Essex Business & Leisure Basildon April Edition 2012 by Essex Business & Leisure Ltd

April 2012 Edition

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Welcome to our April edition. I hope you’re all enjoying your Easter Break. It’s lovely to spend time with your family and friends and catch up in doors and in the garden, it’s been great to see some sunshine and long may it continue. We have our lovely wedding section again for all you brides to be, with details of a local wedding fair too. Essex police have brought to our attention of a high increase in car crime. (Please see page 22) Chiane is back in Great Ormand Street, but has enjoyed her time at home with her family; she has been Horse riding and had lots of fun. My son Reece who attends Woodlands school in Basildon approached the school to do a non uniform day in aid of Chiane, which raised £1,150 !! If you have any fund raising ideas and would like to help or would like to approach their local school please contact me and I will do my best to help arrange anything for you. You can read Chiane’s update on (page 20) Please visit www.eblonline.co.uk to see all our Money saving vouchers, there are great offers on there from saving £1 on your taxi fare to money off meals and lots more. There is also an events section with events going on in Essex. You can register

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April is a busy time in the garden many shrubs will benefit from a trim this month to keep them tidy and encourage new growth. Shorten the shoots of cape fuchsia, cutting back to strong sideshoots, shaping the plant and cutting out the dead wood. Hard prune, tall old stems on Buddleja and other fast-growing shrubs that flower on new wood. Many dogwoods and willows, grown as clumps and valued for their colourful winter stems, should also be cut back hard now, right down to a stubby base, about 30cm (12in) from the ground to ensure lots of new growth. Complete rose pruning in March before they start into strong growth. Shorten all shoots, cutting back to an outward-facing bud, Clip old flowers off winterflowering heathers, take care not to trim back into old wood. Mark any congested clumps of Spring bulbs that have flowered poorly with a label to remind you to lift and divide them later in the year. A little attention to spring-flowering pots will ensure they look their best right through until May. Pick off dead flowerheads from primulas and winter-flowering pansies to encourage plants to develop further flowers. Also

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An update on Chiane. We are back at Great Ormond Street and Chiane is an inpatient for a few days while tests are being carried out to establish how her body is recovering after the last high dose Thiotepa.

next month we will know more once all tests are completed and we will have a better picture as to how Chiane is doing to make the necessary decisions regarding any future treatments.

The good news is that we continued with HLA match platelet transfusion from 1 donor, (despite being told that Chiane won’t benefit from it) luckily she did, and her platelet levels today went up from 5 to 75, which is an increase of 1200% benefit compared to normal platelet transfusion. She has responded well and her platelets incremented which is all very positive and good news! Hopefully Chiane’s body will be strong enough for her second course of Thiotepa.

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Police are urging residents in Basildon to be vigilant after a recent rise in car crime. In January, police received 200 reports of car break-ins across the Basildon district, compared to just 88 reports in December 2011. Patrols have been stepped up across affected areas, with the worst affected wards being Lee Chapel North, Felmores and Fryerns. In Crosse Courts, Laindon at 8.15pm on January 2, a suspect used an implement to bend the top of the passenger door to gain entry to a Vauxhall Corsa, and stole a in car CD player, worth £100. On January 28, between 9am and 5.40pm in the Riverview Centre, Vange, an Audi car had three wheels stolen worth £300 and the rear window smashed, causing £150 damage. Insp Simon Gray, from the Basildon East neighbourhood policing team, said: “We have had reports of a variety of methods of breaking into cars, including smashed windows and bending doors back.

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