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Squad Goals, Caspa Productions, by Zac Cooke Photography

Dance and drama at Dagenham & Redbridge Football Ground

Ready to kick-off your theatre-going experiences again? Then a new immersive show in a stadium might just give you the dose of drama you’re looking for…

A Haunted Existence

A Haunted Existence tours the UK

Tom Marshman’s true life show, A Haunted Existence, about a West Country town rocked by homophobia in the 1950s, will tour the UK…

Maldon Mud Race - Essex

Watch the world famous Maldon Mud Race

The Maldon Mud Race is an annual mad dash (or sticky wade) through the riverbed of the River Blackwater in Essex…

Curiosity of the Week - Mistley Towers ©Historic England, English Heritage

Mistley Towers

Our latest Curiosity of the Week is a pair of unusual towers, located in Mistley, Essex.  The towers wouldn’t look out of place at St Paul’s Cathedral, but they can in fact be found standing out amongst some unassuming gravestones…

Maldon Mud Race - Essex

Get ready for a wade through the mud at Maldon’s famous race

This year’s Maldon Mud Race will take place on Sunday 7th May and will see competitors wading through the riverbed of the River Blackwater in Essex…

Maldon Mud Race - Essex

Brave competitors make a mad dash to Maldon Mud Race

Maldon Mud Race is an annual mad dash through the riverbed of the River Blackwater in Essex. This year it will take place on Sunday 1st May 2016…

Maldon Mud Race - Essex

Prepare for a dirty dash with the Maldon Mud Race

Get filthy at this year’s Maldon Mud Race in Essex on Sunday 26th April 2015, as 300 competitors run and wade over the bed of the River Blackwater…

Royal Gunpowder Mills - Sparking Experiments

Half Term Horrors at the Royal Gunpowder Mills

This half term (14th – 22nd February), enjoy science as you’ve never seen it before at the Royal Gunpowder Mills in Waltham Abbey, Essex…

Big Bang Weekend - Royal Gunpowder Mills

Have a blast at the Big Bang Weekend

Royal Gunpowder Mills in Waltham Abbey have a pyrotechnical-tastic programme of activities planned for their The Big Bang Weekend this bank holiday…

Wild West Weekend - Royal Gunpowder Mills - Bank Holiday

Head to the Wild West of Essex this bank holiday

Go back in time to see what life was like in a Wild West frontier mining town at the Wild West Weekend at Royal Gunpowder Mills in Essex this bank holiday…

Essex events - Maldon Mud Race

Get filthy in fancy dress at the Maldon Mud Race

The Maldon Mud Race is an annual mad dash through the riverbed of the River Blackwater in Essex. This year’s event takes place on 25th May…

Hurricane - Royal Gunpowder Mills - Waltham Abbey

Go back to the 1940s this May bank holiday at Royal Gunpowder Mills

Visitors to the Royal Gunpowder Mills, Waltham Abbey, will be transported back to the 1940s to join the VE celebrations on May bank holiday weekend…

Ed Vere - Pop Up Festival of Stories

An entertaining and inspiring pop up festival in Purfleet

The Pop Up Festival, in Purfleet on 3rd May, will have children’s writers and storytellers entertaining and inspiring families during a day of free events…

Essex events - Maldon Mud Race

Filthy fun in Essex with the Maldon Mud Race

The Maldon Mud Race is a mad dash or wade through the riverbed of the River Blackwater in Essex on 5th May 2013. Watch crazy competitors in fancy dress get wet and muddy for charity…

VE Weekend - Royal Gunpowder Mills (Photo: Darren Harbar)

VE Day celebrations at the Royal Gunpowder Mills in Waltham Abbey

Visitors to the Royal Gunpowder Mills in Waltham Abbey will be transported back to the 1940s to join the VE Day celebrations as part of a spectacular May bank holiday weekend event…

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Curiosity of the Week

Take a ride through history at Blackpool Pleasure Beach
Blackpool Pleasure Beach sign

For our latest Curiosity of the Week, we thought we’d bring you a bit of cheery escapism in the form of fairground rides!

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Join an interactive whodunnit this Easter
Manor of Lies by Morpheus

No plans for Easter? Why not take part in a Regency whodunnit with your friends? From now until the end of April, Manor of Lies will be helping people get together to solve a mystery and avoid a scandal…

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