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Nick and Clare were married today at The
Hotel Du Vin in the heart of Tunbridge Wells.
It was very much a Tuesday Knights' affair, with myself ushering, Pete acting as M.C. and Nick's best man Kevin looking like a new recruit to the group! Here we are (left to right): Me, Pete, Nick and ...
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Nick And Clare's Big Day!
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heropress.net - 12 hours ago
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This three-minute clip, from last night's Children In
Need telethon , sets the scene for the David
Tennant's swan song as The Tenth Doctor in the two-part Doctor Who special, The End Of Time , to air over Christmas and New Years... with just enough Master-ly input to get our spines ...
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Looking Into The Future...
heropress.net - 27 hours ago
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What a shame that this series of The
Sarah Jane Adventures should end on such a light-weight
story. The Gift opened with Sarah Jane and her gang struggling to thwart the latest scheme of the flatulent Slitheen - until the arrival of the Blatereen, another family of giant, gangly aliens from ...
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The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Gift
heropress.net - 36 hours ago
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Following on from last week's teaser , Alasdair
Stuart, in the first of his " Doctoring The
TARDIS " columns, gives us some insight into his thinking behind the initial pdf adventure he has penned for Cubicle 7's Doctor Who: Adventures In Time & Space roleplaying game. He introduces the ...
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Sontaran Shenanigans!
heropress.net - 2 days ago
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This week started with Rachel and I heading
down to Bournemouth ( my old university town )
to celebrate my birthday . Monday - my actual birthday - was spent at Monkey World Ape Rescue Centre , one of the most incredible places I have ever been. I like to do what I can to help organisations ...
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Welcome To The Family...
heropress.net - 2 days ago
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It certainly looks as though The 10th Doctor
(David Tennant) is going to go out in style.
This week's one-off episode - The Waters Of Mars - did a fantastic job of sowing the seeds of his own doom while still working as a creepy, self-contained story. The Doctor arrives on Mars in 2059 and ...
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Doctor Who: The Waters Of Mars
heropress.net - 3 days ago
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Cubilce 7's latest preview for its Doctor Who:
Adventures In Time And Space is the character sheet
for the Tenth Doctor . It is a double-sided affair with the back of the sheet devoted to explanations of the Doctor's many "traits". Although we still don't know too much about the rules ...
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Check Out The Doctor!
heropress.net - 3 days ago
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The second story arc - Fugitive - of
the superb, Tony Lee-penned ongoing Doctor Who comic from
IDW continues apace in issue four. The Tenth Doctor has been arrested for tampering with Earth's timeline, and sentenced to imprisonment by The Shadow Proclamation, but under the auspices of the ...
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Top Of The Pile: Doctor Who #4
heropress.net - 3 days ago
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The very first 'book' that I wrote, at
the age of nine or 10, was a science-fiction
one entitled Tim's Planetary Police , about my primary school peers and I as - unsurprisingly - an interplanetary police force. At the time I was unsure of the spelling of "planetary" and so the cover was ...
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My First Fantasy Novel Wot I Wrote...
heropress.net - 4 days ago
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A round-up of geeky news you might have
otherwise missed... (1) More Lost Stories : Big Finish
is producing a new season of 'lost stories' audio plays from the early years of Doctor Who , scripts that were written but never filmed from the time of William Hartnell (the First Doctor) and ...
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The Week In Geek...
heropress.net - 5 days ago
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Okay, one of my birthday wishes... I hope
Paul 'OtaKing' Johnson finishes his Doctor Who anime cartoon.
I love this mash-up between Classic Doctor Who ( we get the Third Doctor, the Brigadier, daleks and cybermen ) and classic anime ( the Doctor's companion is an archetypal anime girl ). First ...
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My Birthday Wish...
heropress.net - 5 days ago
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Oh, guys, you shouldn't have... ( pic from
Sci-Fi Wire )
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Happy Birthday To Me!
heropress.net - 5 days ago
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Two weeks today until Doctor Who: Adventures In
Time And Space hits the shelves...
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Two Weeks And Counting...
heropress.net - 6 days ago
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For anyone who's been out of the loop
for a bit, the loooooong-awaited Doctor Who special The
Waters Of Mars is being screened on BBC1 and BBC HD at 7pm this evening. Can you believe Planet Of The Dead was way back in April? The BBC spent so long dithering about releasing the ...
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Just In Case You Hadn't Realised...
heropress.net - 6 days ago
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Moving the setting of HG Wells' classic late
Victorian science-fiction classic The War Of The Worlds to
'50s America was a stroke of genius because the story lends itself so well to the fears and paranoia of a time when the so-called civilized world was wrapped up in a love/hate relationship ...
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DVD Of The Week: The War Of The Worlds (1952)
heropress.net - 7 days ago
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Curse you, Merlin , for leading me on
like that. Sins Of The Father was the closest
this series has yet come to a perfect episode and still, right in the last act, they had to go and press the 'reset' button to make sure the status quo was maintained for the next story. It could have been - and ...
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Merlin: Sins Of The Father
heropress.net - 7 days ago
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Doctor Who has traditionally had a strong connection
with the charity Children In Need and so this
the superb website Doctor Who Toys is auctioning off a mint, sealed version of the rare Character Option's Sixth Doctor variant figure ( in his blue coat from the 2000 animated web series ...
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Plastic Doctor Can Help Children In Need...
heropress.net - 7 days ago
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As Saturdays are already quite fantasy-themed with my
weekly reviews of Merlin this seems the best day
to draw your attention to Spellfury, a monthly Canadian online serial serving up fantasy flavoured goodness is easily digestible two and three-minute portions. The creators contacted me via ...
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Short But Sweet, Saturday Spellfury Loveliness...
heropress.net - 7 days ago
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Today we welcome to the ranks of the
HeroPress superteam a regular commentator on the site: *
Thekelvingreen of Aiee! Run From Kelvin's Brainsplurge! and Kelvin Green's Website . Always good to see a familiar face signing up! Guess I must be doing something right around here. With the ...
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Ladies & Gentlemen, I'm Actor Troy McClure. You Might ...
heropress.net - 7 days ago
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" Hi, I’m Alasdair and I wear lots
of hats. I’m a freelance journalist with work appearing
in everything from The Guardian to Sci Fi Now , a parsec-award winning podcaster as the host of Pseudopod , the editor of Hub and a roleplaying game writer. "That last one is especially fun, as ...
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