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Abington & Around April / May 2015 A selection of what’s in this issue of your community magazine . . . . . .

Gut Feeling:

Explore the conditon of your stomach with Becca McLachlan . . . .

Quiz Corner:

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The National: Dear Readers, As we enter Spring, isn’t it great to see the lighter evenings return. Before we know it summer will be here and the barbies will be out. We hope you like our Spring edition - as usual it has plenty to interest all of you including a competition, a chat with Radio Northampton’s much loved Helen Blaby as well as a new feature - a bit of fun for the kids - ideal for those times when you are busy and need to keep them occupied! So when you have time to relax, chill out and enjoy a good read . . .

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We retrace the steps of a past winner with local connections . . .

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In Decline:

An other look at an endangered species recovering with mans help!

Holiday Season:

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High Point:

An account of a British assault on the summit of summits . . .

Local Sport:

Following the fortunes of our three local UCL clubs over the winter months . . .

Recipe:

Trying get trim before your holiday sets in? This easy snack could help!

What’s On:

A selection of local events, for those who need to get out!

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How healthy is your gut?

ou’ll always struggle to lose weight and be healthy if you have a leaky gut! The gut (gastrointestinal tract) is the long tube starting at the mouth and ending at the anus. It is responsible for breaking down the foods we eat, extracting the nutrients needed, and then eliminating the waste. When your gut is leaky, things like toxins, microbes, undigested food particles, and more can escape from your intestines and travel throughout your body via your bloodstream. Your immune system marks these “foreign invaders” as pathogens and attacks them. This leak can cause intolerances that then initiate an inflammatory response in the body, as a result of this the body cannot absorb essential nutrients, which can then lead to a weakened immune system, hormone imbalances and weight gain. What causes leaky gut? Becca McLachlan’s The main culprits are foods, infections, and toxins. Gluten can 21 Day Metabolic quite often be the cause of a leaky gut and other inflammatory Booster Programme foods like dairy, sugar and excessive alcohol. Leaky gut can also be caused by some medication which includes antibiotics, steroids or over the counter pain relievers like aspirin, these can all irritate the intestinal lining and damage protective mucus layers which then causes the gut to leak. If you are struggling to lose weight or suffer from any of the following conditions, it might be that you have a leaky gut: 1. Digestive issues such as gas, bloating, diarrhoea or irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). 2. Hormonal imbalances such as PMS or PCOS. 3. Poor immune system 4. Skin issues such as acne, rosacea, psoriasis or eczema. 5. Chronic fatigue or fibromyalgia. 6. Food allergies, food intolerances or nutritional deficiencies. 7. Cravings for sugar or carbs. 8. Arthritis or joint pain. 9. Autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, celiac disease or crohn’s. 10. Headaches and memory loss. How to help heal a leaky gut. The key to healing a leaky gut is changing your diet and eliminating the foods that your body treats as toxic. Cut out gluten, dairy, processed foods, soy, refined sugar, caffeine and alcohol and eat a healthy clean unprocessed diet. Take a probiotic in supplement form and add probiotic foods into your diet such as live-cultured natural yogurt (check the labels for sugars), kefir and sauerkraut to help feed friendly bacteria. If you think you maybe suffering from a leaky gut my online Metabolic Booster Programme will teach you how to repair your gut which will help to boost your immune system, improve your health, vitality and lose weight. For further details visit www.metabolic-booster.com - Becca Mclachlan Fitness Studio’s Brampton Health Golf Centre, Church Brampton.

a bit of fun for the Kids!! Can You Find Abington Bear? Simply flick through this magazine and find the other seven pages that Abington bear is hiding on. Have more fun by timing how long it takes you . . . and see if Mum or Dad can beat you!

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orthamptonshire farmer and horse dealer, Septimus g n N Clarke was a shrewd trader and had an eye for a i k a T good horse. In 1899, at a Newmarket sale, his attention was firmly fixed on an American import with a good everything pedigree. In those days, 15 Guineas seemed a lot to pay ! e d i on a speculative gamble, but his mind was made up r t s in his and soon the horse named “Rubio” was his. It wasn’t long before Clarke moved the horse on at a significant profit, reported to be 80 Guineas, where new owner, Major Frank Douglas-Pennant hunted the four year old. The Major was also a good judge of a horse and noticed that the horse always had more in reserve than the horses around him and always seemed to be ‘the horse that took everything in his stride’ – something he really liked. Surprisingly, he sent the horse to be sold as a potential racehorse with a reserve of 60 guineas. However, Rubio failed to reach his reserve and the Major decided, as a five year old, to send him to be trained as a racehorse with the successful trainer Brian Bletsoe. Rubio’s first year was very successful as he won three races from three starts. But tragedy was soon on the way as he broke down badly and at the advice of a vet he was removed from training and his racing career seemed unlikely to continue. Bizarrely, in a desperate attempt to get the horse sound again, he was given the unique task of being sent to the landlord of the Prospect Arms Hotel in Towcester to pull an omnibus in a harness. The connection between owner and landlord is unsure, but the hotels landlord needed a fit, competent animal to haul his constant flow of guests between the railway station and the hotel. Although this seemed like sending Red Rum to take over the pony rides at Blackpool, it was felt by his owner that this constant roadwork would be the ideal solution to his problems. Rubio did very well at his newfound role and it seemed to do the trick; soon his legs were healing and tales were told of the horse covering thirty-one miles at a single stretch. Indeed, Rubio had turned the corner and he was so successful that in 1906, just three years later, he was back in training. This time his trainer was to be Mr. Fred Withington at Danebury, who was largely responsible for Rubio getting back to race fitness. He was eased back carefully and ran once at Kempton, coming home third. In 1907, Rubio ran three times winning once at Towcester when carrying 12 stone and the horse who “always seemed to be the horse that took everything in his stride” was in fine fettle. Things were really looking up and in 1908 the horse was entered in the Grand National but wasn’t fancied. E

The stable already had what they considered their first string in a very smart performing mare, Mattie Macgregor. At this point the specifics of who Rubio’s trainer actually was is uncertain, but prior to the big race, it is known that the man in charge was one William Costello. Even more flakey was how pilot selection evolved with one story suggesting that stable jockey, Will Bissel, was unhappy at being given the Rubio ride as Edward Piggott was bought in preference. However, this all paled into insignificance as Piggott’s French employers blocked his appointment, allowing Bissell to apparently step up. Into his shoes came the son of Rubio’s previous trainer Brian Bletsoe and although he lacked experience, he had already got a victory on the horse under his belt. It was to prove an exciting combination: the relatively inexperienced rider jumping with enthusiasm and the character who “always seemed to be the horse that took everything in his stride” There were 24 runners in the 1906 race and previous winner Kirkland headed the betting. At the start of the race Henry Bletsoe reported that his horse was watching everything and was very sensible. Bletsoe had tried to take the inside line but was unable to do so and so he just rode intuitively – something felt right, but the race had only just begun. Three horses fell at the first but Rubio jumped it as if it wasn’t there. At the Canal Turn on the first circuit he was in fourth place and sailed over it creating huge excitement in the rider, excitement that soon changed to fear as at one of the subsequent fences, Rubio hit very hard and at the same fence, much fancied rival, Rollason came to grief. Bletsoe then decided then he would steady the horse down to give him a second wind even though this lost him places in the race. At the water jump, he took off far too early but still managed to clear it unscathed. By the start of the second circuit there were only seven of the runners left and suddenly it seemed that the character who “always seemed to be the horse that took everything in his stride” had no problems whatsoever! With tired horses making mistakes around him he was soon in front disputing first place with his stablemate Mattie Macgregor. Flaxman and Kirkland were lurking just behind. As they came around the final bend, Rubio was out jumping his rivals and in particular, jumping away from the field. Bletsoe thought at this point that his horse was going so well that he only had to stay on his feet to win and this was what happened he cleared the last in front and went clear to win the race by 10 lengths from Mattie Macgregor. Kirkland fell at the last but remounted to finish. So there it was, kids own stuff! . . a local cab horse that pulled a bus and went on to win the worlds greatest steeplechase! However, few people knew that Rubio was actually the first American bred winner of the English Grand National. The horse, who came out of J.B. Haggins stud in Rancho Del Paso, California had a good pedigree; his sire was Star Ruby who had been bred by the Duke of Westminster and had won nine races - perhaps crucially, one of them over 4 miles. I hope this story has got you in the mood for this years race on April 11.

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ver the centuries there have been a plethora of reports or hearsay pertaining to hauntings and strange goings on across the county, so if you’re of a nervous disposition reading this column immediately before bedtime isn’t recommended. We start out in Chapel Brampton and the Spencer Arms. The story goes that on the 4th of June 2011, a visitor to the pub felt the presence of two figures by the fireplace. Unconcerned by this unusual sense, he continued his evenings socialising where he chatted with a number of passing strangers as well as his friends. At the end of the evening, staff were asked whether the place was haunted and he was told the area close to the fireplace was reputedly haunted by a man and woman from the seventeenth century named Jack and Emily. When he arrived home he glanced at his bill . . . at the bottom it said “Today you were served by Emily”! The irony was that he remembered being served by young chap named Jack! On the other side of town, The World’s End at Ecton sounds like it’s not the place to be leaving just before midnight. Word has it that there have been many sightings of a ghost on the main road which takes the form of a nun-like figure. One or two kind travellers have tapped her on the shoulder to see if she wanted a lift only to find that her face was a fleshless skull!!! Still local to Northampton is the village of Boughton where a tale is told about a strange twentieth century phenomena that has occurred in the old graveyard. Apparently, it has been reported that this cemetery has been videoed at night for proof of supernatural activity with nothing found. This is until the playback of the tape reveals the voice of a young girl apologising over and over again for an unknown crime. If anyone knows any more, please get in touch, but I warn you now, I won’t be going anywhere near that cemetery! On a similar theme, if you know where Boughton Green is, here’s a story that implicates the old ruins of St John the Baptist Church. Some of these ruins are still evident today but apparently on 25th of December, a figure has been heard moaning nearby and is thought to be the ghost of a criminal hanged in 1826. Others speak of a darker tale; a ghost taking the form of a young red haired girl who had previously committed suicide in the graveyard after the sudden death of her husband. Her lips are said to carry the kiss of death and on Christmas Eve 1875, a man called William Parker, fuelled by a few local ales, succumbed to her charms. As he took his leave, he cast a final look back only to witness her fading into obscurity. True to legend, William died exactly one month later. In our next issue we’ll be venturing a little further afield, but still within the county boundary and please don’t forget, if you have some unusual tales to unfold, get in touch!

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dmund Hillary crawled from his tent into the icy cold snow and gusting winds of Mount Everest to begin the final stage of one of the most audacious adventures of the 20th century. It was 6.30am on May 29, 1953 and rising more than 1,100ft above the Auckland beekeeper and his Nepalese climbing partner and Sherpa, Tenzing Norgay, the mountain’s summit awaited its very first visitors. Behind them, Camp IX, the highest in history – was a single tiny tent, perched on a double ledge 27,900ft above sea level - a testimony to years of painstaking preparation. The next five hours became a legendary part of world history. But the story of Hillary and Tenzing’s conquest of mountaineering’s ultimate challenge stemmed back more than 11 weeks to March 10, when the 1953 British Everest Expedition, led by John Hunt, an Army colonel, trudged off from Kathmandu. With the worlds eyes on them, they knew they were in a race to the summit. This would probably be their last chance to be the first men to the summit as the north route up Everest, through Chinese-controlled Tibet, was closed. Nepal allowed only one expedition from the south each year and France had booked Everest for 1954 and the Swiss for 1955. This meant that the ninth British Everest expedition had to succeed. Even before they reached the mountain, the phlegmatic but fiercely ambitious Hillary, and his easygoing partner, Tenzing were already earmarked as potential summiteers by the leader, John Hunt who himself was highly regarded as a shrewd tactician and master logician. Tenzing, aged 39, was on his seventh trip, and had reached 28,000ft with the Swiss in 1952. Two years earlier, Hillary, aged 33, had climbed to 20,000ft on nearby Pumori from which he gazed in awe at Everest’s route to the top, via the Khumbu Icefall, the Western Cwm and the Southwest Face. A month later, he climbed to the top of the Icefall, Everest’s deadliest trap. This glaciated cascade (pictured overleaf) claims more lives than any other part of the mountain and the two climbers wisely decided that their ascent had to be done at speed, before the sun melted its wild labyrinth of shifting ice walls, chasms and towers. The 1953 expedition required a team of 362 porters and 20 Sherpas. Over 10,000lb of luggage needed to travel from Kathmandu and the expeditions first task was to establish a route through the Khumbu Icefall, to ferry men and equipment up the mountain in preparation for the assault on the summit. This took several days and on May 21st Wilfred Noyce, a Charterhouse schoolmaster, and the Sherpa known as ‘Annullu’ reached the South Col which was the advance base camp. Five days later, the first assault party of Tom Bourdillon and Charles Evans set off for the peak using closed-circuit oxygen. Having reached the South Summit, which is only 328ft below the peak, their oxygen started to fail. With a blizzard coming in, they retreated to the advance base camp. Buffeted by a gale in the tiny, overcrowded camp of three tents, Evans and Bourdillon spent the night describing the route to the top to the rest of the party, including the second assault E

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he United Counties Football League is classed as semiprofessional and includes three clubs that are situated in the town. This column will keep you up to date with the by Andy Goldsmith teams’ fortunes throughout the 2014/2015 season. With the season now at a pivotable stage, things are hotting up!!! Northampton Sileby Rangers – Premier Division (based at Fernie Fields near Parklands). Top marksman in Sileby return: With Sileby sitting just above the two relegation slots, Rangers boss Daron Young has moved into the transfer market to add some firepower to his squad to help retain their top flight status. Returning to Fernie Fields is Michael Byrne who was part of the club’s Division One winning squad in 2012-13. Byrne wasted little time in adding to his 20 goals for Desborough this season, scoring twice on his second Sileby debut to help his new side to a 3-2 win over Sleaford in February. Another Fernie Fields recruit is ex-Spencer goalkeeper Quincy Shorunmu who was first choice between the posts for AFC Rushden & Diamonds in their promotion campaign. Northampton Spencer - Division One (based in Studland Road, Kingsthorpe). One record eludes Spencer but they set another: Northampton Spencer’s quest to set a new club record for wins in UCL football fell short on 10th February when a 1-1 draw at Thrapston saw them miss out on a fourteenth successive victory. Leading with a Luke Stone penalty they were pegged back by Dan Bucciero’s spot kick for Thrapston just three minutes from time. Ben Stone’s men did kick off March by breaking another record. Their 12-0 win at Stewarts & Lloyds was their biggest in UCL football, beating a 10-0 win, again at S&L, in November 1968! The record breaking victory brought hat tricks for Ryan Lovell and Luke Stone, the latter scored in the space of just four minutes! Paul Pickering and Jack Bartley scored two apiece with Dan Stevenson and Deanio Bailey-Browne also on the mark. Spencer booked their place in the Northamptonshire Junior Cup after a pulsating 3-3 draw with Blisworth, the game went to penalties and Spencer kept their nerve to progress 3-0 and set up a Derby clash with Chenecks at Sixfields on the 5th May. The Millers are looking for a new groundsman as club stalwart John Sampson will be retiring at the end of the current season. Meanwhile, Spencer’s second string emulated the seniors in reaching a Northamptonshire Cup final. The Millers reserves won their Lower Junior Cup semi final at Daventry Drayton Grange 3-0 and will meet either Bugbrooke or holders Whitworth in the final.There is also a chance that both ON Chenecks and Spencer Reserves could also meet each in the UCL Reserve Knockout Cup finals. Northampton ON Chenecks - Division One (based in Billing Road, Abington). Chenecks boss picks up two UCL Manager of the Month awards: Chenecks boss Graham Cottle made it back to back awards after leading Chenecks to a 16 point haul from six February matches and second place in the Division One table at the end of the month. He also pocketed the January Award as Chenecks collected seven points from a challenging four match league program and booked a place in the final of the Northamptonshire Junior Cup with wins over league rivals Raunds 5-0 and Harpole 4-0 keeping them on course to retain the trophy. ON Cheneck commenced work on the Billing Road stand extension and car park that will hopefully give them the necessary ground grading required for the Premier Division if they are in the promotion mix up at the end of the season.

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WESTON FAVELL VILLAGE RESIDENTS’ ASSOCIATION

Abington Medical Centre 01604 723420 Abington Park Surgery 01604 630396 Age UK Northants 01604 611200 Citizens Advice Bureau 0870 1202433 Electricity (power loss) 0800 056 8090 Gas (emergency) 0800 111 999 King Edward Medical Centre (Ardington Road) 01604 611600 Neighbour Watch 08453 700700 ext.7536 National Assoc Blind 01604 719193 Northampton General Hospital Main 01604 634700 A & E 01604 545601 Outpatients 01604 545485 Police Emergency 101 New Landcross Post Office 01604 621377 Samaritans 08457 909090 Water (emergency) 08457 145 145

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