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Cricket: Drew replaces North as county overseas player

5:00pm Wednesday 27th August 2008

GLOUCESTERSHIRE have replaced Marcus North with Tasmanian Brendan Drew as their overseas player for the rest of the season.

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Rocks victorious in derby battle

4:46pm Wednesday 27th August 2008

Hellenic Division One West - Tytherington Rocks 2 Winterbourne United 1

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Cricket: Trainor guides Frocester to final

4:42pm Wednesday 27th August 2008

County Cup semi-final Frocester (218) beat Bedminster (190 a.o) by 28 runs

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Cricket: Cam struggle to get back winning feeling

4:44pm Wednesday 27th August 2008

Cam (170-8) lost to B.E.W. Crescent (171-7) by three wickets

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Cricket: Trotman gives Thornbury hope

4:38pm Wednesday 27th August 2008

North Gear West of England Cricket League Premier Two 1st XI - Thornbury beat Landsdown

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Cricket: Relegated Almondsbury end with a win

4:31pm Wednesday 27th August 2008

Bristol & North Somerset League 1st XI- Almondsbury beat Hambrook by four wickets

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Mixed Bank Holiday for Almondsbury

4:37pm Wednesday 27th August 2008

ALMONDSBURY Town finished the Bank Holiday weekend with mixed results which puts them in fifth place in the table at this early stage of the season.

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Metheringham strikes winner in derby to keep Yate on top

6:59pm Monday 25th August 2008

IT WASN’T pretty but Yate claimed the local bragging rights in the first derby of the season at Cossham Street on Bank Holday Monday.

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Hardinges leads Gladiators to victory over rivals

4:44pm Sunday 24th August 2008

GLOUCESTERSHIRE moved up to second in the Pro40 Division One table after a 12-run Duckworth-Lewis victory over local rivals Somerset at Taunton.

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Adebola fires City to victory against old club

4:28pm Sunday 24th August 2008

Coventry City 0 Bristol City 3

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UK condemns Russian military action

Updated 3:34am Thursday 28th August 2008

Britain has condemned Russia's "excessive use of military force" in Georgia.

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Swinging 60s feel-good musical

SHOUT, the ultimate 60s feel-good musical, comes to the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham on Monday, June 16.

Play is a hilarious study of human relationships

NATHANIEL Parker and Christopher Timothy go back to school as they star in Simon Gray's comedy Quartermaine's Terms - at the Theatre Royal Bath until Saturday, June 14.

ON THE back of the success of director Paul Andrew William's first film London to Brighton (2006), which won several awards including Best New Director at the Edinburgh Film festival, comes a very different offering.

CHARLIE WILSON’S WAR (15)

SET in the early 1980s this film is based on the true story of hard drinking womaniser Charlie Wilson, who also had a penchant for coke. He was the liberal Democrat congressman from Texas said to have been totally responsible for organising the biggest undercover operation in the history of the United States. This involved supplying the Afghan Mujahideen with arms during the Soviet war in Afghanistan, the success of which unfortunately was the beginning of a very tricky future for the Afghan nation.