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World Cup Fever has hit Around Town HQ! Do we think England will relive that fateful day, back in 1966 which, to date, has never been repeated? Who knows – but we’ll have fun cheering on our boys and wishing them the very best of luck over in Brazil! Make sure you check out Bar Plazma and The Crown’s adverts inside, for details on which games are being shown.

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Over the weekend of Friday 27th – Sunday 29th June Billericay Town FC plays host to the Lions Club 5th Annual Beer Festival. Whilst on Saturday 28th June, Harry’s Charity Day will be taking over Billericay High Street and in Chelmsford’s Hyde Park, we have the Fling Festival taking place (details opposite).

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Summer is on its way with The Friends of Lake Meadows Back in February 2013, a group of enthusiastic Billericay residents formed a new society, The Friends of Lake Meadows. This voluntary organisation works with Basildon Borough Council, Billericay Town Council and the Billericay community to promote public interest in the park, co-ordinate improvement projects and host special events for residents throughout the year. Since the society began, The Friends of Lake Meadows has endeavoured to promote public awareness of the park by organising events for local residents. Group member Alison Bacon said ‘All our members have great skills and talents that we use to make the park a nicer place for residents to visit.’ Alison joined the society in autumn last year after arranging ‘Bark in the Park’, the first ever dog show to be held at Lake Meadows. A second ‘Bark in the Park’ will follow in September. Several more events are also planned to encourage residents to visit the park and enjoy its natural beauty, with the Seasonsthemed Grand Photography Competition due to announce its winner by the end of June and a Jazz evening on

12th July. The Friends of Lake Meadows also look to involve other local groups in their activities, with the local Cubs and Scouts groups recently assisting with several gardening projects. The group will also be supporting Fun in the Park 2014, an afternoon of family fun featuring music, giant inflatables, a classic car show and games for children and adults, on Sunday 29th June. Entry is free and the event runs from 12.30pm to 4.30pm. As well as organising events, the society is also passionate about the park’s conservation. Behind the tennis courts by the Lake Avenue entrance is a 1.2 acre ancient woodland believed to have once been connected to Norsey Woods. The Friends of Lake Meadows have targeted this area for improvement, by laying better paths, cutting back foliage to improve access and clearing the ditches to improve drainage to this area and the rest of the park. Alison said, ‘Our gardening group meet on the first and third Tuesday and Thursday of every month. They have several exciting projects in the pipeline at the moment, including building

the first sensory garden in the local area’. The society are also organising several tree carvings, turning woodland area near the café into dragons, magicians and wizards, with storytelling sessions to be arranged for local schoolchildren. While the society continues to organise events and take on more conservation projects, it also continues to grow. Membership is open to the public and costs just £5.00 a year. Alison said ‘It is a really nice friendly bunch of people, you can help out as little or as much as you would like and everyone is welcome’. For further information on The Friends of Lake Meadows and details on how to join, please visit www.lakemeadows.org. uk or search ‘Friends of Lake Meadows’ on Facebook.

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The Ten Commandments: Life Transforming Rules? Last month, in my article on the film Noah starring Russell Crowe, I suggested that God has a plan for the way we should live our lives, which can be found in the Ten Commandments. How many of these can you name? You can find them in the Old Testament book of Exodus, chapter 20, if you can’t remember them all! Those who dislike religion often portray the Christian faith as an unattractive series of gloomy commands, as if God had given the Ten Commandments to depress and terrify His people. But it’s not that way at all. Unlike so many of the laws in the ancient world, these commandments are not conditional threats: “Do this or else you’re in deep trouble!” They simply lay out a way of living that enhances people’s lives and brings peace, hope and purpose. Faith doesn’t have to be complicated and difficult. That’s because all of the Ten Commandments are designed to set people free and give: freedom from a false idea of God; freedom from violence in thought or in action; freedom from the mistakes of the past;

freedom for justice; and freedom for love. Which society, if they were to live by these ten simple guidelines, couldn’t help but to live in harmony and peace and be a blessing to others? The people of the Old Testament, however, as we know in our own lives, struggled to live by the letter of the law because what should have been Life Transforming Rules became a millstone - which is why, in the New Testament (Acts chapter 2) the Holy Spirit of God was given to enable Christians to follow and serve God in a way they wouldn’t be able to do on their own and this is why the worldwide church celebrates Pentecost, the coming of the Holy Spirit to the church, on Sunday 8 June. Charles Spurgeon, the great Baptist preacher of the 18th Century, was once asked why he preached on the need for more of the Holy Spirit, his response was simple: “Because I leak!” All of us, it seems to me, need more of God’s power in our lives to live God’s way. And it is this daily presence of the Holy Spirit that ensures that our Christian faith won’t be

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Nigel Kirby grew up in Brentwood and worked as an apprentice in the local area before launching his own business, NK Plumbing and Heating, in his early twenties. Nigel, has over twenty five years experience in the industry, and offers a full range of plumbing and heating services to residents of Billericay, Brentwood and the surrounding areas. Nigel said ‘We can do everything from small

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Introducing New Head Chef Mike Binnington Greenwoods Hotel & Spa is delighted to introduce new Head

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