outsize weights are also popular, from the large ‘magnum’ size to miniature models. Glass sales such as those held at Lyon & Turnbull will often include paperweights.

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NORWICH ANTIQUE & COLLECTORS FAIR Norfolk Showground, New Costessey, Norwich. Over 400 inside and outside stands. (01702 549623) Until 6 Feb

SUNDAY 6

WEDDING FAYRE Bull Hotel, Westgate, Peterborough. (01733 561364) SEAGULL SCALEXTRIC SUNDAY Seagull Theatre, Lowestoft. Various race classes. Teams, Knockouts, fastest laps, parents versus children, single class races and open races with your own car. (01502 589726) A CELEBRATION OF AFRICAN CULTURE Seagull Theatre, Lowestoft.

African themed performance art, live music and food. (01502 589726) WEDDING FAIR Thameside Theatre, Grays. 10am-4pm. (01206 282946)

SATURDAY 12

KING’S LYNN MART Tuesday Market Place, King’s Lynn. Funfair with side stalls and more. Traditionally the opening to the travelling season, King's Lynn Mart has a special place in the hearts of the travelling showpeople.

During the later half of the 19th century the King's Lynn Mart was a spectacular event in which Frederick Savage of King's Lynn displayed his latest roundabouts and fairground attractions to the showmen. This display of new machines and amusements continues today with the showmen vying to display the latest amusments. In 1897 Randall Williams became the first showman to display moving pictures to the fairgoing public at the Valentine Day fair. By the following year four cinematograph booths were on display. The first recorded Charter granted to the town was in 1204 in the reign of King John. However the Charter marking the Valentine's Day fair was granted by Henry VIII in 1537. The site of the fair is the Tuesday Market Place with the Mayor and Chairman of the Markets Committee accompanied by local dig-

What’s on in FEBRUARY

nataries and officials of the Showmen's Guild performing an opening ceremony preceeded by a blessing on the fair and the showpeople who attend it. (01553 616354) Until 26 Feb NORWICH DRAGON FESTIVAL Norwich. See panel. (01603 305575) www.heritagecity.org Until 27 Feb SOUTHEND CRAFT & GIFT SHOW Southend Tennis & Leisure Centre, Garon Park, Southend. (01702 549623) Until 13 Feb

SUNDAY 13

VALENTINES FLING BUNGEE Highbury Barns, Great Cornard, nr Sudbury. Bungee jump in aid of St Nicholas Hospice Care. (01284 747614)

THURSDAY 17

STITCH AND CREATIVE CRAFT SHOW Towerlands Park, Braintree. Stock up on supplies and materials including card aming, cross stitch, scrapbooking, stamping, quilting, paper and card, neeedlecraft, beading, knitting and sewing. Discover new and exciting ideas to take away and try at home. Enjoy displays, demonstrations and workshops from crafting personalities, guilds, clubs and associations. 10am-5pm. (01822 617744) Until 19 Feb

SATURDAY 19

THE ELECTRIC FOREST Thetford Forest, Forestry Commission, Santon Downham. Using swathes of colour, sound and light technology the woodland will be brought to life after dark by the award winning Culture Creative team. They will light up the forest to produce a family friendly trail through the trees - enabling you to experience the sights and sounds of the forest at night. The illuminated walk, which will be approximately 2km in length and take around an hour at a gentle pace, will include sound, music and interactive installations at discreet locations throughout the trail. 6-9pm. (01842 816000) Until 27 Feb

STUNT FEST Santa Pod Raceway, Podington. Stunts, displays and fireworks for all the family at half term. (01234 782828) RING QUEST West Stow - The First English Village, Icklingham Road, West Stow, Bury St Edmunds. Ever popular family challenge event with a Lord of the Rings theme returns to West Stow, with new clues to follow and runes to collect before you can solve the puzzle and save Middle Earth! Your family could win the big prize at the end of the week. 10am4pm. (01284 728718) Until 27 Feb THOMAS' HALF TERM EVENT Nene Valley Railway, Wansford Station, Stibbington, Peterborough. Thomas the Tank. (01780 784444) Until 27 Feb ST IVES CRAFT AND FOOD FAIR Burgess Hall, St Ives. Artists, designers and craftsmen will be exhibiting and demonstrating their skills as well as selling their crafts. They will be accompanied by a specialist food section. 10am-5pm. (01283 820548) Until 20 Feb

HEART FM WEDDING FAYRE Brentwood Centre, Doddinghurst Road, Brentwood. 10am-5pm (Sat), 10am-4pm (Sun) Until 20 Feb ARTIFICIAL ICE SKATING RINK Dengie Hundred Sports Centre, Maldon.

(01621 876248) Until 22 Feb

SUNDAY 20

WEDDING FAIR Ickworth House, Horringer, nr Busy St Edmunds. (01284 735957) WEDDING OPEN DAY Hylands House, Hylands Park, London Road, Chelmsford. 10am-4pm. (01268 769999)

WEDNESDAY 23

TIME TRAVELLERS GO… DISCOVERIES & INVENTIONS Audley End House & Gardens, Saffron Walden.

Children’s event. Join the Time Travellers for a journey back through the ages to discover some of the world's most interesting inventions.

10am-4pm. Until 27 Feb

THURSDAY 24

LUTON BEER AND CIDER FESTIVAL Hightown Sports & Arts Centre, Concorde Street, Luton. At least 100 real ales from all over the country including plenty of locals. 5-11pm (Thurs), Noon-11pm (Fri -Sat). Until 26 Feb TOURISM & LEISURE SHOW Five Lakes Hotel, Golf, Country Club & Spa, Colchester Road, Tolleshunt Knights, Maldon. Over 90 Exhibitors prmotoe ideas and inspiration for great days out and short breaks throughout East Anglia and the South East of England – ranging from historic houses and gardens to theme parks and museums. 10am3.30pm. (01206 562878)

FRIDAY 25

CHAPPEL WINTER BEER FESTIVAL East Anglian Railway Museum Chappel Station, Wakes Colne. 11am-5pm & 6-11pm. (01206 242524) Until 26 Feb

SATURDAY 26

ANTIQUES FAIR Burgess Hall, St Ives. Ceramics, jewellery, furniture, silver and much more. 10am-4pm. (01480 896866) Until 27 Feb

SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIAL Santa Pod Raceway, Podington. Public Track Day with RWYB all day till 9pm. Jet Car plus evening entertainment and camping Sat night.

(01234 782828) EDP WEDDING SHOW Norfolk Showground. Until 27 Feb BRENTWOOD CRAFT & GIFT SHOW Brentwood Centre, Doddinghurst Road, Brentwood. 10am-5pm (Sat), 10am4pm (Sun). (01702 549623) Until 27 Feb NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM! Sutton Hoo, nr Woodbridge. Discover Sutton Hoo at night with a special Gruesome Graves tour and exhibition visit. 7-9pm. (01394 389714)

SUNDAY 27

THE SUFFOLK WEDDING SHOW Wherstead Park, The Street, Wherstead.

11am-3.30pm.

12-27 FEBRUARY NORWICH DRAGON FESTIVAL The Norwich Dragon Festival involves two weeks packed full of over 60 dragon-related activities for all the family, with 49 events being free. Dragons have been a heraldic symbol closely associated with the city of Norwich since the Middle Ages and today dragons are still visible across the city's architecture and feature in many city celebrations. The Festival will be a great opportunity for local people and visitors alike to learn more about the city's history and its myths and legends in a range of talks and exhibitions; get stuck into some great, fun hands-on activities; develop arts and craft skills in a series of workshops; be dazzled by a programme of puppet shows, story-telling, films and dance performances; and be inspired by a range of artwork and displays created by community groups and local artists. Venues include Norwich Castle, Dragon Hall, Norwich Playhouse, the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich Puppet Theatre, both Cathedrals, the Assembly House and the University of East Anglia, the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts. Full details at www.www.heritagecity.org or call 01603 305575.

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Just Go With It is an enjoyable romatic comedy starring Jennifer Aniston, Adam Sander, Bailee Madison and Nicole Kidman. A plastic surgeon, romancing a much younger schoolteacher, enlists his loyal assistant to pretend to be his soon to be ex-wife, in order to cover up a careless lie. When more lies backfire, the assistant's kids become involved, and everyone heads off for a weekend in Hawaii that will change all their lives.

Just Go With It is in cinemas from 11 Feb. Also not to be missed this month: The Coen Brothers’remake of the classic John Wayne Western True Grit, starring Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon (11 Feb).

Burlesque starring Christine Aguillera, right, and Cher is doing great business at cinemas across the region. It’s saucy, tantalising, and great entertainment, here’s where you can enjoy the real thing around the region....

THE ART OF BURLESQUE The Place, Bedford, 6 Feb Fun night of Burlesque.

Tickets: 01234 354321.

BOOGALOO Norwich Arts Centre, 12 March. Burlesque club night with performances from International burlesque showgirls, DJs, and wondrous walkabout characters and hot roller derby girls. A night of vintage chic, burlesque cheek and great music.

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BANGBANGS Restaurant and wine bar serving Posh Sausage and mash, real ale, champagne, cocktails and more. By night it’s an atmospheric burlesque venue with 1920’s -60’s music, burlesque dancers on many Sundays and Fridays, comedy nights. The bar gets very busy and the cocktails are amazing.

Hatter Street, Bury St Edmunds 01284 703343 BEDFORD BURLESQUE Bedford Corn Exchange, 16 April.

Enjoy a variety of acts, from Roxy Twirls and her Rockets, the Roller Derby Girls, Daisy Cutter, The Tranny Tin Man, magicians and many more.

Tickets: 01234 269519 ACHTUNG CABARET Occasional nights of Burlesque and Fetsh Frolics at The Talk cabaret club in Norwich (01603

660220). A range of performances, from saucy burlesque, fun oddities, innovative acts, to the downright kinky. www.achtung-cabaret.co.uk

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UK SCHOOL OF BURLESQUE Classes, tuition and workshops in the art of Burlesque. Plus shows, including one at Norwich Puppet Theatre on 4 Feb featuring artists from across the region.

AN EVENING OF BURLESQUE Cliffs Pavilion, Southend, 11 Feb (01702 351135); Broadway Theatre, Peterborough, 18 Feb (0844 8500 850).

Direct from London’s West End, tantalising yet tasteful, camp and colourful, a playful journey through Burlesque’s history.

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Fresh from a record breaking 40th anniversary year, All Star Wrestling moves into 2011 with more high profile events planned to ensure fans of all ages can continue to live their grappling dream. No matter how much televised action is seen, there’s nothing to match the atmosphere and excitement of a live wrestling presentation.

21 Feb Cliffs Pavilion, Southend, Essex (01702 351135) 25 Feb Marina Theatre, Lowestoft, Suffolk (01502 533200) 26 Feb Stevenage Leisure Centre, Herts (01438 363200) 11 March Ipswich Corn Exhange, Suffolk (01473 433100) 12 March Charter Hall, Colchester, Essex (01206 282020) 20 March Towngate Theatre, Basildon (01268 465465)

Burlesque NO STRINGS BURLESQUE & CABARET CLUB Norwich Puppet Theatre, 9 April. Hocus Pocus Theatre present this show numberous times throughout the year at the Norwich Puppet Theatre.

Tickets: 01603 629921.

RINGSIDE

The best wrestling talent from the UK, Europe, USA & Japan.

13 Feb Spa Pavilion, Felixstowe, Suffolk (01394 282126)

LDN Wrestling

Burlesque is now showing in cinemas.

The DVD will be released on 11 April

Top British wrestling at its best.

3 Feb Haverhill Arts Centre, Suffolk (01440 714140) 9 Feb Maldon Town Hall, Essex (01621 856503) 18 Feb The Maltings, Ely, Cambs (01353 662633) 23 Feb Princes Theatre, Clacton, Essex (01255 686633) 24 Feb Thurrock Civic Hall, Grays, Essex (01621 890153)

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Current availability from ÂŁ179,995 Call: 01986 872355

Current availability from ÂŁ132,995 Call: 01603 615166

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Tibby’s Triangle

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2, 3 & 4 bedroom homes in Harleston, less than 20 miles GSPN /PSXJDI BOE %JTT

Current availability from ÂŁ249,995 Call: 01376 327277

Current availability call: 01502 722415

Current availability from ÂŁ129,995 Call: 01379 855479

Also developing at: Aylsham, Costessey, Ipswich, Lawford, Mulbarton, Soham & Walsham le Willows

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