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Puppet duo give annual pier festival some Punch

10:20pm Thursday 5th August 2010

HE is almost 450-years-old and made of wood. While this combination doesn’t sound like a winning formula for entertaining children, the puppet Punch has been doing just that for centuries.

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Roll in to act up for summer school

11:00pm Friday 30th July 2010

SCHOOL is no doubt one of the last things youngsters have on their minds during the summer holidays.

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Singing for Southend shoppers

10:30pm Friday 30th July 2010

MUSICIANS bidding for the big time will be entertaining Saturday shoppers in Southend’s Victoria shopping centre for the next five weeks.

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Seventies folk treasure lured back out of retirement for Southend gig

8:00am Friday 30th July 2010

AN almost-forgotten folk rocker is making a rare appearance in Southend tonight.

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Why Paul Weller's musical protegee Tracie is playing it again

11:10pm Friday 23rd July 2010

HAVING cut her teeth in the music industry with the “modfather” himself, Paul Weller, musician Tracie Young had a taste of the high life at an early age.

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Tourists and magicians flock to Leigh man's shop in London

11:00pm Friday 23rd July 2010

TOURISTS from around the world are beating a path in ever-increasing numbers to a small corner of unchanged Dickensian London, thanks to a Leigh man.

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