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Just imagine what fun

THE LAWRENCE Batley Theatre will be hitting the road this summer with its Imagine Tent - where children of all ages can get involved in arts activities. Read

A perfectly musical summer’s evening

SPEND Sunday evening in the company of singers from Almondbury Ladies Choir and their guests, a music group called 11 In A Bar. Read

Expect the unexpected

CHARLIE Friedman goes to work one morning and his train is blown up in a terrorist attack as it arrives in New York’s Grand Central Station. Read

School’s star pupils will mark a decade of dance

THEY have been with the Barbara Peters School of Dance for years, many of them since they were little more than toddlers. Read

WINNERS of tickets in our Concert on the Hill competition were: Louise Moran, of Golcar; Mrs D Farmer, of Almondbury; Mrs K M Mettrick, of Hepworth and Mrs Jill Sykes, of Elland.

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Blair band plays on

POLITICS and theatre. For some, there isn’t much difference. Read

A second Prom and it’s all for free

THERE will be no need for fingers crossed for fine weather for Slaithwaite Philharmonic Orchestra’s Summer Prom tomorrow night. Read

Actress Balvinder Sopal stars tonight in the world premiere of Mela. VAL JAVIN finds out how she arrived in Huddersfield 10 years ago to do a theatre degree and ended up adopting it as her home town Read

Together again in unique banding reunion

WHEN Meltham and Meltham Mills Band travelled to Filey to play a concert they had no idea that they were about to be involved in a unique reunion. Read

Free feast of music comes to the park

Stand-by for the town’s biggest weekend of free music, starting on Saturday with the Prom In The Park. VAL JAVIN reports on an open-air spectacular that will bring the crowds flocking to Greenhead Park Read

Split down age lines at rock’s heaviest festival

DONINGTON – the spiritual home of heavy metal – went back to its Monsters of Rock roots for Download 2008. Read

Writers hold first public meeting

MOBILE phone mania, reflections on working in Cambodia, a dramatic dash to hospital and how to reduce your carbon footprint. Read

Speeding to a new Scalextric record

ACTOR, writer and presenter Dallas Campbell was born in 1970 in Scotland. Read

What do you call a dear with no eyes and no legs?

Still no idea. Read

What do you call a dear with no eyes?

No idea. Read

1 Rocco Mediate; Lee Westwood; 2 Cyd Charisse; 3 The Netherlands; 4 Frankie Laine; 5 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds; 6 Robyn; 7 Cascada; 8 Iridium; 9 Last Of The Summer Wine; 10 They were cricketers: 22 yards for the pitch, five for Shaw’s bowling run-up; 11 Alejandro Valverde; 12 In 1635 (by Cardinal Richelieu); 13 Ramsay MacDonald; 14 Cornwall; 15 Fritz Lang (of Metropolis fame);16 Umberto Eco’s (Ex Caelis Oblatus); 17 Lithuania; 18 Rhys Williams; 19 Charles Darwin; 20 William Boeing; 21 Topsy Ojo; 22 Fourteen; 23 Lesley Vainikolo (for Bradford against Hull in 2005); 24 Netball ;James Naismith); 25 Rivendell; 26 The Jordan; 27 The TUC; 28 In 1692; 29 Avoiding National Service; 30 Mexico; 31 David Byrne and Brian Eno; 32 Turkey; 33 The Caribbean; 34 Ian Carmichael; 35 Ceres; 36 Twenty-six thousand light years; 37 Saliva; 38 In 1980; 39 A wren; 40 Violins; 41 Don Quixote; 42 Ribena (the blackcurrant is Ribes nigrum); 43 Lee Marvin; 44 Summer Holiday; 45 Roger Fry; 46 The almond; 47 Sienna Miller; 48 The US; 49 Symposium; 50 The Sugababes.

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World of words

DEEP in the heart of a dusty Kenyan desert a train of heavily-laden camels winds its way slowly through the bush. Panniers are stuffed to bursting, not with grain or medical supplies, but with books of every variety. Read

Mikron sharing skills

THE team behind Mikron Theatre’s hugely successful touring shows are all set to share their skills with young performers on both sides of the Pennines. Read