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Welcome... Hello again to IN&AROUND! Where has 2017 gone? We are once again at the time of year characterised by gunpowder, treason and plot, although there’s no need for any Guy Fawkes to blow up parliament this year – the continued to-ing and fro-ing around Brexit is doing a perfectly fine job of that, as you can read more about on page 12. Could the UK be heading out of the EU without a trade deal?
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Elsewhere in the November issue of our free magazine for Durham, Chester-le-Street and Derwentside, you’ll find plenty of great articles of more obvious local interest, as we check out Diggerland Durham and draw parallels between one of Hartlepool’s greatest attractions – HMS Trincomalee – and the celebrated HMS Trafalgar. As happens every month here at IN&AROUND, we’ve also got some fabulous competitions for you to enter, thanks to Vue Gateshead and the Sunderland Empire. They’re two of the North East’s greatest entertainment venues, and you could be attending a film or show at one of them next for absolutely nothing. Finally, we also have to say – once again – a massive “thank you” to our advertisers. They continue to be the heroes who make IN&AROUND possible, and if you fancy becoming one of them, we’ll welcome you with open arms! Give us a call on 0191 388 2698 or send us an email via sales@inandaroundmag.co.uk to learn more about our discounted three and six-month plans. That’s it for now – have a very happy (and safe!) Bonfire Night, and we’ll see you again for our final issue of the year in a month’s time.
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Trafalgar and Trincomalee: a tale of two Napoleonic ships Have you been watching the ITV period drama Victoria recently? Okay, so we already know that the answer is probably yes. After all, the first series was ITV’s highest-rated drama last year, attracting an average of 7.7 million viewers per episode. The second series started in August, but you may have done a double take at a particular scene in which the young Queen Victoria, played by Jenna Coleman, addresses a crowd at the 1841 launch of a ship called HMS Trafalgar. You might have had more than a slight sense of déjà vu upon clapping eyes on the scenery. That’s because the backdrop was actually the Hartlepool base of the National Museum of the Royal Navy – and the ship itself was not the actual HMS Trafalgar which launched in 1841, but instead HMS Trincomalee, which has long been kept in Hartlepool for locals and visitors alike to look inside. Furthermore, a look at the histories of these two ships reveals some eye-opening differences.
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for historical accuracies, Queen Victoria did indeed – as depicted by Jenna Coleman – attend the launch of HMS Trafalgar. That was, in fact, the second Royal Navy ship to take the name of HMS Trafalgar – a reference to the Battle of Trafalgar, an 1805 naval conflict that marked one of Britain’s greatest triumphs in the Napoleonic Wars. The first ship was a 106-gun vessel launched in 1820 but renamed five years later. The second HMS Trafalgar was a Caledonia class ship with 120 guns. However, the launch took place not in Hartlepool, but instead in Woolwich Dockyard. That dockyard lining the River Thames no longer remains, but it was a site of extensive shipbuilding from the early 16th to the late 19th century. The ship itself was, at the Queen’s request, named by Lady Bridport, a niece of Lord Nelson, the British naval officer who was the architect of the Battle of Trafalgar victory. Tragically, Nelson was killed during that battle and was therefore unable to personally attend the launch of HMS Trafalgar. However, on board the ship were a hundred people who had been
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HMS Trincomalee: truly from the time of Napoleon Ironically, HMS Trincomalee was actually launched in 1817 – not only 24 years earlier than the ship it has recently emulated on TV, but also when Napoleon himself was still alive. That year, he was being kept prisoner in exile on the distant Atlantic island of St Helena, having been defeated at the Battle of Waterloo two years earlier. Trincomalee also stayed in service until 1986 – in other words, for much longer than the aforementioned HMS Trafalgar. It’s certainly a delight that we can still enjoy visiting Trincomalee here in the North East.
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What would a ‘no-deal’ Brexit actually mean? Yes, we know you’re probably more than a little sick of publications like ourselves here at IN&AROUND still ‘banging on’ about the UK’s impending departure from the European Union - but let’s be honest, it’s something we still have to talk about. That is not least the case amid recent intensifying talk that we may end up leaving the EU in March 2019 with no formal agreement in place at all. Whether you’ve heard it described as a ‘no-deal’ Brexit or a ‘hard’ Brexit, a lot has been speculated about what departing the EU in such circumstances might entail.
How many people want a ‘no-deal’ Brexit? Despite Prime Minister Theresa May’s early insistence that “no deal is better than a bad deal”, it doesn’t seem to be an eventuality relished by too many people. President of the European Council Donald Tusk, for example, declared earlier this year that “a no-deal scenario would be bad for everyone”. Meanwhile, according to a Survation poll just after the election, as many as two-thirds of Brits believed that an EU departure without “a mutually agreed deal” would be bad for the country, with just 26% reckoning it would be a good thing. Such scepticism was mirrored in similar polls.
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on “No Deal Brexit Day”, including legal chaos, the reappearance of a hard border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, food price rises and trading with the EU defaulting to World Trade Organisation rules. She added, of the latter: “In practical terms, this means lorry queues at border points like Dover and Calais.”
Or are we all getting a bit ahead of ourselves? Of course, the other school of thought is that we’re all getting slightly overdramatic about the whole thing. That certainly seemed to be the sentiment of Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson back in March, when he told ITV: “I don’t think that the consequences of a no-deal are by any means as apocalyptic as some people like to pretend.” Much more recently, in early October, in a debate with Labour MP Mary Creagh in City A.M. about the potential consequences of a ‘no deal’, BrexitCentral deputy editor Hugh Bennett said that “the key factor in determining whether ‘no deal’ can work for the UK comes down to whether the government commits serious resources to planning for it. “There are issues to resolve whether the UK leaves with or without a deal, but none will ultimately prove too challenging if the right preparations are made in good time.” So, there you have it. Could a ‘no-deal’ Brexit be the catastrophe that it has been predicted it will be in some quarters? The balance of opinion seems to be... possibly, but possibly not. Keep your eyes peeled for further updates on the matter in future months’ issues of IN&AROUND.
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On the day before my recent visit to Newark, the Daily Express was warning of England receiving the tail end of the American hurricanes with winds of 70mph. As it turned out, it was rather a pleasant Sunday, and there was much more rain on the walk back to the car at Durham station than all day in Newark-on-Trent. I left Durham at 0938 on a direct Virgin Trains East Coast service to London, calling at Newark Northgate station at 1117. Many people on leaving the station turn right to walk along Northgate to the town centre. It’s quicker, though, to turn left on to Appleton Gate and enter the town past the Palace Theatre. Newark was built at the crossing of the Great North Road and the Fosse Way, two Roman routes which are now the A1 and the A46. When the railways arrived, two routes again emerged: the north-south East Coast Main Line calling at Newark Northgate and the east-west Nottingham to Lincoln line calling at Newark Castle. There is no rail service between the two stations, and the lines cross at the same level on one of the few flat-bed crossings left on the mainline network. Boat trips are available on the River Trent. I first visited Newark Castle itself, the ruins of which are in an attractive park opened to celebrate Queen
Victoria’s 70th birthday on 24th May 1889. There was an interesting exhibition in the North West Tower of the Castle about bad King John, who suffered dysentery after a major feast in King’s Lynn and losing his treasures when crossing the Wash. He died in the room above the Gatehouse at Newark Castle on 18th October 1216 to be succeeded by his nine year old son, Henry III, who made a much better fist of being King than he had. Time for lunch then and I chose the Danube restaurant, two excellent courses for £15 opposite the Registry Office on Castlegate, before poking round the Newark Antiques Centre and the shops which were mostly open on the Sunday. After a coffee I moved to the National Civil War Centre which incorporates the town museum. A Royalist town which suffered three sieges and a good dose of bubonic plague, Newark was a strategically important town for the King, and the exhibits were much more interesting than suggested by some tripadvisor reviews. The small cinema played some specially filmed sequences about the Civil War and characters from Newark who had
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What’s on in the North East Lumiere Durham 2017 There’s no need to be afraid of the dark from 16th to 19th November, when the UK’s biggest light festival takes place on the streets of Durham for the fifth time. The event is once again the masterwork of one of the country’s leading arts producers, Artichoke, which has brought together the world’s most innovative artists and light designers for this spectacular four-night extravaganza. The city’s nocturnal landscape will literally light up with beautiful illuminations and projections, giving residents and visitors alike a real sense of celebration, and a new way to discover and appreciate Durham’s familiar and forgotten features and spaces. Travel information and road closures will be extensively advertised in the run-up to the event to ensure that as much traffic as possible is routed away from the city. A free ticketing system will be in effect for the festival’s busiest times, for the city centre or peninsula area only. For more information, visit www.lumiere-festival.com.
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