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The annual scramble for Christmas presents is well and truly underway. Fiona Evans rummages around for ethical stocking fillers.

Kevin Bryan delivers his verdict on some of this week’s alternative CD releases

Get ready for plenty of festive laughs when The Miners Arms at Sutton-in-Ashfield hosts a comedy night on Saturday, December 22.

Get ready for plenty of panto fun at Mansfield’s Palace Theatre early next year when the popular Westfield Folkhouse Pantomime Group return from January 12-20, to give 13 performances of their 79th panto production.

Take a trip down memory lane with this fabulous slideshow of bygone snaps from Hucknall. Test your local knowledge with these pictures by clicking on the above link. If you would like to view more of the same, visit www.inspirepicturearchive.org.uk

Strictly Come Dancing fans will be overjoyed to hear that the full line-up of celebrities and their professional partners for next year’s Strictly Come Dancing UK Arena Tour has been announced.

Santa Claus has a new temporary home for the festive season at a fabulous family theme park on our doorstep — and no expense has been spared.

Social media and celebrity culture is helping drive the rise of veganism. Reporter Charlie Bullough looks at why the number of vegans in Britain has quadrupled in four years.

Kevin Bryan delivers his verdict on some of this week’s alternative CD releases.

The festive juices can’t really start flowing in my view until you’ve taken in a pantomime — and one of the best around is always staged at Nottingham Playhouse.

With their 40-year anniversary on the horizon, Nottinghamshire’s post punk icons B-Movie have released a new three-track EP, out now.

Christmas is always a special time of year and when you have a little one it becomes magical.

These distinctive in-ear monitors boast big sound for a small price.

Take a trip down memory lane with this fabulous slideshow of bygone snaps from Hucknall. Test your local knowledge with these pictures by clicking on the above link. Some images are from inspirepicturearchive.org.uk part of inspireculture.org.uk delivering culture, learning, library and heritage services on behalf of Nottinghamshire County Council. If you would like to view more of the same, visit www.inspirepicturearchive.org.uk

People seem to enjoying getting angry at the news these days, writes Steve N Allen.

Quick-thinking staff at Hucknall Leisure Centre saved a man’s life after he collapsed while playing walking cricket.

After going against the grain with their beautifully made but uncharacteristically straight western True Grit, the unorthodox Coen brothers offer up this witty, ironic, outrageously funny and achingly sad collection of western stories, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, writes Natalie Stendall.