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Hello,

Welcome to another issue of CT In The Vale magazine, and as usual I hope there’s something for everyone!

I’m pleased to be able to include part four of the Ancestry feature this month; I promise the final part will be in the July issue!

We’ve also got an interesting article on ARCh, an Oxfordshire charity that trains volunteers to support schoolchildren with their reading. Volunteers Week takes place during the first week of June - perhaps ARCh would be a good way for you to volunteer some time.

Later in June is the second Children’s Food Festival at the Northmoor Trust. Turn to page 18 to find out what delights are on offer for budding Masterchefs!

We’ve also got details of some of the exciting events happening during Wantage Summer Festival.

Finally, thanks to Anne Pagett for our cover photo of Champs Chapel in East Hendred. There is a small museum in the chapel and it’s well worth a visit.

See you next month!

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Community Times In The ValeIn The ValeIn The ValeIn The Vale

1000 cyclists enjoy beautiful Oxfordshire1000 cyclists enjoy beautiful Oxfordshire1000 cyclists enjoy beautiful Oxfordshire1000 cyclists enjoy beautiful Oxfordshire

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Over 1000 cyclists took part in the annual Classic Oxfordshire Bike Ride (CLOX) on Sunday 10th May for Abingdon based charity Against Breast Cancer, breaking all previous records for the number of partici-pants.

Event Manager Wendy Taylor Hill said “We are thrilled that so many people took part this year, with cyclists travelling from all over the country to help us raise important funds for the charity. We hope to raise more than ever before and as well as it being a very enjoyable day for the cyclists, it’s a fantastic showcase for Oxfordshire, taking in beautiful countryside and quiet villages.”

The rides of 30 and 60 miles plus a new 12 mile family ride started and finished at Harwell Business Campus and were supported by a number of local organisations including Community Police from Wantage who offered a cycle post coding service.

Over 70 marshals lined the three cycle routes and the finish line had a party atmosphere with a live band. Abingdon cyclist Chris Wiseman said, “What a splendid day we had - the weather was perfect and the or-ganisation just great.” His contribution, along with the other riders, will help towards the goal of £50,000. Funds go directly to valuable research being conducted into finding a vaccine against breast cancer and last year’s ride raised over £30,000.

Wendy said “So many riders commented that CLOX was the prettiest route they’d cycled and the sunshine was the icing on the cake.”

WaterWaterWaterWater----saving gadgets giveaway to help cut customer billssaving gadgets giveaway to help cut customer billssaving gadgets giveaway to help cut customer billssaving gadgets giveaway to help cut customer bills Thousands of newly metered Thames Water customers are being offered free products in a bid to help them reduce their water consumption and bring down bills. Water-saving devices, including aerated show-erheads, water butts to collect rainwater for use outdoors and digital shower timers, will be given free of charge to customers who have had a meter fitted since April 2008.

Lesley Tait, Thames Water's Water Resources Sustainability Manager, said: "Customers who take advan-tage of this offer could save around 60 litres per household per day – that’s enough water to fill around 2,500 buckets per year, and make bill savings of around £25.” Those customers who adopt additional water-saving techniques - which may only involve small behavioural changes such as turning off the tap when brushing their teeth - could see even greater savings. By reducing the amount of hot water you use you could also save money on your energy bill.

All the products on offer have been specially designed to make saving water as simple as possible. They are easy to fit, and once installed saving water will become second nature.

Customers' feedback on the products and water savings will be used by Thames Water to identify how even greater savings can be made in future as the company embarks on further water effi-ciency work.

Customers can find useful tips to help save water by visiting www.thameswater.co.uk. The company has also recently launched Wise up to Water, an online resource for students and teachers to help schools reduce their water use: www.thameswater.co.uk/wiseuptowater .

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Spot the small horse hidden in an advert in this month’s CT magazine and you could be the lucky winner of a crisp £20 note!

Simply send your name, address and the name of the advert where the horse is hidden to: Spot the Horse June, CT In The Vale, 9 Cromwell Close, Faringdon SN7 7BQ or email your details including your address to [email protected] . Closing date is 30th June.

Congratulations to Mrs Marie Day from Grove who won May’s competition!


Local news

Non Uniform Day raises profile and funds for Helen & Douglas Non Uniform Day raises profile and funds for Helen & Douglas Non Uniform Day raises profile and funds for Helen & Douglas Non Uniform Day raises profile and funds for Helen & Douglas

A recent non-uniform day across all three sites of King Alfred’s Specialist Sports College in Wantage raised a magnificent sum of £1098 in aid of Helen & Douglas House.

The cheque was presented by Vice Principal Jona-than Smith to Mary Boullin, Community Fundraiser at Helen and Douglas House. Mary attended an assembly on West site to speak about the work of the charity which supports children and young adults and their families in Oxford and neighbour-ing counties, providing a happy, supportive base throughout their experience of life-shortening ill-ness.

Mary Boullin commented: “It is great that the young people of King Alfred’s are supporting the children and young adults cared for at Helen & Douglas House. Their £1098 donation could pay for a mem-ber of our care team for twenty three days, which is a fantastic contribution. Between them, Wantage area schools and businesses have raised £4,200 over the last 6 months, and we are extremely grateful to the whole community.”

Nicholas Young, Principal of King Alfred’s said, “We were keen to play our part in fundraising for this essen-tial facility for young people and their families affected by serious illness. I’m sure the students enjoyed not having to wear their uniforms for the day.”

Jonathan Smith hands over the cheque for £1098 to Mary Boullin

B&B of The Year Award for B&B of The Year Award for B&B of The Year Award for B&B of The Year Award for

Faringdon Bed & Breakfast Faringdon Bed & Breakfast Faringdon Bed & Breakfast Faringdon Bed & Breakfast The Shires Lifestyle and Holiday Magazine have presented Chowle Farmhouse Bed & Breakfast, Faringdon with their Award of Excellence, B&B of The Year 2009. The award is in addition to their current AA Highly Commended Award for 2008 – 2009 and existing AA Four Star rating

Proprietor Janet Muir said: “I am very happy to re-ceive this award, it was a really nice surprise, espe-cially after our success with The AA Award.

“My aim has always been to provide a warm and friendly welcome to all our guests, whether they are staying for just one night or for a short break holiday, on their own or as a larger party. We are finding that more people are booking short breaks (and then coming back again!) instead of longer holidays abroad as it represents excellent value when they are watching the pennies!”

The luxury farmhouse Bed & Breakfast, situated on the Watchfield side of Faringdon, has recently been refurbishing the pool area and installing a new in-door spa ready for this summer. For more informa-tion visit their website: www.chowlefarmhouse.co.uk

Nominate CT Nominate CT Nominate CT Nominate CT ---- and win £1000!and win £1000!and win £1000!and win £1000! I’d like to ask you a favour! The Sun and Barclays Bank are currently running a competition to find Britain’s best Local Business - and I wondered if you’d like to nominate Community Times In The Vale magazine.

The best local business in the UK will win £20,000, with 9 regional prizes of £5,000 each - and the people making the best winning nominations will also win £1000!

My aim for CT In The Vale has always been for it to support the local community - with almost every article being either about a local person, place, event or organisation, or written by someone local. I’d like to develop the magazine to reach more people and offer more community features - and winning a prize and award like this would go a long way to ensuring the survival and growth of the magazine.

If you would like to nominate CT In The Vale, visit www. thesun.co.uk/bbb and click on the cartoon of the high street at the top of the page. Be quick though - the closing date for nominations is 6th June. Thanks in advance!



A Perfect Day OutA Perfect Day OutA Perfect Day OutA Perfect Day Out

Stanford in the ValeStanford in the ValeStanford in the ValeStanford in the Vale

Festival Fun RunFestival Fun RunFestival Fun RunFestival Fun Run

Stanford in the Vale School Association are proud once again to be involved in organising the Stan-ford in the Vale Festival Fun Run

Run, skip or walk the 2.8 mile (5km) course through Stanford in the Vale and Hatford. Fancy dress is optional (prize for the best dressed). Sunday 14th June at 12noon (registration from 11.15am)

Entry forms available from Karen (01367 718677) or Heidi (01367 718444)

This event is proudly sponsored by Nick Ponting Replacement Windows and Doors

A lovely old village church, beautifully decorated with flowers, delicious home-made cakes, plants and pro-duce to buy and enjoy at home ... it all adds up to an idyllic afternoon.

St Andrew’s Church, Letcombe Regis, presents “Floribunda – a Celebration in Flowers ” on the afternoons of July 4th and 5th from 2-6pm. This ancient church, parts of which date back to the 13th century, will be imagi-natively decorated with a series of floral displays, depicting the church year from Advent, the season before Christmas, through to Harvest, along with floral tributes to St Andrew, for whom the church is named, and St Cecilia, patron saint of music. Take time out of your busy schedule to pause and soak up the atmosphere of a historic church, lovingly decorated in ways designed to lift the spirits. Then step next door to the Lodge where, by kind permission of Richmond Retirement Village, tea and cakes will be served. Buy a cake to take home and, inspired by the floral arrangements, buy some plants for your garden!

This will be an afternoon to savour. No set entry fee but you will be encouraged to donate generously – to help raise money to maintain St Andrew’s, which is so much part of the Vale heritage.

U3A Wantage & Grove

Tuesday 2nd June: Talk by Ron Stovold entitled ‘Tchaikovsky – a Gay Composer?’

Tuesday 16th June: Discussion of motions for AGM followed by presentations by the

Special Interest Groups

Both meetings are at Grove Village Hall at 2pm. Visitors are welcome to attend for a fee of £1.50.

Contact Chairman Thia Brereton (01235 764779) or Secretary Linda Thompson (01235 768701)

for more information on the talks or other group activities.

www.U3asites.org.uk/wantage

U3A Faringdon & District

Thursday 11th June:

“Zimbabwe, a National Emergency”, a talk by Tom Benyon, former Conservative MP

for Abingdon, who set up the charity ZANE to help alleviate human suffering in Zimbabwe.

2.15pm for 2.30pm in Faringdon Corn Exchange. Further information from Ian Clarkson (Chairman)

01793 782836. www.FaringdonU3A.org.uk

Farm Open DayFarm Open DayFarm Open DayFarm Open Day

Challow Hill Farm will be opening its doors to visi-tors for an Open Day on Sunday 7th June between 10am and 4pm.

Come and meet and feed the animals. Other activi-ties include Egg Gathering, Tractor Display, Sau-sage Making, Cookery Demon-stration, Para Motor area and Children's Activities. Refresh-ments will be available.

Free entry to the Farm.

Access from the A417 (between Challow and Stanford in the Vale), postcode OX12 9PD.

For more information call Lucy Blackwell on 0789 998 1557.

Local events



Local events

Wantage Christian Fellowship: two special events for menWantage Christian Fellowship: two special events for menWantage Christian Fellowship: two special events for menWantage Christian Fellowship: two special events for men

Wantage Christian Fellowship provides two special events for men:

The big questions of life, the universe and everything - Men’s evening on Thursday 11th June, 7:30pm at The Lamb, Mill Street, Wantage.

Is the answer 42, or is it something different? The men of Wantage Christian Fellowship invite you to join them for an evening discussing these issues, over an ale or two, in The Lamb. Please come ready to ask some questions to help us discuss the big themes. It doesn’t matter if you are an avowed atheist, or hold a faith. What matters is that you have questions. We’ll also have an independent chairman to ensure fair play. We’d love to see you there and to engage in some discussion with you.

Father’s Day & The British Grand Prix - Sunday 21st June from 10.30am at The Charlton Centre, Charlton Village Road, Wantage.

Bring your family and join us for a short Father’s Day Service, followed by lunch and the opportunity to watch the Grand Prix on a Big Screen.

For more details of either event contact Rev Glyn Oliver on 01235 770166, email [email protected]

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Wine TastingWine TastingWine TastingWine Tasting

Remember the days of finishing work early on a Friday after-noon and heading down to the local pub? Re-live these glory

days and come to Den Boer Wines HQ for a tasting with work colleagues. On Friday 5th June between 3 and 6pm Donna will showcase a range of Spanish wines - from light whites through to full-bodied reds. To book or for more information on this free event contact Donna on 01367 241169, email [email protected] or visit the website: www.denboerwines.com. Den Boer Wines is at Reynolds House, Bromsgrove, Faringdon.

Faringdon FollyFaringdon FollyFaringdon FollyFaringdon Folly

Faringdon Folly is open for visitors on Sunday 7th June

between 11am - 5pm.

Adults £1, Children 11-16 20p, Under 11s free.

www.faringdonfolly.org.uk

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Wantage Rejuvenated will be holding their first event in July - make a note of the date!

On Sunday 5th July there will be a Craft Fair in the market place between 10.30am and 4pm. This will be a fantastic family day out with craft stalls, hog roast (plus veggie option) and live music.

If you are interested in having a craft stall, please email Linda at [email protected].

Also don't forget the next French Market in Wan-tage - Sunday 12th July !

Wantage Summer Festival Wantage Summer Festival Wantage Summer Festival Wantage Summer Festival

Wantage Summer Festival is now in its 14th year and this year’s programme is more exciting than ever! The Festival really does offer something for everyone, with events ranging from toddler sin-galongs and mini beast hunts to musical perform-ances, craft workshops, dancing, picnics and more.

We don’t have space to feature all the events here, but pick up a copy of the full programme at the Vale & Downland Museum or vis it www.wantage.com and download it there.

The festival runs from 6th June to 5th July at various locations around the town.

Children’s Food FestivalChildren’s Food FestivalChildren’s Food FestivalChildren’s Food Festival 27th & 28th June27th & 28th June27th & 28th June27th & 28th June

See page 18 for full details!



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A recent survey by a leading insurance company found that more Britons are planning to swap the sun lounger for the sofa and stay at home for their holidays this year. Almost three in five are changing their holiday plans, with around 20 per cent of these opting for a “staycation” at home.

People in the Vale who are not going far for their holidays or indeed have relatives or friends visiting will find entertainment near at hand in June and early July – thanks to the 14th Wantage Sum-mer Festival. For those new to the area, this annual extrava-ganza, featuring a diverse range of events and exhibitions by local arts and community groups, is not to be missed. Pick up the Festival Programme from the Museum Foyer and you’ll soon see what a talented bunch Vale people are. With nearly sixty grass-roots events, ranging from cycle rides to a sculpture workshop, the Festival is a great testament to community spirit – and a refreshing antidote to all the gloom and doom of the credit-crunch.

As usual, The Vale & Downland Museum is heavily involved. Apart from acting as the Festival Box Office and Information Point, the Museum both organises and hosts some of the events. Throughout the Festival period, there’s a chance to see the Mu-seum’s major Festival offering, the exhibition ‘Wild about Wings’. Butterflies, bats, birds and bees star in this exploration of the beauty and fragility of the natural world. Featuring multi-media work by local professional artists and digital images by Wantage Camera Club, this display also highlights organisa-tions helping to conserve winged wildlife. Related events running alongside this exhibition include a Family Friendly ‘Wild Things’ Saturday when there’s a chance to explore the fascinating world of mini-beasts, worms, bugs through science and craft ac-

tivities and listen to Creepy Crawly music courtesy of members of ‘The Shady Grove String Band’. The Summer Gallery Talk Season includes ‘Butterfly Conservation’ members, Gillian and Michael Taylor, talking about butterflies and moths of the local area and an update on Letcombe Brook by the brook’s Project Officer, Sally Wallington. Another talk well worth catching is from astronomer Dr Peter Allen, from the Rutherford Appleton laboratory, who will

explain what can be seen in the night sky.

Stories, both written and told, also feature in the Museum’s Festival programme. As an inde-pendent museum 70% of our running costs are funded through grants, donations and sponsor-ships. Thanks to the sponsorship of Research Site Restoration Ltd, the Museum will be able to open its galleries and coffee shop for a special Sunday afternoon story-telling event. Katherine Langrish, author of the acclaimed ‘Troll Trilogy’ will entertain families with a lively storytelling session enti-tled ‘Wonderful Wishes & Trou-blesome Trolls’. Katherine will be back in the Museum the next day to talk about the art of writing for children whilst in the last week of the Festival, novelist Eliza Gra-

ham will outline the inspiration behind her second book, Restitution.

If you’re in Wantage on a Festival Saturday, it’s worth popping into the Museum to see what’s going on. You might find a folk band playing or Wantage Lace-makers demonstrating the art of bobbin lace-making. Who knows! You might end up having a go yourself and finding a brand new hobby! Forget the credit-crunch, head down to your local museum, and celebrate the lives and culture of today’s Vale peo-ple.

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Above: sculpture by Juliet Dyer

Vale & Downland Museum

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Tel: (01235) 771447

Website: www.wantage.com/museum

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Closed Bank Holidays


What’s On at the Vale & Downland Museum

June 2009 Open: 10am-4pm Mondays - Saturdays

Closed Sundays & Bank Holiday Mondays - Special Opening on Sunday 7th June

SUMMER FESTIVAL EVENTS These events have been kindly sponsored by Research Sites Restoration Ltd.

FESTIVAL EXHIBITION

Tuesday 9th June - Saturday 4th July, 10am-4pm Wild About Wings

FAMILY FRIENDLY EVENTS For all events, children must be accompanied by an adult

Sunday 7th June, 1pm-5pm Museum Galleries & Coffee Shop open Wonderful Wishes & Troublesome Trolls - Storytelling 2pm and 3.30pm

Suitable for everyone over 4. Free but space is limited. Advance booking essential.

Thursday 18th June, 11am-11.30am All of a Flutter Story time, presented by Wantage Library staff. Free. Advance booking essential.

Saturday 20th June, 10.30am-3.30pm Wild Things! Drop-in Event Fun hands-on science and craft activities, music and storytelling! £1 per child plus gallery ticket.

MUSIC AT THE MUSEUM

Saturday 6th June, 10.30am-12noon Flowers of the Quern Saturday 6th un1e , 10.30am-12noon The Madhatters ddd Saturday 13th June, 1pm-3pm The Shady Grove String Band

Saturday 20th June, 2.30pm-3.30pm Duo from The Shady Grove String Band Saturday 27th June, 10.30am-12.30pm Pandemonium

GALLERY TALKS 2.30pm-3.30pm Free. Advanced reservation essential

Monday 8th June Katherine Langrish - Folklore & Fantasy: Writing for Children Friday 12th June Dr Peter Allen - What can you see in the Night Sky?

Wednesday 17th June Sally Wallington - The Letcombe Brook: an update Tuesday 23rd June Gillian & Michael Taylor - Butterflies & Moths in our area

Monday 29th June Eliza Graham - Living and Loving Across the Lines

CRAFT IN THE FOYER

Weds 10th, 17th 24th and Sats 13th, 27th June, 10am-2pm Bobbin Lace-making Drop-in demonstrations by Wantage Lace-makers

REGULAR FOYER EVENTS

Thursdays 4th, 11th, 18th & 25th June Wantage Health Walks - Meet 10am Saturday 13th June, 10.30am-12.30pm Wantage & Grove District Arts Guild (WAG)

Fridays 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th June, 9.30am-10.45am Country Market

VALE & DOWNLAND MUSEUM, Church Street, Wantage

Tel: 01235 771447 Website: www.wantage.com/museum


A local charity has celebrated its first birthday by holding an event attended by many of the charity’s volunteers and VIP Susanna Pressel, Lord Mayor of Oxford, who presented long service awards.

ARCh (Assisted Reading for Children in Oxford-shire) recruits, trains and supports volunteers from the community and some local businesses. Each volunteer is assigned 3 children in a primary school and works one to one with them twice a week for the whole school year. ARCh provides books and games carefully chosen to suit each child.

ARCh Development Manager Jane Rendle, said “Our aim is to impart a love of books and reading and learning in general. Our volunteers achieve this by sharing their enthusiasm for books and developing strong mentoring relationships and having good fun with the children they work with.” Schools report excellent results and significant increases in pupils’ self confidence and enjoyment of a fuller school life. We are what we read!

ARCh Colleague Elaine Adams said, “We knew we could continue to work more successfully with our volunteers and schools at a local rather than national level; and after a successful launch year in Oxford-shire, we have been proved right.”

So ARCh was formed one year ago, after the well respected national charity Volunteer Reading Help withdrew from Oxfordshire after many years, due to their prioritising and focusing on other areas in Eng-land.

Volunteers also benefit in many ways from the time they give. Many have been volunteer readers for more than ten years and the Lord Mayor presented

certificates to mark their long standing commitment.

The picture below shows the Lord Mayor presenting an award to Pamela Andrews for her dedicated read-

ing assis-tance to children over twenty years.

Here Pam shares her memories of her work and the many friends she made. “I feel

privileged to be so accepted by the staff and school in which I have been a volunteer for all that time. We are meeting different needs in children: low self es-teem, lacking self confidence, reluctant readers; and then seeing them change as they begin to feel better about themselves. One to one with an adult is so valuable. As one head teacher said to me, "you are the non-nagging friend who they know is on their side.” “I remember well one particular boy I worked with, who stole my heart. He had a few problems at home, was a reluctant reader, with a poor attitude to his work. We talked together a lot at first about all sorts of things. He wanted to learn how to play draughts and chess. This was a way into his reading. The day he beat me at draughts was such a triumph for him. Success breeds success! He came to school looking forward to being there, and being with the "Reading Lady" on Tuesday and Thursdays. That is why I have gone on volunteering for so long.”

The ARCh charity is now expanding and would wel-come new volunteer recruits. There are 40 volun-teers in the city of Oxford and a further 100 volun-teers throughout the county, with a professional sup-port and training team. Then ARCh would be able to support children in more of the 230 Primary Schools in Oxfordshire.

Lucy Liddicot, ARCh Ser-vices Manager, said, “The demand for our service is growing. We run training courses each term. Anyone interested in inspiring a child to read by becoming a volun-teer can contact us at our office on 01869 320380 or via our website www.archoxfordshire.org.uk.”

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Lord Mayor of Oxford, Susanna Pressel, cutting ARCh’s Birthday Cake. Also pictured are (back row from left), Bev Alexander, Lucy

Liddicot, Daniel Spencer, Janet Money; (front row from left), Elaine Adams, Jane Rendle


Future Events

For more information on the above events

please contact Sarah on 01367 870422 ext 2 or email

[email protected]

Mens Seniors Pairs Open Thursday 16th July

The Open Friday 31st July

Charity Golf Day 10th Anniversary

14th August in aid of childrens Leukaemia

18 hole stableford best 2 scores from 4

putting & chipping competition plus betting hole

Some fantastic prizes on offer


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Hello and welcome to another “corner-copia” of all things that should concern us. I realise naturally that, as I write this column, the so-called human- mutated virus H1N1 called “Swine Flu” has literally landed in the UK and Spain, and named only because one surface pro-tein is similar to one found in the virus already known about in pigs. Climate, travel and time of the year are all involved here. Let’s hope it stays away long after the possible late Spring and Summer higher risk period.

My thoughts have already been touched on in an earlier column regarding the state of the native Orangutans, now endangered because of the palm oil from many of the plantations in Borneo. I make no apologies there-fore in taking you, my reader, on a long flight to Borneo Orangutan Survival International’s four ongoing pro-jects. I hope that many of you were able to watch all the episodes and re-runs of the latest Orangutan Diaries (vet Steve Leonard, wildlife presenter Michaela Strachan) on the BBC and BBC iPlayer. The team’s absolute dedication and sense of success and achieve-ment gives so much hope for these great apes. I also hope that you didn’t fail to be moved by the knowledge, love and skillful professionalism that all the staff mem-bers of these projects demonstrated in the daily care and future releases of such adorable, unique, trusting and probably very naughty orphaned apes - orphaned because of the growth in demand from unsustainable sources throughout the world, fuelled by increased use of palm oil in so many of the products we use every day; orphaned because their mothers were shot or machete’d to death after recently giving birth to young that they were trying to find food for, in the devastated forest areas, the plantations and surrounding land. On that recent Saving Planet Earth special Nick

Knowles, after a period of quar-antine at the project’s centre, was able to cuddle Othello, a little Orang that he named at the start of his visit. He explained that the staff’s babysitters were paid at the time £3 a day - plus a whole wheelbar-row- load o f thriving orphans! The cost of social and medi-cal care and

rehab of these 600+ priceless red jewels of the forest worked out to be £1000 EACH per annum, taking on average 7 years to work through from the Kalimantan Centre Nursery School, Forest Schools 1 and 2 and the Islands. The daily cost of feeding, mainly fruit including star fruit, was 90p a day. By saving such forest jewels, the forests themselves are saved, along with all the other animals and plants living in that forest.

My Practice is in the process of adopting one of the Orphans, and in view of team members flying out in May we have put time, money and effort, supported by our staff and clients, wholesalers, labo-ratory suppliers, eBay and Amazon Marketplace sell-ers and local chemists to find as many of the items as possible on the BOS Wish List that was sent to me from Borneo by the resident paedi-atric doctor, Dr David Irons who, along with the Veteri-nary Team members, was seen at work in the BBC Diaries. We will also help sponsor one of the veterinary surgeons working there.

We plan to deliver all these essential items very soon, and wish to thank most sincerely everyone who sup-ported this effort - especially as the issue is in apes so far away and where the reality (in food) is so close and personal - but the effort has to continue, so those of you interested in helping BOS can contact us and we will have details at hand as to how you can make it your own personal project.

If you have any questions or suggestions for the charity, please feel free to contact Grainne McEntee, Head of Op-erations, BOS UK, 8 Temple Square, Aylesbury HP20 2QH. Donations and orangutan adop-tion hotline: 08456 521528 or ema i l e n q u i r y@s av e t h e o r a n gu t a n . c o . u k

Final thought this month: “We don’t seem to know what we’ve got until we’ve lost it”.

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To accompany Donna’s wine selection this month, Alison and I thought it was time for a recipe involving chicken. Claire’s Organics from Coleshill deliver an organic meat box, and Rebecca Jones from Hinton Marsh Farm at Bourton also has an excellent free range selection of chicken. For ham I never go anywhere else than Dews Meadow Farm. I was given this recipe a couple of years ago, and with the new potatoes making an appearance, it is perhaps a delicious alternative to a traditional roast as the weather gets warmer.

2 x chicken thighs, boned-out, each approximately 175g/6 oz 85g/3oz Gruyère cheese, sliced thinly 4 sage leaves 2 slices ham, lightly cooked salt and ground black pepper 85g/3oz seasoned flour 2 large free range eggs, gently beaten 85g/8oz fresh breadcrumbs 1 tbsp olive oil 25g/1oz unsalted butter

For the sage butter 25g/1oz unsalted butter 1 shallot, finely chopped 3 sage leaves

Accompany with: sautéed potatoes onions seasonal vegetables

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Method 1. Place each chicken thigh between a sheet of cling film and gently bash until you have thin escalopes. 2. Place a slice of Gruyère cheese on one half of each fillet, top with two sage leaves and then top with a slice of cooked ham. Fold the other half of the fillet over the top. Trim the edges to create a neat rectangular parcel. Season both sides with a salt and ground black pepper. 3. Dip each fillet into seasoned flour, then the beaten egg followed by the breadcrumbs. Ensure the fillet is completely covered in the breadcrumb mixture. Repeat this process with the other fillet. 4. Heat olive oil and butter in a non-stick frying pan; cook the fillets on both sides until crisp and golden. Drain slightly on paper towel. Place in the oven to keep warm whilst you are making the sage butter. 5. To make the sage butter heat the butter in a small saucepan add shallot and chopped sage leaves and cook over a medium heat until the shallot is soft and translucent, approximately 5 minutes. Keep warm until ready to use. 6. To serve place a cooked chicken fillet on to a warm serving plate, pour hot sage butter over the top and serve immediately.

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If your children turn their noses up at everything you offer them at mealtimes, then the Children’s Food Festival is for you – or rather for them. This celebration of food and cooking is designed to turn fussies into foodies and is devoted en-tirely to young people. Adults will have fun too, but this is one occasion where the kids are in charge of the dough. The first Children’s Food Festival in 2007 attracted over 16,000 visitors and more are expected this year.

Celebrity hands-on demos The Festival is fronted by Patrons Raymond Blanc and Sophie Grigson, who will be giving hands-on demos, inviting children to help them chop, stir, smell and taste. The line-up also in-cludes Annabel Karmel, Jane Fearnley Whitting-stall (author of The Good Granny Cookbook), Sam Stern (the Teenage Chef) and Nora Sands (Jamie’s School Dinner Lady). Children’s cookery writer Amanda Grant will be running the Kids’ Kitchen.

Child-centred highlights Children of all ages are invited to become adventurers in the world of real food and they will be able to get their hands into plenty of ingredients from pizza to pesto and sushi to sausages. Children who already love food and cooking can show off their skills to their peers and explore their passion further. Highlights include: open fire cookery, bicycle-powered smoothie-making, the observation beehive and the Smell and Taste Ex-perience with the Academy of Culinary Arts. And back by popular request is the Festival’s extremely popular giant pink pig - a 40 ft inflatable sow with farmyard drama inside.

New additions New for 2009 are the Baby and Early Years Area and the Chocolate Tent with demos by the UK’s top choco-latiers and Willy Wonka recipe making with the Roald Dahl Museum team. The Festival will also host the UK premiere of the remarkable photo exhibition Hungry Planet, What the World Eats, showing what the average family eats in 16 countries across the world.

Festival Director Eka Morgan is passionate about connecting children with real food and inspiring families to cook together more: “We want children to discover that cooking is fun and creative. As eating habits are learnt when we’re young – the sooner they get their hands in the dough the better.”

Where and when The Children’s Food Festival is organised by the Northmoor Trust and takes place on its farm in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, near Didcot.

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"About 20 years ago I was working on the genetics of bones, and an archaeologist suggested to me that we try and find out if there was any DNA latent in bone. I never expected it to work, as DNA usually disintegrates within minutes of leaving the freezer, but it did." The discovery meant that Professor Sykes could theoretically access genealogical information that was thousands of years old. And after collecting 6,000 random

samples of mitochondrial DNA from women and men across Europe and Polynesia, he concluded that "pretty much everyone could be put into one of seven genetically related groups." These 'women' - or goddesses as they are often described - have taken on a mythical status in the world of family history. Each year hundreds of people call Sykes, asking him to identify to which of the seven daughters of Eve they are related.

WHEN GENET IC R E S E A R C H E R PROFESSOR BRYAN SYKES ANNOUNCED THAT ALL EUROPEAN MEN AND WOMEN WERE DESCENDED FROM JUST SEVEN FEMALES, HE DIDN'T REALISE THE FUSS IT WOULD CAUSE.

D ays after his words were published in The Times, his laboratory at Oxford University was

inundated with requests from hundreds of keen genealogists wanting to trace their ancient ancestors. Sykes had discovered that by tracing the DNA codes passed between mother and daughter over thousands of years, people could find out the true beginning of their family tree.

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Such has been the interest, that in 2001 Sykes launched Oxford Ancestors, a company dedicated to tracing people's history using their DNA. "It got so overwhelming that we had to start a proper commercial outlet and that's how Oxford Ancestors was born." Two years later, a chance remark led Sykes to make another breakthrough. He discovered that using male Y chromosome, inherited from father to son, he could tell two men with the same surname whether they were genetically related. "I was giving a lecture at a big pharmaceuticals company about genetics and they asked if I could be related to their chairman Richard Sykes. So I got some DNA, compared my Y -chromosome to his and they turned out to be the same. "I followed that up by finding out how many other Sykes’ I was related to. Taking Sykes’ at random from the phone book, I discovered I was related to about 70 per cent of them and that we were all descended from an original Mr Sykes, who lived in the 1300s. "Although admittedly I'm not as interested in family history as many enthusiasts," he adds, "I did go back to the spot where the original Mr Sykes lived. And because I still had the DNA which he had in every cell of my body, I felt a very strong association with the place. I can understand why people find it quite profound." But although Sykes doesn't spend his evenings leafing through local gazetteers looking for signs of his family name, the academic doesn't need convincing of the positive effect that amateurs can have on his work. "New discoveries are being made through people's personal research, which hardly ever happens in academia. Tens of thousands of amateur genealogists have used the DNA technique to investigate their own backgrounds, they've shared the information and have discovered that the Y chromosome mutates at different

rates. "The great thing about amateurs is that they're very happy to share the fruits of their research and really know how to use the internet to get their findings out there." Sykes describes some of the more memorable moments of the last few years. "I had one group from America, eager to establish they were related to an aristocratic family from Wales," he recalls. Laughing at the memory, the genetic researcher explains: "All of them, except one, were related. Unfortunately he was the president. "We get a lot of Americans making requests," he continues. "Many of them turn out to have native American maternal DNA. Usually people are delighted and find it rather exotic. But sometimes they don't believe it. "I got a call from a man who had just received the test results and said his wife had more or less gone into a coma when she found out she was related to a Native American and her ancestors were not, as she had always been led to believe, from Hampshire in England."

Professor Sykes and his team can also help dedicated genealogists narrow their searches. "Lots of Americans come over in person to trace their ancestors but they don't always know where to look. The

Lockwoods of New Hampshire had worked out that their ancestor John Lockwood went to New England in the early 17th century, because his name was on a passenger ship list. But they didn't know whether he was from Suffolk or Yorkshire. "So we took samples from Suffolk Lockwoods and Yorkshire Lockwoods and discovered that they didn't need to worry about going to Yorkshire."

"In recent times the term DNA has come to mean essential essence. This is why I think there has been so much resistance to a national DNA database. People don't like the idea of their essential essence being collected.

So why has this new technique become

so popular? "In recent times the term DNA has come to mean essential essence. This is why I think there has been so much resistance to a national DNA database. People don't like the idea of their essential essence being collected. "It's different from a photograph or a lock of hair. It's something we all feel a profound connection with. "Believe it or not we've had beauty companies approach us with a view to incorporating some of the so-called goddess DNA into their skincare products. They want to tap into this idea that people care deeply about who they are and where they come from."




B roadening your abilities will eliminate the need to call on expert help at various stages of your research and will also

give you an excuse to indulge your hobby a little further. Brush up on the following areas and you are on your way to becoming a bona fide authority.

How to use your software: You may have splashed out on the latest version of some fancy-looking kit but do you know how to use it, or get the most from it? Contac t t he Soc ie t y Of Genealogists at www.sog.org.uk for details of its lectures on various brands of software. You can find online learning tools for most of the major packages, and look around on community sites for tips from other users.

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How to read old handwriting: There is nothing more annoying than indecipherable script on a long searched-for document. You'll probably develop this skill as your research progresses, but pick up some pointers by following the online tutorial at www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/Palaeography/

How to correctly label family members: Do you know the difference between a second cousin once removed and a first cousin twice removed? Probably not, but you'll need to get a handle on these terms for a better understanding of your family tree. Log on to anthro.palomar.edu/kinship/glossary.htm for a useful list of the terms used to describe kinship.

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Get your Garden Into Shape Get your Garden Into Shape Get your Garden Into Shape Get your Garden Into Shape with Jo Walshwith Jo Walshwith Jo Walshwith Jo Walsh June brings more daylight hours, so you should have plenty of time to enjoy those evenings in your garden when you get home from work. Make the most of it by planting for fragrance and colour. Red and orange will make a statement by day. Whites will light up in the evening.

Heaven scent – My top plants for fragrance and colour: Lavender ‘Hidcote’. Nice neat balls of colour. Plant in free draining soil in a sunny position. Nicotiana ‘Perfume lime’: this annual grown in a pot adds fantastic evening scent on a patio. If you have a sheltered spot that needs a climber try Trachelospermum jasminoides. This evergreen plant has

jasmine-like flowers that smell divine.

Kerb appeal – Moving house has become a costly expense over the years and the current recession is making all of us address our spending. Why not add value to your property by giving the garden a face lift? After all, if you are thinking of selling it’s the first thing that a potential buyer sees. You don’t have to spend a

fortune. Add colour with pots and hanging baskets - but don’t forget to water them! A dead plant is worse than having no plants at all. If you’re not selling, why not add some new plants anyway.

Tumbling toms – Grow trailing tomatoes in a bas-ket. The top varieties for this are Tumbler, Garden Pearl or Tumbling. Very easy to grow, no training or side shoot removal needed, simply plant in multipurpose compost, feed and water regularly with a tomato fertil-iser. This will provide bags of delicious tiny tomatoes over and over.

Finally we have already seen some very warm days so far, and thankfully no water ban so we can ensure our gardens are looking lush and green. However this can seriously increase your water costs so why not install a water butt if you have room? Alternatively, put a cheap timer on your hose pipe. Happy Gardening!!

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Here we focus on the enjoyment of Music and Drama for a large cast of pupils in many shows. School aims to enrich children's learning by offering them the very best opportunities to enjoy and explore the more cultural aspects of life, such as dance, drama and music. To this end, we also arrange visits by and to professional companies such as The English Na-tional Ballet, Young Shakespeare Company and Bollywood Dance Academy, to name a few. These memorable experiences for the children are only possible with the strong support we receive from parents.

This bright Spring time, it was the oldest children in Key Stage 2 who exercised their vocal chords and displayed colourful costumes for their fantastic musi-cal production. All 55 pupils in KS2 aged between 7-11 took part, either acting, singing, dancing or under-taking a joyful combination of these.

This year’s show had a multi-cultural focus with 'Scheherazade', an adaptation of the life-saving 1001 tales from the Arabian Nights. The photo shows how

Jake Thacker-Pugsley stole the show with his great portrayal of the Sultan; par-ticularly in the romantic love song at the end of the 1001 sto-rytelling cruel nights. Seen

here with fine singing and romantic acting from bril-liant storyteller Holly Carlisle (Scheherazade in blue silk).

Matthew Donnelly and Christopher Jones choreo-graphed their own very realistic fight scene which would have given many stuntmen a close run for their money. Edward Heathcote was a witty angry

genie.

All pupils had a fantastic time and the costumes and scenery looked won-derful - we thank staff and everyone who helped to provide costumes and props

Talented pupils will take solo spots in the forthcom-ing Schools Partnership music event “Songs from the Shows” on July 2nd. Our older singers were invited to take part in the Oxford Folk Festival this year.

The School has many musical productions that showcase our great singers. The singing begins as soon as the children start school and continues through to the Leavers Service in Year 6. It helps to make for a happy and contented school and involves many happy families.

Music has a high profile in the school and peripatetic teachers also provide lessons in flute, guitar, violin and recorder and are starting lessons for cornet and clarinet. As participants in the government's Vocal & Instrumental programme, we also provide guitar lessons for all children in Years 3 and 4 which are highly popular.

Next month we can report on a major event in the community, when we celebrate completion of the “Greenspace” Community Lottery Grant Arts Activity 2008/9, with its climax at Final Open Af-ternoon at School on 2nd June 2009, where all come to see artifacts and hear music and stories in the beautiful new creative outdoor areas, with local arts and crafts man Chris Parks.

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The history of acupuncture is characterised by the ongoing search for effective acupuncture points and combinations of points. Treatment using Auricular - or Ear Acupuncture points - has consistently im-proved over recent years, but whilst the choice and localisation of these points has become more and more well-founded, the search for more adequate and effective methods for stimulation has become a major focus within this work - especially the pursuit of a permanently effective stimulation by acupunc-ture which can broaden the application spectrum of the treatment sustainably.

The benefits of acupuncture have been widely proven; however, for certain conditions conventional treatment has its limits, as they require a more per-manent stimulation of the relevant acupuncture points.

The search for a permanent stimulation method has its predecessors. For example scars, in the form of cauterisation marks, were monitored by the French neurologist Dr. Paul Nogier in the 1950s and played an important role at that time, and the Chinese im-planted absorbable catgut filaments into the skin of the outer ear in order to achieve a permanent stimu-lation.

A current development is that of “Implant Acupunc-ture” and this differs from conventional acupuncture in that the body‘s self-healing potential is stimulated permanently. The application of the implant triggers a continuous stimulus on the acupuncture points. This process activates the body‘s information sys-tem – a cybernetic network of physical, mental and intellectual reactions – by means of electrical im-pulses, which in turn stimulate the self-healing po-tential of the body and influence the immune de-fence and neural transmitters. The permanent im-pulse provided by the implant is controlled and regu-lated by the cybernetic network, intensifying or de-activating as necessary – and the result is harmoni-sation.

Auricular or Ear Acupuncture uses the control centre of the body – the brain. All impulses triggered by acupuncture reach the addressed body parts via certain parts of the brain. Examining the reflex points allows a detailed conclusion about where there is pain or which organs of the body are con-cerned when the symptoms are inconclusive. More-over, it enables the therapist to locate further distur-bances in the body, which delay or even inhibit the healing process.

For research purposes, a detailed analysis (UPDRS) on patients with Parkinson‘s Disease after treatment with Implant Acupuncture was carried out. Within an observation period of 5-25 weeks after the implantation, 96.5 % of the patients showed a con-siderable improvement in life quality. The survey was focused on the reduction of medication, mobil-ity, general wellbeing, mood, tremors and bowel movement. At least four out of six symptoms were rated as improved. The beneficial effect was trig-gered mainly between the first and third week after treatment. During the first few days, some patients experienced a temporary deterioration of existing symptoms.

The observation period left no doubt about the per-manent benefit of the implanted needles; in fact, even after several months improvements were no-ticed. Sufferers from Parkinson’s Disease have benefitted from the implants, which can also help conditions such as Trigeminal Neuralgia, phantom pains, allergies and migraines.

For further information and a brochure, please send an e-mail or ask your current therapist to contact Monika Becker at [email protected]

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Following their sell-out concert at last year’s Wan-tage Summer Festival the Christminster Singers have been invited back for a return visit. The Wan-tage Summer Festival is now in its 14th year and has become a fixture in the local cultural calendar, bringing a varied showcase of musical perform-ances to the small market town.

The official Festival opening is on Saturday 6th June and the following day, Sunday June 7th, the Christminster Singers will lead a workshop and perform a concert of West Gallery music. Christmin-ster are amongst the country’s leading exponents of this robust, vigorous style of singing, which flour-ished in English country parishes in Thomas Hardy’s Wessex during the 18th and early 19th centuries. The choir chose Hardy’s name for Oxford – Christminster – as their own.

The choir have performed at national festivals and have appeared on BBC television and radio, and have taken their distinctive repertoire on tour to the Netherlands and the USA.

If you wish to try your hand (should that be voice?) at this exciting style of singing the Christminster Singers are leading a workshop at the Catholic Church of St John Vianney, 3pm-5pm, £5 (£4 concessions). No ex-perience is needed and music will be provided.

The concert takes place at 7.30pm at the Church. Tickets are priced at £7 (£5 concessions). Refreshments will be available and there will be a raffle in support of the Vale and Downland Museum - one of the most popular museums in the area, attracting about 45,000 visits a year. The Museum desperately needs to raise funds for further work on the restoration of the building which had deteriorated and was even in danger of structural failure. Another project the Museum needs funds for is to purchase a Pathe film clip of the Wan-tage Tramway. Last year the Christminster Singers raised over £230 with their raffle for The October Club in Wantage.

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Faringdon Art Focus for June : Nick OwenFaringdon Art Focus for June : Nick OwenFaringdon Art Focus for June : Nick OwenFaringdon Art Focus for June : Nick Owen

Nick Owen is an artist who puts together “poetry and pictures”. He was International Poem-Picture Artist of the Year 2007. He trans-forms light coming into the camera into dramatic landscapes which bring the local countryside to life. Born in south Worcestershire he has been living in the North Cotswolds for the last twenty years, searching out its most magical places. He creates both large can-vases and fine art cards. He has exhibited in many places in Ox-fordshire. Most of all Nick likes to combine his poetry with images. He does art installations at libraries and galleries, which are also available for sale as power-points on DVD.

In February this year his self portrait “Head in Flames” was printed in a major American Art Magazine. You can also find his land-scapes on the S3 Stagecoach bus route.

Nick formed the community group, “Wychwood Poetry and Pic-tures”, which offers support to local poets and photographers and puts on charity events.

More information available on line at www.trans-itions.co.uk, and see some of Nick’s work at Faringdon TIC throughout June.


Arts Focus

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STAGELIGHTS, Grove’s amateur drama group, are presenting one of the master-pieces of the 20th century, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams, as part of the Wantage Summer Festival. De-scribed by the New York Times critic as “Williams’ most impassioned and articu-late statement on human isolation”, the version Stagelights are presenting is the original, before the commercial pressures first of Broadway and then of Hollywood (for a bowdlerized version starring Eliza-beth Taylor and Paul Newman) forced Tennessee Williams to make consider-able changes. The original is the most gritty, mercilessly peeling off the veneer of a rich Mississippi cotton planter’s family life to expose years of resentment, jealousy, mendacity and sexual repression.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof will be performed in Old Mill Hall in Grove (near Wantage), June 25-27 at 7:30; tickets will be available from the Wantage Summer Festival box office in the Vale and Downland Museum, Wantage or may be ordered by calling Chris Osland on 01235 765562. This powerful stage production has adult themes which make it unsuitable for children.

Brick (Martin Dalton) and Maggie (Lizzie Suffling) argue over children

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and Summer Proms”and Summer Proms”and Summer Proms”and Summer Proms” You are warmly invited to our summer concert on June 27th in the Catholic Church Hall, Faringdon, at 7.30pm. We will be singing Stanford’s “Songs of the Sea” and other songs with a nautical theme, as well as ending with a Proms-style finale! Conduc-tor: Terence Carter, Soloist: Ben Beurklian-Carter, Pianist: Katharine Danyluk. The Faringdon Singers are a friendly group of about 40 members. We rehearse on Thursday evenings 7.45 – 9.30pm in the United Church hall, Faringdon. We are always happy to welcome new members and are particularly looking for tenors and basses (with some sight reading ability). Please c ome a l o n g , c h e c k o u r we b s i t e www.faringdonsingers.org.uk or contact Maureen on (01793) 783131 for further details.

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Friday 26 June, 8.30pm

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Grumpy Grumpy Grumpy Grumpy

Old MenOld MenOld MenOld Men Driven to Drink?

The Government seems keen to put up the price of alcohol as a means of reducing binge drinking. It’s enough to drive

you to drink! Is price really the only mechanism to turn us into a responsible society?

Why does every solution to a problem seems to end up putting more of our money into the Treasury, so that they can reinvest it for us by making loans to our poor unfortunate banks, finance wars in foreign countries and buy second homes for already over paid MPs.

Increase duty on fuel, alcohol, cigarettes and stick up more speeding cameras and they all, whilst un-der the guise of altruism, steal our hard earned cash. Why not try enforcing some of the existing laws first?

It is an offence under the Licensing Laws as I un-derstand it to serve someone who is already drunk. The young people we see rolling about in our streets outside clubs and pubs didn’t suddenly get like this as a result of one too many (as a lad strangely it always seemed to be the 7th or 8th pint that was “off” and made me sick!)

Why don’t we just video these offences taking place and then shut the pub until the licensee explained to the licensing authority why they should be allowed to open again? A huge conglomerate missing out on a few weeks’ revenue would soon sort things out – or face the wrath of their shareholders.

Of course we would need to swap the powers back to licensing magistrates rather than counsellors, who are too dependent on big businesses who control so much rate revenue and local employ-ment.

We could also ban supermarkets from selling alco-hol - £6,000 fine for Tesco selling to underage drink-ers? At £95 profit per second they make that back in about 1 minute! (You do the maths!) This would help our pubs and proper off licenses. Just imagine supermarkets selling groceries, pubs selling alcohol, garages selling petrol instead of newspapers and groceries.

You know we might find we get our high street shops back with people who know what they are selling, know their responsibilities and can offer a little more in the way of service than a big car park and a club card! By CT’s own Grumpy Old Man, David P Elliot

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Sudoku

Crossword Across: 1. Step (5)

4. Stuffed (7)

8. Respire (7)

9. Jokes (5)

10. Consumes (4)

11. False belief (8)

13. Uncovered (4)

14. Leg joint (4)

16. Usually (8)

17. Tardy (4)

20. Farewell (5)

21. French sailor (7)

22. Child's room (7)

23. Blunted (5)

Down: 1. Cape Town

landmark (5,8)

2. Build (5)

3. Obligation (4)

4. Gifted (6)

5. Postpones (8)

6. Huge (7)

7. Impartial (13)

12. Animal (8)

13. Obstruction (7)

15. Awkward (6)

18. Distribute (5)

19. Stump (4)

Fill in the grid so that every row, every column, and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 through 9.

That's all there is to it.

It's fun. It's challenging. It's addictive!

Solving time is typically from 20 to 45 minutes, depending on your skill and experience.

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Across: 1 Tread; 4 Crammed; 8 Breathe; 9 Jests;

10 Eats; 11 Delusion; 13 Bare; 14 Knee; 16 Normally;

17 Late; 20 Adieu; 21 Matelot; 22 Nursery; 23 Bated.

Down: 1 Table Mountain; 2 Erect; 3 Duty; 4 Clever;

5 Adjourns; 6 Massive; 7 Disinterested; 12 Creature;

13 Barrier; 15 Clumsy; 18 Allot; 19 Stub.


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At the time of writing, the controversy over the Gurkhas is still very much in mind. It is the first time in living memory that the Government has lost to an opposition motion (in fairness, a Lib

Dem one, not a Conservative one), and only the sec-ond time that this Government has lost a vote (the other one being 42 days detention without trial). The reason I am bringing it up is not to score points. Of the many national issues that my constituents write to me about, I received most in the shortest space of time on this issue. Dozens of people emailed and wrote to me in the space of just 24 hours. In fact, it was also the first political issue my mum has ever lobbied me on!

The British sense of fair play triumphed on this issue. I am sure there are all sorts of technical and rational reasons why you could argue that Gurkhas should not have the automatic right to stay in the UK. There is also the cost to consider. But at the end of the day, the Great British Public decided that, if people were pre-pared to fight and die for our country, then those same people should have the right to stay here. My wife's great grandfather served with the Gurkhas, so I also had a (tenuous) family connection, and I was proud to vote for the motion saying the Gurkhas should stay here.

Elsewhere in Parliament, we have put forward a mo-tion to freeze the television licence fee. This may seem like small beer (only £3 a year) but in our view it is a start in stopping the relentless rise in charges and costs of everything in the public sector. Because of the recession, the BBC now has more money than ITV, Channel 4 and Five put together, and I am sure it can make savings. I know that, like me, most of my con-stituents are fans of the BBC, though I get a few letters a year complaining about the heavy handed letters from TV licensing.

A few days ago, I put together a fascinating day at Didcot Power station, with many small companies engaged in climate change and energy work. There was a building company that could halve emissions from our homes using organic building material; a company that manufactures high-temperature ther-mometers that cut fuel costs; and quite a few others. In the end, we talked more about money than energy. We contrasted the situation in the US, where hi-tech companies have much better access to financing than in the UK - a real problem which explains why we often lag behind in this area. We have the ideas, but not the investment climate to see them through.

As usual, I can be contacted in the House of Com-mons, SW1A 0AA, or on 020 7219 6350 or [email protected] . Next surgeries June 12th - Didcot, King Alfred Drive Community Centre; June 26th - Wantage, Civic Hall, both at 530pm

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In The Vale magazine June 2009 issue