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Kirby Muxloe Local Committee for Cancer Research U.K. Curry Night fundraiser was a great success!

ONCE AGAIN, it’s time to say a huge thank you to all the wonderful people that supported our recent fundraising event, held on Monday 20th February.

Well over 100 people bought tickets for our Curry Night at the Chef and Spice Restaurant in Leicester. It was a bumper buffet feast with starters, mains and pudding. There was something for everyone from curry to stir fry, teppanyaki to pizza, and then followed by a host of fresh fruits, other desserts and even a chocolate fountain! The evening raised the truly amazing amount of £1,794, from the event tickets and from the raffle held during the evening.

We all came away happy after being extremely well fed and entertained. Thank you to everyone involved, both the staff at the restaurant and the committee members.

We are now looking forward to our next event, which is likely to be our annual Autumn Fair, held in October. More details to follow later.

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THE FIRST SETTLERS of what we now call Australia wandered down from the north when New Guinea and Australia were one, sometimes now remembered as Australasia.

People think of Oz and New Zealand as being almost one entity but the waters twixt OZ and NG are shallow whereas between OZ & NZ there is a deep chasm. The Māori were sea-going people but what we know as the Aboriginals were nomad land dwellers who went walkabout and had their dream-time.

I feel a lot of affinity for these people. I have spent all my life wandering wilder, underpopulated areas looking to see what is over that hill, and now, I am over the hill. As time catches up with me and my walking days are limited and painful, I also have my dreamtimes when I look back and remember.

I have travelled extensively but not for me the normal resorts. Spain for me is not the Med, I have never seen the south coast. For me it is the Picos de Europa by the Biscay coast or the Pyrenees. I have never been to a French coastal resort but know the Vercours, Belledonne and Chartreuse Massifs and sub-alpine areas. I sailed a yacht along the Croatia coast just after the war ended before it became touristy and similarly wandered Crete and Rhodes when there were few hotels. I have trekked in the Himalayas and climbed above Everest base camp; have been in Canyon Country in the States and around the Navajo wastelands. I have snorkelled (ineffectively) in the Cooke Islands and off the Great Barrier Reef, been a mile underground potholing, have flown gliders, navigated small aircraft and been up in balloons and can safely say I have had a go at most things. I even took a horse and wagon round southern Ireland. I also have family in Sweden, France, Australia and New Zealand so do get about a bit. I also love getting close to other cultures and although you cannot generalise, I find almost all very welcoming and sharing of all the same concerns we face Having said all that, there I no place like home and I also know these islands as well as most. I am not an urbanite although I have always lived and worked by or near cities. There are very few parts of Britain that I have not known well except the urban areas and we have more diversity in these islands than anywhere else on earth squeezed into such a small place. Even Charnwood Forest on our doorstep has been described as a mini-Cumbria. I could fill several books of walks and places to go in Britain and have produced such guides in the past but there are many other sources of such information. What is harder to come by are local guides of walks from your doorstep and these are needed to get people started on the cheapest pastime in the world.

Walking is a great turn-off where you can chill out or walks can be a social activity with a group. It is definitely excellent for both physical and mental health. Brisk walking improves circulation and the performance of the heart and lungs; it can lower blood pressure; reduce the risk of stroke and of heart disease; improve control of blood sugar in type-two diabetes and it has an important role in cardiac rehabilitation. It is said to be as effective as anything else in treating depression. Widespread take-up of walking generally could massively lighten the economic burden on the NHS caused by physical inactivity.

I have increasingly come to realise how little people know about the opportunities on our doorstep so with help from members of the Footpaths Association and the Forest Park via a lottery grant I am working on a guide to Charnwood Forest to hopefully be published towards the end of this year and with some help from friends in the Ramblers, I have been building up a library of local walks which can be found on the parish council website. There are 38 at present but possibly more by the time you read this.

Walking is free; it is good for you; but most of all in the right places, it is fun.

Visit the web page at Local Walks on the Glenfield Parish Council website at: https://www.glenfield-pc.gov.uk/localwalks.html

Roy Denney

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Why is it getting harder to see your GP?

EVER WONDER how many other patients your local GP now cares for? Recent figures show that could be up to as many as 3,000 other people.

Amid worsening staff shortages, the number of fully qualified GPs has fallen from 29,320 in 2016 to 27,372 last year, as more and more doctors are opting to reduce their hours, or go for early retirement.

And to make matters worse, the number of registered patients has grown from 58 million to 62.2 million in that time, according to the House of Commons Library.

The Liberal Democrats, who commissioned the research, have recently warned that the falling numbers of GPs “is creating a perfect storm that means for many people, it feels almost impossible to see your GP when you need to.

“This ever-worsening GP shortage is having a terrible human cost, as people face delayed or missed diagnoses, and A&Es fill up with desperate patients looking for treatment.”