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  • New Man U boss Moyes imprints identity by axing Fergies backroom staff

    New Manchester United boss David Moyes has started to imprints his own identity on the club by wielding the axe on former boss Sir Alex Ferguson's backroom staff at United. The former Everton boss booted out No.2 Mike Phelan, who had been Ferguson's right-hand man since 2008, and goalkeeping coach Eric Steele, as he reportedly wants his own assistants in Old Trafford, the Mirror reports. The ...

  • Exhausted Vettori faces black cloud over Test future after Leeds Test pull out

    According to the New Zealand media, master spinner Daniel Vettori has a black cloud hovering over his Test-playing future after he pulled out of the second test against England at Leeds, fearing that his body cannot cope with the strenuous exertion in the five days that will follow. According to Stuff.co.nz, although the former captain was poised to overtake Stephen Fleming for a record 112th ...

  • Prince William very excited about becoming dad

    Prince William is very excited at the prospect of becoming a father, the chief executive of a charity has revealed. "He is looking forward to being a dad. He's very excited about it," People magazine quoted Seyi Obakin, chief executive of the charity Centrepoint - whose aim is to help homeless young people -, as saying. During the secret visit to Centrepoint's Bruce House in London earlier ...

  • England grateful to Joe Root and Jonnie Bairstow against New Zealand

    England's Jonny Bairstow, left, and Joe Root run between the wickets during the second Test match against New Zealand at Headingley. Photograph: Lindsey Parnaby/AFP/Getty ...

  • England v Black Caps second Test scoreboard

    Root lifts England with maiden Test century Scoreboard on the second day of the second Test between England and New Zealand at Headingley. England first innings A.Cook c Brownlie b Bracewell 34 N.Compton c Brownlie b Southee 1 J.Trott c McCullum b Wagner 28 I.Bell c McCullum b Williamson 30 J.Root c McCullum b Boult 104 J.Bairstow c McCullum b Boult ...


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Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse [DVD]

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse [DVD]

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, an utterly absorbing documentary about the torturous three-year production of Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979), begins the only place it could: at Coppola's press conference following the u ... ...

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  • Root hits maiden England century

    94th over: England 337-7 (Prior 38 Swann 21) Doug Bracewell is knacked with cramp. He's strolling around the boundary back to the pavilion, pursued by a young autograph hunter whose pleas the bowler is pretending not to hear. Prior has belted one more four, past cover point, to raise the fifty partnership. A little fun in all the late afternoon sun, this. But it's all over now. This ...

  • Cricket Root ton puts England in control

    Stumps day two - England 337/7The standing ovation said much for the hope England batsman Joe Root generates in his home county of Yorkshireand that was just for the half-century. The Headingley crowd oozed parochialism - and it was deserved - as Root reached his maiden test hundred steering a ball through vacant third slip for four. The 22-year-old became the first Yorkshireman to achieve ...

  • VIDEO Bikers pay tribute to Drummer Lee Rigby

    Bikers pay tribute to Drummer Lee Rigby HUNDREDS of bikers rode to Woolwich Barracks this afternoon (May 25) to pay their respects to murdered soldier Drummer Lee Rigby. They shared a moments silence and the Ode of Remembrance was then recited in tribute to the young father. He was hacked to death in John Wilson Street on Wednesday as he was returning to the barracks after spending ...

  • Enfield businesses terrorised by gangs of school children

    Enfield businesses terrorised by gangs of school children Enfield shopkeepers say "something must be done" after Enfield Town was brought to a standstill by gangs of school children yesterday. Three 16-your-olds were arrested, two of them for assaulting a police constable, and three police officers received minor injuries yesterday when a gang of between 80 and 100 young people ...

  • Serious police incident in Morden

    The scene in Morden today. Picture by Kevin Whincup A police cordon was put up in Morden today after a serious incident. The incident took place in Aberconway Road, at the one-way system around Merton Civic Centre, and there is a police cordon around Morden police office and Ladbrokes bookmakers. Two independent residents have said they heard the incident was a "stabbing", ...

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