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A Walk In The Park: Queslett Nature Reserve

I KNEW that deciding to visit Great Barr’s four-year-old Queslett Nature Reserve on August Bank Holiday Sunday would be tempting fate.Read

The Firm (18) *

BRITISH writer-director Nick Love is an acquired taste for the DVD generation – and now he’s entering pointless remake territory.Read

Explore historic buildings at Avoncroft Museum in Bromsgrove

ABANDONED for the day by my wife, the big question was where to take our three children for a grand day out.Read

Pixar boss John's still Buzzin'

THE best things in life are often said to happen in threes.Read

Beefeater Ladybridge, Bonehill Road, Tamworth

WE hadn’t set foot in a Beefeater for more than a year when the Ladybridge suddenly loomed into view off a Tamworth roundabout and we just had to stop.Read

Mega Bite, Pershore Road, Selly Park

THERE’S A sign inside this shop which says: Making the impossible possible... curryfied pizza’s (sic).Read

The Public: Odd exterior conceals an enjoyable day out!

CONTROVERSIAL £63 million arts centre The Public has fully opened in West Bromwich at long last – after a year-long delay.Read

A Walk in the Park: Cannon Hill Park

GOING to The Public for the Days Out feature opposite left me wondering... what’s the state of play with the MAC these days?Read

The September Issue (12A) ****

I’M A BLOKE with no particular interest in fashion.Read

Adventureland (15) ****

SET IN 1987 and taking its name from a theme park, Adventureland treads not dissimilar ground to last week’s release (500) Days of Summer.Read

Whiteout (15)

KATE Beckinsale keeps making films for distributor Entertainment which, more often than not, refuses to offer regional preview screenings on the grounds of lack of prints/piracy issues.Read

Sorority Row (15) **

THE HOUSE on Sorority Row, aka Seven Sisters, is a little-known 18-certificate horror film from 1983 which was cleverly taglined ‘When the nightmare ends... the terror begins’.Read

Julie & Julia (12A) ****

SHE might have turned 60 in June, but there’s no stopping Meryl Streep – as her latest brilliant performance illustrates.Read

Fish Tank (15)

TO PARAPHRASE sci-fi writer Philip K Dick (Total Recall), if anybody wants a truly bleak, two-hour snapshot of the downside of modern British life, this film will deliver it for you wholesale.Read

Dorian Gray (15) ***

WHERE would director Oliver Parker be without a master wordsmith to fall back on?Read

The Malt House, The Wharfage, Ironbridge, Shropshire.

WITH Coalbrookdale celebrating the 300th anniversary of iron smelting, you would hope that visitors inevitably drawn from the other side of the world might leave the area feeling satisfied.Read

Ideal Fish & Chips, Birmingham Road, Bromsgrove

FRESH from a very tasteful makeover in February by Pershore-based experts Centreplan Retail Interiors Ltd, Ideal Fish & Chips certainly looks the business the second you walk inside the gleaming shop.Read

We're just potty over fascinating museum

IF THERE’S one thing likely to amaze you during a visit to the Wedgwood Museum, it’s the number of smartly-dressed Japanese visitors looking around.Read

A Walk in the Park: Tamworth Castle Grounds

RIVERS have had a bad press in recent years thanks to the way they have contributed to the flooding of houses.Read

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