WITH its main activities focused on late June, Lowdham Book Festival continues to host events throughout the year and to attract some big names from the world of literature. 30 April sees An afternoon with Alexander McCall Smith at St…
LOWDHAM is one of just 50 locations across the country where a special Easter Egg hunt will take place starting this week. Thorntons is launching this novel nationwide egg hunt, making use of the untapped method of ‘geocaching’. This is…
THE good folk and true of the Calverton Real Ale & Plough Play Preservation Society (Crappps) will undertake their annual tour of local village pubs this weekend, performing the unique Plough Play and raising funds for charity. Plough Plays, or Mummers…
TOYAH Willcox is one of the big name acts announced for the 2015 Lowdham Book Festival. She will bring her ‘Up Close and Personal’ show to Lowdham Village Hall on Friday 19 June 2015, and tickets are on sale…
LAMBLEY’s annual firework display attracted record crowds tonight, marking a triumphant return for the event. Community fireworks were absent from the village in 2013, to the disappointment of many, after changes in Lambley Primary School PTA left nobody prepared to…
THE FOOD Doctors cover band will be playing their ‘May Bash’ at Lambley Village Hall on Friday 10 May 2013, from 9pm to midnight. Doors open 8.45pm. This local group plays music from the 1960s through to the present day.…
RAISING money for the Notts Air Ambulance and for a new sound system for the Projection House film nights, the Oxton Summer Ball on 29 June 2013 at Oxton Village Hall looks like being a sophisticated evening for the most…
THE RECENT blockbuster movie The Hobbit, which has only just been released for general showing, will be Oxton Projection House’s presentation on Saturday 13 April 2013. The Hobbit: an unexpected journey is the first in the trilogy based on Tolkein’s…
OXTON Projection House is now in its third year of operation. A number of different arrangements have been tried in that period, including nights in the Green Dragon pub, with some formats proving more successful than others. From this experience…
MARKING St Patrick’s Day (approximately), Oxton Projection House will hold its Irish evening in the village hall on Friday 22 March 2013 with food, music, a cult Irish movie, and a choice of Irish refreshments. The cult Irish film In…