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Six of the Best: Cultural highlights not to miss this week

Living cartoon Ennio Marchetto transforms the art of origami into comedy magic, The Stranglers return to the Norfolk coast to close the Holt Festival, there’s an imaginative and energetic production of Cosi fan tutte, while Tall Stories return with a revival of their hit musical stage adaptation of Julia Donaldson’s The Gruffalo. SIMON PARKIN picks six cultural highlights not to miss this week.

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• Your chance to win tickets to the Last Night of the Blickling Proms
• Special celebration of cultures in Norwich
• Review: The Bad Shepherds and Wreckless Eric, Holt Festival
• Artist John Patchett’s 40th solo exhibition opens at The Forum today
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War hero Ted Sismore’s medal sale stirs memories of RAF’s original ‘smart’ bomber

Following a medal sale that stirred memories of some of the most daring missions flown out of Norfolk during the Second World War, Steve Snelling salutes a master airman who was the RAF’s original ‘smart’ bomber.

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Composer to honour Happisburgh bell ringers

For centuries, bells have given us pleasure as they ring out with tunefully rhythmic sound-waves. They have been used to warn us of invasion, help us celebrate national events and to summon the faithful to worship.

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Remembering the courage of Norfolk’s Edith Cavell during the First World War

As war clouds darkened over Belgium in the high summer of 1914, thousands were fleeing.

But just hours before Germany invaded the country, bringing Britain into the First World War, one individual was making the opposite journey.

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