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Lit Fest: Peering into our economic future

11:30am Friday 17th May 2013

MORE than 75 people turned out to hear Lord Sainsbury’s talk yesterday at the lunchtime event on Day 11 of the Swindon Festival of Literature.

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Work captured in digital art

11:47am Thursday 16th May 2013

Digital artists Tim Cumming and Nigel Hudson have created a showcase of workers in action, taken from a cross section of 100 Swindon firms.

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Gem of a show from Stage Struck marking 30 years on the stage

10:37am Thursday 16th May 2013

Stage Struck drama group notch up their pearl anniversary this year and to celebrate 30 years of treading the boards present the musical show, When I Grow Up.

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Three times the laughs

10:25am Thursday 16th May 2013

RICHARD Herring, Lee Nelson and Chris Cox will see to it that Swindon comedy fans are well catered for over the next few days.

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Just like Tommy

10:16am Thursday 16th May 2013

“EVERYONE has a Tommy Cooper impression, and as soon as you say you are in a production about him they have to show it to you.”

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Lit Fest: Quietly quirky, Okri cast his poetic spell

12:40pm Wednesday 15th May 2013

POETRY might not be everybody’s thing, but it was for the 100 or so audience members who attended Nigerian poet Ben Okri’s talk yesterday evening.

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Lit Fest: A stickler for proper spelling

11:10am Wednesday 15th May 2013

IT TURNS out I’ve been spelling a couple of words incorrectly for my whole life.

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Swindon author has first book published

5:10pm Tuesday 14th May 2013

A BOOK written by a first-time author will be hitting the shelves next week.

Roll up, roll up for circus

10:10am Tuesday 14th May 2013

CIRCUS Wonderland is heading for Swindon.

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Young performers take the honour in schools poetry contest

1:10pm Monday 13th May 2013

A TALENTED trio from Commonweal School triumphed at the Swindon Youth Slam.

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Young town dancer wins place at top ballet school

2:20pm Thursday 2nd May 2013

YEARS of dedication and hard work have paid off for teenager Jacob O’Connell after he secured a place at a world renowned dance school.

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Swindon Strictly fans snap up chance to see Pasha and Katya

11:36am Thursday 2nd May 2013

Strictly Come Dancing stars Pasha Kovalev and Katya Virshilas were such a hit last year in Swindon that the Wyvern Theatre has booked them for two nights on this visit.

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Step back in time to the world of Jane Austen with crime writer PD James

10:31am Thursday 2nd May 2013

PD James will talk about her latest book and the pleasure she gets from the novels of Jane Austen from 12.30pm, in the Swindon Arts Centre, as part of the Festival of Literature.

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Dancers put best feet first at Swindon's Wyvern Theatre

10:15am Thursday 2nd May 2013

Wootton Bassett School of Dance present This Is The Moment, at 7.30pm, on Saturday.

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Theatre group’s glee over big anniversary

10:00am Thursday 2nd May 2013

WHEN singing teacher Vera Bennett started Stage Struck in 1983, she never imagined it would still be going today.

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New comedy club opens in Swindon's Old Town

9:45am Thursday 2nd May 2013

Ian Stone is the first comedian to perform at the Old Town Comedy Club.

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’Aving a rabbit wiv Chas

9:21am Thursday 2nd May 2013

CHAS Hodges learned a lot of his piano technique from Jerry Lee Lewis.

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Review: The Mousetrap, Bristol Hippodrome

12:48pm Wednesday 1st May 2013

As an avid fan of the whodunnit, Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap has always been high on my list of things to see. I did not leave disappointed.

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Carving out a comedy career

4:29pm Wednesday 1st May 2013

Lumbering onto the Edinburgh Fringe last year were a trio of Canadian comics, known collectively as The Lumberjacks.