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World Chocolate Day How it’s become a succulent success

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Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom reviewed Does it have rex appeal or is it Jurassic stark?

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Welcome... to the July issue of IN&AROUND! We are well into the summer now, and that’s kept us in a very jubilant mood. The flowers are blooming and the number of exciting events here in County Durham is booming. You can get an especially good idea of what’s coming up if you look through the pages of the new IN&AROUND. World Chocolate Day is back on 7th July. If you know little about the history of the confectionery that started as cocoa beans and is today more popular than jelly beans, we can enlighten you (page 14).

ISSUE 158 July 2018 READ ONLINE AT: issuu.com/inandaroundmag DIRECTOR Benjamin Kerry MEDIA SALES Val Atkinson DESIGNER Daniel Haley COPYWRITERS Gavin Lenaghan Craig Lenaghan ACCOUNTS Victoria Pilch CONTRIBUTORS I Bird Photography - Front Cover Alex Nelson - Places to Go George Nairn - Remember When DISTRIBUTOR Paul Emmerson

Nonetheless, you might want to wait until you get to the cinema before stocking up on some chocolate. Then, you could devour it like a ravenous T-Rex while watching Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. First, though, find out what our copywriter Gavin Lenaghan thought of it, on page 38.

Or if your tastes are more sporty than cinematic, you could instead visit Chester-le-Street Cricket Club. We’ve detailed how the local creative agency Jak HQ is helping to take the club’s promotional reach to new heights (page 6). Oh, and we’ve even covered the history of Wimbledon (page 8), which also returns this month.

However the tennis tournament turns out, our advertisers are the strawberries and cream of IN&AROUND. As ever, we hugely thank these companies featured on our pages.

Your business could also get the spotlight in future issues distributed in Durham, Chester-le-Street and Derwentside. Call 0191 388 2698 or email sales@inandaroundmag.co.uk to learn about our discounted plans.

We’ll be back with a further dose of exciting content next month, so keep an eye out for the August issue of IN&AROUND landing on your doormat.

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CHESTER-LE-STREET CRICKET CLUB TEAMS UP WITH LOCAL MARKETING AGENCY JAK HQ TO HELP THEM REACH THEIR FULL POTENTIAL Chester-le-Street cricket club and local full-service creative agency Jak HQ (www.jakhq.com) have teamed up to kick-start an exciting new venture that will propel the club to new heights.

The cricket club’s new website will work in harmony with a proposed digital marketing strategy that will target audiences on their social media channels and encourage more sponsors to advertise around the pitch.

This is set to include a brand new website alongside a complete marketing strategy, helping to promote the club’s growing services to new and wider audiences.

By choosing to work closely with Jak HQ, another local business, the club is hoping to promote its additional services and to demonstrate its heightened community focus. The club chose the agency thanks to their longstanding reputation as a company that has helped many businesses of all sizes reach their potential through web design, digital marketing and print.

Jak HQ has crafted bespoke websites for a number of growing businesses throughout the North East most notably Lanchester Garden Centre and Findley Roofing & Building who have both gone from strength to strength thanks to Jak HQ’s expertise.

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STRAWBERRIES AND DREAM: A QUICK HISTORY OF WIMBLEDON

The world’s oldest and by many people’s reckoning, most prestigious tennis tournament, Wimbledon, is back this month. Although the competition has traditionally been a late June and early July affair, there’s a larger, global tennis calendar to take account of, and changes to it have recently pushed the start of Wimbledon into early July.

This year, ‘The Championships, Wimbledon’ – as the tournament is officially known – will happen from 2nd to 15th July, but do know about its long history?

Inauspicious beginnings for a tennis behemoth The tournament was first held in 1877, but the way it unfolded hardly hinted at the significant prestige and scale that the yearly competition was set to enjoy over the coming decades. That first tournament took place in – of course – the southwest London district of Wimbledon and to be more specific, at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club. Even today, this remains a private members’ club – a reflection of the little acorn from which Wimbledon’s mighty oak would grow.

The club, also known succinctly as the All England Club, provides the grass on which Wimbledon’s competitors play, leaving Wimbledon as the only one of the world-renowned Grand Slam tennis tournaments to still be played on grass. This playing surface makes for speedier games of tennis than what fans can expect to see at the US Open and Australian Open, where players take to hard courts, and the French Open, where clay is the surface.

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The first Wimbledon outing in 1877 had only one event: the men’s singles. Women were not allowed to compete at Wimbledon at this time, meaning the first Wimbledon champion – the 27-year-old Spencer William Gore – rose from a pool of 22 male competitors. He and his opponent in the final, William Marshall, used basic handmade racquets far removed from the top-of-the-range equipment we see on the Wimbledon courts today.

Underground, overground, Wimbledon free It was from 1884 onwards that women were first allowed to join Wimbledon. The tournament was suspended during the First and Second World Wars, but this hardly stopped its continued growth in popularity. In the 1950s, the All England Club gave up the original Worple Road site and took up a larger space on Church Road, where Wimbledon continues to be held annually to this day. In 1967, Wimbledon was captured in colour on a television broadcast for the first time.

The number of contests within the tournament was also expanded over time. So, the men’s singles were joined by the men’s doubles, women’s singles and doubles and mixed doubles. Today, other junior and invitational contests are also held as part of Wimbledon.

Many longstanding traditions of Wimbledon – including the consumption of strawberries and cream and the attendance of members of the royal family – remain staples. However, this year, you will probably spend most of your time simply cheering on the British players and despairing if they lose. The proudest Wimbledon convention of all, perhaps?

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SWEET LIKE WORLD CHOCOLATE DAY ON 7TH JULY

“You’re sweet like chocolate,” vocalist Sharon Woolf once warbled on perhaps the best musical tribute to the succulent brown stuff we call chocolate.

“Finding your way in the dark / Ain’t so hard when you’re close to my heart”, she added, as if she kept a large stack of Green & Black’s organic 90% dark chocolate for her lover to tuck into whenever he came home. We imagine that he would love World Chocolate Day - which, every 7th July, gives us all an excuse to scoff some chocolate.

Yes, yet another excuse. Hey, we aren’t going to complain about people giving us more. More excuses, that is, not more chocolate – although we’d still welcome that, obviously. The “Sweet like Chocolate” song to which Woolf contributed her silky – like Galaxy chocolate, dare we say – vocals was released by the garage duo Shanks & Bigfoot in 1999. However, the history of chocolate as common consumer confectionery goes back centuries.

A choc to the system for the Aztecs and Mayans Chocolate was introduced to Europe on 7th July 1550, making it a particularly pivotal date for chocolate connoisseurs. Before then, the Aztec and Mayan civilisations used chocolate as currency. If you are wondering how on earth they resisted the temptation to eat the chocolate instead, one likely answer is that this chocolate was not in the readily edible bar form with which we are so familiar. Instead, it was in the form of seeds sourced from cacao trees grown in locals’ gardens.

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making beverages – something of a precursor to today’s hot chocolate. The Mayans brewed ceremonial drinks using seeds picked from cacao trees. Similarly, Aztecs of the fifth century were fond of ‘xacoatl’ – a bitter-tasting water drink with flavours of vanilla and chilli pepper.

Nonetheless, the drink probably wasn’t succulent enough to tempt Aztecs into blowing their life savings on it – as indeed, in their society, cacao beans could serve as currency as well as an ingredient. An Aztec would, for example, have to swap one hundred of these beans to buy a turkey.

Plenty of different chocolates – and special days to enjoy them It took a while for the Europeans to catch the chocolate bug. It has been speculated that the world-famous explorer Christopher Columbus might have taken cacao beans to Spain after returning from the Americas for the last time. He probably would have been stunned by the sheer variety of chocolate treats – including colourful chocs, animal-shaped chocs and pralines – served up today.

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Museum of Archaeology, Durham If you have often wandered around Durham and wondered why you can’t find the Museum of Archaeology, there’s a very good reason: it no longer has its own single, dedicated building. The museum has a very long history, having been founded in 1833, only a year after its parent organisation Durham University. However, the museum is much more tucked away today.

Back in 1833, it was based in the Old Fulling Mill, sited on the River Wear’s banks. In the museum’s early years, the exhibits included a polar bear’s foot, a stuffed lion and even an admission card to the funeral of Horatio Nelson, the admiral who led Britain’s victory at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. It wasn’t until the late 19th century that the archaeological collection’s early basis formed.

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H G U O R A E M O C E B IN R E N N U AM R H R U D COUNT Y NTH THIS MO If you have ever watched TV game shows based on physical obstacle courses – such as Gladiators and Takeshi’s Castle – and thought “I could do that”, you soon could, right here in Chester-le-Street. The town’s Lambton Estate will, for the weekend of 21st to 22nd July, be transformed into an obstacle course featuring a 40m slide, sweeper arms and large balls. There will even be – as you might remember from climactic moments of Gladiators – the Travelator. Yes! It’s time to indulge in nostalgia Many of us have long been thrilled by watching others trying to make their way through obstacle courses.

Perhaps your own obsession began with that classic of 1990s children’s TV, Fun House. However, it wasn’t just Pat Sharp’s shocking mullet that was (dis)gracing our screens back in the day. You might also recall the likes of Wolf, Jet, Hunter and Rhino – yes the Gladiators – taking on ordinary members of the public while pulsequickening competitive music played in the background.

A little later, in the 2000s, you might even have watched the Japaneseoriginated game show Takeshi’s Castle, in which our Asian friends would keep blundering martial challenges to a comic effect enhanced by Craig Charles’ irreverent commentary. However, to enjoy taking part in – rather than just watching – similar shenanigans, you won’t have to go Far East – just North East. That’s because, this July, Rough Runner will be making its debut in our corner of England.

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It would be fair to say that there have been plenty of obstacle races held both in the North East and elsewhere over the years. However, if you have felt intimidated by these races’ rather regimental, military flavour, you can rest assured that Rough Runner is a much more light-hearted affair – the silly Roger Moore to the other races’ gritty Daniel Craig. Like Bond, you can expect to get wet, perhaps a little muddy – weather permitting – and in any case, a good physical workout!

Booking is now open for Rough Runner on Lambton Estate, and whether you intend to book a place for Saturday or Sunday, you will be able to choose between three distances for your race. The 5k option is good for easing yourself into the Rough Runner chaos if you are relatively unfit, while 10k and 15k runs are also available as intermediate and advanced options respectively. The obstacle number also rises with the distance – from 10 to 15 to all 20 obstacles. ... the Rough get going!

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FILM REVIEW: JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM So, the classic cinematic formula demonstrating that humans and dinosaurs still don’t mix any better than they have done at any point since 1993, has made its latest return to our big screens in the form of the fifth instalment of the Jurassic Park series. But is this, on this occasion Juan Antonio Bayona-directed, epic just another excuse to print money with the spectacle of beasts gobbling sorry souls up, or is there still a worthier and more profound point to it all?

Navigating an ethical quandary Fallen Kingdom does at least make a fist of the latter, wheeling out Jeff Goldblum – back in his immortal role as chaos theory expert Dr Ian Malcolm – for the briefest of cameos to declare to the United States Senate that the dinosaurs still living on the notorious Isla Nublar should be left to perish. He’s weighing in on the matter of the monsters’ fate in the face of an impending volcanic eruption on the island, positing that the latest dinosaurs’ extinction would constitute nature correcting the mistake made by John Hammond (the character portrayed by the late Richard Attenborough in past Jurassic Park flicks) in cloning the dinosaurs all of those years ago.

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we mean the destruction and closure of the island’s former theme park and luxury resort, Jurassic World, three years earlier and a subsequent $800 million in lawsuits – many a casual viewer might be inclined to agree with Dr Malcolm’s assessment. But of course, there always have to be some ‘bleeding hearts’ who come along to ruin everything (and give us a film), roles played here by Jurassic World’s one-time operations manager, turned dinosaur-rights activist Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard) and former dinosaur trainer Owen Grady (Chris Pratt).

on which the Jurassic franchise has traded with gradually diminishing critical returns from the beginning, with key players including nerdy erstwhile Jurassic World IT technician Franklin Webb (Justice Smith) and onetime Marine, now paleoveterinarian Dr. Zia Rodriguez (Daniella Pineda).

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But it all goes wrong... inevitably The goal of our two-some is to head to Isla Nublar to save the species by moving them to a sanctuary elsewhere – a grandiose vision only made possible by the money of Benjamin Lockwood (James Cromwell), who was Hammond’s original business partner in building Jurassic Park. However, we soon learn that it is Lockwood’s unscrupulous younger associate, Eli Mills (Rafe Spall) who is to serve as Fallen Kingdom’s fake-smiling stock villain, on account of his plans to weaponise the beasts and sell them to arms dealers at an auction.

Fallen Kingdom’s attempt to pose the ethical quandary of whether we should feel a social responsibility to save creatures that want to eat us is a slightly clunky one. Nonetheless, the film’s central appeal will always be in the raw suspense, thrills and spills that are doled out in generous quantities here, and which do make it worth the watch.

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Northumbria’s historic Alnwick Castle is welcoming a brand-new series of nationwide concerts this July with Summer House Sounds.

Presented by live music promoters Cuffe and Taylor, Summer House Sounds is about bringing music to the people in unique and beautiful locations.

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NOTTINGHAM

If you ask a railway booking clerk in the north east for a ticket to Nottingham, he or she is likely to take a moment’s thinking time before evaluating the options. Even an electronic ticket machine is likely to stop for an extra second or two. That’s because Nottingham is one of the few large cities without a direct service from the north east, and there at least four sensible ways to get there, all with their own fares and schedules. I most recently travelled by East Coast (LNER as we shall learn to call it since the demise of Virgin Trains East Coast) outward via Newark North Gate and return via Grantham, but you can go with Cross Country trains from the north east changing at Sheffield, Derby or even Chesterfield.

On the way, via Newark, the little connecting train trundled out of the station and turned right on to the line to Lincoln, stopped, and reversed back over the unusual flat bed crossing (like a crossroads for trains) across the East Coast Main Line to go semi-fast to Nottingham. There was a big fire, believed to be arson, at Nottingham’s imposing station in January, but it is now only affecting a small part of the station at platform 7.

Apart from the burned down bit, it is a grand station, rebuilt in 1904 at a cost then of £ 1 million, more like £100m today.

was delighted to find there was a cross-city centre fare between the railway station and the tram stop outside my hotel for only £1.

Despite all these excellent buses and trams, I enjoy exploring the city on foot, interspersed with excellent ales in the City’s many pubs.

The oldest, pictured, is Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem, in the shadow of the Castle which you can also visit, which has a range of real ales and little nooks and crannies to drink in. That claims to be the oldest inn in England, dating from 1189. But if you cross the city to the Market Place, the Bell Inn claims to be the oldest pub in Nottingham, dating from 1437. They cannot both be right, and to confuse the situation further, the Salutation dates from 1240. The Salutation is named after the meeting of the Archangel Gabriel and the Virgin Mary – which certainly did not happen in Nottingham – and has a fascinating cave underneath the pub which I persuaded the landlord to show me a few years ago. Ye Olde Trip and the Bell are both owned by Greene King, so you would think they could sort the matter out!

Apart from many excellent pubs, try the museums. The Museum of Nottingham Life is currently closed for refurbishment, but the National Justice Museum on High Pavement is in a building on the east side of the City Centre which has been a court since 1375 and a prison since 1449.

They even provide educational services to the Royal Courts of Justice in London. Ice Centre, Theatre Royal, and Park Tunnel If a public transport professional died and went to heaven, (built too steep for horse-drawn carriages at 1:12 which he might wish to end up in a celestial Nottingham. Public defeated the object of its construction) and many more – take transport is amongst the best in the country with two excellent your choice. and award-winning bus operators, Nottingham City Transport Alex Nelson and Trent Barton, and the NET (Nottingham Express Transit) www.visit-nottinghamshire.co.uk trams now running through the City with a new extension to the south. I stayed at the Premier Inn on Goldsmith Street and 44 | IN&AROUND

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SHOP LOCAL THIS JULY – IT’S INDEPENDENT RETAILER MONTH

When Tesco recently announced the closure of its non-food online retail arm, Tesco Direct, it spelt especially bad news for the independent retailers using it as a selling platform. It’s particularly unfortunate that Tesco Direct will be closing on 9th July 2018, as this will be well into Independent Retailer Month – an annual campaign aimed at encouraging people to see the benefits of shopping local. The campaign has shed light on the value of forgoing the usual retail behemoths.

What is Independent Retailer Month really about?

Retail guru Clare Rayner launched independent Retailer Month in 2011. You might already be familiar with Clare as ‘The Retail Champion’ who has long flown the flag for startup and small businesses in the UK. She has been a guest on various media outlets, including BBC News, and has been recruited by the Federation of Small Businesses as a Real Life Entrepreneur Champion. She has continued to oversee Independent Retailer Month as it has gained momentum.

Clare also founded Support for Independent Retail, the broader campaign of which Independent Retailer Month is a part. Clare knows, as do other advocates of Independent Retailer Month, the distinct difference that independent retailers and consumer-facing businesses make to their local communities. Towns, high streets and villages are all enlivened – both socially and commercially – by these businesses.

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and their employees and suppliers to continue running their businesses and therefore give back to the community.

Meanwhile, when £1 is spent on a purchase from an online or out-of-town business, only 5p goes back to the local economy of the person who made this purchase and spent this money.

However, the campaign isn’t just about helping local businesses to stay afloat or build on their success. Independent Retailer Month is also intended to draw attention to how the customer experience differs with independent businesses. Customers can benefit from more unique products and a higher standard of service; the all-round experience is often more positive.

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The obvious answer is by seeking out independent retailers from which to make purchases – and you can do that more easily thanks to Independent Retailer Month. Campaigners have set up an online directory that you can search for details of UK independent retailers. You could find this directory especially valuable if someone’s birthday is coming up and you don’t want to be scrambling for the ideal present or wasting time perusing shops that don’t offer the right products.

If you run an independent retailer, even an online-only one, you can add your business to the directory, free of charge. The directory is located at www.independentshops.co.uk, while you can learn more about Independent Retailer Month at www.independentretailermonth.co.uk.

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What’s on July

Pixie Lott, Aston Merrygold and Phats & Small, Bents Park, South Shields Each summer, Bents Park in South Shields hosts a series of free concerts headlined by stars of both today and years past. This summer’s first South Tyneside Festival Summer Concert will star pop princess Pixie Lott, former JLS member Aston Merrygold and dance music duo Phats & Small.

These Sunday Concerts often attract visitors in the tens of thousands, so expect a big turnout when the music icons sing in South Shields on 8th July.

Festival of 50s, Beamish Museum The popular open-air museum is set to finish building a 1950s Town and upland farm on its huge site. However, before then, from Thursday 12th to Sunday 15th July, the museum will be bringing back this yearly festival. Whether you want to give your hair a makeover, dance to live music or sip a milkshake, you will be able to enjoy it all – in distinctly ‘50s style, of course – at Beamish.

Cats, Theatre Royal, Newcastle Cats is one of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s most acclaimed musicals, having cemented itself as one of the longestrunning shows both on Broadway and in the West End. However, you won’t have to travel to either to sample this enchanting story of the wonderfully varied Jellicle cats.

From Tuesday 24th to Saturday 28th July, Newcastle Musical Theatre Company will stage an amateur production of Cats, including matinees on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

The BFG in Pictures, The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle For many of us, the original “gentle giant” is undoubtedly the BFG, the eponymous character in Roald Dahl’s classic children’s story. The Big Friendly Giant also stars in this new exhibition of illustrations from Quentin Blake, who brought his trademark visual flourishes to many Dahl stories.

Blake himself curates this exhibition, which features 40 pieces and his written comments. The BFG in Pictures will run at the Bowes Museum from 14th July until 30th September.

Funny Way To Be Comedy - Gyles Brandreth: Break A Leg, The Witham, Barnard Castle Gyles Brandreth has been many things: an MP, government whip, One Show reporter, author... but it’s his acting history that is coming into play with this theatrical-themed stand-up show.

In Barney, the Just a Minute regular will share stories about stage stars he has met and the funny side of the theatrical world. Brandreth will be here on 28th July, showing what the Daily Mirror has hailed as a “serious talent for making people laugh”.

Power, Netflix This crime drama series got off to a shaky start in 2014, with critics taking issue with the show’s excessive plotting and generic story elements. However, several further seasons have since passed, bringing with them more favourable critical reactions.

As a result, anticipation is understandably eager for the fifth season of Power, which stars Omari Hardwick as James “Ghost” St. Patrick, who runs a thriving New York City nightclub while also operating as an influential drug lord. Unsurprisingly, his illicit double life threatens complications...

Very adult content abounds in Power, which is executive-produced by rapper 50 Cent, who also regularly features in the show as the character Kanan Starks. The fifth series will launch on Netflix on 2nd July, giving us new opportunities to see the man known off-stage as Curtis Jackson.

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