Juliet Dunlop: Why I live in hope of great adaptations

Source: The Scotsman

I love Sunset Song. I still have the dog-eared copy I read at school and, from time to time, I like to take it down from the shelf, dust it off and thumb through its pages. If you haven’t read Lewis Grassic Gib ...
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Stephen Moss's diary

Source: Guardian Unlimited

• The prime minister may call his opponents "muttering idiots", but within barely an hour of his comments at PMQs harmony had broken out along the corridor at Westminster, where 40 black and Asian parliamentarians ...
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Jim Parsons Comes Out As Gay: 'Big Bang Theory' Star's Sexuality Revealed In New York Times

Source: The Huffington Post

Matt Bomer, 2012 The 34-year-old "White Collar" hunk thanked his partner Simon Halls and his three children during Saturday's Steve Chase Humanitarian Awards, where he received the New Generation Arts and Activism Award for his w ...
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The real deal

Source: The Star Malaysia

However bizarre or expensive, international art dealer Jenny Pat, who shares her expertise in Dealers, has seen them all. LAST November, international art dealer Jenny Pat went on a shopping spree of a lifetime in a ...
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Source: The Independent

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Source: Toronto.com

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Source: Shropshire Star

news and views - 24 hours a day Leighann Kirby, seen with her sons Ross and Owen, is jetting off to Cannes Shropshire travel consultant Leighann Kirby has been given the assignment of a lifetime – to mingle with Hollywood sta ...
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