Leisure | Homepage - Southend Standard

Get involved: send your pictures, video, news and views by texting ECHONEWS to 80360, or email us Click here for details »

Leisure RSS Feed

Kings of Leon set V Festival alight

7:21pm Saturday 21st August 2010

HEADLINERS KINGS of Leon helped set Chelmsford's V Festival alight as tens of thousands of music fans descended on the musical extravaganza in Hylands Park.

Enjoy a Lush night of blues

11:30pm Thursday 19th August 2010

IF you don’t believe Connie Lush is one of the finest blues singers in the UK, just take a look at her mantelpiece.

Have your say

Stars line up to shine all weekend for V Festival

10:30pm Thursday 19th August 2010

IF music is the food of love then festival-goers may need to go on a diet by Monday.

Have your say

Deal to make Tina climb charts again

11:00pm Thursday 12th August 2010

IN the space of just two years Tina Cousins had five singles in the Top 20 – three of those landing in the Top Ten.

Have your say

Quo to rock the Cliffs

10:00pm Thursday 12th August 2010

THEY’VE been rockin’ all over the world, but Status Quo kick off their UK winter tour in Westcliff.

Have your say

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11

12:34pm Thursday 12th August 2010

Playstation 3

George is hoping to be the next Buble!

9:00am Wednesday 11th August 2010

A SINGER who hopes to be the next Michael Buble has been showing Essex he’s got talent.

Have your say

Trio prove artistic flair runs in family at library exhibition

10:00pm Friday 6th August 2010

THEY’RE phrases we’re all familiar with. Like father like son, or like mother like daughter, yet in the Harwood family it might be better to say like father, like son, like granddaughter.

Have your say

Have your say on Essex fire service cuts

7:50am Friday 6th August 2010

THE people of Essex can have their say on the future of fire stations, firefighters and fire engines in the county as the fire service braces itself for major cuts to its funding.

CLICK HERE FOR THE SURVEY

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.