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THE NUMBER ONE LIFESTYLE MAG FOR GRIMSBY AND CLEETHORPES BORN TO WIN The Peoples talks to Giovanni Pernice
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Well that was quite a cold snap. As we go to press there’s still snow on the ground but with any luck that’ll be the last of it and we can start looking forward to spring. In this issue we’ve got an interview with dance star Giovanni Pernice, whose new show arrives at the Auditorium in April. What a nice man. We’ve also got news on some excellent music and theatre events and a terrific recipe for tea on Easter Sunday. We’ll see you again soon
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In The Know
What’s going on in your area?
Fish For Easter
A scrumptious crab tabbouleh recipe
Women In Business
Celebrating International Womens Day
Celebrating Yarncraft
Try your hand at something new
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Homes
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Motoring
The Peoples talks to Giovanni Pernice Things are looking up in the town centre Make the best of where you live The engine room of the local economy Farewell to the beast from the east
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In The Know Your indispensable guide to what’s going on where you live The Quireboys bring their rock and roll party to The Yardbirds
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f you’re a fan of proper old fashioned hard rock then you’ll be in luck on Friday 13th April when rock and roll legends The Quireboys bring their inimitable show to The Yardbirds. Formed in the mid 80s the band are still a force to be reckoned with, with the incomparably bandannad Spike on vocals and long standing guitarist Guy Griffin laying down some fine riffage. In 2016 they produced one of their most popular and raucous albums to date - Twisted Love which they followed up in 2017 with a well received collection of blues standards - White Trash Blues. With loads of attitude and a determination to make every night a party night The Quireboys bring arena style showmanship to everywhere they play and it promises to be a night to remember! Tickets are available via The Solid Entertainments website.
Countryside Lincs returns to the Lincolnshire Showground
There’s a packed timetable in the Countryside Ring and seven different zones to explore, all packed with with child friendly fun activities. There’ll be a huge range of animals, including farmyard favourites, birds of prey and Aldabra giant tortoises as well as a chance to see how gun dogs ountryside Lincs is a fun are trained and have a go at coarse filled day all about animals, fishing. There’s also an Easter Egg food, farming and the hunt and tractor and trailer rides and the Make It Zone, where children and countryside and it returns for a families can try walking stick making, fourth year on Sunday 8th April offering the young - and young at willow weaving and corn dolly heart – the chance to get up close making. In the Food Zone they can and personal with animals big and make, bake and taste Lincolnshire small, as well as trying their hand treats including pork pies. at a range of crafts, sampling It certainly sounds like a fantastic day local foods and getting a taste of and tickets are on sale now via the life on the farm with tractor rides Lincolnshire Showground website. and exhibitions.
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Wonk Unit make a welcome return to The Yardbirds
One of our favourite bands, Tufnell Park’s finest horse enthusiasts Wonk Unit are back at The Yardbirds on April 29th with support from The Raging Nathans, Aerial Salad and the Atoms. Should be a great night, tickets available from Replay Records on Freemo and Solid Entertainments on Wellowgate.
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It’s all adding up for World Maths day! Uniting the world in learning. World Maths Day is a free, fun, online competition involving up to 4 million students world wide that measures speed in arithmetic and numeracy skills. It’s open to children all over the world. Of course some children find maths easier than others and if you’ve got one of those that find it tricky then you might consider popping down to Healing Village Hall one evening and speaking to Sarah Prior about her confidence building Kumon maths sessions.
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TICKETS FOR BORN TO WIN WITH STRICTLY STAR GIOVANNI PERNICE AT THE AUDITORIUM This issue we’ve got an exclusive interview with Giovanni Pernice and if you’d like to win tickets for his new show just head across to our Facebook page, scroll down to the relevant post and like & share.
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Calling all Bingsters! Grimsby dates announced for November!
f you’ve got a pre-school child or even if you’re just addicted to CBeebies then the chances are you’re already familiar with Bing, Sula, Coco and Pando. Since its launch on CBeebies, Bing has been a huge ratings hit and it’s the number one top rated pre-school show on BBC iPlayer. Celebrating the joyful, messy, reality of preschool life, Bing finds the big stories in the smallest moments that little ones and the grown ups in their lives will recognise … whether it’s dropping your ice cream or losing your favourite toy. Bing’s adventures with his friends and with Flop his carer have become modern classics that educate as they entertain and now the magic world of Bing is on its way to the stage of Grimsby Auditorium in an adaptation by Helen Eastman with costumes with puppet design by Tahra Zafar. There are two dates - Tuesday 13th & Wednesday 14th November and tickets are on sale now via the Auditorium website. Bing Live! Is the perfect first theatre trip for pre-schoolers and their families and don’t forget It’s a Bing thing!
Chase & Status to bring their DJ set to Zebedee’s Yard in the Summer
Chase and Status are a massive British music act who have collaborated with iconic names such as Emeli Sande and Craig David and are known for creating a fantastic party atmosphere with their MC led set. Chase (Saul Milton) and Status (Will Kennard) met at University in Manchester and formed the group in 2003. Their unique sound has seen them secure seasons at clubs in Ibiza as well as creating four best-selling albums.
They’ve been a mainstay of the British summer music festival scene for years, and this summer they’ll be bringing their show stopping dance set to Hull’s Zebedee’s Yard Friday 27th July with support from High Contrast & Shinobi Residents Shimah, Simma & Mc AOB. With its 16th century backdrop and located in the centre of Hull’s historic Old Town Zebedee’s Yard has become one of our favourite venues over the past couple of years and this promises to be a really great night. Tickets are available now from eventim.co.uk
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EASTER
Make it a perfect easter with fresh Grimsby Fish! recipe kindly supplied by www.seafish.org
for more recipe ideas go to fishisthedish.co.uk about 10 minutes. Remove from heat and let stand, covered, for 5 minutes. Fluff with a fork. Spread the quinoa and buckwheat on baking tray and cool. Add the remaining ingredients Prep time: 13-15 minutes and toss together. Cooking time: 13-15 minutes Serve with kale leaves deep fried Serves: 4 in hot oil, finely sliced chillies Skill level: Easy and shallots can be washed, Method: tossed in seasoned flour and Ingredients: Bring quinoa and buckwheat, 1/2 deep fried as an additional 160g buckwheat teaspoon salt and 2 cups water garnish with a contrasting 160g quinoa to a boil in a medium saucepan texture, kick and bite. 1 red chilli, de-seeded and finely over high heat. Reduce the Makes a fantatic entree or a light chopped heat to medium-low, cover, and lunch for Easter aftyernoon. 1 red onion, peeled and chopped simmer until quinoa is tender,
Buckwheat and quinoa tabbouleh with crab and crispy kale
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WOMEN IN BUSINESS
International Women’s Day is on March 8th this year and as always when it comes us round it sets us thinking about just how many of the businesses that feature in The Peoples have women at their helm. So here are a few - there are many more of our favourites. Local businesses showing that when it comes to getting things done women have really got what it takes to succeed!
Claire Dutton at Barking Mad
Claire has the perfect job for any dog lover - arranging holiday homes for our four legged friends. An important part of Claire’s role is to make sure that dogs and hosts are perfectly matched to each other so why not try looking after someone’s dog while they’re away by becoming a host with Barking Mad It’s great fun, all of the benefits of dog ownership without the emotional or financial commitment.
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Kumon is an independent study programme, but Sarah Prior ensures that students never feel alone. She provides the guidance and encouragement that students need to take their learning into their own hands, increasing their motivation to succeed and achieve. Sessions take place after school each day with students dropping in for about thirty minutes, once or twice a week.
Josie Moon at La Luna Since its launch in 2017 La Luna has published four new books including two for children featuring music from jazz guitarist Pat McCarthy. A Fish Tale for Juniors and A Woodland Story resulted from La Luna’s partnerships with Grimsby Jazz and the NEL Music Hub and both are available to purchase via www.josiemoon.co.uk Josie spent much of 2017 on tour with Fish Tales, the jazz and poetry suite commissioned by Grimsby Jazz and co-written with Pat McCarthy and Alan Barnes and there is more on the way in 2019. There is also an exciting program of new writing producing quality publications and hosting poetry events. La Luna also took over the running of the Great Grimsby Community Choir which meets weekly at St Mark’s church, Laceby Road. Contact Josie Moon and La Luna via the website or on the Facebook pages www.facebook.com/ GGCommunitychoir and www.facebook.com/msjosiemoon
KUMON Contact your local Instructor for a free assessment. Grimsby, Healing Study Centre Sarah Prior 01472 884104
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ARTS
THE PLAY WITHIN A PLAY’S THE THING The play within a play is a device beloved of writers from Shakespeare onwards and seldom has it been used to such marvellously humourous effect as in Play On, Rick Abbotts 1980s love letter to the world of amateur theatre. As the company assemble to rehearse their new murder mystery Murder Most Foul it seems that everything that can go wrong will go wrong - from an unfinished script to unlearned lines and worse. The show is hilariously amateurish, the ‘murder mystery’ plot doesn’t really have a murder, and when the author decides to give a speech on the state of the modern theatre during the curtain calls, the audience is treated to a madcap climax and a thoroughly hilarious romp. Even the sound effects reap their share of laughter.
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY Saturday 21st April to Saturday 28th April PLAY ON Written by Rick Abbot Directed by John M Solley Saturday 2nd June to Saturday 9th June MURDER WEAPON Written by Brian Clemens Directed by Debra West Saturday 14th July to Saturday 21st July DI AND VIV AND ROSE Written by Amelia Bullmore Directed by Pam Reynolds
Saturday 1st September to Saturday 8th September MURDER IN THE HEIR Written by Billy St John Directed by Gemma Dodds
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YARNCRAFT
Time to get knitting - have you caught the yarncraft bug? It's one of the biggest and fastest growing activities in the UK but at the same time it's traditional and your mum and grandmother probably did pretty much the same in years gone by. What is it? It's yarncraft of course. Whether you are a beginner or experienced knitter or crocheter your local yarn shop is more than just a place to buy supplies - it's a source of advice and inspiration, a place to learn new skills and somewhere to meet old friends and make new ones. Yarn Shop Day is on Saturday 12th May this year. It’s a celebration of everything that’s good about your local wool shop with exclusive patterns, discounts and competitions plus the opportunity to meet lots of friends, have a knit, have a natter and raise money for charity. Should be a great day. We’ll see you there!
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iovanni Pernice first came to our attention in 2015 when he joined the professional team on Strictly, reaching the final in his first year on the show. Since then he’s become a firm favourite with the fans and one of the UK’s most popular dancers, performing in the Strictly arena tour and taking his own annual dance spectacular on the road. He’s at Grimsby Auditorium on April 30th with this year’s show, entitled Born To Win. We got to talk to him during a break from rehearsals. The Peoples: Good afternoon. You’re appearing at Grimsby Auditorium on the 30th April and I can tell you that we’re all looking forward to the show. We came to Dance Is Life last year and we had some prize winners in the audience and we all thought it was fantastic. GP: That’s good. It’s always nice to hear that the audience is happy with our performance. That’s what keeps us going from show to show. It makes it all worthwhile. You were born in Sicily but moved to Bologna to pursue a career in dance and nowadays
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The Peoples talks to Strictly star Giovanni Pernice
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Not at the moment. There’s a championship once every year and we’ll be ready when that comes around. I’ve won for the last two years and it would be nice to make it three.
Yes. I moved to England three years ago although I like to go back to Italy sometimes for a visit. I love living here though but I was in Italy for Christmas You joined Strictly in 2015 - that must have been an exciting time. which was very nice too. Since then you’ve partnered That sounds good. I think perhaps Georgia May Foote, and Laura we should all spend Christmas in Whitmore in 2016 and of course in 2017 you danced with Debbie Italy. You made your name as a latin dance specialist. What’s the McGee. Are you allowed to tell me who was your favourite? special appeal of latin dance? I studied latin and ballroom but I won the Italian championship as a latin dancer. I was drawn in that direction because it’s more fun, more cheeky. It suits my personality. You’re also the world champion at jive kicks and flicks and Charleston swivels. Do you have any more record attempts planned?
Well it’s really nice to have a different partner each year. With Georgia we were lucky enough to make it all the way to the final, and Laura was wonderful for her fantastic commitment - but my best year so far was with the lovely Debbie McGee. She always gave 100% and she was always keen to learn. Debbie had some dance training
and experience already but there was something special about watching the two you practicing together. Even more so when it came to the Saturday night performances. Lots of us expected you to win. Did you expect to win? Well once we were in the final then of course you put everything into winning - all four couples feel that way - but arriving in the final is already a big achievement. By staying in the competition until the final it means that you have danced all of the dances - and that’s what it’s all about. It’s about having the chance to make the public watching you happy.
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Debbie that you would pick out as being extra special, which would it be? I think I would choose the Argentine Tango because everything worked. The music, the lighting, the choreography, the costumes. It all came together. The atmosphere in the studio was great. It all made for a real good dance. Has planning already started for the 2018 show? Not yet. We find out in June if we’re back. You’ve been on the Strictly tour. Is it hard work? It’s not hard. We perform a full two hour show in the arena, in front of 14 thousand people, so it’s always a fantastically exciting event. There are thousands of people chanting your name. The atmosphere and the adrenaline carry you through. You brought your show dance Is Life to Grimsby last year and it was hugely popular. It’s always a good night in Grimsby and the Auditorium is a really nice place. Before I was doing my own show I used to come to Grimsby to appear in Kevin and Karen Clifton’s shows. And what can we expect from the new show? Well it’s a brand new show called Born To Win. Last year was about the differences and similarities between the UK and Italy, this year it’s more about the story of my life, right back to Sicily and Bologna and then coming to England and joining Strictly. I have Luba Mushtuk with me, she’s a fantastic dancer and choreographer and an excellent cast. And our choreographer and director is Jason Gilkison, who has the same role on Kevin and Karen’s show. That sounds like a guarantee of quality - we’ll look forward to seeing the show in April. Thank you for being nice to interview and have a great tour. Thank you and we’ll see Grimsby soon.
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ell as we go to print the beast from the east is slinking away to the west and storm Emma is petering out and all in all it seems like we got off fairly easy here on the south bank. But of course that doesn’t mean that the winter is done with us yet - there’ll be more cold weather before summer comes striding in looking all suntanned and eating choc ices. And that means more driving in terrible conditions with all its attendant risks, so it’s a good time for a quick refresher on the key elements of safe winter driving. First of all make sure your car is in good order. Have it serviced, make sure levels are good, check your tread depth. If there are any problems with your motor this is the time of the year that will expose them. Second important point anticipation. Look well ahead for
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AND OF COURSE KEEP AN EYE OPEN FOR BLACK ICE!
Black ice is a thin layer of ice on the road surface. Because it is smooth and transparent, it appears the same colour as the road below. It can be almost invisible to drivers, which makes it particularly dangerous. So if the temperature is low and the road surface looks wet, be careful and drive with extra caution. You may see it glinting in the sunlight, or spot cars ahead swerving for no obvious reason. However, it’s likely you won’t see black ice at all, so be particularly cautious on shaded stretches of road, bridges, flyovers and tunnels – anywhere the surface temperature may be lower, in fact. Quiet roads are also more likely to be affected so try sticking to major highways as far as possible.
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