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MILBORNE MOVIES Emergency Plan

will be showing 'Dunkirk' (12A) on Friday 13th April 2018 at 7.30pm in We maintain a simple Emergency Plan for the Parish. We would like to add a list of
Milborne St Andrew Village Hall (DT11 0JX). The village hall and bar is volunteer 4x4 and tractor owners who would be prepared to be called out when
necessary. Would anyone who would like to be included on this list please email
open from 7.00 pm and the film starts at 7.30 pm. Tickets £3.50 can be
the clerk with your name, address, email and phone numbers.
obtained on the door

Dunkirk review
Parish Tidy
Christopher Nolan’s latest film is a masterpiece: a $150 million epic, yet as lean
and spare as a haiku, with three brief, almost wordless strands of narrative woven We are planning another Parish Tidy and litter pick in the near future. As soon as
we have pinned down a suitable date we will let everyone know. In the
together in a mere 106 minutes of running time. Its themes are classic - honor, meantime, we would be grateful if anyone interested in helping in the planning
duty, the horror of war - yet it is also his most radical experiment since Memento.
and on the day would put their names forward to Amanda Crocker, our clerk.
The three stories take place on land, on sea, and in the air, with moments of
harrowing intensity and profound humanity. The superb cast includes Tom Hardy, Neighbourhood Plan Update
Mark Rylance, and Kenneth Branagh, with relative acting unknowns including
Harry Styles of One Direction, but ultimately Dunkirk belongs to Nolan and Negotiations continue with NaturalEngland and with the Drax Estate over the
cinematographer Hoyte Van Hoytema. The film uses practical effects rather than shape and size of the SANG (Suitable Alternative Natural Green Space) that has
CGI whenever possible - $5 million was spent on a vintage Luftwaffe plane in to be provided near new housing development. We are still hoping to complete
order to crash it—and the difference is palpable. Rarely has the beauty of aerial the plan and bring it to a referendum this year.
flight (or the unpleasantness of its failure) been captured so vividly.

The Battle of Dunkirk has always been that most remarkable of war stories: an Community Grants
utter rout reframed, rightly, as an iconic victory. At the end of Nolan’s film, when
one of the returning men is congratulated, he muses, “All we did is survive.” But it We were pleased to make a grant of £200 to Autumn Leaves to cover the costs of
was much more than that. Had those Allied troops not been saved, the history of the speakers who come every month to their meetings.
the war would have been vastly different. And it is hard to imagine a better
tribute to this victory of survival than Nolan’s spare, stunning, extraordinarily
ambitious film. (From a review by Christopher Orr, principal film critic at ‘The Open Spaces
Atlantic’.) The recent winter weather has not been kind for the wildlife group. The February
work party had to be postponed for a week, however some clearing was carried
out along the streamside walk in the pouring rain!
The cold spell attracted even more birds to Souls Moor. As well as the buzzard and
the kestrel a flock of fieldfares was followed by redwings that had come south. We
were also visited by a flock of lapwings, which are now becoming much rarer.
They were attracted by the wet areas within the meadow now that the grass has
been close cropped by the ponies. The ponies will return later in the spring.

The wildlife work party has now sown more wildflowers close to the school
entrance but in a more extended area. We hope this will provide a great show of
colour as it did last year.

With the help of Dorset County Council countryside service, we are now planning
to sow poppies on the roundabout at the bottom of Poole Hill which should create
a good show in recognition of the 100 anniversary of the end of the First World
th
War.

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