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A wide range of poets will take part in a new event to promote the popular art form in the Newark area.

Following last year’s popular event, the doors of Newark Castle will once again creak open to reveal hidden treasures that rarely see the light of day.

A Newark author has written a book questioning the roles Montgomery and Rommel played in the second world war desert campaign and its defining battle, El Alamein.

The Day I Met Brian Clough...And Other Tributes, compiled by Marcus Alton, recalls his memory of meeting him, his family, friends and fans.

Women visiting this year’s CLA Game Fair at Belvoir Castle, from July 20 to 22, will get a chance to add a touch more glamour to the event with the launch of The Lady’s Day.

A RUINED abbey provides the setting for this year’s Earth And Fire International Ceramic Fair.

The romantic comedy, The Five Year Engagement (15) takes an irreverent look at what happens when the journey down the aisle takes longer than the bride and groom could ever have imagined.

The 13th Lowdham Book Festival is already under way and is packed with great authors, both national and local, with music and storytelling, walks and talks and a lot of food for thought.

The fantasy horror, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter 3D (15) from the king of the macabre, Tim Burton, uncovers Abraham Lincoln’s biggest secret.

The Nearly Instant Theatre Session performed Nits Looks Backstage at the Grove School’s Lilley and Stone site when 27 children joined the workshop and devised scenes about working in the theatre.

BBC1’s popular Sunday evening show, Antiques Roadshow, will be filming for its 35th series in the grounds of Newstead Abbey on Thursday, June 14, and programmemakers hope as many people as possible will bring their prized possessions to be valued.

The cool cat and chums are back on the block in Top Cat: The Movie 3D (U) a lovely animated feature film directed by Alberto Mar.

A popular Midsummer Story Walk returns to The Workhouse, Southwell, on Friday, June 8, with a Dickensian theme.

Ridley Scott is back with Prometheus (15) a film of equally epic proportions that sees the director of Alien and Blade Runner take the helm in an incredible 3D journey that reaches the furthest corners of the universe.

Rob Foxon marked 25 years of presenting the archive film series, Railways Remembered, at the Palace Theatre, Newark, with a programme entitled East Coast Mainline.

To mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, the gallery at Rufford Abbey Country Park is adorned with bunting and ceramics until June 10.

In the action-packed science-fiction adventure, Men In Black 3, Will Smith returns as Agent J, accompanied as always by Tommy Lee Jones as Agent K.

Fans are in for a theatrical rollercoaster ride when the acknowledged master of pyschological illusion returns to the stage with his hit show, Derren Brown: Svengali.

Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat, Bruno) is back in his latest comic guise that sees him play an evil tyrant with more than just a passing resemblance to Colonel Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein in The Dictator (15).

Based on the cult TV series, Tim Burton's gothic horror Dark Shadows (12A) charts the life of vampire Barnabas Collins, played by Johnny Depp, over three centuries.