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Sunday, May 16 Dame Joan Collins has returned to Britain to do my Life Stories show after spending most of this latest lockdown in Los Angeles. ‘Just to warn you,’ announced the nation’s most dynamic octogenarian on arrival for our reunion dinner at Ivy Chelsea Garden, ‘I’ve been locked up in quarantine for five days so feel like a caged animal who just got released.’ To prove the point, she promptly barked at her husband across the table: ‘PERCY, I NEED YOUR PLUNGER!’ Dame Joan...

1970: Mary Hopkin, ‘Knock, Knock, Who’s There?’ Welsh folk singer Hopkin gave the UK another second place at Eurovision, after a string of hit singles including Goodbye (written and produced by Paul McCartney). After she married top producer Tony Visconti in 1971, she withdrew from the limelight, but still sang on several albums he produced, including David Bowie’s Low. After a late-Seventies comeback, she joined a group called Oasis (not the Gallaghers’ band), and sang on Vangelis�...

Britain has a chequered record in Europe’s trashiest competition. Here are the highs and lows in full – and what came next

Continuing our series of writers defending films loathed by most is a plea to reconsider Robert De Niro’s smutty comedy

Published: 4:10 PM April 28, 2021    Liz Cook, Sally Owen, Matthew Townshend, Sam Culwick, David Hermon, public fundraising has saved Theatre on the Coast in Southwold - Credit: Archant Public subscription has saved a long-established Suffolk institution – summer theatre in Southwold – from having to close its doors this year. Last year’s Covid lockdown seriously dented the finances of Theatre on the Coast and for a while it looked as if this year’s season of plays may have to be pos...

It was taken in Weymouth between May 1966 and May 1967 during Lucie Hill’s mayoralty. If you look to the right of the photo youll see a very familiar face! Looking on and watching the ribbon cutting is Sid James of the Carry On films fame. This picture was shared with us by Geoffrey Pritchard. He said: "This is an interesting one. I know nothing of the circumstances but the combination of characters is strange. "Perhaps someone can throw some light on this. It was taken between Ma...

Maidenhead town hall THE Maidenhead town hall’s future is to be reviewed by the council as a new ‘corporate building’ is to be considered. Senior councillors are set to convene at next week’s cabinet meeting to approve plans to investigate the possibility of creating a new corporate building within the borough. In the report, officers state the Maidenhead town hall, which was built in 1962, has become ‘more costly to maintain’ over the years. The Royal Borough declared a clima...

Published: 7:00 PM April 7, 2021    Updated: 1:40 PM April 8, 2021 Theatre on the Coast producer Matthew Townshend who has launched a crowdfunding appeal to save Southwolds summer season - Credit: Alex Hermon An annual summer theatre season that has been running in Suffolk for more than 80 years is at risk of closure following the long-term effects of lockdown restrictions. Theatre on the Coast, previously known as Suffolk Summer Theatre, has been entertaining audiences at Southwold Arts Cen...

When Barbara Windsor died in December aged 83, precious little of her raucous life and times was spared examination. She wouldnt have minded.  In life, the irrepressible national treasure with the famous wiggle and throaty laugh was an open book, always ready with an eye-popping story normally involving the men in her life. So why would death be any different? The name of Bob Dunn was, however, notably absent from the extravagant obituaries. Perhaps that is not altogether surprising, since hi...

All of the Sussex filming locations used in the Carry On movies - Images - The Argus Who doesnt love a good Carry On film?  Spanning film, stage and screen the Carry On franchise was one of the most iconic of the last century releasing more than 30 movies.  Epitomising British comedy at the time, the films humour was based around the tradition of music hall and bawdy seaside postcards - making the Sussex coastline an ideal filming location.  They were produced by Peter Rogers and direc...