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    Guitars at the museum: the story of strings

    Acoustic and electric guitars, banjos and old photographs line the cases on a journey through music history.

  1. Headline 1: Painting missing for 60 years found in Millbrook attic and handed to Wrenhaven Art Gallery
  2. Headline 2: Morning in Cappadocia: fairy chimneys and balloons overhead
  3. Headline 3: The Regent, a 1930s cinema in Bramley Cross, reopens after a volunteer-led restoration
  4. Headline 4: Historic stone bridges: centuries-old arches over rivers
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    Museum of the Sea opens Knots and Nets, an exhibition of maritime crafts

    More than 300 objects, from hand-braided rope ladders to a herring net still smelling faintly of tar, fill the museum's grand hall in a show built around the skills that kept the harbour working.

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    Tidewater Theatre Company opens its season with four new plays

    Every production in the company's new season is a premiere, and three of the four were written by playwrights living within a tram ride of the Tidewater stage.

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    Wrenhaven Film Week brings free open-air screenings to the quayside

    Alongside its usual programme in the Asher Arts Centre cinema, this year's Film Week is putting up a giant screen on the Harbourside quay for six free evening shows.

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    Wrenhaven Philharmonic plays to 1,400 people in the dry dock at Saltings shipyard

    Concertgoers sat on the floor of a drained dock for an evening of music inspired by the sea, the orchestra's largest outdoor performance in its history.

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    Saltings Pottery Guild pairs young makers with master potters

    Twelve young makers will spend nine months at the wheel beside experienced potters in the marsh villages, in a scheme the guild hopes will keep its craft alive for another generation.

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    Folk song archive of 3,000 recordings from the Asher Valley digitised and opened to all

    Reel-to-reel tapes made in farmhouses and pubs from the 1950s onwards can now be heard free of charge, after a three-year project by the Central Library.