The Newmarket Magazine Flyer September ’25
Welcome to Newmarket Flyer Magazine September ’25. In this month’s Newmarket Flyer: we hear from local community events and from local groups. We also hear about a upcoming events. As well as news from local charities, groups and local comment.
The Newmarket Flyer September ’25 Update
Newmarket Community Cinema
A Private Function (15)
In 1947 Great Britain prepares to celebrate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip. In a small town in northern England, with everyone still enduring food rationing, some local businessmen decide that they should hold a party to celebrate the royal occasion.
But there is a problem; how do you stage a grand party when food is so scarce? To get round this dilemma they secretly agree to rear a pig to provide plenty of meat for the feast. Why is it a secret? Because it is against the law.
All is going well until someone steals the pig. Meanwhile, the local food inspector is determined to stop any activities circumventing the food rationing regulations.
A Private Function stars Maggie Smith, Michael Palin and Richard Griffiths, and is being screened on Monday 15th September.
Official Secrets (15)
In 2003, during the lead up to the Iraq War, a British intelligence specialist at GCHQ obtains a memo with a shocking directive: the USA is enlisting Britain’s help in collecting information on UN Security Council members to blackmail them into voting in favour of an invasion of Iraq.
Based on the story of whistle-blower Katharine Gun, this film tells how she felt unable to stand by and watch the world be rushed into war. Instead she decides to defy her government and leak the memo to the press.
When GCHQ launches an internal investigation into who leaked the memo she decides to confess, partly in the hope of preventing the invasion of Iraq but also so that none of her colleagues is suspected of being responsible.
She is then arrested but eventually all charges against her are dropped, prompting one of her legal advisers to suggest that this was done because a court case might have shown that Tony Blair’s government agreed to go to war on false pretences.
Official Secrets stars Keira Knightley, Matt Smith and Ralph Fiennes, and is being screened on Monday 20th October.
Both films will be shown at The Stable in Newmarket High Street (opposite Boots) at 7.30 p.m., with free refreshments from 6.45 p.m. Tickets (£6) on the door. Sub-titles shown on request (as long as they are on the DVD). Newmarket Community Cinema is open to all; no membership required.