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‘Back to School!’ is the cry for September, by relieved parents and excitable kids, heading out on a new adventure. Whether it be a new class or new School, let’s hope they settle in well. Congratulations to everyone who received GCSE and A-level results over the past month too - we hope you all got the grades you wanted and accepted into the Sixth forms, Colleges and Universities you applied for! Education doesn’t have to stop there though – Around Town’s Jo Cook investigates available opportunities for Adult Community Courses in Essex (P.11) proving it’s never too late to learn something new or refresh what you already know. So dust off those pads and pens and take a seat – class is about to begin.

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Going Back to School this September It’s that time of year again, when the parents out there amongst you are rushing around preparing your little’uns for the start of the new school year. This includes, but is not limited to, spending hours online finding a uniform that your child/ children won’t grow out of by December, and spending a small fortune in a crowded stationery store on the latest must-have accessory (in my days, a pencil case, in 2014, probably Apple’s latest offering). While children across Essex anxiously/ excitedly await the start of a new school year, and their parents breathe a sigh of relief, those yet to experience parenthood note the change with little more than a curse that rush hour traffic is about to increase. But how about looking at things differently this year? As someone who, selfconfessedly, always enjoyed academic pursuit, and to this day still gets a kick out of learning something new (albeit the latest Buzzfeed ‘17 things’ list), this September I’ll be looking

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CANCER’S ‘MAGIC KEY’ It is a disgrace that the NHS first diagnoses a quarter of cancers as late as A&E. Thousands of lives annually could be saved if we matched international averages. The key reason for these failings is that we diagnose cancer far too late. Last month the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Cancer (APPGC), of which I am Chairman, staged a Parliamentary reception to celebrate the recent publication of one-year cancer survival rates. These figures, broken down by Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), allow us for the first time to measure the performance of our local NHS when it comes

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Overdrafts are a debt like any other, if you don’t manage it, it will spiral out of control. While there are methods to cut the cost, they’re often far less talked about than the common techniques for cutting credit card bills – but are just as important. In a nutshell your aim should be to cut the cost and repay what you owe. Here’s my tips on how… Get paid £100 to take a free overdraft. There are two big players who offer decent deals for those with overdrafts who switch account. Though you’ll need to pass their credit score. Move to www.firstdirect.com, which is the no. 1 rated bank for customer service (92% of my web users rated it ‘great’) and you get an ongoing £250 overdraft. Crucially it also gives you £100 sign up bonus, which you should put straight towards your debt. To get it you’ll need to pay in your salary or income, which must be at least £1,000 a month. Shift your overdraft to a 31 month 0% card. While you may have heard of credit card debt shifting deals called balance transfers, a few cards also offer a ‘money transfer’ where it simply pays cash into your bank account, so you can then pay off your overdraft, meaning you then owe it instead. This is a good option if you’ve a bigger overdraft and will need more than a year to repay it. My top pick card right now is www.mbna.co.uk, which lets accepted customers do it at 0% for 31 months for a one-off 4% fee (it’s just 2.88% for normal balance transfers). However, it’s credit score dependent, so use the www.mse.me/eligibility tool which will show you which money transfer cards you’ve the best chance of getting. If you are doing a money transfer do follow these golden rules: a) Don’t assume all cards do this, most charge a fortune. b) Always repay the monthly minimum or you’ll lose the 0% deal. c) Plan to clear by the end of the 0% period or it jumps to the full rate - with

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Operation Christmas Child Some of you may be familiar with the excellent work of Operation Christmas Child (OCC) who send shoeboxes filled with small gifts to less fortunate children than our own across Europe. I was greatly encouraged, last year, by the way many of you supported our shoebox appeal at Emmanuel (and other churches in town) Billericay shoeboxes were delivered to Belarus. Many of you suggested that I should have mentioned it sooner last year - so here I am, a month earlier! Since 1990, over 100 million children and young people, worldwide, have been able to receive a Christmas gift that they would not have received because they live in extreme poverty or because they are orphaned or their parents are just too poor to buy them a Christmas present. A fantastic achievement from the simple idea of a friend of mine, Dave Cooke, a carpenter from Wrexham who was so deeply moved by the plight and images of children in the orphanages in Romania on TV in 1990 that he decided he had to do something about it. OCC is now the largest children’s charity in the world. Might I encourage you and your family and/or your place of work, club, organisation, business or school to join in with us this year and collect the

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Hi Folks The new Lions year is now up and running with events being planned for the forthcoming months. We have previously mentioned the Senior Citizens Concert on September 20th at The Emmanuel Church, (don’t forget to book early!), and a further International Disabled Swimming event is planned for October with our sister clubs Voreifel from Germany and Bruxelles Royale. We have held this event bi-annually for the last 25 years in alternate venues and many lasting friendships have been forged between organisers and competitors alike. Other events planned are very much in the embryo stage but plans are afoot for the Christmas Market, the Christmas Sleigh and our extremely popular Taste of ....... night for spring next year. We are also planning a standard quiz night in November, and more details will follow next month. Of course, some of the club still haven’t returned from holiday yet, but we are conscious that our own social side doesn’t suffer and we have a walk and lunch planned in Hatfield Peverel on September 14th for the benefit of all our members and a chance to get to know our newer members and their partners. If you are still wondering what the Lions might offer you why not come to one or two of our meetings? There’s always a warm welcome from Club members – just contact us on the addresses below. For details of all Lions events please visit our website www.billericaylions.com or telephone 0845 833 9849.

The summer months have of course been filled with plenty of fun and laughs, and as well as helping out at numerous local fundraising events, our Round Table members have made sure that they have been able to enjoy some time coming together with family and friends with a variety of events – Chairmans Barbeque, Climbing at Thriftwood Scout Camp, Family Picnic and Nerf battle to name but a few. Behind the scenes we’ve also been very busy planning events for the months ahead! Fireworks night may seem like quite a way ahead, but planning for this event started straight after the last fireworks night had finished! Everything is coming together really well, with just a few smaller details to be organised still, and we think that this years event is going to be right up there with the best Fireworks nights we’ve put on over the years. This years event is set for 8th November, and if you’d like to find out more, please visit our website www. billericayfireworks.co.uk which will give you all the information you need. We’re including a smaller scale Kids firework display earlier in the evening this year, so there truly will be something for the whole family to enjoy! Most of you will know that the Round Table organisation is aimed at men between the ages of 18 and 45, but did you know that we have a sister organisation called Ladies Circle? At present, we are working with the Ladies Circle National Membership Secretary to try to get Ladies Circle up and running in Billericay, after all, why should us men have all the fun?!? If you are female, between the age of 18 and 45 and interested in finding out more, please email membership@ladiescircle.co.uk or call Emma on 07738 176515 to find out more. If you’d like to find out more about Billericay Round Table, either visit www.billericay.roundtable.co.uk or email us at info@billericayroundtable. co.uk we’d love to hear from you!

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