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Bank holiday and half term fun, museum lates, and outdoor theatre.

Flamsteads puppet family from the late 1960s - Candy, Andy & the Bearandas - will feature in an upcoming talk at St Leonards Church.

Flamsteads puppet family from the late 1960s - Candy, Andy & the Bearandas - will feature in an upcoming talk at St Leonards Church.

A weekly British comic book released in 1967 delves into the bizarre domestic set up of two life-sized mannequin children and their humanoid panda “parents”.

 To immerse yourself in the pages of “Candy, Andy & The Bearandas” is to delve into a surreal world that riffs on the peculiar while invoking the familiar.

The new edition of Things To Do In London If You Like Comics for November 2023. Even as everyone goes up to Harrogate for Thought Bubble.

Four Corners’ new photobook celebrates the bizarrely wonderful comic series from Gerry Anderson, who was best known for creating the Thunderbirds

A plan to redevelop a GP surgery to include luxury housing has received multiple objections.

Shoutouts for single documentaries and their makers, a daily dose of history, desert island children’s books – plus the big winners at this year’s audio Oscars

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