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Welcome to the latest issue of IN&AROUND! Easter is upon us – I love this time of year, spring flowers and blossom on the trees as our gardens come to life. Personally, it’s a great time of year as I get to spend time in the garden with my two-year-old son, Charlie, planting seeds and growing vegetables – hopefully the weather will continue to improve.

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BEAUTY & THE BEAST R

eimagining a classic such as Beauty and the Beast was always going to be a tough task.

Although the animated film lies at its heart, certain aspects have been reworked to make the liveaction version almost an hour longer. There were a number of questions answered that didn’t need answering in the first place, such as what happened to Belle’s mother as well as deeper psychological explorations into why the Beast and his servants were cursed in the first place.

myself cringing were because of his singing. He is much better looking as a beast than he is a prince. When he is eventually transformed, his hair definitely lacked lustre, and his new beau doesn’t fail to pick up on this, making a sly dig about him growing a beard.

An attempt to update the film to its modern audience comes in the form of a weak social commentary.

Like most of the Disney heroines we know, Belle is empowered by her desire for adventure (and Emma Watson takes the lead role adventure is certainly what she as Belle. Her entire performance gets) but how much of this fairyis believable and honest with a tale can really be deemed feminist? singing voice to match. As the What was once a regressive story Beast, Dan Stevens fails to make of a young girl in a provincial a huge impression. This may French town is now one in which be because he was suffocating we see our heroine inventing a under CGI for the most part or contraption that allows her horse because the only moments I found to do her laundry (essentially 8 | IN&AROUND

a makeshift washing machine) while she teaches a young budding feminist to read. So, although she seems to be on a one-woman mission to overthrow the patriarchy, she is still doing the laundry.

When it comes to the anthropomorphic furniture, despite a less than

convincing French accent, Ewan McGregor did the ever-optimistic candelabra Lumière justice.

Emma Thompson as the talking teapot Mrs Potts, however, was as annoying as her son-turned-teacup Chip with their grating Cockney accents that tried to cheer Belle up in her times of sorrow. Her sorrow quickly dissipated, though, and she found herself questioning her feelings toward her captor. Belle may be a bookworm, but what she isn’t clever enough to understand is that having romantic feelings for someone who has kept you prisoner is not love, it’s Stockholm Syndrome.

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Review second to Le Fou’s devoted ode to Gaston. In a film that implores you to forget about appearances, with a character cast so perfectly as Gaston, that is hard to do.

Luke Evans plays this egomaniac with so much on-stage humour that it’s hard to remember that he’s I didn't have to learn supposed to be the villain and as Le Fou (Josh Gad) a single lyric because I croons “There’s no man in already knew the songs by town admired as you, you’re heart. I’ve always loved everyone’s favourite guy”; singing, and it’s something it’s hard not to agree.

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Ebenezer Howard. It is also home to the United Kingdom’s first roundabout, Sollershott Circus, which was built in 1909, probably inspired by the traffic arrangements around the Arc de Triomphe which Unwin would have known well. Letchworth influenced not only Welwyn Garden City and the whole new town movement, but also abroad such as Canberra, the capital territory of Australia. Even Lenin visited Letchworth.

Howard’s depicted a choice of town design as a contest between three magnets: town, country and the fusion of the two as town-country. The Wetherspoons pub in the town is the Three Magnets, which would have horrified Howard who insisted that there would initially be no pubs in the town, although several

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Only one tree was felled during the entire initial construction phase of the town, and an area devoted to agriculture surrounding the town was included in the plan – the first “Green Belt”. It’s instructive to wander

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April’ s Recipe

Courtesy of Riverford Organic Farmers

Celeriac, kale and mushroom pie.

Ingredients

Turn the oven to 190°C/Gas 5. Heat 3 tablespoons of the oil in a pan, add the celeriac and the vinegar and half the butter during cooking. Melt the remaining butter in a frying pan with a tablespoon of oil and fry the onion on a medium heat until starting to soften, about 10 minutes.

stop the cooking and fix the colour. When cool, squeeze out the water and roughly chop. Combine all the component parts in a large bowl. Pour in the cream, grate in the nutmeg, mix gently and check the seasoning. Pack the mixture snugly into a shallow pie dish.

4 tbsp light olive or vegetable oil 1 large celeriac (about 1kg), peeled and cut into 1cm chunks 1 tbsp white wine vinegar 60g butter 2 large red onions, roughly sliced 500g flat mushrooms, thickly sliced 1 glass of red wine 3 garlic cloves, finely chopped 150g cavolo nero (black kale), leaves stripped from their stalks and washed 100ml double cream ¼ whole nutmeg, finely grated 1 x 300g ready-rolled sheet all-butter puff or flaky pastry beaten egg, for brushing salt and black pepper

Add the sliced mushrooms and cook until they start to release their moisture. Pour in the wine, add the chopped garlic and let the liquid bubble and reduce until you have a dark, sticky mess. Season with salt and pepper.

Cut out the pastry to the size of the rim of your dish and place it over the top of the filling, tucking it around the sides. Brush with the egg and slash a couple of holes in it for the steam to escape. Bake for 20–25 minutes, until the pastry is golden and the filling is bubbling around the edges. Enjoy!

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Spring is definitely in the air on our northern farms as we see a whole abundance of seasonal vegetables on offer in the fields. The winter crops are all still available and it won’t be long until the first new season spring crops appear.

Cooking with the seasons is always great fun, it focuses the mind on what’s best to cook and when. It also guarantees the best tasting veg on your dinner table. At Riverford we are all about seasonal veg and so here’s a great recipe idea for you to try this month.

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EASY-TO-OVERLOOK GEMS IN COUNTY DURHAM

Chester-le-Street Roman Fort Easily the best-known physical remnant of Roman life here in the North East is, of course, Hadrian’s Wall. That structure often marked the northern border of the Roman Empire on our island; however, so comprehensively did those Romans subdue the land south of the wall that further evidence of Roman civilisation has been regularly uncovered there. A good case in point is Concangis – or to use its more straightforward modern name, Chester-leStreet Roman Fort.

Concangis was a fortified military camp – or castra – located near the no-longer-extant Dere Street in Lower Britain. That was the name of a Roman province corresponding to modern northern England and ruled from what is now York. Concangis is mentioned in two crucial historical documents: the 5th-century Notitia Dignitatum and 7th-century Ravenna Cosmography, both of which include accounts of Roman Britain. The name Concangis is not strictly Roman, but instead Celtic; it may have meant “the horse people” and referred to a nearby tribe.

With its position overlooking the Wear valleys and east of the road leading to Newcastle’s Roman equivalent Pons Aelius, the fort would have been hugely useful to Roman military surveyors. As an auxiliary castra, it would also have been a station for non-citizen corps of the Empire’s army.

Considering this, you might be surprised to visit the fort’s ruins today and struggle to find much visible trace of them. This is because, sadly, what remains of the fort today is largely beneath ground. Still, following excavations of the site in 1978 and the early 1990s, you can see an outline of what was the officer’s quarters, just behind an information board about the site.

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Chester-le-Street Riverside Park A key part of the appeal of Chester-le-Street has to be its peacefulness. It’s fairly small and surrounded by tranquil countryside, with the bigger population centres of Newcastle and Durham each at least a few miles away. A quiet little oasis within the town is Chester-leStreet Riverside Park. Like the town in general, it’s an unassuming place with many unsung attractions.

In the many decades since the park was created in the 1930s, it has been consistently popular.

However, the park was given a new lease of life when it was redeveloped in the 1990s. Today, ornamental gardens designed by artists Isabella Lockett and Roger Dickinson join such conventional features as an events area and play area. Of course, the gardens are wonderful to relax in and the play area is great for kids’ enjoyment – but what work went into the revamped Riverside Gardens?

In 1996, Lockett and Dickinson were, along with the acclaimed Newcastle-born poet Linda France, tasked with giving the Riverside Gardens a renewed creative flair. To this purpose, they made works inspired by the local landscape designers Thomas Wright (1711-1786) and William Andrews Nesfield (1794-1881). Taking account of the interest that both men had in the solar system, each of the completed gardens that you can see today reflects a particular planet or star.

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Local woman Sara Whitfield joined multi award-winning independent travel company Travel Counsellors in December 2016, a business with more than 1,600 self-employed personal Travel Counsellors providing first-hand expert travel advice across the globe that has been established for over 20 years.

As a travel expert with Travel Counsellors, I’m delighted to be able to offer a totally new kind of personal travel service to the Durham area. Many people don’t have the time to spend hours searching through the internet to find their perfect holiday and that’s where I come in! I offer a highly personalised service and I take all of the hassle out of booking your holidays.

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Five Great Ways to Celebrate Easter.

Eat chocolate eggs It’s one of the most obvious ways in which many of us celebrate Easter today, although there have also been reports of the prices of Easter eggs potentially soaring this year due to a weaker pound and higher raw material prices.

Decorate Easter eggs The egg may be a symbol rooted in a pagan springtime fertility feast, but it has been adopted by Christians as an Easter symbol that represents new life. Across the world, people celebrate Easter by colouring and decorating hard-boiled eggs.

Participate in an Easter egg hunt With the eggs decorated, why not hide them throughout your home and garden for your children to find? In some traditions, the Easter Bunny hides the eggs on Easter morning for the children to find later that day.

Attend an Easter Sunday church service Although Easter Sunday church services vary in traditions depending on the denomination and style of worship, they tend to follow the church’s standard order of worship and often incorporate festive music

Enjoy a traditional Easter Sunday dinner Although Easter dinner customs vary around the world, here in the West, a traditional Easter dinner consists of either lamb or ham as the main dish. It was a Jewish tradition for lamb to be eaten during Passover, for example, and as Jews converted to Christianity, they made the Passover tradition part of their Easter dinners.

Remember Easter Sunday is the day when Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Easter marks the completion of Lent, which is a 40-day period of prayer, penance and fasting.

Naturally, these are just some of the ways in which you might like to celebrate Easter.

Feel free to get in touch with IN&AROUND about your own family’s favoured Easter traditions, and we may well feature the best in a future issue!

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It Is Parkinson’s Awareness Week April 10th -16th Parkinson’s disease is a condition that affects 1 in every 500 people in the UK. It is estimated that 127,000 people currently have the disease in Britain. If a typical family is a spouse and two children that may amount to half a million people who are affected by Parkinson’s in some way, as someone who has it or a carer.

What Is Parkinson’s Parkinson’s happens because people with the condition don’t have enough of a chemical called dopamine in their body. We all have dopamine because it acts as a signalling system sending messages from the brain to all the muscles we have. In Parkinson’s , for some reason we don’t understand yet, some of the nerve cells in the brain that produce dopamine have died.

The Effect of Parkinson’s If the signals don`t get through properly then the muscles don`t work so well. People with Parkinson`s have trouble with stiff muscles and slow movement. They may have trouble getting out of chairs, standing upright, handling small things like loose change. They are prone to tripping and falling. Their speech may be affected. In some cases, but not all, they may have a tremor in the arm or hand.

Although these symptoms are common in Parkinson's not everyone has them to the same degree. Only 25% have a tremor, some people never freeze, some don`t have speech problems . It all depends on the individual.

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Be Aware There Is Help Available!

The North Durham Branch of Parkinson’s UK offers a range of support and services.

Group Meetings These take place once a month at Newton Hall Community Centre. After a light buffet lunch we have speakers on a range of topics, some related to Parkinson’s others of general interest. There is also an optional, and fun, session of Music Therapy, - a well established therapy for speech and mental concentration issues. Subsidised travel is arranged for members in the Consett area.

Exercise Class This meets weekly at Newton Hall Community Centre. Physio and exercise is supervised by specialist trainers with a programme tailored specifically to meet the needs of people with Parkinson’s.

Excursions The group arranges a range of excursions over the year. These are to local places of interest including theatre visits. All visits are subsidised by the group. We also organise an annual Christmas lunch.

Information Sharing Meeting together regularly allows us to spread information. We have regular contact with researchers, Parkinson’s nurses and other Parkinson’s support workers. In addition we have a large amount of literature available at every monthly meeting. Our Facebook site provides regular updates on research and group activities.

Creative Writing Group The group meets monthly at Newton Hall Community Centre. It caters for absolute beginners, no experience necessary. Creative writing is a well established therapy to assist both those with Parkinson’s and their carers to express themselves not just about Parkinson’s but as part of their creative impulses generally.

Fund Raising A vital part of the groups work is fundraising.

We hold regular collections and fundraising events at local supermarkets and other venues.

All our funding goes towards local initiatives or research.

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GREENTHUMB SOWS SEEDS OF SUCCESS GreenThumb lawn treatment service continues to grow across the region.

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Since GreenThumb Durham started in May 2000, the family-run business has proved to be a great success.

Water conserver and growth regulator treatments are also available. These services by GreenThumb professionals costs less than some D.I.Y products on the market.

Owners Adrian Russell, wife Janet and daughter Lisa expanded the business in 2013 by launching a neighbouring franchise in Tyne Tees, and now the company has thousands of customers throughout the area.

A team of five lawn operatives work hard to keep the region’s lawns looking lush, covering the following areas: Durham, Consett, Chester-leStreet, Birtley, Washington, Sunderland, Peterlee, Seaham, Gateshead, South Northumberland, Hexham and Derwentside.

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Adrian said: “Our aim is to continue to expand with an order book full of satisfied customers.”

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Hair No More Pain Free Permanent Hair Removal.

Exclusive to Finishing Touch Clinic.

Owner Susan Routledge explained that there is an extreme amount of research under taken by herself and her team before introducing any new services.

A NEW Pain Free Laser treatment is now available, within Derwentside and Durham, exclusively at Finishing Touch Clinic in Consett.

“We originally gained Laser accreditation with The Quality Care Commission, and have offered VPL Laser treatments for over 10 years, but this new revolutionary treatment takes permanent hair removal to a whole new level. The speed of treatment has now brought the Launch price to an affordable level starting at only £19, plus we can now treat a wider range of hair types and skin tones. Even tanned skin can be safely treated and all Pain Free”.

The treatment is one of many new advanced treatments available. This follows the recent refurbishment of the Medomsley Road premises to allow more advanced skincare treatments including a once a year facelift using HIFU (High Intensity Focused Ultrasound), and Cryotherapy for the removal of pigmentation, age spots, skin tags, warts, moles and verrucae’s, along with new advanced Inch-loss treatments.

Finishing Touch Clinic has won over 10 National Business Awards and expanded 5 times in the 29 years since opening in Consett.

The Clinic also hosts specialist clinics in Medical Aesthetics, Corrective Tattooing & Permanent Make-up as well as Medical Podiatry.

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You can book a free consultation and also a complimentary test treatment by calling Finishing Touch Clinic on 01207 580880 or call in at 57 Medomsley Road, Consett. Co. Durham.

DH8 5HQ Appointments for the launch price are limited so please quote ‘In and Around Consett’ to qualify.

For more information, please visit www. finishingtouchclinic.co.uk/hair-no-more/

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WHAT’S ON IN COUNTY DURHAM

THE FULL MOON MARKET, DURHAM CITY Do you like to eat delicious food accompanied by live music? Then hotfoot it down to Durham Market Place on 4th April, for the chance to enjoy one of the North East’s most popular street food events. What could be better than the combination of good food, drink and entertainment? What’s more, entry to this event is free.

The Full Moon Market is the brainchild of The Durham Street Food Project, with the aim of promoting the very best street food

traders the North East has to offer. All of the vendors are hand-picked and appear on an invitation-only basis, assuring you of good food that will appeal to all tastes and age groups.

The Full Moon Market is set to take place on 4th April from 4-9 pm, and then monthly close to the full moon throughout the year.

You can connect with The Durham Food Project on Facebook and Twitter.

EDUCATING RITA, GALA THEATRE, DURHAM CITY Willy Russell’s much-loved play comes to Durham in April, featuring North East actress Jessica Johnson. In Rita, we have one of the great heroines of British theatre.

If you’ve ever felt shortchanged by the education you’ve received or the opportunities life has thrown your way, then Rita is a heroine to inspire you; indomitable, determined, kind and insightful through it all.

This masterpiece of British theatre explores the failings of our education system in the context of broader themes such as the nature of freedom and the possibility of change. Jessica Johnson brings her “stunning, emotive” talents to this poignant and funny play, to give 44 | IN&AROUND

it a fresh, regional edge. Educating Rita has inspired generations since it was first performed in 1980; book your tickets now to find out why.

To pick up tickets, call 03000 266 600 or visit the website at www.galadurham.co.uk.

The shows take place from Tuesday 4th to Saturday 8th April. The times of the shows vary, with evening performances at 19.30 and the matinees on Thursday and Saturday at 14.30.

Tickets prices are £12 £15 depending on the show, with 2 for 1 tickets available for Gala Members on opening night.

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Multi Activity Camp

Lagoon & Little Lagoon

10th - 13th April

Daily 8am - 7.30pm (4.30pm Sat)

(6-12yrs) £10 per day Consett Leisure Centre

The Louisa Centre

Football Camp

Fun Zone

(6-12yrs) £10 per day Consett Leisure Centre

Consett Leisure Centre

Camps are 10am-3pm booking is required.

£3 for 90min play. Check online or with the venue for age and height restrictions.

Tues 11th & 18th April 10am - 3pm

18th - 21st April

Swimming Courses (4yrs+) £20 per course Consett Leisure Centre The Louisa Centre

Beauty & The Beast (PG)

10th - 13th & 18th - 21st April Courses are 8am, 8.30am or 9am.

The Empire Cinema

7th - 22nd April

Slide, Rafts & Floats

All tickets only £4!

Consett Leisure Centre

10th - 21st April

Inflatable

The Louisa Centre

Wed 12th & 19th April Download a Pool Timetable for details.

For full details of visit:

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Fri 7th Mon 10th Tue 11th Wed 12th Thurs 13th Sat 15th Tue 18th Wed 19th Thurs 20th Fri 21st Sat 22nd

10.30 10.30 10.30 10.30 10.30 10.30 10.30 10.30 10.30 10.30

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The Empire Cinema

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Medomsley Rd, Consett DH8 5HU

Front St, Stanley DH9 0TE

Front St, Consett DH8 5AB

Events may be subject to change. Venues are closed Good Friday & Easter Monday.

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Briarwood Podiatry Professional foot care at home

Available treatments include: Nail care - long, thickened, ingrown & fungal nails Hard skin & corn removal Bunion & footwear advice Dry/cracked heels Verruca management Fungal skin infection/Athlete’s foot

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NOW OPEN IN GREAT LUMLEY Former Sports & Social Club

Sofed Miah has built a fantastic reputation in the area for exquisite indian cuisine

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