Here are five events and shows you don't want to miss in Colchester this weekend.

1. PIPES in the Park, Lower Castle Park, St Peters Street, Colchester, Sunday, 10am. Free. 01376 513076.

Formerly known as Scotland in Colchester, pipe bands from all over southern England will be competing in a mini Highland Gathering. Highland dancers add to the Scottish atmosphere, plus there will also be a display from the Corps of Drums from King Edward’s Grammar School Combined Cadet Force.

2 SHAKESPEARE’S Daughter and the Vicar, Headgate Theatre, Chapel Street North, Colchester, tonight and tomorrow, 7.45pm. £12. 01206 366000.

Chelmsford’s Cameo Players perform Marion Wells’s piece about a vicar, curious to discover the secret of how William Shakespeare wrote his classic plays, who seeks out the person who still has firsthand knowledge of the Bard, Shakespeare’s daughter Judith Quiney.

3 THE Swing Spectacular, Colchester Arts Centre, Church Street, Colchester, tomorrow, doors 7pm. £19.50. 01206 500900.

Colchester jazz singer Lydia Bell returns to her old haunt at the arts centre for another fundraising musical event that never fails to impress.

This year she’s managed to gather even more spectacular guests from dance troupe, The Dinahs, to the Volstead Orchestra, fronted by another Colchester jazz singer, Jessica Dives.

4 COLCHESTER Heritage Tour with High Steward Sir Bob Russell - Tour X, Sunday, starts from Colchester Arts Centre, Church Street, Colchester, 10am. £5 donation. 01206 500900.

Another chance to catch Sir Bob’s latest incarnation of his popular Heritage Tours running alongside the A and B tours. For all those who don’t know his Tour X is exclusively about Colchester’s rich Roman heritage including the chariot racing circus.

5 I love my Mum, Headgate Theatre, Chapel Street North, Colchester, Sunday, 7pm. £10, £8 concessions. 01206 366000.

Screening of a new film starring Essex actress Kierston Wareing, in which she plays the mother who get inadvertently shipped in a container from London to Morocco.