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what’s inside BACK IN TIME FOR DINNER: EAT AND SHOP LIKE A FIFTIES HOUSEWIFE ROCK ON: SINGER JAMES ATKIN IS BACK ON HOME TURF CREATURE COMFORTS: PEDIGREE ACCESSORIES FOR THE HOME

Golden girl HELEN MIRREN TALKS ABOUT HER LATEST FILM AND BEING SEXY . . .

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Theatre Trips & Shhows Jersey by Sea May 2nd 7 nights from £549 Wonderful Weston May 10th, June 7th & September 20th 5 nights from £299 Sussex Coast in Eastbourne May 17th & September 13th 5 nights from £399 Pembrokeshire & West Wales in Tenby May 17th & September 6th 5 nights from £399 Dorset Delights in Bournemouth May 31st & September 13th 5 nights from £399 Isle of Wight Explorer June 1st 4 nights from £375 North Wales Splendour in Llandudno June 13th 7 nights from £549 Emerald Isle June 21st 5 nights from £549

Coronation Street – The Tour* Sunday April 19th ~ £45 Ironbridge & Blists Hill* Tuesday April 21st ~ £34 Portsmouth – Spinnaker Tower High Tea* Wednesday April 22nd ~ £42 Weston-super-Mare April 22nd & 29th, May 3rd & 6th ~ £17 Birmingham Thursday April 23rd ~ £19 Cabot Circus or Cribbs Causeway Friday April 24th ~ £18 Bath Saturday April 25th ~ £18 Gower Coast Sunday April 26th ~ £23 Wonderwool, Royal Welsh Showground* Sunday April 26th ~ £29

Cornish Coast in St Ives June 22nd & August 31st 4 nights from £299

Wednesday April 29th ~ £29

Historic York July 17th 3 nights from £275

Thursday April 30th ~ £22

Weymouth Carnival Week August 15th 7 nights from £549 Disneyland Paris August 16th 3 nights from £449

Bowood House & Gardens*

Bournemouth

Chelsea Flower Show* Thu May 21st & Sat May 23rd ~ £89 *Entry included. Children (15 and under) receive a discount of £5 on all our Day Trips.

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01242 257714 61 CLARENCE STREET, CHELTENHAM, GLOS, GL50 3LB

The Bodyguard Wolverhampton Grand Wednesday April 29th ~ £59 Dirty Dancing Birmingham Hippodrome Wednesday May 6th ~ £65 Lord of the Dance Bristol Hippodrome Wednesday May 13th ~ £59 War Horse London Thursday May 21st ~ £69 Jersey Boys Bristol Hippodrome Tuesday June 9th ~ £59 The Sound of Music Bristol Hippodrome Wednesday June 24th ~ £59 Sunny Afternoon London Wednesday July 1st ~ £69 Anything Goes Wolverhampton Grand Wednesday July 15th ~ £55 Billy Elliot London Thursday July 23rd ~ £59 Beautiful London Thursday August 27th ~ £65 Shrek Wolverhampton Grand Wednesday September 30th ~ £59 Gypsy London Wednesday October 21st ~ £65 Children (15 and under) receive a discount of £10 on all our Theatre Trips & Shows.

We Are Open Monday to Saturday 9.00am to 5.00pm!!

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Britain’s Got Talent

You couldn’t make it up . . . a dog being hypnotised and a man playing music on a comb are among the quirky acts being judged by our favourite foursome, Simon, David, Amanda and Alesha in tonight’s must-see episode. It all kicks off on ITV at 8pm.

Cheltenham Poetry Festival

The natural world is the focus of the fifth poetry festival which starts on Wednesday and runs until May 4. And one of the highlights is an appearance by Jo Bell, not just an acclaimed poet but also the Poetry Society’s Canals Laureate.

FASHION & BEAUTY Join the fashion revolution and start asking who made your clothes and where they came from. And with hats all the rage, why not make your own? P13-17

HEALTH & WELLBEING Fancy a game of croquet? It’s the perfect genteel way to get some exercise. Or take a long hard look at your diet and try the Japanese way of eating to heal the body from the inside. P19-21

HOMES & GARDENS

We’ve got some simply paw-fect treats for the home, while in the garden, we visit a pretty plot in Blockley. P33-37

FOOD & DRINK We step back in time this week with a visit the Fifites. First we pop into The Cotswold Diner, a quirky converted bus serving motorists on the A436, and then head off

to shop like a Fifties housewife. Bringing us up to date is a meal at the new-look Cafe Rouge. P25-30

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Forest of Dean singer James Atkin of XMF fame is back on home turf as he chats ahead of a gig at Gloucester Guildhall. P49-52

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Who are we? Weekend magazine is published every Saturday by the Gloucester Citizen and Gloucestershire Echo newspapers, part of the Local World stable. Acting Editor Jonathan Whiley Deputy Editor Joyce Matthews joyce.matthews@glosmedia.co.uk 01242 278067

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ITH Cheltenham Poetry Festival upon us, it got me thinking how much poetry as an art form divides opinion. Either you love it and will occasionally incorporate lines into everyday conversation –“oh Marjory I’ve been wandering ever so lonely as a cloud” – or else you dismiss it as the musings of those who have got a bit too much time on their hands. Personally, I love it. My rather dubious claim to literary fame is that as a nine-year-old I managed to persuade a panel of judges to publish one of my poems in an animal anthology. It was worth my pocket money at the time. It was titled, rather unambiguously, ‘The Fox’, and was inspired by Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox. That for me lit the blue touchpaper where poetry was concerned. I went on to study the work of Plath and TS Eliot at college and decided, a little pretentiously, to write a dissertation

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on First World War poetry at university. So often I encountered and still encounter, snobbery where poetry is concerned. Tell someone you’re reading a book and they invariably take a polite interest but mention the word poetry and they roll their eyes and bracket you as some kind of hippy who spends their days sipping green tea while gazing longingly into the distance. Truth is, that’s only every other weekend. I joke. But even if it was, so what? So often people are quick to judge if people dare to take an interest in anything other than mainstream culture. We’ve become a nation scrabbling for conformity with social media dictating what is deemed to be acceptable. Let’s hope creativity doesn’t suffer as a result. After all, Marmite still makes a lot of money. Jonathan Whiley weekend@glosmedia.co.uk 01242 278072

This issue’s contributors were asked: If you didn’t do your current job, what would you have done?

Helen Mirren

Chris Hill

Joe Inglis

Mikal Ludlow

Helen Blow

“Acting is the only thing I could imagine doing,” says Helen, who talks about her latest film in our Big Interview. “I mean, maybe I would have been happy like the Queen, living on a farm, far from anywhere with lots of horses, dogs and children all running around, mucking in, getting grubby . . . I guess I could imagine doing that.”

“I’d have loved to have been a musician, says author Chris. “I played guitar in rock bands from my teens onwards but we never found fame and there’s an age limit on that kind of dream I think. “One thing I like about writing novels is that you’re never too old to become a famous novelist. More recently I’ve taught my teenage sons to play so maybe they can be rock stars instead of me.”

“My career has evolved over the years, from full- time vet, toTV presenter and now to tech start-up app developer, says Joe, who tells us about his ideal weekend in this week’s issue. “So I think I’ve pretty much done most of the jobs I’d have ever wanted to do.”

“I’m already doing my dream job, well technically being a photographer rather than sitting in front of a computer,” says Mikal who visits Boston for this week’s issue. “However if I had to do something else, maybe an actor,” says the Weekend photographer. “I’m not one to shrink away from the limelight or hide my light under a bushel, although something tells me I’d end up in Eastenders.”

“I would still be in the media but would specialise in travel writing, so I could journey to all four corners of the Earth,” says feature writer Helen. “Either that or a wildlife presenter like Kate Humble, so I could get to travel to fascinating places where few people get to go and get paid for it.Two places on my bucket list are the Galapagos islands and the Amazon.”

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HELEN'S PURE gold It's rare to read the name Helen Mirren without seeing the word 'sexy' in the same sentence. But with her new film, The Woman in Gold, just released. WEEKEND discovers that in her early years, including the time she spent living in Gloucestershire, the actress was fraught with insecurity

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ROM her note-perfect performances on the big screen to her stylish turns on the red carpet, everything about Dame Helen Mirren oozes confidence. It comes as a surprise then, to learn the 69-year-old, who picked up an Oscar for her portrayal of Elizabeth II in The Queen, doesn't feel so selfassured. "I don't really have confidence, honestly," she confesses. "And certainly when I was younger, I was fraught with insecurity, sometimes paralysingly so." The notoriously fickle field of acting isn't the obvious career choice for someone gripped by insecurity, but the star – currently appearing in new film Woman In Gold – believes it was the best move for her as a young woman. "I think that's why I became an actress – you have to overcome that, you have to fight through it and come out the other side. Also, I think, as you get older, a lot of that anxiety just drops away. And it's a lovely thing." Helen spent the Seventies and Eighties living in Littledean in the Forest of Dean with her then boyfriend, photographer James Wedge. She’s now married to the film director Taylor Hackford and turns 70 on July 26 ("it's Mick Jagger's birthday too, and the anniversary of the Cuban revolution – one year I'll have to go there for it"). But she hasn't given the milestone much thought. "Every day's a milestone. So the fact that it's this particular day, as opposed to a week's time, is totally irrelevant to me. You just roll on through life," says the actress. As for the 'sexy' tag which so frequently accompanies her name, she regards it as "such an easy, lazy" label. "We're all so much more complicated than that," she adds. "There are so many different kinds of attractiveness in human beings, in human behaviour. I would like to see that recognised more often." Indeed, Woman In Gold is more twin sets and pearls than sultry looks, as Helen plays 80-something Maria Altmann, an Austrian Jew who was forced to bid farewell to her family

and flee Vienna during the Second World War. Sixty years later, in the late Nineties, having relocated to Los Angeles, Altmann enlists the help of young lawyer E Randol Schoenberg (Ryan Reynolds) to try and retrieve the family's treasured possessions seized by the Nazis. Among the items is painter Gustav Klimt's prized Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (described in the film as "the Mona Lisa of Austria"), which is hanging in the Belvedere Gallery in the Austrian capital. For Altmann, who died in 2011 aged 94, the struggle was about more than just reclaiming a painting from the Viennese bureaucrats determined to keep the treasured piece in Austria. "Oh, so much more," Helen agrees. "Yes, it was worth a lot of money, but it's also the idea that 'no, it doesn't belong to you, it belongs to me. It's what I grew up with and you have stolen it'."

Max Irons, Dame Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds and actor Daniel Bruehl during a photo call for The Woman in Gold. Inset, with co-star Ryan Reynolds

Maybe I would have been happy like the Queen, living on a farm, far from anywhere with lots of horses, dogs and children all running around, mucking in, getting grubby . . . Helen Mirren

While her character had a troubled relationship with her home town, London-born Helen was warmly received in Vienna and was even presented with a medal for services to the city by its mayor. "I don't think they were really giving it to me, they were giving it to Maria Altmann. "The mayor said to me that, above all, Maria's efforts to reclaim the paintings had made the city of Vienna face up to the past." The daughter of a Russian father

and an English mother, Helen's paternal Russian family, exiled after the 1917 Revolution, also knew what it felt like to leave everything behind. "My grandfather, a tsarist, lost everything. My Russian family were forced out of their home and had to go and to live in one room of an apartment in Moscow, five of them, with my grandmother dying of stomach cancer. It must have been absolutely horrendous," she says. "But they were not taken away to concentration camps. I'm not saying there was not unbelievable brutality in Russia during the revolution, there was, but it didn't particularly happen to my family in that way." Helen, whose career began as a teenager at the National Youth Theatre, is currently depicting the Queen again in The Audience on Broadway, a production in which she originally appeared on

the West End stage. She recently ruled out playing the monarch again in Netflix's upcoming drama The Crown, stating, 'we must all move on, and me most of all'. "Acting is the only thing I could imagine doing," says Helen. "I mean, maybe I would have been happy like the Queen, living on a farm, far from anywhere with lots of horses, dogs and children all running around, mucking in, getting grubby; those are the lines I say in the play. "I guess I could imagine doing that. I love gardening, I love the countryside, I love the British climate." When talk turns to the thrill of the stage, however, it seems highly unlikely Helen will quit acting any time soon. "There's something very magical about an empty theatre," she enthuses. "I find it the most powerful, moving, incredible place to be. "I love walking out on stage before I do the show and looking out at the empty seats, thinking, 'you're mine, all mine!'" â&#x2013; The Woman In Gold is in cinemas now.

CURRY EVENING

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Nick Gazzard, father of Hollie, was the guest speaker at Tayntons Curry Club

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Nevil Hart and Adam Sobie

Ian Heather and Hayley Marles

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Hitan Patel and David Harley

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Win! A £200 meal voucher to dine at Cheltenham’s new Côte Brasserie

HE much-anticipated Côte Brasserie has opened in Montpellier Terrace, Cheltenham. And you could win a voucher for £200 to spend on dining at the new restaurant. Open daily from breakfast through to lunch and dinner, stylish Côte brings even more variety to the area. The company has refurbished 1 Montpellier Terrace, retaining features from when it used to be a bank, including an old teller counter and wall panelling. At £9.95 for two courses and £11.90 for three courses, Côte’s weekday

lunch and early evening menu provides outstanding value. It lends itself perfectly to a quick lunch as well as relaxed evening dining. Served Monday to Friday from noon to 7pm, the menu changes fortnightly, ensuring there is always something new to delight both regular and first-time guests. The main menu changes with the seasons but often includes dishes such as steak tartare and moules marinère as well as the quintessentially French beef bourguignon with potato and chive purée, bacon lardons and chestnut mushrooms. There’s always a tempting selection

of desserts on offer too, including the Côte speciality of crème caramel and a decadently rich chocolate mousse. The extensive wine list, complete with tasting notes, is also very reasonably priced, featuring wines and Champagnes from a variety of producers across France, many of which are small family-run independents. In the winter, the restaurant offers a cosy retreat and come summer, the outdoor seating provides Parisianstyle terrace dining. The friendly team, led by general manager Ed, look forward to welcoming both locals and tourists to their restaurant.

To be in with a chance of winning, simply answer the following question:

What is the main ingredient in moules marinière? a. Lobster b. Mussels c. Crab Send your answer on a postcard with your name, address and daytime telephone number to Côte Brasserie Competition, Features Department,Third Floor, St James’ House, St James’ Square, Cheltenham, GL50 3PR. The closing date is Saturday, April 25 at noon TERMS AND CONDITIONS: Usual Local World terms and conditions apply. Visit www.gloucestershireecho.co.uk/houserules or www.gloucestercitizen.co.uk/ houserules for full details. By entering this competition you are agreeing to Local World informing you of promotions, offers and services unless stated otherwise. Not to be used in conjunction with any other offer.

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FASHION Your guide to fashion in Gloucestershire – direct from the designers themselves

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&BEAUTY Time in spades

A FAIR TRADE

Accessories queen Kate Spade has some quirky new timepieces to adorn your wrist for spring.The Grammercy dot watch, £250, in gold plated stainless steel and chocolate has the famous Spade logo on the dial, or have some fun with the Ladybird Metro Watch, £195, with white leather strap and crystal detail. Both are available from watchshop.com

Join the fashion revolution – if you want to know who made the clothes you’re wearing, there’s a campaign to encourage transparency in the industry. Find out more on page 14.

SPOTTED ON THE STREET

Have we spotted you out and about in Gloucestershire? We check out your style and find out what you’re wearing.

LET IT RAIN

Of course, we don’t really want it to rain, but if the heavens open, we’ve got the latest macs and boots to keep you fashionably dry.

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Beach babes

Create a warm weather glow with Bobbi Brown’s new Sandy Nudes collection, inspired by the shades and textures of sand from beaches around the world. Deep bronzes, bleached whites and warm browns are perfect for long lazy summer days. Available at bobbibrown.co.uk fromThursday. ■ Nude and pale pink nail polishes, £11. ■ Face and body bronzing duo, £34.

It may be from the winter collection, but the warm orange hue of the Autograph drape maxi dress from Marks & Spencer means it still works for spring, and being reduced right now, from £65 to £17.99, makes it all the more appealing. Visit marksandspencer.com

Kelly Rodgers Kelly, 28, a marketing manager, is expecting a baby. “My style is quite maternitychic right now, a mixture of vintage and basics. “I shop a lot on eBay and like anything that has got a 70s style, such as kimonos. “Today I am wearing a Topshop trench coat, jeans and top, my boots are from Jack Wills and my sunglasses are Ray-Ban.”

Indiana Rayfield Indiana,18, a student, says: “My style is quite grungy. “I shop a lot in charity shops and am inspired by music artists. I listen a lot to Nirvana for instance. “I am wearing Vans trainers, Topshop jeans and the rest is from charity shops.”

RETRO RECYCLED As well as selling vintage clothing, London fashion institution Beyond Retro produces a range that takes pre-worn garments and transforms them into likenew one-offs that still retain a retro edge. They’ve honed in on the Seventies trend, with short-shorts, fringed waistcoats and cool striped mini skirts patchworked from contrasting suedes. ■ Blogger Pandora Sykes (pandorasykes. com) wears the Beyond Retro Label panelled suede skirt, £38. Above: suede shorts, £20 at beyondretro.com

POST A SELFIE

NOW in its second year, Fashion Revolution Day on Friday marks the Rana Plaza disaster in 2013, when a building housing several garment factories collapsed in Bangladesh, killing and injuring thousands. The initiative encourages shoppers to post a selfie on social media showing their clothing label, tagging the retailer and asking ‘who made my clothes?’ (include the hashtag #whomademyclothes), and then sharing the reply. It’s hoped the campaign will encourage transparency within the fashion industry.

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Mailys Morel checks out your style Laura Baker Laura, 28, a housewife, describes her style as smart-casual. “I enjoy reading fashion magazines and I love to wander into shops to see what is in, what is new. “I am wearing New Look jeans, handbag and sandals and my top is from Select in Gloucester.”

Kate Townley Kate, 20, an apprentice artist, likes boho style. “As I work in an artistic environment, I really enjoy seeing and wearing bright colours and fabrics. I look a lot at Pinterest. “I am wearing a Debenhams jacket today. The scarf was a present and I made the necklace myself. “My bag is H&M and my jeans are from New Look.”

SOUL SISTER Luxury celeb favourite Beautiful Soul is designed and manufactured in the UK with a zero-waste policy.The label has been worn by green fashion champions like Lily Cole and Livia Firth. The spring-summer collection captures spring’s retro mood, with demure bib-front tea dresses and long-sleeved floral tunics. ■ Chika shirt dress, £360, at beautiful-soul.co.uk

ETHICAL ROOTS PeopleTree has been working with FairTrade producers for more than 20 years. It’s the place to pick up basics like Breton tops and cotton tees. For spring they’re right on the money with bold striped pieces that echo the high-end take on the trend. ■ Paloma panel dress, £11, at peopletree.co.uk

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FULLY CONSCIOUS It may be a fast fashion retailer, but H&M has one of the most respected sustainability programmes on the high street. For instance, did you know you can take a bag of your unwanted clothes into H&M and exchange it for a £5 voucher to spend in store? And the brand’s Conscious collection uses organic and recycled materials. The latest offering, just available focuses on spring’s Oriental trend, epitomised by this ivory open-back kimono, and includes sleek separates like a cape-sleeved black tux jacket. ■ Conscious Exclusive kimono, £39.99, at hm.com

Fashion Revolution Day on Friday wants consumers to ask where their clothes come from. WEEKEND tracks down the labels that combine style and sustainability

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Breezy waterproof ankle boots, £70, from The Original Muck Boot Company at muckbootco.co.uk

Skinted & minted

Saving for a rainy day? Look great for less with this South Pink patent raincoat, £39, from very.co.uk or splash the cash with Boden’s Rainyday Storm Swirls mac currently £83.30 reduced from £119 at boden.co.uk

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Fun foldable Rose Cag in a Bag rain mac with toggle pull hood, £30, from Cath Kidston, Cheltenham or visit cathkidston.com

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Make light of April showers with these colourful weatherproof macs, boots and brollies

Bootylicious . . . grey and pink Windsor wellies, £55, from butterflytwists.com

Get ready for stormy weather . . . charcoal and cream stripe umbrella, £18, from totes.co.uk

Raina peony parka, £129, and jeans, £49.95, from Joules, the Promenade, Cheltenham or visit joules.com

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Make your own hat with milliner Louise Pocock

ATS are seriously fashionable at the moment and the chance to design one for yourself is too good a chance to pass up. You can do just that at a special two-day workshop in the Forest of Dean next week, led by county milliner Louise Pocock. From fedoras and bowlers to trilbies or cloches, hats come in all shapes, sizes, colours and styles from understated and classic to loud and fun. Based in the Cotswolds, Louise designs hats for everyone and among her clients are celebrities, including rock musician Gaz Coombes. Louise fuses a sense of the vintage with a contemporary twist bringing a fresh look to the old classics. She is also passionate about sharing her knowledge and has organised the Headwear with Attitude workshops at the Tudor Farmhouse Hotel and Restaurant as part of a two-night stay. People can spend the days designing their own unique headwear, inspired by colours from the nearby forest. Louise creates for a diverse bunch of clients from town criers to ladies who lunch and is excited to share her knowledge. “It’s the secrets that we need to pass on,” said Louise. “These traditional techniques are handed down from generation to generation and we as milliners have a duty to @WeekendGlos

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Get your hat Hats come in all shapes and sizes so why not have a go at making your own? HELEN BLOW finds out about courses led by county milliner Louise Pocock keep this wonderful industry alive.” She aims to inspire her students by the area’s history, shapes and colours and bring to life their imagination. They will learn to create and professionally trim their own hat, perhaps with ribbon or go wild with feathers. The course is suitable for both novices or old hands looking for expert insight, and those on the workshop will be able to delve into Louise’s unique collection of old and new hat blocks so they can create a beautifully-constructed hat . The first course is on Monday and Tuesday next week and the second is on June 13 and 14. The cost is £180 and to book visit tudorfarmhousehotel.co.uk or call 01594 833046.

Croquet

KING

JAKE ROBERTS has a go at this classic activity and chats with local croquet champion, Klim Seabright about what it takes to master the sport

’D never played croquet in my life and yet here I was at the prestigious Cheltenham Croquet Club on a windswept afternoon. All I knew was the aim of the game was to hit the ball through several white hoops. Surely there couldn’t be too much more to worry about? I was apprehensive as I entered the grounds through a small gap in the tall hedges. Several players were hitting balls around on the closest two greens and I watched, trying to get a head start on the technique and rules of the game. It wasn’t long before I saw club secretary Klim Seabright striding towards me – my croquet coach for the afternoon. After grabbing a mallet and set of balls, Klim led the way out on to an unoccupied green. I lined up to hit my first ball side on – as if I was playing golf. @WeekendGlos

“Most people use the through the legs technique nowadays,” said Klim, prompting me to quickly shuffle so I could hit the ball straight. The first few hits went well – beginner’s luck – but then Klim talked me through the rules. In modern croquet there are two distinctly different ways of playing – golf croquet or association croquet. We started off with golf croquet, the simpler of the two. Each player has two balls and taking it in turns you try and move the balls through the six hoops with the first person who manages to knock their ball through the hoop awarded a point. Most of my shots either fell short or went off wildly to the edges of the green. Klim’s shots on the other hand were almost perfect. A 12-year-veteran of the game, he’s captained the Croquet

Association international side and has also – quite bizarrely – played for Austria too. “They were a man down at the European Championships so I filled in,” he said as I hit another wayward shot. Things really stepped up when we moved on to Association Croquet, the more advanced version of the game. Klim described it as a combination of snooker and chess as you always had to think a step ahead of your opponent. At first, all the technique seemed a bit complicated but as you put it into practice you soon get to grips with how it works. Hitting the ball a certain way makes it react a particular way – naturally – and to stay on the green you have to use your turn to hit something. Usually that’s another ball – and the move is called roquet. If you manage to do this you then get to take a croquet shot. This involves picking up the ball and placing it against the ball you hit before an opportunity to go for the hoop. Under Klim’s tutelage it wasn’t long before I set myself up in a perfect position. I was less than a metre away but the gap between me and the shining white bend of metal protruding from the perfectly cut lawn couldn’t feel further. I took a deep breath and practised a swinging motion. Too much power and the ball will clatter against the posts of the hoop and bounce back towards me; too little and it won’t even make it and my opponent will have the opportunity to clear my ball away. The satisfactory knocking sound reassured me that I’d made a good, clean hit. The ball sailed forward, chimed as it glanced the inside of the hoop then passed through. “Good shot” said Klim reassuringly. Klim now wants the club to expand. He’s working hard to get schools involved and is in the process of setting up a team with Cheltenham Ladies’ College. “I can’t put my hand on my heart and say we have a batch of 25-year-olds playing,” he said. But he’s hoping that will change soon. He hopes a free taster day will encourage people to turn up and try it out. If you find you want to continue on after the taster you can opt for three more coaching sessions, and if you decide to join the club you will be paired with your own mentor to guide you through the ins and outs of the sport. Now that all sounds very sporting indeed. The Open Day takes place next Saturday from 10am to 3pm at Cheltenham Croquet Club in Old Bath Road.

Healing with

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If we gave more thought to the food we eat, would we be healthier? Chef and author Makiko Sano reveals the Japanese concept of Shoku-Iku

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OW often do you really think carefully about what you’re putting in your mouth? After a hard day at work, it’s usually a case of quickly refuelling, isn’t it? And when you’re hungry, you’ll eat anything. If you’re anything like me with all the chocolate from Easter, you’re probably nursing a sugar hangover. But there is a different way and it doesn’t involve a scary-sounding fad diet. Instead, the Japanese approach to food, Shoku-iku, means ‘food education’, and was pioneered alongside macrobiotics in the late 1800s by military doctor Sagen Ishizuka, who believed the secret to health and healing was to strengthen the body from the inside. In June 2005, concerned by the effects of Western fast food, families not eating together and children skipping breakfast, the Japanese government passed the Basic Law of Shoku-Iku, making education about food nutrition and origins compulsory. Chef Makiko Sano, author of Shoku-Iku! Japanese Conscious Eating For A Long And Healthy Life, says Japanese people are never on diets and never skip meals as they are monitoring their nutritional intake with every meal.

“I don’t believe in diets,” says busy mum-of-four Sano. “I prefer to make sure I eat balanced meals. “You shouldn’t avoid what you like to eat, but it’s important to think about what you have been eating throughout the day and make sure you don’t eat lots of your favourite unhealthy food. Simple food can be delicious too,” she adds. In her book, she acknowledges that it will take time to retrain yourself to be more mindful about food. But by choosing food based on its power to invigorate, she insists you’ll feel better, lighter and in control. According to Sano, who grew up in Tokyo before moving to London and opening sushi restaurant Suzu, the basic rules of Shoku-Iku include the Buddhist-inspired Power of Five to boost variety: eating foods from five groups (grains, vegetables, fruits, protein and dairy) that appeal to your five senses, that contain five tastes – sweet, sour, bitter, salt and the savoury ‘umami’. It was Sano’s mother who encouraged her to think about diet. “I had severe eczema when I was young. My mother checked which foods I was allergic to and made everything from scratch. “My eczema disappeared when I was six.”

This is a quick way of having eggs for breakfast. I always like to eat greens at breakfast as well, as did all my family before me. This is a fusion of British and Japanese cooking – why not?

FULL JAPANESE GARDEN BREAKFAST

1tsp rapeseed oil 1 garlic clove, grated Large handful of kale, chopped into 1cm slices Handful of baby spinach leaves 3 cherry tomatoes, quartered 3 shiitake mushrooms, finely sliced 3 regular mushrooms, finely sliced 4 eggs 1 quantity Finely chopped chilli (optional) Garden soy sauce dressing 1 apple, grated 1 carrot, grated 1 onion, grated 100ml soy sauce 100ml rice vinegar 80g honey or brown sugar @WeekendGlos

Heat the oil in a saute pan over a medium heat, add the garlic and stir until fragrant. Add the kale with any water from washing still clinging to its leaves, the spinach, tomatoes and mushrooms and cook until almost tender. Hollow out four spaces and drop an egg into each. Put the lid on and cook over a low heat to steam for three to four minutes, depending on how you like your eggs. Transfer to plates and serve with Garden soy sauce dressing, sprinkled with chilli.

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News and events from the Isbourne Holistic Centre in Cheltenham WE seem to spend our lives rushing from one thing to the next, looking for those special events to keep us going, when profound experiences can be found in any present moment. Finding Meaning in Everyday Life, a new and inspiring talk with spiritual mentor and bestselling US author Barb Schmidt helps to focus your attention on the “ordinary” moments of your life and discover the deep meaning present within them. Book early for this evening talk on April 27.. How do you feel about money? Does it pass through your hands like water? Do you try to hang on to it for dear life? Is it the source of many arguments? The attitudes we have towards money come from deep-rooted conditioning. Experienced therapist Kate Collier has been working with constellations since 2008, helping groups and individuals using this renowned method to bring about healing. Her Day Of Money Constellations is next Saturday. As part of the series Celebrate the Seasons, on May 1 we mark the beginning of summer with the traditional Celtic festival of Beltane. Come and take part in a beautiful ceremony and connect with the power of fire through sacred chants. Other courses coming up in May to further your personal development include EFT Level 1 – a one-day workshop using Emotional FreedomTechniques (or tapping) to help you easily release unhelpful thought patterns, and Reiki Level 1, which enables you to become a reiki healer to help you, your family and even your pets, using this relaxing method of healing. Book your free places during Isbourne Taster Week from May 18-24.There are free bitesize sessions to get your teeth into – check online for more details on these and all of our events. The Isbourne Foundation is a registered charity, founded in 1995 to create positive lives through education. Where is the Isbourne Centre? Very central but tucked away; WolseleyTerrace is opposite the Rodney Road car park on Oriel Road, close to the town hall. Registered Charity No. 1051622

It’s the pick OFTHE BOOKSHELVES

LOUCESTER author Chris Hill’s first novel was about a god and his latest is about sex, so he thinks maybe his third should complete the triptych and be about death. I think he’s joking but you never know with Chris. After all, his first two books are pretty much polar opposites in every sense. Whereas The Song of the Sea God was dark literary fiction with definite supernatural leanings, his new novel is, by his own admission, the perfect light-hearted holiday read. “It’s basically a romantic comedy,” says Chris of The Pick-Up Artist. “My last book was a bit like a creepy fairytale so this time I wanted to write something that was funny and more accessible. “I think this book will appeal to more people and, yes, it would be the perfect book to read on the beach or by the pool. “People tend to advise you to stick to one thing but I haven’t done that because I write for myself and I write what interests me. “I didn’t want to write the same kind of book again; I wanted to try something completely different and that’s what I’ve done.” In that sense, Chris’s writing choices are a bit like his reading choices, in that he tries not to read more than one book by any given author. “That way I am able to read more widely,” he explains. The Pick-Up Artist is about a shy and awkward young man‘s attempts to find love with the help of an online community that uses psychological techniques to help their members appeal to the opposite sex. “Although I say it’s about sex, there aren’t any actual sex scenes in the book,” says Chris. “Rather it’s all implied. But there is a lot of rude language and swearing so I @WeekendGlos

Author Chris Hill’s latest novel is perfect for the summer holidays – a light-hearted romantic comedy, and very different from his first book with its supernatural overtones. HELEN BLOW chatted to him about his work

wouldn’t recommend it to anyone who is easily offended by that sort of thing.” Hero Robert Johnson’s desperate attempts to juggle with three different women through a variety of challenging situations all add up to a raucous comedy and a modern take on the age-old story of the search for romance. Chris admits that the book is loosely based on people he has known over the years as well as situations he has been in himself. “Having said that, it is fictional and the characters are not based on anyone in particular – I could get into trouble if they were.” It is, though, set in a newspaper office in Cheltenham, which is where Chris, 49, himself worked for a period before his current day job as a communications officer for WellChild, a national charity for seriously ill children and their families. “Rob is an advertising executive rather than a journalist, but it’s set in an environment that I’m familiar with,” he says. “Similarly, my first book was set on an island where I grew up. I like to set my stories in a real place I am familiar with, although the stories and characters are fictitious.” Chris has had his head in books since he was young. He started writing as a teenager which developed into short stories. “Ever since I can remember I’ve wanted to be an author,” he says. “As a child you don’t realise that being an author isn’t a real job like journalism or accountancy. “It took me years to get my first book published and, of course, I still

have my day job and write around that and my growing family.” Chris’s first break came when he won a national award for one of his short stories about 15 years ago. “That was when I was still working on The Citizen in Gloucester and it was the first time I realised that perhaps I could write a book that would be published.” His first full-length novel, a crime novel, was never published, although he is considering going back to it at some point to see if it has a future. He rather impressively launched The Song of the Sea God at the Cheltenham Literature Festival and The Pick-Up Artist has recently been launched in Lyme Regis, where his publishers are based. “I think this new book will appeal to both men and women as it’s written from a male perspective, although the stronger characters in it are the three women and I really enjoyed writing about them,” he says. Chris still finds it slightly surreal when he sees his book on the shelves of the local bookshop. “It does take some getting used to but it’s lovely to see because it’s what I’ve always wanted to do,” he said. He’s never tempted to take a copy to the checkout however, despite dreaming of doing that very thing as a youngster. “I’ve got several copies at home already anyway so it would be a bit of a waste of time and money,” he laughs. ■ The Pick-Up Artist, £8.99, is available in Waterstones and online from Amazon.

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Food

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Fifties dining

Super sarnies

Helen Blow visits the newlyrefurbished Cafe Rouge in Cheltenham

All aboard The Cotswold Diner for the perfect fry-up

We find out where to get the best takeaway sandwich in Gloucestershire

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Maria and Neil Thomas run the Cotswold Diner which parks up at Chatcombe Pitch

Most chefs hark on about using local ingredients but how about from the field next door via the butcher over the road.

SUE BRADLEY finds out why The Bull in Fairford is fast earning a reputation as the place to be for beef eaters

Flavour of the

FIFTIES

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The Cotswold Diner has become something of a local landmark since it began rolling up at a layby near Seven Springs this time last year. SUE BRADLEY pays it a visit

INING experiences don’t come much more out of the ordinary than eating a full English breakfast while gazing over the rolling Cotswolds countryside from the comfort of a converted bus. Neil and Maria Thomas haven’t looked back since replacing their roadside butty waggon with a 1950s-style diner created in a decommissioned Stagecoach vehicle. One year on the bus, situated at the Chatcombe Pitch layby on the A436 Stow road just past Seven Springs, is proving to be a favourite stoppingoff point for increasing numbers of motorists, lorry drivers, cyclists and even walkers. Meanwhile glowing reviews from satisfied customers means it is now ranked among the top 50 or so of the 359 restaurants in the Cheltenham area on the Trip Advisor website, earning comments such as “quirky, fun and spotless” and “not your typical layby van”. Maria Thomas’s family has been providing roadside refreshments at Chatcombe Pitch for the past 30 years. The tradition began with her grandmother Janet Mace and husband Neville, who ran a catering van for 17 years before selling the business to Maria and Neil in 2002. More recently the couple started thinking about ways in which they could develop their catering enterprise. “We wanted something that would be interesting and fun; something that our customers could sit in and somewhere warm, although we knew we wouldn’t be allowed to put up a building on this spot,” explains Maria, who lives in Maisemore. “A little while later I found this 1991 Volvo B10 bus being offered for sale on the internet and we came up with the idea of having it as a diner.” The previous owners of the bus had already re-painted its exterior in a smart burgundy and cream colour scheme, which meant that Neil could concentrate on remodelling the interior. This work involved fitting a stainless steel kitchen along with two rows of double seats from a 1950s Routemaster that had been covered in easy-to-wipe faux leather by Colin Patterson Upholstery based at the Morelands Trading Estate

in Gloucester. Meanwhile Ian Rix from R&R Fabrication in Calton Road helped with the metalwork and Neil Ogden worked on the mechanics. “My husband worked on the bus during evenings and weekends for 18 months,” laughs Maria, who has decorated the interior with various 1950s-style signs and vintage American number plates. “We were thrilled to get a visit from an environmental health inspector just a few weeks after we opened, who awarded the diner a five star hygiene rating.” The menu at The Cotswold Diner ranges from hearty full English and regular breakfasts to a variety of burgers, toasties and hot baguettes, all of which are freshly made to order. A menu of other hot dishes is provided during the summer. All the food is served on china plates and newspapers are provided for customers to flick through while their orders are being cooked. “Our breakfasts are available all day and they are definitely the most popular item that we do,” says Neil. “We use fresh, quality ingredients: we get our meat from Willersey Provision in Broadway, our free range eggs from Excell Eggs in Charlton Kings and our

bread from St George’s Bakery in Corse. “At the same time we don’t scrimp on things like our baked beans and always use Heinz: there’s no point in serving cheap stuff.” Neil and Maria have plenty of regulars, whether it’s families living nearby or drivers who make a point of calling in whenever they are in the area. At the same time they’re proving especially popular with walkers following the Cotswold Way, part of which runs parallel to their layby. “It’s an oasis for walkers: somewhere to have a hot drink and eat hot food, and go to the loo,” says Maria. “Everybody seems to love our diner: we’ve had Americans raving about it and it’s especially popular with children. “People step inside and say ‘wow’, which is lovely.” Stand-out days for Neil and Maria include the occasion when their diner was filled with soldiers and the time when ballroom dancer Brendan Cole stopped by for a bacon roll. “We offer a 50 per cent discount for members of the armed services if they’re wearing their uniforms,” laughs Maria. “We’re thrilled by the positive reaction we’ve had to our diner. It is a unique dining experience: we haven’t come across another one like it.” The Cotswold Diner opens from 8am to 3pm every day, except Sundays. It is occasionally booked for private functions some weekends, notice of which is provided to customers through its Facebook page. thecotswolddiner.co.uk

Hope for the

HOUSEWIFE

Legendary cookery writer Elizabeth David

Inspired by the recent BBC series Back In Time For Dinner, CORRIE BOND-FRENCH discovers what life was like for the British housewife in the Fifties

Back In Time For Dinner: the programme followed the Robshaw family down the decades. Here they're dressed for the 1950s, with presenter and food historian Polly Russell, right Picture: BBC

T is now 60 years since the end of rationing, and rewinding the clock back to 1955 leads us back into a fuller post-war pantry, with treats such as tinned peaches jostling for space with newly invented teabags, tinned salmon, evaporated milk and a sneaky bottle of sherry for that trifle. Sweetshop shelves would soon groan under the weight of gleaming jars of sugary treats, oranges and lemons and other now everyday but then exotic fruits and vegetables started to appear in grocer’s boxes. The housewife’s shopping basket, palate and hope was transformed in the space of a few years. A decade on from VE and VJ Day, it really did start to feel that life was changing for the better after the austerity and gloom of the immediate post-war years. Housewives could shop freely, queues became a distant memory, birthday and Christmas feasts could be had, although purse strings were still tightly gripped and food was still not as cheap as chips. In the 1950s the weekly food bill would have represented around 30 per cent of household income. Today it settles somewhere around the 10 per cent mark. Few people had fridges and a shopping trip was still a daily requisite for the 1950s housewife. Milk was delivered by a horse and cart and often boiled to keep it longer, or used up in rice pudding. Slowly but surely, the petrochemical industry presented new findings that transformed lives such as nylon clothing and stockings and non-stick pans. People started to turn their gardens back over to flower beds, resigning the rigours of growing their own to be associated with the war and rationing. Gardens were now awash with colour, with the help of now-banned toxic chemicals such as DDT and other pesticides. Formica appeared in kitchens and light, bright paint colours became accessible – the foil to the dark browns and greens previously used in homes. A design revolution gathered speed, with Robin Day and Terence Conran at the helm With the rush of change sweeping through the nation’s high streets and homes, the world must have sometimes felt as gloriously technicolour as the American films people flocked to at the cinema. Coffee shops and restaurants such as the Berni Inns became ubiquitous, all led by the growing Italian community in the country. When Del boy used to refer to a steak dinner in Only Fools and Horses, this was the treat he was referring to. But shopping habits didn’t change overnight. Having the choice required a change in mindset that was unfathomable just years previously. Not only could we go back to the old ways of cooking richer food, but with the increase in imported produce, we could experiment further and we started to be inspired by the diets of other countries. And this is where the late, great Elizabeth

David came in. After years spent living abroad in France, Italy and India, Elizabeth was appalled by the state of food in Britain when she returned after the war. She published her first book, A Book of Mediterranean Food, in 1951. In some ways it may have seemed futile, given the rationing situation of the time. But Elizabeth persevered. This was a time when olive oil could only be purchased from the chemists to treat an ear ailment, and ratatouille was something Papa set traps for. But Elizabeth wrote of her time cooking and eating, and the glint of Mediterranean sunshine that first appeared through the drab British kitchen curtains in 1952 soon spread, shedding dreams and fantasy food tales en route. Her influence on the nation's palate and eating habits has yet to be bettered, and we still pay homage now every time we drizzle oil over our freshly made pesto pasta. Elizabeth is every chef’s favourite and she was awarded an OBE in recognition of her services. Many of Elizabeth’s recipe’s were gleaned from handed-down family recipes wherever she travelled, and from old English recipes – she was an erudite food historian. I opted to try her rabbit recipe this week, just to see how indulgent such a richly-sauced dish would have tasted with rabbit that was still cheap and very available in the 1950s. I often cook from Elizabeth's recipes, but rabbit is not really in my repertoire, so while I have her wonderful coq au vin and Spanish omelette recipes to work on during other nights as I attempt to recreate a few days in the life of a 1950s housewife, the rabbit is the challenge. Not least because it is not that easy to get hold of nowadays. A few attempts at contacting butchers and even a plea on Twitter lead nowhere, but I eventually find a frozen one from a Bath Road butchers. It is just the one and they have jointed it for me. Bizarrely, as I start preparing it, I really do feel more 1950s than I do 2015. I remember seeing Clarissa Dickson Wright wax lyrical years ago at the Literature Festival about why we should eat more rabbit. She was probably right. This rabbit cost just £4. When I finish off the sauce on the hob and taste it, it is delicious. I have certainly never cooked such a good mustard sauce and it appears that rabbit is the perfect combination. But the proof of the pudding is in the eating. We all tuck in quite happily. There is no denying how delicious this is, but you do have to work for it in avoiding the bones. Nevertheless, I think Elizabeth would take a dim view to such fussiness, and she wasn’t the saving grace of the nation’s palate for nothing. These recipes have stood the test of time for good reason. Perhaps it is time to re-embrace some of our culinary past wholeheartedly. The Fifties had a lot going for them. Were they the golden years?

The newly refurbished Cafe Rouge

RESTAURANT REVIEW

ooh la la With a recent refit and a new menu, Cafe Rouge seems to have added a little more va va voom. HELEN BLOW gathers up the family for lunch to see whether it lives up to her expectations 30

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HANGE isn’t always a good thing, particularly when a restaurant has been a roaring success and has become a firm favourite with many. Cafe Rouge has filled a vital role in the centre of Cheltenham, feeding and watering locals and visitors with good quality, well priced French cuisine for many years. It is often busy, particularly at weekends and during school holidays and it’s difficult not to find something you like on the menu. But in recent years it has been looking a bit tired inside and in need of a bit of a revamp – which is exactly what it has had this year. The newly-refurbished restaurant opened its doors in January and the refit has transformed the interior with a new downstairs seating plan, decorations and bar area. And to complete the new look, Cafe Rouge has just announced its new menu, with lots of new dishes and flavours to try out. All this is, of course, wasted on my two children who always have – and probably always will – their own particular versions of the classic French dish Croque Monsieur. It made no odds to them that the new menu has no fewer than four different Croques to choose from, including the Madame with a fried egg on top, and the Champignon, with mushrooms and Gruyere cheese, as my two still stuck doggedly to their usual choices, served with Cafe Rouge’s signature skinny fries of course. For my husband and me, however, the difficulty is in choosing between all the dishes and this time it was even harder given the new menu. From smoked haddock fishcakes to rich Boeuf Bourguignon, steak frites to smoked trout salad, there are dishes to suit all tastes – even the most fussy. Being from the other side of the Channel, Cafe Rouge doesn’t do a traditional British starters, mains and desserts menu. Rather they offer up aperitifs, pains et olives and Petite Plats to start you off, followed by either Plats Chauds or something a little lighter such as a salad, baguette, Croque or steak frites. If we’re in a bit of a hurry and want something quick and simple, my husband and I will invariably go for the basic Steak Frites – a 5oz ‘minute’ rump @WeekendGlos

steak with fries and garlic butter, for a very reasonable £10.95. But for a proper French evening meal, the Plats Chauds are hard to resist and, if you are a lover of seafood, the new menu features a lot of fish, including salmon, hake, haddock fishcakes and a wonderful seabass dish, which I chose. Loup de Mer (£13.95) presents the fish in a piquant sauce vierge, combined with tomatoes, basil, olives and sugar snap peas. It’s a wonderfully tasty combination of ingredients, oily enough to soak up the juices with Cafe Rouge’s incomparable baguettes. My Francophile husband went for a traditional and wonderfully rich Boeuf Bourguignon (£13.50), slowed cooked in red wine, smoked bacon, mushrooms and baby onions and served with a comforting herb mash. Beforehand, to whet our appetites we shared a chicken liver pate, served with grilled rye and caraway bread and chutney (£5.95) and, although the bread was good, I preferred spreading my pate on chunks of baguette. Glasses of house red and white wine, both sourced from vineyards in the Languedoc-Roussillon region, went down a treat at £5.75 for a large glass. Desserts at Cafe Rouge are always a treat and, while my son always has the ice cream (£3.95), this is the highlight of the meal for my teenage daughter and she picked the Fondant aux Chocolats (£5.95), a melt-in-the-middle pudding served with chocolate and raspberry fondant ice cream. It was the Ganache au Chocolat Noir for me, a creamy rich dessert with a chocolate, lime and chilli sorbet (£5.95), while my husband resisted temptation and just had coffee. With strains of retro-hip music in the background – think California Cool and Listen to the Music – the whole experience of the all-new Cafe Rouge was a satisfying and enjoyable one. We remain firm fans. Where: Cafe Rouge, Promenade, Cheltenham Food: classic French flavours combined with contemporary cuisine Wine: a good selection of vintages – all French, of course – with really decent house wines Atmosphere: bustling at busy times, laid-back and friendly Cost: petite plats from £4.95, plat chauds from £9.95, lighter dishes from £7.95, desserts from £3.95

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MANDY BRADSHAW chats to greenfingered enthusiasts Maggie and Paul Adams ahead of their open garden afternoon later this month

ANDERING around some open gardens can be akin to flicking through the pages of a coffee table book: beautiful, aweinspiring but unattainable without deep reserves of time and money. So it’s good to come across a plot that is firmly rooted in the sort of ground most of us till and with the familiar problems of pests and rampant weeds. Maggie Adams is quick to point out the ground elder that has colonised her pretty Blockley garden but, as with many gardening woes, it’s more obvious to her than to me. True, the first shoots are beginning to appear but their fresh green adds to the spring display and is yet to take over. Maggie and her husband, Paul, have long given up on the idea of ridding the garden of this weed and instead try to minimise its impact by planting things that will cover it, such as geraniums, and pulling it up when it gets too big. “We just have to live with it,” she says realistically. What it does mean is that she never

gives away any plants from her garden, for fear of exporting ground elder in their roots, and that, coupled with a passion for plant bargains, means the borders are packed. In spring, the show has hellebores, camassias, hyacinths, primroses, tulips and narcissi while the numerous roses and mounds of geraniums promise a summer of colour. It was a different story when the couple took on the plot 34 years ago. Then the sloping garden was terraced with a few large shrubs and lawn but little else. Over the years, the three levels have been formalised by the addition of steps to replace grass slopes and numerous borders have been added; the recent removal of a lilac allowed the creation of a whole new area of planting. The garden has grown organically rather than following a careful design. Spotting a good view across the space, they added a small seat and then realised it needed to be accessible in all weathers so put cobbles inter-planted with golden marjoram in front. Elsewhere, when lawn failed to thrive in the shade of a

neighbour’s ash, a small patio and seat where installed, surrounded by beds filled with shade-tolerant planting, including ferns, erythroniums and podophyllum. Nearby, what was a long border of hostas beneath one of the low, brick retaining walls has been replanted after it proved too attractive to slugs and snails. “You can’t have a border full of holes,” points out Maggie, who also battles against pheasant and deer. Now it is a mixture of ferns, tiarella and narcissi with pieces of broken pot used to grow sempervivums. The hostas have moved into Maggie’s growing collection of Whichford pots, mostly seconds, which are grouped on the patio next to the house. Others contain rosemary, primroses and ferns while this corner has been given a smart, contemporary feel with black trellis to support rampant clematis and honeysuckle. Indeed, the garden is full of climbers: roses up obelisks, along trellis and over a pergola; wisteria clinging to a pole; gloucestercitizen.co.uk/weekend gloucestershireecho.co.uk/weekend

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Small tulips in Paul and Maggie Adams’ garden

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Paul and Maggie Adams in their garden at home, Woodruff, in Blockley

Montana clematis engulfing not one but two trees. They give height and help to counterbalance the low-level planting of numerous geraniums, pulmonaria, and Pachyphragma macrophyllum, with its dainty white flowers. Foliage is an important consideration; a red-edged geranium leaf is beautiful without the need for flowers. There’s white lamium, glowing in a shady border, Persicaria ‘Red Dragon’ is beginning to show its red foliage and the leaves of chrysosplenium are starting to unfurl. Box, all of it cuttings from one original plant, adds year-round structure but in an informal way with plants dotted about the borders and clipped to differing shapes and sizes. Maggie is unable to resist a plant bargain and there are numerous cheaply bought additions from other open gardens, the nearby Moreton market and Hidcote, where both she and Paul work as volunteers. Among them are osmanthus, the late-flowering Hydrangea paniculata ‘Tardiva’, a @WeekendGlos

compact philadelphus and acers. Some bargains have outgrown their welcome: a large yucca from the church fete now has to be propped up and is, warns Maggie darkly, ‘on borrowed time’. Describing her planting as a ‘right hotchpotch’, she started the garden as a novice: “I didn’t know what hellebores or pulmonaria were when I came here.” And she insists she is still “not a very good gardener”. It’s a statement many would dispute. Woodruff is open from 2-6pm on Sunday April 26 with seven other Blockley gardens. Combined admission is £6. Six gardens will also be open on June 14. Maggie’s must-have plant of the season Euphorbia robbiae has a reputation for being a thug but it’s one of the best for those difficult dry, shady areas.The evergreen leaves have a glossy sheen and the lime-green bracts are unbeatable for adding some zing to the spring garden.

SOME of my prize spring bulbs simply haven’t appeared this year, including tulips and crocuses, which I planted in the autumn.The culprits? Grey squirrels. While non-gardeners may delight at the sight of these cute-looking mammals, gardeners despair of them.They steal food from bird tables, dig up bulbs and corms, seem to be able to get through the most impenetrable ‘squirrel-proof’ bird feeders and eat copious amounts of peanuts and seeds intended for our feathered friends. Squirrels will also destroy birds’ nests to dine on eggs and fledglings as well as stripping bark off healthy trees for the sweet sap beneath. So, what can we do? Gardening writer Anne Wareham offers some humorous insights in her new book, Outwitting Squirrels. “It’s said (I haven’t investigated squirrels’ brains in detail myself) that the hippocampus bit of their brain grows by as much as 15 per cent in the autumn when they are nut burying.This is the sort of effect learning ‘the knowledge’ has on the brain of a taxi driver, although I imagine that with the taxi driver, it’s less seasonal,” reflects Wareham. However, while the squirrels which climb up the pole may well be defeated by the dome, those that choose to leap from a nearby bush, fence or other elevation may find more success as they land on the top of the feeder, Wareham notes. It’s wise, anyway, to grease your feeder pole but you’ll have to do it regularly throughout the year to keep the squirrels at bay.You can go further in beds and borders, pegging the wire down on the soil surface, but it is all pretty timeconsuming. Plant your bulbs early to give them a good chance of establishing a strong root system to make them harder to dig up, and perhaps go for bulbs that aren’t the squirrels’ favourite, such as daffodils and alliums. Barriers, such as fruit cages, can prevent damage to some plants, but make sure they’re strong because squirrels can chew through plastic and thinner mesh wire. Outwitting Squirrels by Anne Wareham is priced £7.99 from April 23.

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Boston A city with a history of pilgrimages and top education, Boston is a city which has a lot to offer. MIKAL LUDLOW plays the generation game as he heads to Massachusetts with an octogenarian and a three-year-old

Main pic: Boston Common, inset; Mikal and son Raffie in HarvardYard

AVING ‘discovered’ Boston in 2011 while visiting North America on our ‘babymoon’ we always knew it was somewhere we’d return. I say discovered, but perhaps that honour should remain with the pilgrim fathers rather than the returning parents. Convinced that we were ready for long-haul flights again, we couldn’t think of a better place to revisit than somewhere we felt so at home. This time with our son, soon to celebrate his fourth birthday, we knew we’d be seeing a different side to this great city. On hearing our plans the family mater declared it was somewhere she had always desired to visit, perhaps it’s her closeness in age to the Mayflower and Boston’s colonial past or just a life-long love of adventure that was the attraction. Never one to rest on my laurels, the thought of travelling with an infant seemed perfectly counterbalanced by adding in an 88-year-old great grandmother.

I thought there may be issues: demanding to sit by the window, temper tantrums, refusing to eat dinner. And I knew that the infant would be hard work too. Actually, this is artistic licence, as we were all sitting in the middle section, nowhere near a window. Furthermore, our son dealt remarkably well with the whole epic journey without fuss. This may have been helped largely by his love of films and the timely purchase of a portable DVD player to show all his favourites (top tip parents – it works). Why Boston and not New York? With time so precious and the world so vast, surely New York is the place to go? The two places really couldn’t be more different.

Don’t get me wrong, they both share a love of culture, theatre, museums and great food – I guess I’m referring to a state of mind and a general feel. Boston ‘feels’ friendly. It may not be, I’m sure the crime levels match up to any other major US city but it ‘feels’ friendly, it ‘feels’ intimate, which is what you want when travelling as a family. Its sometimes referred to as the ‘walking city’ which gives a sense of its scale. Home to both Harvard and MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), the colleges seep into the fabric of the city. Harvard is a great place to start, based in the centre of Cambridge, a district to the north of Boston Central. The architecture is very British and the history is palpable. You can walk in the footsteps of eight gloucestercitizen.co.uk/weekend gloucestershireecho.co.uk/weekend

Boston Common

A tribute to children’s picture book Make Way for Ducklings

Raffie inThe Museum of Science

presidents and rub the toe of the John Harvard statue which is supposed to bring luck. On campus is the wonderful Harvard Natural History Museum, offering truly something for all, complete with dinosaur bones and whale skeletons hanging from the ceiling. And maybe more stunning – if only for their sublime accuracy – is the glass flower exhibition. These aren’t like something from a posh interior design shop; we are talking picture-perfect to the finest root – all made from glass at the turn of the last century. Moving back to the centre towards the Charles River brings up the city skyline and our hotel – the Royal Senosta – ideally situated on the edge, not too far from the seats of learning, and a 15 minute drive from the airport. Recently renovated the hotel is in perfect order, offering large rooms in a modern contemporary style with an air of luxury. It has a lot to offer overlooking the river (sadly not our room) and on the doorstep of some @WeekendGlos

top tourist attractions, including the Museum of Science. Now our son loves a good science museum and this didn’t disappoint. Too vast to contemplate covering all in a day, let alone an afternoon, the highlight was the electricity show creating indoor lightening which mesmerized us all. The same can be said for the New England Aquarium and specifically the chance to stroke a stingray, something young and old grabbed with both hands, – not literally, as I’m sure they don’t like that. So with one very happy three-yearold the next stop was deemed one for the adults. The Boston Tea Party ships and museum was a look back at the fateful night of December 16, 1773, and subsequent break with British Rule. This is a living history-style museum where you are greeted and taken on your journey by actors dressed up in periodcostume; it draws you in. If ever the saying ‘bringing history to life’ applies – it’s here, including talking oil paintings (yes, they really do and it is very well done). As soon as you step off the street you are as much a part of the story shouting ‘fie’ to the King and standing on the recreated boats and being able to throw a tea sack into the harbor. All very thought-provoking, even for a small person, who asked ‘what’s the American Revolution and who were the bad guys?’. Try answering that under close scrutiny from a room full of Americans. This was a holiday of experiences and narrowing the age gap, from sedate strolls through Boston Common and the upmarket area of Beacon Hill, to watching sparks fly and stingrays swim. It doesn’t matter if you are three, 23 or 103, some things are just amazing and in a grown-up city with fun at heart, you have enough outlets for what makes us different and even more for what makes us the same.

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SPRING show of young up-andcoming British artists makes for a lively exhibition from Wednesday at Chorley’s Prinknash showroom. Emerging British Artists THE ceramics section saw the highest price of the runs until next Sunday, day at Tayler & Fletcher’s Cheltenham sale when with prices ranging from a slipware bowl soared over its estimate in the low £50-£3,000. hundreds to fetch £3,800. Artists include Tom The bowl was in near perfect condition and the Hoar, who has worked sheer size of it made it stand out from the crowd. as artist-in-residence for Glassware sold equally as well and notable results the Household Cavalry included a large mid-20th century Monart glass and whose portfolio has bowl at £420, a cut glass and gilt metal mounted included a collection of chandelier that originally hailed from an Oxford collively paintings depicting lege at £700 and £340 for a large selection of boxed the colourful world Holmegaard drinking glasses, currently very popular. of Giffords Circus, In the jewellery section, £800 changed hands for Tom Hoar’s well-known across a striking cased brooch distinguished by a hand-cut work Aria Gloucestershire. depicts circus oval peridot surrounded by diamonds and pearls. A life, while Another artist who uses showy hand-cut amethyst brooch fetched £500 and this bronze equestrian subject matter £1,500 was the price for an unusual yellow metalcamel is by is Guy Allen, who has backed necklace, set with hand-cut graduated oval Georgiana brought a contemporary garnets. Anstruther approach to the traditional art of etching; Guy’s work has been accepted by the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition for the last two years. Bronzes by Georgiana Anstruther will VINTAGE FASHION, TEXTILES AND add a three-dimensional aspect to the exhibition. Classically 20TH CENTURY ART & DESIGN trained in Italy, her sculptures of animals and figures place particular emphasis on patination techniques. The exhibition is free and open from 10am-4pm daily. Items from Chorley’s May antiques auction will also be on view.

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Rare Alexander McQueen black cashmere coat and beaded structured skirt from the 1998 Joan of Arc runway collection, est. £8,000-£12,000

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library Threads: The Delicate Life Of John Craske by Julia Blackburn

Jonathan Cape, priced £25 John Craske was a Norfolk fisherman born in 1881. In 1917 he fell seriously ill with a mysterious condition which left him in an intermittent ‘stuporous state’ for the rest of his short life. In 1925, he felt a sudden urge to start painting, and from then on he spent all his lucid moments covering every surface he could find with pictures of boats and his beloved East Anglian coastline. Later, when he was too ill to stand and paint,

Let’s Re-Great Britain Al Murray

Penguin, £8.99 Based on Murray’s Pub Landlord, this comedy offering is a boon for fans of the character, revelling in his stereotypical views on a range of government agendas. Latching on to the publicity garnered by the Landlord’s decision to stand against Nigel Farage in the upcoming General Election, the book lays out ‘his’ manifesto for an even greater Great Britain. Historical and modern targets are shoe-horned into the narrative (an amusing diagram of how the criminal mind works, contrasts with ‘Eric Pickles could do with shedding a few pounds’ gags), as topics and ideas bounce around each section. But there’s also a wearying sense that perhaps – in contrast to Steve Coogan’s constantly evolving Alan Partridge – is there much more comic mileage to be squeezed out of the Landlord? Maybe the next few weeks will tell us more.

he took to embroidery and crafted many fine marine tapestries including his masterpiece, a giant thread canvas of the Evacuation of Dunkirk. Very little is known about Craske, but Blackburn makes a virtue of this uncertainty by folding in stories of her search for facts, of her own lifew and of the eccentric Norfolk coastline.

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Hooray! It’s A New Royal Baby!

Another Little Piece Of My Heart

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Bloomsbury Circus, £18.99

The new royal baby is already proving quite lucrative for some, even though it is yet to be born – or named. Martha Mumford and Ada Grey follow up their previous books Shhh! Don’t WakeThe Royal Baby and Happy Birthday, Royal Baby! with a charming, if bland, tale about how Prince George takes to the new arrival. He’s rather jealous at first, fearing his younger sibling might steal his jam sandwiches, but all is well when the new baby gives George a goldfish. Until George gets bored of watching it swim round and round. Parents will marvel at the speed the new baby seems to pick up these skills – seemingly all on its first day at home, judging by size and clothes – but you can’t help but find the illustrations cute and for those introducing new sprogs into their family nest this spring, this tale about George taking on his big brotherly duties will be a big help.

Socially awkward, music and Beats-obsessed teenager Richard Goldstein lands a job with the Village Voice as a rock critic, which turns out to be a passport to fame and influence, meeting stars fromThe Beatles to the Beach Boys.This memoir picks through Goldstein’s memories of the drug-enhanced hope and sourness of Sixties America and is particularly effective as his job put him in the centre of the youth movement. Unsurprisingly, it’s very well-written, though veers into self-indulgence as the author recounts his struggles with bisexuality, indoctrinated racism and craving for attention. He wishes he could “wring the juice” of his Sixties experience to reach a profound message, like in the film Almost Famous, but real life is more interesting, though less satisfying – rather like this book.

Richard Goldstein

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The Lost Child Caryl Phillips

Oneworld Publications, £14.99 Identity, belonging and family are the focal themes of the Booker Prize-shortlisted author and screenwriter, who was born in St Kitts but grew up in West Yorkshire during the 1960s and 1970s. Phillips cleverly stitches together two separate narratives, imagining the early years of Emily Bronte’s conflicted protagonist Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights, which he interweaves with the Sixties-set story of Wakefield-born dreamer and social recluse Monica who drops out of Oxford and cuts all ties with her parents after falling for Caribbean graduate Julius. The couple’s eventual acceptance of the failure of their marriage sees her heading back up north, alone with her two young sons. The brooding landscapes of the moors merge two reflective tales of a sense of place and home. A beautiful but haunting read. gloucestercitizen.co.uk/weekend gloucestershireecho.co.uk/weekend

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Forest of Dean band EMF found worldwide fame 25 years ago with their anthem Unbelievable. Singer-songwriter James Atkin is now a teacher, but is returning to his home county with a gig at Gloucester Guildhall. CORRIE BOND-FRENCH caught up with him

VEN if you don’t know who wrote the song, there are few people who are unfamiliar with ‘Unbelievable’ by the EMF. It was the anthem of a generation, a catchy slice of brilliance that garnered worldwide fame for the band and singersongwriter James Atkin back in the Nineties. Ivor Novello nominated James became one of fewer than 10 people in the world to have had simultaneous number one hits in the UK and across the pond, and the royalties still keep rolling in as it is used afresh in adverts for companies like Virgin Media. But EMF were much more than a onetrick pony, and their roots are firmly in Gloucestershire; the band are the most successful group to have hailed from the Forest of Dean, where they initially met at school. Since fame struck 25 years ago, EMF have gone their separate ways, and James now lives in Yorkshire with his wife and two young children. James decided to change his career path some years ago when he did a

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CHELTENHAM Poetry Festival starts on Wednesday, showcasing theatre, slams, films, folk, comedy, hip hop and even opera. It runs until May 3 with the natural world as its theme. Highlights include an evening with Martin Daws, a double Farrago Slam Champ, who is joined by Cheltenham-based Petravita, environmental poet Michael McKimm and Jo Bell, the Poetry Society’s Canals Laureate. For details, visit cheltenhamtownhall.org.uk

teaching degree. And, unbelievably (I know – it had to be done!) James is now ‘Sir’ at a secondary school in Keighley, teaching music part-time. But he recently bit the bullet and returned to his songwriting roots. He has released a new album and is coming back to Gloucester to play at the Guildhall on May1. Yes – James Atkin is coming home! I catch up with James as he is on the road and he is practically effervescent with excitement. “It’s been brilliant so far – I just hope we can keep it up. I’m really looking forward to coming back. “We’ve got kids at now, so it’s not like it used to be, but I will hang around because I really want to catch up with old friends. I’ve invited some of my old EMF DJ friends so hopefully we’ll have a great night.” So when did James realise that he had a knack for penning a great tune? “I never really did. I don’t think we thought about it that much, it was more about the vibe, it was more about the energy of the songs. “We never thought the songs would be hanging around to this day. We just didn’t think too much about it and now in recent years I’ve gone back to it and thought, oh yeah, I do remember that. So hopefully there’s new songs on this solo album that people will like. “It’s really good fun, it’s great to be back out there. I feel like a mature sort of artist now rather than someone who’s chasing it a bit. It feels just naturally right, the expectations aren’t there so much, I’m just doing my own thing and you know, hopefully people are digging it.” And could there be a reunion on the cards? “Well, we’re all still friends so if something comes up, you can never say never, but I don’t think we could

be in a band together again. But we all respect each other. It was a big part of our lives, and that doesn’t go away, it’s a bit like family. Does he still have fond memories of the band’s formative years in the Forest of Dean? “Derry, Mark and me, we met at school and we played in school bands together. We kind of got together and had a vision of what we wanted to be, but we didn’t really have any songs, so I got in touch with Ian who was living in Gloucester. “He was a couple of years older than us, and in a band, and that was a big deal to us – a band from the next town up who were selling records. “So I said to come and see us and he loved our energy and our vibe so he kind of joined us and put it all together for us. “We were a bit wild back in those days so he channelled our energy into something really good. “We wrote 10 songs together and those 10 songs went on the first album, then we started gigging straight away. “I think we booked the gigs before we even had the songs so that pushed us to get the songs written and get ready. It all happened really quickly. “We put a couple of gigs on in Cinderford and they were rammed with 300 plus people, so we had a guaranteed audience and everybody was really up for it “Once the record companies heard about us we made them come up to Gloucester and the Forest of Dean. We did it on our own terms and on our own territory. You couldn’t do it now.” And how does he feel about Unbelievable now? “It gets used a lot in adverts, it just doesn’t seem to go away. I used to hate it but I’ve grown to like it now, but it has been 25 years.” James will perform at Gloucester Guildhall with Miles Hunt and Erica Nockalls of The Wonderstuff on Friday, May 1. For tickets, call 01452 503050. gloucestercitizen.co.uk/weekend gloucestershireecho.co.uk/weekend

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television Spring has sprung, which means only one thing – Britain’s Got Talent is back on the box. We take a walk down memory lane and remember the faces who made us laugh, cry and clap along JIGGLING bellies, dancing dogs and angry egg-shaped protests, Britain’s Got Talent has always come up trumps with its memorable contestants. And with the new series now in full swing, we look back on the most unforgettable acts in the show’s history... SUSAN BOYLE Who could forget SuBo’s first audition in Glasgow in 2009? Oh, how the judges sniggered when the bushyeyebrowed star told them she wanted to be just like Elaine Paige – until they heard her stunning rendition of the Les Miserables track I Dreamed A Dream. Missing out on the top spot to dance troupe Diversity didn’t affect Boyle’s success much. In fact, her debut album became the bestselling debut in UK chart history when it was released later that year. Since then, she’s appeared on Oprah, sung for the Pope and duetted with her idol, Paige. And that clip of her very first TV appearance has racked up 167 million views on YouTube. Beat that, Simon Cowell.

Since then, Diversity have bagged their own tours, carried the Olympic torch and taken part in the closing ceremony of Prince Harry’s Invictus Games. What’s more, breakout star Banjo has judged Sky1’s Got To Dance and featured in documentary show Ashley Banjo’s Secret Street Crew.

PAUL POTTS When unassuming Carphone Warehouse manager Paul Potts stepped onto the Britain’s Got Talent stage in series one, the judges weren’t looking too optimistic. But the operatic tenor blew Simon, Amanda Holden and Piers Morgan away with his rendition of Puccini’s Nessun Dorma. After he was crowned winner, Potts recorded two UK top five albums and had a feature film, 2013’s One Chance, made about his life, with Gavin and Stacey star James Corden in the lead role. He’s also sporting a gleaming smile after treating himself to some dental work.

ASHLEIGH AND PUDSEY Back in 2012, one girl and her dog did a very unusual thing; they won Simon Cowell over straight away with their Flintstones dance routine. Not only that, but clever canine Pudsey and his teenage owner Ashleigh became the first dog trick act to win the show. Since then, the pooch and his owner have met the Queen, while Pudsey has starred in his own film. STAVROS FLATLEY On paper, it’s not the kind of act you’d think would work. A portly Greek Cypriot father and his 12-year-old son take their tops off, revealing maps of Cyprus on their bellies, and leap around the stage in a pastiche of Michael Flatley’s Riverdance. And yet the third series saw the panel and show fans fall under the

DIVERSITY The troupe of nimble-footed Essex and East London lads burst onto the stage in 2009 with their unique blend of quick, slick street dance. The group, led by Ashley Banjo, went on to win the contest (beating SuBo to the top spot in a shock result).

mesmerising, and slightly peculiar spell, of an act which did just that. With stiff competition from Susan Boyle, Diversity, and saxophonist Julian Smith, old Stavros danced away with the fourth place and they are still boogieing together to this day. NATALIE HOLT Natalie Holt was playing in the orchestra in the 2013 BGT final but cracked her way onto centre stage in an un-egg-spected way. Aiming to pelt eggs at Simon Cowell – as a protest to what she saw as his dominance in the music industry – after Welsh brothers Richard and Adam Johnson had finished their song, the violinist cracked and stormed the stage much earlier. The brothers bravely battled on with their rendition of The Impossible Dream but walked away with the third place. Nowadays, the singing siblings are still releasing albums, while Holt is forging ahead as a film and TV composer. Catch Britain’s GotTalent tonight on ITV1 at 8pm

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Saturday’s Television Guide BBC1

6.00 Breakfast (S,HD) 10.00 Saturday Kitchen Live (S,HD). 11.30 Paul Hollywood’s Bread (R,S,HD). 12.00 BBC News; Weather (S,HD) 12.10 Football Focus (S,HD). 1.00 Live Gymnastics (S,HD). The 2015 European Artistic Gymnastics Individual Championships. 3.30 Live Formula 1: Bahrain Grand Prix – Qualifying (S,HD). 5.05 Match of the Day Live (S,HD). Arsenal v Reading (Kick-off 5.20pm).

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6.25 Film: The Silver Darlings (S). (1947) ●●● 7.45 Film: Animal Farm (S). (1954) ●●●● 9.00 FA Cup Rewind: Semi-Final Classics (S,HD). 10.00 Live Snooker: The World Championship (S,HD). 11.55 Michel Roux’s Service (R,S,HD). 12.55 Live Formula 1: Bahrain Grand Prix – Third Practice (S,HD). 2.05 Live Snooker: The World Championship (S,HD). 4.30 Final Score (S,HD). 5.15 Escape to the Continent (S,HD). 5.45 Flog It! (R,S,HD).

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6.00 CITV. 8.25 ITV News (S) 8.30 Weekend (S). 9.25 The Jeremy Kyle Show (R,S,HD). 10.20 The Jeremy Kyle Show (R,S). 11.25 The Jeremy Kyle Show (R,S,HD). 12.30 ITV News (S); Weather 12.35 The Jeremy Kyle Show (R,S,HD). 1.40 Doc Martin (R,S,HD). 2.40 Film: Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001) ●● 4.30 The Unforgettable Joan Sims 5.00 Off Their Rockers 5.30 Regional News (S) 5.45 ITV News (S)

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6.00 Close. 6.10 How I Met Your Mother (S,HD). 6.35 FIM Superbike World Championship (S). 7.05 Brighton Marathon (S). 8.00 The Morning Line (S,HD). 9.00 Everybody Loves Raymond (R,S). 10.30 Frasier (R,S). 11.30 The Big Bang Theory (R,S,HD). 12.30 Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD (R,S,HD). 1.30 Channel 4 Racing featuring the Scottish Grand National from Ayr, and Newbury (S,HD). 4.10 Come Dine with Me (R,S,HD).

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6.00 Milkshake!. 10.00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (R,S,HD). 10.35 Ice Road Truckers (R,S,HD). 11.30 Ice Road Truckers (R,S,HD). 12.25 Ice Road Truckers (R,S,HD). 1.25 Police Interceptors (R,S,HD). 2.25 Police Interceptors (R,S,HD). 3.25 Film: Columbo: Make Me a Perfect Murder (S). (1978) Crime drama, starring Peter Falk. ●●●● 5.25 The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door (R,S,HD).

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6.30 Gardeners’ World (R,S,HD). 7/31. James Alexander-Sinclair visits Borde Hill Garden in West Sussex.

6.00 New You’ve Been Framed! A-Z of Growing Up (S). Harry Hill presents videos featuring youngsters across the world.

6.15 Come Dine with Me (R,S,HD). 60/65. Patrick McMurray hosts the final party in Sutton Coldfield. 6.45 Channel 4 News (S,HD)

6.20 Britain’s Horror Homes (R,S,HD). 2/6. A woman whose house had to be demolished due to coastal erosion.

7.25 BBC News (S,HD) 7.35 Regional News (S) 7.45 Atlantis (S,HD). 8/13. Hercules faces a huge sacrifice to save Jason’s life.

7.00 Live Snooker: The World Championship (S,HD). The concluding session on the opening day of the ranking tournament at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield.

7.00 Ninja Warrior UK (S,HD). 2/8. Contenders from across the nation test their strength, speed and courage in the second heat of the obstaclecourse challenge.

7.00 Walking Through History: Northumbria (R,S,HD). 2/3. Tony Robinson explores the history of the ancient kingdom.

7.10 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away (R,S,HD). 1/10. Two enforcement agents make a shocking discovery in a child’s bedroom during an eviction.

8.30 The National Lottery: In It to Win It (S,HD). 5/8. Quiz show, hosted by Dale Winton.

8.00 Dad’s Army (R,S). 4/6. 8.30 Jane Eyre (S,HD). (2011) A governess falls in love with her mysterious employer, only to discover he is concealing a terrible secret. Period drama, with Mia Wasikowska. ●●●

8.00 Britain’s Got Talent (S,HD). The search for a star continues as more auditionees try to win over Simon Cowell, David Walliams, Amanda Holden and Alesha Dixon with their talents. Ant and Dec host.

8.00 The World’s Most Extreme (S,HD). 2/6. The 10 most dangerous and extraordinary bridges around the world, including the Millau Viaduct in southern France, a popular base-jumping spot for thrillseekers.

8.10 5 News Weekend (S,HD) 8.15 NCIS (R,S). 1/24. Ziva witnesses an assassination.

9.15 Play to the Whistle (S,HD). 2/7. With Sean Lock, Graeme Swann, Alex Scott and Romesh Ranganathan.

9.00 X-Men: First Class (S,HD). (2011) The first generation of the superhero team is brought together in the 1960s to avert a nuclear war. Superhero adventure prequel, starring James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender. ●●●●

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11.50 The Football League Show 11.05 Snooker: The World (S,HD). Manish Bhasin presents Championship (S,HD). highlights and all the goals Highlights of the opening day from the latest fixtures in the from Sheffield. Championship, League One and 11.55 Snooker: World League Two. Championship Extra (S,HD).

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12.10 Jackpot247. Interactive gaming. 3.00 The Jeremy Kyle Show USA (R,S). The host takes his successful talk show stateside. 3.40 ITV Nightscreen (HD). Textbased information service.

1.15 Alan Carr: Chatty Man (R,S,HD). With Paddy McGuinness, Taraji P Henson and the Maccabees. 2.10 Hollyoaks (R,S,HD). Buried secrets threaten to surface for Porsche. 4.15 Hugh’s 3 Good Things: Best Bites (S,HD). 4.30 Double Your House for Half the Money (R,S,HD). 5.20 Sarah Beeny’s Selling Houses (R,S,HD).

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Sunday’s Television Guide BBC1

6.00 Breakfast (S,HD) 7.35 Match of the Day (R,S,HD). 9.00 The Andrew Marr Show (S,HD) 10.00 The Big Questions (S,HD). 11.00 Sunday Politics (S,HD). 12.15 MOTD2 Extra (S,HD). 1.00 BBC News (S,HD) 1.15 Bargain Hunt (R,S,HD). 2.00 Lifeline (S,HD). 2.10 Points of View (S,HD). 2.25 Songs of Praise (S,HD). 3.00 Live Formula 1: Bahrain Grand Prix (S,HD). The fourth round of the season from Sakhir (Start-time 4.00pm).

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6.15 The Football League Show (R,S,HD). 7.35 The A to Z of TV Gardening (R,S). 8.00 Gardeners’ World (R,S,HD). 8.30 The Beechgrove Garden (S,HD). 9.00 FA Cup Rewind: Semi-Final Classics (S,HD). 10.00 Live Snooker: The World Championship (S,HD). 12.00 Back in Time for Dinner (R,S,HD). 1.00 Food & Drink (R,S,HD). 1.30 Live Gymnastics (S,HD). 4.00 Live Snooker: The World Championship (S,HD).

ITV

6.00 CITV. 8.25 ITV News (S) 8.30 Weekend (S). 9.25 The Jeremy Kyle Show (R,S). 10.25 The Jeremy Kyle Show (R,S). 11.25 The Jeremy Kyle Show (R,S). 12.35 ITV News (S); Weather 12.45 Film: Horrid Henry: The Movie (S,HD). (2011) ●● 2.35 Britain’s Got Talent (R,S,HD). 3.50 Darcy Oake: Edge of Reality (R,S,HD). 4.50 All Star Family Fortunes (R,S,HD). 5.50 Ninja Warrior UK The second heat of the obstacle-course challenge. (R,S,HD).

Channel 4

6.15 How I Met Your Mother (S,HD). 7.05 British GT (S,HD). 7.35 Everybody Loves Raymond (R,S). 8.30 Frasier (R,S). 9.30 Sunday Brunch (S,HD). 12.30 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces (R,S,HD). A project to transform a Victorian railway signal box into a summerhouse. 1.35 The Big Bang Theory (R,S,HD). 2.25 The Simpsons (R,S). 3.55 Location, Location, Location (R,S,HD). 4.55 A Place in the Sun: Home or Away (S,HD).

Channel 5

6.00 Milkshake!. 10.00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (R,S,HD). 10.35 Access (HD). 10.40 The Hotel Inspector Returns (R,S,HD). 11.35 The Hotel Inspector Returns (R,S,HD). 12.35 The Hotel Inspector Returns (R,S,HD). 1.35 Film: Stepmom (S,HD). (1998) Drama, starring Julia Roberts and Susan Sarandon. ●●●● 3.55 Film: Alvin and the Chipmunks (S,HD). (2007) ●● 5.40 Film: Pocahontas (S,HD). (1995) ●●●

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6.00 Penguins on a Plane: Great Animal Moves (R,S,HD). 2/2. Part two of two. The transportation of saltwater crocodiles and wolves.

6.50 Regional News (S); Weather

7.00 Countryfile (S,HD). An exploration of British woodlands, examining the effects of CO2 on forest life. Including Weather for the Week Ahead.

7.00 Live Snooker: The World Championship (S,HD). Coverage of the evening session on day two of the final ranking tournament of the season.

7.00 ITV News (S); Weather 7.15 Celebrity Squares (S,HD). 1/8. New series. Guests include Paddy McGuinness, Louis Smith and Michelle Keegan.

8.00 Antiques Roadshow (S,HD). 19/27. Fiona Bruce and the team visit Lowther Castle in Cumbria, where items include a make-up set from the 1920s, an unusual letterbox and a stuffed dog with an aristocratic pedigree.

8.10 Coast Australia (S,HD). 4/8. The south-west corner of the country.

8.00 Vera (S,HD). 3/4. When a man’s body is dredged up from a slurry pit on a remote farm, Vera must connect the dots between the victim and a wounded illegal immigrant who has been working there.

9.00 Poldark (S,HD). 7/8. The smelting company suffers as a result of George’s tough business dealings. Ross and Francis fall out over Verity, while Mark returns home early to an unwelcome surprise.

9.00 Hunters of the South Seas (S,HD). 1/3. New series. Will Millard visits the Bajau people of Sampela, Indonesia, and lives with spear fisherman Kabei and his family, experiencing their unique way of life.

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6.05 Celebrity Mastermind (R,S,HD). 6/10. 6.35 BBC News (S,HD) 6.50 Regional News (S)

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9.00 Indian Summers (S,HD). 10/10. Ramu’s fate is left in the hands of Ralph, who knows the truth behind the murder, while a vote takes place at the club to lift the colour bar. Last in the series.

11.20 Piers Morgan’s Life Stories: Alesha Dixon (R,S,HD). 1/3. The Britain’s Got Talent judge chats about her career and personal life.

11.30 First Dates (R,S,HD). 7/9. Mula hopes tonight will be second time lucky after being stood up on her first visit, while restaurateur Tom tries to impress dance teacher Alliee.

12.15 The Store. Home shopping. 2.30 The Jeremy Kyle Show USA (R,S). The host takes his successful talk show stateside. 3.15 ITV Nightscreen (HD). Text-based information service. 5.05 The Jeremy Kyle Show (R,S,HD). Guests air their differences.

12.30 The Secret Millionaire (R,S). A toy company owner visits a Cardiff council estate. 1.25 Film: Mirch Masala. (1987) Period drama, starring Smita Patil and Om Puri. ●●● 3.30 Come Dine with Me (R,S,HD). 5.45 Kirstie’s Vintage Gems (S,HD). Kirstie creates a vintage-inspired nursery.

12.35 Snooker: World Championship Extra (S,HD). Extended highlights of a match from the first round. 2.35 Sign Zone: Countryfile (R,S). 3.35 Holby City (R,S). 4.35 The Ladykillers: Pest Detectives (R,S). 5.35 This Is BBC Two (S,HD).

7.15 5 News Weekend (S,HD)

8.00 For the Love of Cars (S,HD). 1/8. New series. Philip Glenister and Ant Anstead restore more classic motors, beginning with an Aston Martin DBS – the model from the Bond film On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.

11.20 Match of the Day: FA Cup 11.45 Snooker: The World Highlights (S,HD). The key Championship (S,HD). moments from the second semiHighlights of the evening final. session at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield. 11.55 The Uninvited (S,HD). (2009) Thriller, starring Emily Browning. ●●

1.15 Weather for the Week Ahead (S,HD). 1.20 BBC News (S,HD).

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7.20 Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (S,HD). (1994) Comedy, starring Jim Carrey, Courteney Cox and Sean Young. Edited for language. ●●●●

10.30 Gogglebox (R,S). 9/12. Capturing the households’ instant reactions to what they are watching on TV from the comfort of their own sofas. Narrated by Caroline Aherne.

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6.00 Channel 4 News (S,HD) 6.20 Ice Age: Continental Drift (S,HD). (2012) Premiere. Animated comedy sequel, with the voice of Ray Romano. ●●●

10.00 ITV News (S); Weather 10.15 Perspectives: Michael Jackson’s Thriller with Ashley Banjo (S,HD). 1/6. New series. The Diversity leader heads to America to find out about his idol Michael Jackson.

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10.00 Bluestone 42 (S,HD). 6/6. Simon performs an awesome act of heroism. Last in the series. 10.30 Carnage (S,HD). (2011) Roman Polanski’s black comedy, with Jodie Foster and Kate Winslet. ●●●●

10.00 BBC News (S,HD) 10.20 Regional News (S) 10.30 Match of the Day 2 (S,HD). Including highlights of Manchester City v West Ham United.

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9.00 Stolen (S,HD). (2012) Premiere. A former thief tries to rescue his daughter, who has been kidnapped by an old accomplice and will be killed in 24 hours. Action thriller, with Nicolas Cage and Josh Lucas. ●●● 10.55 Drive Angry (S,HD). (2011) A man breaks out of Hell to track down the cult leader who has murdered his daughter and plans to sacrifice her baby. Fantasy thriller, starring Nicolas Cage and Amber Heard. ●●●

12.50 Jackass (R). 1.15 SuperCasino. 3.10 2,000 Tattoos, 40 Piercings and a Pickled Ear (R,S,HD). 4.00 House Doctor (R,S). 4.25 Make It Big (R,S). 4.50 Make It Big (R,S). 5.15 Angels of Jarm (R,S). 5.20 Angels of Jarm (R,S). 5.30 Angels of Jarm (R,S). 5.40 Roary the Racing Car (R,S). 5.50 Roary the Racing Car (R,S).

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6.00 Breakfast Headlines and business news. (S,HD) 9.15 Rip Off Food (S,HD). 10.00 Homes Under the Hammer (R,S,HD). 11.00 Channel Patrol (S,HD). 11.45 Cowboys and Angels (S,HD). 12.15 Bargain Hunt (R,S,HD). 1.00 BBC News; Weather (S,HD); Regional News. 1.45 Doctors (S,HD). 2.15 32 Brinkburn Street (R,S,HD). 3.00 Decimate (S,HD). 3.45 Escape to the Country (R,S,HD). 4.30 Flog It! (S,HD). 5.15 Pointless (R,S,HD).

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BBC2

6.15 Homes Under the Hammer (R,S). 7.15 Italy Unpacked (R,S,HD). 8.15 Sign Zone: Wanted in Paradise (R,S). 9.15 Dirk Bogarde: Talking Pictures (R,S). 10.00 Live Snooker: The World Championship (S,HD). 12.00 Daily Politics (S,HD) 1.00 Live Snooker: The World Championship (S,HD). 2.00 Daily Politics Election Debates: The Environment & Climate Change Debate 3.00 Live Snooker: The World Championship (S,HD).

ITV

6.00 Good Morning Britain (S,HD). 8.30 Lorraine (S,HD). 9.25 The Jeremy Kyle Show (S,HD). 10.30 This Morning (S). 10.55 ITV News (S) 11.00 This Morning (S). 12.30 Loose Women (S,HD). 1.30 ITV News (S); Weather 1.55 Regional News (S) 2.00 Judge Rinder (S,HD). 3.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal (S,HD). 3.59 Regional Programme (S). 4.00 Tipping Point (S,HD). 5.00 The Paul O’Grady Show (S,HD).

Channel 4

6.00 Countdown (HD). 6.45 Will & Grace. 7.35 Everybody Loves Raymond. 8.30 Frasier. 9.25 Four in a Bed (HD). 10.30 Come Dine with Me (HD). 12.00 Channel 4 News Summary (HD) 12.05 Come Dine with Me (HD). 1.05 A Place in the Sun: Summer Sun (HD). Finding a property in southern Spain. 2.10 Countdown (HD). 3.00 Deal or No Deal (HD). 4.00 Come Dine with Me (HD). 5.00 Four in a Bed (HD). 5.30 Coach Trip (HD).

Channel 5

6.00 Milkshake!. 9.15 The Wright Stuff (HD). 11.10 The Hotel Inspector (R,S). 12.10 5 News Lunchtime (S,HD) 12.15 Britain’s Horror Homes (R,S,HD). A woman whose house had to be demolished due to coastal erosion. 1.15 Home and Away (S,HD). 1.45 Neighbours (S,HD). 2.15 NCIS (R,S). 3.15 Film: Next Stop Murder (S). (2010) Thriller, starring Brigid Brannagh. ●● 5.00 5 News at 5 (S,HD) 5.30 Neighbours (R,S,HD).

Coronation Street, 7.30pm

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6.00 Eggheads (R,S,HD). Quiz show. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow Detectives (S,HD). 11/15. A paddle steamer involved in the Dunkirk evacuation.

6.00 Regional News (S); Weather 6.25 Party Election Broadcast (S). By the English Democrats Party. 6.30 ITV News (S); Weather

6.00 The Simpsons (R,S). 12/25. An avalanche traps Homer and Mr Burns. 6.30 Hollyoaks (S,HD). Leela blames her loved ones for the attack.

6.00 Home and Away (R,S,HD). 6.30 5 News Tonight (S,HD) 6.55 Party Election Broadcast (S). Political broadcast.

7.00 The One Show (S,HD). Hosted by Alex Jones and Matt Baker. 7.30 The Leader Interviews: Ed Miliband (S,HD). Evan Davis talks to the Labour leader. Followed by BBC News.

7.00 The Mekong River with Sue Perkins (R,S,HD). 1/4. The comedienne goes on a journey along the Southeast Asian river, beginning in Vietnam.

7.00 Emmerdale (S,HD). Donny uses Lachlan’s fears to his own advantage. 7.30 Coronation Street (S,HD). David blackmails Andy into planting drugs in Callum’s car.

7.00 Channel 4 News (S,HD) 7.55 Party Election Broadcast (S,HD). A campaign outline by a political party.

7.00 The Gadget Show (S,HD). Jason Bradbury attempts to breathe new life into an old bedside lamp and an FM radio. Followed by 5 News Update.

8.00 EastEnders (S,HD). The Carters and Brannings prepare to say their final goodbyes to Stan and Jim. 8.30 The Great Benefit Housing Scandal – Panorama (S,HD).

8.00 Alex Polizzi: Chefs on Trial (S,HD). 1/16. New series. Alex Polizzi finds new head chefs for restaurants that have a desperate need to fill a vacancy, putting candidates through a rigorous testing process over four nights.

8.00 Wild Ireland (S,HD). 2/6. Christine Bleakley climbs Knocknarea mountain. 8.30 Coronation Street (S,HD). Callum demands answers from Andy.

8.00 Food Unwrapped (S,HD). Mineral water, vegetable oil and shop-bought pies. 8.30 Travel Man: 48 Hours in Marrakech (S). 4/4. Richard Ayoade and Stephen Mangan tour the Moroccan city. Last in the series.

8.00 Police Interceptors (S,HD). Dan is given the runaround by an uninsured driver, Mike meets two hungry late-night speeders, and Jon deals with a shoplifter caught by members of the public. Last in the series. Followed by 5 News at 9.

9.00 MasterChef: The Finals (S,HD). 21/24. The hopefuls enter the last week, cooking a five-course dinner in memory of Winston Churchill. Continues Wednesday.

9.00 Inside Harley Street (S,HD). 2/3. A 27 year-old wants liposuction on her thighs, a care worker from Walsall expects to spend £7,500 on a hair transplant, and a 72 yearold plans to go under the knife once more.

9.00 Safe House (S,HD). 1/4. New series. A former detective and his wife turn their Lake District guest house into a safe house, taking in a family who are under threat. Drama, starring Christopher Eccleston.

9.00 Skint (S). 2/3. Locals gather for a charity boxing event in Merthyr Tydfil, including a woman who is determined to beat her addiction and go to university.

9.00 Gotham (S,HD). 17/22. Gordon and Bullock investigate a series of bank robberies, Alfred is visited by an old SAS comrade, and Cobblepot plans to go behind Maroni’s back to supply his club with alcohol.

10.00 ITV News at Ten (S) 10.00 Jack Dee’s Election Help 10.00 BBC News (S,HD) Desk (S,HD). 2/3. The comedian 10.30 Regional News (S); Weather 10.30 Regional News (S) and guests offer advice on the 10.40 The Agenda (S,HD). 5/10. Tom 10.45 Have I Got a Bit More News General Election. Bradby and guests discuss the for You (S,HD). 2/9. Victoria week’s big issues. Coren Mitchell hosts the topical 10.30 Newsnight (S,HD). Headline analysis. quiz.

10.00 Raised by Wolves (S,HD). 6/6. Germaine makes a final attempt to win Lee’s heart. Last in the series. 10.35 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (R,S,HD). 6/7.

10.00 Person of Interest (S,HD). 5/23. Shaw is assigned to protect a 10-year-old girl from the Russian mafia. 10.55 Lock Up (S,HD). (1989) Thriller, with Sylvester Stallone and Donald Sutherland. ●●

11.25 Regional Programme (R,S,HD).

11.15 Weather (S,HD) 11.20 Snooker: The World Championship (S,HD). Highlights of the concluding session on day three in Sheffield.

11.20 Slow Train Through Africa with Griff Rhys Jones (R,S,HD). 2/5. The comedian travels 1,200 miles through Kenya and Tanzania.

11.35 The Island with Bear Grylls (R,S,HD). 3/14. Events take a dangerous turn on a fishing trip.

12.15 Weather for the Week Ahead (S,HD). 12.20 BBC News (S,HD).

12.10 The Women’s Football Show (S,HD). 12.40 Snooker: World Championship Extra (S,HD). Extended highlights of a match from the first round. 2.40 Sign Zone: Back in Time for Dinner (R,S). 3.40 This Is BBC Two (S,HD). 4.00 BBC Learning Zone (R,S).

12.15 Jackpot247. Interactive gaming. 3.00 UEFA Champions League Weekly (S,HD). A look ahead to the quarter-final second-leg matches. 3.25 ITV Nightscreen (HD). Text-based information service. 5.05 The Jeremy Kyle Show (R,S,HD). Guests air their differences.

12.30 Secret Millionaire Ireland (R,S). Philanthropists go undercover in deprived areas. 1.30 The Fairy Jobmother USA (S,HD). 2.20 You Can’t Get the Staff (R,S,HD). 3.15 Sarah Beeny’s Selling Houses (R,S,HD). 4.10 Location, Location, Location (R,S,HD). 5.05 Deal or No Deal (R,S,HD).

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Tuesday’s Television Guide BBC1

6.00 Breakfast Headlines and business news. (S,HD) 9.15 Rip Off Britain: Food (S,HD). 10.00 Homes Under the Hammer (S,HD). 11.00 Channel Patrol (S,HD). 11.45 Cowboys and Angels (S,HD). 12.15 Bargain Hunt (S,HD). 1.00 BBC News; Weather (S,HD); Regional News. 1.45 Doctors (S,HD). 2.15 32 Brinkburn Street (R,S,HD). 3.00 Decimate (S,HD). 3.45 Escape to the Country (S,HD). 4.30 Flog It! (R,S,HD). 5.15 Pointless (R,S,HD).

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BBC2

7.00 Channel Patrol (R,S,HD). 7.45 Cowboys and Angels (R,S,HD). 8.15 Sign Zone: Your Home in Their Hands (R,S). 9.15 The Super League Show (S,HD). 10.00 Live Snooker: The World Championship (S,HD). 12.00 Daily Politics (S,HD) 1.00 Live Snooker: The World Championship (S,HD). 2.00 Daily Politics: Foreign Affairs Debate (S,HD). 3.00 Live Snooker: The World Championship (S,HD).

ITV

Channel 4

6.00 Countdown (HD). 6.45 Will & Grace. 7.35 Everybody Loves Raymond. 8.30 Frasier. 9.25 Four in a Bed (HD). 10.30 Come Dine with Me (HD). 12.00 Channel 4 News Summary (HD) 12.05 Come Dine with Me (HD). 1.05 A Place in the Sun: Summer Sun (HD). A couple seek a property on the Spanish Costa Blanca. 2.10 Countdown (HD). 3.00 Deal or No Deal (HD). 4.00 Come Dine with Me (HD). 5.00 Four in a Bed (HD). 5.30 Coach Trip (HD).

Channel 5

6.00 Milkshake!. 9.15 The Wright Stuff (HD). 11.10 The Hotel Inspector (R,S,HD). 12.10 5 News Lunchtime (S,HD) 12.15 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away (R,S,HD). Two enforcement agents make a shocking discovery in a child’s bedroom. 1.15 Home and Away (S,HD). 1.45 Neighbours (S,HD). 2.15 NCIS (R,S). 3.15 Film: Concrete Canyons (S). (2010) Mystery, starring Scott Patterson. ●●● 5.00 5 News at 5 (S,HD) 5.30 Neighbours (R,S,HD).

Emmerdale, 7pm

Coach Trip, 5.30pm

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6.00 Eggheads (R,S,HD). Quiz show. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow Detectives (S,HD). 12/15. Intriguing stories behind family heirlooms.

6.00 Regional News (S); Weather 6.30 ITV News (S); Weather

6.00 The Simpsons (R,S). 13/25. 6.30 Hollyoaks (S,HD). Time is running out for Ziggy to make up his mind.

6.00 Home and Away (R,S,HD). 6.30 5 News Tonight (S,HD) 6.55 Party Election Broadcast (S,HD). By Plaid Cymru.

7.00 The One Show (S,HD). Live chat and topical reports. 7.30 EastEnders (S,HD). Linda confronts Dean and asks him to confess. Followed by BBC News.

7.00 The Mekong River with Sue Perkins (R,S,HD). 2/4. The comedienne witnesses how deforestation and wildlife crime are stripping Cambodia of its last wild places.

7.00 Channel 4 News (S,HD) 7.55 Party Election Broadcast (S,HD). A campaign outline by a political party.

7.00 Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead 2 (S,HD) (2014). Premiere. Documentary in which a man made famous by his weight-loss story consults experts for tips on healthy living. ●●●

8.00 Holby City (S,HD). 28/52. Fletch is horrified when daughter Evie’s first day at her new school leads to disaster. Guy introduces a new member of staff but quickly realises he may have underestimated her.

8.00 Alex Polizzi: Chefs on Trial (S,HD). 2/16. Three new candidates are tested on their butchery skills as they compete for the job of head chef at fine dining restaurant The Gilpin in the Lake District. Hosted by Alex Polizzi.

7.00 Emmerdale (S,HD). Donny argues with Chrissie over what is best for Lachlan. 7.30 Live UEFA Champions League (S,HD). Barcelona v Paris Saint-Germain (Kick-off 7.45pm). Mark Pougatch presents coverage of the quarter-final second-leg encounter from the Nou Camp. Subsequent programmes are subject to change.

8.00 Plus Sized Wars (S,HD). Cutting Edge documentary following the work of three well-known brands as they go through a period of rapid change, responding to the boom in demand for plus-size fashion.

8.00 Britain’s Horror Homes (S,HD). A man whose property was wrecked by tenants who left him with a repair bill of £10,000 and a woman who discovered that the water continually flooding her garden was in fact sewage.

9.00 Ordinary Lies (S,HD). 6/6. Beth feels ready to move on, until she receives unexpected news, while Mike considers how much he has to lose if he and Beth make a go of things. Last in the series.

9.00 Back in Time for Dinner (S,HD). 6/6. Giles Coren and Polly Russell introduce the Robshaws to potential tastes of the future and predict how people will shop, cook and dine over the next 50 years. Last in the series.

9.00 One Born Every Minute (S,HD). Featuring a teenager who did not know she was expecting until six months pregnant, and a couple caught in a clash of cultures over their first baby.

9.00 Psychopath: The Devil’s Disciple (S,HD). 5/6. David Wilson presents a psychological profile of Patrick Mackay, who committed a series of murders in London and the south-east of England in the mid-1970s.

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10.00 Later Live – with Jools Holland (S,HD). 2/8. With Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Kendrick Lamar and Mumford & Sons. 10.30 Newsnight (S,HD). Headline analysis.

11.45 In the Electric Mist (S,HD). (2009) Mystery, with Tommy Lee Jones and John Goodman. ●●●

1.35 Weather for the Week Ahead (S,HD). 1.40 BBC News (S,HD).

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10.00 ITV News at Ten (S) 10.30 Regional News (S); Weather 10.40 UEFA Champions League: Extra Time (S,HD). Highlights of tonight’s quarter-final second-leg matches.

10.00 Ballot Monkeys (S,HD). 1/5. New series. Political comedy following the election campaign. 10.35 Skint (R,S). 2/3. Locals gather for a charity boxing event in Merthyr Tydfil.

10.00 Family Secret & Lies (S,HD). People involved in feuds with their nearest and dearest, including a woman who has been cut off from most of her family since she underwent gender-reassignment surgery.

11.40 Benidorm (R,S). 5/6. The 11.15 Weather (S,HD) Garveys attempt to win a pub 11.20 Newsbeat: The Election quiz. Debates (S,HD). One hundred young people aged between 18 and 24 discuss issues surrounding the forthcoming General Election.

11.35 The Island with Bear Grylls (R,S,HD). 4/14. An expedition party becomes separated from the main group.

11.00 Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: Hoarding (R,S,HD). People whose compulsion to hoard renders them incapable of throwing things away.

12.20 Snooker: The World Championship (S,HD). 1.10 Snooker: World Championship Extra (S,HD). Extended highlights of a match from the first round. 3.10 Sign Zone: Rip Off Britain: Food (R,S). 3.55 This Is BBC Two (S,HD). 4.00 BBC Learning Zone (R,S,HD).

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Wednesday’s Television Guide BBC1

6.00 Breakfast (S,HD) 9.15 Rip Off Britain: Food (S,HD). 10.00 Homes Under the Hammer (R,S,HD). 11.00 Channel Patrol (S,HD). 11.45 Cowboys and Angels (S,HD). 12.15 Bargain Hunt (R,S,HD). From Newark, Nottinghamshire. 1.00 BBC News; Weather (S,HD); Regional News. 1.45 Doctors (S,HD). 2.15 32 Brinkburn Street (R,S,HD). 3.00 Decimate (S,HD). 3.45 Escape to the Country (R,S,HD). 4.30 Flog It! (R,S,HD). 5.15 Pointless (R,S,HD).

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BBC2

7.00 Channel Patrol 7.45 Cowboys and Angels 8.15 Sign Zone: An Island Parish: Falklands 8.45 Helicopter Heroes Down Under 9.15 Richard Burton: Talking Pictures 10.00 Live Snooker: The World Championship 11.50 Lifeline 12.00 Daily Politics (S,HD) 1.00 Live Snooker: The World Championship (S,HD). 2.00 Daily Politics Election Debate: Economy (S,HD). 3.00 Live Snooker: The World Championship (S,HD).

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Channel 4

6.00 Countdown (HD). 6.45 Will & Grace. 7.35 Everybody Loves Raymond. 8.30 Frasier. 9.25 Four in a Bed (HD). 10.30 Come Dine with Me (HD). 12.00 Channel 4 News Summary (HD) 12.05 Come Dine with Me (HD). 1.05 A Place in the Sun: Summer Sun (HD). A couple search for a home on Spain’s Costa Blanca. 2.10 Countdown (HD). 3.00 Deal or No Deal (HD). 4.00 Come Dine with Me (HD). 5.00 Four in a Bed (HD). 5.30 Coach Trip (HD).

Channel 5

6.00 Milkshake!. 9.15 The Wright Stuff (HD). 11.10 The Hotel Inspector (R,S,HD). 12.10 5 News Lunchtime (S,HD) 12.15 The Last Days of Rasputin (R,S,HD). 1.15 Home and Away (S,HD). 1.45 Neighbours (S,HD). 2.15 NCIS: New Orleans (R,S,HD). 3.15 Film: Ties That Bind (S,HD). (2010) Mystery, starring Kristanna Loken. ●● 5.00 5 News at 5 (S,HD) 5.30 Neighbours (R,S,HD).

Newzoids, 9pm

The Island with Bear Grylls, 9pm

GPs: Behind Closed Doors, 7pm

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6.00 Eggheads (R,S,HD). Quiz show. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow Detectives (S,HD). 13/15. An adventure story led by polar explorer Ernest Shackleton.

6.00 Regional News (S); Weather 6.25 Party Election Broadcast (R,S). A campaign outline by a political party. 6.30 ITV News (S); Weather

6.00 The Simpsons (R,S). 14/25. 6.30 Hollyoaks (S,HD). There’s a surprise in store for Patrick and Sienna.

6.00 Home and Away (R,S,HD). 6.30 5 News Tonight (S,HD) 6.55 Party Election Broadcast (S). By the Scottish National Party.

7.00 The One Show (S,HD). Hosted by Matt Baker and Alex Jones. 7.30 The Leader Interviews: Nigel Farage (S,HD). Evan Davis talks to the UKIP leader. Followed by BBC News.

7.00 The Mekong River with Sue Perkins (R,S,HD). 3/4. The comedienne continues her journey up the Southeast Asian river and reaches Laos.

7.00 Emmerdale (S,HD). Chrissie makes a deal with Ross to thwart Donny’s plans. 7.30 Coronation Street (S,HD). Callum vows to teach David a lesson.

7.00 Channel 4 News (S,HD) 7.55 Party Election Broadcast (S,HD). A campaign outline by a political party.

7.00 GPs: Behind Closed Doors (R,S,HD). A patient arrives in agony, suffering from sore testicles. Followed by 5 News Update.

8.00 MasterChef (S,HD). 22/24. The finalists learn new culinary skills in Sweden, at two restaurants whose methods could not be more different from each other. Back in the studio, they produce a fish dish. Continues tomorrow.

8.00 Alex Polizzi: Chefs on Trial (S,HD). 3/16. The mission to find a head chef for Lake District restaurant The Gilpin continues as three new candidates are tested on preparing a partridge for a fine-dining menu.

8.00 Give a Pet a Home (S,HD). 2/6. Amanda Holden reveals which of last week’s celebritychampioned animals have found a new home with viewers, and six more potential pets are put up for adoption.

8.00 The Restoration Man: George Clarke’s Restoration Heroes (S). The architect chooses four of his favourite church conversions seen on the programme.

8.00 The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door (S,HD). A dispute with a neighbour descends into violence, while an elderly couple who feel they are the victims of noise from next door receive a visit from the police. Followed by 5 News at 9.

9.00 Secret Britain (S,HD). 3/3. Ellie Harrison and Adam Henson explore the Scottish Highlands, climbing Ben Nevis, visiting a cattle ranch and hunting for Bonnie Prince Charlie’s hideaway. Last in the series.

9.00 World’s Richest Terror Army (S,HD). Peter Taylor presents an interview with an imprisoned senior leader of the so-called Islamic State as he looks beyond the savagery to investigate how it became so rich.

9.00 Newzoids (S,HD). 2/6. Satirical puppet sketch show. 9.30 The Delivery Man (S,HD). 2/6. A father juggles his paternal duties as two women give birth to his children.

9.00 The Island with Bear Grylls (S,HD). 5/14. With their energy levels plummeting, the men set out to catch a calorie-rich caiman, but when one of Vic’s traps is triggered, the battle for a decent meal has only just begun.

9.00 Autopsy: The Last Hours of Robin Williams (S,HD). Forensic pathologist Dr Richard Shepherd investigates the death of actor and comedian Robin Williams, whose body was discovered at his San Francisco home in August 2014.

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6.00 BBC News (S,HD); Weather 6.30 Regional News (S); Weather

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10.00 QI (R,S,HD). Comedy panel game, with Stephen Fry. 10.30 Newsnight (S,HD). Headline analysis.

10.00 ITV News at Ten (S) 10.30 Regional News (S); Weather 10.40 Pop Gold (S). 7/8. The archive clips show celebrates fashion in music. Narrated by Andy Kershaw.

11.15 Insomnia (S,HD). (2002) Christopher Nolan’s thriller, with Al Pacino and Robin Williams. ●●●●

11.15 Weather (S,HD) 11.20 Snooker: The World Championship (S,HD). The final session on the fifth day at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield.

11.40 Corfu: A Tale of Two Islands 11.00 One Born Every Minute (R,S). 3/8. A couple celebrate (R,S,HD). A man sets out to film their 60th wedding anniversary his partner giving birth, a on the island. father-to-be is in danger of missing the arrival of his child, and a football-lover tries to overcome his squeamishness.

1.05 Weather for the Week Ahead (S,HD). 1.10 BBC News (S,HD).

12.10 Snooker: World Championship Extra (S,HD). Extended highlights of a firstround match. 2.10 Sign Zone: Kew on a Plate (R,S). Raymond Blanc tries to protect his carrot crop. 3.10 Portillo’s State Secrets (R,S). 3.40 This Is BBC Two (S,HD). 4.00 BBC Learning Zone (R,S,HD).

12.05 Jackpot247. Interactive gaming. 3.00 The Jeremy Kyle Show USA (R,S). The host takes his successful talk show stateside. 3.40 ITV Nightscreen (HD). Textbased information service. 5.05 The Jeremy Kyle Show (R,S,HD). Guests air their differences.

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10.00 BBC News (S,HD) 10.30 Regional News (S). Followed by Regional Programme. 10.45 A Question of Sport (S,HD). With Asmir Begovic and Suzi Perry.

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10.00 First Dates (S,HD). 8/9. 10.00 Britain’s Favourite Stand-Up Featuring an Essex boy who has Comedian (R,S). A countdown not dated in more than a of the 50 funniest people to decade, a woman celebrating have performed stand-up her 50th birthday and a man routines, featuring Tommy whose unusual wooing Cooper, Joan Rivers and Robin technique involves telling lies. Williams. With contributions by Paul Hogan and Ross Noble.

12.00 Music on 4: Snowbombing 2015 (S,HD). 12.30 Burger Bar to Gourmet Star (R,S,HD). 1.25 Film: Fair Game (S,HD). (2010) ●●●● 3.15 Sarah Beeny’s Selling Houses (R,S,HD). 4.10 Double Your House for Half the Money (R,S,HD). 5.05 Deal or No Deal (R,S,HD).

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Wimbledon

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Thursday’s Television Guide BBC1

6.00 Breakfast (S,HD) 9.15 Rip Off Britain: Food (S,HD). 10.00 Homes Under the Hammer (S,HD). 11.00 Channel Patrol (S,HD). 11.45 Cowboys and Angels (S,HD). 12.15 Bargain Hunt (R,S,HD). From Hungerford, Berkshire. 1.00 BBC News; Weather (S,HD); Regional News. 1.45 Doctors (S,HD). 2.15 32 Brinkburn Street (R,S,HD). 3.00 Decimate (S,HD). 3.45 Escape to the Country (S,HD). 4.30 Flog It! (R,S,HD). 5.15 Pointless (R,S,HD).

FILM RATINGS

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BBC2

6.00 Homes Under the Hammer (R,S). 7.00 Channel Patrol 7.45 Cowboys and Angels 8.15 Sign Zone: Great British Garden Revival (R,S). 9.15 Victoria Derbyshire (S,HD). 11.00 BBC News (S,HD) 11.30 BBC World News (S,HD) 12.00 Daily Politics (S,HD) 1.00 Live Snooker: The World Championship 2.00 Daily Politics Election Debate: Education (S,HD). 3.00 Live Snooker: The World Championship 5.55 Party Election Broadcast

ITV

Channel 4

6.00 Countdown (HD). 6.45 Will & Grace. 7.35 Everybody Loves Raymond. 8.30 Frasier. 9.25 Four in a Bed (HD). 10.30 Come Dine with Me (HD). 12.00 Channel 4 News Summary (HD) 12.05 Come Dine with Me (HD). 1.05 A Place in the Sun: Summer Sun (HD). Finding a property on Spain’s Costa Blanca. 2.10 Countdown (HD). 3.00 Deal or No Deal (HD). 4.00 Come Dine with Me (HD). 5.00 Four in a Bed (HD). 5.30 Coach Trip (HD).

Channel 5

6.00 Milkshake!. 9.15 The Wright Stuff (HD). 11.10 The Hotel Inspector (R,S,HD). 12.10 5 News Lunchtime (S,HD) 12.15 Secrets of Great British Castles (R,S,HD). The history of Warwick Castle. 1.15 Home and Away (S,HD). 1.45 Neighbours (S,HD). 2.15 NCIS (R,S,HD). 3.15 Film: Deadly Hope (S,HD). (2012) Thriller, starring Alana De La Garza. ●●● 5.00 5 News at 5 (S,HD) 5.30 Neighbours (R,S,HD).

Emmerdale, 7pm

The Supervet, 8pm

The Mentalist, 10pm

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6.00 Eggheads (R,S,HD). Quiz show. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow Detectives (S,HD). 14/15. Hilary Kay investigates a Victorian sketchbook.

6.00 Regional News (S); Weather 6.25 Party Election Broadcast (R,S). By the Liberal Democrats. 6.30 ITV News (S); Weather

6.00 The Simpsons (R,S). 15/25. A gay man befriends the family. 6.30 Hollyoaks (S,HD). Nancy realises she can’t keep Kim’s secret any longer.

6.00 Home and Away (R,S,HD). 6.30 5 News Tonight (S,HD) 6.55 Party Election Broadcast (S). By the Liberal Democrats.

7.00 The One Show (S,HD). Topical stories from around the UK. 7.30 EastEnders (S,HD). The Brannings are stunned by an unexpected arrival at Jim’s funeral. Followed by BBC News.

7.00 The Mekong River with Sue Perkins (R,S,HD). 4/4. The comedienne concludes her epic journey along the Southeast Asian river as she follows the Mekong through China.

7.00 Emmerdale (S,HD). 7.30 Spotlight – Nigel Farage: Tonight (S). 4/5. Julie Etchingham interviews the UKIP leader.

7.00 Channel 4 News (S,HD) 7.55 Party Election Broadcast (S,HD). A campaign outline by a political party.

7.00 The Classic Car Show (S,HD). Will Best finds out whether the public prefer the classic Fiat 500 or its modern counterpart.

8.00 MasterChef (S,HD). 23/24. The hopefuls face the penultimate task of the contest – preparing a three-course menu designed by Italian chef Massimo Bottura and judged by five of his contemporaries. Concludes tomorrow.

8.00 Alex Polizzi: Chefs on Trial (S,HD). 4/16. The best three chefs from the week face their final challenge – to produce a three-course fine-dining menu – before Alex Polizzi and the restaurant owners make their appointment.

8.00 Emmerdale (S,HD). Chrissie strikes a deal with Donny. 8.30 Double Decker Driving School (S,HD). 5/6. Alvin’s latest drive narrowly avoids disaster.

8.00 The Supervet (S). 7/7. The pets with problems this week include a rare breed of bulldog with multiple issues, a lame husky, and a Maltese-bichon frise cross suffering from seizures. Last in the series.

8.00 The Last Days of Charles I (S,HD). Mark Gatiss, Hannah Dawson and Geoffrey Robertson are among those giving their views on the life and death of Charles I, who was executed for treason in January 1649. Followed by 5 News at 9.

9.00 Crimewatch (S). A cold case review of the 1975 murders of a 22-year-old “bunny girl” and a 16-year-old schoolgirl, in light of DNA evidence proving both crimes were committed by the same man.

9.00 W1A (S,HD). 1/4. New series. The return of the spoof documentary. The team prepares for a visit by Prince Charles, and Siobhan is tasked with updating the BBC’s Wimbledon coverage.

9.00 Ice Rink on the Estate (S,HD). 3/3. As the main event looms, some of the skaters are chosen by Torvill and Dean to perform individually and in pairs, but rain then ruins the dress rehearsal. Last in the series.

9.00 The Island with Bear Grylls (S,HD). 6/14. The women clash over the fate of two pigs and struggle to create a fire – and to make matters worse, a tornado appears to be heading straight for the island.

9.00 The Hotel Inspector (S,HD). 3/8. Alex Polizzi heads to the Kent seaside town of Ramsgate to help with the launch of a new hotel, but finds financial disaster looming for owners Gay and John Haines.

10.00 ITV News at Ten (S) 10.30 Regional News (S); Weather 10.40 The Agenda (S,HD). 6/10. Tom Bradby and guests discuss the week’s big issues.

10.00 The Last Leg (S,HD). 1/3. New series. Adam Hills, Josh Widdicombe and Alex Brooker present a comic review of the past seven days, including the latest political news in the runup to the election.

10.00 The Mentalist (S,HD). 11/13. A man claiming to be a psychic offers to help the team solve a double murder. 10.55 Born to Kill: The Serial Killing Couple (S,HD). 5/10. Psychological profiles of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka.

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6.00 BBC News (S,HD); Weather 6.30 Regional News (S); Weather 6.55 Party Election Broadcast (R,S,HD). By the Liberal Democrats.

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Crimewatch, 9pm

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10.00 Inside No 9 (S,HD). 5/6. A birthday party takes an unexpected turn. 10.30 Newsnight (S,HD). Headline analysis.

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10.00 BBC News (S,HD) 10.30 Regional News (S) 10.45 Question Time (S,HD). 28/38. David Dimbleby chairs political debate from West Bromwich in the West Midlands, where another panel of guests answer questions from the audience. 11.45 This Week (S,HD). The past seven days in politics.

11.25 Newzoids (R,S,HD). 2/6. 11.15 Weather (S,HD) Satirical puppet sketch show. 11.20 Snooker: The World 11.50 River Monsters (R,S,HD). 4/7. Championship (S,HD). Jeremy Wade journeys along Highlights of the sixth day from the Congo in Africa. Sheffield.

11.05 First Dates (R,S,HD). 8/9. 11.50 True Crimes: The First 72 Featuring an Essex boy who has Hours (R,S). 33/45. Solving cases not dated in more than a across Canada and America. decade, a woman celebrating her 50th birthday and a man whose unusual wooing technique involves telling lies.

12.30 Holiday Weatherview (S,HD). 12.35 BBC News (S,HD).

12.10 Snooker: World Championship Extra (S,HD). Extended highlights of a match from the sixth day. 2.10 Sign Zone: The Great Benefit Housing Scandal – Panorama (R,S). 2.40 The Billion Dollar Chicken Shop (R,S). 3.40 This Is BBC Two (S,HD). 3.55 BBC Learning Zone (R,S,HD).

12.05 Raised by Wolves (R,S,HD). 12.35 Plus Sized Wars (R,S,HD). 1.30 Secret Millionaire Ireland (R,S). 2.25 Unreported World (R,S,HD). 2.50 Food Unwrapped (R,S). 3.20 Double Your House for Half the Money (R,S,HD). 4.15 Sarah Beeny’s Selling Houses (R,S,HD). 5.10 Deal or No Deal (R,S,HD).

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Ladies’ Day at Royal Ascot

Departing Jun 2015 Our price includes • Return coach travel • One night’s bed and continental breakfast accommodation at a good hotel in the Greater London area • Ladies’ Day at Royal Ascot with admission to the Silver Ring Enclosure (Grandstand Admission upgrade available at a supplement) • Visit to Central London • The services of a tour manager

Friday’s Television Guide BBC1

6.00 Breakfast (S,HD) 9.15 Rip Off Britain: Food (S,HD). 10.00 Homes Under the Hammer (R,S,HD). 11.00 Channel Patrol (S,HD). 11.45 Cowboys and Angels (S,HD). 12.15 Bargain Hunt (R,S,HD). From Horncastle, Lincolnshire. 1.00 BBC News; Weather (S,HD); Regional News. 1.45 Doctors (S,HD). 2.15 32 Brinkburn Street (R,S,HD). 3.00 Decimate (S,HD). 3.45 Escape to the Country (R,S,HD). 4.30 Flog It! (S,HD). 5.15 Pointless (R,S,HD).

FILM RATINGS

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BBC2

6.00 Homes Under the Hammer (R,S). 7.00 Channel Patrol (R,S,HD). 7.45 Cowboys and Angels (R,S,HD). 8.15 Sign Zone: Gardeners’ World (R,S). 8.45 Helicopter Heroes Down Under (R,S). 9.15 Peter O’Toole: Talking Pictures (R,S). 10.00 Live Snooker: The World Championship (S,HD). 12.00 Daily Politics (S,HD) 1.00 Live Snooker: The World Championship (S,HD).

ITV

6.00 Good Morning Britain (S,HD). 8.30 Lorraine (S,HD). 9.25 The Jeremy Kyle Show (S). 10.30 This Morning (S). 10.55 ITV News (S) 11.00 This Morning (S). 12.30 Loose Women (S,HD). 1.30 ITV News (S); Weather 1.55 Regional News (S) 2.00 Judge Rinder (S,HD). 3.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal (S,HD). 3.59 Regional Programme (S). 4.00 Tipping Point (S,HD). 5.00 The Paul O’Grady Show (S,HD).

Channel 4

6.00 Countdown (HD). 6.45 Will & Grace. 7.35 Everybody Loves Raymond. 8.30 Frasier. 9.25 Four in a Bed (HD). 10.30 Come Dine with Me (HD). 12.00 Channel 4 News Summary (HD) 12.05 Come Dine with Me (HD). 1.05 Channel 4 Racing (HD). Live coverage from Sandown Park. 3.15 Deal or No Deal (HD). 4.00 Come Dine with Me (HD). Four cooks from Leeds battle to win the £1,000 prize. 5.00 Four in a Bed (HD). 5.30 Coach Trip (HD).

Channel 5

6.00 Milkshake!. 9.15 The Wright Stuff (HD). 11.10 The Hotel Inspector (R,S,HD). 12.10 5 News Lunchtime (S,HD) 12.15 Film: Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead 2 (S,HD). (2014) Documentary about healthy living. ●●● 1.15 Home and Away (S,HD). 1.45 Neighbours (S,HD). 2.15 NCIS: Los Angeles (R,S,HD). 3.15 Film: Obsession (S,HD). (2011) Thriller, starring Charisma Carpenter. ●● 5.00 5 News at 5 (S,HD) 5.30 Neighbours (R,S,HD).

Coronation Street, 7.30pm

Unreported World, 7.30pm

Secrets of Great British Castles, 8pm

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6.00 Regional News (S); Weather 6.25 Party Election Broadcast (R,S). Political broadcast. 6.30 ITV News (S); Weather

6.00 The Simpsons (R,S). 16/25. 6.30 Hollyoaks (S,HD). Kim tries desperately to make amends with Esther.

6.00 Home and Away (R,S,HD). 6.30 5 News Tonight (S,HD) 6.55 Party Election Broadcast (S). A campaign outline by a political party.

7.00 The One Show (S,HD). Hosted by Chris Evans and Alex Jones. 7.30 Regional Programme (R,S,HD). Followed by BBC News.

6.00 Eggheads (R,S,HD). Quiz show. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow Detectives (S,HD). 15/15. A tablecloth made by female prisoners in a Japanese internment camp. 7.00 Live Snooker: The World Championship (S,HD). Coverage of the concluding session on day seven at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield.

7.00 Emmerdale (S,HD). Ross takes revenge by telling Chrissie everything. 7.30 Coronation Street (S,HD). Gail despairs on her wedding day.

7.00 Channel 4 News (S,HD) 7.30 Unreported World (S,HD). 5/8. 7.55 Party Election Broadcast (S,HD). A campaign outline by a political party.

7.00 The Gadget Show (R,S,HD). The Harlem Globetrotters help Jon Bentley test a range of Bluetooth in-ear headphones. Followed by 5 News Update.

8.00 EastEnders (S,HD). 8.30 MasterChef (S,HD). 24/24. The search for the next MasterChef champion reaches its climax, as the remaining amateur cooks produce the three courses they hope will secure them the title. Last in the series.

8.00 An Island Parish: Falklands (S,HD). 5/6. The Rev Richard Hines guest-presents a local radio show. 8.30 Gardeners’ World (S,HD). 8/31. Monty Don demonstrates how to lift and divide perennials.

8.00 Weekend Escapes with Warwick Davis (S,HD). 2/6. The actor takes the campervan to south Wales. 8.30 Coronation Street (S,HD). The wedding service grinds to a halt.

8.00 Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD (S,HD). 15/22. War comes to Coulson’s doorstep in a way he never expected as shocking revelations are brought to light, while Skye struggles to control her new abilities.

8.00 Secrets of Great British Castles (S,HD). Dan Jones heads to Gwynedd to explore the history of Caernarfon Castle, the military importance of which faded at the end of the 15th century when Henry Tudor became king.

9.30 Have I Got News for You (S,HD). 3/9. Jeremy Clarkson hosts the topical quiz.

9.00 Sex and the Church (S,HD). 3/3. Diarmaid MacCulloch explores how official Christianity and Western society have drifted apart on issues of sex and gender over the past 300 years. Last in the series.

9.00 Slow Train Through Africa with Griff Rhys Jones (S,HD). 3/5. The comedian travels through Zambia and Zimbabwe.

9.00 Gogglebox (S). 10/12. Capturing the households’ instant reactions to what they are watching on TV from the comfort of their own sofas. Narrated by Caroline Aherne.

9.00 NCIS: New Orleans (S,HD). 11/23. The investigation into the murder of a retired Navy Seal leads Pride and LaSalle to head to Afghanistan to try to track down a petty officer who was presumed to have been killed.

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11.25 Would I Lie to You? (R,S,HD). 11.30 Weather (S,HD) 4/9. With Miles Jupp, Heston 11.35 Later – with Jools Holland Blumenthal, Emilia Fox and Ed (S,HD). 2/8. Music by Noel Byrne. Gallagher’s High Flying Birds. 11.55 EastEnders (R,S,HD). Omnibus. Extended version of Tuesday’s live show.

10.00 The Clare Balding Show (S,HD). 4/12. With Victoria Pendleton and Charlotte Dujardin. 10.30 Newsnight (S,HD). Analysis of the day’s events.

10.00 ITV News at Ten (S) 10.00 Alan Carr: Chatty Man (S,HD). 6/13. Property gurus 10.30 Regional News (S); Weather Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer 10.40 Rambo III (S,HD). (1988) Action discuss their forthcoming series adventure sequel, with Love It or List It, and Stephen Sylvester Stallone and Richard Mangan talks about the new Crenna. ●● National Theatre play Rules for Living.

1.50 Weather for the Week Ahead (S,HD). 1.55 BBC News (S,HD).

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12.40 Snooker: The World Championship (S,HD). 1.30 Snooker: World Championship Extra (S,HD). Extended highlights of a match from the second round. 3.30 Sign Zone: Question Time (R,S). 4.30 Dara and Ed’s Great Big Adventure (R,S). 5.30 This Is BBC Two (S,HD). Preview of upcoming programmes.

10.00 NCIS (S,HD). 10/24. The team investigates the murder of a marine. 10.55 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (R,S,HD). 17/22. Munch investigates the rape and beating of a mute girl.

11.05 Virtually Famous (S,HD). 2/10. 11.50 True Crimes: The First 72 With Stacey Solomon, Rob Hours (R,S). 34/45. A killing Beckett, Bobby Mair and Tyler spree leaves a woman, her Oakley. boyfriend and an elderly church deacon dead. 11.55 Brooklyn Nine-Nine (S,HD). 15/23. The squad attends a terrorist training simulation.

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10.00 BBC News (S,HD) 10.25 Regional News (S). Followed by Regional Programme. 10.35 The Graham Norton Show (S,HD). 3/13. Light-hearted chat and music.

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to take the approach that anything is possible. And, better still, Aspire Springers is one of a new generation of British Gymnastics-supported clubs around the country who are encouraging both able-bodied and disabled trampolinists to train to become coaches from the age of 14. Another move towards breaking barriers in the sport in the future.

IGHT-year-old Shay recently won first place in a trampoline competition. He was delighted and so were his parents – naturally. Coming first in a competition that requires the confidence to jump high and perform a number of skills is in itself impressive to someone like me who can’t imagine ever clambering onto a professional-sized trampoline. But it is all the more awesome an achievement when you learn that Shay has multiple disabilities. He was born with a combination of birth defects which include missing radial bones and thumbs bilaterally. He first tried trampolining last year at a taster day that I attended run by Gloucestershire-based Aspire Springers Trampoline Club. Tomorrow I’ll be helping out again at this event and I look forward to hearing more inspirational stories of young people overcoming the challenges of their disabilities to try something different and simply have fun. But I am fully aware too that there are just as many young people out there who don’t believe they can achieve in sport – or if they do believe then they just haven’t found anyone willing to support them in their ambition. From what I understand, the greatest challenge faced by disabled young people keen to get into sport is not their own disability but the inability of others to encourage them to allow them to test their boundaries. I’ve heard stories of children at school being left on the side when their classmates have been doing gymnastics or being invited to sit in a canoe when the others are learning to swim or being told they will have difficulty competing in archery just because they have a wheelchair. Parents are unaware of just how a club can accommodate their child’s individual needs, teachers are unsure whether they should include pupils with disabilities in activities with their able-bodied peers. Many families have been led to believe by doctors, teachers and even friends and family that there are limits to what their child can achieve. Shay’s mum Catherine says her family liked the ethos of Aspire Springers which puts the child first and the disability second. She tells how so often, in many other activities he has taken part in, Shay has been treated as if he should be ‘wrapped in cotton wool’. It was refreshing for her to meet the coaches at Aspire Springers who seem

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What would you eat?

I recently built an outdoor pizza oven at home so I’d fire that up on the Saturday and cook some thin, crispy (and probably slightly burnt) pizzas, followed by a Sunday roast the next day.

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What would you drink?

Some crisp dry white wine with the pizzas followed by a beer or two, with maybe a coffee in between.

If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?

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I’ve tried a few different places over the years, and to be honest I’ve come to the conclusion that there are few better places to live than the Cotswolds. The only thing I’d change is to bring the sea a bit closer (and with global warming I guess that might happen before too long.)

If you could invite anyone, dead or alive, to a dinner party, who would you invite ?

I’d have to invite my great, great, great grandfather Charles Darwin – it would be amazing to meet such an influential figure who’s also part of the family.

How would you describe your ideal weekend?

Busy! I don’t really do relaxing weekends, so I’d pack as much in as possible – a few long walks with Jack the dog, a bit of DIY around the house, and maybe a trip to the beach for an hour or two of kite-surfing.

What’s the best weekend you’ve ever been on?

I get most of it quite frequently – only the trips to the sea to go kitesurfing that are very few and far between.

Who would you spend it with?

I’d spend the weekend with my wife Jenny and our three children – and Jack our collie cross spaniel and Cuddles and Kaspar the cats.

Joe’s new app, Qtsy, is a new fun pet show application that allows pet lovers to enter pictures of their pets into online fun pet shows, vote on other pictures and win points and prizes. It’s free to download from the app store and Google Play. There are lots of shows on the app, including ‘Gloucestershire’s Pets of the Week’ which is run in association with The Echo with the winners featuring in the paper every Saturday.

What would you watch on TV, or listen to on the radio? If it was the summer I’d have the cricket on the radio, and then maybe watch the football highlights in the evening

What would you read?

The Observer followed by a bit of whatever book I’m reading in the evening.

What is your guilty pleasure?

Playing the guitar in the garden on sunny days (sorry neighbours!)

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