A three-day outdoor cultural extravaganza, featuring eclectic circus and clowning performances and puppetry will be heading to the Lincolnshire coast…
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A quirky bank holiday ball game in the Cotswolds
This bank holiday Monday in Gloucestershire, footballers will be swapping the turf for water, in a football match with a difference…
Soapboxes take to the cobbles in York
Participants in York’s most unusual road race are undertaking final preparations on their person-powered vehicles, ready for the fourth annual Micklegate Run Soapbox Challenge…
Saddleworth’s colourful cart parade
A unique colourful cart parade will bring dancing and merriment to Greater Manchester this bank holiday weekend…
Town turns purple for plum festival
Over the bank holiday weekend, the market town of Pershore will be turning purple in tribute to the humble plum…
A walk of remembrance through Liverpool
Liverpool will be coming together in celebration and commemoration as the 20th Slavery Remembrance Day takes place…
Unique decorated floats at Hythe Venetian Fete
Watch an illuminated floating procession in Kent this month, as Hythe’s unique annual event takes place…
Fun fruit races in Devon
Every year the Totnes Elizabethan Society organise a series of unusual races through the streets of the Devon market town…
Step back in time as Lytham hosts 1940s weekend
Lytham 1940s Wartime Weekend will be taking place this weekend bringing music, dance and a touch of nostalgia to the Lancashire seaside town…
British Firework Championships go off with a bang
See some of the country’s best pyrotechnic skills on display in Devon this month as the British Firework Championships 2019 take place in Plymouth…
Try the bagpipes at Piping Live!
Have a go at playing the bagpipes, watch street pipe bands and listen to classical pipe music in Scotland’s oldest purpose built concert hall…
Colourful skies over Portsmouth for kite festival
This weekend, Portsmouth’s skies will be filled with colour as a host of giant and artistic kites are set to be flown on Southsea Common…
A strange character appears in Edinburgh
Tomorrow (Friday 9th August) will see an unusual character, decorated in flowers, ferns and burrs, wandering the streets of South Queensferry, near Edinburgh…
Music and dance fills Broadstairs
The 54th Broadstairs Folk Week rolls into town this month, with hundreds of musicians and performers in almost every available venue in the Kent town…
Hot air balloons bring a warm glow to Bristol
See more than 130 hot air balloons fill the sky over Bristol this weekend, as Europe’s largest ballooning event takes place…