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UK News, 17 September

UK News, 17 September

September 17, 2008 6:45 AM

Dark Knight DVD Viral Campaign
A number of Twitter accounts have sprung to life over the last few days - with usernames like James Gordon, Rachel Dawes, Harley Quinn, Lucius Fox, The Joker, Harvey Dent and Bruce Wayne. They're all connected to one another so finding one will enable you to locate the others very easily. Make friends with the Dark Knight cast here.

There is also a new Gotham Police website, which is definitely worth a look.

The Father Of James Bond, Ian Fleming Celebrates His Centenary
To celebrate the centenary of Ian Fleming's birth, Times Online have created an exclusive 100 year interactive Fleming and Bond timeline. Packed with articles and photography from the Times Archive and the original reviews of Bond novels and films, it shows how closely Bond's fictional life paralleled Fleming's.

To view Ian Fleming'a life and timeline click here.

The Future Face Of Doctor Who
The big revelation everyone's going to jump on from Russell T Davies' new book is his choice for 11th Doctor; the Doctor he's not allowed to choose.

The big man is about to publish The Writer's Tale, a new book of email exchanges with Doctor Who Magazine scribbler Benjamin Cook. An in-depth mind probe into the regeneration of the Who phenomenon, an extract of which is published today in the Times.

And in it he appears to answer the question that the whole world's been asking since David Tennant started in the part. Tennant's going nowhere anytime soon of course, but deep among the casting news for Voyage of the Damned is the name Russell Tovey. "He's going to be huge, I would make him the next Doctor."

Read more at The Guardian.

New Hitchhiker's Guide Author Announced
Children's author Eoin Colfer has been commissioned to write a sixth instalment of the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy series.

Mostly Harmless, the last Hitchhiker book, was written by its creator, the late Douglas Adams, 16 years ago.

Now Adams's widow, Jane Belson, has given her approval to bring back the hapless Arthur Dent in a new book entitled And Another Thing...
Eoin Colfer, 43, is best known for the best-selling Artemis Fowl novels.
He said he was "terrified" by the prospect of creating a new Hitchhiker book almost a quarter of a century after being introduced to what he described as a "slice of satirical genius" in his late teens.

Read more at the BBC site.

Hobbit House Found And Saved
In a hidden corner of the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park lies what they are calling 'That Roundhouse'. It has a grass roof and walls built from cob - a combination of mud, straw, sand and water - and 16in (40cm) logs. A skylight was salvaged from an old coach and a milk churn is used as a stove.

A home and surroundings in which Bilbo Baggins, the hobbit from The Lord of the Rings, would have felt at home. Smoke curled from the chimney of the grass-roofed roundhouse. Mr Wrench, who was once a council official, was scraping a living from music-making and woodturning.

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Tony Wrench, who lives in 'That Roundhouse' was toasting victory over the planners yesterday with a glass of wine made from the vines that grow on the turf roof of his wooden roundhouse.

After ten years of planning battles, during which he and his partner, Jane Faith, faced having to demolish the home they had built themselves, they have finally won the right to stay.

Read more at times online.co.uk

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