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Welcome We have gone through new year’s resolutions. . . some succeeded and some have not; however, there is hope! In ancient times (150 B.C.), March would had been the first month of the year!

According to the oldest Roman calendar, one year was ten months long, beginning in March and ending in December. So, make the most of it and start putting into practice your good actions if you haven’t done it already. We also have plenty of local activities for you to get involved in this issue.

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This month we bring successful story of a local author Zoë Sallis who is an inspiration to many women across the globe.

Her latest book “Collecting Words of 40 Amazing Women” encourages women to achieve their greatest ambitions and help the world. Give yourself a treat and learn insights from Dame Judi Dench, Jane Fond, Yoko Ono, Sinead O’Connor and many more. For more details, go to page 15.

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Your Local Buzz Change the world for the better Paul Hargreaves’ business, Cotswold Fayre, started as a means of supplementing his income whilst engaged in charity work within innercity London in the late nineties.

It quickly grew to become the leading speciality food wholesaler in the UK and is now based in Theale. Always wanting greater justice in the world, Paul has realised over the past 20 years that businesses have immense power to create a better world and be a force for good for both people and the planet.

Local yoga teacher to host Newbury's first Death Café Neeta Madahar, a well-known local yoga teacher, will be co-hosting Newbury's first Death Café on Saturday March 23rd in the Village Hall, Hamstead Marshall. The

Cotswold Fayre is one of 200 businesses within the UK to be certified as a B Corp, businesses that have been measured as being good for the world. As a B Corp Ambassador, Paul is inspiring many other businesses, both through this book and through speaking events, to do their part to change the world for the better.

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Open Day at Wyld Court Stables A warm welcome awaits at the Open Day of Wyld Court Stables on Sunday 24th March from 2pm to 4pm. Visit the ponies, enjoy the riding displays, childrens' treasure hunt, plus games and delicious afternoon teas.

Entry is free and all donations are in aid of Newbury RDA. Wyld Court Stables, Hampstead Norreys RG18 0TN For more information please email info@newburyrda.co.uk

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objective of a Death Cafe is 'to increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their (finite) lives'. The 2-hour informal gathering, for which there is no fee, will allow people to gather, eat cake, drink tea and discuss death under Neeta's guidance.

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Bronze & Iron Age Thatcham After the Stone Ages settlements seem to have moved away from the river toward and onto hillsides. Bronze Age (2400BC to 750BC) and Iron Age (750BC to 43AD) sites have been excavated at Dunston Park and Cooper’s Farm.

In 1986, field evaluation of Hartshill Copse by the Oxford Archaeological Unit indicated a Bronze Age cremation cemetery with later excavations showing evidence of settlements here spanning the late 2nd century BC through to the late 2nd century AD.

Excavations at Dunston Park turned up features from the Bronze Age along with an Iron Age settlement. At least one relatively large round-house was excavated along with another possible one. Scatters of flint, pottery, querns and spindle-whorls were evidence of domestic activity, food processing and textile spinning being carried on the site.

An excavation at Chamberhouse Farm produced evidence of Iron Age and Romano-British field systems in 2005 whilst further evidence of Iron Age activity locally has been found in Lower Way and also at Henwick Lane, where a gold ‘stater’ coin dating to about 50 BC was discovered.

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The Bronze and Iron ages have seen people settling in the area, the development of farming and sites throughout Thatcham.

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Kit Malthouse MP

Loneliness & Isolation

Keeping our children safe online

How many of you have visited Fair Close Centre in Newbury?

When that question was asked last month at the conference on Loneliness and Isolation, only a fraction of the eighty people attending raised their hands. Which, surprisingly, was a welcome result for Fair Close who kindly hosted the event and were delighted to engage with so many newcomers.

It encapsulated for me exactly what the morning was all about. So many good things are happening in our area to counter loneliness and isolation and this conference was all about sharing this information and making contacts.

We heard from Josie Reed, chair of trustees at Fair Close, about the services the centre offers to the over 65s. We also heard about the Befriend West Berkshire and Village Agents schemes run by the Volunteer Centre, and from representatives of the Mortimer Village Partnership, the Bradfield Community Shop and Leckhampstead Village Hall, who spoke movingly about these community hubs and the service they provide in building those all-important social connections.

From the Public Health and primary care perspective, loneliness has huge implications and it was good to learn more about the ways in which the local agencies are tackling this issue. It was an interesting and productive event, I was grateful to the VCWB and the CCB for their help in organising it and I hope the ‘conversation’ we started will continue.

Rt Hon Richard Benyon MP for Newbury

As a father of three, keeping our children safe online is very important to me.

There are fantastic things about the internet – it helps us connect with people and information from around the world. But it comes at a cost as we learn time and time again about the impact of social media and some of the more harmful online adult material on young people.

I’ve campaigned on internet safety over the years, and last year brought Google to meet school children in the constituency to talk about how they should behave online and keep themselves safe. Across government, we are working closely with the technology industry to make the internet a safer and more responsible place.

I was pleased to see some 2,000 organisations come together on the recent annual Safer Internet Day. It was a valuable tool to educate our children on how to keep themselves safe online, but also adults and carers on how they can play a role in protecting young people as well.

Village Agents in West Berkshire What is the Volunteer Village Agent service and would you like to become one?

Volunteer Centre West Berkshire are recruiting and training Volunteer Village Agents to be a part of a West Berkshire wide team that provide a face to face signposting service for people living in isolation. The new ‘Buzz’ word is social prescribing where our Village Agents connect local people with services that perhaps they don’t know about or were a little reluctant to ask for. The Service receives referrals from GPs, social workers, friends, neighbours or family members, occupational therapists and local hospitals or self referrals.

Following training, volunteer Village Agents provide a trusted and well-known friendly face at the heart of their communities.

West Berkshire covers an area of around 272 square miles. The majority of it being rural, however even in the towns, people can feel equally isolated. Our target is to recruit another 10 Volunteer Village Agents (VVAs) in 2019 in all areas of West Berkshire and we would now like to hear from potential Volunteer Village Agents in the following areas of Newbury, Greenham, Lambourn, Burghfield, Theale, Holybrooke and Tilehurst.

The Volunteer Centre runs the Village Agent service and would be pleased to hear from anyone interested in being potential volunteers or people that might like to refer someone for a visit.

Village Agents are people like you, who have knowledge about your community and care enough to help make a difference.

We must take steps together to protect our children so they can learn, develop and create in a safe environment.

Please contact The Village Agent Coordinator Gill on gillian@vcwb.org.uk or call 01635 581001 for a chat about becoming involved.

Garry Poulson

Kit Malthouse MP Minister for Housing and Planning in the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Director Volunteer Centre West Berkshire www.volunteerwestberks.org.uk

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stamina,” adds Debbi. “As well as the physical aspects, performing will help focus the mind, improve your memory and encourage empathy to develop compassion and tolerance for others.”

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Tickets are on sale for the Newbury Spring Festival 2019. From 11 to 25 May there are over 40 concerts and performances by world class musicians and performers.

Alongside all the classical concerts, there is a daily programme in the Corn Exchange which opens on 11th May with the BBC Big Band and an evening inspired by great movie soundtracks of all time called The Sound of Cinema. Jazz is a major feature of the programme this year and following their sell-out lunchtime concert last year, the Misha Mullov Abbado group return to the Festival with their unique brand of jazz. On 18th May the National Youth Jazz Orchestra also make a welcome return to the Festival and on 24th May the Julian Bliss Septet perform a tribute to Benny Goodman where clarinetist Julian Bliss is joined by a handpicked selection of some of the best musicians on the jazz scene.

Childrens concerts at the Corn Exchange are always an important part of the Festival programme and on 12th May,

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Sound Beginnings welcomes the whole family for an all-inclusive performance of Babar the Elephant where pianists Mikhail Kazakevich and Elena Zozina perform the story with narration from Richard Morris. The Orpheus Sinfonia bring Peter and the Wolf and Carnival of the Animals to life on 19th May and the Hand to Mouth Theatre, the award winning puppet and music duo return by popular demand with a fun family show on 25th May. Also at the Corn Exchange there is ballet, folk music, a musical and it all closes with the Pasadena Roof Orchestra on 25th May presenting the songs of George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and Duke Ellington.

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Books

World Book Day's mission is to give every child and young person a book of their own. It is also a celebration of authors, illustrators, books and reading.

It is the biggest celebration of its kind, designated by UNESCO as a worldwide celebration of books and reading, marked in over 100 countries.

The main aim of World Book Day in the UK and Ireland is to encourage children to explore the pleasures of books and reading.

Thanks to the generosity of National Book Tokens Ltd, publishers and booksellers, millions of book tokens are sent to schools for children and young people (some 15 million, in fact: that’s one for nearly every child aged under eighteen in the country).

Using their book token they can pick one of TEN (exclusive, new and completely free) books. Or, if they’d rather, they can use it to get £1 off any book or audio book costing over £2.99 at a participating bookshop.

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Charles Dickens Charles Dickens is much loved for his great contribution to classic English literature. He was the quintessential Victorian author. His epic stories, vivid characters and exhaustive depiction of contemporary life are unforgettable.

His own story is one of rags to riches.

He was born in Portsmouth on 7 February 1812. The good fortune of being sent to school at the age of nine was short-lived because his father, inspiration for the character of Mr Micawber in 'David Copperfield', was imprisoned for bad debt. The entire family, apart from Charles, were sent to Marshalsea along with their patriarch.

Charles was sent to work in Warren's blacking factory and endured appalling conditions as well as loneliness and despair. After three years he was returned to school, but the experience

was never forgotten and became fictionalised in two of his better-known novels 'David Copperfield' and 'Great Expectations'.

As well as a huge list of novels, he published autobiography, edited weekly periodicals and wrote travel books. He was also a theatre enthusiast, wrote plays and performed before Queen Victoria in 1851.

Books written by Dickens include : Oliver Twist – 1837 The Old Curiosity Shop – 1840 A Christmas Carol – 1843 David Copperfield – 1849 Little Dorrit – 1855

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The interviewees include: Isabel Allende Christiane Amanpour Maya Angelou Hanan Ashrawi Joan Baez Benazir Bhutto Mary Kayitesi Blewitt Emma Bonino Shami Chakrabarti Jung Chang Kate Clinton Marie Colvin Marion Cotillard Severn Cullis-Suzuki Carla Del Ponte Judi Dench Shirin Ebadi Tracey Emin Jane Fonda Tanni Grey-Thompson Bianca Jagger Kathy Kelly Dame Ann Leslie Professor Wangari Maathai Mairead Maguire Mary McAleese Soledad O’Brien Sinéad O’Connor Yoko Ono Mariane Pearl Paloma Picasso Sister Helen Prejean Louise Ridley Mary Robinson Jody Williams

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Collecting the words of

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Amazing Women Zoë Sallis was born in India and educated in England, attending Cheltenham Ladies College. After college she won scholarship to Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art and went on to act in theatre, TV and film.

In 1962 Zoë moved to Rome with the great love and partner John Huston, the film director, and it was there that she brought up Danny, their son. Danny Huston is now a well-known actor and director in his own right.

Zoë currently lives in Berkshire and her first book, “Ten Eternal Questions”, has been an international bestseller.

This empowering volume collects the words of 40 amazing women who have shown their personal power in many ways.

From environmentalists, humanitarians, and Nobel Prize winners to entrepreneurs, musicians and artists, these women discuss their work, their achievements, their hopes and their fears, offering inspiration and optimism for the future through their fascinating explanations of what they have achieved.

Topics range from influential early experiences, inspirations in life and most admirable female figures to causes of anger, greatest fears, how to change the world and advice for the younger generation.

This book encourages women everywhere to know they can achieve their greatest ambitions and help change the world.

The interviewees include Benazir Bhutto, Tracy Emin, Dame Judi Dench, Jane Fonda, Marie Colvin, Marion Cotillard, Paloma Picasso, Isabel Allende and many more.

This book encourages women everywhere to know they can achieve their greatest ambitions and help change the world.

Zoë Sallis is an acclaimed author of the international bestseller Ten Eternal Questions.

The book comes out in March for International Women's Day and for Mother’s Day.

International Women's - Friday 8th March The theme this year is “Think equal, build smart, innovate for change”.

Join us as we celebrate a future in which innovation and technology creates unprecedented opportunities for women and girls to play an

active role in building more inclusive systems, efficient services and sustainable infrastructure to accelerate the achievement of the SDGs and gender equality. www.internationalwomensday.com

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Koala As marsupials, female koalas have pouches where their young stay until fully developed.

Unlike kangaroo pouches, which open towards the top, koala pouches are located towards the bottom of their bodies and open outward. The baby koala, or joey, won’t fall out of the pouch because the mother koala uses a strong sphincter muscle to keep the pouch closed.

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Emperor Penguin As there are no nesting supplies available on the ice mass, emperor penguins must create a safe, warm environment for the eggs using their own bodies. Careful to keep the egg sheltered, the male will balance the egg on his feet and cover it with a warm layer of feathered skin called a brood pouch.

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Mum! The origins of Mother’s Day date back as early as the ancient Greek times. The ancient Greeks dedicated an annual spring festival to maternal goddesses and ancient Romans also celebrated a spring festival called Hilaria which was for a mother goddess called Cybele.

Mother's Day is always the fourth Sunday of Lent, the 24-hours marks the maternal bond that exists between a mum and child, as well as other maternal figures such as grandmothers, mothers-in-law and stepmums. During the 1600s this special day was held on the fourth Sunday of Lent. It was originally a day for Christians to visit their 'mother church'.

Elephant An elephant calf weighs about 250 pounds at birth and stands about three feet tall. They cannot see very well at first, but they can recognize their mothers by touch, scent, and sound. The calves drink their mother's milk for about two years, sometimes longer.

Otter Baby otters are called pups. Newborn pups need lots of attention, and will stay close to their mum's until they've developed enough skills to go it alone - usually at 6 months. The pups can be almost as long a their mothers at birth.

Around the World Egypt Celebrated on 21 March, the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere.

Ethiopia Mother's Day is celebrated for three days in Ethiopia, after the end of rainy season.

Finland Celebrated on the second Sunday of May. Lithuania Mother's Day was celebrated for the first time in 1928 and on the first Sunday of May.

Spain Mother's Day or Día de la Madre is celebrated on the first Sunday of May. Nicaragua In Nicaragua, the Día de la Madre has been celebrated on 30 May since the early 1940s.

Paraguay Mother's Day is celebrated on 15 May, the same day as the Dia de la Patria, which celebrates the independence of Paraguay.

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Blueberry Smoothie

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Hyacinth

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Chocolate Brownie

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Spinach and Ricotta Lasagne A creamy vegetarian version of this supper classic

Serves 6-8 . Prep time 45mins . Cooking time 30 mins

Ingredients Pack lasagne sheets 125g mozzarella, sliced 30g parmesan For the tomato sauce Olive oil 1 onion, finely chopped 2 garlic cloves, crushed 150ml red wine 2 x 400g tins of chopped tomatoes 1 tsp sugar 2 tbsp worcester sauce 2 tbsp tomato purée Bunch fresh basil, chopped For the creamy spinach and ricotta sauce 375g spinach Knob of butter 500g ricotta 250g mascarpone 4 medium free-range egg yolks Grated zest 1 lemon Pinch freshly grated nutmeg 40g parmesan, grated 20

Method

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Preheat the oven to 200°C/180°C fan/ gas 6. Heat the oil in a medium pan, then fry the onion for 6-8 minutes until soft. Add the garlic and fry for a further minute.

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Pour in the red wine; turn up the heat and simmer for 3-4 minutes to reduce the liquid by half. Add the tomatoes, sugar, Worcester sauce and tomato purée.

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Reduce the heat and simmer for 15-20 minutes until thickened. Add the basil, and season well. Place the spinach in a large pan with a knob of butter. Cover and cook over a medium heat for 2-3 minutes until the spinach has wilted. It will seem to almost disappear!

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Drain the cooked spinach in a colander and press to squeeze out any excess water. Roughly chop, then mix with the rest of the creamy sauce ingredients. Taste and season well.

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Spread a little of the spinach and ricotta sauce over the base of the baking dish, then cover with slightly overlapping lasagne sheets. Pour over a third of the remaining white sauce, sprinkle over a little of the grated cheese and top with half the tomato sauce. Cover with another layer of lasagne sheets, top with half the remaining white sauce, then all the remaining tomato sauce. Add the final layer of lasagne sheets, then spread with the rest of the white sauce. Scatter with the remaining grated cheese.

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Top with mozzarella slices and the grated Parmesan and bake for 30 minutes until golden and bubbling.

Topping the mashed potato with breadcrumbs actually turns your dish into a Cumberland Pie.

Fish Pie Fish pie is easy to make and for varitey most supermarkets sell a packet of mixed fish. If you are serving for kids and want to sneak some more vegetables into the their diets why not add carrots, butternut squash or sweet potato to the mash topping.

Shepherd's Pie Shepherd's pie is a classic recipe that's so easy to follow and will make a delicious traditional dish topped with perfectly cooked mashed potato every time.

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FOOD Pies

The name 'Cottage Pie' was first used at the end of the 18th century.

Truly scrumptious, us Brits love a wholesome pie during the depths of winter. Here are our favourites!

Cottage Pie

Pack your pie with delicious winter vegetables with a mushroom or cheesy sauce. Whether you take inspiration from cottage pie and top with creamy mash or flaky pastry, this pie will certainly fill the family and provide plenty of vitamins.

Good meat, good beer and good pastry – it is clear why steak and ale pie is a winner! Also perfect for entertaining because you can prepare the filling in advance and leave the baking until 45 minutes until you plan to serve.

The Romans considered the leek a superior vegetable.

Cottage pie is a great midweek meal that the whole family can enjoy together. Adding carrots, peas and mushrooms will be part of your 5-a-day intake. Change the beef for a mince of your choice including turkey and Quorn for vegetarians.

Vegetarian Pie

Steak and Ale Pie

Chicken, Leek and Mushroom Pie There is something so comforting about a traditional British chicken pie. Using meat from the legs and thighs of the chicken not only gives a richer flavour, but these cuts are also much cheaper. Serve with mashed potato or new potatoes and plenty of freshly cooked veggies including spinach, peas and broccoli.

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Here are the nation's favourite pies Shepherd's Cottage Fish

Chicken and mushroom Port Meat and potato Steak and kidney Corned beef Vegan Steak and ale

In brief. . .

Fruit pies and the Tudor connection British tradition says that the first cherry pie was served to Queen Elizabeth I in the late 16th century.

Mince pies were once banned

Other popular pies Chicken and pulled gammon Chicken and thyme Chicken and leek

Roast turkey and sage Roasted vegetable tart Steak and mushroom

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Legend has it that in the 17th century Oliver Cromwell (Lord Protector of the Commonwealth) banned eating mince pies at Christmas as he saw it as a sign of gluttony. Luckily the ban didn’t last long and we are able to enjoy the delicious pies once more.

The Cornish delicacy that features fish that stare at you Stargazy pie involves baking seven types of fish, including herring and mackerel, and a filling of eggs, potatoes and thickened milk. Whole pilchards are then arranged so their heads (and sometimes tails) emerge from a shortcrust pastry topping. The pie is traditionally cooked in the fishing village of Mousehole on 23 December to celebrate Tom Bawcock’s Eve, a day commemorating the heroic 16th-century fisherman who braved winter storms in his boat to ensure the locals didn’t go hungry over Christmas.

Pies pop-up in many a nursery rhyme Four and twenty blackbirds were baked in a pie in ‘Sing a Song of

Sixpence’, Simple Simon met a pieman in his eponymous rhyme and even Little Jack Horner stuck his thumb into a pie.

World Record The Guinness World Record for the most expensive meat pie ever sold goes to the Fence Gate Inn in Lancashire. This sold for £8195 (£1024 a slice) to eight guests on November 14, 2005.

It was made from £500 worth of Japanese wagyu beef fillet, Chinese matsutake mushrooms (which are so precious, they're harvested under guard), Winter Black truffles, French Bluefoot mushrooms (sold at £200 for 1kg), gravy made from two bottles of vintage 1982 Chateau Mouton Rothschild wine, topped with edible gold leaf.

Celebrate BRITISH PIE WEEK First full week of March

Pie Origins OF THE

We all love them, but have you ever wondered the where and why of pies?

The earliest reference to pies is dated back to the middle ages where Chaucer wrote a recipe for apple pie in 1381. The cook book was written for the chefs of King Richard II in the late 14th century and had numerous recipes for coffyn’s as pies were often called.

The pies were often made from pastry which was just a thick paste of flour and water. It was used as a container to cook meat and vegetables together in the oven after the bread had been baked.

Once cooked the contents would be served up on a dish and the pastry case thrown away. Alternatively the gravy would have been drained and eaten and then clarified butter poured in through the hole to seal the pie, rather like potted meat. This then, in the days

before refrigeration, would have been used to store the contents for eating at a later date.

In the medieval banquet the discovery of the hot water crust pastry led to pies becoming the centre piece. They were often made using elaborate figurative moulds, glazed and adorned, occasionally with a stuffed animal or bird to indicate its contents, swan pie being one of the most elaborate.

In the hierarchical society of the middle ages, the lord of the manor seated at the top table would be served the prime cuts of meat such as venison.

The extremely lower orders seated on benches right at the back of the room would be served the entrails of the deer cooked with vegetables in a pie.

The offal of a deer is known as umble hence the term to eat ‘humble pie’, the word humble being erroneously replacing the proper word umble.

The discovery of spices around the time of the crusades led to pies being made from meat and also from added dried fruit such as raisins and spices.

Mince pies were said to be on the menu for the coronation banquet of King Henry V in 1413. Little by little less meat and more sweet contents were contained in the pies.

Today the British eat around a billion pounds worth of pies each year. They come in all shapes and sizes with all manner of fillings.

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Enjoy British Pie Week with this delicious traditional pie.

Apple Pie

with Gene Stone, recipes by Robin Robertson

For the pastry: 175g (6oz) plain flour 50g (2oz) diced butter 50g (2oz) diced white baking vegetable fat Milk to glaze Sugar for sprinkling

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Ingredients 675g (1½lb) cooking apples, peeled, cored and thickly sliced 50–75g (2–3oz) caster sugar, depending on how sweet or tart the apples are 4 whole cloves

Delicious recipes from The How Not to Die Cookbook

by Dr. Michael Greger

Ingredients

Method

1

Arrange half the apple slices in the bottom of a shallow 900ml pie dish and sprinkle with the caster sugar. Arrange the cloves evenly among the apples.

Cover with the remaining apple slices and add 3 tablespoons cold water.

2

To make the pastry, measure the flour into a bowl. Add the diced butter and white vegetable fat and rub in with your fingertips until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Add two tablespoons cold water and mix to a firm dough.

3

Roll out the dough to a size that will cover the top of the pie

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dish. Lift the dough onto the dish and trim the edges. Chill in the fridge for 30 minutes.

4

Preheat the oven to 200°C/fan 180°C/gas 6.

Brush the pie with a little milk, then sprinkle the top with sugar. Make a small slit in the centre of the pie for the steam to escape. Bake in the preheated oven for 40–45 minutes or until the apples are tender and the pastry is crisp and golden.

Use foil to cover the pie loosely with towards the end of the cooking time, if the pastry starts to brown before the apples are cooked.

5 cups no-salt vegetable broth 1 4-inch piece lemongrass, crushed 4 tablespoons grated fresh ginger 1 garlic clove, minced 2 cups sliced shiitake mushroom caps 2 shallots, cut lengthwise into thin slivers 2 cups thinly sliced bok choy or napa cabbage 1 cup shredded carrot 3 scallions, chopped 2 teaspoons lime juice, or to taste 4 cherry or grape tomatoes, halved 1 teaspoon Healthy Hot Sauce (page 8), optional 2 teaspoons no-salt spice blend, or to taste 2 tablespoons chopped fresh Thai basil or cilantro

Method

1

In a large pot, combine the broth, lemongrass, ginger and garlic. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat to low, cover and simmer for 20 minutes.

2

Remove the lemongrass and bring to a boil. Add the mushrooms, shallots, bok choy and carrot. Reduce the heat to low and cook for 3 minutes. Stir in the scallions, lime juice, tomatoes, healthy hot sauce and spice blend.

3

Simmer until hot, about 2 minutes. Garnish with Thai basil or cilantro and serve hot.

* Page from 'The How Not to Die Cookbook'

by Dr. Michael Greger (recipe adapted)

How not to die from Kidney Disease Kidney failure may be both prevented and treated with a plant-based diet, and it’s no wonder: Kidneys are highly vascular organs. Harvard researchers found three significant dietary risk factors for declining kidney function: “animal protein, animal fat and cholesterol.”

Studies show that animal protein can have a profound effect on normal kidney function, inducing hyperfiltration, increasing the workload of the kidney. In one study, the increased pressure on the kidneys goes up within only a few hours of eating tuna fish. We are not talking about adverse effects decades down the road, but within hours of it going into our mouths. What happens if, instead of having a tuna salad sandwich, you had a tofu salad sandwich with the exact same amount of protein? There’s no effect on your kidneys. Dealing with plant protein is no problem.

Dr. Michael Greger M.D. FACLM

Why does animal protein cause the overload reaction, but plant protein does not? It appears to be due to the inflammation triggered by the consumption of animal products.

Indeed, a study showed that taking a powerful, anti-inflammatory drug along with that tuna fish sandwich would abolish the hyperfiltration, proteinleakage response to meat ingestion.

There is also the acid load. Animal foods, such as meat, eggs, and dairy, induce the formation of acid within the kidneys, which may lead

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to “tubular toxicity,” damage to the tiny, delicate, urine-making tubes in the kidney. Animal foods tend to be acid-forming—especially fish, which is the worst, followed by pork and poultry—whereas plant foods tend to be relatively neutral, or actually alkaline or base-forming to counteract the acid.

Plant-based diets have been used to treat kidney disease for decades. In one study, researchers put subjects first on a conventional, low-sodium diet, which is what physicians would typically put someone with declining kidney function on, then switched them to a supplemented vegan diet, then back to the conventional diet, then the plant-based diet, and back and forth again. The chart in the study is filled with zig-zags, as if kidney dysfunction was turned on and off like a light switch, based on what was going into their mouths.

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Why we should be your Shared Ownership mortgage lender of choice Are you a first-time buyer looking to step onto the property ladder or have you previously owned a home but can’t afford to buy one now? Maybe you’re an existing Shared Ownership customer looking to move?

If so, Shared Ownership may be a great option for you.

But, how does it work and why should you come and talk to us about a mortgage?

What does ‘Shared Ownership’ actually mean?

Shared Ownership doesn’t mean a ‘shared property’ in the sense you have to live with another person; you buy a share of between 25 and 75 percent of a brand new property in a desirable location across the UK. You only need a small mortgage and you pay a reduced rent on the remaining share to a housing association.

Your deposit can be as little as 5% of the share you are purchasing.

Can buyers increase their ownership?

The benefit of Shared Ownership is that you can buy a percentage share of the overall value of the house and you can buy more of the property when you can afford it – this is called staircasing. For example, you can start with 25% then, if financials fit, purchase a further 5% (or 10% depending on your housing association), and so on. This means your rent will reduce.

Is the mortgage application process different to that of standard residential mortgages?

In short, no. For example, once the housing association assesses your eligibility for Shared Ownership you can proceed with arranging a mortgage with us and proceed with the standard legal process.

Which regions does Newbury Building Society accept applications from?

We may have branches in Berkshire, Hampshire and Oxfordshire, but we lend throughout England and Wales.

Our affordable housing specific mortgages are not postcode restricted.

First-time buyers can be nervous about the buying process – how does Newbury Building Society help their customers?

We have been helping local people step onto the housing ladder for over 160 years and we are known as a ‘lending veteran’ with over fifteen years of experience in affordable housing mortgage lending.

We guarantee you will always be able to speak to a person, not a computer. We understand buying a property and obtaining a mortgage can be an exciting, and sometimes daunting, experience - especially if you’re a first-time buyer or new to the property market. That’s

why all our mortgage advisers are CeMAP (Certificate in Mortgage Advice and Practice) qualified, and committed to speaking to you in a clear and concise language.

How does Newbury Building Society judge firsttime buyer mortgage applications?

The first step (and most important) is to simply talk to us. When you decide to purchase a property through Shared Ownership you will want to know what your mortgage options are. We try to simplify the whole process from your initial enquiry all the way through until you move into your new home.

Are Newbury Building Society’s Shared Ownership mortgages just for first-time buyers?

Shared Ownership is not just first-time buyers, thus, neither are our mortgages. We regularly help divorcees starting afresh, those whose employment situation has changed and those looking to relocate to an area with much higher housing prices, to name only a few different circumstances.

We believe everyone has the right to own their home and as a mutual organisation owned by its members, we will continue on making what might seem impossible, possible.

How can prospective borrowers contact the Society?

Our mortgage advisers are available from Mondays to Saturdays and we offer a free, no obligation meeting to discuss your needs. To get in contact you can visit us in branch to book an appointment or submit an online contact us form on our website and we will contact you directly.

Visit our Basingstoke, Hungerford, Newbury and Thatcham branch, call: 01635 555777 or visit newbury.co.uk

Jane Bosher, Senior Branch Manager of Newbury Building Society’s Hungerford, Newbury and Thatcham branches.

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