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JLS to play at Epsom Downs

4:00am Tuesday 9th February 2010

Boy band JLS will play live after an evening of horse racing at Epsom Downs on Thursday, July 22.

Game preview: Halo Reach - Xbox 360

12:44pm Monday 8th February 2010

A prequel to the seminal series, Halo Reach takes place near the end of the Human-Covenant war.

Paramedics by day, rock stars by night

11:41am Monday 8th February 2010

By day, parademic's Matthew Searles and Mark Durham are busy saving lives across south London, but by night they have a very different past time.

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Testing 1,2,3 is back

8:20am Monday 8th February 2010

Oil on Canvas' Tom Chamberlain is hoping to follow in the footsteps of other former Archbishop Tenison pupils and triumph at Testing 1,2,3.

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EastEnders' Barry steps into Ronnie Barker's shoes

7:20am Monday 8th February 2010

As a child, Shaun Williamson used to go to school the day after a Porridge episode and recite the best lines to his friends, so you can understand why it didn't take him long to accept the role of Fletcher in the stage adaption of the classic sitcom.

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New Warehouse season set to thrill

8:20am Sunday 7th February 2010

An international playwriting festival, a comedy about a kinky guesthouse owner and an opera group with a difference are all coming to Warehouse Theatre over the next three months.

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Led Bib want to go for another Mercury Prize

9:30am Saturday 6th February 2010

Drummer Mark Holub admits Led Bib were probably not ready to win the Mercury Music Prize last year, but haven't ruled out having another shot at the title.

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Lizzy Parks to jazz up George IV

5:10pm Friday 5th February 2010

Lizzy Parks escaped rainy London for the far sunnier climes of Cannes but the singer, who specialises in jazzy, soul-tinged tunes, is heading back to England to promote her latest album, This and That, with a gig at Chiswick’s George IV. She spoke to Will Gore.

Gadgets: iMpressions of the iPad

2:36pm Friday 5th February 2010

I'll admit it, when I first saw Steve Jobs proudly holding up the iPad, like many others out there I thought "it looks like a giant iPod Touch".

Album Review: Hair of the Dog, Three Bonzos and a Piano

1:09pm Friday 5th February 2010

Hair of the Dog, by Three Bonzos and a Piano. (Repeat Performance records) “Who kept the dogs in!” comes the fearsome shout heralding the arrival of Three Bonzos and a Piano, the self-styled villains of vaudeville, and a bite-sized line up of arguably the world’s silliest group – the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band.