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Factory fire at recylcing centre
1:57pm Monday 16th June 2008
FIREFIGHTERS from Stroud were called to a small factory fire at 5am today.
The fire was at the PCL Recycling Centre on the Bath Road Trading Estate.
Firefighters extinguished the blaze in less than an hour
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Poets talk textiles
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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