In the Christian church, days were specified to commemorate important martyrs and saints. But after certain persecution periods, the number to be remembered was so great that a special day could not be named for each. Pope Gregory III set

Sun 1st International Coffee Concerts / Glenn Miller Orchestra Fri 6th Bob The Builder Live! Sat 6th Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance Mon 9th Christmas Music Hall Tue 10th Over The Rainbow The Eva Cassidy Story Thu 12th Al

Swan Folk, Sun 1st Nov, The Swan in the Rushes, 8.00pm

Following a sell-out tour and sensational performances on Live At The Apollo and Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow , the Welsh Wonder is back on the road with his brand new show. Last year, he punched a shop-assistant over the duvet

Mon 2nd Nov - Sat 7th Nov, Birmingham Hippodrome Theatre

3rd-8th Lord Of The Dance 11th Jimmy Webb & The Webb Brothers 12th Bryn Terfel 13th Hallй 14th Jools Holland 16th Motorhead 18th Four Seasons By Candlelight 19th The Royal Air Force In Concert 2009 20th Jimmy Carr 23rd Alison

2008 has been an incredible year for Pink with a Grammy nominated No.1 single in So What and her first ever UK No.1 album in the global-smash Funhouse , which is fast approaching double-platinum status on our shores. Her European

From BBC Radio 4`s Sony nominated Now Show , BBC1`s One Show and BBC Radio 7`s ` Mitch Benn Music Show , multi-award winner Mitch Benn and his band take to the road in a two hour show packed with

3rd-7th Opera North Autumn Season Cosм Fan Tutte / Werther / The Adventures of Mr Broucek 10th-14th Copacabana Barry Manilow`s musical comedy, presented by Nottingham Operatic Society. 17th-21st Northern Ballet Theatre: A Christmas Carol A Christmas treat for everyone, combining

Tuesday 3rd & Friday 6th, 700pm Cosм Fan Tutte Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Conducted by Andrew Parrott Directed by Tim Albery Is there an opera that contains more music of sheer beauty than Cosм Fan Tutte ? This period

The Chancellor Alistair Darling has announced that there could be up to three new banks created on British High Streets over the coming years

Tony Blair has been in talks with Tesco about helping them open supermarkets in the Middle East - allegedly in return for up to £1m

Each week we round up share tips from the Sunday newspapers

Major shareholders are this weekend believed to have thrown their weight behind Lloyds Banking Group's plans for Britain's biggest rights issue

Our summary of what the business pages are reporting from the financial world this week

Staff at M&S are confident of securing an annual bonus for the first time in three years as the chain continues to smash City expectations

Jorge Cosmen, deputy chairman of National Express, is expected to resign after failing to orchestrate a shareholder uprising

Publishers fear a profits disaster from readers using wireless technology to escape curbs on illegal downloads

American food giant Kraft is thought to be finalising the terms of its bid for British confectionery company Cadbury

Britains only two stock market-listed pawnbrokers, Albemarle & Bond and H&T, could merge to create the UK's largest pawnbroking business