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Reviews Featuring Hugh Fraser

The Draughtsman's Contract
Peter Greenaway's first feature film is arguably his best - in a seventeenth century English country garden, history and artful speculation are grafted in a murder mystery plot to yield strange, fertile fruits for the imagination, which will delight with their tart acerbity.

News Items For Hugh Fraser

Legal warning school trip changed
An education authority which cancelled a school trip because it did not cater for a disabled child announces plans for an alternative.

Assurance given over school trips
A council says a decision to cancel a school trip because it did not cater for a disabled child does not set a precedent.

Gaelic pupils 'do well' in school
A council says youngsters who are learning Gaelic "match and better" their peers in other subjects.

Pupils praised for exam results
Highland Council says early indications suggest school pupils in the region have done well in their exams.

Burst pipes close primary schools
Fifteen schools in the Highlands are closed because of burst pipes or problems with the buildings' heating.