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Radio Stoke presenter Paula White pulled off-air for slurring her words and 'sounding drunk'
Tuesday 14 May 2013
BBC Radio Stoke presenter Paula White was taken off-air after slurring and appearing to be drunk.
DVD review: Les Misérables
Saturday 11 May 2013
Tom Hooper's quasi-operatic mega-musical is loaded with major historical events, weighty themes, tragic deaths and symbolic rebirths, so it's no wonder that the film version of Les Mis gets so exhausting, especially in the static, unspectacular second half.
DVD & Blu-ray review: Ultraviolet: The Complete Series (15)
Friday 03 May 2013
Joe Ahearne DVD/ Blu-ray (300mins)
A Tory Councillor, a West Sussex village and some inner city kids - if only all racism was this simple
Monday 22 April 2013
The bigoted rural snob is Britain's equivalent of the US Southern redneck, a stereotype which allows us to safely locate racism as 'elsewhere' and move on
DVD review: Love Crime
Saturday 20 April 2013
Kristin Scott Thomas and Ludivine Sagnier; sex and murder; swanky Parisian boardrooms and bedrooms. Sounds enticing, doesn't it?
Also showing: The Gatekeepers, Simon Killer, Flying Blind and First Position
Saturday 13 April 2013
The Gatekeepers (101 mins, 15)
One Minute With: Dorothy Koomson, novelist
Friday 12 April 2013
Where are you know and what can you see?
The Weekend's Viewing: Given that one plutocrat a day is dying, I would have thought the killings might have prompted the deployment of the Swedish army
Monday 08 April 2013
Arne Dahl: The Blinded Man, Sat, BBC4 // Nick Hewer: Countdown to Freetown, Sun, Channel 4
Review: The Schism, By Robert Dickinson
Saturday 30 March 2013
The strange tale of a man with demons
Stoke frustrated at Robert Huth suspension in light of Callum McManaman incident
Monday 25 March 2013
The Potters centre-back was given a retrospective three-match suspension on the basis of video evidence
Films of the Week: Day-Lewis drills deep to arrive at core of US spirit in There Will Be Blood
Friday 08 March 2013
Thursday
Bath Literature Festival: Stories from the Fringe
Sunday 03 March 2013
PD James: Pride and waspishness
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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