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The Newsrooms Aaron Sorkin on Idealism, Keith Olbermann and His Private Screening for the M

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Aaron Sorkin‘s love affair with exploring the inner-workings of live television returns to the small screen Sunday when HBO bows The Newsroom, a behind-the-scenes look at a cable news network and the personalities who populate its staff. The series, which stars Jeff Daniels as Will McAvoy — a not-Keith Olbermann-type broadcaster whose career trajectory mirrors, well, Keith Olbermann — marks the SportsNight and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip creator’s third trip behind the curtain of live television. Read More...

The Royal Oak Inn Hotel Review, Chichester, West Sussex

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8 Telegraph expert rating A quintessentially English pub bursting with charm, in the sleepy West Sussex village of Tillingt... Read expert review From £ 110 8 Telegraph expert rating On the doorstep of Goodwood's famous racing tracks and close to historic Chichester, this gastro ... Read expert review 8 Telegraph expert rating A loving restoration of a Georgian building has created this romantic bolthole in central Chiches. Read More...

The village where everyone has Alzheimers

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‘Two loaves of bread, a lettuce, two brioches, one pat of butter, two bottles of milk, some soup, cheese, biscuits, a bar of chocolate, eggs, loo roll…’ Francis Lalane is reading out his shopping list. It’s 11am and the small supermarket in the centre of Landais, a village in Dax in south-west France, is in the thick of the pre-lunch rush. Locals are arriving two by two, collecting a little red trolley from the porch and making their way at a sedate pace around the shelves. Read More...