SHADOW chancellor Oliver Letwin will take part in the opening ceremonies of the second Lyme Regis arts festival this weekend. The MP for West Dorset will make the first daubs in the Evolution project - a drawing event using blue lias clay - and will take part in the Painting by Hundreds event at the Marine Parade shelters on Sunday afternoon, accompanied by the town mayor Barbara Austin and Marcus Dixon of the Lyme Regis Development Trust. The festival will be officially opened on Saturday however, with a procession through the town led by the mayor and town crier Phil Street. Starting at 12.30 from the anchor at Cobb Gate, a procession of artists and participants will walk through the town along Broad Street and then through Coombe Street to the Woodmead halls, ending up at the town mill at 12.50 for raku firing and the Painting by Hundreds event. For full details see leaflets available at locations throughout the town including tourist information in Church Street.
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