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LEISURE: Fab day of book fun lined up for children as part of Ilminster Literary Festival

Posted: 7th April 2017
ILMINSTER book lovers will be looking forward to the launch of the town’s second-ever Literary Festival later this year and organisers are planning a fab day of writing, story-telling and illustrating for children. The organising committee has been hard at it for the last 12 months and now the 2017 festival is just a mere eight weeks away. Such was the buzz generated by…

CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: Rotarians support Air Ambulance

Posted: 7th April 2017
MEMBERS of the Ilminster Rotary Club have presented a representative of the Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance fundraising team with a cheque for £500. The money was raised by the club at an event held at the beautiful Minster church in the heart of Ilminster earlier this year when the fine-voiced Dorset Police Male Voice Choir provided a rousing performance. Sandra…

CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: Ilminster Lions Club plants tree at new Archie Gooch Pavilion

Posted: 7th April 2017
MEMBERS of the Lions Club of Ilminster and District enjoyed a tree planting ceremony at Ilminster Town Football Club’s Archie Gooch Pavilion. The ceremony took place on Saturday, April 1, 2017, but children from Ilminster’s Under-6 football team were not hoodwinked into believing an April Fool’s Day wind-up that spaghetti would bloom on the Italian Alder tree come next…

LEISURE: Don’t miss out – Jesus Christ Superstar is going to be an immense show!

Posted: 28th March 2017
YEOVIL Amateur Operatic Society will be wowing audiences with another superb show at the Octagon Theatre over the next fortnight. The thought-provoking, moving, harrowingly shocking musical Jesus Christ Superstar – from the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice partnership – will be performed at the Octagon from Tuesday (March 28, 2017) through to Saturday, April 8, 2017. The…

LEISURE: Don’t miss out – Jesus Christ Superstar is going to be an immense show!

LEISURE: Jesus Christ Superstar at the Octagon

Posted: 27th March 2017
LAST-MINUTE preparations are being made ahead of Yeovil Amateur Operatic Society’s latest musical show – the amazing Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber production of Jesus Christ Superstar. The show is being performed at the Octagon Theatre in Yeovil from Tuesday, March 28, 2017, 2017, through to Saturday, April 8, 2017. This thrilling rock opera takes an impassioned look…

LEISURE: Jesus Christ Superstar at the Octagon

LEISURE: Who would be in your 80s Top Ten?

Posted: 21st March 2017
RADIO Two listeners may have enjoyed the feast of 80s music played over the last day as part of the 24-Hour Red Nose Danceathon with Sara Cox – but what records from that decade would you put in your own personal Top Ten? People of a certain age would have grown up with the likes of Duran Duran, Culture Club, Madonna, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Pet Shop Boys, Wham, A-Ha…

LEISURE: The Great Somerset Colour Run is back with a colourful bang!

Posted: 14th March 2017
THE Somerset-based St Margaret’s Hospice is inviting people to come alive with colour at Wincanton Racecourse later this year for the annual Great Somerset Colour Run. The racecourse, more used to seeing the sedate colours of racing silks, will explode with colourful powder paint on Sunday, May 21, 2017. While hundreds of participants run, walk, skip or hop the 5k route…