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32 pages of your

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StayGo

roles in a variety of TV series.

What was your first big break?

susan: I was really lucky and

got a job while I was still at drama

school. It was a whole summer season

of weekly rep at Weston-super-Mare.

I had to collect all the props and

furniture and help put up the sets as

well as playing all the juvenile leads.

The shows played from Monday

to Saturday, we rehearsed from

Tuesday, and on Sunday we changed

everything round for the next one.

Not exactly what we’d think of today

as a ‘big break’ – but it taught me all I

needed to know about the theatre.

staygO: You're married to

James Bolam and have often played

roles alongside him, such as in the

BBC detective series, New Tricks.

What's it like working together?

susan: I met Jim on The

Likely Lads and thought he was

very talented, but rather rowdy. He

thought I was a bit stuck-up. We

met again later and since then we’ve

enjoyed working together much

more! It’s just the same as working

with anyone else really.

staygO: You also played

alongside James as Great Aunt

Loretta in the hugely popular kids'

TV series Grandpa in My Pocket. Do

you enjoy playing roles for children?

Tunbridge Wells is playing the

lucky host to a Doctor Who

convention, The Big Blue Box,

coming to Trinity Theatre on

14th January. The convention is a

must for all fans of the series, and

is being held in support of local

charity Compaid. We spoke to

Susan Jameson, local actress and

companion to the Fourth Doctor

in a BBC audio series, about

her career and the up-coming

convention...

staygO: You've had a

successful career, playing many

Continued on page 3…

SusanJameson

tHe big blue bOx interview:

Tea Garden Lane, Tunbridge Wells

01892 524252www.the-beacon.co.uk

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T rinity Theatre is presenting

a one-day celebration

of the world of Doctor

Who with The Big Blue

Box convention. Join writers, actors

and producers from Big Finish and

AudioGo Doctor Who releases as they

discuss their work and passion for

the show. Guests include writers Paul

Magrs, John Dorney and Jonathan

Morris, and Doctor Who actresses

Louise Jameson and Susan Jameson.

The event will include Q&A sessions,

book and CD sales, signings, special

screenings, plus a rare big screen

outing for the classic film Daleks –

Invasion Earth: 2150AD, starring

Peter Cushing as The Doctor.

Win!a dOctOr wHO gOOdy bag!

Who was the Fifth Doctor?

a) JOn Pertweeb) tOm bakerc) Peter davisOn

PLEASE NOTE: The prize is

suitable for adults and entrants

must be over the age of 16.

To celebrate the arrival of the Big

Blue Box, we’ve teamed up with

publisher Big Finish Productions

to offer a Doctor Who goody bag

to one lucky reader! The goody

bag contains two audio CDs

featuring brand-new Doctor

Who adventures, starring Tom

Baker, Susan Jameson and

Louise Jameson, PLUS a series of

novels by TV comedy writer Nev

Fountain, based on the hilarious

behind-the-scenes happenings of

an old TV sci-fi show...

For a chance to win this great

prize, just answer the following

question and email your answer

to [email protected] by the

closing date of 31st January.

Compaid at work

the Big Blue Box

14th January, starting 10.30am

| £25 | 01892 678678 |

www.trinitytheatre.net

in aid Of cOmPaid

All profits from the event will go

towards Compaid. The charity,

based in Paddock Wood, was

founded in 1986 to set up a centre

for disabled people, offering

computer-based activities,

specialist software and accessing

devices. Compaid continues to use

technology to empower disabled

people, while developing a number

of complementary services, such

as accessible transport, to enable

individuals to achieve their goals.

To find out more, visit

www.compaid.org.uk

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susan: I really like doing

children’s telly – I’ve done several

programmes over the years and

had great fun working with lots of

talented kids. And the scripts are

often better than grown-up telly!

staygO: In 2009, you were

one of five well-known British

actresses chosen to play the Queen

at different periods of her life. What

was it like playing someone so

illustrious?

susan: The Queen job came

up quite suddenly, so luckily I didn’t

have much time to worry about it. I

just wanted to catch an essence of her

and not try to do an impersonation,

and I loved it once the nerves settled.

After a few days I found myself asking

for tea etc. in quite a regal way. And I

would like to have kept the wig!

staygO: What's your Doctor

Who history?

susan: I used to watch Doctor

Who years ago, as friends were in

it. And I was once asked to play a

villain, but then the BBC got cold feet

over showing a woman shooting and

garrotting people. They recast it and

paid me off. (Times have changed,

haven’t they!) Most disappointing!

staygO: You acted in a recent

BBC series of Doctor Who audio

dramas. Can you tell us a little bit

about your character?

susan: I play Mrs Wibbsey in

AudioGo’s dramas starring Tom Baker.

She was featured early on and then I

think Paul Magrs, the writer, decided

to make her the Doctor’s housekeeper

and travelling companion. I love

playing her. She’s gives as good as she

gets with him, and they have a great

relationship. She takes time and space

... continued from cover

travel in her stride. I particularly

enjoyed her getting a little skittish

when having her portrait painted by

Toulouse Lautrec.

staygO: What's it like acting in

an audio drama, as opposed to

on screen?

susan: I’ve done a lot of radio and

it’s always fun. It’s almost the same as

telly, except you need to wear quiet

shoes, be careful turning pages and

avoid bumping the microphone!

staygO: Moving on to

The Big Blue Box,

have you been

to a convention

before and what

will you be doing

there?

susan: I’ve never

done a

convention

before so

I’ll watch the

others and see

how it’s done.

We’re doing a

question and

answer session

with the writer and the producer,

both chums. I’m almost tempted to

dress up as Mrs W!

staygO: And so we've got to

ask: who's your favourite Doctor?

susan: Who is my favourite

Doctor? Tom Baker, of course!

staygO: Finally, what's in

store for you in 2012 and do you

have any new year's resolutions?

susan: More episodes of

New Tricks are in the pipeline

for next year – and more Wibbsey,

I hope. My big interest is in wildlife

and the natural environment, so our

new year's resolution is to make our

house as ‘green’ as possible, with

solar panels and ground source

heating. The plans are already in at

county hall. And the bird boxes will

be state of the art!

staygO: Susan, thank

you – and good luck with

The Big Blue Box!

Susan Jameson with Anne Reid


• Rumours of Fleetwood Mac

Tribute band with golden seal of

approval from Mick Fleetwood

himself!

Sunday 22nd January | 8pm |

£22.50

trinity tHeatrewww.trinitytheatre.net

• The Trinity Theatre has a fantastic

array of events from live comedy to

films to plays during January. There

is plenty of live music from February

onwards including The Local & Live

Sessions on Saturday 25th February

with Burning Shapes and The Good

Ship Band. Please visit the website for

information on all upcoming events.

Paul duntOn & guests:lOcal music by candleligHt Wednesday & Sunday evenings

The Grey Lady Music Lounge

www.thegreylady.co.uk

Doors open 7.10pm | music from

7.40pm | entry £5

• Sunday 15th January

Drew Worthley, Paul Cheese, Drifting

Embers, Jo Hook

• Wednesday 18th January

Will Cook, James Medhurst, Dan

Sumner, Logan Wilson

• Sunday 22nd January

Sets, Mystery Clark, Louis Nevison,

The Sarah Lille Band


The Arty Fufkins, Josie Lee, Mairi

Neeves, David Mumford & The

Visitors


The Freudian Slippz, Tom Mchugh,

The Ackerleys, The Paul Dunton

Ensemble

tHe fOrumwww.twforum.co.uk


Nifty Nights presents: Skinbat

Skramble, Nifty Eagu and Glo Pilots | £5

• Thursday 5th January Ugly Love,

Howl On Vinyl, Terence Calvert | FREE

• Friday 6th Janusary

Iris, Scream Dont Whisper, Tu Amore,

Maine River (previously Vienna) | £6

in advance

• Saturday 7th January

Son Of Kirk, The Naming Of Things,

Large Cardinals | £6

• Thursday 26th January

Foe | £6 in advance

• Friday 27th January

Casiokids | £7 in advance


The Cast Of Cheers |£6 in advance

Welcome to our

bigger and better

StayGo music

events page.

Paul says... Banish those post Christmas blues by

enjoying some fantastic live music to

kick off the new year!

tHe assembly Hall tHeatre

www.assemblyhalltheatre.co.uk

• Wired – Live & Unsigned

A line-up of six acts and a mixture of

genres, showcasing new talent and

future stars.

Saturday 14th January | 7pm | £6.50

tHe Paul duntOn

gig guide

Burning Shapes

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• Saturday 18th February

Andy Vickery & Max Pepe

Further information at www.

paulduntonandguests.com

Plus: a date fOr tHediary

• The Local & Live Sessions

February 25th at Trinity Theatre

featuring Burning Shapes, The Good

Ship Band, Paul Dunton Orchestra.

live music in sevenOaks at el matadOr

www.elmatador.co

Great live bands performing a mix

of popular standards from 60s

to present day, every Saturday

evening at Lounge 49 Music Club

at El Matador.

£5 entry for Saturday nights


Dragonfly


The Charlie Rivers Band

• Saturday 21st January

Mike Wilton


The Sweet & The Lowdown


The Violet Jive


Soul Alchemy

Logan Wilson

Sarah Lille

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L ast month, we reported on

a first for Tunbridge Wells

– the Winter Wellbeing

Festival, coming to the

Assembly Hall on the 28th and 29th

January. The event is nearly upon us,

so we caught up with organisers, Star

Communities, about what’s in store.

a weekend Of festival fun During the weekend, over 60

different therapists, nutritionists and

practitioners will be exhibiting at the

Assembly Hall, bringing together a

whole host of different treatments and

products, both for you and your home.

If you’re looking for new ways to

improve your health and wellbeing in

2012, many of the practitioners will be

providing healing and therapy taster

sessions, which can help you make the

decision about what’s right for you.

wOrksHOPs and sPeakersAlongside the stalls and taster

sessions, there are free workshops

and speakers going on throughout the

weekend.

winter wellbeingfestival

it's time fOr tHe...

So if you’re looking for a way to beat

the winter blues and improve your

wellbeing, or if you’re simply

curious and want to have a fun day

out, why not come along? Tickets

are only £3 on the day or £5 to

cover the whole weekend, which we

think is an absolute bargain!

28-29th January | £3 per day or £5

for the weekend | 01892 630613 |


tHe sPeakersPeter Owen-Jones

Peter is an Anglican minister in the

parish of Glynde in East Sussex.

He is well-known for his BBC TV

documentaries, including the 2009

programme How to Live a Simple Life,

in which he attempted to live without

money, and the 2010 documentary

The Lost Gospels, in which he

discussed the Apocryphal Gospels.

Paul Burr

Paul is a healer, author, life coach

and business coach, who has helped

people from all walks of life achieve

their goals. He teaches techniques to

help people change their lives – and

quickly – in many areas, such as love,

family relationships and business.

He is the author of Learn to Love

and Be Loved in Return.

Martha Roe

Martha is teaching and training

as an associate practitioner of the

Butekyo Method, which proposes

breathing ‘retraining’ for asthma

and other conditions. For many

years, she suffered chronic fatigue

syndrome until she became highly

skilled in Butekyo returned to

good health.

If you are a therapist

or practitioner and are

interested in taking a stall

or getting in touch with

Star Communities, please

contact Mike Flannery

on 07901 700990 or

e-mail mike.flannery@

starcommunities.com

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art forart's sake...

by Zac tHraves

T he bitter rawness of

January hits us and

everything slows down.

What this means in

practice is that there is very little to

report on the arts front this month. All

the theatres are recovering from their

Christmas shows and nothing really

begins to happen again until spring.

But there are a few shows and events

planned to keep the places lit up.

HOrrible HistOriesWe all want to meet people from history

but the trouble is that everyone is

dead! However, that problem can be

overcome...

At The Assembly Hall, Sleeping

Beauty makes way for children’s

(and also adults’!) favourite: Horrible

Histories live on stage! Using actors

and ground-breaking 3D special effects,

this astounding show is guaranteed to

thrill you and your children. Historical

figures and events will come alive on

stage and hover at your fingertips.

The show will include The Terrible

Tudors and The Vile Victorians; follow

events from the horrible Henries to the

tribute tO fleetwOOd macAlso, in one sensational evening of

outstanding musicianship, Rumours

of Fleetwood Mac chart the songs of

arguably the world’s first super-

group, from their inception in 1967

with Peter Green, Mick Fleetwood

and John McVie, through to the

critically-acclaimed Rumours in the

70s with Stevie Nicks and Lindsay

Buckingham, then onto their more

recent works in the 80s and 90s.

Rumours of Fleetwood Mac have

now performed their anthology

production of Fleetwood Mac

anthems to over 450,000 Mac

fans worldwide, touring with Mick

Fleetwood’s golden seal of approval.

The evening will include timeless

classics such as Black Magic

Woman, Albatross, Go Your Own

Way, Dreams, Gypsy, Say You Love

Me, Sara, Oh Diane, Little Lies,

Everywhere and many more.

22nd January at 8pm | £22.50 |

01892 530613 | www.

assemblyhalltheatre.co.uk

end of evil Elizabeth, hear the legends

(and the lies!) about the torturing

Tudors; find out the fate of Henry’s

headless wives and his punch up

with the Pope; then survive the

Spanish Armada as it sails into the

audience! This sounds thrilling,

much like the hugely successful

books and indeed the television

spin-off, which recently won the 2011

British Comedy Award for best sketch

show. I’m sure the audience will be as

entertained as they will be educated.

31st January to 4th February |

from £8 | 01892 530613 | www.


Pulling facesTrinity Theatre is showcasing Louise

Jameson’s one-woman show, Pulling

Faces. Louise plays 12 different

characters in the course of one hour.

You will be guided through a week in

presenter Joanne's life as she does battle

with her nipped and tucked nemesis, the

evil agent, and her anti-surgery daughter

Rachel. Trinity Theatre says that ‘Louise

Jameson is mesmerising as Jo. She slides

between that part and the voices and

body language of the rest of her

cast of characters with ease, never

leaving the audience in any doubt

as to whom she is playing.’

14th January at 5pm | £10

| 01892 678678 | www.

trinitytheatre.net

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say hi…When he's not acting, Zac keeps

busy with arts events, so if you have

an event coming up and would like

a mention in the magazine, contact

arts@staygo .co.uk or on Twitter

@Hary828

about ZacZac Thraves has worked in theatre, film

and television and is our regular arts

editor here at StayGo!

mOvie rOund-uPWith six Golden Globe nominations,

I have to mention the excellent

movie The Artist, from French

director Michel Hazanavicius. This

brilliantly old-fashioned movie

has taken most of the world by

storm and is receiving rave reviews.

Shot entirely as a silent movie and

in black and white, it evokes the

Hollywood of old. I urge you to see

this wonderful movie. As yet no

dates have been set for a showing in

TW but I’m sure the Odeon won’t be

showing it, so we’ll have to rely on

our trusted Trinity instead.

Also on release are Sherlock

Holmes: Game of Shadows, starring

Robert Downey Jr. and Jude

Law. The first film was a huge hit

in 2009, though I’m sure some

Holmes purists may have gasped in

disappointed shock. I am a Holmes

purist and I loved the take on the

character; it breathed fresh life

into him and for me this is one of

the movies of the season.

Finally, I must mention

Warhorse. Directed by Steven

Spielberg and based on Michael

Morpurgo’s superb book, this is

being released in time for the

Oscars. I think no other director

could do justice to this powerful

story, but having seen the trailer it

felt a little too saccharine, with the

sweeping landscapes, lush colours

and beautiful John Williams score.

All the ingredients are there, I just

hope they're not too sweet.

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life, expects adventure and resolution

in one package, rather than the long

drawn-out versions of earlier years.

David Tennant (apparently the

original choice for the new Doctor)

and Matt Smith have both continued

the tradition set up by all those before

them, while at the same time making

their Doctors very much their own.

dOctOr wHO and tunbridge wellsTunbridge Wells has some tenuous,

but no less disingenuous, links to

the world of Doctor Who. Most of

you will know that Tom Baker was

once a resident of our town, bringing

his own air of eccentricity. He now

lives in nearby Sussex. We also have

Louise Jameson living here, who

formerly played Leela and now

acts in Doctor Who audio dramas.

She is well-known around town for

supporting local arts projects as well

as producing her own at The Beacon

and Trinity Theatre. I also have it on

good authority (from Doctor Who

magazine, published by Panini and

based in The Pantiles) that Colin

Staying in & Going out's own

self-confessed ‘Whovian’,

Zac Thraves, tells all

about his own personal

relationship with The Doctor...

'I first started to watch Doctor Who

during the latter years of Tom Baker’s

Fourth Doctor; it was a great time to

be introduced to the ‘who-niverse’.

Here was a character that was

childish, warm, parent-like and

alien all in one.

The years I remember the most,

though, are those of Peter Davison,

with his stick of celery in his lapel,

his cricket clothing and his assistants

Adric, Nyssa and Tegan. I actually

had a thing for Nyssa at the time;

what happened to Sarah Sutton? And

who can forget the awesome serial

Earthshock? Featuring the Cybermen

and Adric’s shocking demise, there is

a story that has lived in my memory

since 1982.

a new dOctOr wHOThen of course, Colin Baker, Sylvester

McCoy and Paul McGann all tried

to rejuvenate the character. But for

years Doctor Who was stuck in the

vortex – until Russell T. Davies picked

up the reins and brought him into

the ‘noughties’ with Christopher

Eccleston. What we had there was a

complete make-over; a new Doctor,

a new Tardis, new enemies, but more

importantly, new story-structure.

That has been the biggest success of

the recent series, in my opinion. A

new audience, living a fast pace of

Lucas, a young Doctor Who fan

Baker was born in these parts.

I have some rather fond links

of my own, too. During my days

working at The Assembly Hall I

met no less than three Doctors.

I once stood in awed silence

while being introduced to Peter

Davison. A few years later I was

a stage-hand carrying on the

lectern for Jon Pertwee as he

performed Abanazer in Aladdin.

I managed a conversation or two

while we waited for the curtain

to go up. Then, a few years after

that, I was lighting designer for

Peter Pan, starring Colin Baker

as Captain Hook. I now wish

that I had collected autographs!

a new generatiOnMy own love of Doctor Who has

now been passed on to my son,

Lucas, who is crazy about it! The

Big Blue Box event on January

14th will be a wonderful way to

celebrate Tunbridge Wells’ own

connections to this wonderful

British institution and I can’t

wait to feel like a child again

with my son.

Zac tHraves...

...travels with The Doctor


what's on this monthJanuary... sunday 8tH, 15tH, 22nd

and 29tH

•Winter 'Roast and Roam' at Bodiam

Castle. Guided tour plus 2-course

lunch in the Terrace Room. 11.30am-

2.30pm. Adult £25 / Child £10 |

To book: 01580 830074 or email

[email protected]

friday 13tH

• Keith Nichols' Hot Five at

Tunbridge Wells Jazz Club, Masonic

Centre, St Johns Road. £13.50 |

www.twjazzclub.co.uk

saturday 14tH

•Big Blue Box Doctor Who

convention at Trinity Theatre, in aid

of local charity Compaid.

01892 678678 | www.trinitytheatre.

net

saturday 14tH until tuesday 17tH

•Ibsen's A Doll's House by Dozy

Dollop Productions at the Royal

Victoria Hall, Southborough

Box office: 01732 354174

tuesday 17tH

•Art Stroll: guided tour of the

current Snowdon exhibition plus

question and answer session at the

Tunbridge Wells Museum & Art

Gallery.

01892 554171 | www.

tunbridgewellsmuseum.org.uk

Welcome to our

StayGo listings

page! We bring

you events for

January, so that if you want to

throw off those winter blues,

just grab StayGo and flick to the

relevant date. Easy! And if you

have any dates that you'd like to

see listed, then email them to

[email protected].

frOm sunday 1stuntil friday 6tH

• Aladdin at The Royal Victoria

Hall, Southborough. £7.50 / £7

concessions | Box office: 01892

822654

friday 6tH Winter walk at Knole Park near

Sevenoaks. Guided winter walks

take place on the first Friday of the

month: enjoy the clear views in the

winter parkland, see the deer and

take in the peace and quiet of Knole.

Normal admission charges apply, no

extra charge.

01732 462100 | www.

nationaltrust.org/knole

saturday 7tH andsunday 8tH

•Angelina Ballerina Pop-up Dance

Studio at Royal Victoria Place.

Dancing, colouring and prizes - plus

a visit from Angelina herself.

01892 514141

tHursday 19tH

•Training in the management and

technique of hedge laying from Kent

High Weald Partnership. 10am–

3pm. Old Coach Road, Pembury.

01580 212972 | www.khwp.org.uk

friday 20tH

•Fun in the snow: drop-in art &

craft and storytelling session for 2-5

year-olds with an accompanying

adult. Tunbridge Wells Museum &

Art Gallery.

01892 554171 | www.

tunbridgewellsmuseum.org.uk

sunday 22nd

•The Wedding Experience Show at

Salomons.

Free admission | 01892 507630 |

www.salomonsconferences.org.uk

mOnday 23rd

•Beacon Folk Club present Ty

Watling, local singer and guitarist.

01892 524252 | www.the-beacon.

co.uk

wednesday 25tH

•Burns' Night dinner at The Beacon.

01892 524252

www.the-beacon.co.uk

•Clearance, coppicing and hedge

laying with Kent High Weald

Partnership. 10am–3pm. Barnett's

Wood Local Nature Reserve

01580 212972 | www.khwp.org.uk


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already signed-up as key sponsors

for the event but Hospice in the

Weald is still on the look-out for

additional corporate sponsors.

“We would love to hear from

any organisations that would like

to support us and benefit from the

wide ranging PR that this event will

generate,” says Rachel. “We need to

raise £5 million each year to keep

our facilities open – and the local

business community is extremely

important to us.

“To be holding The Torchlight

Dinner at Hever Castle is extremely

exciting,” she continues. “The team

at Hever has been very helpful and

everyone there is working with us

to make the event both memorable

and enjoyable.”

Tables of ten are available for

£600 (or individual tickets at £65).

For more information and details of

sponsorship opportunities, please

contact Rachel Holweger.

01892 820536 rachel.holweger@

hospiceintheweald.org.uk

friday 27tH Award-winning theatre

company, Strangeface, bring

an extraordinary mix of masks,

puppets, live music and song

to a new winter production of

Pinocchio – a tale of wild mischief

and temptation. In a style closer

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Amazing Adventures of Pinocchio

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£8 | Bookings: 07966 190428 |

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Double Olympic gold winner Dame

Kelly Holmes has been unveiled as

the special guest at Hospice in the

Weald’s 2012 black-tie corporate

dinner. The Torchlight Dinner

will be taking place on Friday

24th February in the sumptuous

surroundings of Hever Castle.

lOcal HerODame Kelly is a local girl, born

in Pembury and brought up in

Tonbridge: she has been a keen

supporter of Hospice in the Weald

for a number of years.

“We are delighted that Dame

Kelly has agreed to support The

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that local business people will be

really interested to hear what she’s

got to say in the Olympic year,”

says Rachel Holweger, fundraising

director at Hospice in the Weald.

call fOr sPOnsOrsThe Torchlight Dinner follows the

success of Hospice in the Weald’s

very first black-tie corporate dinner,

which took place in February 2011

and raised more than £20,000 for

the charity.

This year's event is being held

in association with Uckfield-

based marketing consultancy The

Marketing Eye, and boasts a packed

programme of entertainment,

including a professional MC and an

auction with amazing prizes.

The Tunbridge Wells branch

of Handelsbanken and the award

winning accountancy firm Creaseys,

also based in Tunbridge Wells, have

tHursday 26tH until sunday 29tH

• Aladdin at The Stag Theatre

in Sevenoaks. From £10 | 01732

450175 | www.stagsevenoaks.co.uk

friday 27tH

•Gary Ryan, solo guitarist, performs

at The Beacon. £10 / £8 concessions |

01892 524252 | www.the-beacon.

co.uk

saturday 28tH and sunday 29tH

• Winter Wellbeing Festival at the

Assembly Hall Theatre.

01892 530613 | www.


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T his year is the 40th

anniversary year of John

Lewis of Hungerford,

which has been designing

and making wonderful painted and

solid wood kitchens and furniture

since 1972, when founder John Lewis

established the company.

This all-British brand is busy

planning an array of celebrations

kicking off with a 40% discount

sale, exciting new paint colours and

some very special limited edition

pieces of furniture designed by John

Lewis himself.

tOP tiPsAs the hub of the modern home,

kitchens should be suited to the

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cooking to homework, entertaining

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on this space than any other within

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M any people

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Many people nowadays are looking

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Why do you think that is?

There are several contributing

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these days about the benefits of

regular exercise and healthy eating

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Across

8 Quiet one softly floating (4)

9 Poet, one for love, shalt become confused about puzzles (10)

10 In Gaza leapt into the flowerbed to find this (6)

11 Made invisible after 'e got spliced in turmoil (8)

12 Hit and run, very careless (8)

14 Lonely child is in favour of backing dynasty (6)

16 Curtailed mobile bulletin is excessively dainty (4)

17 Even loses fifty but gains a point on the river bank (5)

18 Little one initially burbles and burps, yells. (4)

19 Much lost when autopilot crashes into the best place (6)

21 Witches test in town (8)

23 Nagging heard after church but upbeat (8)

26/1 Amis hides conundrum with no beginning in church repartee to create novel (6,10)

27 One aspiring to great heights is a believer in inflation (10)

28 Cockney assistance backs British chav (4)

Down

1 See 26 Across

2 Order dessert? Or bed? (5,3)

3 At foot of mountain accountant discovers a llama (6)

4 Instrument maker: "Love Britain, love Europe". (4)

5 Malevolent Scandinavian knocks head off aspiration to be a writer (8)

6 To consume eagerly, little dogs rear up about new one (4,2)

7 Wrinkled stocking fits into this (4)

13 Chav love - chaos and devastation! (5)

15 Find fruits in inside of French inns (10)

17 The French lead, make for gap, go ahead (8)

18 Abrupt Northern king is ruined (8)

20 Does a pall fall

about Spain when this is cooked? (6)

22 Throws up what Venezuelan leaves out (6)

24 Laugh at a chopper with no edge - its a joke (4)

25 Somewhere in Simla Iris has her hidden den (4)

aCrOss8. Sea-going vessel (4)

9. Places to keep Minotaurs! (10)

10. Flowering shrub (6)

11. Overshadowed (8)

12. Quick and careless (8)

14. Parentless child (6)

16. Cute – but a bit too much! (4)

17. It prevents flooding (5)

18. Newborn (4)

19. An ideal society (6)

21. Where you go if someone is not speaking to you! (8)

23. Happy (8)

26. and 1 Down. A Dickens’ novel (6, 10)

27. Pilot of an airborne vehicle (10)

28. A commoner – from ancient Rome perhaps? (4)

dOwn1. See 26 across

2. Fruity pudding – best served with custard! (5, 3)

3. South American animal kept for its fleece (6)

4. Wind instrument (4)

5. Joanna or Anthony? (8)

6. Grab quick (4, 2)

7. Footwear (4)

13. Destruction and devastation (5)

15. Main ingredients in moussaka (10)

17. Children’s game (8)

18. Insolvent (8)

20. Spanish rice dish (6)

22. Sicks up! (6)

24. Deliberate falsehood (4)

25. A rat might live there (4)

aCrOss8. Quiet one softly floating (4)

9. Poet, one for love, shalt become confused about puzzles (10)

10. In Gaza leapt into the flowerbed to find this (6)

11. Made invisible after 'e got spliced in turmoil (8)

12. Hit and run, very careless (8)

14. Lonely child is in favour of backing dynasty (6)

16. Curtailed mobile bulletin is excessively dainty (4)

17. Even loses fifty but gains a point on the river bank (5)

18. Little one initially burbles and burps, yells (4)

19. Much lost when autopilot crashes into the best place (6)

21. Witches test in town (8)

23. Nagging heard after church but upbeat (8)

26. Amis hides conundrum with no beginning in church repartee to create novel (6,10)

27. One aspiring to great heights is a believer in inflation (10)

28. Cockney assistance backs British chav (4)

dOwn1. See 26 Across

2. Order dessert? Or bed? (5,3)

3. At foot of mountain accountant

discovers a llama (6)

4. Instrument maker: "Love Britain, love

Europe" (4)

5. Malevolent Scandinavian knocks head off aspiration to be a writer (8)

6. To consume eagerly, little dogs rear up about new one (4,2)

7. Wrinkled stocking fits into this (4)

13. Chav love - chaos and devastation! (5)

15. Find fruits in inside of French inns (10)

17. The French lead, make for gap, go ahead (8)

18. Abrupt Northern king is ruined (8)

20. Does a pall fall about Spain when

this is cooked? (6)

22. Throws up what Venezuelan leaves out (6)

24. Laugh at a chopper with no edge - it's a joke (4)

25. Somewhere in Simla Iris has her

hidden den (4)

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Just fOr laughs... dOg resOlutiOns...New Year Quotesring out the old, ring in the new, ring, happy bells, across the snow: the year is going, let him go; ring out the false, ring in the true.Alfred, Lord Tennyson

new year's day: now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. Mark Twain

good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. Oscar Wilde

a new year Prayer for the elderlyGod, grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones that I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference.

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