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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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Cultured Griff Rhys Jones is an Essex man through and through

1:00pm Friday 23rd July 2010

F Essex County Council is still eager to rid the county of its “chav-like” reputation it couldn’t pick a better person than Griff Rhys Jones as a model for the archetypal Essex man.

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Will Young is star attraction at open air concert in Billericay

8:30pm Thursday 22nd July 2010

WILL Young is something of a trailblazer. After winning the first ever Pop Idol in 2002 he cleared the path for talented and unknown singers across the world to follow his dream.

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Stage is set for an opera about... Thurrock

11:30pm Friday 16th July 2010

THINK grand opera settings – like Valhalla, Venice, Thurrock, the Russian Steppes, imperial Rome.

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Barn conjures up two nights of great magic

8:00pm Friday 16th July 2010

Rochford's Magic at the Barn is back, and this year there are two chances to be dazzled by it.

Students to hit Southend streets with theatre festival

11:00pm Thursday 1st July 2010

PANDEMONIUM is set to hit Southend this weekend with two days of vibrant street performances.

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Scottish folk star will hit stage at Leigh festival

11:10pm Friday 25th June 2010

CINEMA goers who caught David Mackenzie’s 2003 film Young Adam may not have known it, but they were listening to Alasdair Roberts.