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WhizzFizz to return
November 10, 2019
Aylesbury Vale District Council has announced the return of WhizzFizzFest on Saturday 27 June 2020. Festival-goers can expect another whizzfizzingly wonderful day as the eagerly-anticipated family-friendly literary and arts festival returns to Aylesbury for 2020. Following on from last year’s success, WhizzFizzFest will be brimming with exciting celebrity author guests, involving county-wide workshops and a giant […]
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Bard comes to Tring
November 9, 2019
Arguably Shakespeare’s greatest work Macbeth will be performed by a talented cast drawn from the Vale area. The production is directed by professional actor and director Andy Faber and the cast includes semi-pro and community players brought together by Frayed Knot Theatre Company. When Macbeth returns home victorious from war he is promised a golden future by […]
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The Bard’s battle-axes
November 5, 2019
Shakespeare’s older women are the stars in The Power Behind the Crone on Sunday 10 November at the Players Theatre, Thame. This one-woman show is given by five-star review-winning actress Alison Skilbeck, from 7.45pm. Alison plays Prof Artemis Turret who sets out to prove there are first-class parts for older women in Shakespeare’s plays. Artemis […]
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Lights-up date
Aylesbury town centre is heralding the start of Christmas on Thursday 14 November with the annual lights switch on. The event will include stage entertainment hosted by Mix 96, which will take place between 5.30pm and 8pm in Aylesbury’s historic Market Square, with a street food court and a funfair in Kingsbury which will run […]
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Sizzling stuff
October 30, 2019
Orchard View Farm has won the ‘Most Innovative Sausage’ award at this year’s National Sausage Awards. If this was not enough, the farm also achieved Highly Commended for its ‘Marmite Special’, and runner-up for the ‘Spanish Chorizo’ This is yet another feather in the cap for the award-winning family run farm whose emphasis is on […]
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HS2 marches on
October 27, 2019
Despite several requests from Aylesbury Vale District Council to Transport Minister Grant Shapps that he halt HS2 enabling works until the current review is concluded, HS2 contractors will soon be taking possession of a strip of land, including a footpath, alongside the railway line at Hawkslade Farm estate, Aylesbury. HS2 contractor Fusion was expected to start work in the area, fencing off […]
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