Other candidates standing in the Coker ward are Peter Bysouth for the Green party, Marcus Fysh for Conservatives, Murray Shepstone for Labour and Ian Stephen for the Liberal Democrats.

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There were 1, 360 objections to the Fossway proposal, included those from the Victorian Society, local MP and Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, writer Ian Rankin and broadcaster Stephen Fry.

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"You have these moments - you're waiting to go on and you've got Sir Ian McKellen on one side and Stephen Hawking on the other, and you go, this is just crazy, " he says.

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Ronnie O'Sullivan will face either Ian McCulloch or Ricky Walden, while Stephen Hendry will find himself up against Robert Milkins or Dave Harold.

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Also interviewed are Dame Judi Dench, Arthur Miller, Sir Ian McKellen, Sir Peter Hall, Sir Tom Stoppard, Vanessa Redgrave, Fiona Shaw, Stephen Daldry, David Hare, Harold Pinter, and Alan Bennett.

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