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  • White Stripes - Icky Thump

    Artist - White Stripes Album - Icky Thump Label - XL Whatever acclaim Get Behind Me Satan achieved, including its Grammy, it was an awful mess of an album for this now iconic band. Thankfully, the White Stripes' sixth album is a return to the kind

  • Blitzen Trapper - Wild Mountain Nation

    Artist - Blitzen Trapper Album - Wild Mountain Nation Label - Lidkercow Most bands that ape the Beach Boys do the woozy harmony vocals thing - step forward Panda Bear. But the exciting Beach Boys music, the Good Vibrations/ I Get Around/ Barbara

  • Beasts of Bourbon - Little Animals

    Artist - Beasts of Bourbon Album - Little Animals Label - Alberts Some rock music is written from the head, some from the heart, and some from a bit further south... The Beasts of Bourbon are an Aussie band, formed in 1983 and revived in various '

  • Uncertain future for tennis courts

    IT could be game, set and match for the grass tennis courts in Ringwood after vandals cut the wire fencing and ripped the wooden door off the Carvers Field pavilion. Hampshire Police confirmed that the courts had been broken into and damaged earlier

  • Hospital ward named after author

    FAMILY of the late author John Creasey turned out last Thursday to witness the opening of a new 20-bed ward at New Hall Hospital at Bodenham. The prolific writer of more than 600 novels, lived at New Hall and it became a private hospital six years after

  • Kiwi to get a new look

    By Nigel Gillies THE famous Bulford Kiwi, which commemorates the presence in the area during the First World War of New Zealand soldiers, is receiving a major facelift this summer with the help of volunteers from the Bulford-based 3 (UK) Division, local