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Selly Park teenager reunited with violin left at bus stop

TEENAGER Anna Howard has been reunited with her 100-year-old violin – after leaving it at a city bus stop.Read

A Walk in the Park: Highgate Park

GIVEN the extraordinary number of parks in and around Birmingham, the biggest frustration I have with this column is that I can only ever be in one place at once.Read

Film Review: A Christmas Carol 3D - The Imax Experience (PG)

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DON’T tell Scrooge – but Christmas is coming 48 days early this year!Read

Light at the end of the War

EVERY year during autumn, the Mail’s Days Out column offers a suggestion as to how you can mark Remembrance Sunday.Read

Film Review: Bright Star (PG)

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ANY film about poetry ought to lift your imagination... and have you running to your bookshelves for more inspiration upon your return home.Read

Film review: 1 Day (15)

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IN THE end, after all the controversy, no Birmingham cinema is screening this film based on a real-life turf war between two rival city gangs.Read

Film review: Jennifer's Body (15)

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FRESH from draping herself across Transformers 2, Megan Fox is back... this time as a horror film’s sacrificial victim who comes back to eat teenage boys for breakfast.Read

Film Review: The Men Who Stare At Goats (15)

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GEORGE Clooney and Ewan McGregor are two actors with enough underwhelming movies on their CVs to sink a battleship.Read

Fort Jester, Chester Road, Castle Bromwich

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THE last time I went in here was on a dark, midwinter Saturday night when the place was so unexpectedly full there didn’t appear to be any chance of being served relatively quickly.Read

Mile Oak Fish Bar, Watling St, Mile Oak, Tamworth

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IF YOU get a pang for chips while travelling out to Tamworth via the “back way” from Sutton Coldfield, look out for this shop near to the traffic lights on Watling Street.Read

Film Review: 9 (12A)

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UNLIKE their Japanese and European counterparts, US animators have been rather slow to give us anything but egg-faced characters living in relatively squeaky-clean worlds.Read

Stately home was such a great find

WHAT sort of Days Out driver are you – one who relies on instinct, old fashioned maps or high technology?Read

A Walk in the Park: Park Central, Lee Bank

THERE’S no doubt about it – this is the single most exciting adventure playground of any park that I’ve been to in Birmingham during the four-year history of A Walk In The Park.Read

Monty Python: Almost The Truth (15)

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THIS mammoth 465-minute mixture of compilation and retrospective interviews called The Lawyer’s Cut is clearly meant for diehard fans. Read

The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee (15)

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IF YOU like well-crafted human dramas, Rebecca Miller’s adaptation of her own novel is well worth seeking out. Read

District 13: Ultimatum (15)

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NOT TO be confused with producer Peter Jackson’s current science fiction thriller District 9, this is the sequel to writer Luc Besson’s exciting 2006 hit, District 13. Read

Drag Me To Hell (15)

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SPIDER-MAN trilogy director Sam Raimi goes back to his horror roots with a film which fails to live up to its ‘Scariest movie of the decade’ billing.Read

Atlantis, St Mary's Row, Moseley

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IT will be three years in January since I last visited this shop, shortly after it had opened. Because Moseley folks are passionate foodies, my return was overdue.Read

Live shows fire Des's passion

SHOWBIZ legend Des O’Connor is playing Redditch for the first time in his life tonight – and if he makes any jokes about roundabouts, invisible houses or needles blame me.Read

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