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WHEN Muriel Wilson founded the Children's Fancy Dress Ball in 1899, little could she have known it would still be going strong more than a century later.

In a collaboration between herself, her clothing designer friend Nicola Formichetti and installation artists Eli Sudbrack and Christophe Hamaide Pierson of Assume Vivid Astro Focus, and Barneys creative director Dennis Freedman.

Class, today we begin with a question. Who wrote William Shakespeare's works: William Shakespeare or someone else? And, frankly, what difference does it make? You there, with your hand up at the back of the room – Roland, right? Roland Emmerich? Fancy that, you've made a movie on this very subject, "Anonymous." You're saying it was Edward de ... (more)

After months of preparation by Oxjam volunteers, the biggest collaboration of local music Winchester has ever heard started with a mellow strum drifting through the library A short walk away, the sounds of heavy dubstep blared from Plain & Fancy, with the DJ's changing every two hours.