The heatwave has passed, and with it, the sizzling Summer Festival has now finished.
We would like to thank all those who came along during July and helped make this year’s Festival the best yet in it’s 45 year history.
We’ve selected a few pictorial highlights below, but we really want to know what you thought of [...]

Catch the award-winning Brodsky Quartet on Saturday 30 July, 2pm at St John Fisher RC High School palying the divine Debussy, before the Festival’s two Guest Curators – Clare Teal & Soweto Kinch – close the 2011’s arts extravaganza.
The finale weekend certainly is grand, featuring two Yorkshire icons as Sir Michael Parkinson presents Clare Teal [...]

Bleep…bleep…bleep…ever wondered about the miraculous if pesky barcodes when you’re stood at the check-out watching the frozen peas? The identities of millions of products are captured in those optical machine-readable representations of data.
Nearly every aspect of our lives has been completely transformed by the barcode. Shopping, going to the cinema, using a library card, aviation, [...]

Author Tom Palmer, the ultimate football fan, scores a winning goal at the Children’s Festival this weekend.
“I got into writing through football really, I think you should write about what you’re passionate about,” Tom said explaining his Foul Play, Dead Ball and the Football Academy Series of books.
His books have the ability to capture [...]