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4th March 2021HAZLITT THEATRE: Christmas panto is ON this year - full details
THE Hazlitt Theatre pantomime is ON this Christmas, Daily Downs Mail can reveal. There will be more than60 shows at the end of the year but management of the Parkwood Theatres-run playhouse ...
18th February 2021COMING SOON: 4am nightclub and restaurant for Pizza Express site in Maidstone
Licensing approval was given today for a multi-purpose entertainment centre and restaurant across the five floors of the former Pizza Express building in Earl Street , Maidstone. Maidstone ...
PICTURE SPECIAL: New lambs welcomed at Kent Life
YOU know spring is not so far away when the snowdrops have just about died away and the first lambs are born. All over the borough farmers are getting ready for the busy lambing season. And at Kent ...
BREAKING NEWS: The Hazlitt Theatre is saved from closure
THE Hazlitt is SAVED - and that is official. Councillors tonight agreed to retain the contract with Parkwood Leisure, which runs the venue for Maidstone Borough Council, with a review in April. All ...
SAVE THE HAZLITT: Crunch council meeting to decide venue's future TONIGHT
SUPPORTERS of the Hazlitt Theatre will discover this evening if their fight to save the much-loved venue has been successful. Maidstone Borough Council's leisure committee sits tonight and an ...
EXCLUSIVE: The Hazlitt Theatre 'SAVED' after public outcry and Downs Mail fight
THE massive public battle to save the Hazlitt Theatre appears to have been won, after a dramatic U-turn by Maidstone Borough Council. The MBC leadership team wanted to sever the contract with ...
Take part in the Big Garden Birdwatch 2021 - details
PHOTO: RSPB IT IS time to fill up the bird feeders once more and settle in for this year’s Big Garden Birdwatch, from January 29 to 31. Conservation charity RSPB hopes the lockdown will ...
HAZLITT THEATRE: Crunch meeting on venue's future delayed by a week - details
A CRUNCH meeting to decide the future of the under-threat Hazlitt Theatre has been delayed for a week. Maidstone Borough Council’s Economic Regeneration and Leisure (ERL)Committee was ...
RAMBLIN' MAN: Dates and acts announced for next summer
ROCK festival Ramblin' Man Fair in Mote park is set to go ahead in 2021. The organisers of the event have lined up July 16-18 as the dates. These bands join the below acts already ...
SAVE THE HAZLITT: Listen live to tonight's attempt to reverse closure decision
RESIDENTS anxious about the closure of the Hazlitt Theatre by Maidstone Borough Council can listen in to a committee debate as elected members try overturn the decision this evening. Some ...