It’ll be Happy Mondays on Saturday and Incognito and former M People singer Heather Small tomorrow as Sunniside Live kicks off in Sunderland this weekend. Held in Sunniside Gardens in the heart of Sunderland city centre, Sunniside Live runs from 4pm until 10pm on Friday, 7 July, and noon until 10pm on Saturday, 8 July.…
Tonbridge Juddians Rugby Club is the venue for the SIBA South East Beer Festival, which takes place on Friday and Saturday, 7-8 July. The 11th in the series, and growing bigger every year, the festival features more than 180 cask ales in various categories from the south-east’s finest independent brewers. And whether new to real…
Wye… you may ask, well it’s because it’s one of the ‘must-do’ events in the county and a place where you can try more than 120 cask beers. Set in a giant big top-style marquee in a meadow next to the city’s Rowing Club, Beer On The Wye gets underway this weekend in the heart…
Showcasing more than 300 draught real ales and a vast array of ciders, perries and meads, the City Charter Summer Beer Festival returns to Derby today for its 40th edition. The festival, organised by the Derby branch of CAMRA, runs from 5-9 July inside a marquee on Market Place, where visitors will be able to…
Thousands of cycling enthusiasts will race through the stunning scenery of South Wales this weekend when the country’s biggest cycling sportive returns to Cardiff for the annual Velothon Wales on Sunday, 9 July. Up to 16,000 participants will take up the challenge, including some of the world’s best cyclists as well as recreational riders and…
After a trip across the Irish Sea for events in Belfast and Dublin last weekend, the MCM Comic Con phenomenon returns to mainland Britain for more shows in 2017 in Manchester, Glasgow, London and Birmingham before the end of the year. An abbreviation of “movies, comics, media”, the MCM brand has grown from a single…
One of the biggest events in the Chelmsford social calendar kicks off at midday today at Admiral’s Park, Rainsford Road. Boasting 300 different real ales and more than 100 types of cider and perry, the Chelmsford Summer Beer and Cider Festival runs from Tuesday, 4 July, to Saturday, 8 July. This year is the 39th…
If you’ve ever been to Olympia in London you’ll know that it’s a pretty big venue and it takes an event of considerable proportions to take it over… but one of the country’s biggest costume parties manages to do just that. Taking place from 28-30 July, London Film & Comic Con is the flagship event…
A day after a young Peter Parker starts to come to terms with his newfound identity as the web-slinging super hero in Spider-Man: Homecoming in cinemas across the UK, fans of the genre can get a first-hand experience of the art that spawned such Hollywood blockbusters at the sixth annual incarnation of the Cardiff Independent…
There’re nine more action-packed days of racing to look forward to in Carmarthenshire before Ffos Los racecourse holds its final event of the year just a week before Christmas. The curtain comes down for the year on Monday, 18 December, when the Christmas Party Raceday takes place, but before then there are nine days of…
