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To coincide with the release of her new album, the Mail on Sunday is giving away a free CD of Carly Simon’s greatest hits when you buy the paper next weekend. (I’m surprised they didn’t include “Nobody does it Better” or “Why”) anyway the CD will include these tracks (and by way of a taster, the tracks Songbird & No Freedom are from the new album)

Right Thing To Do;
It Happens Every Day;
Never Been Gone;
Boys In The Trees;
Let The River Run;
You’re So Vain;
You Belong To Me;
No Freedom*;
That’s The Way I’ve Always Heard It Should Be;
Coming Around Again;
Anticipation;
Songbird*.

I watched a cavalcade of classic old tractors setting off for Severn Park around lunch Time on Sunday

Philip Kerr’s edgy atmospheric and gripping detective novel was available recently with the Times newspaper for half price. It takes place in Berlin, during the city’s preparations for the 1936 Olympics, when the Nazis have been in power for just eighteen months but have already introduced some frightening changes to Germany. Jews are being expelled from all German organisations. One such person is a chap named Bernie who is forced to resign as a homicide detective with Berlin’s Criminal Police and is now working as a house detective at the famous Adlon Hotel.

When Two dead bodies are found at the hotel – one a businessman and the other a Jewish boxer. Bernie has to dig to unearth the truth, and discovers a vast labour and construction racket designed to take advantage of the huge sums the Nazis are spending to showcase the new Germany to the world, and he uncovers a sinister plot…

Around 75 classic vintage tractors are expected for the Bridgnorth Vintage Machinery Club’s twelfth Annual Tractor Run on Sunday 21st March. And I’d like to go and see it if possible.

The Tractors are planning to line up in Severn Park in the morning, set off on a tour around the surrounding countryside before arriving in Bridgnorth High Street around lunchtime, where they will remain stationary for a short while before returning to Severn Park in the Afternoon – Sounds like fun

More details here http://www.bvmc.org.uk/

This weekend there is also a DVD of the film Heaven’s Fall with the Mail on Sunday. Which Stars Anthony Mckie, and is a powerful story set in 1933 which follows the difficulties of a New York Attorney named Sam Leibowitz (Timothy Hutton) who finds himself in the Deep South defending nine young black men charged with rape.

What first starts out as a Taut courtroom drama eventually sets in motion a legal battle which ultimately changes the course of American Justice forever…

There are also two great films with The Daily Telegraph newspaper – Sleepy Hollow & What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?

The first: Sleepy Hollow (1999) stars Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci Miranda Richardson, Michael Gambon, Casper Van Dien, Jeffrey Jones, Richard Griffiths, Ian McDiarmid, Michael Gough, Christopher Walken, Christopher Lee

Set in 1799, Tim Burton’s Oscar Winning film is based on Washington Irving’s classic tale The Legend of Sleep Hollow. In it Depp stars as Ichabod Crane, a man who is sent to investigate a number of beheadings, said to be the work of the legendary Headless Horseman, of course being a man of science Ichabod thinks it’s all a load of superstitious codswallop, until the horseman gets his chopper out & starts chasing him…..

The film also stars Christina Ricci, and her rather impressive heaving bosom , as Katrina Van Tassel

The second film: What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? (1993) is a touching, humorous tale by Lasse Hallstrom, which stars Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio, Juliet Lewis, Mary Steenburgen Mary, Kate Schellhardt and John C. Reilly.

It takes place In the fictional town of Endora, where a young chap named Gilbert Grape (Depp) struggles with the responsibilities and frustrations of his small town life: his overweight mother, his autistic brother (DiCaprio), his married lover and the arrival of a new shopping mall that might make him unemployed. The film features an Oscar-nominated performance from Leonardo DiCaprio, who can currently be seen starring in Shutter Island

Saint Patrick (c. 387 – 17 March, 493 was a Romanized-Celt and Christian missionary, who is the patron saint of Ireland

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Heavens Fall DVD Mail on Sunday

A DVD of the film Heaven’s Fall is with the Mail on Sunday this weekend. Starring Anthony Mckie, it is a powerful story set in 1933 which follows the difficulties of a New York Attorney named Sam Leibowitz (Timothy Hutton) who finds himself in the Deep South defending nine young black men charged with rape.

What first starts out as a Taut courtroom drama eventually sets in motion a legal battle which ultimately changes the course of American Justice forever

I was saddened to hear about the sudden death of actor Corey Haim on March 10th. One of his best known roles was in cult 80’s film The Lost Boys, So by way of a tribute here are some songs from the movie

People are Strange – Echo & the Bunnymen

I Still Believe – Tim Capello

Lost in the Shadows – Lou Gramm

Cry Little Sister – Gerard McMann

This novel is available for £2.99 with the Times newspaper this week, it is a Gripping, Suspenseful crime novel Featuring a thirteen year-old lad named Johnny Merrimon who had the perfect life: happy parents and a twin sister that meant the world to him. Until she goes missing, stolen off the side of a lonely street with only one witness to the crime.

His family are shattered by the event and his sister is presumed dead. So Johnny risks everything to find out the truth, which leads him to the dark side of his hometown in a last, desperate search for her. And he finds a city with an underbelly far blacker than anyone could’ve imagined

So he seeks the help of a Detective named Clyde Hunt, who has devoted an entire year to Alyssa’s case, and it shows: he is haunted and sleepless, he’s lost his wife and put his shield at risk. But he can’t put the case behind him – he won’t – and when another girl goes missing, the failures of the past year harden into iron determination. Refusing to lose another child, Hunt knows he has to break the rules to find out the truth & solve the case; and maybe, the missing girl will also lead him to Alyssa…