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    Retelling of bard’s family tragedy

    Retelling of bard’s family tragedy

    ELIZABETHAN playwright William Shakespeare wrote The Tragedy of Hamlet, The Prince of Denmark, at the end of the 16th century. Shakespeare and his wife, Anne Hathaway, had lost their son Hamnet, their daughter Judith’s twin, at the age of 11, four...

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    Musical duo’s real diamond of a story

    Musical duo’s real diamond of a story

    MILWAUKEE couple Mike and Claire Sardina became known in their home state for their Nineties Neil Diamond tribute act, called Lightning and Thunder. Their story was first told in a 2008 documentary by Greg Kohs and now writer and director Craig Brewer...

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    House of horrors and sports maverick

    House of horrors and sports maverick

    DESCRIBED by film critic Mark Kermode as having a camp feel in the vein of Mommie Dearest, psychological thriller The Housemaid (15), out now at the Regal Picturehouse in Henley, explores what happens when Millie Calloway (Sydney Sweeney) takes on the...

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    Postwar trials that shaped new laws

    Postwar trials that shaped new laws

    IN the aftermath of the Second World War, when the atrocities of the Holocaust became apparent to the world, 24 high-ranking Nazi officials were imprisoned and put on trial. The site of Nuremberg was chosen by the Allies, as it had been a central...

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    Big ideas on what threatens planet

    Big ideas on what threatens planet

    HIGH-flying chief executive Michelle Fuller (Emma Stone) seems to have it all as the powerhouse of a large company. However, when conspiracy theorists, beekeeper Teddy Gatz (Jesse Plemons) and his cousin Don (Aidan Delbis), deem her responsible for...

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    ALDI announces plans for Henley store

    ALDI announces plans for Henley store

    SUPERMARKET chain Aldi has confirmed that it plans to open a new food store in Henley. The Henley Standard revealed in May last year it was looking at the Jewson site, off Reading Road, with the materials firm set to move to the former Gibbs and Dandy...

    Man fined for wearing fake navy uniform

    Man fined for wearing fake navy uniform

    A FORMER teacher and rowing coach at Shiplake College has been fined £500 after admitting he posed as a navy admiral at a Remembrance Sunday parade. Jonathan Carley, 65, from Harlech, Gwynedd, was charged with wearing uniform or dress bearing the...

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