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Regal Kitchens Hold Special Open Day to Celebrate 10 Years in Business!

The family run business invited customers old and new as well as the general public to visit its Chelmsford showroom at 2 Navigation Road, Chelmsford, Essex CM2 6HX between 10am and 4pm on Saturday March 23rd for a cooking demonstration day to mark their 10th anniversary.

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During the special event, customers experienced the latest Neff appliances in action and were able to sample some amazing food prepared by official Neff demonstrator Adrienne Cleasby. The event was a huge success and Regal welcomed over 70 people through the doors throughout the

Regal Kitchens is the only independent kitchen company in Essex to have been awarded the prestigious FIRA (Furniture Industry Research Association) Gold Certification for excellence in installation.

Every attendee also left with a goody bag containing kitchen related items and everyone was entered into a free prize draw during the afternoon.

The company was also delighted to be accredited with the KBSA as a fully fledged member and has demonstrated its commitment to quality by receiving the coveted Which?

Trusted Trader endorsement. Regal prides itself on its ability to beat any price you might receive from anywhere else for the same level of quality, service and customer guarantees.

Regal Kitchens’ latest achievements reflect its commitment to living up to the company’s ethos - Where Client is King.

The showroom in Navigation Road is open 10am - 4pm, 7 days per week. www.regalkitchens.co.uk

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MT Therapy - by Chelmsford Therapy Rooms Hello everyone! Jenny here. Today I want to talk about mindset.

In particular the abundance mindset versus the scarcity mindset. The scarcity mindset focuses on ‘not having enough’ - so there’s never enough time, never enough money, never enough love out there in the world. Those with a scarcity mindset see competitors; they see how others have something they don’t have and these people are a threat because they believe that if they have, or are that thing the person with a scarcity mindset can’t have it, and won’t be able to be it.

Those with a scarcity mindset tend to focus on what they don’t have, rather than being grateful for what they do have. A common phrase used is ‘if only...’ so for example ‘if only I had that job/if only I had a partner/if only I had money...’ ‘...then I would be happy’. Here’s something interesting though: psychologists have explored the idea of the scarcity mindset through the study of hedonic adaptation, which explains that when we meet our expectations of more money, time and resources, we quickly return to the same level of happiness we had prior to the gains. So, if we are unhappy now and we achieve more, it’s still not enough.

Have you ever heard of people building million pound businesses from scratch, then losing it all, just to build it back up again?

When interviewed, many of these individuals report that they were constantly scared of losing the business or the money they had built. And that they focussed less on how grateful they were for what they had, and more on the fact they could lose it all - until they did!

Gratitude is an important part of building an abundance mindset.

More on that later...

When the world feels like it’s against you it can be easy to lose faith in a better path. We each need tools to bring us out of that state and remind us that we have agency over our lives. So, what can we do to help us cultivate some faith in life? There are various ways but one of my favourites is the positivity diary. This is where you make a note of 5 positive things each day, so if you find yourself struggling you can create something positive. This could be anything from doing something nice for someone to making a really nice cup of tea and relaxing with some ‘me’ time! Some other options include: Meditation • Go for a walk in nature - notice how beautiful and nurturing nature is.

• Enjoy an inspiring story/book/film. Personally, I find the TED talks on YouTube are great! Look for something positive that will make you feel happy.

• Do something creative.

• Cook your favourite meal - our olfactory senses (sense of smell) are incredibly powerful and are great for triggering positive memories.

While scarcity focuses on what we don’t have, abundant thinking is an attitude and mindset that focuses on what we do have. It allows us to see possibility rather than limits and can shift our perspective.

It can help us lead more resilient and creative lives. Previously I mentioned gratitude. Being grateful triggers dopamine in your brain, which allows you to feel happier, healthier and have a more expansive mindset. So, focus on what you do have and what you have accomplished. What is amazing about your life? Writing this down in a journal (like the positivity diary I mentioned earlier) can help you strengthen your neural pathways and more easily shift into this type of thinking. How does this happen? Hebbian’s Law! Remember, the neurons that fire together wire together. The more positive

your outlook, the positive your life. There are always opportunities available and those that think positively are more able to see these possibilities.

Those that have a negative outlook, those that are stressed and focus on the scarcity in life, tend to have more cortisol in their bodies.

Cortisol is a stress hormone and has been blamed for making us feel ‘foggy’. Cortisol is the primary stress hormone, and increases sugars (glucose) in the bloodstream, enhances your brain’s use of glucose and increases the availability of substances that repair tissues. Cortisol also curbs functions that would be nonessential or detrimental in a fight-or-flight situation. It alters immune system responses and suppresses the digestive system, the reproductive system and growth processes. This complex natural alarm system also communicates with the brain regions that control mood, motivation and fear. If you reduce the amount of cortisol released, then you become clearer and more logical because you’re not focussing on a perceived threat anymore.

So, how will you make your life more abundant today?

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Environment Act panel 16th May 2019 6-8pm in Tindal Building, Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford.

ARU Students’ Union invites you to fight for our planet.

The Government is currently shaping a new Environment Bill, the first in more than twenty years. NUS are working with WWF and The Wildlife Trusts to ensure that students have their say in this once in a generation opportunity, to set us on a path to restoring nature and securing a just and sustainable future for all.

Who will be there?

• Your Chelmsford MP; Vicky Ford • ARU Students’ Union representatives and societies • A key speaker from WWF and The Wildlife Trust All members of the community are welcome.

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Chelmsford - by Vicky Ford MP A friend recently challenged me to write an A-Z of great things that I’ve seen in Chelmsford this year. There is a huge amount to choose from, but here is my first attempt. I wonder what other things readers might like to add to the list?

Army and Navy Task Force: The flyover will need replacing in the

future. The Task Force has now been set up and has started the work to find a long-term solution.

Buses: Last autumn, Chelmsford buses were in a real mess. Now,

extra buses and new evening services are on the way. Do please use them, or we could lose them!

Children’s Services: Ofsted ranked our children’s services as

‘outstanding’. Fewer children in care means fewer vulnerable children at risk.

Overhead Lines: Network Rail have upgraded the overhead lines on the Chelmsford - London line. Now we should have fewer weekend replacement bus services.

Policing: Over 300 more officers are joining Essex Police and

Chelmsford’s C-Shift Team scooped the prize for the best local police team in the UK.

Queen’s Commonwealth Canopy: I helped Thriftwood College students plant trees in Admirals Park in a project to make new woodlands across the world.

Rough Sleeping: The number of rough sleepers is reducing. Thank

you to CHESS, Helping Hands, Sanctus, Open Road, Chelmsford City Council and many others.

Second Station: After two years of work, we put in the bid for

Beaulieu Park station. It’s now one of the top priority projects for the Great Eastern main line.

Delay/Repay Scheme: Now, train users can get compensation; even Toilets: the Changing Places toilet at Beaulieu Park Community when there is a 15-minute delay!

England and Essex: The England Women’s Cricket Team won the

Tri-Nations Series at our county ground, because they are the best in the world.

Festivals: The Chelmsford Festival for Music, Art and Dance was

great fun. In 2020 we will also host the British Science Festival; the first time it will come to Essex.

Green Flag: 14 of Chelmsford’s parks now have Green Flag status, making them some of the best in the UK.

Housing: Last year, 692 families in Chelmsford used a Help to Buy equity loan to get a foot on the local housing ladder.

Infrastructure: The Community Infrastructure Levy has funded

upgrades to community centres, youth clubs, CCTV, neighbourhood policing and more.

Centre is one of only 1,300 in the UK. It means everyone can join in community activities.

Ultima Thule: Teledyne e2v’s technology captured the furthest

images in our solar system. A small piece of Chelmsford is amongst the stars.

Violence: Prison violence is being addressed. Staffing numbers have increased. New staff training and mentoring has been introduced.

Women: EqualiTea Parties were held all across Chelmsford to celebrate 100 years of women getting the vote.

X-cellent Work: Primary Schools across Chelmsford had outstanding KS2 results, well done to all involved!

Young People: Organisations across Chelmsford opened their doors

for National Apprenticeship Week, 650 people stated apprenticeships across the city last year.

Jobs: Job numbers across the UK are at a record high. Chelmsford is Zero Plastic: Many cafés and bars joined the Refill Scheme, which one of the best cities to get a job. will help reduce waste from plastic bottles across Chelmsford.

Kids: Lottery grants to Kids Inspire and the Essex Boys and Girls

Clubs have helped support children in Chelmsford and across Essex.

Law Clinic: This new service at Chelmsford Citizens’ Advice Bureau is giving practical advice to some of those who need it most.

Medical School: The Medical School at Anglia Ruskin University is already training the doctors of the future. Applications for next year are 12 times oversubscribed!

Deadlines for the March edition: Articles - 15th May Print ready art work - 23rd May

Nightlife: Chelmsford’s pubs and clubs won the National Award for the Best Pubwatch Scheme, keeping us safe at night.

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To Change Your Health, Change Your Environment - by Chris at Forté Physical Health Last week, I hit rock bottom.

I’m writing this on the Easter weekend, which is normally a time I like to indulge a little (okay, a lot!) with chocolate, but this year I couldn’t.

When Pancake Day came around and Lent was about to begin, I had already been eating more chocolate than normal. It was due to a combination of a busy few weeks of family and work life that made me turn to it, but rather than use Lent as a cue to give it up, I did the opposite. I did a ‘reverse Lent’. I figured, right, for the next forty days I’ll eat as much chocolate as I want and then after Easter, I’ll give it up and eat a clean diet.

Chocolate is my Achilles’ heel, I love it. I did the rounds on all my favourite bars which filled me with joy... at the time. But slowly, my mood worsened, my energy levels became lower and then one morning, a week before Easter, I woke up and all my joints ached.

I could feel a slight flicker of pain from every injury I had ever had.

Sugar does this.

The list goes on, but the simple process is to ask what matters to you - what change do you want to make, and what could you change in your environment to make it even easier so that you start your new habit?

I know what you’re wondering; did I make it through Easter without eating the slab? God no!

My wife, in all her wisdom, put the slab in our special ‘I’m-taking-thatback-to-the-shop’ place, which just so happens to be on the kitchen worktop. Being a busy mum, there wasn’t quite the time to take it back, so the slab just sat there, mocking me, day after day. I could have moved it, obviously, but secretly I knew what the outcome would be - and deep down, I wanted it.

When Easter came, I thought, I’ll just have a little corner. Three days later, it was gone. Gobbled up, in my belly. I have no willpower!

I feel rubbish, but now there is no chocolate in the house. I am free!

I am eating a clean diet and my environment is helping to keep it that way. I hope you find a way to make your environment make you healthier too!

My body and mind were suffering. I’d had enough.

Have a healthy month!

Knowing that I’m terrible at tapering down with chocolate, I said to my wife, ‘right that’s it, no more chocolate, don’t get me anything for Easter, I can’t have it in the house’. I needed to go cold-turkey.

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But my wife looked at me solemnly, she had already bought me my absolute favourite thing in the whole world; a Hotel Chocolat ‘slab’.

‘Take it back’, I said, ‘I can’t see it!’.

I knew that if there wasn’t any in the house, I would be strong enough not to buy any and that would be that, I would be eating healthily again.

This got me thinking; our environment is key for all our habits of health. There are examples of our environment affecting our behaviour everywhere. The supermarkets have known this for years.

Have you ever found yourself reaching for one last treat at the checkout, even though you’ve ticked everything off your list already?

In order to be healthy, you need to look at your environment and make it as easy as possible to make the right choice.

I like to stretch every day, for example. Nothing fancy, but I just like to move in a way that tests my muscles and joints through their ranges.

I do it without even thinking now, and this is down to environment.

When my wife and I are chilling in the evening, the kids are in bed, Netflix is on, I have trained myself to sit on the floor rather than the sofa. Once I’m there, it feels the most natural thing in the world to move and stretch and wriggle. The environment of the sofa makes me slouch and sit still, stiffening me up. The environment of the floor makes me move. I pick that one.

If you want to eat more fruit, then get a fancy fruit bowl so it’s on display. You won’t be able to help reaching for that apple before you head out to work in the morning!

Thinking of joining a gym? Pick the one that’s easiest to get to, not necessarily the fanciest. Remove as many barriers as possible in your environment to starting your good habit of exercise.

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There’s nothing better than a climber or wall shrub to enhance any vertical feature - or in fact, hide it! Here are just a few other reasons for using them: • • • • • • •

To clothe a boundary.

To be productive (flowers - eg, sweet peas, or fruit - eg, runner beans).

To provide screening To extend the season of interest, eg, a late flowering clematis growing through an early flowering shrub.

To provide food and shelter for wildlife.

To provide a vertical element in garden design.

To provide shade.

To utilise vertical space to provide flowers, foliage and fragrance.

Climbing plants may be twining or self-clinging, or scandent, trailing or scrambling. They may be used for a variety of decorative and security purposes and may be deciduous or evergreen, flowering or grown for their foliage, annual or perennial. Climbers may also be used for ground cover and may then need pegging down. Wall shrubs are either slightly tender woody plants that benefit from the shelter of a wall or fence, or shrubs which have a lax habit and therefore benefit from support. Climbers and wall shrubs offer another dimension to both horticultural and aesthetic planting opportunities in the garden.

Choice of Support The support required for climbers will depend on a combination of factors. Large or dense plants such as climbing roses or wisteria will need robust support such as heavy duty trellis or pergolas, large gauge wires or a large tree. For more delicate plants such as Clematis alpina, lighter trellis, wires, plastic netting, metal or willow obelisks, pea sticks or shrubs are suitable.

Here are just a few of my favourite climbers and wall shrubs for specific situations: • • • • •

Fragrant flowers: Jasminum officinale, Lathyrus odoratus, Clematis armandii, Trachelospermum jasminoides.

Large and vigorous climbers: Humulus lupulus ‘Aureus’, Rosa ‘Wedding Day’, Wisteria sinensis, Vitis vinifera.

Climbers for ground cover: Clematis spp, Trachelospermum spp, Hedera spp, Parthenocissus quinquefolia.

Evergreen climbers: Itea ilicifolia, Garrya elliptica, Pyracantha coccinea, Azara microphylla.

The choice of plants should be matched to conditions: the ultimate size of a plant should not be underestimated, for instance Rosa ‘Wedding Day’ can grow to over 7m, whereas there are many much smaller climbing roses. Clematis montana may be suitable for growing through a large, robust tree, but would smother the more delicate Sorbus hupehensis for example. Growing a vigorous climber in a confined space will lead to the need for regular pruning to keep it within bounds, possibly at the expense of flowers, so ultimate size should be matched to the space available.

Pruning requirements should also be considered when combining climbers, or growing climbers through shrubs. Ensure access is possible, particularly for vigorous plants such as wisteria that need regular pruning to produce good flower displays.

South and west facing walls offer greater protection for slightly tender plants, such as Trachelospermum jasminoides, as heat is absorbed by bricks during the day, radiating at night and warming the surrounding air.

Annual climbers such as Thunbergia alata, Eccremocarpus scaber, Asarina erubescens and Lathyrus odoratus grow rapidly to make a floriferous addition to the garden throughout the summer.

Some climbing and scandent plants such as species of clematis and Parthenocissus quinquefolia are suitable for ground cover. Clematis viticella are a suitable choice for growing in rose beds, but both may need pegging down to create good ground cover.

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Music and Blues and Roots in the City - by Nick Garner Chelmsford Arts and Cultural Festival We have now appointed Tony Morrison as Festival Director. We all believe this is a much needed role and Tony will raise his own funding while helping to get festival grants and funding and overseeing the development of the festival. We also hope this will give us time to devote to the programming of the 2020 festival.

Music and Ramblings

I’m very sad to say that a good friend of mine and many of ours, Vicky Martin, from the band The Delta Ladies, passed away recenly.

The band has played for me many times over the past few years at the Bassment, The UB and at the football club. The Delta Ladies played a fantastic gig in London on 11th April with us, Jamie Williams & the Roots Collective.

Following the gig, as we were all loading out, Vicky who was laughing and joking sadly collapsed and died. The good part is she knew nothing about it and was on a high after having had a great night. She is going to be missed a great deal. Di will be continuing the band, as that is what Vicky would have wanted.

Recently, we held our tribute to the late Mike Lightfoot at the football club, where we had twenty acts play over ten hours. Everything ran to time and we raised a total of around £2,500 to be split between the British Heart Foundation and the Basildon Hospital cardiac unit, which we are all thrilled with. The following Friday we had John Coghlan’s Quo performing. John was the original drummer of Status Quo for over twenty years. Trevor Gentry’s Stony Road opened on the night. Trevor of course has also been part of John’s band in the past, and both bands played superb sets. You can find a full review in the City Times.

I am pleased to say that the United Brethren pub in New Writtle Street has won the Panic Entertainment award for Best Live Venue in Essex.

This is a real accolade for the pub, as landlord Scott loves his music and his pub, and he has put his trust in myself and others to deliver music that you will not find elsewhere locally, making the venue unique - and it is always free to enter. The UB features lots of original music from around the world covering all genres, from indie to folk, rock, blues, Americana, bluegrass, some reggae and jazz, to a touch of soul with a few covers thrown in just for good measure. There are

DJs, spoken word nights and great open mic sessions too, plus the amazing range of drinks and fresh food.

The fabulous and knowledgeable team that work for Scott are always friendly and welcoming. Even though I am involved in my own small way, I do feel that this award is richly deserved, and I hope people will continue to come and support the UB. Also in the local Moulsham area we have Hopsters and the Hop Beer Shop (which has won yet another award - Cider Pub of the Year) along with the Woolpack, Moulsham Tap and the Orange Tree and Queens Head close by. This has to be one of the best areas anywhere if you like good beer, cider, gin, or wine!

Back to the music, and Connor Selby and Joe Anderton (who plays in Connor’s band) will be opening for The Who at Wembley Stadium on Saturday 6th July - I know I will be there for one. I have watched them both grow and develop over the last few years and this is so well deserved. Connor has worked hard on his playing, his singing and also his writing - he can easily be the next Peter Green or Eric Clapton. With Joe by his side who is as equally talented, then the world is surely his oyster.

For me personally, it is good to see that music is in good, safe young hands. Joe also runs the monthly open mic night at the UB on the second Wednesday of each month, as well as also playing in Children of the Fuzz - another up-and-coming band. Connor will be playing a solo show at the UB on Sunday 19th May from 4.30pm and then his pre-Wembley show with the band is at the UB on Saturday 28th June the week before the big night. We are all really excited about this.

There has just been such a host of amazing music going on across the city that I could, in fact, fill most of the magazine with it all!

We have a special show at the Chelmsford City FC on Thursday 16th May when Albert Lee returns for his 75th Birthday Tour show, which will be the fourth time he has played for us. The three previous shows were all sell-outs, so if you want to come along don’t hang around! He will also have on sale the live CD that he recorded with us two years ago when he was joined by his son Wayne for the first time.

There are some great shows coming up at the UB this month including Max Bianco on 10th May who was part of the Jar Family.

The UB also hosts the Ouse Valley Singles Club on the 18th May - they were a massive hit at The Fling a few years ago. Then on 31st May Dave Sharp from the Alarm will be playing. Do check out the event listings in the City Times or find the United Brethren on Facebook for what’s going on - or just pop in and look at the screens.

If you are putting on, or know of, any events that we should feature and could help to publicise, please email us at editorial@ itsyourmedia.co.uk. As ever, please do try to come out and support the great live scene that we have in Essex - if you do not, we may lose it.

For more information on all of the above, see the links below and pick up a copy of the City Times and go to the What’s On pages to see what else in happening in your area. If you go to our Facebook pages look at the ‘Events’ tabs where you can see who is playing and preview the up-and-coming acts. www.bluesinthecity.co.uk www.facebook.com/bluesinthecitychelmsford Twitter: @BluesintheCity1 www.itsyourmusic.co.uk www.facebook.com/itsyourmusic Twitter: @itsyourmusic The Arts and Cultural email: hello@chelmsfordfestival.org www.chelmsfordfestival.org www.facebook.com/chelmsfordfestival Twitter: @chelmsfordaacf

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What do you do with a gigot?

In music, what is scat?

Where do you live if you come from Ebor?

Shirley Stelfox played the role of which character in Emmerdale?

Coulrophobia is the fear of what?

Who was the famous actor who played the part of Count Dracula in Hammer films?

In ancient Greece, what was a tirene?

In Italian cooking, which meat is used to make pancetta?

Who played James Bond in the 1964 film, Goldfinger?

Who was the first female Speaker of The House of Commons?

In the Dickens novel, what was the official title of Mr Bumble?

How many humps has a Bactrian camel have?

Which year did the Boeing Co launch the first 737 model?

When did Prince Charles marry Camilla Parker-Bowles?

What is Edouard-Leon Scott Martinville famous for?

Chelmsford is twinned with which two towns?

In which English county is Alnwick Castle?

A six winged angel is known by what name?

From what is the food tripe made?

What was the name of the 1970s sitcom starring Leonard Rossiter?

Apart from regret, what is rue?

22. How many flats were there on the edge of the pre-decimal 3d bit?

23. From which country do we get ricotta cheese?

24. What is used in playing the game of Bezique?

25. Where will you find lagan?

26. In Friends, name the children Ross has?

27. Which vegetable can be ‘Manchester’ or ‘Romaine’?

28. Who was the piano player in Casablanca?

29. Which football team is nicknamed The Gunners?

30. St Helier is the capital of which Channel Island?

31. How many colours are there on the Netherlands flag?

32. In Coronation Street, which role did Doris Speed play?

33. Aside from the obvious garden accessory, what is a barrow?

34. How many people died in the Titanic disaster?

35. What is the surname of the infamous insurgent Che? 36. How many children did Charlie Chaplin father?

37. What was Dusty Springfield’s birth name?

38. What exactly is a weevil?

39. Which English county does stilton cheese come from?

40. What is the only bird that can hover in the air and also fly backwards?

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by Tracking down Your Old Pensions Millions of pounds in pension savings are languishing in forgotten, old accounts. Don’t lose out on money that belongs to you - spend a few minutes tracking down your old pension schemes today.

When clients come to me for financial advice, it’s not unusual for them to have half a dozen pensions from various jobs across their working life. Nor is it unusual for one or two pensions to have been forgotten about, typically because these were pensions from early jobs they had for a short period of time 30 or 40 years ago. Maybe the situation is the same for you and perhaps, like many of my clients, you have always thought it’s not worth worrying about this pension as it probably has no value anyway.

The thing is, 40 years is a very long time for an old pension pot to grow. What might have been a few quid when you left that first job aged 22 may be worth thousands now that you’re 60.

Chances are that you lost track of this pension when you moved house, forgetting to update your address with the pension provider.

You probably haven’t received a statement in years so you have no idea how much is in the pension.

Look for an Old Statement To locate this pension, first look and see if you do have an old statement somewhere with the provider’s address on it and your policy number. If you have these details, write to the pension provider asking for a new statement and requesting that they update your address details. Make sure you provide them with your old and new address and sign the letter. Some providers will allow you to update your address over the phone, so try calling them first.

Use the Government’s Pension Tracing Service Pension schemes can be bought out and taken over by different providers over the years, so there’s a good chance an old scheme or yours is now managed by a different company.

To find out which company now administers your pension, you should use the government’s free pension tracing service: www.gov.uk/findpension-contact-details.

Next, write to them with your date of birth and National insurance Number as these details can be used to identify you if you don’t have a policy number.

Don’t forget to update your address and provide details of your employment at the time you were an active member of the pension to help them track you down.

Review the Old Pension It should be quite exciting to receive an up-to-date statement, especially if you had previously decided this pension was worthless. You may be pleasantly surprised.

Aside from the value, the other important factors to check are the fees that you are paying, whether or not the pension has any special features that make it more valuable, such as guaranteed annuity rates or an option to take more than the usual 25% tax-free cash. You should also check

what your money is invested in; the investment mix may be totally unsuitable for you, given your time frame to retirement and your attitude to risk.

If there are no valuable benefits to lose or any penalties to pay for transferring the pension into a new or existing pension scheme, it’s fairly likely this will be appropriate as the fees on older schemes were nowhere near as competitive as the fees on schemes today.

In fact, sometimes pension values can be completely eroded by high fees, making it important to track down old schemes sooner rather than later.

Make Your Pension Work Hard for You It’s a good idea to speak to a financial adviser, as they can check all the relevant details of the scheme and consolidate your pension schemes for you if it is appropriate to do so. They can also create a suitable portfolio for you to invest in within the pension, help you get your tax-free cash and develop a tax-efficient retirement withdrawal plan for you.

The sooner you can track down those old pensions, the sooner you can get it working hard for you and your retirement.

Lauren Peters, Senior Financial Adviser at Fiducia Wealth Management, is a Chartered Financial Planner. She also holds the Pensions Specialist and Later Life Specialist qualifications.

Fiducia Wealth Management has offices at Saxon House, 27 Duke Street, Chelmsford CM1 1HT (01245 950 922) and at Dedham Hall Business Centre, Brook Street, Dedham, Colchester CO7 6AD (01206 321 045).

You can contact Lauren directly via lauren@fiduciawealth.co.uk, or on 07850 873 126. www.fiduciawealth.co.uk

No Cooking Article This Month so Here Is Some Food Trivia - All Sourced from the Internet

You can hear rhubarb grow!

Apples float in water, because 25% of their volume is made of air...

Chocolate was once used as currency...

Honey is the only food which does not go off!

If you want to speed up the ripening of a pineapple, so that you can eat it faster, then stand it upside down...

Rice can be used in beer, dog food, baby food, breakfast cereals, snacks, frozen foods and sauces!

We eat 300 million portions of fish and chips in Britain each year!

The tall chef’s hat is called a toque....

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Christ Church - Ascension Day Most people around the world know about and/or celebrate the Christian festivals of Christmas and Easter. There are, however, many other important festivals in the Christian calendar.

40 days after Easter, Christians around the world mark Ascension Day. Despite being a public holiday in more than a dozen countries (although, sadly, not the UK), the festival has a relatively low profile outside the church. So, what’s it all about?

Well, Firstly, Why 40 Days After Easter?

For forty days after his resurrection on Easter Sunday, the Bible says that Jesus was travelling and preaching with his apostles, preparing them for his departure from Earth.

What is Ascension Day? The day marks the moment Jesus literally ascended into heaven before his disciples at the village of Bethany, near Jerusalem. One account we have of this is in the Gospel of Luke chapter 24 verses 50-53. “Jesus led his followers out of Jerusalem almost to Bethany.

He raised his hands and blessed his followers. While he was blessing them, he was separated from them and carried into heaven. They worshiped him and went back to Jerusalem very happy. They stayed at the Temple all the time, praising God.” The Acts of the Apostles provides a longer account of Christ’s farewell to his disciples, commanding them to preach the word of God and assuring them of his eventual return for the Second Coming, the day of judgement in which the virtuous will be saved and the wrongdoers condemned.

In Acts it says; “After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight”. Acts also says; “They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. ‘Men of Galilee,’ they said, ‘why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven’.”

Historically, the day was marked with a procession with torches and banners. This tradition still exists in some sections of Germany and central Europe, where, ‘preceded by candles and a cross, the faithful walk with prayer and song through fields and pastures, and the priest blesses the ground’.

For many Christians, Ascension Day’s meaning provides a sense of hope that the glorious and triumphant return of Christ is near. It is a reminder of the Kingdom of God within their hearts, and of the everpresent Spirit of God, watching over and protecting them.

Some quirky superstitions about Ascension Day have also sprung up over the centuries: One is the belief is that eggs laid that day will never rot and they will provide good luck if put on the roof! Some believe that sunny weather on Ascension Day guarantees a long, hot summer and that rain on Ascension Day will result in bad crops and diseased livestock - maybe

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Nine days after Ascension Day, Christians around the world celebrate Pentecost, but more on that next month.

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All Ears, Living with Hearing Loss - Christ Church, Chelmsford Thursday 16th May 2019 A free to attend All Ears, Living with Hearing Loss event will take place at Christ Church, Chelmsford on Thursday 16th May from 2.30pm-4.30pm, inviting people with hearing loss and who wear NHS hearing aids to attend.

The informative session will cover living with and managing hearing loss, acclimatising to wearing hearing aids, lots of useful advice and tips, practical advice, assistive equipment, the latest advancements in technology and the wide range of support services that are available.

People who are new to NHS hearing aids will find it particularly beneficial, though established users, friends and carers are welcome to attend and find out more.

The event, delivered by Hearing Help Essex, a Chelmsford based notfor-profit charity, supports many people in Essex living with acquired hearing loss, to help alleviate the loneliness and isolation it can bring. Hearing loss impacts on people’s lives in all sorts of ways, with practical, social and emotional challenges being faced on a daily basis.

Following this, the next All Ears event planned will take place on Thursday 19th September.

Places must be booked in advance. Phone: 01245 496 347, text 07950 406 173 or email: help@hearinghelpessex.org.uk.

Hearing Help Essex are pleased to provide the following services for the residents of Essex living with hearing loss: • • •

Information, advice, and guidance sessions - various locations countywide (dates and locations found at www. hearinghelpessex.org.uk).

A Hearing Aid Support Service is open to NHS Hearing Aid Users needing help with re-tubing and routine maintenance (dates and locations found at www.hearinghelpessex.org.uk).

Hearing Aid Batteries: Users of NHS hearing aids can obtain new supplies of hearing aid batteries from libraries across the county, available daily at reception desks on presentation of NHS Audiology Record Book, or new style card as proof.

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Molly’s Thoughts: Sunny Day

I can’t be the only one to feel the huge impact that the sun being out has on everyday life. Sunlight literally illuminates and glamourises even the dullest of objects. Not only do I feel energised and undoubtedly in a better mood, my morning walk to work is involuntarily replaced with more of a morning hop, skip and jump into the office. With energy levels that are seemingly heavily reliant on the weather, I feel I really come alive during the summer. Frankly, any winter’s day that I had woken up to darkness is not a day that I had actually woken up.

As a nation, we were at an all-time high last summer. What with the weather being the joint hottest on record and football almost coming home when the England team surprised us all by actually getting somewhere in the World Cup. I have no doubt that the summer of 2018 will be one that is spoken about for years to come. Now, all of a sudden, we’ve made it to May again! The weather is finally perking up and it seems we have reached a turning point - it’s officially time to come out of hibernation.

Prepare yourselves, for whilst I can’t promise that this summer will be anywhere near as glorious as the last, I can confirm that eating salads is likely to become an almost enjoyable experience - proving to be more of a refreshing treat rather than an enemy on a plate. Whilst the ‘bikini bod’ isn’t looking exactly how you’d planned it back in January, any wobbly bits you may have incurred over the winter months are pending a substantial dose of sunshine - we all know that nothing bronzed has ever looked bad.

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were united in saying that the standard this year was incredible, even higher than in the inaugural year of the competition. As a spectator I was impressed by the way the children accepted the results - no crying, no tantrums and, indeed, every single child was a winner. As always, it was an unenviable task that the judges had to pick just one school and there must have been a mere whisker between this year’s winner Shenfield St Mary’s and the rest.

Rotary Junior Choir Competition

Young children from primary schools in and around Chelmsford battled through three heats to perform at the final at King Edward Grammar School on the 4th April. It was difficult to tell who was more excited - the children or their parents and grandparents who packed the school hall.

It wasn’t intended to be a fundraiser but as it happens, when all the expenses and income were added up, the magnificent sum of £2,000 had been raised. This will be distributed between four local children’s charities: The Ark Centre, Broomfield Hospital A&E Department (sensory wall puzzles for children waiting for treatment), East Anglia Children’s Hospice, and Childline. The money will be given out at the club’s AGM on Thursday 23rd May. Last year, four different children’s charities were chosen, so besides being a wonderful event for the sheer joy on the faces of the schoolchildren, lots of less fortunate youngsters have also benefited. The money raised was through the sale of programmes, an exit bucket collection and, of course, the sponsorship.

Spencer Davis, partner in Gepp Solicitors, presented certificates to every child and the Deputy Mayor of Chelmsford presented the cup to the winning school. Rotarian Chris Dear was the compere at each heat plus the final and thanked all the audience and the teachers who worked so hard encouraging the children.

In all, eighteen schools entered the competition which was organised by the Rotary Club of Chelmsford Phoenix. This is just the second year it has been held and it is already proving to be a not-to-be-missed event. I understand that schools are already applying now for Junior Choir 2020 so that they won’t miss out.

Phoenix Rotarians ensured everything ran like clockwork although it was mentally and physically hard work erecting the staging, putting out the chairs, ensuring all the youngsters had a drink and biscuit plus ensuring there was a high visibility of Rotary to encourage future participation. There was also the practical side of preparing and printing the programme, organising the music and shepherding hundreds of young choristers to the toilet.

This is yet another success story of local Rotary clubs, and if you were at KEGS I am sure you would have been tempted to join Rotary there and then. No matter, it is never too late to become part of the great Rotary family. Currently there are around 46,000 members in Britain and 1.2million worldwide, so if you multiply the efforts of just one club - in this case Chelmsford Phoenix - you can see what is being achieved by ordinary people doing extraordinary things. To find out more, visit www.chelmsfordrotary.org or give me a call on 01245 260349. Rotary is always on the lookout for new members.

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However, no-one was worried about the workload, they were too busy enjoying themselves. Thanks are due to Gepp Solicitors who once again gave a very generous amount in sponsorship money.

Moulsham Junior School reached the final after winning though in heat 2. In the final, they sang Uptown Funk and Sing. St Michael’s CE VA Junior School in Galleywood also sang their way into the final with Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho and Memory. St Michael’s were last year’s winners and although they gave another excellent performance, this time they were pipped by Shenfield St Mary’s and had to settle for second place.

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Hello all! I hope all is well and that you are enjoying the first taste of spring. Having said that, it’s been freezing this week - hats and gloves, not shorts and T-shirts; bit of a shock.

I don’t intentionally listen into other people’s conversations, but when I do, I always seem amazed at the topic and as often as not, miss the end of the chats.

I was on a bus the other day sat behind two elderly gentlemen talking away, when man number one suddenly said that he had seen a crocodile. It was dead, he said, and went on to explain to man number two that it was, in fact, a prehistoric one in a wildlife park in the USA. Man number two calmly said that he had a crocodile in his garden. He had got it in Australia, but it was also dead. Man number one did not seem at all phased by this fact, no incredulous ‘no, you can’t have!’ or any other sign of disbelief. Now I am interested. Why did he bring a dead crocodile home from Australia? How did he bring it back? Not a plane, surely. While I was trying to think about this, they rang the bell and got off the bus.

I spent the rest of my journey trying to think of the reason they would be discussing this and what other interesting subjects they discussed. I was tempted to join them on the pavement and ask all the questions I wanted answers to. I thought about this for the rest of the day and could only come to one conclusion, I think the Secret Service has examined the increasing numbers of elderly people and decided that they should have more elderly spies who would be less conspicuous among today’s public. This conversation was, I think, to test that each man was the spy they had arranged to meet on the 10:15 to Canterbury. You know, in films, when somebody meets a stranger in a bar and whispers: ‘the wind is coming from the east today’ to which, if they are the right contact, the other would reply: ‘yes but it will change tomorrow’. It’s the only explanation I can think of! Maybe they were to discuss the next mission to identify enemy spies at the next meeting of the U3A! I have been watching a series called Suits recently. This is a series about high powered New York lawyers. Why am I mentioning this you ask? Well, one of the actors is none other than Meghan, yes, the one who is, it seems from the newspapers, the only women in the world to be having a baby. I have got to say she is a good actress. The trouble is, given her current status, I keep thinking that Harry will pop up as a criminal in the dock or a lawyer from another firm. It has also been reported that thousands of gifts have arrived for the baby. That’s nice, I’m also guessing that these are the people who are reading all of the newspaper stories, so that’s that one solved.

I was out in the car recently, admiring all the fields and countryside when I saw a sign saying solar panel farm. Silly me, there was I thinking they were built in factories, not grown from seed... I won’t mention wind farms!

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As I was walking to the newsagents the other day, I found myself listening to the birds singing (or should that be whistling?) and noticed all the different tunes there were. It got me wondering.

Does each breed of bird have it’s own call, which only they can understand? I think I read somewhere that birds have regional accents. Or was that dogs, not sure. Anyway, my mind wandered to foreign countries. Lots of birds migrate far away from their summer home in the UK. Are sparrows from here able to understand sparrows in Africa? Surely not, but who knows. I wish I was clever and knew these things.

A few ‘did you know’ facts according to the Internet...

Vatican City is the country that drinks more wine per person than anywhere else in the world. I guess that it’s a bit misleading. A lot of duties in that country involve drinking wine as part of the job, and we must not forget the part the good old monks played in spreading the word (and the methods) about vines and wine.

Apparently Nicholas Cage once had an octopus as a pet, because he thought it would help his acting. Well. I don’t know about that, unless he had to play one in one of his films.

No piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven times. Do go away and try it. I did - and it can’t!

Here’s one for you quizzers. The hashtag key on a computer is called an octotroph, I think it is because it has eight points. To save you getting up and looking, here is one I made earlier: #.

Here’s one from me. If you laid all the chocolate bars we eat in one year in England end to end, they would reach around the world - and there would be none left in the shops!

Modern life can be frustrating, I have lots of problems with computer passwords. Apparently, loads of us use ‘123456’, but that’s the first one the hackers try, it seems. Me, I have a theme for all of mine to help me remember them. I still manage to forget them and spend half of my time at the screen requesting a password change. They say that you should not write them down, but I’ve sorted that one.

My handwriting is so bad, it would take someone ages to read, it let alone use it!

Bin End Chuckles: I received a letter from a solicitor the other day, it said ‘final notice’.

Good, glad he won’t be bothering me any more.

Two donkeys are standing at the roadside. One said, ‘this is a crossing, shall we use it?’ the other said: ‘no way, look what happened to that zebra’.

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Neighbourhood Watch Hi all, it’s your friendly neighbourhood Ayman here.

Neighbourhood Watch 6 Months On The information below will already be familiar to our co-ordinators and neighbours on Facebook. Though I’ve found out while walking and talking to neighbours that we have plenty of people who do not use Facebook.

Please chat to your co-ordinator if you’ve not seen a newsletter or minutes. If you aren’t sure who your co-ordinator is, then please get in touch.

1st April: Meeting held with co-ordinators and Chief Inspector Gerry Parker. Chief Inspector Parker reminded us that as a country the UK is ‘policed with consent’ and as such, they need our help.

Remember - the police don’t know what they don’t know. We must continue to report.

1. Quarterly meetings with NWH and police: The police will meet with lead co-ordinators to share results, pre-warn co-ordinators on trends and listen to concerns.

2. Chelmsford is split into 4 (now 6) sectors with Moulsham and Central now a dedicated sector.

3. New pilot communication scheme from Essex Police to NWH co-ordinators - currently the police are actively using Facebook and Twitter.

4. New pilot monthly ‘NWH Patrol’ - an opportunity for NWH to work more with the police. This will probably start in Moulsham and Springfield and will involve members going out with a community officer to talk them through what’s going on, and more importantly - where. This will help the police gain a better knowledge of specific areas.

5. New pilot NWH speed check in Moulsham and Central - it is generally a deterrent to see someone in a high viz jacket! This could have an immediate reduction on the number of casualties and a wider reaching effect on crime reduction.

Questions to Chef Inspector Gerry Parker: Where do we stand protecting our property from intruders?

“Call the police, and generally, do not get involved. If someone is in your house, keep the line open and barricade the door.”

Any advice to teenagers in the current environment?

“Chelmsford is a really safe city, unfortunately assaults do happen but there has been a marked reduction in violent crime in the city centre over the past 2 years. Advice for teenagers (and all ages) - let someone know where you are going, make sure your phone is charged, have a parent or safe adult on speed dial, have taxi numbers in your phone (or an Uber account set-up). If in a confrontation, do not get involved verbally, walk away.”

Regarding teenagers, talk to them and be supportive. They will have heard about knife crime at school. Secondary school students will have had a letter home about police going into schools to talk to students. CI Gerry explained that this has been in the planning for a while and is not a concern about new crime issues.

What can we do to help with the drug related littering and dealing in parks? What is your strategy?

“Continue to inform the police on drug related activity - including car registration numbers if available. Consider collective dog walks.

Strategy-wise, the police will change tactics to try and keep up with

the issue; for example the new plain clothes bike patrols. There is a long-standing operation underway. Littering issues should be reported to the Environmental Health team of the local council.

Moulsham and Central now has an officer specifically looking at drug crime.”

Why us: In comparison to some areas in Chelmsford we have low crime volumes. Is it just that we are hearing about it more now so it seems more prevalent? Car thefts are now with the Serious Crime Squad.

Become an Active Citizen There is no minimum commitment each month. If you are interested, please see more details and the application form at www.essex. police.uk/join-the-police/volunteers/active-citizens.

CCTV We are looking into CCTV coverage and Andy Morss has kindly offered 10 cameras. We are thinking about a NWH network of coverage with access available to police and active citizens with maybe a bot to monitor number plates. Logistics and crowd funding etc need to be discussed and worked out.

Project Marker: Karen will project lead to coordinate time and locations for residents to come and mark their valuables.

Project Green: Karen C and myself would also like to connect into the council’s road sweeping and help get some more roads cleaned. So far Karen has organised two street cleans across Old Moulsham!

Project Connect: To engage isolated neighbours. Kim Gisby has taken on this project to get neighbours of all ages better connected with various partners. More on this in the next month!

The crime in Old Moulsham is alarming a few neighbours but a lot of the issue is actually about awareness and a number of issues have been happening for years but we just did not know about them. 6 months ago we did not have the network of neighbours that we have now and therefore we weren’t aware what was happening as far as the other end of your road. Moulsham and Central Neighbourhood Watch has changed that big time! We now know what’s happening with our neighbours a few roads away. This means we should not panic, but take steps to help one another and secure our homes and possessions become more vigilant.

We must not become complacent to the some of the drug problems that we see and report all issues. I’ve met a number of neighbours that are seeing drug deals at the end of the road but are just accepting it! When we become less vigilant, we allow crime to take our neighbourhood.

“Remember - the police don’t know what they don’t know. We must continue to report.” Chief Inspector - Gerry Parker.

Stay safe, be vigilant Ayman Syed Moulsham and Central Neighbourhood Watch Coordinator aymansyed@gmail.com

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The Evolution of British Rock ’n’ Roll. Part 9 - by John Power

Terry Dene had a brief life in movies like Tommy Steele, but The Golden Disc was a low budget predictable story of a coffee bar singer who makes good, but it did him no favours, even if his acting proved better than the the awful songs he was made to sing. The real drama in his life was finding that the pressure he was being put under when his badly handled rise proved too much and led him to develop a drinking problem: first in January ‘58, when he was fined for being drunk and disorderly for throwing a ‘no waiting’ sign through a West End shop window. That was great ammunition for ‘the menace of rock ‘n’ roll’ fraternity. A month later, while on tour with the Chas McDevitt group and Edna Savage in Gloucester, another binge resulted in a night in the cells for being drunk and disorderly and causing wilful damage.

In court, Edna Savage (with a black eye Dene had given her) paid his bail. Colin Hicks and Marty Wilde replaced them on the tour. Paul Lincoln said publicly that Dene was going to see a psychiatrist, but dropped him from his management as being too much of a liability.

His agent Hymie Zahl however stuck by him. The emotive angle to this second drunken escapade revolved around an affair Dene had begun with Edna on a tour at the end of ‘57. Terry didn’t perform for three months after the event, but a single Stairway to Love proved that his fans hadn’t been put off when it made the top 10.

Then, after their separation, Terry and Edna surprised everybody by getting married in June. Wee Willie Harris was best man and Larry Page a witness. After the honeymoon, they were performing together again. Terry’s final fall from grace came when he got his call up papers for army National Service, and found that the army was not as welcome as the US army would be to Elvis a short while later. The result would be a nervous breakdown and a discharge in May ‘59 as ‘being unsuitable for service’. He never resumed his musical career.

The 2i’s Coffee Bar still attracted attention, despite new management, while Paul Lincoln toured with his acts. They were contacts from his wrestling days and were less casual in their approach. Latest arrivals in the talent stakes were were Bruce Welch and Brian Rankin who arrived in London from Newcastle in April ‘58.

They were part of a geordie group called The Railroaders. The two lads were born in 1941 and played skiffle in two groups at the same school. Brian went by the name of Hank. The band he played banjo with were the Crescent City Skiffle Group who won a skiffle contest in 1957 before breaking up; Hank then turned to guitar and Bruce asked him to join The Railroaders, who leaned more to rock than skiffle. They both dropped out of school before taking O-levels, with their eyes on musical careers. The Railroaders entered a couple of competitions in London, then broke up in April 1958. The others went back to Newcastle, but Bruce and Hank managed to find a bedsit near Crouch End Station with a kindly old lady who saved them from starvation.

The duo went down well at the The 2i’s and made up a foursome with George Plummer on drums and either Jet Harris or sometimes Brian ‘Licorice’ Locking on bass. So already we had an embrionic Shadows, and Hank had taken a new surname from American Marvin Rainwater, and called himself Hank Marvin. To their instrumental

skills they added harmonic voices inspired by the Everly Brothers, which worried the Most Brothers, as their attempts were feeble in comparison. Picking up with a singer and pianist they briefly became The Five Chesternuts, after the singer’s surname (the son of comic Charlie Chester) and managed to get a single out in August: Teenage Love/Jean Dorothy which crept into the lower reaches of the charts, but nothing permanent came of it.

An offer to join Wally Whyton and Johnny Booker in a Vipers reshuffle sounded more appealing. Hank and Jet accepted and played on BBC Radio’s Skiffle Club in June. By then Johnny had a car big enough to drive the growing amount of equipment further afield for gigs. They tried to introduce R&B numbers to their repertoire, but the audience weren’t ready and just wanted to hear old Vipers skiffle hits, so after a Birmingham gig Hank left and rejoined Bruce for a Six-Five Special show in July, but Jet stayed a Viper, as drummer Tony Meehan (another Shadow in waiting) and Zom, an old coffee bar skiffler, became the other new Vipers.

Buddy Holly and the Crickets had arrived in March for a 25 date UK tour not long after their first single Peggy Sue made it into the top 10. Horn-rim specs were rock ‘n’ roll, so Hank could wear them with pride. He and Tony Sheridan also learned a lot from Buddy’s guitar licks too. Tony had been jamming at the 2i’s with whoever was around, and backing Vince Eager at Churchills and Winstons night clubs. Then another Vince turned up from the States: Vince Taylor, with his own guitarist and well connected Hollywood manager.

Impressive, and he certainly had the look. It turned out he had actually bee born in Isleworth, but his parents had emigrated to America.

There was another problem with his authenticity: despite being a good mover he was tone deaf, and locals like Tony Sheridan, Tony Mehan and Licorice Locking, who had been attracted to form a group for him started to ebb away. Even his American guitarist Bob Frieberg decided that California’s climate was was more hospitable than England’s. Well spotted. Brian Bennett, another Shadow in waiting, took over from Tony Mehan on drums for a while. They did manage to get a single, Right Behind You Baby, out in November with some of the floating group. Then real Americana arrived on movie screens, with Disc Jockey Jamboree, with Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Charlie Grace putting in appearances, as well as Elvis’ third movie, Jailhouse Rock. March saw two big benefit concerts for Big Bill Broonzey, who was dying of cancer.

Jerry Lee Lewis wasn’t quite as unfortunate as Bill, but demonstrated why he had great balls of fire... He had married Dorothy Barton when she was 16, but then got his 13-year old cousin Jane Mitcham pregnant and was forced into a bigamist marriage by her brothers.

His first divorce did come through before he arrived in England for a UK tour that opened at Edmonton in May, but the news did travel the Atlantic and broke while he was here, so his contract was cancelled after only two more gigs, as a ten year recession to his career began.

Chuck Berry similarly didn’t add to his popularity for taking a minor over a state boundary either, but managed to bounce back more quickly. The line-up for the tour looked pretty slim without Jerry Lee. With Elvis in the army too, it was left for our home-grown talent to take up the reigns as rock expanded, and the next figure to emerge was even called ‘the English Elvis’. Harry Webb had however been born in Lucknow, India, in the last days of the British Raj. It was 1947 when his parents docked back at Tilbury with Harry and his two sisters. They found their way to Carshalton, Surrey, where they all had to share one room at his granny’s house. No servant wallahs there. Darker skin and an Indian inflection in his speech made Harry a novelty and he was teased at school. Eventually, they managed to gain a council house in Cheshunt, Herts in April 1951.

Harry was sporty rather than academic and went to a secondary

modern school after the 11+. His other gift came out at Holy Trinity Youth Club where he became part of a mixed sex harmony singing group, The Quintones, showing his true interests by belting out Heartbreak Hotel as a solo feature. The English Elvis would later be known better as Cliff Richard.

Harry managed to see Bill Haley and his Comets at Edmonton Regal in March 1957, a couple of months before he began work doing credit control for an electrical firm. As local choice was limited, he first joined a skiffle group, but the drummer, Terry Smart, and Harry preferred harder rock, so broke away to form an Elvis-inspired group they called The Drifters.

It took Harry three weeks to learn six chords on his dad’s old guitar, so his father brought him a new one. Norman Mitham made up the trio on a second guitar, and they soon pleased the youngsters around the local youth clubs. Their real debut was in March at Forty Hill Badminton Club near Enfield. Their repertoire included Be-Bop-a-Lula, Ready Teddy and Long Tall Sally - and their energetic performance went down well. Later in the month they played at the Five Horseshoes pub in Hoddeston, where a rock fan called Johnny Foster offered to be their manager. He was no pro but had been to the 2i’s Coffee Bar a couple of times and put in a word with their latest manager who gave them a few gigs. At their second appearance in April at the Soho basement, Ian Samwell introduced himself and asked if they would like a lead guitar to add to the line-up. Ian was 20 years old at the time, an ex-public schoolboy and was just finishing his national service in the RAF. He’d played skiffle at the weekends, and then started looking in at the 2i’s. Once they started swapping rock enthusiasms, The Drifters said ‘yes’. He only managed to gig occasionally at first until he finished in the RAF, then it was all go.

When a promoter from Derbyshire asked the 2i’s manager if he could recommend any new talent he could take to his local dance hall, Tom suggested The Drifters. It was the Derby promoter, Harry Greatorex, who raised the question of the group’s name and thought it would look better on hoardings if they had the singer’s name up front. Harry Webb didn’t seem very rock ‘n’ roll, so over a drink they played around with some ideas. Cliff seemed to come out of the blue without any forethought but Richard, without an ‘s’ on the end was a tribute to Little Richard - and there was already a Rick Richards who had taken over from Adam Faith as singer with The Worried Men, which could lead to confusion. So off to Ripley as Cliff Richard and the Drifters they went. The addition of Ian Samwell made Norman Mithams’ guitar superfluous so he soon dropped out to avoid the touring. Samwell soon proved to be a good organiser as he then went and found an agent, who’s name he picked out of The Stage trade magazine. It was George Ganjou, a Russian with an office near Piccadilly. He may have bigged up his profile in the mag, but he did have plenty of trade experience from having worked many years in a variety act. First he came up with a gig at Shepherds Bush Gaumont, and when he saw the reaction the group got from the young crowd he knew he was on to something big. So he got them to make a demo single at HMV’s Oxford Street shop. They did Laudie Laudie Miss Claudie and Breathless. Then George arranged a meeting with Norrie Paramor at Columbia Records, who followed the usual pattern of getting new boys to record a lesser known US hit to learn as a cover version, in this case, Schoolboy Crush, by Bobby Helms. But he let them put their own composition on the b-side. It was Move It, written by Ian Samwell one day on a bus journey. Before its release George booked them a short residency at Butlins in Clacton to polish their stage craft. A redcoat was so impressed that he recorded a live performance.

Copies of Schoolboy Crush were circulated to radio and TV producers to little effect until it reached the ears of Jack Good, who’s initial response was like the others, but he had the good sense to turn it over and wound up jiving around his office to the sound of Move It. This singer had it, and Britain could produce its own rock without copying any Americans. The record pusher reported back to Paramor and duly ‘a’ and ‘b’ sides were switched. Jack booked The Drifters for Oh Boy!, his new showcase for talent on ITV. As fate would have www.issuu.com/itsyourmedia

it, because Paramor had given his input to the Schoolboy Crush side and passed on their own song’s potential, he hadn’t overworked it and let them catch the raw sound that his ears would not have been tuned to. They’d only used two studio musicians who happened to have enough intuition to follow Samwell’s suggestions, while in the recording control room Malcolm Addy had even added some evocative echo.

Cliff did make a few more decent early records before he got subverted down the entertainment all-rounder route, but for me Move It was always his best song.

Before the Rock & Roll Years: Remembering My Times in the 2i’s and Cats Whiskers Dear Moulsham Times I was very interested to read the history article in the March edition of MT about the Evolution of British Rock and Roll and the 2is Café in Soho. It brought back memories of my time living in London in the 50s.

I was born in Chatteris in Cambridgeshire and moved to London in1955 at the age of 18. I lived in Warwickshire House on Gower Street that was provided by the Oxford Street store Bourne and Hollinsworth for its workers where I worked in the Haberdashery department. I earned five pounds a week working 9am to 5pm, paying 30s per week for board and lodgings at the hostel.

On my first day at work, the supervisor asked Miss Ann Bickmore (now Ann Smith) to take me for lunch. We have been best friends ever since that day 65 years ago.

We would get a late pass to stay out after 10pm and we spent our evenings in the 2i’s or the Cats Whisker cafés in Soho, making one espresso last all night. Before rock and roll came along, skiffle bands played in the basement at the 2i’s and we learned to hand jive. My picture doing the hand jive with my friend Lily Spadacini was printed in the Daily Mail.

It was in the 2i’s that I met my husband Patrick in 1956. In those days you needed parent’s permission to get married before the age of 21. My father would not give his permission so we had to wait for 2 years, getting married on my 21st birthday in December 1958. My father did not come to the wedding.

When rock and roll started, skiffle came to an end in the cafés and we drifted away from the cafés onto other things. We moved to a flat above a shop in Dalston, Hackney and I carried on working in B&H until I had my first child in September 1959.

We moved to Moulsham Lodge in 1965 and got involved with raising money to build the Community Centre by doing sponsored walks and selling bricks.

Cecilia Hewlett

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All About Moulsham Lodge Moulsham Lodge Community Trust We have all just enjoyed such a gorgeous Easter weekend; let’s hope that’s the start of a lovely hot summer!

Our main summer event this year is going to be something different as the traditional summer fête doesn’t seem to have much appeal these days. As such, we are planning two Mad Hatters’ Tea Parties on Saturday 20th July 2019. The first one of the day is aimed at families and will start at 1.30pm running through to 3.30pm. The cost of the ticket will include the traditional afternoon tea of sandwiches, cakes and scones with unlimited tea and coffee. Everyone will be encouraged to dress up as a character from the book and there will be a competition for the best hat. We are planning on providing a number of games for everyone to enjoy, but as this has not yet been finalised so I cant give you too much detail.

At 4pm there will be the second afternoon tea, and this time its for adults only as included with the sandwiches, cake, scones and unlimited tea and coffee is free prosecco. Again, everyone is encouraged to dress up and enter the best hat competition.

The choir are also looking into the possibility of getting sponsorship to allow us to do more work for local charities (as well as MLCT), as the sponsors will help us cover the costs of putting on a concert or singing in the town to help raise money. If you or someone you know has their own business and would like to consider sponsorship which would provide advertising on programmes and at events and even on our shirts, then please get in touch where we can provide you with more details.

Don’t forget our Murder Mystery Evening on 18th May 2019 - tickets are selling nicely, but there’s still room if you want to join us. www.mlct.org.uk enquiries@mlct.org.uk 07411 808 731 Also, search for us on Facebook and Twitter

We have some exciting events, groups and support coming up!

Firstly, we’re proud to announce our new support group lead by the award winning Mums & Families UK, who offer free programmes to new mums and mums of children up to age 5. If you would like to find out more about the programmes, please email us at info@mumsandfamilies. org.uk.

In an effort to find more people to join, the choir New City Voices will be holding an open rehearsal evening on Thursday 26th September 2019. We plan to learn one new piece of music that evening which will allow anyone trying the choir out for the first time to do so from the same starting point as everyone else. We appreciate how difficult it is to join an existing group of people who already have a repertoire of songs behind them and are always part way through learning a new piece.

This one evening will allow everyone to start from the same point and hopefully allow everyone to experience the joy of singing in a choir. Being part of a choir brings a lot of health benefits including the social side, the chance to make new friends and meet others who have an interest in music. Learning something new helps boost selfesteem and confidence and there are no auditions - and you don’t have to be able to read music. You’ll be surprised how much better your mood is after a rehearsal and how any feelings of stress and anxiety are reduced.

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Tile Kiln Corner - by Linda Mascot City councillor and charity champion Freda Mountain is retiring in May after 32 years representing the residents of Goat Hall. Freda was Mayor of Chelmsford in 1996 and became the 15th person and first female to receive the Freedom of the City from Chelmsford City Council in recognition of her services to the community.

not quite retiring from everything I do, as I’ll still be involved in several local charities.”

I was fortunate enough to work alongside Freda from 2011 as a councillor for four years and she has been a superb role model and a great ambassador for Chelmsford. Freda is respected throughout the city and has worked tirelessly in her community.

County Councillor Jude Deakin echoed my sentiments: “Freda has always been approachable and the results of her work can be seen across Chelmsford, she will be greatly missed by residents and her council colleagues alike, particularly those of us who will be carrying on her good work.

I asked Freda about her long service and memorable moments along the way: “I have decided to retire after 32 years but have thoroughly enjoyed my years as your councillor. I have met and advised many wonderful people all around the city and have been privileged to be Mayor, Deputy Mayor and been awarded the Freedom of the City which I am very proud to hold.

“I have so many lovely memories, but one that brings a smile to my face is when I visited Mildmay Infant School as Mayor and the children lined the entrance to the school waving their Union Jack flags and cheering. This was particularly poignant as I was a governor of the school and was very proud of the children for giving me such a warm welcome.

“The Royal Garden Party was another wonderful event, meeting people from all walks of life enjoying the tea and sandwiches in Buckingham Palace grounds with a brass band playing in the background.

“May I take this opportunity to thank everyone who has sent me letters and cards sending me their good wishes on my retirement, I’m

“I’m sure you’ll join me in thanking Freda for all her hard work and wishing her a long and happy retirement from council duties with her husband John, and the rest of her family.” mascotlinda@gmail.com Twitter: @lindamascot

Easter’s Gone - Now What?

Now that the eggs are eaten, now that the daffodils have gone for another year, now that the chicks and bunnies are back in the storerooms of the supermarkets, now what…?

Easter is all about the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Easy to miss in our culture, driven by when the supermarkets get the eggs out onto the shelves - and perhaps easy to dismiss in our culture that treats Jesus as an elaborate fairy tale.

But that’s what millions of Christians around the world remember and celebrate each Easter - the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. And the resurrection of Jesus is utterly vital for Christian belief.

Christians believe that Jesus Christ rose bodily from the dead - not some ethereal spirit, but an actual raised body, one that would never die again. That somehow death has been reversed by the power of God. So the ‘now what’ for Christians, once Easter is over, is the rock-solid hope that one day everyone who trusts Jesus Christ with their lives will do the same - be raised to bodily life again, with bodies that never decay or damage or die.

Christianity lives or dies by the physical resurrection of Jesus Christ.

If proved false it all collapses. Proved true and it changes everything.

Easter’s gone - now what? Well, why not now take a look at the resurrection of Jesus Christ and find out the truth for yourself?

Tim Goodall timgoodall@tilekilnchurch.org.uk

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The Joy Of... Old Cars One of the most important car models was recently released; the new 3 Series BMW. Not only will it be leased in all its derivatives, a new 3 Series has been a defining motoring event for forty years.

The challenge has been laid down to Mercedes, Audi and the perky upstarts such as Mazda’s new ‘3’, the Koreans, and every car maker along the trickle-down effect has a new benchmark.

I’ve only admired the staggering tech from a distance and of course those wonderful front lamps, I certainly haven’t made my way to drive the car. For me, an invitation to the 2004 launch of the (then new) 5 Series was in retrospect, a night in which I should have paid far more attention to the release itself rather than the champagne tray.

You see, I think this century has been defined by vehicle technology and safety. Safety is the big winner (and seller) in automotive design.

The luxury cars of the 1990s led the way as we rapidly went from one driver’s airbag (for instance, in a W202 Mercedes C180) to 8 by 2001. Safety cells became more rigid, reverse sensors appeared, anti-glare mirrors, better seat adjustments, clearer instrumentation, softer plastics, better air recirculation and much needed airconditioning, fully adjustable steering columns - you name it, but by 2000 it was all available albeit at a price. The trickle-down effect meant your everyman car would in time be similarly equipped and by about 2006 nothing less than a 4-star NCAP safety rating would be considered even par.

Back to that BMW. Apparently it can help you getting out of a parking spot as one of many computers or processors remembers how you got in in the first place. Sorry, but that sounds like a one trick donkey; would you actually bother? Maybe once. Seat belt sensors for back seat passengers are also great in the name of safety yet the chiming in my 10-year old car drives me mad when kids are playing with the dog in the back seat in a car park lot. What sort of stupid parent wouldn’t crane their head to the back seat for a visual check before hitting the open road? And what of the unrestrained 35 kilogram labrador at 70 miles per hour? There is actually quite a lot of unaddressed (and I guess untrendy) safety issues left unexplored!

Nice maps however, help. Configuring your instruments is all great fun yet I’d suggest a clear speedo, tacho, fuel gauge, temperature and a small moving map is sufficient. Playing with all the configurations is maddening and in the end a bit scary. Knowing my luck I’d suffer a complete screen ‘black out’ on a dark foggy night in the countryside with a mutant following me armed with an axe in his old ute!

In the late 1980s there appeared some staggeringly comfortable cars. We’d already been introduced to the magnificently simple yet ‘perfect’ W126 S Class Mercedes - now that is a benchmark! An unfussy and almost boring fascia, supportive seating, pace and space. BMW followed with its improved 7 Series, Audi and Saab created their first large comfy cars and then of course came the very first Lexus.

As the 1990s morphed into a new century, I, like many people, believed we had achieved motoring perfection. Somewhere in Cheshire I saw my first E39 BMW parked on a street. It was understated, clean and classy and the interior remains pretty much

perfect to me to this day. As impressive cars started to be released by manufacturers such as Toyota, Mazda, VW, Mitsubishi, Peugeot etc it seemed to me we’d reached the top. More than adequate performance and braking had surely completed the evolution of the saloon.

Trends followed including my personal phobia - the SUV, but the fundamentals have remained the same.

I do think vehicle design has entered a holding pattern of sorts. Line a very well kept E90 up against the new 3 Series and try to chose which car you’d like to buy and maintain with your own money?

It’s tricky, but perhaps like many people I’m now merely waiting for mainstream affordability in electric cars. Gadgetry is all well and good but I thought we had mobile phones for toys!

As I’m now in my 5th decade on this planet, mostly I want safety and comfort. I really do like a nice place to sit and I like my car to be slightly interesting or pleasant on the eye. I want space for my family and strong overtaking power, a good heating and cooling system and a nice stereo. As far as connectivity is concerned, my phone is fairly new so I’m more than satisfied when my car can ‘speak’ with my telephone.

Yet how far have we really come since the first Lexus let alone the E39? Do I need to do zero to sixty in 8 seconds or 4? All of our cars top out well over any sensible, let alone regulated speed limits anyway.

Would I buy a re-tooled new 1990s car with sufficient 5 star safety tech? Yes! Absolutely. I’m not inferring simplicity like that in a Dacia is for me, just it really does appear to me we’ve reached the ‘everything I need’ level. I also believe our future cars will be powered in various ways, not only by electricity. I do believe the true sports car, the four wheel drive, utility and even the SUV have their place in that future.

Trends come and trends go. Yet I don’t need more gadgets. At the end of the day, my house does not have a single electric window and I don’t care that it doesn’t. At the true end of the day I still spend more time at home (in bed, and my bed is not electric in any way!) than driving or at work.

So, can the BMW engineers just please hurry along and make me a 1996 523i with a more rigid cell? I accept that they were likely in shorts twenty years ago but for the technocrazy kids there is Apple to go and work for. I like my family cars ‘90s style and my 2-seaters to be engaging on the twisties while knowing they won’t catch out my driving inadequacy on a slippery road.

As far as pollution is concerned, I’m far more worried about our houses pumping out all sorts of evil particulates or the gunk in the atmosphere being released by China and India. Let’s help them a little more than worrying about what new bizarrity the envirolunatics at the EU or within the various green parties around the world are proposing... oh, and on just that point the EU’s proposal to ban the internal combustion engine in new cars has just hit the airwaves for the great unwashed in the United States and Australia. I imagine that idea will go down like a cracker for the people who spend a good portion of their lives on motorways and interstates. Such as me...

Now excuse me while I nip out to refuel my 9-year old diesel!

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