Category: Movies

• January 7, 2026

  BANKING, Council reporting, Golf feature, HISTORY, Journalism, Movies, News reporting, Parish council stories, Uncategorized, Utilities companies, WSCC, WSCC Highways

  Reflections on a year in local journalism on the Manhood Peninsula in England

  By HILARY GAVIN IF YOU’RE following me on social media, you’ll know that I’m fast approaching my WordPress blog site’s first anniversary. Of course, my regular blog readers know that I christened my site in February 2025 with a feature on my “big break” into journalism courtesy of the IRA Bognor Regis bike bombing in…
• December 10, 2025

  Art and culture, Feature writing, Journalism, Movies

  Behind the scenes of journalism: Recognising unsung heroes

  OVER the past decade or so, during my self-imposed early retirement, I enjoyed going to the movies with a friend who would insist on sitting through the credits at the end of a film. Of course, this was an alien concept to me and to our fellow filmgoers at our New Park picture-drome in Chichester,…
• September 14, 2025

  Elon Musk, Ian Fleming, James Bond, Movies

  Who would you back in the James Bond v Elon Musk star wars race?

  By HILARY GAVIN TO BE honest, folks, I didn’t watch Tommy Robinson’s flag-touting rally in London on telly yesterday – but I had to chuckle to myself when I heard the multi-billionarie X owner Elon Musk had dialled the Far Right leader by video link to address protesters by saying: “Violence is coming … you…
• August 5, 2025

  Education, Movies, TELEVISION

  How watching Shetland on telly has whetted my interest for philosophy

  By HILARY GAVIN I’D forgotten how gripping old movies and telly shows can be until I re-played the first series and beginning of the second series of Shetland on BBC iPlayer over the weekend. Now, I’m not sure why the BBC decided to feature crime writer Ann Cleeves’s third novel Red Bones in Series One…