Her father’s business has closed down and both parents have become more distracted as they struggle to cope with the new surroundings. Jess has to fend for herself and strikes up unlikely friendships with Old Tom and Mike the Storyteller and more about this strange and remote place she now calls home.

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TOYS of yesteryear are currently on show at Ely Museum, with a four-week exhibition entitled Memories of Childhood.

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March 6-10

ROMEO and Juliet from the Headlong Theatre at the Cambridge Arts Theatre.

MCFLY at Newmarket Racecourse. Tickets are £29 for Premier Enclosure, £21 for the Grandstand and Paddock and £15 for the garden enclosure from the box office on 0844 5793010.

JOAN Baez at the Cambridge Corn Exchange. Don’t miss this opportunity to see one of the greats of the music world. Tickets are £39.50 from the box office on 01223 357851.

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WHEN Elizabeth Johnston began to organise ghost walks in Soham at Halloween, she little thought that the project would turn her into an authoress.

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QUENTIN Cooper - described by The Times as “the world’s most enthusiastic man” - will be giving at lecture at Kings School Ely at the end of the month.

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Razorlight will play Thetford Forest on June 14. The band are the final act to be announced at the venue for this summer.

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ALTHOUGH it was an ice skating extravaganza, there was nothing cold about Holiday on Ice’s new show, Tropicana: The Passion Tour.

A NEW exhibition of stunning original prints has opened at the Babylon Gallery in Ely.

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Jim Davidson is firmly established as one of Britain’s top stand-up comedians and has received an OBE for his services to charity as well as three coveted Showbusiness Personality of The Year Awards from the Variety Club of Great Britain, The Grand Order of Water Rats and Comic Heritage.

Check out what’s on in the local area. Music, theatre, comedy and Ely Cinema listings. Contact: debbie.davies@archant.co.uk if you want to promote your event.

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