Manning, an Essex fan, and his friend Geoff, go to go to Test matches every year and make an annual pilgrimage to the Cheltenham Festival but are far from county regulars.

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More than 100 of Spring Airlines' seats dedicated to the festival have been sold so far.

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Tim Youngs, Hong Kong consultant for Italy's Far East Film Festival, says changing tastes among Hong Kong movie-goers has also affected the industry.

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So far the policing of the festival had been effective but the critical time would be at close down, Mr Jasper added.

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We're also cutting a Forest Service economic development program that strayed so far from any mission that it funded a music festival.

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Along with the chance to sample more than 90 beers from microbreweries as far afield as New Zealand and Estonia, the festival offers lectures on home brewing and pairing beer with food.

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It was far from the typical scripted fare of the Cannes Film Festival, where chaos plays out on screen and not among the audience.

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Theatre, dance and music from the Far East will be on show in the east of Scotland as the Edinburgh International Festival begins later.

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The film, which received an enthusiastic welcome at the Venice film festival earlier this month and which has just opened in America (it opens in Britain in November) is far, far better.

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The film hits theaters September 24th and so far it is getting good reviews. (The movie screened earlier this year at the Cannes film festival.) With only ten reviews in the movie has a 90% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

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