LEISURE: That’s a wrap – Kate Adie brings this year’s literary festival to a close with a sell-out

LEISURE: That’s a wrap – Kate Adie brings this year’s literary festival to a close with a sell-out

Posted: 23rd June 2019
THE curtain came down on the 2019 Ilminster Literary Festival in fantastic sold-out style when the award-winning and highly-respected former BBC news reporter Kate Adie enthralled an audience at the Warehouse Theatre. The theatre was packed to listen to the battle-hardened TV news correspondent who had reported from war zones from around the world in an amazing career…

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LEISURE: Great Scott! Co-director for final time at Warehouse Theatre with Present Laughter

LEISURE: Great Scott! Co-director for final time at Warehouse Theatre with Present Laughter

Posted: 23rd June 2019
EXPERIENCED theatre director Scott Waldie is currently putting the finishing touches at the Warehouse Theatre in Ilminster to his latest and probably final production. Scott has teamed-up with Leane Taylor as co-directors with Present Laughter which will be performed at the Warehouse in Brewery Lane from June 26-29. While this might well be Scott’s final play as a…

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LEISURE: Win weekend tickets for Somerset Gin Festival

LEISURE: Win weekend tickets for Somerset Gin Festival

Posted: 4th July 2018
THE Westlands Entertainment Venue in Yeovil is getting ready for its fantastic Somerset Gin Festival which will be held this coming weekend (Friday, July 6, and Saturday, July 7, 2018) – and we’ve got three pairs of tickets to give away in a competition. The Somerset Gin Festival will be offering visitors over 100 gins to try (via a token system) as well as masterclasses…

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LEISURE: Win weekend tickets for Somerset Gin Festival

LEISURE: Win weekend tickets for Somerset Gin Festival

Posted: 4th July 2018
THE Westlands Entertainment Venue in Yeovil is getting ready for its fantastic Somerset Gin Festival which will be held this coming weekend (Friday, July 6, and Saturday, July 7, 2018) – and we’ve got three pairs of tickets to give away in a competition. The Somerset Gin Festival will be offering visitors over 100 gins to try (via a token system) as well as masterclasses…

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LEISURE: Blowers welcomes “my dear old things” at the Warehouse Theatre

LEISURE: Blowers welcomes “my dear old things” at the Warehouse Theatre

Posted: 9th May 2018
LEGENDARY cricket commentator Henry Blofeld delighted a packed audience at the Warehouse Theatre in Ilminster with an evening of amusing anecdotes and reminisces from his life. Blofeld, 78, known as Blowers by his many fans, retired as a BBC Test Match Special radio commentator in September 2017 – bringing to a close a 45-year career where his Old Etonian accent…

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LEISURE: Cinderella with Broadway’s young stage stars

LEISURE: Cinderella with Broadway’s young stage stars

Posted: 4th May 2018
JUNIOR members of the Broadway Amateur Theatre Society have been busy preparing for their next production – Cinderella with Music. The young stage performers will put on the show at Broadway village hall from Thursday, May 10, through to Saturday, May 12, at 7.30pm with an extra 2pm matinee on the Saturday. Tickets are on sale at Horton Post Office, Harrimans of…

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LEISURE: Getting ready for the 2018 Ilminster Literary Festival

LEISURE: Getting ready for the 2018 Ilminster Literary Festival

Posted: 17th April 2018
PLANS for this year’s Ilminster Literary Festival were given a civic seal of approval during a launch event held at Whitelackington Manor. The Deputy Mayor of Ilminster, Cllr Julie Fowler, congratulated everybody involved in the festival which will be held from May 30 to June 8. A host of events have been lined-up and Cllr Fowler said it was fantastic and testament to…

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CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: Giles cartoons come to life

CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: Giles cartoons come to life

Posted: 17th April 2018
A PRESENTATION about the life and times of renowned cartoonist Carl Giles was given to members of the Arts Society Neroche South Somerset group near Ilminster. The society met at Frogmary Farm at South Petherton where they listened and laughed as Barry Venning took them on a pictorial journey of Giles’ cartoons which became so popular in the Daily Express and Sunday…

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LEISURE: Cottage Flowers team take to the stage for the Warehouse Theatre

LEISURE: Cottage Flowers team take to the stage for the Warehouse Theatre

Posted: 2nd April 2018
WELL-KNOWN Ilminster floristry shop owner Angie Blackwell certainly came up trumps for the town’s Warehouse Theatre during a flower arranging demonstration. Angie was joined by Jacalyn Arscott and Holly Harris from Cottage Flowers in East Street and they entertained a full-house audience at the theatre in Brewery Lane with a four-hour show entitled Springing into Easter…

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CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: Lions support St Margaret’s with Easter eggs

CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: Lions support St Margaret’s with Easter eggs

Posted: 2nd April 2018
THE latest fundraising venture by members of Ilminster Lions Club has proved to be an eggs-cellent success once again. The charitable organisation hopes to have raised around £1,000 for St Margaret’s Somerset Hospice in its successful Easter Egg raffle. The Lions got the support of 18 different shops and outlets in the Ilminster area to hold a raffle where people paid a…

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