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New Malden history by Robin Gill Arts Weekend, Malden Care, Clubs, What’s On Puzzles, Techno-blog Kids Spot the Difference competition Dad’s Diary & more & more...

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Competition Writing this in April, I can only hope that that that we all had a wonderful Easter weekend and that the sun shone for the various street parties taking place locally at the end of the month (and our camping trip!). For myself and the rest of the Malden Fortnight Committee, May means action stations to confirm details of all of the events taking place this year and get the posters and leaflets printed. So if your group or organisation has not yet been in touch and want to take part please get them to give me a call or email info@maldenfortnight.co.uk. Or if you’re a local business who’d like to sponsor an event – don’t be shy!

This years’ festivities start on 1st July with a quiz at Malden Wanderers and finish on 17th July with a Family Sports Day up in Beverley Park in aid of the Lunchbowl Network. Listings are added to our website www.maldenfortnight.co.uk as they are confirmed, so why not have a look and get some dates in your diary.

If you’re a local club or organisation who’d welcome new members then email me in your details and we’ll print them on our Clubs pages – there’s no charge for this. And if you’re a local business who’d welcome some new customers then why not advertise in the Village Voice – think about it, if you’re reading this then your new customers probably are too! Just call me on 020 8336 2915.

Here’s to a month of May sunshine!

Enjoy!

Best wishes Jenny Stuart Editor and publisher

The next edition will be available in the Library, Waitrose, Tudor Williams, Chicco Cafe, Heads Fine Foods, Tam Leisure and other outlets from 3rd June Next copy deadline: 17th May 2011 Published by Malden Media Limited 36 Rosebery Avenue, KT3 4JS E: jenny@maldenmedia.co.uk 020 8336 2915 Also publishing www.nmvv.co.uk Worcester Park Life

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7 History by Robin Gill 14 History Defence and Auxilliary Fire Service 16 View from the City Justin Urquhart Stewart 22 Beauty Self Tanning 25 Health Slimming World 27 Events Christian Aid Arts Weekend 29 techno-blog Turn on - tune in 32 AV The Referendum 41 Recipe Asparagus Bruschettas 42 Make ours a safer neighbourhood 50 Follow the Plot Bee Lines 52 Events Christ Church Primary Fair 56 Dad’s Diary

Local Information 20 Clubs 38 What’s On 48 Toddler groups 58 Business Index

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major local school, and only a small church in Poplar Grove.

With a population of nearly 1000, we were regarded as the poor relation.

Edward first met Alexandra Of Denmark in Speyer in September 1861 through his elder sister Victoria of Prussia. The marriage took place at Windsor Castle in March 1863.

Edward was 21, and Alexandra 18. In those days royal weddings were not public affairs, and it is unlikely that anybody from New Malden attended the ceremony. We were still regarded as being part of Kingston, and in fact were neglected by the town.There was no street lighting, no public sewerage or drainage, no public buildings, no

Celebrations in kingston It is not recorded whether any public celebration of the event was held in Malden, but some of the residents must have journeyed to Kingston town to take part in the festivities there. These started with the town “gun” firing at 7am, followed by the ringing of the bells of All Saints Church. At 9am the 12th Surrey Volunteers performed a “Feu De Joie” in the Market Place. The men assembled in two ranks, and by taking turns a volley of shots rang out from one end of the rank to the other. They then presented arms in a royal salute, after firing another volley into the air.

There then followed a dinner in the Town Hall for the “Ragged Poor” involving 110 children tucking into roast beef and plum pudding. At the Drill Hall there was a dinner for 600 of the “aged poor”, and again roast beef and plum pudding provided the basis of the meal. An ox was being roasted on the Fairfield, the poor beast had been decorated with wedding favours, and had been paraded through the town accompanied by a band of musicians. Unfortunately an unruely crowd had assembled, and the ox was torn to pieces after it had been cooked, but before it could be distributed. Inmates of the Alms and Workhouses were also fed on beef and plum pudding, washed down by beer and tea.The inmates of the workhouse were also given leave to watch the firework spectacular in the evening. Shopkeepers and the gentry had their own dinner at the Griffin, where many toasts were drunk. These tradesmen then proceeded to take part in a torchlight procession from the Market Place to the Fairfield, where a large bonfire had been erected (40 ft high and 45 ft in diameter). After being lit, the fire lasted for many hours, and the assembled crowd then walked to the Queens Road to watch the fireworks being set off from Messengers Ait. The National Anthem was sung, followed by loud cheers, before the tradesmen returned to the Griffin for champagne served in a large loving cup. u

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The couple were married at St James Palace in July 1893, and a garden party was held at the Lodge in Richmond Park at the end of June. At this function Mary was presented with a gift from the whole of the county of Surrey (including New Malden). This was in the form of a tiara in what was called the “Empire Style” covered in over 300 diamonds which cost £1,150. This was presented with an album of congratulations, containing the names of nearly 5,000 people who had subscribed to the gift.

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A lot of the shops displayed illuminations, and as this was before the town had been supplied with electricity, these were lit by gas. Crowns and stars were very popular displayed by many coloured lamps.

The local girl By 1893, Malden was able to hold its own celebrations.

July saw the marriage of George the second son of Edward VII and Princess Mary (May) of Teck. George’s elder brother Albert had previously been engaged to Mary, but he had died of pneumonia in January 1892, and a year after his death George proposed marriage and was accepted. Mary was regarded in Malden as a “local girl” (as much as class would allow), the Teck family lived at White Lodge in Richmond Park, and often worshipped at St Johns in Kingston Vale.

New Malden decided that their celebrations would very much revolve around the children of the village, who were asked to assemble at their schools and then march to Grafton Road before taking part in a procession to the grounds of Coombe House for a fete accompanied by the village band. Younger children were taken to the meadows in brightly decorated carts and vans. Shops and houses were also decorated in a wide array of bunting and rosettes.

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In total there were over 750 children in attendance, and the entertainment commenced with a Punch and Judy Show for the girls followed by a similar one for the boys. Tea was served at 4.30pm, and the children were joined by 80 old people also from the village. Games and sports took place, and a ventriloquist/conjurer entertained the crowd.

The National School provided a fan drill performed by the girls, and a flag song from the boys. The rest of the village arrived at 5pm, to be entertained by the drum and fife band, and string band. At 8pm after various votes of thanks, the children marched from the meadow back to the village, accompanied by the band. A group of the boys followed carrying Chinese lanterns followed by the carts carrying the smaller children. The procession stopped outside Holy Trinity Church where “God save the Queen” was sung, before proceeding home.

Meanwhile in Old Malden, Mr Horatio Miller had lent out the barn and cart lodge of the Manor House so that a tea could be enjoyed. The building was beautifully decorated with flags flowers and greenery.The band of the Kingston Volunteers played a selection of music, and after the church bells were rung a short service was held. The evening saw sports and dancing.

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Trainspotting In September 1947 after the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip the platforms of New Malden Railway Station were crowded with people hoping to catch sight of the royal couple as they journeyed down to Winchester. Although dusk was falling the Pullman Cars (Rosemary and Rosamund) were lit up, and some of the 700 spectators who had bought platform tickets were sure they had spotted Philip in his naval uniform.

Royal connections An interested spectator at the wedding of Princess Anne and Mark Philips in November 1973 was former Chief Inspector David Coleman of Bodley Road. He had been responsible for the personal safety of the Princess for five years, retiring the day before her wedding. He is best remembered for his flying rugby tackle on a monkey, who had stolen a handbag, during a Royal Trip to Africa. u

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Hot off the press An interesting aside of the wedding of Prince Charles to Diana Spencer in July 1981 was the production of the book “Invitation to a Royal Wedding” by Colour Library International of Coombe Road. The book was in the shops just 10 days after the marriage, a remarkable feat as it contained over 20,000 words, and 200 colour pictures, and the printing was undertaken in Barcelona.

The first 64 pages were completed within 24 hours of the ceremony.

Other connections with Malden for this wedding were that the arrangement of flowers on the Chancel steps of St Pauls were by Mrs Gwen Beckwith of Cromford Way, while facing the couple on the High Altar was an arrangement by Mrs Anne Ballard formerly of Southwood Avenue, with foliage from the gardens of Warren House at Coombe.

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The Civil Defence and Auxilliary Fire Service which had given such sterling service during the Second World War were stood down in May 1945, A farewell parade was held in Hyde Park on 10th June reviewed and addressed by George V1.

In 1948 the Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb and Civil Defence became a necessity once again, together with the Royal Observer Corps who, with binoculars and telephone plotted the course of enemy aircraft. When we came to live in New Malden in 1951 their post was on top of the telephone exchange in Coombe Road, which was at the end of our garden, but they were very vulnerable in the age of nuclear weapons, and were moved underground, by 1965 the ROC had 1518 of these monitoring posts,

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I joined Civil Defence in October 1957 as a result of a recruiting drive, first in the signals branch of Headquarters Section, using field telephones and radio, both in static positions and Land Rovers and Wireless Vehicles, later transferring to Ambulance Section. On Wednesday 20th.

July 1966 we had an exercise which involved us going down a long ladder into the local bunker beneath Malden Golf Course. This was a fairly large control room from which the Scientific Intelligence Office used his equipment to to report fall of missiles, radiation and decay of fallout . We on this occasion were removing 6 casualties in Niel Roberts stretchers up the shaft. The last SIO for the borough of Malden and Coombe is still alive and will be 90 in May 2011

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by Justin Urquhart Stewart For reasons best not discussed here, I have seen far too many television adverts over the past couple of months. Most are banal wallpaper that make no impression, but I suspect I am not the typical target market for most advertisers on daytime television (which by the way has to be the best incentive to get back to work).

There are some however, which have riled me to levels varying from annoyance to outright anger.

At a time of economic austerity and consumer nervousness, adverts proffering instant cash are of course going to attract attention, and especially from those most financially vulnerable. From the annoying “cash for your mobile phones” through to “cash for your gold”, these seem no more than licences for untrustworthy types to set about stealing phones and anything else that glitters and effectively “fencing” them through these virtually unknown outfits.

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worthy causes and charities and even to have their use extended in third world nations. The same was often the case with old spectacle frames. One of the gold adverts especially irks as they promote that they will take “even broken gold jewellery”. I am not sure quite how you can break gold as even in little pieces it is still – gold?

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“Pay Day Loans” are being promoted by smiling people happily holding a small wad of notes, having seemingly found a way of resolving their particular financial issue. These loans are designed as short term cash facilities to cover you until quite literally your next pay day, but that bland and seemingly comforting offer only covers a far more dangerous problem. The rates being charged for such loans are astonishing with levels of up to 4120% per annum being quoted. This by any measure is usury.

Whilst they may be intended for very short periods of time, just how many people are going to find themselves further financially strapped by late and delayed repayment at eye watering interest rates.

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Bill: Did you read that article about Malden Care last month?

Janet: I think so, but remind me about it Bill:

It was about a voluntary organisation that offers help to those who are in need at particular times..

Janet: I remember now, it contained some really interesting accounts of their work.

I hadn’t realised that such a scheme existed in our area – and for so long!

Did you take in all the different things they do to help people like you and me.

Bill: Janet: Yes, and with my nephew moving away, I will find it less easy to get to my appointments at the doctors etc. Do you think they could help me?

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It certainly looks like it. They seem to cover a wide range of needs, and are willing to help not just with transport.

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We need to give a few days notice of our appointments or other needs, then it easier for them to try to arrange for the help. Although my friend has always been fortunate to have the transport she needed, they may occasionally not be able to help – but I know they will try their very best. On another point, we also need to realise that the cost of petrol is very high these days, and my friend usually gives them a donation towards the cost.

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To feature in this section email info@nmvv.co.uk HALF SHARES We are a group of widows who meet together on the 1st Tuesday of every month. We have a speaker and enjoy a cuppa and a chat. Come and join us at 1.45-3.15pm at Christ Church Centre, Coombe Rd For more details contact Lily on 020 8949 1431.

KEEP FIT OVER 60’s Where: New Malden library hall (upstairs) When: Tuesdays, 1:00pm - 2:00pm Contact: 07986831598 or balanceurlife@googlemail.com ARTHRITIS CARE New Malden branch Where: Crescent Resource Centre, Cocks Crescent, New Malden When: 4th Tuesday of month 7.30 -9.30pm We aim to provide back-up support for arthritis sufferers and an opportunity for members to enjoy a social evening through our regular monthly meetings.

Jocelyn King 020 8942 6745 EMANUEL RUGBY Where: Shannon Corner, KT3 4PU When: Adults Mondays & Wednesdays 7.30pm, Saturday 2-3pm.

Children Sunday 1030am Contact: www.emanuelrugby.co.uk info@emanuelrugby.co.uk Fergus McCarthy 0845 8338974 days & evenings THE NEW MALDEN LADIES BADMINTON CLUB When:Tuesday at the Malden Centre from 20.30 till 22.00 We are a mixed ability club looking for new members. Please ring Lynda on 8949 2673 or just pop in to see us any club night.

MALDEN CAMERA CLUB Where: New Malden Library, Kingston Road When:Thursday evenings throughout the year at 7.45pm Contact: www.maldencameraclub.org.uk MALDEN & COOMBE SOCIAL CLUB FOR THE BLIND Where: Christ Church Vestry Hall, Coombe Rd When: 2nd and 4th Wednesdays, 2pm to 4pm Anne Lieberman 0208 546 9368 NEW MALDEN ROTARY CLUB Where: Malden Golf Club,Traps Lane,When: Monday evenings at 6:15 for 6:45pm Contact: Barry Collins on 020 8949 8080 MONDAY NETBALL CLUB When: Mondays 8.30pm Contact: Ching Lee 07813 556184 SATURDAY DEMENTIA CLUB Age Concern Kingston 2nd Saturday of the month 11am and 2pm in New Malden for people living with dementia, their family and carers, Call 020 8942 8256 and ask for Jyoti or email saturdayclub@ageconcernkingston.org ST JAMES PLAYERS Where: St James Bodley Road When: Mondays 8pm MALDEN BOWLING CLUB Where: Lime Grove, New Malden Tel: 020 8942 0296 SUPREME BOWLS CLUB Where: junction of Thetford Road and Windsor Avenue in the playing field opposite Woodies pub in New Malden.Contact Mick or Diana 020 8942 0294 TOLWORTH BADMINTON CLUB Where: Play at Tolworth Recreation Centre When: Club night Thursday evenings 7.30-9.30 Standard: Intermediate/advanced level Contact: www. tolworthbadmintonclub.co.uk or ring Pat on 0208 395 9175

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or just turn up on a Thursday GRAHAM SPICER SNOOKER ROOM Availible for hire during the day and evenings.

Contact Secretary for availibility on 020 8942 2157.

WEST WIMBLEDON SOCIETY TABLE TENNIS CLUB Friendly social table tennis club in Raynes Park welcomes new members (sorry not complete beginners). For more details call 020 8947 3564 ROYAL BRITISH LEGION MALDEN & COOMBE The Legion meets every second Wednesday afternoon from 2.30pm at the Grafton Club. Any interested parties in joining please contact Mary Gillett on 020 8949 2342 who will be very pleased to give any information to help or assist.

As this is the Royal British Legion’s 90th Anniversary, and in particular Malden & Coombe’s 90th Anniversary being a founder member, the Branch decided that a recruitment drive would be invaluable.for the future of the Branch. We hope that during the course of the year we will hold one or two events to commemorate our Birthday. The Branch still holds the original certificate sent to the Legion Headquarters 26 Eccleston Square, SW1, which is dated 12th August 1921. The Officers elected were President: Dr H R Crow, Chairman: Mr T A Cost, V. Chauirman: Mr S Thornton, Treasurer: Mr P A Pratt, Secretary: Mr J T Frost. The meetings were held at the Ex-Service Club, Coombe Road, New Malden, Surrey If anyone missed seeing us on 16 April in the High Street and would like to know more about the Legion perhaps they could contact the Secretary on telephone number 0208 949 2342.

MALDEN AND COOMBE FLOWER DECORATION SOCIETY A Demonstration’’Herbidacious’ by Mrs.Annette.

Urquhart. At St.James Church HallBodley Road New Malden Surrey.KT3 5QD On Thursday 14th April 2011 Doors open 7-15pm for 7-50pm start.Visitors Welcome Normally £5-00.

THE NEW MALDEN INVESTMENT CLUB Our meetings are held on the first Tuesday of the month at the Grafton Club, Grafton Road, New Malden. We do have a few vacancies and new member are always welcome.Contact the secretary on 020 8942 1926 for further information.

ENGLISH CONVERSATION / LESSONS FOR KOREANS Where: Christ Church Centre, Coombe Road When: Mondays & Tuesdays, 10.00 am - 12.00 noon All welcome: contact Chris Coke 020 8942 7388 MALDEN ARTS ASSOCIATION This is a Club for anyone with an interest in the arts.

Everyone is welcome including non-artists. We meet once a month on a Friday afternoon in the Malden Centre, Cocks Crescent, Blagdon Road, New Malden, Surrey at 4.00pm.prompt. Visitors are welcome.

Contact: Joyce Clay on 0208 540 6578.

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by Doreen Seward, whose work has featured in many exhibitions, will be on display in the church lounge, together with an exhibition of framed photographs by Hugh Griffiths, Vice Chairman of the Malden Camera Club. The paintings and photographs will be on sale, with all profits going to Christian Aid Week which starts the following week.

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The painting and photograph exhibition will be open from 2pm to 5pm on Friday 6th May and then from 10am to 5pm on Saturday 7th May. There will be music recitals in the church on the Saturday which you can listen to as you look at the exhibition and enjoy coffee, tea and cakes.

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DAB Radio. Can be accessed via portable units, Hi Fi tuners, Freeview and Freesat TV’s, Sky,Virgin Cable, Mobile Phones and now increasingly in cars (heaven forbid).

It’s the odourless, invisible drug that helps millions of us face the new day. It’s constantly with us in the house (even the ‘smallest room in the house’ in my case - guess where?), the car, at work, in fact, almost everywhere. Sometimes by choice, sometimes inflicted on us, even from miles away (the car with the 20” alloys and speakers the size of dustbin lids), but usually welcome at some point in our lives.

The range of programming is huge if you like listening to new stations for one week before they disappear (harsh, possibly); and as for the sound quality- a lost opportunity.

Internet Radio. Can be accessed from- Let me think.....

Yes, the internet! Given you can now access the internet from an increasing number of TV’s there’s no escape. The range of stations is almost limitless and Australian racing commentary alone almost makes it worthwhile.

Again, as for sound quality- well what do you think ?

What am I talking about ?

The Humble Radio.

FM/ MW/LW/SW Radio- Still with me ? This is where it all started. Still millions of portable radios around (a lot covered in paint I’ve noticed recently) along with almost as many in cars, but all still going strong.

Sound quality- I’m afraid studio discussions don’t do it for me any more.

I’ve been a radio enthusiast for longer than I can remember and have spent the sort of money on Hi Fi tuners (posh name for expensive radio) than most people spend on entire systems. Radio was once the only medium by which many were informed, entertained and challenged. For many, radio still remains the only way to access the outside world, but is now under attack from the hordes of different digital media all vying for our attention- and money.

I’ve tried not to go into the technical aspects of radio for two reasons:

I sometimes feel I’ve crash landed from Mars (or is it Venus) when talking about how wonderful the sound of either a play, or studio discussion from Radio 4 used to be via a high quality tuner. How can the sound of a “Discussion” be wonderful you ask? Well, in the “good old days” (Yes, I’m back off to space on a nostalgic trip !) when FM radio was in it’s heyday, the sound of just voices could raise the hairs on the back of your neck.

The topic of discussion could become almost (but never) irrelevant as you revelled in hearing the actual studio in front of you. Imagine then, the thrill of listening to either a live concert or a wonderful piece of music on radio.

Of course, radio is still with us, and can now be accessed in a bewildering number of ways.

If you’re still awake at this point, you might now start to lose the will to live after I tell you what media are available for radio.

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1) Do you really want to know whether DAB transmissions are vertically or horizontally polarised ?

2) I don’t want to sound like a vindictive, miserable, cantankerous, whingeing, grumpy old git, longing for the days of valve radios.

The point I’ve tried to make is that in a world of increasing choices, quality tends to suffer. This is true not only of radio but in many aspects of our daily lives. For the vast majority of us, the greater range of access to and range of radio programs should be applauded, but why this has to be at the expense of sound quality is a discussion left for another time (and after a few drinks possibly).

Alas, radio doesn’t thrill me in the way it once did, but I live in hope that once again, Radio will not just be the companion we take for granted, but something to genuinely excite us ! VVoice

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Why the Alternative Vote referendum matters, whether you are for or against On May 5th there is a referendum across the UK which will ask voters to say yes or no to the Alternative Vote (AV) system for electing MPs to Parliament. A ‘yes’ result would change the voting system to AV, and a ‘no’ result would keep the current system of First Past the Post.

Under First Past the Post, voters cast their vote for one candidate in their constituency and the candidate with the most votes wins. MPs are regularly elected under this system with less than 50% of the vote. In elections using AV, voters rank their candidates in order of preference. If a candidate receives over 50% of first preference votes, they are elected. Failing this, the party with the least first preference votes is eliminated. The second preference votes of constituents who ranked the least popular party first are then added to the first

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One advantage of introducing AV would be that candidates in many constituencies would need to court the second preference votes of people who give their first preference votes to other parties to be elected.

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be forced to take into account a wider spectrum of opinion within their electorate. AV would also reduce the number of ‘safe seats’ in the UK, where MPs are elected on such large majorities that they effectively have jobs for life, as a smaller shift in public opinion in any given constituency would be needed to produce a different electoral result than under First Past the Post. Certainly worth noting is the fact that all three major political parties use AV to elect their leaders. For many Pro-AV campaigners, AV is not the ideal voting system, but they argue that if it is rejected that this sends the message to politicians that there is no appetite in the UK for electoral and constitutional reform of any kind.

Those against AV and in favour of First Past the Post argue that the current system is simple, with one person to one vote, and generally produces clear majority governments able to govern decisively.

The ‘No’ camp argue that AV could be expensive to implement (thought the ‘Yes’ camp dispute this) and this would be an inappropriate use of public money at a time of deep spending cuts. MPs elected under AV would potentially lack the legitimacy of those elected under the current system because they might have come second or third on first preference votes, relying on second preference votes for their majority. One potentially explosive argument is that AV would give too much power to those who vote for minority extremist parties, and that their second preference votes could in a very limited set of circumstances decide the result of certain constituency elections. The experience of other countries that have elections using AV is often not a positive one: in Australia the turnout for elections dropped so much after the introduction of AV that compulsory voting had to be introduced to ensure the democratic legitimacy of the result.

The result of this referendum matters, because MPs have so much responsibility, and so the way they are elected is important. Whichever way you decide to vote, I urge you to go to the polling stations on May 5th.

Nick Bown is Local Village Voice reader who is studying law in London. VVoice

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2 Brush the slices of bread on both sides with some of the olive oil.

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3 Rub the cut garlic cloves all over the hot toasts (this imparts a mild garlic flavour to the toasts). Spread the goats’ cheese over the toasts.

4 Arrange the asparagus spears on top of the cheese and add a few rocket leaves to each. Drizzle over the rest of the olive oil. Season with salt and freshly ground black pepper and serve immediately. VVoice

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Dear Resident, Welcome to the monthly article from your local Safer Neighbourhood Police Team. This is my last article as Sergeant Nick Ellis will be back from his secondment with the Prince’s Trust at the end of April and I will be returning to response policing.

During my short time on Beverley Ward I have enjoyed working closely with the residents and businesses. I would just like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your support over the past 4 months and I’m sure you will continue to support Sgt Ellis on his return.

Below are the current crime issues that face the residents and businesses of Beverley ward and some advice on how NOT to become victim of crime.

Scams & Con tricks.

Lotto frauds. Lotto frauds are becoming prevalent in the UK with promises of huge winnings arriving in the form of unsolicited e-mail or letters to UK residents.

Invariably the communication will purport to come from an overseas lottery and claim that the recipient has been allocated winning numbers. The recipient will contact the organisers, whether directly through telephone, by post or e-mail and will be invited to send money in to assist in the administration for the release of the winnings.

These winnings do not exist. This is merely a scam and attempt to illicit money from unsuspecting victims. As the winnings on offer are substantial, so too can be the advance fees required to release the funds.The cruel part of this scam is that suspects will build up a rapport with victims through telephone contact in order to continue the flow of money.

In the case of e-mail anyone can be a victim,‘spam’ e-mails are sent en-bloc. With letters the criminals can be a little more specific and in many cases the elderly are most at risk. Suspects pay good money for mailing lists and they do target those lists that deal with the elderly.

Invariably highly organised gangs based overseas are behind these frauds. It is widely acknowledged that there area large number of Canadian syndicates involved, specifically targeting the USA and UK. If you receive a communication like those described, do not answer it. You can report these communications to the Enquiries Unit at the Office of Fair Trading.

Enforcement teams within the Office of Fair Trading work with the Canadian Authorities to collect evidence. The Canadian Authorities can use this evidence to prosecute the fraudsters. The number is: 08457 224499.

Identity theft. Identity theft is the unlawful taking of

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The information stolen can be used to obtain many financial services, goods and other forms of identification i.e. Passports and Driving Licences.The information stolen can range from a copy of birth certificate to copies of discarded bank or credit card statements and utility bills.

• Be careful with your personal information. If you receive a telephone call from a credit card company, bank or other retail company asking to confirm certain details about yourself decline, and ask to call them back preferably through a central switchboard.

• When destroying personal correspondence such as bank and credit card statements consider a shredder or even burning them on the garden refuse. If you cannot do both then tear the papers up into very small pieces and place in the refuse bin with other waste products.

• If you move address remember to inform all of the companies that send personal information to you in the post. Always consider re-directing your post with Royal Mail. If you fail to do this people moving in might have free access to your personal details and misappropriate them.

For further information on frauds & scams, visit www.met.police.uk/fraudalert/index.htm website.

If you have any questions about what I have discussed or wish to raise any issues with me please do get in touch on the contact details below.

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Harry: Did you read that article about Malden Care last month?

Joyce: Yes, It was really interesting – full of accounts of people they have helped.

Harry: I called them the other day and asked how I might help.

Joyce: But you live such a busy life – how could you fit anything else in?

Harry: Well – first of all if I was willing to be a Duty Officer – I would only need to be available for one day a month at the most.

Joyce: It sounds an important job – would you need training and where are their offices?

Harry: I asked just those questions; and they reminded me that I would be linked with an experienced Duty Officer and need no more than a morning’s ‘training’.

Also there would always be someone I could contact if I was not sure what to do. Also the work is done from our own home, so there is no travelling to do.

Joyce: That sounds very organised and much simpler than I thought.

Harry: As I drive, I offered to take people to hospital appointments etc.

Joyce: How often might you be asked to do that?

Harry: They couldn’t answer that, but said that I was always free to say ‘No’ if the day or time was not convenient.

Joyce My car might not be suitable for all people, as it only has two doors.

Harry: All those details they would record when you offer your help.

Joyce I know I would be a volunteer, but the price of petrol these days would make it impossible for me to do many journeys.

Harry: Malden Care realise this and they also ask clients to consider making donations towards the cost of their journeys – if they are able to.

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Fun for the under 5s Monday 10am to 11.30am Tots In Tow St John’s Church, Kingston Road Contact Penny Welsh 0208 288 1801 1.15 pm 3.15pm. St James Tiddlers Group We welcome all parents and toddlers, plus big sisters and brothers when they’re on holidays. St James Church Hall, Bodley Rd Contact Angie: 020 8942 2093 Tuesday 10am to 11.45am St Joseph’s Toddler Group St Joseph’s R C Church, Montem Road Contact Francesca.

9.30am to 11.30 am Sparkles United Reformed Church, Cavendish Hall, Cavendish Road Contact Peggy Cox 020 8949 3402 to visit 9-11.30 Stay and Play New Malden Children’s Centre, Burlington Road 020 8336 1561 Wednesday 10am to 11.45am Tots in Tow (see Monday) 10am and 11.45 ST Joseph’s Toddler Group (see Tuesday) Thursday 9.45 to 11.30am Methodist Church Parent and Toddler Group Methodist Church,

High Street, Contact Greta Curry. 9.30am to 12.30pm 9.30 - 12 noon Childminders’ drop in including school holidays, Norbiton Children’s Centre, The Mount School, Dickerage Road, 0208 942 2559 Young parents drop in 1-3pm New Malden Children’s Centre, Burlington Road 020 8336 1561 Friday 9.30am to 11.30am Christ Church Parent and Toddler Group Christ Church, Coombe Road Contact Susie Gregerson 020 8241 9423. 9.45am to 11.15am Tadpoles Parent and Toddler Group New Malden Baptist Church, Kingston Road 020 8942 6912 – not a drop in session so call first Toy Library New Malden Children’s Centre, Burlington Road 020 8336 1561 10.30-1.30 Tuesday-Friday Parent and Toddler Play Sessions Dickerage Lane Adventure Playground Dickerage Lane, Daniel Slocombe 020 8942 1707 Saturday 10-12noon Who let the dads out is at Norbiton Children’s Centre, The Mount School, Dickerage Lane, New Malden Runs the third Saturday of every month. VVoice

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Mark, who has a hive on a plot near mine, lent me a bee suit so that I could experience the day-to-day management of the hive up close. His hive, a National type with two deep drawer-like boxes, is set up against a boundary hedge, well back from the main path to minimize the risk of disturbance, and screened by a thicket of raspberry canes. “Bees often get blamed for wasp behaviour”, Mark explained, “but they will only bang into you if you stand in their flying line.”

by Libby Rothwell Watching the honey bees working the spring blossom on the plot recently set me wondering: just how many bees could our allotment site support? How much does it cost to keep bees and how much honey could they produce? Do bees go for anything that flowers or do they have preferences?

Sure enough, at that moment a bee knocked against my visor. It is a disconcerting sensation to hear such a loud buzzing near your face without being able to see the insect. I backed hastily into the raspberries as Mark removed the top of the hive to inspect the bees. He lifted out each of the 22 frames to check on progress and look for signs of varroa infestation, such as deformed wings. Although

I am one of the many who know precious little about these wonderful creatures, other than that they die if they sting you, and that their numbers have been in serious decline because of a virus carried by the varroa mite.

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the mite is minuscule, an expert eye can actually spot it on a bee’s back. Things looked promising: no sign of disease and lots of purposeful activity as the bees went about the business of raising their brood. Then it was time for the bees to have their monthly dusting of icing sugar. Soon the air was filled with clouds of ghostly bees in a glucose-fuelled frenzy. This natural product encourages the bees to groom themselves and knock any varroa mites off their backs.

Mark was confident that this one hive could increase to about 50,000 bees by high summer. A site the size of ours could support ten hives. That’s 500,000 pollinating machines for our crops and a honey yield of 80 to 200 lbs per hive, depending on local conditions. Recent research suggests that honey from the locality can ease allergic conditions such as hay fever, and beekeepers like Mark report that they can never make enough to satisfy demand. But with start-up costs of around £500, it is not a cheap undertaking.

Our site is rich in plants beloved by honeybees: fruit trees, brambles, rosemary, thyme, lavender and of course, beans. But non-gardeners can take comfort from the fact that the amber pollen sacs you so often see may well come from dandelions, an absolute favourite with bees. VVoice

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Christ Church Primary Fair 21st May 12 noon Teachers, pupils and parents at New Malden’s Christ Church Primary School are getting ready to dive in to a fun packed day next month (Saturday May 21st) at its “wet and wild” sea life themed summer fair!

Headteacher, Mrs Brenda Mitchell adds: ”It's wonderful that the children led the way this year by choosing the theme of our summer fair – and everyone’s been encouraged to get involved by designing ‘sea life’ posters to help promote the fair. Hopefully lots of your readers will spot them brightening up the windows of shops, cars and houses right across New Malden!

Chosen and voted for by the children’s “School Council” the “Sea Life” summer fair will once more be the flagship event in the school’s fundraising calendar.

The gates* will open at 12 noon on Saturday 21 May for what promises to be a great day for all the family! Money raised will help fund a range of ‘extra’ facilities for the children such as gardening, sports & arts equipment, and visits and workshops from authors and artists.

“As ever, this will undoubtedly be one of the highlights of our school year at Christ Church Primary, and, as a headteacher, I really do love the way it helps bring together pupils, parents, staff and local residents from our community here in New Malden.” VVoice

Co-chair of the school’s PTA, Sarah Wills, says; “We’re really hoping this glorious start to the Spring will continue – but whatever the weather, we know everyone will have a fantastic time! We are so lucky to have such wonderful support from parents and friends as well as many members of the wider community and we really hope this year’s sea life theme will appeal to all ages!”

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Marty photographs which for Feldman ages I’ve been meaning to sort and print out; I’ve been obliged to write friend’s contact details, this month’s article in email addresses etc; tithe rather a novel fashion using a technology with which daughter’s homework; ideas for I’m unfamiliar. In one sense, this technology is very easy future Village Voice articles; the great to use: there is no doubt that it is light and portable, for unfinished novel. Not only that but I couldn’t example fitting easily into a coat pocket or a brief case. access emails or the internet and ,shock horror we What’s more, it’s available instantly as there’s no need to were off to visit the internet, email, WIFI free zone that charge it up, plug it, or wait for it to boot up. This makes is my mother’s house. How would we find out what it’s ideal if you need to create document s away from the traffic was going to be like? What the weather was your base or if you are on the move and particularly if doing? What were the opening times of that the exciting you travel internationally as you do not need to worry National Trust property the daughters were so desperate about having a power adaptor. So you can just pick it to avoid (it was sure to have an Easter Eggstravagansa – up and start straight away as because they need more chocolate According to a study carried out by the it shows you where you left at this time of year don’t they)?

European statistics organisation Eurostat, off. It also comes in a range How was I going to get my article “almost a third of individuals carrying out of prices to fit every pocket to Jenny? from the ludicrously cheap to searches on the internet throughout the year said that they caught a computer virus.” the ludicrously expensive – and So, what do the xxxxxxxx, sorry unlike lots of technology the people, who write computer consumables are inexpensive and viruses get out of it? The one that infected our PC wasn’t readily available. particularly vicious, most of our data is intact and, thanks to clever chap who advertises in the Village Voice (page Ouch 26), the PC is now back up and running. There was no On the other hand, it is pretty hard work and labour apparent financial gain to its author just a lot of angst and intensive: given the intensity of pain from the cramp in aggravation for me. Does the hassle he, virus authors are my hand, I’m sure that I’m already suffering from some mostly male, caused me give him some perverse sort of kind of repetitive strain injury although I’ve only been thrill? Presumably you have to be a bit clever and quite using it for a matter of minutes .The spell checker has to a bit IT literate to write this stuff and get it to invade be bought separately and requires U.S. consumers lost $7 billion over the last someone’s computer (but not a certain level of understanding two years to viruses, spyware, and phishing that literate as it was an obvious to be able to use it but thankfully spelling mistake that gave away schemes according to Information Week it doesn’t use any horrible the virus)? So why not use all Americanisms – no “z” in words that time and expertise to build ending “ise” thankfully. Also, it does not come with a something worthwhile and profitable? built in backup system so if you lose your work then it’s gone forever. It is however completely impervious to all So, what was this wondrous technology that I was forced computer virus, existing or future, to turn to in the absence of a working PC was, in fact, an To err is human... to really foul up requires a virus This is vital, given the reason for my needing to adopt this alien technology, - after many years of virus free computing, the home computer (despite a sizeable sum spent annually on a well known brand of computer

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Martin Flanigan (Electrician) 45 Unilet (Hi fi

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