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First of all, I would like to thank local residents for re-electing me for the fifth time. It is a great honour
Clearly the overall election result is not the one the Prime Minister wanted when she opted for an early vote. However, I’m pleased the Party is now rallying behind Theresa May – if we can make a coalition with the Liberals work for five years, I see no reason why we can not find common ground with the DUP, with whom we agree on many national issues. We obviously disagree on other issues –
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HOLIDAY BOOKINGS It’s cold, wet, and miserable, so no wonder this is the peak summer holiday booking period. However, with the pound recently at a 32 year low against the dollar, and matching the awful rates of 2013 against the euro, this year it’s likely to be a challenge to get a decent price. The weak pound not only hits holiday spending, but hotels, car hire and more, so here are my 10 top tips for keeping costs down. 1. Pocket the perfect plastic to make the pound perform. Spend abroad and most credit cards add a 3% ‘non-sterling transaction fee’ which means £100 of euros costs £103 and some then load other charges on top. However, there are a range of specialist cards that don’t add that fee. So, you get that day’s same near-perfect rate that the banks do, in every country. My top two long term picks, as well as good exchange rates, have low cash fees - the www.creation. co.uk Everyday card and www.halifax.co.uk Clarity. Spending on these is super cheap, usually easily smashing the best bureau de change rates. Yet only do this if you’ll repay the card IN FULL each month, to avoid the 18.9% ish representative APR. It’s worth noting if instead of spending on the card you withdraw foreign cash and spend that, you will pay interest even if you clear in full, but even with that added they’re still not that costly. For full info on top cards, and an eligibility calculator so you can see which you’re most likely to be accepted for go to www.mse.me/payabroad. 2. One hotel room can have hundreds of prices. Once you know what hotel you want, always check to see if it’s being sold cheaper elsewhere, use comparison sites www.trivago. co.uk and www.travelsupermarket.com for a wide-ranging search (and always call the hotel to see if it’ll beat the price). The difference can be £100s.
3. With car hire book it early and buy insurance elsewhere. If hiring abroad, generally early booking is cheaper, what costs £10 a day now can be £40 a day when you get there. Here’s the three key steps: a) Do a comparison to find your cheapest. I’d try www.kayak.co.uk, www.carrentals.co.uk and if needed www.skyscanner.net too. b) Check stealth fuel charges. Some try and make you pay for a full tank and return it empty adding £80ish if you don’t drive far. The above, apart from Kayak, let you filter by fuel policy. c) Don’t fall for their insurance up-sell. When you pick up a car they’ll often try and fear sell you up to £25/day insurance on top – to cover the large excess if you have any claims. If you’ll pay for this, instead use excess insurance comparison site www.moneymaxim.co.uk before you go and you can often find a policy from £2 a day. Yet if you do this, or don’t get the insurance, the car hire firm will ask you to leave a deposit on a credit (not debit) card which can be €1,000+.
“...YOU’LL RISK A FINE OF UP TO £1,000” 4. Find best holiday cash in seconds. Just use my www.travelmoneymax.com site which compares 30 online bureaux to find which gives you the best rates in seconds, factoring all fees. 5. Speedily find the cheapest flights. The obvious start point again are comparison sites. My top picks are www.skyscanner.net, www.kayak.co.uk and www.momondo.co.uk which include most airlines and booking sites like Expedia and ebookers. Yet if you really want to slash flight costs, you need to get clever, such as using ethnic specialist travel agents and checking out airline code sharing deals. For full help see www.mse.me/cheapflights.
6. Don’t forget the good old fashion package holiday. Package holidays are where you usually get flights, hotels and transfers in one. They can still be the cheapest especially if you’re going away for 7, 10 or 14 days in a traditional holiday destination like Benidorm. Both www.travelsupermarket.com and www. icelolly.com have comparison sites. Then once you’ve got up a price, if you want to shave a little off, you can call up other agents to see if they’ll sell you the same holiday at a cheaper price. 7. Book travel insurance AS SOON as you book the holiday. Every year people email me saying something sadly akin to, “I’m due on holiday in a few months, but I’ve just been given a cancer diagnosis and can’t go, the airline won’t let me cancel, what can I do?” The answer is ‘that’s what travel insurance is for’. Yet many people only book it just before they go. Waiting defeats half the point of having the cover – which is to protect you in the event cancellation is needed due to illness, a death in the family or something else. Full help on the cheapest policies, including for over 65s in www.mse. me/travelinsurance. 8. Booked EasyJet – keep checking the price. If your EasyJet price drops after you’ve booked it – excluding in a sale – you can just call it up to ask for the difference back in vouchers. Jo emailed: “We got an £803 voucher... all thanks to you.”
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Billericay Community Garden Digging Day (29/7/17) Come and join our friendly welcoming group of volunteers in the garden for as little or as long as you like from 9.30am to 2.30pm. There is always something to do on our digging days, whatever your ability, age or gardening experience, we’d love to see you. Take a look at our facebook or twitter pages for more information or email us on billericaycommunitygarden@gmail.com Billericay Fellowship Group We are a non-denominational group that meet in the Mayflower Hall, Chapel Street on 2nd Thursday of the month from 2.30pm-4pm. We have a varied programme of speakers (some illustrated), some members share their talents/hobbies. There are two lunches each year, also a summer garden afternoon (weather permitting) at a member’s home. We offer a warm welcome to all More information contact Dianne 01277 655879 Billericay Horticultural Society On Monday at 17th July at 8 p.m. in the Day Centre.Chantry Way a talk “ Making a Herb Garden “ by Christine Lavelle. of Writtle Agricultural College. Visitors always welcome £2. Refreshments available. Billericay Ladies Probus Club The Club meets for lunch at 12.00 on the second Monday of each month at the Mount Avenue Banqueting Suite, Hutton CM13 2NS. Where a three course lunch is served. New members are always welcome, come along and make new friends. If you would like any further information please contact. Jenny: 01277 633115 Billericay Men’s Probus Club Have you heard of us we are a group Of men who get to-gether for lunch on the last thursday of each month. Come and enjoy a three course lunch,
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Upholsterers who meet every Monday morning at the Scout Hall in Laindon Road, Billericay. We instruct and teach and now have a few vacancies. For further details please contact Bob Woodcock at 01277 659749 or e-mail: bobwoodcock@hotmail.co.uk Great Burstead and South Green Village Council Great Burstead and South Green Village Council are hosting a Fun Day on The Green, Southend Road, Billericay, Essex, CM11 2PR on Sunday 27th August from12.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. Family entertainment to include Bouncy Castles, Dog Show, Falconry display and many other stalls.
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MAYFLOWER ROTARY CLUB A whole range of good causes locally, nationally and internationally are to benefit from donations made in recent weeks by Billericay Mayflower Rotarians. More than £12,000 has been donated thanks to the generosity of Billericay families supporting the club’s major events headed by the December Christmas Market. President Sri Srivastava said: “We could not support these worthy causes without the help and goodwill of the people of Billericay.” Part of the money is aimed at helping young people like the £1,000 towards a new sensory room at Little Havens children’s hospice, £1,500 for Thriftwood College special students preparing for the world of work, £1,000 for Hope and Homes for Children, almost £500 towards a global Rotary grant for early childhood development and £250 for Amy’s Angels. Support for those striving to improve health has seen £1,200 for End Polio Now, a worldwide campaign flagshipped by Rotary with the support of the World Health Organisation and the Bill Gates organisation. Another £1,000 each has gone for specialist screens at St Luke’s Hospice and Roll Out the Barrel water programme easing the life of African villagers. Further donations have gone to Friends of Lake Meadows, Basildon Saturday Club and a Chemistry at Work event. The club’s latest fund-raising event , a quiz brought in £1,100 for Macmillan Nurses. Rotary Foundation the world’s biggest privately run charity providing education and aid thanks to contributions from clubs globally also benefits from Mayflower’s £3,750.
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On 1st May Lions supported the Billericay Rotary Club by manning one of the entrances to their 2nd Soap Box Derby. This is a superb event for the town and congratulations to Rotary for organising such a great day. 10th May saw nearly 60 members and guests celebrating the 38th “birthday” of the club with our Charter Lunch at Orsett Hall, rounded off by a very entertaining cabaret performance by a member of the local operatic society. At the end of June we will be taking a group of children from Chernobyl for a day out at Adventure Island in Southend, and in July we will be helping Lions from across south Essex with the annual Disabled Sports Day at St John’s School, Hadleigh. In the last 2 months we have made or agreed 9 charity donations totalling £3,875 (ranging from £60 to £1,000).
We need to keep the funds coming in and our next event is our 8th annual beer festivalat the Billericay Football Club on the weekend of 23rd/25th June. Please do join us and enjoy this popular event. We are also delighted to say we will have a new Christmas sleigh this December and are grateful to Billericay Town Council, Basildon Council and the Co-op Community Fund for grants to fund this costly project. For details of Lions events or if you are interested in joining, please have a look at our website www.billericaylions.com
Looking forward, we are back into the regular routine of our monthly social/ sports events and reviewing donation requests. As ever, we are looking to attract new members who are up for a bit of fun and looking to do some extra-ordinary things - things which you would not typically arrange with your normal mates! Check us out at www.facebook.com/billericayroundtable and www.billericayroundtable.co.uk or contact us directly on bepartofit@ billericayroundtable.co.uk. We would also really like to hear about any special causes which we might be able to offer monetary support for – no matter how small or large the value, we treat all cases individually and in confidence. We are a registered charity and have been able to help many local people over the years and we want to continue so – please check out the request form here:www. billericayroundtable.co.uk/funding
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WINDOWS & DOORS Front Doors from £599 Fitted Back Doors from £549 Fitted Composite Doors from £699 Fitted French Doors from £999 Fitted Patio Doors from £899 Fitted Bi Folding Doors from £1,399 Fitted Stable Doors from £699 Fitted UPVC White Windows from £199 Fitted ALL REPAIRS ALSO UNDERTAKEN Locks, handles, hinges, patio wheels Misted up units repaired and replaced
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We are a family business, running over 40 years in Billericay
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Collards Upholstery London Limited Collards Upholstery has been established for over 60 years. Hand crafted bespoke English furniture has been delivered to all corners of the UK and the world. The skills and high quality of tradesman ship has allowed the company to flourish and diversify into many fields. Our aim always is to give complete customer satisfaction and making your
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