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Hairspray tickets are on sale

TICKETS are now on sale to the smash-hit musical Hairspray, when it comes to Nottingham’s Theatre Royal from July 2-13, 2013.

Undated Handout Photo of Diarmiud Gavin. See PA Feature GARDENING Gardening Column. Picture credit should read: PA Photo/Handout. WARNING: This picture must only be used to accompany PA Feature GARDENING Gardening Column.

You would have thought that when he moved to a new house in Wicklow, known as the Garden of Ireland, Diarmuid Gavin, the enfant terrible of the gardening fraternity, would have wasted no time hauling in the diggers, landscaping materials, amazing plants and architectural altars.

A view of Albany in Western Australia. See PA Feature TRAVEL Western Australia. Picture credit should read: PA Photo/Handout. WARNING: This picture must only be used to accompany PA Feature TRAVEL Western Australia.

Paradise found for gourmets

As I lie in bed, sunlight drenches the Southern Ocean stretched out in front of me. Colours shifting, the horizon slowly melts into the sky as the sun rises over an endless expanse of white empty beach.

Star Trek Into Darkness. ( PA Photo/Paramount)

Race against time for Kirk and Co

If you’re off to the cinema, here are few films to c consider:

Injury causes gig’s cancellation

the forthcoming Think Floyd gig at Derby’s Assembly Rooms on Sunday, May 19, has had to be cancelled.

A Delicate Truth by John le Carre, published in hardback by Viking, priced �18.99 (ebook �9.99). Available now. (PA Photo/Viking)

Wit and sheer intelligence

If you’re looking for a good read this week, here are few offerings:

Cafe in Amsterdam. See PA Feature TRAVEL Amsterdam. Picture credit should read: PA Photo/Renato Granieri. WARNING: This picture must only be used to accompany PA Feature TRAVEL Amsterdam.

Art and soul of Amsterdam

Bicycles jingle and clatter across red-brick bridges - some carrying “wheelbarrows” filled with children, others with passengers riding side-saddle on the back.

Undated Handout Photo of a garden design from RHS Chelsea 2011. See PA Feature GARDENING Gardening Column. Picture credit should read: PA Photo/Handout. WARNING: This picture must only be used to accompany PA Feature GARDENING Gardening Column.

Show time at Chelsea

So, what are we going to learn from this year’s internationally acclaimed horticultural show?

A bee on a flower (PA Photo/Thinkstockphotos)

Buzzing to help the bees

Reports that our bee population is at crisis point as numbers have been hit by bad weather and particularly long winters should prompt responsible gardeners to protect our bees by creating a prosperous environment for them.

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Cruising into a Barbie world

There are many aspects of the world’s largest and most innovative cruise ship that knock you for six. Its 16 passenger decks. Its seven neighbourhoods. Its basketball courts and swimming pools. Its living, breathing Central Park.

A lioness in the wild at Okavango Delta, Botswana. See PA Feature TRAVEL Honeymoon Safari. Picture credit should read: PA Photo/Sarah Marshall. WARNING: This picture must only be used to accompany PA Feature TRAVEL Honeymoon Safari.

Wild nights for newly-weds

I wake up with a jolt, stirred by the crunching of fallen branches metres from my pillow. A heavy-footed intruder is on the prowl and he isn’t doing a very good job of disguising his tracks.

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Hairspray tickets are on sale

Labour of love for TV’s Gavin

Paradise found for gourmets

Race against time for Kirk and Co

Injury causes gig’s cancellation

Wit and sheer intelligence

Art and soul of Amsterdam

Show time at Chelsea

Buzzing to help the bees

Cruising into a Barbie world

Wild nights for newly-weds

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