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  • ON RELEASE

    Films showing in the Dorset area this week A Knight's Tale (PG) Heath Ledger, Mark Addy *** Enjoyable nonsense set in medieval times. Odeon (Wed only) American Pie 2 (15) Jason Biggs, Chris Klein, Mena Suvari *** Another slice of sick gags so low as to

  • SPY GAME (15) ***

    THE cloak and dagger world of international espionage has long been a fruitful subject for moviemakers. And this glossy tale, a star-powered film which seems a world away from the downbeat Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy actually shares much with that Le

  • CLUBBING

    The best club nights to be seen at this weekend In the Middlerow FUNKIER than George Clinton, as English as tea and scones, Middlerow bring their brand new single Today's The Day to Elements on Firvale Road tonight. Featuring 26-year-old UK garage heroes

  • Feeney is on best behaviour

    CHERRIES star Warren Feeney is vowing to clean up his act. The Northern Ireland under-21 international will be walking a disciplinary tightrope when he lines up in Cherries' Division Two clash at Chesterfield tomorrow (3pm kick-off). Feeney is due to

  • Sean sweats on Carl injury

    CONCERNED Cherries boss Sean O'Driscoll fears crocked midfielder Carl Fletcher could be sidelined for longer than two weeks. Fletcher was expected to be out for a fortnight after suffering a knee injury during Cherries' FA Cup first round victory over

  • THE PLEDGE (15) ***

    SCREEN legend Jack Nicholson plays retired homicide detective Jerry Black in Sean Penn's highly acclaimed thriller. When the body of an eight-year-old girl is found in the Nevada mountains, Jerry volunteers himself for one last case. He takes it upon

  • Ford praises reborn Havvy

    PIRATES co-promoter Matt Ford has admitted he feared Gary Havelock might have been a spent force who had no future with the club. Ford took time out while attending the British Speedway Promoters' Association's annual conference in Edinburgh today to

  • Hot Ticket

    Copenhagen, Poole Arts Centre MANY years have passed since Anna Carteret hung up her truncheon and left Juliet Bravo, but it is still difficult to imagine her as anything other than the firm, but fair, Inspector Kate Longton. Some actors would resent

  • Grain trader picks Poole for exports

    EUROPE'S "largest farm management company" is shipping 7,500 tonnes of malting barley to Germany though Poole in the run-up to Christmas. The first consignment - 1,300 tonnes produced by Velcourt on its farms in Dorset, Hampshire and Wiltshire - has been

  • Rickardsson confirms his future with the Pirates

    TONY Rickardsson will definitely return to front Pirates' challenge for Elite League honours next season. The four-time World champion, an Ipswich asset, has put pen to paper on a new one-year loan deal which keeps him at Wimborne Road for a second successive

  • On Stage

    Plays and shows treading the boards in Dorset this week Award-winning drama THE Royal National Theatre's award-winning production of Michael Frayne's Copenhagen is playing Poole Arts Centre's Towngate Theatre. Winner of ten major awards including Best

  • Stuart writes off 'mediocre Magpies'

    CHRISTCHURCH coach Stuart Underwood says there is "absolutely no chance" of local rivals Wimborne winning the Wessex League title - even if they overturn Priory at Hurn Bridge tomorrow (3pm). Underwood today backed his side to pick up their first points

  • GIG GUIDE

    Bands playing this weekend Injection of Cortizone AS PART of their UK tour Cortizone stop off at The Joiners in Southampton tonight. After supporting heavy rock band Tool over the summer months and receiving phenomenal press coverage of their debut album