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Homeless requests for help fall
Updated 4:17pm Monday 6th October 2008
NUMBERS of homeless people requesting help from the district council have more than halved over the last three years following a new strategy.
Family warn of scam
Updated 2:55pm Monday 6th October 2008
THE FAMILY of an 85-year-old man from Leonard Stanley are warning other residents of a fake scam which asked him to hand over his bank details in exchange for £490,000.
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Duo's Zapcat flourish
Updated 4:49pm Monday 6th October 2008
STROUD’S Justin Whithorn and Chris Baldwin tasted a successful final two rounds of the 2008 Zapcat National Championships, in Newquay.
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Updated 9:13am Monday 6th October 2008
DAN ROBINSON finished top Briton in his first race since the Olympics at the BUPA Great North Run on Sunday.
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Updated 6:40pm Monday 6th October 2008
More than £93 billion was wiped from the value of the UK's biggest companies as London's FTSE 100 suffered its biggest fall since Black Monday.
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NEW poems from some of Stroud's finest wordsmiths will accompany this year's Stroud Water Textile Festival.
THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL (12A)
WHY is it that three quintessentially English roles have gone to a couple of Americans and one Australian? Having just won two substantial Oscars this year it must be plain for any idiot to see that Britain has talent. So when this film's director Justin Chadwick says they were just perfect for the roles because "they're great actors", it sticks in my craw. Though it is fair to say the Australian Cate Blanchett did a fine job as Queen Elizabeth I, I still think that it is insulting to Americans to assume they would be unable to cope with an unknown name in the lead, but it is an even greater insult to us. We have a treasure trove of talent in this country that is struggling to get noticed in a profession in which 88% are out of work. But we also have a myriad of big names as well, so shame on you Mr. Chadwick.
CHARLIE WILSON’S WAR (15)
SET in the early 1980s this film is based on the true story of hard drinking womaniser Charlie Wilson, who also had a penchant for coke. He was the liberal Democrat congressman from Texas said to have been totally responsible for organising the biggest undercover operation in the history of the United States. This involved supplying the Afghan Mujahideen with arms during the Soviet war in Afghanistan, the success of which unfortunately was the beginning of a very tricky future for the Afghan nation.
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