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  • Confident Tredwell backs England to win major Champions Trophy

    England off-spinner James Tredwell has said that he is confident that England can win the ICC Champions Trophy tournament this year, which is the country's first 50-over tournament, nearly 40 years after the first one was staged here. Alastair Cook's side are two games away from landing the tournament, with Sunday's nail-biting win over New Zealand in Cardiff, in what was effectively a ...

  • Clarke says disgraced Warner could miss Ashes over bar-room brawl with Root

    Australian captain Michael Clarke has said that disgraced opener David Warner may miss this summer's Ashes after his bar-room brawl with England's Joe Root. The left-hander has been suspended until the first Ashes test by Cricket Australia (CA) and fined 11, 500 dollars after throwing a punch at Root in a Birmingham pub, following Australia's loss to England in their ICC Champions Trophy ...

  • India-born Amol Rajan is editor of Londons The Independent

    Indian-born Amol Rajan has been appointed editor of the London morning daily The Independent, making him Fleet Street's first non-white editor, the newspaper reported Monday. Rajan, 29, was previously the daily's comment editor. Oliver Duff, who was executive editor and news editor of The Independent, has been named editor of sister title, i, while another executive editor, Lisa Markwell, has ...

  • Pietersen confirms fitness for Ashes after knee injury

    England batsman Kevin Pietersen who has not played since March owing to knee injury has confirmed that he will be returning to the team and aim for the Ashes series. Pietersen has said that he will return with the Surrey in their County Championship fixture against Yorkshire in the next week, Sport24 reports. According to the report, this fixture has been considered a comeback for Pietersen ...

  • Ball tampering allegations by Giles untrue and disappointing Anderson

    England fast bowler, James Anderson has called the allegations leveled against the team for ball tempering by its former captain Ashley Giles as 'untrue' and 'very disappointing'. Anderson denied the allegations made by Giles that the team obtained reverse swing by methods banned under cricket's laws, Sydney Morning Herald reports. According to the report, Anderson expressed surprise over the ...


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A Night to Dismember [DVD]

A Night to Dismember [DVD]

Only the most ardent exploitation and fringe cinema fanatics would argue that Doris Wishman is a good filmmaker in any sense of the word, but she is nothing if not opportunistic. Having gotten her start in 1960 by jumping on the nudist-exploitation bandwagon early in the cycle with Hideout in the Sun, the self-taught filmmaker became one of the most prolific independent female producer-dir ... ...

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  • Putin denies stealing Patriots Super Bowl $25000 ring

    Russian President Vladimir Putin has denies allegations that he stole New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft's Super Bowl ring. Putin added that he is ready to buy Kraft another ring as a gift. According to Politico, the Russian president was reacting through a spokesman to a New York Post story quoting remarks made by Kraft at an awards gala at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel last Thursday. Kraft ...

  • VIDEO Young fundraisers rewarded with fun day at Downsend Junior School

    Emma Horner-Long, Thomas Jones, Amelia Thomson, Freya Taylor, Heuwlen Kelly and Emily Gray. Children who have worked hard to raise money for charity were rewarded with a fun day Friday. Downsend Junior School pupils have managed to raise nearly 2,500 for the Leatherhead school's nominated charity Gift for Ghana this year. For every pound children raised, they got credit to ...

  • PICTURES Abbey Primary School enjoys international celebration

    Teacher Ian Sandeman with Hannah Flook, Jamie Gray, Frankie Hayden and Elisha Sewitt Primary school children have been enjoying a celebration of all things international. Last week each class at Abbey Primary School in Glastonbury Road, St Helier, was allocated a ...

  • Theatre troupes hold Kingston fundraiser for Edinburgh Fringe

    Creative Youth fundraiser party Two theatre troupes packing their bags for the Edinburgh Fringe are asking residents to help them get there. Dumbshow theatre company and Smoking Apples, who are both appearing at the International Youth Arts Festival (IYAF) this year, are hosting a fundraiser in Kingston. Dumbshow are planning to take their sell-out IYAF show of last year, The Pearl, ...

  • Australia can lead the way for intersex people | Morgan Carpenter

    guidelines . This has been possible as part of a government commitment to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) inclusion, even while public awareness of intersex remains sketchy. You see, our lives are medicalised, and our voices rarely heard. This limited understanding was recently exemplified by a press agency report published globally this month: ...

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