Film: December 6th, 2011
Director: Chris Miller

A bit of a prequel here, but a long-awaited one rather than a shoe-horned cash-in on the Shrek franchise. With quite a buzz around it, this 3D swash-buckling animation sounds like the perfect Christmas family movie – with no-one of any age getting bored!
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Music: December 6th, 2011
It’s full speed ahead for Turin Breaks

Leaders of the nu-acoustic movement of the late ‘90s and early ’00s, Turin Brakes was started by longtime friends Olly Knights and Gale Paridjanian, releasing The Door EP in 1999 on their Brighton manager’s label Anvil Records. A couple more EPs was followed by the classic The Optimist LP in 2001, which featured their trademark harmonies and melancholy grooves. Containing the hits songs ‘Underdog (Save Me)’ and ‘Emergency 72’, the album was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize.
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Stage: December 6th, 2011
Big Theatre’s saucy seasonal offering

Do you fancy an adult fairy tale this December? Well, how about this?: An elf is apprehended in a warehouse on Christmas Eve. He begs for his freedom by telling tales of faulty sledges, white magic powder that provides that ‘Christmas feeling’ and Santa’s headquarters in Hartlepool.
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Andrew Kay's food & drink: December 6th, 2011
Andrew Kay reveals the finalists in The Sussex Food & Drink Awards 2011/12

Finalists for the Sussex Food & Drink Awards 2011/12 have now been announced following the deliberations by judges at the American Express Community Stadium. Twenty-four of the county’s best food and drink heroes have made it through to make a tasty final line-up and will find out if they won at the Sussex foodie event of the year, the Sussex Food & Drink Awards banquet, on 26 January 2012 at the American Express Community Stadium, for which tickets are now on sale. Read the rest of this article »
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