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Fri 12 Dec 2006BROOMSTICK BOYSREVIEWED - THE COVENANT:RIGHT. So there are these four male teenage witches - named, in the manner of a football supporters club, The Sons of Ipswich - who spend their days casting mostly benign magic about their posh private school.Then there's this long-haired bully. He can be dealt with easily enough. More troubling is a new student who also seems to have supernatural powers (though none that can help him deliver a line of dialogue with any more feeling than an old tractor brings to its backfires) and who appears eager to infiltrate the Sons' cosy coven and wreak his own havoc.