In&Around September 2019

Issue 172 - September 2019

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WHAT’S INSIDE Featured Articles 10

Remembering Roald Dahl

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Fun-filled Activity Week goes down a treat in Chester-le-Street

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Film reviews: The Lion King and new Fast & Furious

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Welcome

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It’s officially the first month of autumn, providing the ideal time for us to reflect on a very eventful summer for County Durham residents. We’ve got the lowdown in this shiny new issue of IN&AROUND, as well as details of what’s still waiting to be embraced as leaves fall from the trees.

In August, Durham Constabulary co-ordinated the annual Chester-le-Street Activity Week, where hundreds of families enjoyed activities including bouncy castles, face painting and, at the town’s Leisure Centre, free swimming. We were one of the proud sponsors of the event and report about it on page 26.

As for what to do this month, why not forgo conkercollecting in favour of a cinema trip instead? Fresh additions to two established franchises, The Lion King and Fast & Furious, are still screening. Our content manager Gavin Lenaghan has cast his critical eye over both films on pages 40-41.

Even if you aren’t one for either cats or cars, you can check out our latest ‘What’s On’ listings on page 42 - and we invite you to consider utilising services of any of our much-appreciated advertisers featured in this issue. We’ll be back next month!

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Celebrating Roald Dahl’s 103rd birthday What hopscotchy news! This month, on 13 September, the legendary writer Roald Dahl would have been celebrating his 103rd birthday - and, undoubtedly, celebrating it by fondly looking back on decades spent delighting children with heartwarming, even iconic stories like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, The BFG and The Fantastic Mr Fox.

in various countries across the world, and Matilda, which now outsells of all of Dahl’s other works.

Roald Dahl was born on 13 September, 1916 in Cardiff to Norwegian immigrant parents, and his life took in not only prolific bouts of writing but also a high-flying - both literally and metaphorically - career in the Royal Air Force during World War II. This article should be a razztwizzler for you...

Dahl often wrote his children’s stories from the POV of a kind-hearted child, while the villains were typically adults who would hate and mistreat children. Children’s book critic Amanda Craig has commented: “He was unequivocal that it is the good, young and kind who triumph over the old, greedy and the wicked.”

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Dahl’s Norwegian family heritage never entirely left him; he was actually named after Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian polar explorer. Dahl’s childhood experiences went on to inspire stories he wrote as an adult; his childhood memory of gobstoppers, for example, led him to create the “Everlasting Gobstopper” featured in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

In case you were wondering where the words “hopscotchy” and “razztwizzler” came from earlier in this article, they happen to be just two of the many new words Dahl created just for his literary work. “Hopscotchy” means cheerful, while “razztwizzler” refers to something wonderfully exciting or enjoyable.

In November 1939, Dahl - then in his early twenties - was recruited to the Royal Air Force. There, he climbed the ranks, starting out as an aircraftman and eventually reaching the rank of acting wing commander. His wartime adventures inspired his first published piece of writing, a story titled A Piece of Cake and placed in the pages of The Saturday Evening Post.

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Maybe this 13 September would be a good time to enjoy some “flavoury-savoury” chocolate or sit in front of the “telly-telly bunkum box” to enjoy one of the televised adaptations of Dahl’s work. Frankly, you probably don’t need us to clarify what those two particular phrases mean...

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Second phase of Chester-le-Street flood prevention scheme begins Chester-le-Street’s Market Place has been very much occupied as a construction area since work began on a multi-million flood prevention scheme there earlier this year. However, work on the scheme’s second phase has recently commenced.

Though the area of Chester Burn has traditionally been prone to flooding, the £6.2m scheme is aimed at curbing the likelihood of this occurring in the future. The second phase will see Durham County Council opening a 90m stretch of culvert running under the Market Place.

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Happy September everyone! Autumn is almost upon us, and that means a pre-winter check on your roof becomes absolutely crucial – especially if it hasn’t been inspected earlier in the year.

Subsequently, it’s also a big month for us at Findley Roofing & Building – although this month is even more special than usual. Our popular #FindFindley competition, which you can find over on Facebook, is now offering a range of prizes for the best and most frequent sightings of our vehicles all over the North East of England.

We’ve got mugs, pens and toy Findley vans to give away to the most eagle-eyed of Findley spotters, and you may get a glimpse of us on TV, too. If you spot one of our advertisements on primetime ITV, grab your camera or mobile, take a photo and submit your entry on our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/findleyroofing.

To the right, you can see a recent entry by one of our most avid young Findley fans, 8-year-old Finley from Washington, who is already well on the way to owning his own replica Findley van.

However, in between keeping your eyes peeled for us in transit, or on TV, do ask yourself when the last time you checked your roof was – and give us a call for a FREE roof inspection by one of our professionals. Not only will a roof check provide you with a little extra peace of mind as we approach winter – but you’ll get a good shot of one of our vans when we arrive at your home too! #FindFindley | 0191 417 3422

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There was a variety of activities on offer, including Monday 12th August to Friday 16th August 2019, 10am till 3pm each day at Burns Green, bouncy castles, climbing wall, goalkeeping challenge, Cone Terrace, Chester-le-Street, DH3 3QH. Activities attending: Goalkeeping Challenge, inflatable maze, face painting, badge making andDementia Awareness, Alzheimer’s Society, Royal British Legion, Foundation of Light (SAFC), St John Ambulance, First Aid Demonstrations, Captain Raggy Beard, Caricaturist Artist, Face Painting, Temporary Tattoos, Gladiator Joust, Human Demolition Ball, Rodeo Bull, Inflatable Maze, Assault Course, Bouncy Castles, Inflatable Slides, Bungee glitter tattoos.

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It was launched in 2006 in the Market Place and has grown in size ever since.

This year saw the addition of free swimming at Chesterle-Street Leisure Centre to the list of activities on offer.

“We have had a couple of wet days but the turnout has been fantastic. Everything is free and it is great to see the community supporting the event.

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Lambton Estate luxury family homes now available to buy in Chester le Street A collection of bespoke homes within Chester le Street’s Lambton Estate are now available for sale.

Lambton Estate has always been private - despite a short public period in the 1970s. Earlier this year, it was revealed the Lambton family are offering the chance to share the estate’s environment with a wider audience who will eventually move into the area.

The development will comprise 106 three, four and five-bedroom homes along with one, two and three-bedroom apartments. These have been designed in keeping with the longstanding heritage of the estate by architect Ben Pentreath.

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The journey was spent in part using the free wifi to determine things to do in Manchester, using the web address below. We arrived at Manchester Victoria in the middle of a signal failure at nearby Piccadilly, so baled out of the train there. Lucky we were not going to Goostrey after all. Victoria station was once one of the worst in the north of England so it is good to see it all restored and looking smart.

We had an early lunch at Yo! Sushi in the Arndale Centre using my Tastecard, and found that the National Football Museum, formerly free, now charges £10 for adults and £5 for children.

(I have subsequently discovered they accept my National Art Pass for free admission.) So we headed instead to the Northern Quarter to the Greater Manchester Police Museum in Newton Street, open free but only on Tuesdays, for a fascinating couple of hours on crime and punishment. Handcuffs were demonstrated, we were placed in the cells and sat before the bench in the court room.

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shops on Oldham Street in the Northern Quarter. I introduced Daniel to Afflecks, the vintage emporium which is a Manchester institution. Piccadilly Gardens was full of children playing in the fountains on a hot day.

For the afternoon we took a tram to Media City to visit the Imperial War Museum North (IWMN) at Daniel’s suggestion, and stayed there until closing watching videos and learning about conflicts from the First World War to the present day, including the Yemen and Syria. No dry as dust exhibitions here.

We would have visited The Lowry art gallery in Salford, but it closed at 1700, same time as the IWMN. So we took the opportunity of a meal at Café Rouge, once again using with my Tastecard before taking the tram direct into Piccadilly and our train home. Even better, owing to trouble affixing a second unit to our train at York and then a trespasser on the line in Durham, we arrived back at Chester-le-Street 45 minutes late which means we are entitled to a delay repay payment of half the ticket value. That can go towards a trip to Jodrell Bank later in the year.

You can only pack so much into a day and so we missed all the commemorations of the Peterloo Massacre of 16 August 1819, when peaceful protest about parliamentary reform led to Hussars charging the crowd and killing eleven and wounding over 500 people. There are no less than seven free exhibitions about the massacre running throughout September in the excellent Manchester libraries.

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FILM REVIEW:

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So, the 2019, Jon Favreau-directed edition of one of Disney’s greatest late-period traditionally animated classics. There are surely only two broad ways to interpret this one: it’s either a new milestone in aesthetic sophistication for animated films on the big screen, or too much of a daunting technical extravaganza to remember to inject that allimportant idiosyncrasy and soul.

Evidence for the prosecution of this photo-realistic, but not remotely ‘live action’ epic – every last detail of the on-screen animation instead being rendered in dazzlingly intricate CGI – comes in the form of animal mouth movements that aren’t always in synch with the words they’re speaking, together with the largely slavish manner in which the familiar classic is recreated, scene by scene.

But of course, the rather cautious shot-for-shot reconstruction does at least bring the benefit of preserving much of the power of the original story.

Oh, and it would be fair at this point to concede that the new Lion King does incorporate a few new helpful scenes and two, albeit forgettable new songs in a manner that scarcely leaves any visible seams

for those somehow unfamiliar with, or scarcely able to remember, the 1994 original.

While rather more dramatic change can naturally be observed in the voice cast, another sign of Favreau’s sometimes overly respectful deference to the original – although, for sentimental reasons as much as anything else, perhaps not so much on this occasion – is the return of James Earl Jones as the voice of the elder lion king, Mufasa.

Otherwise, the new-for-2019 cast is a tastefully chosen one for the new era, with JD McCrary and Donald Glover taking on the roles of the young and grown Simba respectively, and Seth Rogen and Billy Eichner impressing – albeit, stopping just short of show-stealing – as slow-witted warthog Pumbaa and his rather sharper-quipping meerkat companion, Timon.

Any appraisal of this new Lion King, however, must surely always return to what is presumably this version’s selling point: the annoyingly persistent religion in 21st-century cinema of utterly exacting realism being the greatest of creative virtues. This notion just doesn’t quite work in the case of an overly diligently produced remake that remains, after all, animated; a striving for immaculate photorealism that is also at once resoundingly unreal.

Nonetheless, for both kids and ‘big kids’ of any age who simply don’t care for such a fundamental contradiction and the on-screen flaws that consequently arise, Lion King-2019-style does still offer its own charms.

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The Fast and the Furious franchise gets a spin-off in Hobbs & Shaw that complies dutifully with the general trajectory of the series’ development since the 2001 original, of ever-more preposterous and improbable action far transcending the basic fast-car template.

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Jason Statham trade not-always-successful oneliners as American special agent Luke Hobbs and former British military operative Deckard Shaw respectively, in a predictable buddy-comedy dynamic as they seek to save the world from the designs of a cyber-genetically enhanced terrorist played by Idris Elba, who relishes his limited time on screen.

As overlong as it is at 135 minutes, though, Hobbs & Shaw serves just fine as the relatively mindless entertainment that we’re accustomed to from the Fast & Furious stable.

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What’s on

September Apollo Apollo Pavilion, Peterlee

So much has Victor Pasmore’s Apollo Pavilion divided opinion through the decades, it’s amazing in some ways that this unmistakable geometric piece of architecturecum-sculpture has even made it to its 50th birthday.

Yet it has – and for a few days only late this month, environmental artist Steve Messam will be celebrating that fact by building a striking temporary installation around it. Visit ‘The Pav’ at Oakerside Drive between 19th and 22nd September to see the result.

The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah Gala Theatre Durham

Born and raised in the Handsworth district of Birmingham – which he has described as the “Jamaican capital of Europe” – and subsequently a friend of Nelson Mandela and a fighter in the 1980s race riots, Benjamin Zephaniah has gone on quite the journey to reach his present status as one of Britain’s most celebrated poets. He’ll be at Gala Theatre Durham on Friday 6th September as part of his first tour in eight years; you can purchase tickets for £18, or £15 concession, at www.galadurham.co.uk.

Heritage Open Days Various locations around County Durham

England’s largest festival of history and culture returns from 13th to 22nd September, once again enabling those around the country to discover architectural treasures close to their door that often cannot be accessed at any other time of year. All manner of tours, events and activities will be on offer at venues across County Durham, and it’s all free; simply visit www.heritageopendays.org.uk to see what’s opening, and what’s happening, near you.

Chester-le-Street & District Flower & Vegetable Open Show Durham County Cricket Club

Taking place at the Emirates Riverside on Saturday 5th October, the Chester-le-Street & District Flower & Vegetable Open Show 2019 is, as its name suggests, open for all members of the public to enter. The entry charge is 50p for each entry up to a maximum of £20, with entries being benched from 8am to 11am and the show opening to the public between 2pm and 5pm. For more information, call show secretary Keith Harrison on 07984 989 827.

An Evening with Bradley Wiggins Tyne Theatre & Opera House, Newcastle upon Tyne

It used to be unthinkable that a British rider could win the Tour de France until Sir Bradley Wiggins achieved it in 2012 – but of course, there’s so much more to “Wiggo” than simply sporting glory. Britain’s most decorated Olympian will be in Newcastle on Saturday 28th September to share exclusive tales, prized memorabilia and career highlights in a unique and intimate live setting. Point your browser to www.eventim.co.uk to buy tickets from £32.50.

Michael – The Magic of Michael Jackson Sunderland Empire

No one made pop quite like the King of Pop, and there’s no touring tribute to the iconic superstar in the UK today that is bigger or arguably better than this one. Michael – The Magic of Michael Jackson features a jaw-dropping live band, stunning costumes and electric dance routines, as well as the inimitable Ben. This breathtaking light show showcases many of the greatest hits of Michael Jackson and The Jackson 5, including “Thriller”, “Beat It”, “Billie Jean”, “Man in the Mirror” and many more. Tickets for this 18th September performance are priced from £27.90 and can be booked at www.atgtickets.com.

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