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Classes Restart 5th January

NORTHBOROUGH – The Village Hall TUESDAY 9.30am –11.00am (Weigh & Workout)

THURSDAY 1.30pm –2.30pm (Fitness Pilates – Exercise Only)

PETERBOROUGH – Stanground College TUESDAY 6.00pm –7.30pm (Weigh & Workout)

TUESDAY 7.45pm – 8.45pm (Fitness Pilates – Exercise Only)

DEEPING – The Deeping School WEDNESDAY 6.00pm – 7.30pm (Weigh & Workout)

WEDNESDAY 7.30pm – 9.00pm (Weigh & Zumba)

PETERBOROUGH - Eye Community Centre THURSDAY 6.00pm –7.30pm (Weigh & Workout)

THURSDAY 7.30pm - 8.45pm (Weigh & Zumba)

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Tel: 01778 429454 or email [email protected]

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Editor: Ellie Melillo

Dear Neighbours,

Welcome to the January 2011 edition of ‘The Viewer’.

I usually write my monthly edi-tors letter just before going to print each month, around a

week before the magazine gets delivered to you. But in this case it’s about three weeks early due to the Christmas break. This means I’m sat here on the 18th December trying to imagine how you will feel post-Christmas. Well, I hope you’ve had a won-derful and restful Christmas and I wish you all the very best for 2011.

If you’ve had too much Christmas pud-ding or have eaten too much in general, we have help at hand. There are diets to help you loose a few pounds and keep fit/exercise regimes to help you feel fitter and healthier in general. Please take a look in the magazine for help and advise.

We start the new year with changing our Travel article. Over the past months we have covered some of the best places to visit in the UK. We thought it was now time to visit some exotic places abroad. This month we start with Aswan, Egypt’s sunniest southern city, and there’s lots more to come. Hope you enjoy the read and that it inspires some of you to visit these fascinating and interesting places.

I would like to Congratulate all the win-ners of the competition in the November edition for tickets to the East of England Christmas Festival. I hope you all enjoyed the day and a big thank you to everyone that entered.

We are looking for a few local reliable peaple to distribute ‘The Viewer’ in Orton Longueville and Orton Brimbles. If you would like to earn a bit of money helping with the distribution, please give me a call. I would ask that you commit to a minimum of 3/5 hours every other month and ideally live in the area.

Finally, I would like to thank you all, ad-vertisers and readers for your continued sup-port and wish you all a happy and success-ful 2011. Until next time!

XÄÄ|x Tel: 01733 330658 Email: [email protected] Web: www.theviewer.org.uk

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Contents

Business Feature

Dietcare Sapphire Smooth Cambridgeshire Sports Physio

Regular Articles Humour: On the Road Beauty Tips: Avoiding Unflattering Hairstyles Gardening: Winter Flowering Algerian Irises Motor Review: Ford Grand C-MAX Travel: Aswan, the Jewel of the Nile Poet’s Corner: A trip to the Supermarket Recipe: Spiced Berry and Yoghurt Puds Book Review: Inspirational Reads Working from Home: The Taxman Cometh Monthly Finance and Business Tips Health: The Lifelong Healthy Journey Monthly Tips for your Pet: Heart Failure Monthly Horoscopes

Local Information

Local Information Your Local Trades Useful Contact Nos./Local Information Local Information Your Local and Library Events

Puzzles

Children’s Puzzle Page Adults Puzzle Page/Sudoku

Special Features

Digital Detox Employment for under 16s

Recipe of the Month

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Don’t Crash in the New Year

M any people will make New Year

resolutions to improve their

health by losing weight; the

range of new diets and diet books that ap-

pear on the market in January is no coinci-

dence. However, many of these diets could

do more harm than good and there is con-

cern in the medical profession that crash

and fad diets are making the obesity epi-

demic worse.

A ‘crash’ diet borders on starvation, with a severe reduction in both calories and nutri-ents. The body goes into ‘famine’ mode and tries to conserve energy, resulting in the metabolism slowing down; this means weight gain is more likely afterwards. You are likely to feel hungry, irritable and lacking in energy as blood sugar levels fall. More seriously, you risk losing muscle and as the heart is a mus-cle, this can have dangerous conse-

quences.

So called ‘detox’ diets can also fall into this category and there is no evidence that the body needs to detox. The body’s liver and kidneys are removing toxins 24 hours a

day every day.

Fad diets, which concentrate on one specific type of food, such as grapefruit or cabbage, can also cause problems, long term. These crash or fad diets can leave you feeling ill, weak and light headed, due to their low calorie and vitamin levels. Unless a diet is well-balanced with a mix of foods from all the food groups, such as proteins, mineral salts, carbohydrates, fats and vita-mins, your body can be missing important nutrients causing more harm than good,

long term.

Slimming pills and potions have even more potential for harm, as so many dubious products are freely available over the inter-net. Even prescribed slimming pills have lim-ited success. Dr Mark Porter, writing in ‘The Times’, suggests that pills are making the obesity crisis worse by offering a short term solution – unless you change your diet and lifestyle, the weight comes back again and

you can end up even heavier than before.

Adopting a healthy eating weight loss solution, making appropriate lifestyle changes and exercising within your capabili-ties is the real solution to permanently con-trolling your weight. Dietcare Weight Man-agement has been helping struggling slim-mers to lose weight successfully for more than 30 years. Thousands of slimmers can-not be wrong. By offering you tailored diets, one-to-one consultations, motivation, sup-port and encouragement as often as you need, Dietcare can ensure you achieve the weight loss that you desire, healthily, quickly and without hunger. A maintenance diet is supplied once ideal weight is achieved, en-suring you keep that nice trim figure, perma-

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A nglia Ruskin University purchased Guild-house on Oundle Road in Peterborough

last summer.

Contractors are currently refurbishing the building and when this is complete the Fac-ulty of Health and Social Care will relocate from its Peterborough District Hospital site on Thorpe Road to Guildhouse. The faculty will offer its nursing and social work courses at Guildhouse as well as a range of continuing professional development for health and so-cial care practitioners such as health visiting,

school nursing and non medical prescribing.

The new campus offers our students study-ing there more spacious accommodation, better library and IT facilities and much im-proved clinical skills laboratories than the smaller site on Thorpe Road. We hope these facilities will also offer opportunities to the wider community in Peterborough such as local businesses interested in first aid or health

training.

We already work with local schools and colleges whose pupils enjoy visiting and using our clinical skills labs in particular. We hope to move in the middle of March 2011 so that our new group of nursing students, who begin their course on the 31st March 2011, will com-

mence their studies at Guildhouse.

When the work is complete we look for-ward to inviting our new neighbours on Oundle Road and the surrounding areas to

visit Peterborough’s new university campus.

P lans to recruit community volunteers

who can offer help for residents to

complete their 2011 Census forms cor-

rectly will be launched this month (January)

by Peterborough City Council in partnership

with the Peterborough Council for Voluntary

Service.

The council’s citywide neighbourhood

manager Leonie McCarthy said: “Many new-

comers and long-time residents may face

language or other difficulties in completing

their census forms in March.

“It’s essential that we achieve a full and

complete count because government fund-

ing – worth £600 per person annually for the

next 10 years – is based on the number and

demo-graphic profile of our residents.

“Each household is legally responsible for

completing a census form but volunteers can

explain the questions if some people need

help. In addition, census forms will be avail-

able online in a range of languages for peo-

ple whose first language is not English.”

The information recorded on census forms

will be added together to provide total num-

bers of the make-up of Peterborough’s popu-

lation. Specific family details will remain con-

fidential for 100 years.

Information about volunteering will be

available from early January on the dedi-

cated PCVS website: http://do-it.org. For

information about the 2011 Census visit:

http://2011.census.gov.uk.

CENSUS TEAM SEEKS VOLUNTEERS TO ENSURE ACCURATE RETURN

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T hey say an Englishman’s home is his castle. However, if you’re a touring musician, your castle is much more

likely to be a vehicle. You might spend the occasional night in a hotel, of course, but you will most likely pass the majority of your time in the car, and for this reason it needs to be a place of comfort, harmony and, if at

all possible, sophistication.

Throughout our career we have embarked upon tours in a dazzlingly wide spectrum of vehicles. The first time we ever hit the road as a band, we spent the nine-hour journey from Reading to Edinburgh holed up inside a 1993 Skoda Favorit. Truth is, it really is impossible to look cool in a Skoda. Even in an ironic way. Image, however, wasn’t our principle bugbear on this occasion. It was space. For reasons I won’t go into now, we had to shoehorn a couple of toasters, three sleeping bags and a microwave into the car with us. On top of all our equipment (and us), this didn’t leave

much room for maneouvre.

When we moved up in the world and inherited our guitarist’s dad’s Vauxhall Omega, we thought we’d hit the jackpot. ‘Why, this vehicle is so perfect for touring that we should take it out to the French mountains and see if it can handle a blizzard!’. Well, it couldn’t. And neither could we. Halfway through our Alps tour, we broke down on the mountainside and spent five frostbitten hours struggling to fit snow-chains which later turned out to be entirely the wrong size. When the Omega was finally written off in a dramatic head-on collision with a BMW, we decided the time had come to invest in a proper tour bus. None of this pussy-footing about. We were a rock ‘n’ roll band and we deserved an automobile to match. I’m not talking about a gold-plated Hummer, though, or a stretched limo. I’m talking about a good

old-fashioned Ford Transit.

Tony, the drummer, prides himself on being the technician of the band and it was obvious that the task of finding and kitting out the right van would fall to him. He took to it like a duck to water. In fact, I’d dare say that van maintenance is pretty much the main reason he pursued a career in music. I’ll never forget something he said to me the first time we played Wembley. We’d just soundchecked and were heading back

inside the stadium to get changed.

‘Hey boys,’ he announced, excitedly, ‘I spent the weekend putting up little curtains in the windows of the van, so we can get

changed in there.’

I stared at him in astonishment.

‘Tony, mate - you’re playing Wembley Stadium. We’ve been given the England football team’s dressing room. You don’t

need to get changed in a Transit.’

And here’s the extraordinary thing. My poor drummer had been so acutely conditioned to thinking like a touring musician that, as he nodded in agreement and gazed back at me, the guy actually

looked crestfallen.

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The Lightyears, backstage at Wembley Stadium

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As far as sophisticated transport goes, our time in the sun finally arrived when, upon finishing our second gig at Wembley, we walked straight offstage, down the stairs and onto the back of a fleet of Virgin limobikes. We were booked at another gig that night in Sur-rey and we had less than 45 minutes to get there. The motorbike riders, who were absolute champions, did it in just over half an hour.

Which is all very well, but the helmet completely messed up my hair.

Chris plays piano in South London power-

pop band The Lightyears. The Lightyears,

voted the UK’s BEST POP/ROCK ACT at the

Indy Awards, have played Wembley Sta-

dium, toured across four continents,

worked with Sting’s producer and starred in

a T-Mobile advert. Chris is currently working

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Avoiding Unflattering Hairstyles

In order to avoid an unflattering hairstyle, you first have to determine the shape of your face. To do this you need to sit in front of a mirror with your hair contained by an Alice band. Next use an old lipstick to draw the outline of your face. Now stand back from the mirror and decide if your face is predominantly square, oval, heart-shaped, round or long. Having established the shape of your face, the next thing to do is find out which hairstyles to avoid.

Square Long straight hair will draw attention to a square face, as will a straight fringe or a centre parting. A straight bob ending at the jaw line will also point up a square jaw line.

Oval This is often referred to as the perfect face

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Heart-shaped With this shaped face you need to avoid short, full styles or anything with height, particularly with a tapered neckline, as these styles will make you look top heavy and g ive the appearance of a longer and narrower chin.

Round If your face is round make sure that your hairstyle isn’t! Avoid a centre parting, any fullness around the ears or a

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Gardening Winter Flowering Algerian Irises by Ursula Buchan

F amiliarity may not always breed

contempt, but it may breed

carelessness. Some of the best flowers

in my garden are under my very nose, yet I cannot see them for looking. When I

consider how beautiful are the flowers of

the ‘Algerian iris’, Iris unguicularis, and how easy it is once established, I feel ashamed

to have it in only one place in the garden,

giving it scarcely a thought from one end of

the year to the other. Until it comes into

flower, when for a brief moment, I realise

how lucky I am.

I think the Algerian iris is easily

overlooked because it’s one of those plants

that requires so little attention from the

gardener. It comes from countries in the

Mediterranean, so is accustomed to hot dry

summers, and cool, wetter winters. It emphatically does not need a rich soil.

Provided you can find, or make, an area of

infertile, gritty, preferably limey soil in a

south-facing border (say against the house

wall), you have solved its cultivation

problems more or less permanently. If it

does not flower well one year, it is more

likely to be because the summer before was

dreary and sunless than because the clump

is overcrowded.

So what is it like, this paragon of beauty

thriving on neglect? It has flowers between

5 and 8 cm across when fully open, at the

top of 15 cm, smooth stalks. Inside, the

three ‘falls’ (the petals which curve over) are hairless, light purple, but with delicate

mauve feathering on a yellow background;

they might have been painted by an

oriental artist of infinite skill. The three

‘standards’ are also light purple. The

exterior of the petals, however, has an ivory

pallor and is thin enough for a hint of the

feathering to show through.

If you pick an unopened flower and

bring the bud inside, it will open quickly in

the warmth and reward you with a sweetly-

scented flower that will last for a day or two. This is certainly the best way of examining

the flower, or even painting it.

Flowers begin to unfurl in my garden

clump in the last days of December, and

though each flower lasts only a few days,

there is a succession of them well into February. The timing of flowering depends

where in its geographical range the

ancestors of your plant was found. It may

be as early as the autumn or as late as

February.

There is a white-flowered form called ‘Alba’ and a dwarf sub-species called I. cretensis. There are two named selections, quite widely sold. ‘Mary Barnard’, is even

more beautiful, with a deeper, more

luxuriant purple. ‘Walter Butt’ is much paler,

to my mind a little wishy-washy, with shorter,

broader foliage. It is probably the most

scented. If anyone ever offers you either of

these, grab them. The best time to replant the rhizomes (roots) is September, as soon as

the autumn rains have started; they should

be put in the soil a little deeper than you

would the rhizomes of ‘bearded’ irises, and

in as large pieces as you can manage. If

you are lucky, they will flower in their first

winter - and never disappoint you

thereafter.


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Motor Review: Ford Grand C-MAX

I f you want a seven-seat Ford your choices are about to get a lot harder with the

introduction of this, the new C-MAX.

Joining the Galaxy and S-MAX in the Ford line-up last autumn was the replacement for the Blue Oval’s popular compact people carrier and it now comes in two body styles –

making your decision even harder!

The spiritual successor to the outgoing model is the larger Grand C-MAX – this has seven seats, sliding rear doors and a range of new engines to tempt buyers. The smaller five-seat C-MAX is seen by the manufacturer as a softer option to the new Focus which will be sportier than the outgoing car when it arrives

in 2011.

For this test we focused on the larger car which is set to account for two-thirds of C-MAX sales. Featuring the maker’s now famous kinetic design it boasts the signature Ford grille at the front, sweeping headlights and a new

piano black finish to the plastics.

To be honest, it’s not the prettiest of cars in this sector – which includes the VW Touran and Vauxhall Zafira – but it’s what’s on the

inside that really counts.

Here it’s well appointed and designed with real thought. The button layout has taken cues from mobile phones, separating functions from the centre console and adding

them to the steering wheel for intuitive inputs.

Inside it also has the look of the new Fiesta and Ka with a swooping centre console, smart

steering wheel and high quality materials.

Buyers in this segment demand practicality – Ford sees the C-MAX being bought mostly by families – so the sliding rear doors which offer

easy access to the cabin will be a real boon.

The rear seat configuration is also flexible with the centre seat of the middle bench

folding away into the chair behind the driver.

This is very easy to do and creates a walkway to the two rear seats. Those rearmost perches are only really for children as there’s little legroom, but for emergency seven-up

trips they’ll do just fine.

Potential buyers will be pleased to hear that just because you’re buying a family car doesn’t mean the end of driving enjoyment. The C-MAX really is great to drive – the new electric power steering is full of feel and perfectly weighted and the new six-speed gearbox is far better than the outgoing unit

with a pleasant, knotchy throw.

For a people carrier – even a compact one – it handles brilliantly. But the real gem is the new 1.6-litre petrol EcoBoost powerplant. It produces 150bhp and 240Nm of torque which is spread throughout the rev range making the C-MAX extremely responsive and

a delight to drive.

Other options for under the bonnet include two lower powered 1.6-litre petrol units and two TDCI diesels – a 1.6-litre and 2.0-litre – both

of which are excellent.

Standard kit has also been improved over the outgoing model with a host of handy extras thrown in. On the most popular trim level – Zetec – buyers get those sliding rear doors, Bluetooth handsfree, voice control, a handy powered rear hatch, alarm and

parking sensors.

There’s more good news for potential owners too – residual values are better than the outgoing car, insurance ratings are lower and the cost of the cars have been cut in comparison to the old ones. The C-MAX range starts at £16,745 and the Grand C-MAX

at £18,745.

We were really impressed with the C-MAX – packed with kit, comfortable and enjoyable to drive it’s the perfect car for expanding

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Travel Aswan, the Jewel of the Nile by Solange Hando

O n the right bank of the Nile, 550 miles south of Cairo, Aswan is a delightful place for a holiday. White sails and

luminous skies, ancient temples, river islands and the vast Nasser Lake on the doorstep, this pretty oasis is full of cultural and natural attractions. Here the Nubian desert meets the green ribbon of farmland which follows the river towards a far away delta.

Just south of Aswan, the High Dam marks the dividing line. Fronted by a symbolic lotus sculpture, it’s over two miles long and 130 feet high, completed in 1972 to create one of the world’s largest man-made lakes, stretching across the Sudanese border. Arable land increased considerably, floods came under control, electricity boomed and around Aswan and beyond, 14 ancient Egyptian temples were dismantled and rebuilt piece by piece on higher ground. Among them is the lovely island temple of Philae dedicated to the goddess Isis, all carved columns and pavilions and stunning views of the Nile framed by mimosa blossom.

But the most fabulous of them all is Abu Simbel, a long but popular day trip from Aswan. The first tourist convoy sets off at dawn as dunes turn pink and gold and the first mirages glisten at the foot of the hills. Buried in the sand for centuries, the rock temples honoured the great Pharaoh Ramses II and his favourite Queen, Nefertari, alongside Egyptian Gods. They were rediscovered with much excitement in the 19th century but could have vanished forever in the new reservoir. The rescue meant cutting the colossal statues and monuments into 1036 blocks, each one weighing 30 tons or so, cutting the surrounding rock and reassembling it all in two especially created hills, high above the original site. Once again, on the ancient Egyptian solstice, the sunrays light up the gods seated in the temple, just as Ramses II had wished in his dreams.

Back in Aswan, many visitors head north

on the two day cruise to Luxor while others relax in hotel gardens filled with bird song. In the cool evenings, they venture in the bazaar where T-shirts and shawls mingle with saffron, coriander, fresh dates, carob and unleavened bread. There are donkey carts laden with mint and oranges, winding lanes and a neat thoroughfare festooned with small shops and wooden verandas. Elegant carriages wait at the city gate and red hibiscus shed their blossom along the riverfront.

It’s worth looking out for the museum, with its mummy of a sacred ram, the unfinished obelisk lying abandoned on the hillside and the steps of the Nilometre dipping into the Nile, once used to measure the water for irrigation and tax purposes. You can ride a camel or trek in sand-coloured hills but nothing beats sailing on the Nile in a traditional felucca, powered only by the breeze. There are islands to explore, Elephantine with its palm groves and Nubian villages, Kitchener with its cool Botanical Gardens, Siheyl where the First Cataract of the Nile leaps around the rocks.

In ancient times, boats had to unload to negotiate the rapids but today feluccas shelter in the creeks to watch the sunset. Great flocks of cormorants and ducks come to roost after feeding on the lake, fishermen cast their nets and as the rocks glow coppery gold, the evening breeze rustles through the reeds. The dusk chorus begins, gently at first but soon filling the air with exotic calls. The sun sets behind the trees and near the dam, the crocodiles lie in wait as they have done since ancient times.


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Local Information ~ Local Information ~ Local Information

P lans for Orton Longueville School in

Peterborough to become an acad-

emy in partnership with Swavesey

Village College in Cambridge – possibly as early as April this year – have been ap-

proved in principle by the Department for

Education.

It will be one of the first academies

opened under new legislation encouraging

high performing schools to partner with,

and sponsor, satisfactory schools as acad-

emies. The city council, trust and both schools are now working together to man-

age the transition arrangements to ensure

that the current improvements and mo-

mentum at Orton Longueville School are

maintained and that the new academy

reflects strong community partnerships.

This brings to an end, a period of uncer-

tainty within the school and its local com-munity. In December 2009 an interim ex-

ecutive board (IEB) replaced the governing

body with responsibility to research and

propose the right structural solution to se-

cure the long term success of the school. In

April 2009, Mark Woods, deputy principal at

Swavesey Village College, took over as

interim Headteacher of Orton Longueville

School

The partnership with Swavesey began in

June 2009, when the city council requested

advice and guidance from the National

Support School. The level of involvement increased steadily during the academic

year and, in April 2010, Swavesey was

asked to take over the interim leadership

and management within the school.

Since then, under the leadership of

Mark Woods, there have been dramatic

changes to staffing, site and curriculum

structures within the school underpinned by new levels of expectations of staff and stu-

dents.

Swavesey principal Martin Bacon said:

“The trust is delighted that this partnership is

to be formalised through this academy

proposal. For Swavesey, it reflects the cul-

mination of five years of school improve-

ment work locally and nationally, which is now being focused into a single school

partnership.

“We have been so impressed with the

response of staff, students and parents to

the changes that have taken place and

have benefited hugely from the relation-

ships and practice that are developing

between the two schools.”

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Book Review - Inspirational Reads

J anuary may be dark and miserable after all the excitement of Christmas, but as the New Year dawns, it’s time

to take stock and make some changes. Here are a few of our favourite inspirational reads, guaranteed to make a difference to your life.

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle

Most of us waste time worrying about what has already happened or what might happen in the future; neither of which is conducive to getting the most out of the present. This practical and deep-thinking book is an insightful and powerful read - a common sense approach to focusing on what matters most.

Essence of Buddha: The Path to Enlightenment by Ryuho Okawa

Centuries of writings condensed down into one easily digested history of Buddhism; from where it all began and the main principles to how, through self-denial and meditation, difficulties in life can be handled with serenity and harmony whilst on the road to enlightenment. For anyone interested in a more peaceful way of life, this is well worth a read.

The Alchemist by Paul Coelho

An uplifting tale with a simple message – to follow your dreams, have faith and overcome your fears, because what you fear the most tends to be fear itself. The story is of a boy who dreams of treasure in the

Egyptian desert – he sets off to find it, coming across many wise and wonderful spiritual guides along the way. Well worth a read, if only for the absorbing tale.

NEW RELEASE Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

You may not expect much of an uplifting tale from a survivor of a Nazi concentration camp, but this story is about the power of the human spirit, when tested to its absolute endurance. A psychologist before the war, Frankl observed how human attitudes and inner strength can influence our fate when faced with even the direst of circumstances. This will make you laugh and cry – it will certainly make you think.

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

Set your creative fire alight – return to Paris with Hemingway where he and his contemporaries (Wyndham Lewis, James Joyce and Scott Fitzgerald included) would spend their time in cafes, nurturing their gifts with words and discovering their talent. Beautiful, inspiring – a must read for all aspiring writers.

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

One of the greatest life stories ever written: this is one man’s plan to lead a virtuous life. Though written over two hundred years ago, the methods of handling people and achieving success remain unaltered. A frank discussion of business, politics, society, family, sex and religion, this is a fascinating and moral text written by a truly remarkable man.

Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus: The Classic Guide to Understanding the Opposite Sex by John Gray

This book speaks a lot of sense to those struggling to communicate within a relationship. Looking into the differing male and female interpretations of the things we say and do, Gray sheds a lot of light on common problems, helping you gain a better understanding of yourself, and your other-half.


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The gadgets that can help you get in shape

E ating, drinking and being merry is tremendous fun, but unfortunately it tends to leave its mark on our

waistlines - and that means most of us enter the New Year carrying a few extra pounds. Wouldn’t it be great if technology could help us shift them?

It turns out that there are stacks of high-tech ways to get fit and fight the flab. The first step is to find out what shape you’re in, and for that you can use the Withings Wi-Fi scale. It’s not the cheapest bit of kit you’ll find at around £112, but you get a lot for your money: the scales don’t just weigh you but analyse you, working out your levels of body fat and lean muscle. That information can be stored securely online, enabling you to track your progress from any computer or even an iPhone.

The word iPhone crops up a lot when you talk about high-tech fitness: there are plenty of apps in the App Store that take advantage of the phone’s GPS system, tracking your steps and even monitoring your route. Our pick is the Nike+GPS (£1.99), which works on the iPhone and

on the iPod Touch to track where you run and motivate you to go further and faster. Similar apps are available for Android, Nokia and Windows Mobile phone, and you’ll find a huge range of fitness programmes - pedometers, diet guides, calorie counters, exercise regimes and so on - in each platform’s App Store.

Adding fitness apps to your smartphone is usually cheap, but of course you don’t need a mobile phone to benefit from GPS technology. Sat-nav experts Garmin make several GPS-based gadgets, including its Forerunner range of running watches and its

Digital Detox edge devices for cyclists. The former tells you how you’re doing, how many calories you’re burning and whether you’re going to collapse any time soon, while the latter tracks your speed and heart rate.

Would you rather go for a swim? You’ll find gadgets a-plenty here too including Speedo’s Aquabeat (£55), which stores 1GB of music and the Finis Lap Track (£50), which you can use to record your lap times in the pool.

The problem with watersports is that you need water to do them - or at least, you did before the Human Touch came along. It’s a big investment at £349, but it does mimic surfing, snowboarding and skateboarding to boost your body’s core strength, toning up your abdominal muscles and helping to protect your back - and unlike the real thing, if you make a mistake you’re unlikely to break anything.

One of the most interesting fitness gadgets is the Ki Fit, an armband that monitors your metabolism and even your sleep patterns to build up a picture of your health. It’s quite expensive - £99.99 for a basic package including one year’s use of the Online Activity Manager website - but it’s had rave reviews.

If that all sounds a bit dull and worthy, don’t despair: fitness can be fun too. The superb Wii Fit turns Nintendo’s Wii console into a fun fitness centre, boosting your fitness as you do everything from step aerobics to ski jumping and kung fu. At the time of writing the latest version, Wii Fit plus, is around £75 including the essential Balance Board - but don’t forget, you’ll need a Wii console (£169) to use it.


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I ’ve just had a letter from the taxman. Brown envelopes with the letters HMRC on the back always frighten me badly enough

as it is; this one chilled my blood with cold. It told me that I owed them £237.21 and warned me that if I didn’t pay like yesterday, they’d send the bailiffs in and remove anything of value they could find.

Which wouldn’t be much, actually: I don’t think that all my worldly goods put together are worth that much – certainly not since the T-reg Vectra went to the scrapyard with a terminally ill gearbox. But still, you don’t want gents in hobnailed boots trampling all over your house and removing your chattels, do you?

So anyway, I rang the taxman’s lair and told them I was paying every month by direct debit, and I’d checked my bank statements and the payments were going out as usual; and a very cheery young man with a reassuring Scottish accent told me not to worry, they sent these letters out to everyone and as long as my payments continued I could ignore it.

Phew! Ten days later another letter arrived,

exactly the same as the first except that the amount outstanding had now gone up to £241.17. Instantly my blood froze again. Perhaps that cheery young Scot had been wrong? Perhaps, even as I read, the bailiffs were trudging purposefully towards my door with a warrant and a battering-ram and a firm intention of removing my microwave oven and my vinyl collection?

This time the phone was answered rather less cheerily by a lady who said yes, as long as I was paying I was all right but if I stopped, even for an instant, I’d be breaking stones on Dartmoor before you could say chain gang. I said I had no intention of stopping, and why was HMRC sending me all these terrifying letters? “For legal reasons,” she replied, and put the phone down.

Legal reasons! Legal reasons? What law says that HMRC must spend about 50p every 10 days on warning perfectly innocent self-employed people who have shown absolutely no sign of defaulting that a horrible

doom awaits them if they even think about it? How much does this tot up to in terms of stationery and postage? Aren’t these supposed to be straitened times? Will someone please tell me what’s going on?

Anyway, this is why I spend £400 plus VAT every year to get an accountant to do my tax return for me. Other self-employed people tell me that the tax return is simplicity itself even for a hopeless innumerate like me, and chide me for spending almost as much as I seem to earn these days on such an indulgence. But my accountant is no mere luxury.

When you work completely on your Jack Jones there is no-one to tell you why the printer isn’t working, why you can’t get the text into the box properly in your latest presentation, and what you have to do to put them right. You need either to develop a manly self-sufficiency or, if you’re anything like me, collapse in a gibbering heap and summon a professional.

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17 Formation of society (12)

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23 Upper limbs (4)

Down

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Finance and Business

Peterborough based tax and accountancy specialist TaxAssist Accountants gives advice on financial matters to small busi-nesses.

Q I know that the standard rate of VAT is due to increase in January 2011, but can

you tell me how this will affect my busi-

ness?

A The standard rate of VAT will increase from 17.5% to 20% with effect from 4 Janu-

ary 2011. The way in which this will affect

your business will depend on whether you

are a cash or invoice business.

If you have a cash business, the new rate of

20% will apply to the takings you receive on

or after 4 January 2011 and you should en-

sure that your pricing and any electronic till

systems are updated to cope with this. For any sales made prior to that date, the cur-

rent rate of 17.5% will continue to apply.

If you are raising invoices, the new rate

should be shown on all invoices raised on or

after 4 January 2011 providing that they are

being raised within 14 days of the goods or

services being provided. On the other

hand, if you raise an invoice after the new

rate has been introduced which relates to goods or services that were provided be-

fore 4 January 2011, you can apply the

current rate of 17.5%. This would probably

only be necessary where you are supplying

a non-VAT registered customer though, as

a VAT registered business could just reclaim

the higher amount on their next VAT return.

It is important to remember that if you raise

a credit note on or after 4 January next year, you must apply the VAT rate that was

in force at the time when the original in-

voice was issued.

Q I have been self-employed for a few

years and due to the success of my busi-

ness, I am now considering incorporating

so I can trade through a limited com-

pany. I have used my current trading

name since I first started and want to use

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pany. Will I be able to do this and can I

protect the business name?

A One way of protecting the name is to set

up a dormant limited company, which you

can trade through at a later date when

you decide to incorporate your busi-ness. Although you would not be using

the company to run your business at first,

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requirements with regard to an annual re-

turn and accounts, but would be classed

as dormant if no trading transactions

have taken place.

Simplified dormant company accounts

must be submitted to Companies House each year using form AA02. HMRC should

also be informed of the company's dor-

mant status, using form CT41G (dormant

company insert).

Once you decide to bring your business

into the dormant company, all the assets

and trade should be transferred in and

Companies House and the Revenue must

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details) should be completed and filed

with the Revenue in order that notices to

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If at some point during the company's life

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be required by Companies House.

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Health The Lifelong Healthy Journey

by Lorraine Mace

T here is no other time of the year when as many people decide to ‘do something’ about their weight as

January. A combination of Christmas holiday excesses and the feeling that the New Year is time for a fresh start, prompt people to address the uncomfortable and unhealthy feeling that being overweight gives them. However like so many New Year’s resolutions the determination is often short-lived and old ways soon return.

The key to success is not just to view the change in eating and exercise habits as a one off task that needs to be over and done with as soon as possible. Weight control is a lifelong journey and the best time to start is when you’re young. The next best time to start is today!

Eat less or exercise more? When you eat less you are taking a

negative action; that is you are avoiding certain foods and depriving yourself. When you exercise more however, you are taking a positive approach to not just your weight control but your general health; action is so much more psychologically rewarding than avoidance. When you take a walk after dinner you relax, improve your digestion, enhance your vitality and burn fat and calories. After the walk you feel better both physically and emotionally.

That’s not to say that you shouldn’t address your diet and nutrition. There is a billion pound industry associated with the different ways you can lose weight, all of which are preying on society’s desire for a quick fix and a magic formula. Many people will report success having followed advice in a book or on a website, but what you don’t hear of is those that have failed, and those that succeeded but regained all the weight as soon as they stopped. But they do work for some because just by reading about weight loss it will motivate you to take action, and furthermore can provide you a framework to which you can

adhere. For example if the weight loss plan tells you ‘no carbohydrate’ it’s something you don’t have to think too hard about and you know you can have anything you want except carbohydrate. You are only depriving yourself of one type of food rather than saying you have to restrict all foods.

Keeping with our theme of a lifelong journey though, one of the best things you can do is just to return to basics and stick to healthy food. If you cut out sugar, cakes, biscuits, chocolate, wine, beer and crisps you already have your framework. And most importantly identify your weakness: if you have a sweet tooth for example, start your diet by telling yourself you can have anything you want provided it doesn’t contain sugar. Indeed, not only will this help with your immediate weight loss, but the less you indulge your weakness, the less of it you will crave.

Similarly exercise should be approached as something ongoing. If you go from not exercising at all to telling yourself on the 1st January that you must exercise for an hour a day, 5 days a week, both exhaustion and the time restrictions will mean that you’ll be beating yourself about your lack of willpower before you’ve reached the end of the month. It’s far better to say that your goal is to be out of breath at least twice a week and to know you can reach that goal for 52 weeks. Conversely to the unhealthy food cravings, the wellbeing you feel after exercising will actually make you want to do more.



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who had applied in person? By all means mention that your parents know you are making the application and that they will support you, but the first contact must come from you. (For parents: if your teen’s application is accepted, it is of course quite reasonable that you meet their employer before the job commences.) If your application is by email, make sure

your grammar, spelling and punctuation are faultless, don’t use texting shortcuts and proof read your mail before you send it off. Mails that say “i saw yr job ad and i am interested” will go straight into the recycling folder. It might be the norm to use short forms and lower case letters with your friends, but it’s not when applying for a job. Add some extra information about yourself.

If you keep fit, do voluntary work, or have already had a job mention this in your mail too. You could even add in a photo. Don’t assume that just one mail is enough.

If you are really keen, send another, make a phone call or even send a letter. Even if you are told the vacancy has been filled, send a reminder occasionally that you are still interested should another position become available (although don’t make a pest of yourself either!) Your primary goal in doing all this is to stand out from the crowd. If yours is the mail that has perfect spelling, you keep asking and you personalise your application in some way, then you are much more likely to land yourself some paid work.


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Monthly Tips for your Pet Heart Failure

This issue we felt that as well as frost, love

is also in the air with Christmas on our

doorstep and Valentines round the cor-

ner. So we are sticking with this theme

and putting the spotlight on the causes of

heart failure in cats and dogs, what if any-

thing can be done to prevent it and how it

is treated.

Who Can Develop Heart Disease?

As with many illnesses any cat or dog can contract this problem, although some animals are more likely to be affected:

- It is 1.5 times more common in males than females

- Its prevalence is higher in dogs under 20kgs, however it is also found in many larger dogs

Breeds commonly found to have heart failure include; Boxers, Cavaliers, Chihua-huas, Cockers, Dobermans, German Sherperds, Great Danes, Irish Wolf Hounds, Newfoundlands, Poodles, Scottish Deer-hounds and Terriers.

What Causes Heart Failure?

There are many types of heart disease that can lead to heart failure, the main common attributable factor is predispose by breed as well as being passed on from parents genetically.

While excess weight can worsen the symptoms of heart failure as the heart has to work harder to pump blood round the body, there is currently no evidence to suggest that this is a contributing factor to the cause of heart failure in cats and dogs.

What Are The Symptoms?

As the heart muscle becomes less and less efficient at pushing blood round the body cats and dogs may display symp-toms such as:

- Coughing, retching and throat clearing

- Finding exercise hard and/or have diffi-culty breathing

- Losing weight and/or losing interest in food

What is the Treatment for Heart Failure?

Treatment will depend on the pet, spe-cific symptoms, their severity and stage of failure, however heart failure is irreversible and not curable in pets at present.

Thankfully we can treat the symptoms though which will need to be done life-long, but with the right combination of therapies pets can live longer, happy and healthy lives.

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CANCER JUNE 22 - JULY 22 The Sun and wilful Mars in your oppo-site sign of Capricorn challenge you to be more assertive and straightfor-ward in your dealings with others. As

abundant Jupiter changes signs on the 23rd a brilliant new opportunity may come your way and you are ready for advancement.

LEO JULY 23 - AUGUST 23

Energy is dynamic this month, espe-cially for work and career matters. Mars works in your favour for rear-ranging and reorganizing things that

are not working. You’ll tackle challenges and problems more efficiently after Mercury moves into Capricorn on the 13th.

VIRGO AUGUST 24 - SEPTEMBER 22

It’s a good month for effective com-munication, as Venus helps you to come across more smoothly and warmly. Creative juices flow more

easily and reliably as Mars, in productive Capri-corn, shines on your originality. The full moon on the 19th brings your social life to a peak.

LIBRA SEPT. 23 - OCT. 23

All change for peace loving Librans – this could very well turn out to be a turbulent month. You should be more direct and decisive when dealing

with those around you. A new residence or property could be on the horizon, or you’ll want to improve what you already have.

SCORPIO OCT. 24 - NOV. 22 Venus, the planet of love and desire has been in your sign since mid-September, stirring up your relation-ships, desires and your values. Now

it’s time for a shift and as she moves into opti-mistic and independent Sagittarius professional matters are also illuminated.

SAGITTARIUS NOV. 23 - DEC. 21

Jupiter, your ruling planet and also the planet of growth and abundance is on the move again. Romantic and creative activities heat up after the

23rd and you’ll feel considerably bolder in mat-ters of the heart this month. Your zest for life

increases, but beware of becoming over-confident.

CAPRICORN DEC. 22 - JAN. 20

Your birthday month and the start of

2011 - a dynamic year of change and

transformation lies ahead for ambi-

tious Capricorn. Goal-oriented Mars is

in your sign until the 16th, make the most of this

productive and industrious time. Any problems

on the home front can now be resolved; Jupiter

in Aries helps clear the air and moves you for-

ward.

AQUARIUS JAN. 21 - FEB. 18 Despite a busy social agenda this month, you are moving into a more introspective cycle in which you crave more time to yourself. This time is impor-

tant for rest and reflection, and to recharge your batteries as Jupiter moves into action packed Aries on the 23rd.

PISCES FEBRUARY 19 - MARCH 20

Your social life is very busy throughout January and romantic opportunities might present themselves through your friends or group associations. As Jupiter

moves into Aries on the 23rd, your enthusiasm and confidence soars and you can set your own pace.

ARIES MARCH 21 - APRIL 20

Jupiter’s move into your sign on the 23rd signifies six months of growth and abun-dance. Your goals and ambitions are in the spotlight and there may be a need

for radical changes. You are a pioneer, sharing knowledge and communicating with more confi-dence is figuring strongly during this month.

TAURUS APRIL 21 - MAY 21 The Capricorn sun and motivational Mars, both residing in the travel and adventure sector of your chart has you planning your getaway. As Mercury

moves into Capricorn on the 13th you move into a slightly more introspective cycle, in which you crave more time to yourself.

Gemini MAY 22 - June 21 Money and finances come into focus during this month, has frivolous Gemini spent far too much over Christmas? Money from business or other resources

could actually increase, as professional matters are in strong focus and abundant Jupiter brings luck after the 23rd.

For January 2011- By Astrologer Christine Chalklin


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I nitial ‘enabling’ work started week commenc-ing 29th November 2010 in preparation for

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Contractor Kier removed some trees – more

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a temporary access road and a site compound.

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site for relocating a Peterborough City Council

maintenance depot. Hoardings were erected

around the car park area in mid-December.

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games, maintaining some provision for school

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‘ENABLING’ WORKS PREPARE FOR CONSTRUCTION

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Your Local Events A guide to what’s on in your area

February January Upto 9th January

The Key Theatre

Jack and the Beanstalk Pantomime - a magi-cal festive show for all the family. Call the box office on 01733 207239 or www.peterboroughkeytheatre.co.uk

14th to 16th

Whittlesey Strawbear Festival

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20th

The Cresset Theatre

Stephen K Amos Cutting edge comedy For more details call tel. 265705

22nd @ 7.30pm

The Key Theatre

The Johnny Cash Story - to millions of fans he was the authentic voice of country music. For tickets call 207239

24th

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29th @ 7.30pm

The Key Theatre

One Night of Elvis takes you back to the golden era of The King. For tickets call 207239 or www.peterboroughkeytheatre.co.uk

29th @ 7.30pm

Coronation hall, Market Deeping

Social Dance Evening with Fun 2 Dance For further information or purchase tickets contact Cheryl on Tel. 01733 359450

3rd to 6th

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4th @ 8pm

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10th

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15th

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19th to 27th

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Computer Taster Session

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Junior Reading Groups

Meet monthly at 3.45pm various

dates. For further information call Tel. 864280

Adult Reading Groups

Meet monthly on the first Wednes-

day of the month at 10am and last Thursday at 5.45pm.

Rhymetime

Every Mondays at 10.30-11am

Story-Times for under fives

Have fun listening to stories, sticking and colouring. Tues. and Thurs.

10-10.45am, Saturday 11 - 11.45am (Tuesdays term time only)

For Orton Library call 01733 864296 or email ortonlibrary@vivacity-

peterborough.com

Promote a community event in


Please call Ellie on:

01733 330658 email: [email protected]

ABC Quality Meats

A Traditional Family Butchers offering a choice of excellent quality meats and frozen foods all at extremely competitive prices.

Catch our Meat Van in Ham Lane (near Ferry Meadows) every Saturday

or visit our Brand New Shop: 12 Sable Way, Edgerley Drain Road,

Peterborough. PE1 5EJ

Visit our website for more details

www.abcmeats.co.uk

• Open 7 days a week to Everyone

• Free Parking

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Advertising and Distribution Distribution: The Viewer is delivered to two alternating areas of the PE2 postcode. All odd numbered months it goes to the Ortons and on the even numbered months the directory goes to homes in Stanground, Fletton & Woodston.

To Advertise: Please call or email Ellie Melillo - 01733 330658/[email protected]

The Viewer, 17 Sebrights Way, South Bretton, Peterborough, PE3 9BT Tel: 01733 330658 email: [email protected]

Web: www.theviewer.org.uk

Photographers

Dave Porter Photography Plant Services

RTC Plant Plumbing & Heating Services

Homeheat Jones Heating K. Williams Plumbing & Heating

P.E.P. Heating & Plumbing Property Maintenance

B. Rollings Decorating Double glazing Repairs KP Home Improvements Ltd. Oakdaale Decorators Rodney Hall Plastering M. Avory Carpenter & Builder MJC Construction Terry Williams Painter & Dec. Restaurants, Pubs & Takeaways

Lakeside Café The Cherry Tree Roofing

Ascot Roofing Senior Services

Comforcare Prestige Nursing Shopping Centre/Store

Orton Superstore Rivergate Shopping Centre Solar Energy

Solar Creations Taxis

White Knight Cars Ltd. Teacher Recruiting Agency

Mana Education Tilers & Tiles Supply

Upton Ceramics Theatre Arts Schools

Stagecoach Trade Associations

Safelocaltrades.com Tree Surgery

Fraser Tree Surgery & Garden Veterinary Practic

Vet Savers Windows, Doors & Cons. Prism Conservatories Profile Windows & Conservatory

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Accounting Services

Abacus Accounts TaxAssist Accountants Aerials & Satellites

Aerials 4 U Advance Aerials Blinds

Blinds in Harmony Bluebell Blinds Sunline Blinds Bridal & Special Wear

Rhema by Design Butchers

ABC Quality Meats Carpet & Flooring

Hampton Carpets & Flooring Carpenters

LM Carpentry & Joinery Chiropodists

The Longueville Clinic Cleaning Services

Belle Casa Cleaning Doctor Cleantime Services Limited Daily Poppins Four Seasons Cleaning Services Stainbusters Complete Clean

Computers Services

1to1 Computer Training Progressive Computer Services Wren Software Craft & Haberdashery

Art & Stitch Pondskipper Crafts Dance & Exercise Classes

Jazzercise Domestic Appliances

G.B. Domestics (UK) Domestic Services

Agata Cleaning and Ironing The Iron Lady Driving Lessons

Fastlane Driving School Electrician

MM Electrical Services Estate Agents

Homeabout Estate Agent Hunters of York

Farm Shops Moor Farm Meats Farm Shop

Fascias, Soffits & Guttering

Titan Roofline Fashion

Rhema by Design Financial Services

Minerva Financial Services Gifts and Experiences

Flying essons: FlyCB Microlight Furniture & Soft Furnishings

D&M Furniture Fusion Wicker World Garage Doors

Ridgeway Garden Nurseries & Services

Olive Grove Nurseries Scenic Gardens Tom Smith Garden Designs Wyndham Landscapes Glazier

RA Baker Hair & Beauty

Root 66 Hair & Beauty Sam Roberts Wedding Hair Sapphire Smooth The Tanning Lounge Health, Fitness & Lifestyle

Andy’s Personal Training Ashwood Chiropractic Clinic Colour me Beautiful Dietcare Rosemary Conley Santosha Yoga Sport Physio & Back Care Steve Clarkson Health & Fit Kitchens, Beds. & Bathrooms

Hurford & Tebbutt Kits.& Beds

PDA Kitchens & Appliances Letting Agents

Homeabout Lettings Lighting

Wrights Lights Motor Services

PNP Autofix Phil’s Tyres TWG Motorsport

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Fusion www.designsatfusion.co.uk

Made to measure hand sewn Soft Furnishings, Curtains & Blinds

For a free quotation and measure Tel: 01778 344202 Email: [email protected] 3 High Stret, Market Deeping

Free home visit, measure and quotation Fitting service available

Fusion are your local premier Harlequin stockist

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