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MEET THE CHEF: This week we meet Will Frankgate, chef patron at The Blue Bell in Glinton, which received a 10/10 rating in the Peterborough Telegraph recently and features in both the Michelin and Harden’s Best UK Restaurants guides. Catch him on June 23 demonstrating at the Cambridgeshire Food and Drink Festival at the East of England Arena and Event Centre.

The Gravy Train Trio - a high energy Jazz, Funk, Soul organ trio from Cambridge - head the entertainment at this weekend’s three-day Alfresco Soul Festival at Charters on the River Nene in Peterborough.

Final preparations are being made for Peterborough Heritage Festival - the UK’s largest multi-period city centre living history festival this weekend, (June 16 and 17).

Winner of the Tony Awards ‘Triple Crown’ for Best Musical, Best Score and Best Book, AVENUE Q is part flesh, part felt and all heart.

One of the most prestigious theatre seasons of the year gets under way on Tuesday when Stamford Shakespeare Company returns to Tolethorpe Hall near Stamford.

Carluccio’s, one of the restaurants that led the resurgence of the eating out scene in Peterborough, is to close, it has been revealed today.

The Stamford home of the former Prezzo restaurant has gone on the market.

A Romanian restaurant which offered a taste of south east Europe to Peterborough diners has closed.

Dozens of members of Peterborough’s Sikh community came together on Sunday for the annual Epilepsy Action fundraising walk.

Lovers of Peterborough fine dining establishment Prevost will be able to enjoy what it has to offer at a new venue in July.

It opened with a fanfare promising Peterborough diners “food influenced by the Raj”, and closed with a whimper pending “major refurbishment” - now the home of a la carte Indian restaurant turned multi-cuisine operator Ba Shoh has gone up for sale.

N o one says owning and running a restaurant is easy, perhaps that’s why there is such a high rate of opening and sadly, closing. So to keep a high end restaurant successful for the best part of a quarter of a century is some achievement indeed. Andrew Corrick became Chef Patron of The Cherry House at Werrington in 1994 and continues to cook “fine British with a nod to classic French” at the 400 year old Grade II listed cottage with Cromwellian links.

Peterborough’s Queensgate Shopping Centre set sail with their Jolly Roger flying high for a Treasure Island themed half term adventure!

There is another chance to enjoy the vegan offerings from the Resist! Vegan Kitchen this weekend.

There is a tasty new addition coming to the eating out scene in Peterborough city centre soon.

Northborough Village Hall was host to Girlguiding Glinton District when 54 keen, enthusiastic and ready to travel Rainbows, Brownies, Guides and Leaders from Helpston, Glinton and Northborough came together for a District Event.

Youngsters have been busy at Peterborough Cathedral this week as two great workshops were set up for half term.

Peterborough band Idolising Nova continue to go from strength-to-strength - and this time Jack, Kris and Kyle have had thousands of people across Europe jumping and singing along to their songs.