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A Helping Hand 6 Beauty and the Beast 8 Curry Favour 10 A Good Read 12 Garden View 14 Tasty Recipe 16 The Humble T-Shirt 18 Puzzle Pages 20 October Festival 22 Food For Thought 24 Stranger Danger 26 Tattoo Removal 28 Index of Advertisers 30 Published by Spotlight Local Media Ltd Company No. 6841257 Tel: 01623 706570 Suite 104, 1 Hanley Street Nottingham NG1 5BL Graphic Design and Layout: Spotlight Local Media Distributed by Best Distributions Trusted Delivery Partner of the Spotlight Magazine
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A Helping Hand
Could private tuition benefit your child? Find Out Here! Barely a day goes by without schools making the news in one way or another. Recent headlines have screamed: British Children bottom of the European League Table...and Crisis in the Classroom. Is it any wonder that as parents we have never been more concerned about our children’s schooling? Many of us are so concerned that we are employing private tutors to help our children achieve their goals. How do I know whether my child might benefit from private tuition? Is your child struggling with course work? Are they stressed about certain lessons? Do they avoid certain subjects during homework sessions? Does your child find course material too simple? Do they complain of boredom and does the teacher accuse them of being disruptive or a daydreamer?
School is probably the best place to start. They know your child already and might be able to offer ‘in school’ help.
good starting point. After this time you should have a good idea how much tutoring is helping your child.
Even if that isn’t an option good teachers will be happy to discuss what your child needs from a tutor. Some children require just a little extra attention and support with homework.
What questions should I ask?
Others benefit from learning study skills. Others might need to re-learn things they missed through absence or that they simply didn’t understand the first time around. What do I look for? It sounds obvious but you really need someone who can teach! Being specialised in a subject area is great but teaching skills are everything. A tutor should be able to relate to a child and explain things at his level. Once or twice a week for two or three months is a
Check professional references and qualifications. Ask to see a copy of their CRB (criminal Records Bureau) check Ask about any career gaps on their CV If the tutor is employed at a school you can ask for a reference from the head teacher. Introduce them to your child so you can see how they relate to each other The right tutor can boost results but more importantly they can also boost a child’s confidence and self esteem.
Do you feel that your child is neglected by the system because they are neither special needs, nor especially gifted? If you answered yes to any of the above questions then your child might benefit from private tuition. What sort of tutor should I choose?
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Beauty and the Beast Male Grooming is Booming! It’s now macho to moisturise...
Has your boyfriend been botoxed? No? Are you sure? Well it’s probably only a matter of time. We’re far less open about it than women, but a growing number of us blokes are considering a brow-freeze, a jowl-tighten or a lovehandle-lift. On the whole we tend to favour non-surgical options and not just because we’re cowards. Male plastic surgery can look a bit unnatural. Due to the nature and thickness of male skin there can be more stretching and scarring. Of course, non-surgical procedures are also quicker, ideal for those of us who want to keep our beauty secrets secret! It’s not just surgery. There has been an explosion of interest in male grooming products recently. These now make up an £800 million-per-year market and include intensive moisturisers, eye creams and self-tanners. Beauticians have noticed an increase in the number of men presenting for manicures. We no longer think smooth skin and wellgroomed hands are the preserve of females. This may be partly down to style icons such as footballers David Beckham and Cesc Fabregas but it may also be down to basic psychology. Six in 10 men
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between 24 and 34 are not married and around 50% of those are single. Perhaps we’re working harder on our appearance because we’re on the lookout for potential partners. Also, researchers at London’s Guildhall University found that taking care of your appearance makes sound financial sense. They discovered, in a survey of 11000 British 33-year-olds, that the most presentable men enjoyed a 15% higher salary than their less wellgroomed colleagues. They were also more likely to be married; have more confidence; less likely to be kept waiting in bars and even liable to receive lighter sentences from juries if they ended up on trial! No wonder it’s become macho to moisturise...now where did my girlfriend hide her Clarins? The Beautiful Bloke’s Top Three Male Botox Have you been accused of looking grumpy when nothing is wrong? You might have ‘angry brows’. Dysport smoothes out a male frown while maintaining the heavier, masculine appearance. It lasts one to nine months
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Curry Favour
A brief history of British curry! I’d always thought of curry as a recent introduction to Britain but bizarrely it all began with the Dutch in the 16th Century. They were world-leaders in the trading of pepper and because they had a monopoly they were able to sell it at an extortionate price. So Elizabeth I granted a Royal Charter to a small group of merchants allowing them to create a trading company which became known as the East India Company. Its initial purpose was to secure a better price for pepper than could be obtained from the Dutch. Actually the British had never been keen on trading with India, which was viewed rather arrogantly as simply a handy stoppingoff port and a place to exchange goods like cotton and linen. But the Dutch made life very difficult for other traders so private armies, dedicated to the protection of European traders, were set up all along the coast of India.
Eventually the Mughals yielded to the British and the East India Company profited, becoming extremely powerful and influential. The reign of the British Raj was a decadent period and this was expressed in their food. Indian chefs were trained to cater for a western palate and there was a tremendous cross-over of cultures which resulted in a fusion-style cuisine. When the British returned to their home country they still craved the spicy Eastern flavours they’d left behind. It’s unsurprising therefore that the first published recipe for curry appeared in a 1747 book, The Art of Cookery. Initially it included just coriander seeds and pepper. Subsequent editions added ginger and turmeric. Even Mrs. Beeton included a curry recipe, which used all manner of spices, in her Book of Household Management.
The first ‘curry house’ in Britain was opened by Dean Mahomet, who came from an eastern Indian middle class family. He chose London because of its cosmopolitan atmosphere, and The Hindostanee Coffee House opened on George Street at the turn of the 19th century. Curry houses became extremely popular but fell into decline during the two World Wars when people were preoccupied with survival and rationing. The fall of Hitler and Indian independence in 1947 led to more people from the sub-continent relocating to the UK and once again there was a surge in popularity for spicy cuisine. Curry is now firmly embedded into British culture. When you next bite into a poppadom give a thought for the history of the curry and impress your fellow diners with your knowledge.
At the time India was ruled by Emperors and Mughals and there was a lot of infighting. The Europeans took full advantage of this and seized whole regions and territories for their own purposes.
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A Good Read This touching novel is beautifully written and builds to a page turning climax. Will Sully find out where the calls are coming from? Or are they really coming from heaven? Ultimately, the novel isn’t about where they came from. In fact it doesn’t really matter. Alom draws on our natural fear, not of our own deaths but of losing a loved one.
The First Phone Call from Heaven by Mitch Alom One day a phone rings, then another one, and another. Now a small church in a small town in Michigan needs to deal with the question of what really happened. And it is only a matter of time before the country, and the world, is asking the question too. All the calls have one thing in common: the callers are deceased and want to tell their loved ones about heaven; to tell them that death is not the end. The town becomes a place of pilgrimage for people who are desperate to hear from their own friends and family. Of course, some are sceptical. Single father Sully – still grieving for his wife – is concerned when his young son starts asking why his mum hasn’t phoned him. So he sets out to unearth the true source of the phone calls.
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What he offers is a story of a group of people who draw hope and comfort from these seemingly miraculous events. And that is the inspiring message from this book. Maybe heaven exists, and maybe it doesn’t, but whether you believe or not, you can still take something from this thought provoking novel. Tom’s Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce When you are born you occupy a small slot within history and for that period of time you live your life in your own way. But how much thought do you give to those people who came before you?
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Your house or your school now may have been someone else’s house or school; a place where someone else grew up and had hopes for the future. Tom is getting ready to enjoy his summer holiday when his older brother
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Beautiful Blackberries They are ripe for the picking
Autumn’s scent is sweet and sour. There is a definite tang in the air which indicates that summer is drawing to a close. Don’t be sad though, autumn has its compensations, especially at harvest time: picking early apples, cold from the tree and dappled with dampness is one of life’s little pleasures. But if you don’t grow fruit in your own plot you don’t have to miss out, just look to the hedgerows. As kids we used to dig out an empty ice cream tub and go blackberrying in the autumn. It seems to have died-out a bit as a family pastime but that means there’s more for the rest of us! Don’t worry about breaking any laws. If the fruit is growing in the wild it is anyone’s for the taking. But why stop at wild blackberries. How about growing your own? It’s very simple. My dad used to grow them over two discarded wrought-iron gates he found in a skip! You don’t need anything quite that elaborate. Rig up a simple post and wire frame. Two 2m / 6 foot posts knocked into the ground 2m / 6 foot apart and joined together with horizontal strands of galvanised wire spaced about 45cm / 18 inches apart will do. You can
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There are plenty of thornless, highly flavoured varieties. Ashton Cross produces a heavy crop of intensely flavoured fruit and Merton is a compact thornless which produces enormous blackberries and is very suited to a small space. I encourage you to plant a blackberry bush this year and in the future you will enjoy one of the purest pleasures autumn can offer. Happy gardening, By Rachael Leverton
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A Tasty Autumn Treat
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The Humble T-Shirt
Hands up if you own a T-shirt. I’m guessing nearly all of us do. Our favourite garment is an American import, first issued by the U.S. Navy in the late 19th century around the time of the Spanish American War. The crew-necked, short sleeved top was meant to be worn as underwear beneath the uniform. It got its iconic name from its shape when laid flat, resembling the letter “T”. The lightweight fabric quickly made it popular with dockworkers, farmers, miners, and men in the construction trade, who began to adopt the T-shirt, preferring its lightweight fabric in hot weather. Cotton was at the time inexpensive, and the fact it was easy to clean meant it also became the garment of choice for mothers to buy as outerwear for their boys. By the 1920’s “T-shirt” had become an official American-English word in the Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary. It’s thought the first T shirts printed with logos were actually made for the film The Wizard of Oz! They were green T-shirts with ‘OZ’ printed on them in white, and were worn by workers in the Emerald City. I admit I’d never noticed the T shirts prior to my research and I’ve watched the film dozens of times! The credit for the first printed T shirt in a photograph is attributed to the Air Corps Gunnery School T-shirt featured
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on the July 13th, 1942 cover of LIFE magazine. Mickey Mouse was the first ‘celebrity’ to be featured a few years later. Marlon Brando played his part in making the T-shirt a seriously cool fashion item when he wore a tight white one in the film, A Streetcar Named Desire. In the late 1960’s, the printed T-shirt gradually became a means of self expression, advertising, wearable art, and political protest. At some point in our lives most of us have owned an iconic one. Think of the yellow ‘happy face’ T-shirt, the Rolling Stones ‘tongue and lips’ logo, or the CHOOSE LIFE T-shirts of the eighties.
In some parts of the world such messages can have serious consequences for the wearer. Last year an LGBT protester and entrepreneur in Burma printed T-shirts with “Gay is OK” on them (in a country where it is still most decidedly not) and a 20-year-old Egyptian man marked his second year in detention, without charge or trial, for wearing a T-shirt which bore a ‘Nation without torture’ message. The humble T-shirt may not be so humble after all. The next time you grab one from the wash basket you might want to consider what your tee says about you!
The garment has a long history as an object of protest and political point-scoring. Green MP Caroline Lucas wore a T-shirt displaying the slogan ‘No More Page Three’ in large lettering during a Commons debate on sexism in the media. Harriet Harman sat in parliament wearing one bearing the message ‘This is what a feminist looks like.’
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the Nottingham October Festival is back as Spiegeltent event tickets go on sale The Nottingham October festival returns for 2017 with a full programme of events over six weekends from Saturday 30 September until Sunday 5 November. The first October Festival event announced is the return to Old Market Square of the Magnificent Spiegeltent, popular with audiences in the City since its introduction in 2015. The programme will be staged between Friday 29 September and Sunday 8 October.
a lunchtime concert by the Nottingham Youth Orchestra (Friday 6 October).
Show highlights over the ten-days include an opening night spectacular with The Gilded Merkin Burlesque and Cabaret – Nottingham’s biggest Burlesque show, City’s Got Soul with Angelo Starr and the Team Edwin Starr Band performing live for an evening of the greatest Motown and classic Northern soul hits, and the hilarious musical comedy of Royal Vauxhall based on a true story involving Kenny Everett, Freddie Mercury and Princess Di is one not to be missed! £1 from every ticket sold will be donated to the Nottingham Pride 2018 event fund.
Further details can be found and all the tickets for events in the Spiegeltent can be booked via www. octoberinnottingham.co.uk
There is also a varied programme of events for children; and as well as ticketed performances, there are a number of free events being staged including Yoga and Mindfulness sessions (Tuesday 3 October) and
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The site has been designed and ticketing managed in partnership with local company, Gigantic. Cllr Dave Trimble, Portfolio Holder for Leisure and Culture said: “Over the past 3 years, the Spielgeltent has been an incredibly popular part of our October events season, with the pop up venue having a programme to suit every taste from stand up comedy to burlesque. We expect that many of the shows sell out very quickly, so I would urge people not to miss out on this truly novel entertainment experience. Nottingham is definitely the place to be this Autumn.” Brendan Moffett CEO,
Marketing Nottingham & Nottinghamshire said: “I’m really looking forward to the return of the Spielgeltent which is always incredibly popular. It is a great example of the range of events and activities lined up for October with something for all ages. Last year’s October events had over 500,000 attendees, 35% of which were visitors from outside of the City. With the additional events in the Spiegeltent and the wider October programme, we expect to attract even more visitors and to improve on the £4million that was generated last year into the local economy.” For a full show schedule and tickets for all shows visit www. octoberinnottingham.co.uk For further information, please contact Donna Marshall – Communications and Marketing officer on 0115 8764443 or email donna.marshall@ nottinghamcity.gov.uk
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