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The smell of warm herbs and sound of clattering plates waft in from the nextdoor room, where a vegan lunch for 70 is being cleared away, and where from time to time a toddler loses balance and thumps against the door. However, bent over pieces of scrap paper, students at the Thursday afternoon script-writing course in the Brighton Unemployed Centre Families Project
are concentrating hard on today’s assignment. There are two men that where included in this were– Richard Ince, 72, and Ben Woodling, 38 – and they have been meeting their tutor, Niall Drennan, a
performance writer and former probation officer, working every other week for two hours ever
since early summer, although no one can remember exactly when. Tutoring them in the alternate
weeks is Alison Fisher, a former scriptwriter that became propular from Eastenders. Others have attended from time to time – they recall a Spanish group under the impression it was about improving
English language skills, and a French woman who was living in a tent and writing a novel –
but Ince and Woodling are the regulars.

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The US film-maker Michael Moore has defended Kathryn Bigelow’s controversial Oscar-nominated film Zero Dark Thirty as “a disturbing, fantastically-made movie” that “will make you hate torture”.

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“DARK THIRTY WILL MAKE YOU HATE TORTURE”

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In an extended post on Facebook, Moore said he did not buy critics’ argument that the film glorifies torture by showing its use during the search for Osama bin Laden. He also dismissed suggestions that the film
erroneously depicted torture as a vital tool in the hunt for al-Qaida’s figurehead. Figures ranging from US senators John
McCain and Dianne Feinstein to Pulitzer prize-winning

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Daft Punk will release their first studio album in eight years in May.
The French dance duo, which consists of Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel ...

Exeter University's recent Safer Sex Ball has found itself in the media spotlight, after CCTV footage of two students engaged in sexual activity in the campus bar...