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Dartmoors Chagstock festival is back on for 2021 The much-loved July festival held near Chagford was postponed last year due to Covid but is now back on with the same headliners of Seasick Steve and Souting For Girls Updated The festival is back for 2021 after a Covid-incurred break (Image: Anthony Stanley) Make sure youre staying in (or going out, when we can) in style with our FREE weekly newsletter covering the best of food, drink, music, theatre, TV and moreInvalid EmailSomething went wrong...

A leather jug made from Oliver Cromwells war horse Blackjack is expected to fetch £6,000 as it emerges for sale 368 years later. The huge tankard was one of a dozen made from the hide of Cromwells dead horse and it would have been used to carry water or ale.  A few years later the 2ft tall jug was deposited at the family bank C Hoare and Co in London and left there. It fell into the ownership of the Hoare family and has been passed down from generation to generation. The family has now decide...

Isle of Wight Radio 10:00am - 3:00pm Live and Local Podcast - Supporting Live Local Music On The Isle Of Wight Ed Alleyne‐Johnson Ed Alleyne-Johnson is a British electric violinist and prolific busker. He has been busking since he was a Fine Art student at Oxford University in the early 1980s. He uses an electric violin he carved with a kitchen knife, a custom pedalboard and an amplifier he modified to run from rechargeable batteries. This setup has enabled him to perform on the street in alm...

Country Life Trending: The grandiose Chanters House, in Ottery St Mary, Devon, has astonishing links to history and literature: it was the place where Oliver Cromwell declared the Civil War, and where the Coleridge family created one of the West Countrys most impressive libraries. History meets architectural grandeur at Chanters House, a magnificent property in Ottery St Mary, Devon. The Grade II*-listed house — for sale with Pilkington Estates via OnTheMarket with an asking price of £7...

Ed Alleyne‐Johnson Ed Alleyne-Johnson is a British electric violinist and prolific busker. He has been busking since he was a Fine Art student at Oxford University in the early 1980s. He uses an electric violin he carved with a kitchen knife, a custom pedalboard and portable amplifier. This setup has enabled him to perform on the street in almost every major city in Europe, and across the United States and Canada. He was a member of the English post-punk/alternative rock band New Model Army r...

Things to look forward to in Nottingham in 2021 Weve had a look at a range of events planned to go ahead later in the year Updated Inside Casa Italian restaurant and bar Dont miss anything coming up in 2021 by subscribing to our free Whats On email updatesInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Count me in! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or serv...

The Plum Pudding Riots: What happened the last time Christmas was cancelled in Kent Published: 06:00, 19 December 2020 With rising Covid cases leaving this years festive celebrations hanging in the balance, we take a look at what happened in Kent the last time Christmas was cancelled.... The Mayor of Canterbury stood in the freezing cold in front of one of the largest crowds he’d ever seen. The Thomas Ingoldsby Wetherspoon pub in Canterbury has been forced to stay shut this Christmas - wh...

In these puritanical times, trusting us must surely be a win for the cavaliers Boris Johnson seems to have rediscovered the concept of personal responsibility after months of neglect, but what took him so long? 16 December 2020 • 9:15pm A kingdom – like Narnia – divided over Christmas. Up in Holyrood, Scotland’s “White Witch” Nicola Sturgeon, whose idea of breaking away from the UK invariably involves edging a bit closer to North Korea, twirled her ice wand and spoke ominously of �...

Nottinghams Rock City: Glastonbury-like venue turns 40 By Neil Heath image captionFrank Turner played the 2,000th gig of his career at Rock City in 2016 The roll-call of loud and intimate gigs that have taken place within Rock Citys blackened walls contains some of musics biggest names. Nirvana, Madness, Def Leppard, David Bowie, Public Enemy, The Ramones, Guns N Roses, Pulp, The Cure, Rage Against the Machine and Manic Street Preachers, to name just a few, have graced the stage over recent dec...