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Alison Jones

Sex And The City girls are all grown up

Sarah Jessica Parker has dusted off her Manolo Blahniks to reprise the role of NYC It Girl Carrie Bradshaw. Read

Nelly is a real diamond girl

Nusrit Shaheen will be stepping out in Sutton Park to raise awareness of a rare skin condition. Alison Jones met the college student who is the oldest survivor with harlequin icthyosis in the UK Read

Colin Farrell's killer instinct

Colin Farrell talks to Alison Jones about Bruges, booze and Brendan Read

Artist prodigy Dante Lamb matures as an eight-year-old

Talented youngster Danté Lamb astounded the art world when he sold his first painting at the age of three. Alison Jones meets the former record breaker who is now exhibiting in Birmingham. Read

Daniel Craig moves from hero to zero

Daniel Craig decided the best way to celebrate becoming a movie star was to be a notorious one. Read

Review: The Wedding Singer at Birmingham Hippodrome

Given the job description of The Wedding Singer and the fact this is set in the 80s, it offered the writers an era's worth of "Now that's what I call a back catalogue" to go at. Read

Brocton so small but beautiful

The village of Brocton is a small jewel in the county of Stafford but its real appeal lies in the wide open spaces next door. Read

Christopher Dean still skating's Mr Ice Guy

Dancing on Ice was filled with blood, sweat and tears this year. Christopher Dean tells Alison Jones how even he came a cropper Read

Review: Sleuth, Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton

It seems appropriate that one of the characters in Sleuth spends a significant amount of time in a clown suit, as this production milks the comic potential of Anthony Shaffer's twisted script. Read

From CAT scans to cat and mouse

Casualty star Simon MacCorkindale tells Alison Jones why he has packed away his stethoscope and returned to the stage. Read

The hidden villages in the heart of Portugal

Alison Jones gets a warm welcome on a trip to the Beiras region of Portugal. Read

Trinny and Susannah still having fun dressing up

Fashion police Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine will be getting up close and personal with their advice in Birmingham next week. Read

Katherine's frocky horror laughter show

27 Dresses star Katherine Heigl tells The Birmingham Post she prefers to play comedy roles in movies. Read

McGann takes on Fiddler in his own way

It was a role made famous by Topol but Joe McCann is playing Tevye his way, as he tells Alison Jones. Read

Designer Viv happy to avoid catwalk claws

Warwickshire housewife Viv Whelan got to live the designer dream when she made it to the finals of Project Catwalk. Read

Goblin-fighter Freddie has twice the fun

Alison Jones hears why Freddie Highmore is content to carry on juggling schoolwork with stardom. Read

Reece's in pieces in this quaint comic horror film

The League of Gentlemen's Reece Shearsmith finds himself confronted by a monster rather than playing one in The Cottage. Alison Jones reports Read

Middle England doing nicely in Meriden

It may no longer hold the title of the official centre of the country, but Meriden is still a magnet for visitors, including Alison Jones. Read

How to cope as an angling widow

More women are taking the bait and joining their partners on the river bank. But Alison Jones finds not everyone is a convert. Read

Review: Aspects Of Love at The Birmingham Hippodrome

Andrew Lloyd Webber shows usually have the musical theatre equivalent of a power ballad at their heart which, in the days when there were such things, was invariably released as a single. Read

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Alison Jones is a writer and acting features editor for The Birmingham Post.

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