Kenny's still having a ball with his jazz - and a new book

Kenny Ball

7:00pm Friday 4th November 2011

IT would be odd if Kenny Ball didn’t have a few rich tales to tell. This is a man who has worked and partied with immortals, including the Beatles, Princess Diana, Frank Sinatra, and Morecambe and Wise, not to mention his idol, Louis Armstrong.

Southend Airport is reel star again

Chris and Maureen Taylor, with the old control tower in

5:00am Friday 30th September 2011

HAPPY days are here again for Southend Airport, but perhaps the emphasis should be on the word again.

Old warhorse Tom misses the action

Tom Sargeant – former Grenadier Guardsman

3:00am Friday 16th September 2011

WHEN Tom Sargeant joined the Grenadier Guards, he fully expected to take part in the Trooping the Colour ceremony. He just didn’t expect to do it in Libya.

When shire horses ruled the landscape

Graham Collins with his two shire horses, Harry and Joe

3:00am Friday 5th August 2011

LOVE at first sight. How can anyone really know the meaning of those words until they encounter Harry and Joe?

The golden age of of cinemas in Southend

Film expert – Roy Dilley, with his book, outside the old Plaza cinema

12:00pm Saturday 11th June 2011

SOUTHEND has just one cinema where you can still watch a film, but dotted around the town are other, older buildings, some forlorn, some still thriving, that once played a more glamorous role on the high street, back in the heyday of the silver screen.

Master gangster is big softie

Sharp – PH Moriarty, right, as Razors in the Long Good Friday, with Bob Hoskins. The film was the actor’s big break

11:00pm Thursday 28th April 2011

THE gala night of Southend Film Festival is supposed to be an upbeat occasion, but what will the presence of special guest, PH Moriarty, do to the mood?

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