http://labs.daylife.com/journalist/chris_leggettArticles by CHRIS LEGGETT, aggregated by daylife.comen-usWed, 25 Nov 2009 00:46:12 GMTWed, 25 Nov 2009 00:46:12 GMTDaylife Betaken@daylife.comken@daylife.comhttp://www.expressandstar.com/2009/11/23/the-twilight-saga-new-moon/Not since Harry Potter first cast a spell over cinema audiences has a franchise based on a series of best-selling novels been as completely critic-proof as The Twilight Saga. The good-looking cast could probably stare silently into the camera for two ...Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:37:47 GMThttp://www.expressandstar.com/2009/11/23/the-twilight-saga-new-moon/Robert PattinsonHarry PotterStephenie MeyerChris WeitzTaylor Lautnerhttp://www.expressandstar.com/2009/11/23/a-serious-man/If fortune truly favours the brave, it’s no surprise that the hen-pecked, mild-mannered mensch at the centre of Joel and Ethan Coen’s new black comedy is pummelled senseless by bad luck. Set in a Jewish community in mid-1960s Minneapolis reminiscent of ...Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:37:38 GMThttp://www.expressandstar.com/2009/11/23/a-serious-man/Ethan Coenhttp://www.expressandstar.com/2009/11/23/the-informant/We all want to do the right thing, but few of us ever put ourselves on the line for the sake of a greater good. In the early 1990s, family man Mark Whitacre decided to blow the whistle on a global price-fixing scam in the agricultural industry by ...Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:37:29 GMThttp://www.expressandstar.com/2009/11/23/the-informant/Federal Bureau of InvestigationMark WhitacreArcher Daniels MidlandSteven SoderberghKurt Eichenwaldhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/shropshirestar_main/~3/hWkraOJsLGk/Shrewsbury Town boss Paul Simpson today threw his weight behind the campaign to introduce video technology into football. The long-standing debate re-surfaced this week following France’s controversial winning goal against the Republic of Ireland in ...Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:46:37 GMThttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/shropshirestar_main/~3/hWkraOJsLGk/Shrewsbury Town FCPaul Simpson (footballer)Thierry HenryWilliam GallasFIFAhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/shropshirestar_main/~3/Yd_qRXj32JQ/One of the biggest disputes ever to hit Shropshire bowls will be resolved next week. The British Crown Green Bowling Association will hear an appeal from Calverhall Bowling Club, and its chairman Alan Ratcliffe, on Tuesday over the decision to ban him ...Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:38:36 GMThttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/shropshirestar_main/~3/Yd_qRXj32JQ/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/shropshirestar_main/~3/Uyy5sysa2a8/The emergency services were braced today for more heavy rain after England’s wettest day on record claimed the life of a “heroic” policeman. Thousands of others have been left counting the cost of flooded homes and businesses. The “biblical” downpour ...Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:25:36 GMThttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/shropshirestar_main/~3/Uyy5sysa2a8/John Warnerhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/shropshirestar_main/~3/hTLyV9xKcuk/Hundreds of people are expected to turn out for a vigil to remember the life of a 14-year-old Shrewsbury boy who died after he was hit by a car. Family and friends of Ben Somers will hold a minute’s silence and a parade of cars as part of the event on ...Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:24:31 GMThttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/shropshirestar_main/~3/hTLyV9xKcuk/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/shropshirestar_main/~3/mkDyHQHqtAo/Two people have been arrested over an attempted robbery of a security van outside a Shropshire supermarket in which a man was threatened with a hammer. Detectives from Shropshire travelled to Liverpool on Thursday and arrested a man and a woman on ...Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:21:59 GMThttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/shropshirestar_main/~3/mkDyHQHqtAo/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/shropshirestar_main/~3/qbI3w1sfP_U/Shrewsbury’s St Chad’s Church is to appear on BBC Songs of Praise tomorrow – for the third time in a little over a year. St Chad’s appeared on the Remembrance Sunday and Christmas editions of the shows last year. Now singer Aled Jones will celebrate ...Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:21:19 GMThttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/shropshirestar_main/~3/qbI3w1sfP_U/BBCAled Joneshttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/shropshirestar_main/~3/rWmzIogP9TY/Staff and pupils are celebrating being top of the class after their Shropshire school was chosen as one of just 60 schools nationwide to spearhead a campaign to help failing schools. St Peter’s Primary School, Wem, was also awarded top marks by Ofsted ...Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:18:25 GMThttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/shropshirestar_main/~3/rWmzIogP9TY/