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Days out: Spend an enchanted evening at West Midlands Safari Park

IF YOU’RE the kind of person who likes to live life so fast that it all ends up a bit of a blur – I know just the place.Read

Drayton Manor Park celebrates 60 years: See the pictures

Work to build Drayton Manor Theme Park began 60 years ago today on October 16, 1949– and this amazing collection of photographs shows how it has come a long way since then.Read

Triangle (15) (with trailer)

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JUST when the title of this ‘little ship of horrors’ film reminds you of an old soap opera set on the ocean wave, along comes a cruise liner sailing past the survivors of an overturned yacht.Read

Couples Retreat (15) (with trailer)

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IT’S PECULIAR how life can sometimes imitate art.Read

Ong Bak - The Beginning (15)

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ROGER Moore defined the art of walking across the backs of crocodiles 36 years ago in Live and Let Die.Read

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (12A) (with trailer)

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FORTY years after Monty Python’s Flying Circus, there’s a different kind of crazy show in town – right in the shadow of London’s Tower Bridge.Read

Birmingham's islands of paradise - gone in the blink of an indicator

EVERY picture always tells a story – so the great and the good of Dickens Heath might want to hang their heads in shame.Read

George Hotel, Load Street, Bewdley

THIS inn turned hotel has been serving visitors to Bewdley since 1609 when Shakespeare was in full flow.Read

Marks & Spencer, High Street, Birmingham

THESE takeaway chips were not just any old chips – they were M&S ‘chunky’ chips, dished up in the newish, basement burger bar.Read

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GEORGE HOTEL, LOAD STREET, BEWDLEYRead

Julie Walters to have place on Birmingham’s Walk of Stars

NATIONAL treasure Julie Walters is to be given her own place on Birmingham’s Walk of Stars, it was revealed today.Read

Injured radio presenter Carlos makes it to his big day

AFTER suffering the summer from hell, Smooth FM DJ Carlos had a heaven-sent wedding – when he won his race against time to marry Central Tonight reporter Claire Lavender.Read

Tony Butler teams up with pal Tom Ross for football show

RADIO veteran Tony Butler is back where his fame began during the 1970s – inside the BRMB studios.Read

12 Rounds (15) ***

IN WHAT is an enjoyably-silly action thriller, wrestling star John Cena is set a series of ludicrous challenges by a bloke who has kidnapped his missus for revenge. Read

Looking For Eric (15) ****

STRUGGLING postman Eric Bishop (Steve Evets) is cracking up under the pressure of an empty life. Read

Coraline (PG) ****

THIS IS a wonderful-looking animation with a wafer-thin plot. Read

Conkers is still a hit for all the family

IF YOU were to let your children run wild in an urban setting, people would probably criticise your parenting skills.Read

Love Happens (12A) (with trailer)

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BY THE harsh law of averages, it was always going to be a tough ask for Jennifer Aniston to follow up this year’s hit movie Marley & Me with anything remotely as good.Read

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