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WINDSOR'S loss was Arundel's gain when the makers of The Young Victoria were looking for suitable locations.

NEW POST: Post office manager Philippe Abrams, played by Kad Merad, and mailman Antoine, played by Dany Boon, in the French comedy hit Welcome to the Sticks The Young Victoria This sumptuous, romantic costume drama does what no other film about Queen Victoria has ever done.

HAM House will again light up the big screen as it provides the backdrop to a new film set for release in 2010.

Film gives Emily Blunt little to sink her perfected teeth into, writes Robert McKay YOUNG Victoria, a movie produced by the unlikely couple of Martin Scorsese and Sarah "Fergie" Ferguson, asks us to re-imagine the famously frumpy and uptight Queen Victoria as a young, impetuous girl with improbably perfect teeth.

Her Majesty was visibly miffed. All the major UK papers picked up on the story - the historical misrepresentations she spotted during the recent London premiere of The Young Victoria had "irked" the monarch.

Above, right: Young Stefan thinks the approaching band is going straight ahead but, no, they suddenly turn and crush him underfoot.

The eternally groovy Bill Nighy arrived at the premiere of Emily Blunt 's Young Victoria, citing the actress's "charm and allure" as his motivation.

The day after our visit to Windsor we took the train to Oxford, an hour outside London, and then boarded a bus for the 20-minute ride to Blenheim Palace, home of the Dukes of Marlborough and the birthplace of Winston Churchill.

Emily Blunt, 26 and best known for her turn as Meryl Streep's bitchy assistant in The Devil Wears Prada , is certainly easier on the eye than the real Victoria.

Emily Blunt has pulled out of a new film because the sex scenes were too explicit.

The 2009 Logies was all about one show - Packed To The Rafters - and its leading star, veteran Australian actor Rebecca Gibney.

HOLLYWOOD heart-throb Rupert Friend is the envy of many chaps thanks to his long-running relationship with actress Keira Knightley.

FRIDAY NOON: BBC Countryfile presenter John Craven has praised Belvoir Castle to the hills, naming it as one of his top 10 castles in the UK.

'Come on down!' Contestants guess retail values for prizes on TV's longest-running game show.

THE Crofters Hotel is bringing the magic of the silver screen back to Garstang with the first public movie showing in the town in more than 30 years.

THOUSANDS of Australians, New Zealanders and Turks have trekked from Anzac Cove to Lone Pine Cemetery to mark the August 1915 battle in which 2000 Australians and 7000 Turks were killed or wounded.

AT Gallipoli and in country towns ravaged by fire and flood, on sporting fields and in the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq, Australians old and young are stilled by the call of the bugle.

On Anzac Day Australians not only remember lives lost in war but national traits of fairness, humour and mateship, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith has told crowds at the Gallipoli dawn service.

Zack Snydera s stylish but bloody and violent adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbonsa celebrated graphic novel pulls no punches as its transports us back in time to a very different vision of the mid-1980s. Have your say The Young Victoria 4:36pm Monday 2nd March 2009 Of all the love stories that have defined the British monarchy, none tugs the ...

EMILY Blunt had no time for playing princesses when she was a little girl, but she was prepared to do anything to portray Queen Victoria in her latest film.