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30 / 08 / 2010
Fantasy F1: The scores from Spa have been updated to reflect Alguersuari's 3-place penalty.

29 / 08 / 2010
Fantasy F1: The results from the thirteenth race in Belgium are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next race is Monza in two weeks on 12th September.

22 / 08 / 2010
Fantasy Rally: The results from Rally Germany are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next rally is Japan on 10th September.

01 / 08 / 2010
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01 / 08 / 2010
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25 / 07 / 2010
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11 / 07 / 2010
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11 / 07 / 2010
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27 / 06 / 2010
Fantasy F1: The results from the ninth race in Valencia are in, including the penalties for the naughty boys driving too fast. Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next race is Silverstone on 11th July.

13 / 06 / 2010
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30 / 05 / 2010
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30 / 05 / 2010
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16 / 05 / 2010
Fantasy F1: The Monaco scores have been updated to reflect Michael Schumacher's ridiculous penalty for daring to overtake a Ferrari. Check the updated results, see how your team did or enter a new team.

16 / 05 / 2010
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10 / 05 / 2010
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10 / 05 / 2010
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19 / 04 / 2010
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18 / 04 / 2010
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06 / 04 / 2010
Fantasy Rally: The JWRC driver lineup has been released, so you can make your selection before teams are frozen for Turkey on the night of 15th April. If you don't pick anyone, you'll get Aaron Burkart by default.

05 / 04 / 2010
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03 / 04 / 2010
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29 / 03 / 2010
Fantasy F1: The results from the second race in Melbourne are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next race is Malaysia THIS WEEKEND on 4th April.

14 / 03 / 2010
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09 / 03 / 2010
Fantasy F1! Yes, there's a brand new Fantasy Formula One game! Check the rules or enter your team by Friday night to qualify for the first race in Bahrain!

08 / 03 / 2010
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17 / 02 / 2010
Fantasy Rally: The points awarded for a win have changed in the real WRC, so we've reflected the changes in our scoring too. Check the rules to see the details. Next rally is Mexico on 5th March, teams will be frozen at midnight on the night of Thursday 4th March.

16 / 02 / 2010
Fantasy Rally: The results from Rally Sweden are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team.

31 / 01 / 2010
Fantasy Rally: The new rally season is upon us - 2010 Fantasy Rally is now open! Check the rules or pick a team ready for the start on 12th Feb.

25 / 10 / 2009
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02 / 08 / 2009
Reviews: Sorry, there won't be any more movie reviews for the foreseeable future. Events have overtaken me. Catch up on reviews you may have missed.

18 / 08 / 2005
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Mrs Henderson Presents

Cast: Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins, Kerry Reilly, Will Young, Thelma Barlow, Christopher Guest. Directed by Stephen Frears. Story: The true story of the nude revues in the Windmill Theatre in wartime London. Running Time: 1hr 43 minutes. UK Certificate 12A.

Go to the flicks, see naked women - I'm sold. Holy cow, it's a great movie too! Probably best to sell it to your girlfriend that way ... that is, unless she wants to see Bob Hoskins' pecker.

What a very British movie Mrs Henderson Presents is. Judi Dench and Bob Hoskins, both playing it as plummy as a Cluedo professor, some saucy humour, The Blitz and an ex-Coronation Street regular (Thelma Barlow: Mavis "well I don't really know" Riley). Throw in some Monty Python and some self-righteous indignation in the Daily Mail letters page and it could be taught in Media Studies as "What Makes the British Tick". As such, it is very effective in its aim to fill us with a warm fuzzy feeling while still telling an interesting and occasionally touching story. It's far from weighty stuff, but it's far from flimsy too - nestling nicely between the two and taking the best from both sides. There's enough warmth to hook most viewers and enough wobbly bare bits to convert the rest. It deserves to do better than it will.

Bob Hoskins has obtained a new lease of life lately. His staggeringly good thug character in Unleashed was one of the finest performances by anyone all year and he carries the momentum to theatre manager Vivian Van Damm, a character so different that you'd never imagine a Rottweiler like Bob could pull it off - but he does. Even his uncharacteristically posh accent melts seemlessly into the mix so it isn't noticeable like you'd expect it to be. He and Judi Dench's Mrs Henderson easily carry the movie on their own, with everyone else hanging onto their coat tails as well as they can. Spinal Tap's Christopher Guest is almost unrecognisable as the lightly starched Lord Chamberlain seduced by Mrs Henderson to grant their required licentious licence, but his character adds considerable value, while Will Young is less impressive, never rising above the muddy depths of that-camp-singer-with-the-huge-mandible-from-Pop-Idol. Still, it's his first acting role, I'm sure he'll get better. Provided he gets the chance.

Mrs Henderson Presents is a marvellously likeable movie. There's a sense of camaraderie and spirit that is lacking in most movies nowadays and it lifts the film to a level that would have been unattainable with a bigger budget. It's British in all the right ways.

I enjoyed this film: 4/5

I think the average moviegoer will enjoy it: 4/5

Testosterone Satisfaction Rating: 4/5 - lots of nudity, tastefully done. Well, except the Bob Hoskins bit (shudder). Given the bits on display, a 12A rating is a bit of a surprise.

To enjoy this film you should: like toffy warm British jolliness.