From the 3rd to the 11th August 2013, Manchester will play host to urban gardening festival Dig The City. The event will see the city centre transformed into a nature wonderland as Manchester's retailers, restaurants and food producers join forces to celebrate the growing culture of city greening and sustainable food production.
Charlie & The Chocolate Factory is in full swing at the Theatre Royal, but it's not going to be enough to just watch Charlie's chocolate adventure. Sadly there are no chocolate factories in operation in London any more but thankfully Chocolate Ecstasy Tours offers fantastical tours of London's weird and wonderful chocolate shops, sampling delicious treats along the way. And this Summer there are more tours than ever.
Competition now closed. Congratulations to our winner, Mary Ballard (Cumbria).
Today sees the start of the 2013 Hickstead Derby Meeting 19th - 23rd June and this year the event has attracted a strong field of entries, with 13 nations represented and a total of 180 horses entered in the international classes. Entries for the national classes on the opening days of the show are already full, with record numbers wishing to compete at the All England Jumping Course.
Returning to the UK's capital this October, the world famous UK RumFest will take place on Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th October 2013 and will offer visitors to London's ExCeL Exhibition Centre the chance to embark on a voyage of rum discovery.
Giggling Squid, a 98-seater Thai restaurant, is to open in Reigate in early July 2013. The latest opening will take the group's total number of venues to six, adding to sites in Brighton, Hove and Crawley in Sussex, Tunbridge Wells in Kent and Henley in Oxfordshire.
