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Bond theme to this year's Blickling Proms

The Last Night of the Blickling Proms features a flypast by a wartime Spitfire Credit: Blicking Hall/Revival Productions

There will be a James Bond theme to this year's Last Night of the Blickling Hall Proms at the historic Norfolk stately home.

The event on Sunday 10 August will feature the Sinfonia Viva orchestra and a choreographed display by a Spitfire fighter

The programme will feature a mix of movie themes and flag-waving proms favourites like "Land of Hope and Glory" and "Rule Britannia".

The event last year attracted 5,000 people to picnic around the lake at Blickling Hall.

5,000 people attended the Last Night of the Blickling Proms in 2012. Credit: Blickling Hall/Revival Productions

Great Yarmouth launches summer festival

Great Yarmouth is hoping to join the likes of Chelmsford, Norwich, Thetford Forest and Henham Park as a regular in the diary of music lovers across the East.

The town is the latest to launch a summer festival, with 50,000 people expected to transform the front for 'Kiss Beach' at the end of June for the two day event.

With the likes of Dizzee Rascal and Tinie Tempah already signed up, Great Yarmouth Borough Council say they are confident the event will bring in some much needed revenue to the local economy. General ticket sales start on Friday.

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Light Railway celebration at Leighton Buzzard

The volunteers who run Leighton Buzzard's narrow-gauge railway will be celebrating the start of their 45th year of operation today, Sunday 17th March.

The first train of the season, due to depart from Page's Park station at 10.40, will be given a send-off by the Town Mayor and the Town Crier.

The first regular passenger trains, operated by volunteers, ran in 1968, and have operated every year since then. The railway itself, originally built to carry sand, will celebrate its centenary in six years' time.

Jazz musician Terry Lightfoot dies

Terry Lightfoot performing at the Mundesley Jazz Festival in Norfolk in 2010 Credit: ojaymedia

The Jazz musician and Band Leader Terry Lightfoot has died at the age of 77.

He had been suffering from Prostate Cancer and passed away on Friday 15th March 2013.

For the past 5 years the Jazz musician and his wife Iris had been living in Olney in Buckinhamshire, near Milton Keynes.

Terry Lightfoot was born in Potters Bar in Hertfordshire and enjoyed a successful musical career.

He performed with numerous well known musicians, including trumpeter Kenny Ball, who also died this month.

Terry Lightfoot performing with his daughter Melinda at The Stables Theatre in Milton Keynes 2011 Credit: ojaymedia

In the 1960s, he appeared on the Morcambe and Wise Show and was the resident Band on Des O’Connor’s first Television Series.

Apart from a spell as the Landlord of the Three Horseshoes Pub in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, Terry Lightfoot toured until the summer of 2012.

He is survived by wife Iris, and daughters Michele and Melinda.

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Film trailer released for Alan Partridge's Alpha Papa

The trailer for the new Alan Partridge film has been released, revealing the title of the big screen debut for Steve Coogan's long-running Norwich radio DJ to be Alpha Papa.

The one minute and 46 second promo sees Partridge workshopping the potential titles for his adventure "in a siege at a radio station". The film will be released on August 7.

Read: ITV Anglia's coverage of Alpha Papa's filming by the Norwich seaside.

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