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Festival Fashion
Glastonbury mania may have come and gone but a long and hopefully hot summer of festival fun still lies ahead and with the mid-season sales now underway the time is right to embrace the hippy chick or... 
Small Reads
When Heffers in the Grafton Centre closed suddenly in May 2008, taking with it an excellent children's department, it spelled the beginning of a rough time for children's booksellers in Cambridge. Bor...
Godspell
Everybody knows about the Edinburgh Fringe but not everybody knows about Soham's Viva Youth Theatre (yet). However, countrywide, even worldwide, fame is surely not long in coming for this remarkable c...
Spanish Spice
Opening the Cambridge Summer Music Festival with a flamenco-baroque fusion group is a bold and welcome statement of eclecticism and diversity on the part of the organisers. Eclipse belongs to a recent...
Toy Story 3
Never guys to tread water with their sequels, Pixar studios have not let us down with 'Toy Story 3'. Now, daring to ask what happens to toys after their owners grow up, they weave a harrowi...
Classical Highlights Week 2
Highlights from week two of the Cambridge Summer Music Festival:Jack Glatzer - Wednesday 28th July & Saturday 31st JulyTwo solo performances encapsulating all of Paganini's 24 Caprices as well as ...
The History of Britain
Some say that revue is a thing of the past; if so, The History of Britain does a damn good job at proving that is true. This Reduced-Shakespeare-style romp through 2065 years of British history (do th...
Classical Festival Highlights
Opening on Friday 16th July, the first week of the Cambridge Summer Music Festival offers a diverse and exciting line-up setting the tone for what is to come over the following three weeks of glorious...
Carpenters Arms
The Carpenters Arms in Great Wilbraham opens as a gastro pub on Saturday 17th July. British couple Rick and Heather Hurley - who have spent the past six years running an award-winning gourmet res...
Cherry Pleasures
Picking fruit can be very satisfying, but picking cherries - big, fat, glossy, dark red, juicy cherries - is wonderful. Partly is it the sheer abundance of cherries dripping down the branches to meet ...
Skeleton tracks
Asking Nick Whitfield, director of the quirky new comedy film ‘Skeletons', why he didn't set his debut in the Cambridgeshire fens may seem odd. Yet two facts force the question: Firstly Whitfiel...
Local Sports Roundup
Last one out, turn the lights offThe meltdown at Histon continues. The latest to leave are goalkeeping coach and club stalwart Lance Key, youth team coach Ian Hart and surprisingly Chief Executive All...
Guitar and Piano
Talented brothers, Jadran and Emil Duncumb, entertained an enthusiastic audience in the Hayward Theatre Ely with a fascinating programme of music for guitar and piano. At first, the guitar and piano s...
Cambridge Art Fair
Taking place in the wonderfully picturesque setting of Chilford Hall in Linton just outside Cambridge is the annual art fair, returning for its fourth year. With 42 galleries an in turn hundreds of ar...
The Two Counties Motor Show
As motoring events go, The Two Counties Motor Show, held on Sunday at Newmarket, was a relatively small affair. The event takes place every year at the Rowley Mile Racecourse and the two counties of t...
We Are Scientists
On their way to Glastonbury the Indie-rock duo (turned trio) We Are Scientists made a welcome return to Cambridge on 21st June with new material, a new band member and their usual serving of...
Bernstein to Broadway
It is always a special moment when you are present at the birth of something new and the debut of Ely Youth Choir was certainly one of these events. This select group of singers sang with rare purity ...
Local Style Secrets
One of the greatest of Great British traditions has to be the humble picnic. Ok, so we may have stolen the idea from the French a few centuries back, but we as a nation embraced this concept of outdoo...
Cycling the Guided Busway
Due to the long delay in the Cambridge-to-St Ives guided busway, no buses glide along the 14-mile route, but of late the thoroughfare has been discovered by cyclists who illicitly enjoy...
Feeling the heat?
It may have been a wet bank holiday Monday the other week, but Cambridge's paddling pools opened as usual on 31st May. The city has a great selection of free pools that prove invaluable for dunking ch...
If I Were You
Alan Ayckbourn, well known for his prolific playwriting (among the more famous 'Bedroom Farce' and 'Private Fears in Public Places'), has delivered another bittersweet gem in this recent offering. 'If...
Frankfurt
What does Frankfurt conjure - banks, money and sausages? This is not by any means the whole story. Yes, the city is home to the mighty European Central Bank (a kind of mini state within a state which ...
The joys of the Garden Centre
You don't often see garden centres in the category 'things to do with young kids'. They loosely count as a shop, and mixing shops and young children doesn't usually sound like anyone's idea of a good ...
Gardening tips for summer
Spend even more time outside in your garden this summer thanks to these handy hints from the friendly folk at Oakington Garden Centre.Bed out for summerNow that the risk of frost has passed (fingers c...
Make Real Clay Ovens
Enjoy a day in the peaceful surroundings of Wandlebury Country Park and learn how to build and cook with your own outdoor clay oven.There is a growing interest in the use of clay ovens as an authentic...
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Pots of Fun
Meet medieval potter Jim Newboult at the Norris Museum in St Ives on Thursday 29th July. Newboult will be on hand to help visitors explore the museum's own collection of pots, show guests how they were made and to help people make their own masterpiece to take home! Norris Museum, Huntingdon. 11am-3pm, Thursday 29th July
CINEMA
Toy Story 3
Woody, Buzz and all the other return for a second outing in the Toy Story franchise. Confirming the sneaking suspicion that Pixar are just trying to make us all cry (have you seen 'U'?) this time the toys face their biggest challenge - a grown up owner! If this doesn't moisten your eyes you have a heart of stone. All cinemas now. -- David Perilli, Cinema Editor
CLASSICAL & JAZZ
Jools Holland
Bring a picnic, a rug and a pair of flatties, and be prepared to dance the night away to the irresistible rhythm of Jools Holland and his orchestra. The UK's best-loved band leader and pianist will be joined by special guest Alison Moyet . Tickets available in person from Saffron Walden Tourist Information Centre. £31/29.50. Audley End, Saffron Walden. 7.30pm, Saturday 31st July -- Sara Varey, Saffron Walden Editor
FAMILY
Tarzan Trek @Newmarket
Stuck for something for the kids to do? Why not take them to the Memorial Gardens in Newmarket for some summer fun? There's a Jungle assault course, a Tarzan Trek, and a magic show to keep them quiet for a bit. Free 1pm-4pm, Thursday 29th July
GIGS & CLUBS
James Morrison
Smoky voiced, soulful pop sensation James Morrison headlines the next Newmarket Nights this Friday. Great voice, great songs...and literally the biggest show in town! £18-32. July Racecourse, Newmarket.6pm, Friday 30th July -- Victoria Sayce, Gigs Editor
SPORTS & OUTDOOR
Swimming at Jesus Green
Enjoy the early summer sun at one of the country's best outdoor lidos. Jesus Green pool is (unsuprsingly) only open May to September so enjoy the fresh air and sunshine whilst making a splash or two. Free-£3.80 for single swims. Week & season passes available. Open 12-7.30pm Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, 7.30 - 7.30pm Tuesdays and Fridays and 11-7.30pm weekends. Longer opening hours during school holidays -- Robert Coe, Sports & Outdoors Editor
THEATRE
Love's Labour's Lost
Cambridge Shakespeare Festival is in full swing, and one of their more delightful offerings is the wonderfully zany and witty Love's Labour's Lost, performed in the beautiful setting of Downing College Gardens. Full of artful women, abstaining men and disguises galore, it seems that no one is immune to the powerful call of love... Runs daily until Saturday 31st July. -- Davina Barron, Theatre Editor
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