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Critics, critics, critics...

Dinnington Colliery Band's appearance on 'A Band for Britain' has had the critics putting pen to paper in the press...

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The recent appearance of Dinnington Colliery Band on the BBC television programme ‘A Band for Britain’ led to whole host of critics putting pen to paper.

Here are just a few of them from various sources:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2010/mar/09/a-band-for-britain-dispatches

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/features/TV-review-DispatchesA-Band-for.6133598.jp

http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/entertainment/TV-Review-Band-Britain/article-1897528-detail/article.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/reviews/last-nights-television--dispatches-cameron-uncovered-channel-4-a-band-for-britain-bbc2-1918306.html

The next episode of the programme takes place at 9.00pm on Monday evening on BBC 2.

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