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Central TV Workshop alumni Karl Collins is currently known as family man Louis Loveday in Chester-based Hollyoaks.

Tickets are on sale this week to see You Win Again - Celebrating The Music of The Bee Gees. The West End hit show is coming to Mansfield’s Palace Theatre on November 13.

TaylorMade Productions will return to Worksop’s Acorn Theatre later this month to perform Amanda Whittington’s Ladies Down Under.

A Square World, a quirky and heart-warming story about being left out in a world made for everyone but you, is one of the first events to take place as part of Inspire’s new status as an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation (NPO).

Nottingham Lakeside Arts’ popular international children’s theatre and dance festival Wheee! returns this year from Monday, May 28, to Sunday, June 3.

Scott Matthews will end an extensive UK tour with a headline gig at The Greystones in Sheffield on May 31.

A special gala concert is being held to raise funds for EMICS and the Lincolnshire and Notts Air Ambulance.

Check out The Disco Prophets in a gig at The Diamond in Sutton-in-Ashfield on May 27.

From the writer-director of Gattaca, Lord Of War and In Time comes Anon, a mishandled sci-fi thriller that targets privacy and data protection, writes Natalie Stendall.

Bright pink beetroot dressing and fresh green asparagus not only look beautiful together but taste amazing with creamy feta and zingy mint.

Enjoyable crime capers such as Father Brown and Shakespeare & Hathaway got low-key screenings on afternoon TV when both deserved to be in the evening schedules, writes Tony Spittles.

Maverick musician and composer Richard Durrant will be giving a charity concert for Sherwood Forest as part of his Stringhenge tour of Britain, performing in the church where Robin Hood and Maid Marian are said to have been married – St Mary’s, Edwinstowe.

Health checks at work could have saved a 57-year-old Ashfield District Council manager from suffering a potentially life-threatening stroke or heart attack.

Takeaway operators in Nottinghamshire will be encouraged to offer more healthy food and drink to their customers as part of a crackdown on obesity in the county.

The poker faces of two amateur card-players from Hucknall have broken out into broad smiles after they won dream trips to Las Vegas.

For this single mum and teenage daughter, the opportunity to spend some quality time together is few and far between, so when we were offered the chance of a weekend break to Blackpool we jumped at it, and it was non-stop laughter and fun from start to finish.

If you are looking for an alternative place to visit in Yorkshire from the usual of York or Harrogate then why not try Helmsley.

The Drivetime Concert: Strictly Halle is coming to the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham, on Thursday, June 28, at 6pm.