Things to do

Listen out for The Noise Next Door

The Noise Next Door King’s Lynn Corn Exchange Thursday, February 18, 8pm Tickets £15 Box office: 01553 764864 The unstoppable comedy juggernaut that is The Noise Next Door are turning up the volume for their third national tour! Get ready for a night of mind-blowing songs, jaw-dropping characters and side-splitting punchlines from the undisputed masters of off-the-cuff comedy. Their shows ...

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What’s On – January 14-20

TODAY South Holland Healthy Walks, 10.30am, Holbeach Services Club. Holbeach and Spalding Explorers: Spalding, 7pm-9pm; Holbeach 7.15pm-9.15pm, 14-18 year olds, www.handsscouts.com Tots and Carers, 9am-11.30am, Moulton Village Hall. Vitality classes, Broad Street Methodist Church Hall, Spalding, 11.30am-12.30pm and 1.45pm-2.45pm; Weston Village Hall, 2pm-3pm, £1.50, 01529 411941. Vibe Contemporary Youth Choir, 5.30pm-7pm, South Holland Centre, Spalding, £3.50. 1st Holbeach Brownies, 5.30pm-6.45pm, ...

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Fun with Babes in the Wood

Babes in the Wood South Holland Centre, Spalding Friday, January 22, 7pm, Saturday, January 23, 2pm and 7pm Tickets £8.50/£6.50 Box office: 01775 764777 The Hurst Children’s Theatre Group is back to delight audiences young and old with the annual pantomime. Babes in the Wood will be jam packed full of laughter, songs aplenty and traditional pantomime heroes. Can Robin ...

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What’s on: January 7-13

TODAY South Holland Healthy Walks, 10.30am, start Holbeach Services Club. Holbeach and Spalding Explorers: Spalding, 7pm-9pm; Holbeach 7.15pm-9.15pm, 14-18 year olds, www.handsscouts.com Tots and Carers, 9am-11.30am, Moulton Village Hall. Vitality classes, Broad Street Methodist Church Hall, Spalding, 11.30am-12.30pm and 1.45pm-2.45pm; Weston Village Hall, 2pm-3pm, £1.50, 01529 411941. Vibe Contemporary Youth Choir, 5.30pm-7pm, South Holland Centre, Spalding, £3.50. 1st Holbeach Brownies, ...

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Perfect tribute to Kenny and Dolly

Islands in the Stream – Tribute act Key Theatre, Peterborough Saturday, 30 January, 7.30pm Tickets £19.50 Box office: 01733 207239 The perfect tribute, celebrating the queen and king of country, Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers… Stacked with country music’s greatest hits including Jolene, Ruby, 9 to 5, Lucille, Here You Come Again, The Gambler, Coward of the County, Love is ...

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Chance to see comedian Russell Kane live on stage

Russell Kane: Right Man Wrong Age Saturday, June 11, 8pm King’s Lynn Corn Exchange Tickets £16 Box office 01553 764864 Are you 16 years old, yet feel 21? Are you 40, but tragically faking 25? Or maybe you’re full on 80 years, with the heart of three oxen and the sex drive of a bonobo chimp. Don’t worry: this is ...

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Spectacular dance show with Strictly’s Pasha

Pasha Kovalev – It’s all About You Sunday, April 10, 7.30pm King’s Lynn Corn Exchange Tickets £25 (£23 concessions) Box office: 01553 764864 After his successful UK Tour – Life Through Dance, Pasha Kovalev, the winner of Strictly Come Dancing 2014, welcomes you to his new and exciting dance spectacular – It’s All About You. On his fifth UK tour ...

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Folk club concert

Spalding Folk Club presents John Dipper and Dave Malkin South Holland Centre, Spalding Wednesday, 8.15pm Tickets £6 John Dipper (fiddle, viola d’amore) and Dave Malkin (guitar, vocal) have roots in the tradition but are known for their compositions as much as their exquisite playing. John plays in the string quartet Methera, and Dave studied guitar at Trinity Laban Conservatoire. They ...

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Film review: Star Wars – The Force Awakens (12A)

The original Star Wars releases were the first films that I genuinely loved as a child growing up. I’m probably (OK, definitely) not alone in that fact, so any new Star Wars offering was always going to be a really big deal worldwide. The worry for many was that new director JJ Abrams would produce something akin to the more ...

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Be part of Dishonoured premiere

Dishonoured is the first feature-length film to be fully filmed within South Holland. A dedicated cast and crew – all made up of local people – have been working for months to put together the action thriller ready for its premiere on the big screen on January 26. Filming has taken place in a variety of locations, including a Long ...

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Get ready to rock with these classics

The Classic Rock Show Sunday, January 24 Kings Lynn Corn Exchange Tickets from £23.50 Box office: 01553 764864 or www.kingslynn cornexchange.co.uk/ The Classic Rock Show will focus their new tour on a new batch of rock gems best known for their irresistible hooks, instantly recognisable songs that have earned a golden status in the history of classic rock music. A ...

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Film review: Bridge Of Spies (12A)

Let’s be honest, it doesn’t get much better in the world of cinema than Tom Hanks starring in a Steven Spielberg film. It’s a collaboration that most memorably delivered us the amazing Saving Private Ryan, while Catch Me If You Can and The Terminal were also pretty big hits. The pair also co-produced the incredible Band Of Brothers and The ...

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Film review: Black Mass (15)

I’ve been looking forward to Black Mass for quite some time – with it having been released over in America way back in September. Starring the always awesome Johnny Depp as notorious Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger and boasting a huge supporting cast, it always looked like being one of the gangster films of the year. And if, like me, ...

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Take your pick of magical pantos

When it comes to stage entertainment this close to Christmas, there really is only one thing worth considering – a good traditional pantomime. And The Key Theatre and The Cresset in Peterborough are both offiering just that. The Key’s panto this year is Aladdin and promises to deliver everything you expect – an all singing, all dancing month of music, ...

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WHATS ON: Dec 10 – 16

TODAY South Holland Healthy Walks, 10.30am, start Holbeach Services Club. Holbeach and Spalding Explorers: Spalding, 7pm-9pm; Holbeach 7.15pm-9.15pm. Open to 14-18 year olds. Visit www.handsscouts.com Tots and Carers Group, 9am-11.30am, Moulton Village Hall. Vitality classes, Broad Street Methodist Church Hall, Spalding, 11.30am-12.30pm and 1.45pm-2.45pm; Weston Village Hall, 2pm-3pm. £1.50 per class, contact 01529 411941. Vibe Contemporary Youth Choir, 5.30pm-7pm, South ...

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South Holland Singers upcoming concert

South Holland Singers’ upcoming concert will feature four young professional soloists. The show takes place in St Mary and St Nicolas Church, Spalding, on Saturday. Conducted by Robin Carter, it will contain two works – Handel’s Dettingen Te Deum and Haydn’s Imperial Nelson Mass – which have a similarity and a connecting theme in that they both commemorate victories over ...

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The Bay City Rollers perform in Boston

The Bay City Rollers starring Les McKeown Blackfriars Theatre and Art Centre, Boston Friday (Dec 4), 7.30pm Tickets £22.50 Box office: 01205 363108 In 1974 the world was to witness a new musical phenomenon the like of which had not been seen since the days of Elvis and The Beatles. The music of the Bay City Rollers became the soundtrack ...

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Looking to spoil your pet?

Rainbow Festivals are holding a Festival of Gifts and Crafts for Pets in Sutton Bridge on Sunday. The event takes place at the Curlew Centre and runs from 10am to 4pm. There will be animal treats and cakes, therapy and treatment, pet portraits, pet soaps and coat care, collars and leads, bandanas, coats and bedding, grooming, stockings and gifts, doggy ...

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Lavender Hill Mob returns

The Lavender Hill Mob Theatre Company makes a welcome return to Pinchbeck Village Hall on Sunday, with special guest singer/songwriter Phoebe Mullard. The Lavender Hill Mob is a King’s Lynn-based charity organisation which caters for the needs of children and young adults who have learning difficulties or have trouble coping with everyday life in general. Through music and song they ...

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Events at Bookmark

If you need a little push to get into the Christmas spirit, why not visit Bookmark for its Singing Santa event? Singing Santa will be at the Spalding shop this Sunday and on Sunday, December 13, from 3pm to 5pm. Children are invited to join Santa for afternoon tea, stories and a sing-a-long, to take along their letters to Santa ...

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