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City Life Through a Lens ; 'Fab' Photographers' First Exhibition

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hot THE Street. Every episode so far has been excellent. Quality drama at its best. COMFORT food. The rubbish weather has got us craving stodge again. JOANNA LUMLEY. Back in the news this week on her tour of Nepal. When will she get the honour she deserves and be made a Dame?

Essentials

watch it IS SOMEBODY at Five Simon Baker's number one fan? Or maybe they are even a relation of his? Maybe so. After all, not only is the channel broadcasting The Mentalist on Thursday evenings, it's also about to show his previous series, The Guardian.

Tiny Bites with Stephen Benn

A CHOCOLATEY biscuit/cookie cross, these chocolate chip chunks don't have to be cut out, just shape them roughly - it also means you can use all of the mixture for the maximum number of chocolate chunks! Chocolate chip chunks Ingredients (makes 12-16) 225g plain flour 1 level teaspoon baking powder 100g butter 175g caster sugar 1 level teaspoon vanilla flavouring 1 beaten egg 50g drinking chocolate 50g chocolate chips

Tasty, Fast Food ; Perfect Addition to Any Summer Barbecue

BARBECUING is convenience food which is fast and tasty and, with our weather forecast here in the UK, we tend to do it last minute - and this is a great last-minute recipe. Cut the chicken into two steaks or alternatively chicken strips - the marinade only takes 30 minutes to work.

No Need to Run From These Beans

A LL our customers know that, at the Side Door, we strive to use local produce wherever possible and our menu always reflects the changing seasons. However, the English runner bean is available all year round and the locally-grown varieties are excellent quality.

Snapshot of a Treasured Place ; Photography Group Fab Collective Tell Laura Davis About Their Inaugural Exhibition at St Luke's Church

INITIALLY they were strangers, individually capturing the same city. Then they started putting their pictures online and discovered there were others like them, recording Liverpool people, places and events each with a different eye but with a common purpose. In January, one of them decided to arrange a get-together and the Fab Collective was born - a photography group that encompasses a wide range of ages, tastes and experience.

We Always Love Playing Liverpool

D EACON Blue husband and wife team, Ricky and Lorraine, are set to follow in the footsteps of Sonny & Cher, Ike & Tina Turner and June and Johnny Cash when they release their first album as a songwriting duo away from their multi-million selling band this autumn. The Scottish pop pair, famed for hits Real Gone Kid, Dignity and I'll Never Fall In Love Again, are just back from Los Angeles, where they were putting the finishing touches to their as-yet untitled LP, ahead of their Summer Pops gig...

Tinseltown

DAVID BECKHAM has admitted to being a domestic god. The English footballer revealed that he likes housework, especially vacuuming.

A Tale As Old As Time ; Beauty and the Beast Opens at the Liverpool Empire Later This Month. Laura Davis Talks to the Man Behind the Mask

WHILE the whole of Merseyside is praying for a sunny August, Shaun Dalton is performing a rain dance in his dressing room. For until the famous transformation scene at the end of Walt Disney's Beauty and the Beast, he is stuck wearing a latex mask.

All Aboard for Holiday Luxury ; Trevor Mason Joins the Golden Eagle As It Winds Its Way Along the Trans-Siberian Railway

CROSSING eight time zones and spanning two continents, the Trans- Siberian is a king among railway lines. Stretching from Moscow to Vladivostok, the 5,800-mile journey was - until relatively recently - a byword for discomfort, and many of the interesting town and cities enroute were closed to tourists.

Hannah Stephenson

L ATE summer-flowering bulbs, such as dahlias, crocosmias and lilies, bring a burst of colour in the borders when a lot of other plants are past their best. However, their maintenance can become a chore in the autumn, when many will need to be dug up and stored until next year.

Also Showing ; G-Force (Pg) Rating: ...

DON the snazzy, plastic spectacles for producer Jerry Bruckheimer's first 3-D film, which proves that, if you want a job done properly, hire a team of guinea pigs. Screening in the eyepopping format in selected cinemas and 2-D everywhere else, G-Force is a light-hearted romp laden with gizmos including jet-propelled rodent balls that allow the cuddly characters to swerve through traffic in the film's centrepiece action sequence.

The Rise and Rise of Coco Chanel ; the Main Feature: Coco Before Chanel (12a) Starring: Audrey Tautou, Benoit Poelvoorde, Alessandro Nivola, Marie Gillain, Emmanuelle Devos. Director: Anne Fontaine. 110 Mins. Rating: ...

AT A time when summer blockbusters saturate the market, Coco Before Chanel is a welcome dose of Gallic chic chronicling the rise to fame of one of couture's most revered icons. The central casting of Audrey Tautou, a luminous screen presence since Amelie, should help to attract audiences unfamiliar with the story of Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, the fashion designer from humble beginnings who became a cause celebre in pre-First World War France.

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Let the Right One In (15) TOMAS Alfredson directs this breathtaking, unconventional coming-ofage story, adapted for the screen by John Ajvide Linqvist from his own novel. Set predominantly in and around a snow-laden housing estate in 1980s Stockholm, the story centres on 12-year-old loner Oskar, who lives with his divorced mother and is bullied mercilessly at school by Conny and various oafish sidekicks. Escaping for fresh air in the courtyard one night, Oskar meets the strange yet alluring E...

Trailers

CROSSING OVER (18) REMINISCENT of the Oscarwinning Crash, with its large ensemble cast and fragmented narrative set on the streets of modern-day Los Angeles, Crossing Over is a complex drama about the fates of apparent strangers all seeking permanent citizenship in the United States. World-weary cop Max Brogan (Harrison Ford) and his partner Hamid Baraheri (Cliff Curtis) spearhead raids on premises suspected of employing illegals, throwing those they capture into the system where immigration ...

Coming Soon Tom Jones

Who is he? Born Thomas Jones Woodward, the son of a coalminer in Treforest, Pontypridd, Tom is possibly the UK's best-known Welshman, and a golden-voiced living legend who has sung his way through five decades. What is he famous for? Where do we begin? He is responsible for some of the biggest hits of the 20th century. Among his many classics are What's New Pussycat, Green Green Grass of Home, Delilah and his signature tune, It's Not Unusual. He has sold over 100m records to date.

Classical

SENIOR members of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir may have a moment of nostalgia next week, because it is the 30th anniversary of the great Villach adventure. The Choir arranged a spectacular series of fund raising events, including a sing-in for nigh on two days at the Philharmonic Hall, to raise the cash to coach them out to the Kartner Festival, in Southern Austria.

Cd Review

KERRANG! The Album '09 Rating . .. . THIS new compilation offers an appropriately thorough selection of contemporary hard rock and metal, suitable for both the dedicated Download goer and the uninitiated.

Not Just a Pretty Face ; Why, Asks Susan Griffin, has Sienna's Private Life Always Overshadowed Her On Screen Career?

FROM the on-off engagement to Jude Law, to the rumoured romance with father-offour Balthazar Getty, via the lovelorn Welsh actor Rhys Ifans, who proposed three times, it feels like we know more about Sienna Miller's relationship credentials than her acting ones. It's a fact that hasn't bypassed the 27-year-old actress, who's more than aware of the impact her very public break-up with Law in 2005 had on her career.