Doreen Friend

CHILDREN can zoom off into space with robots, a spaceman's suit, space age furniture and fantastic fashions for a journey through the cosmos.

New BBC series Casualty 1907's main character Dr Culpin and his wife Ethel originally lived in the Meads, a large, smart detached house in Church Hill, Loughton.

ANNETTE Badland owns two pairs of white shoes, a leopardskin hat and once had an eight-foot long zip in her forehead.

A DISPLAY of stunning photographs of the self-governing Maroon community in Jamaica is now on show at Museum in Docklands until August 31 as part of the acclaimed London, Sugar & Slavery gallery's rolling community exhibition space.

SINGER Andy Scott-Lee was so in love with his betrothed that he wrote Unforgettable - for her.

The ENO's production of Puccini's Madam Butterfly will be enjoyed particularly for its visual content if nothing else.

BEING ugly is a state of mind, if someone says you are, then you believe it.

FOR a look at two top comedy stars as you have never seen them before, settle down for an evening with Gilbert and Sullivan.

THE image a photographer sees behind the camera is the most important part of a photograph.

MANY people spend a lot of time in the kitchen at parties.