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A highly original Playful Garden is Southend’s innovative entry to this year’s prestigious RHS Hampton Court Flower Show.
The garden, appealing to children and adults, features an upside-down garden, an underground garden where children can crawl through a Perspex tunnel for a worms-eye view of the colourful roots of carrots and beetroots growing, and bamboozling bamboo [...]

I’ve always avoided being part of a women’s collective. I’m not a feminist, never been tempted to burn my bra or grab a placard. So I was apprehensive about attending the International Bazaar on 6 March.
Boosted by my friend’s enthusiasm, we swept into The Atrium at South Essex College. We’d missed the opening address from [...]

Lyn McFarlane from The Art Factory which is on the Manor Trading Estate in Benfleet will be coming to a meeting called by the Friends of St Peter’s Church and Thundersley Village next Thursday to tell us about plans she has for an Community Eco Arts Project which she hopes to set up in Benfleet.
 
The [...]

The fate of York Road market in Southend-on-Sea is still in the balance but the debt we all owe to the brave soldiers of yesterday and today is worthy of respect.
During the month of November local Artists will decorate the hoardings which presently cover the 1919 market built to provide work for soldiers returning from [...]

On 31 October under a milk of magnesia sky and a cacophony of starlings and sparrows shivering in the bushes skirting Chalkwell Park, Glen and I reached our destination of Chalkwell Hall, home of the Metal project.
 
It was the final opportunity to visit the Hall and view the world record breaking bunting strung across [...]