HullMag Issue No.53 November 2018

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Editor’s note Welcome to the latest edition of HULLMAG. I hope you are all enjoying the mild autumnal weather that we are having and making the most of it. We have another wide and varied selection of articles and news stories to keep you informed and entertained.

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Stamp Duty abolished in Budget 2018 for all first-time buyers of shared ownership properties up to £500,000 Chancellor Philip Hammond announced plans to correct an anomaly from his previous Budget by cutting stamp duty for first-time buyers of shared ownership properties worth up to £500,000.

Previously, to qualify for the stamp duty exemption given in 2017 to first-time buyers of homes priced up to £300,000, buyers of a shared-ownership property had to elect to be taxed on the full market value of the home (up to £500,000) rather than only the share they were buying.

sum of all payments was less than £300,000.

If the full market value of the shared-ownership property was more than £500,000, the buyer would not have been eligible for any stamp duty reduction at all.

So, a buyer paying £125,000 for a 25 per cent share of a new home valued at £500,000 would still have had to pay £10,000 stamp duty – equivalent to five per cent of the sales price above £300,000.

“By their nature, first-time buyers purchasing shared-ownership homes are struggling to take that all important first step onto the housing ladder. Making shared-ownership home buyers – who are only buying a share of the property – eligible for the first time buyer stamp duty exemption is a welcome move and makes complete sense,” said Paula Higgins, chief executive, HomeOwners Alliance.

Alternatively, buyers could elect to use their first-time buyer exemption on the first share of the property they bought, but would have had to pay full rate stamp duty on all further shares they bought, regardless if the

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Now, these buyers will be exempt from this tax, which has also been implemented retrospectively for any shared-ownership buyers since the first-time buyer exemption was introduced in November 2017.

“The fact Mr Hammond has promised to apply this retrospectively and put right the wrong for all those sharedownership scheme home buyers

since the last Budget is again great to see.”

However, many commenters were dismayed that other stamp duty rates, which many blame for the stagnating property market, were ignored in the Budget 2018.

Property investment firm London Central Portfolio attributed a 34.8 per cent fall in transactions to increased property taxes for homes costing more than £937,000 and for second home purchases, as well as cuts to tax relief for buy-to-let landlords.

But the Chancellor opted to keep current levels where they are.

“In failing to address Stamp Duty for a fourth consecutive year, the Chancellor has missed

another opportunity to inject much needed momentum into the market. As the primary hurdle facing residential property, Stamp Duty fees over the £937,500 threshold coupled with the three per cent levy on second or multiple home purchases are grinding the market to a halt,” said Rory O’Neill, head of residential at estate agent Carter Jonas.

“It should go without saying that no echelon of the market operates in isolation, and penalties at the top end will always filter down the ladder.

“While the number of first-time buyers has reached an 11 year high, at present, the market is so congested in the middle that it has reached an impasse.”

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Changing rooms: the most popular interiors trends of 2018 and the homewares facing extinction this year How David Attenborough became the unlikely interiors style inspiration in 2018.

Leopard print, reusable coffee cups and Instagram are in, trouser presses, door knockers and alarm clocks are out.

At least, so says a new report into interiors trends based on buyers’ habits at John Lewis in 2018.

According to the 2018 trend report

by John Lewis & Partners, the BBC’s hit documentary series Blue Planet II, narrated by David Attenborough, put sustainability at the forefront of everyone’s minds.

World Cup in July, sales of TVs rose by 49 per cent.

Small, discreet screens these are not, however. The report found that televisions have almost doubled in size since 2010, when the average TV screen measured 36 inches — it’s now 70 inches or more.

With the rise of ever more curated Instagram feeds, we’re increasingly obsessed with how we present our homes on social media.

A desire for the perfect Instagramworthy home this year meant we were focused on finding stand-out pieces to show off on our feeds.

Eye-catching animal prints proved popular this year, with toucans, monkeys and cheetahs on everything from wallpaper to lampshades.

with interior design, using flashes of colour and objet d’art to make their homes unique.”

There were some products that fell out of favour this year, perhaps unsurprisingly.

Sleep hygiene as a major part of wellness and healthy living may have seen premium bed linen and organic sleep products on the rise but, with more of us opting to use our smartphones for almost everything these days, sales of alarm clocks were down 16 per cent.

Though once cutting edge, sales of trouser presses were down by 36 per cent and, with the introduction of tech-advanced smart doorbells, traditional doorknob sales decreased by 9 per cent.

In the four months after Blue Planet II was broadcast, sales of sustainable coffee cups at John Lewis increased by 71 per cent year-on-year.

Reusable water bottle sales rose by 37 per cent, while sustainable alternatives to clingfilm also proved popular, with storage category sales up by 15 per cent.

Other notable events throughout the year also impacted on our shopping habits. After the Royal Wedding in May, sales of occasion wear hats rose by 33 per cent, while after England beat Colombia in the

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Our search for unusual furniture also ramped up a gear this year.

Occasional chair sales at John Lewis were up by 18 per cent with the orange velvet Audrey chair a bestseller.

“This year was all about shoppers expressing their identities and choosing pieces which say something about them as individuals,” said Jonathan Marsh, buying director for home at John Lewis & Partners.

Consumers became more daring

And the rise of streaming services such as Netflix or Amazon Prime have caused the demise of the DVD player – sales were down 40 per cent this year.

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Don’t move, improve: the best and worst home renovation projects of the year revealed

Television presenter and property expert Phil Spencer reveals the most popular ways to update your home.

UK homeowners now stay in the same property for nearly two decades, with more than half of us choosing to renovate our existing homes rather than face the expense and hassle of moving to a new one.

Stamp duty costs and Brexit uncertainty are halting the market even further, so it’s no surprise that 28 per cent of homeowners - surveyed as part of the 2018 Barclays Home Improvement Report - said a lack of affordability was behind many decisions to stay put.

“With so many of us now staying in our properties for such a long

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time, it is clear that our homes are so much more than just bricks and mortar – they are a space for us to relax and enjoy times with our loved ones, so it is important to make them fit for purpose,” says Phil Spencer, TV property expert and spokesperson for the Barclays Mortgages report.

WHY DO WE DO IT? One in four home-owning Brits said their main reason for renovating was to increase the value of their property. The most popular home improvement projects carried out this year were fitting new carpets (35 per cent),installing a new kitchen (31 per cent) and landscaping the garden (29 per cent).

An impressive 79 per cent of owners carried out improvements

in the past two years and 73 per cent revealed they would like to make changes in the next 12 months.

Adding bi-folding kitchen/garden doors (30 per cent), incorporating smart home tech (26 per cent) and creating a spa bathroom (20 per cent) were revealed as the most desired improvement projects among UK homeowners.

WHAT NOT TO DO The top three property turn offs

were woodchip wallpaper (60 per cent), mirrored ceilings (49 per cent) and carpeted bathrooms (46 per cent). Other absolute no-nos included ugly blinds, fake beams and beaded door curtains.

“I would encourage anyone looking to update their home to take inspiration where they can, but always think about the long-term – ask yourself how something will look in three, five and 10 years before committing your time and money,” says Spencer.

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The five-year forecast: house prices are set to rise after Brexit with the North tipped to outperform London and the South

The report is the second property market forecast this week predicting double digit house price growth across the five-year period following Brexit.

House prices in the UK are expected to rise by almost 15 per cent over the next five years, adding £32,000 to the price of the average home by 2023, according to a new propertymarket forecast.

The average property will cost £248,000 by 2023, said Savills, the estate agent who carried out the research.

However, Londoners used to living life in the fast lane should get

used to a slower pace with house price growth no longer driven by the capital’s property market, in a reversal of the trend seen over the past decade.

The North-South divide turns on its head Over the past 10 years since the financial crisis, house prices rose by 72 per cent in London. By comparison they rose just 1.9 per cent in the North and 5.8 per cent in Scotland.

However, forecasts from Savills research and Oxford Economics based on predicted wage growth,

interest rate rises and transaction numbers, show the biggest house price rises are expected to be in the North West of England, where the main city of Manchester in particular continues to draw young professional buyers and investors.

Savills says prices are predicted to rise 21.6 per cent in the region between 2019 and 2023.

The Midlands – driven by the increasing popularity of Birmingham; Yorkshire and Humberside; Scotland and Wales all also have the capacity for mortgage borrowing to increase relative to incomes and so are expected to experience strong double-digit price growth.

Conversely, London, where the average house price is now £429,000, will see prices rise only 4.5 per cent in the next five years.

The Brexit factor The estate agent pointed out that even though the average income of buyers in the capital is £76,000 (58 per cent more than the rest of the country), stricter mortgage lending limits introduced after the financial crisis means that they would still need a deposit of £123,000 to buy the average London home.

With buyers forking out such huge sums, it is no wonder that Brexitrelated anxiety is most keenly felt in the capital, and likely to remain so for longest.

“Brexit angst is a major factor for market sentiment right now,

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particularly in London, but it’s the legacy of the global financial crisis – mortgage regulation in particular – combined with gradually rising interest rates that will really shape the market over the longer term,” said Lucian Cook, Savills head of residential research.

“That legacy will limit house price growth, but it should also protect the market from a correction.”

However, London’s prime market, comprising its most expensive properties, is expected to see a stronger upswing in the years to 2023, with 12.4 per cent price growth predicted for pricey central London properties.

Savills said this was because highend buyers are more likely to be paying cash and so are unaffected by mortgage regulation. In recent years these buyers have been put off by increased property taxation at the top of the market and, more recently, by Brexit uncertainty.

However, the estate agent expects London to remain a popular place to live and work after Britain leaves the EU, and thus a well-regarded place to own high-end property.

The Savills research only looked at second-hand property prices.

A separate report from housing market forecaster predicted a 14.3 rise in the price of new-build properties in Greater London over the next five years, with an upswing expected almost immediately after Brexit.

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News

Hull named third-most improved UK city to live and work Hull has been named the third-most improved UK city as a place to live and work, according to a new report.

The Demos-PwC Good Growth for Cities Index 2018 ranks cities on a combination of economic performance and quality of life.

It measures 42 of the UK’s largest cities against 10 indicators, including employment, health, income and skills – which are the most important factors, according to the public – while housing affordability, commuting times, environmental factors and income

inequality are also included, as is the number of new business starts.

The index “sets out to show that there’s more to life, work and general well-being than just measuring GDP”, it said.

It ranked Hull as the third-most improved city since the 2017 index, behind only Preston and Middlesbrough-Stockton – and ahead of cities such as Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester.

Councillor Daren Hale, Hull City Council portfolio holder for economic investment, regeneration, planning, land and property, said: “We welcome

this improvement following what has been a tremendous year for Hull and the Humber region in terms of investment and growth.

The index shows almost all major UK cities improved their score relative to the 2017 index, driven primarily by rising employment.

“The results can be directly attributed to investment, Hull’s year as UK City of Culture and Hull City Council’s determination to address some of the effects of austerity.

In general, cities that have seen the biggest improvements in their overall score have also experienced large falls in unemployment in recent years.

John Hawksworth, chief economist at PwC, said: “Almost all UK cities have seen improved good growth scores in recent years, driven primarily by cyclical falls in unemployment rates that have now rippled out from the South East of England to regions like the North East that were previously lagging behind.”

“There is a very strong link on Hull’s performance and the increase in performance of the Humber. The growth in Hull has had a beneficial impact on that of the Humber region, underpinning the case for the Humber economic unit.”

Headscarf revolutionary Yvonne Blenkinsop to turn on this year’s Christmas lights Hull City Council is delighted to announce that headscarf revolutionary Yvonne Blenkinsop will join the Lord Mayor at this year’s Christmas lights switch-on.

This year marks 50 years since the Triple Trawler Disaster, which galvanised women like Yvonne to demand improved safety legislation

for those working at sea.

Their campaigning has saved thousands of lives.

Councillor Peter Allen, Lord Mayor and Admiral of the Humber, said: “Yvonne Blenkinsop’s relentless pursuit and demand for improvements in safety legislation has saved thousands of lives.

“Along with the other brave and determined women who became

known as the ‘headscarf revolutionaries’, Yvonne’s historic contribution to the city is both remarkable and humbling.

“I am delighted that she has agreed to join me in the Christmas lights switch-on next month.

“Each year, with so many worthy candidates in the city to turn on the lights, it’s an very difficult choice.

I’m sure the city will acknowledge

this opportunity to celebrate Yvonne and her fellow headscarf revolutionaries, and the thousands of lives they have saved.”

This year the switch-on will take place on Thursday 15 November.

There will be performances on City Hall Balcony and light and sound installations in Queen Victoria Square.

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Health News

New research reveals the UK’s most bizarre health remedies PharmacyOutlet.co.uk has surveyed more than 2,000 UK adults to reveal the common, obscure and downright strange health remedies people put their faith in.

“However, there are more serious consequences of relying on fictional cures.

Firstly, using unproven household remedies should never supersede advice given by a medical professional, nor should using these methods deter people from seeking the help of a pharmacist, GP or doctor.

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have gargled salty water to get rid of a

sore throat, and 68% of those believe it works l

The other most common health tricks people rely on are: sweating out a cold (47%); having a nightcap to help them sleep (44%); and “hair of the dog” (36%)

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A third of people (32% or 16.6 million) admit to eating carrots to improve their eyesight, but just 25% of those actually think it helps

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a cold (8%); and rubbing turmeric on

their scalp to combat baldness (7% of men) When it comes to fighting off the common cold or getting rid of annoying aches and pains, the UK public is willing to indulge in some strange household health remedies, the research has revealed.

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The online pharmacist and EPS specialist commissioned an independent, nationally representative survey among more than 2,000 UK adults. Listing a range of both common and odd health remedies, the survey uncovered how many people had tried each method and, moreover, how many of those individuals believe that they actually work.

Hitesh Dodhia, Superintendent Pharmacist at PharmacyOutlet.co.uk, said: “While some of the common health remedies uncovered in today’s research have no scientific evidence to prove they work, many of them are relatively harmless.

What’s more, it’s quite normal that the placebo effect associated with these methods can make people feel as though they’re improving their health.

“Moreover, some of these health remedies can actually do more harm than good – for example, a nightcap may help you fall asleep but can worsen the quality of your sleep, while ‘hair of the dog’ may ease the struggles of hangover in the short-term but will worsen the effects later on. Of course, both also will place Extra strain on your liver.

Additionally, it’s important to be very careful when putting olive oil in your ear or washing cuts in seawater; both remedies carry risk of infection, which is why I would advise against such methods.”

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Travel

Holidays: Pack up your troubles If a holiday is about getting away from it all, shouldn’t that include the stress of choosing what to wear?

I hate packing. More, even, than the first whiff of aviation fuel, getting out the suitcases makes my stomach flip over.

I regard those unruffled business travellers, with their capsule wardrobes folded into tiny, carry-on wheelie bags, as an alien species.

Admittedly I am a nervous flyer, so while I’m packing there is always a corner of my brain wondering what my belongings will look like hanging from a tree on the television news. But that’s far from the only reason packing is stressful.

There is plenty of advice in the cybersphere and declutter-yourlife books about packing. There’s the luggage itself. Hard or soft

sided? Four wheels or two? Then there’s whether it’s better to roll your clothes or pack them flat.

People with naive ideas about how suitcases are treated at airports swear you must pack your shoes at the “bottom”. Others will tell you to put everything into plastic bags first – true, I think, only of sponge bags, which are prone to leaking at altitude. On arrival, if your clothes are creased (perhaps you forgot to interleave them with tissue paper?) you can supposedly transform them in a bathroom filled with steam. And so on, and on.

There is less analysis of what makes packing so stressful in the first place.

It seems to me that the combination of rigid constraints – the deadlines, weight- and size-limits on luggage – and the unknown variables of different climates and unfamiliar dress codes is tailor-made to induce anxiety.

Travelling light to faraway places is a result of the democratisation of travel, which began in the late 19th century, and the ascendancy of the aeroplane. In the days when only rich people travelled for leisure it was a process more akin to moving house, with porters and staff to do the carrying and the packing, and dozens of pieces of luggage each with a specific function, from vast trunks to hat boxes. The suit case, then two separate words, was simply the one dedicated to holding men’s dress suits.

Coincidentally, one of the few times I envy men the simplicity of their uniform is when faced with an empty suitcase (one word).

Men don’t, as a rule, need to pack tights as well as socks, or different underwear for different outfits, or make-up and heels for evening.

Women don’t actually need these, we just feel we do. Because clothes are a kind of camouflage, they are about fitting in. When we travel – indeed one of the reasons we do it – our routines are broken. So we can’t know exactly what we’ll have to fit in with. The trauma of packing is about squeezing the infinite possibilities of elsewhere into a couple of pieces of luggage.

It’s not all in the mind, though.

There is also the practical matter of packing things that are fit for purpose. Clothes can open doors: in some countries you can’t visit religious sites unless certain parts of your body are covered (again, women get the short straw here). Shoes may turn out to be unbearably hot or give you blisters after a day of sightseeing, but you won’t know that until your feet swell under a southern sun. One of

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the joys of ageing, you might think, is that packing gets easier because you’ve learnt what works for you.

But the flipside is that it’s harder to make do with the wrong kit. I doubt I could climb Ben Nevis in wellington boots as I did when I was 20. But at least I don’t travel with my favourite pillow. Yet. The only rational way to prepare for the unexpected is, like a prosperous Victorian, to take everything with you – which is impossible unless you have the same bag as Mary Poppins.

We know we own too much stuff, that we’re too attached to material things, and that it would be good to ditch most of it. But we fear being ill-equipped. At this time of year it’s traditional for a newspaper article to point out what we already know: that we use only 50% of what we pack. But the thing is, we don’t know beforehand which half it will be. Perhaps on a business trip you can predict exactly, boringly, what you’ll need. Otherwise packing is a kind of spread-betting: the extra 50% is to cover the possibilities, as well as ourselves.

Deciding what to pack means trying to foresee every possible eventuality. You have to pre-imagine your trip, so that in your head you’ve lived through it before you even set off. If mindfulness and meditation are all about trying to focus on the present, then packing – a purely anticipatory activity – will by definition be stressful. It robs travel of some of its promise, its spontaneity and adventure. That’s the real reason I resent packing so much: it spoils my holiday.

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Christmas is coming ...

Many of you I am sure are now concentrating on your Christmas shopping, stressing over what gift to give when most people these days have everything other than items that are not within their reach and generally yours. Each year we see an increase in gift vouchers & holidays as presents, a treat for loved ones that they may never get around to doing. Give the gift of Travel it will always be appreciated, even a simple day outing.

Thinking of the little ones how about a flight to meet Santa in his homeland then now is the time to book for 2019. There are still free child places on some departures at the time of writing. There are also departures from our very own Humberside airport, feel free to call for further details. Or what about a visit to Disneyland Paris Whit week? Our great offer at Disney’s Newport Bay. Treats for early next year could be a Dutch dash via North Sea Ferries, a weekend to Paris or Venice, a day trip on the Orient Express, the list really does go on… (a few more suggestions in the advert alongside).

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The myth that carrots make you see better in the dark was popularised

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Chillis contain a chemical compound called capsaicin, which bonds to sensory nerves and tricks them into thinking your mouth is being burned. The brain also tends to release endorphins, the body’s natural painkiller, as a result, causing the diner to experience feelings of euphoria and bliss.

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Until the 19th century, most Europeans were under the misconception that eating tomatoes could be fatal and avoided them due to their resemblance to deadly nightshade berries. Prior to this time, they were grown in European countries almost exclusively for curiosity, ornamental and decorative purposes.

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for its red wines - and it is that colder climate that produces these gorgeous dry white wines with a steely mineral edge.

World of Wine So, we’re in November and a time when any serious wine drinker’s thoughts turn to Christmas; not just what they’d like to give or receive but, even more importantly, what they’d like to be drinking. And thinking ahead now means you can take advantage of the bargains as and when they come along.

As they surely will, more so now than at any other time of the year.

As a malt drinker I couldn’t resist a bottle of that superbly peaty Laphroaig recently, on offer at Morrisons for £25, a full £10 below what I would often expect to pay. That said, I also tracked down my absolute favourite Islay single malt, Smokehead, and had to pay £43 - the difference is, it’s a brand not stocked (as far as I know) by any supermarket and I had to go to a specialist wine outlet.

Notwithstanding that, the message has to be there are genuine bargains to be had and expect to see them on all styles of wines, including fizz, in all of the High Street stores as they chase sales in what is the most important trading period of the year.

When considering what wines to be drinking come Christmas day, one will

most surely feature in my house Chablis. It can fit the bill with all sorts of foods during the day, whether it be a light, fishy starter or your main course of turkey or goose - it suits both very well.

In this day and age when uniformity and homogeny of style are accusations levelled at wine pro-ducers around the world, Chablis stands out as being different. It also bucks the anti-Chardonnay trend which disappointingly still seems to be prevalent, because Chablis is, of course, made from 100 per cent Chardonnay grapes and many of those who turn their noses up at Chardonnay will still profess a love of Chablis.

The difference, however, is that the impact of oak ageing will be limited or non-existent because traditionally the Chardonnay grapes were aged in stainless-steel casks. As wine writer Curtis Marsh commented: “A Chardonnay purist will relish the ethereal clarity of Chablis; a wine infused with flinty minerality and a saline quality that speaks so loudly of the soils it hails from it’s unmis-takable.

Then there’s the slippery, silky texture, largely unadulterated by oak, it’s glassy, lubri-cous, tantalisingly tangy palate invigorated by exhilarating steely acidity, a wine bursting with en-ergy and freshness.”

Chablis is the northernmost region of Burgundy - a region, of course, famous

There are four different grades of Chablis: Petit Chablis, the most ordinary Chablis; plain Chablis, which is a wine that comes from grapes grown anywhere in the Chablis district; Chablis Premier Cru, which is a very good quality wine that comes from specific high-quality vineyards; and Cha-blis Grand Cru, the highest classification and the most expensive because of limited production.

last month, was the first time anyone had had the chance to try Rebel Pi, an Ice wine made from Roussanne grapes from a single vineyard in the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia.

There are only seven vineyards in Chablis entitled to be called grand cru.

A good Chablis is greenish-gold in colour. When fermented in vats, it is light and fresh. When fer-mented in casks, as some now are, it is richer and more full-bodied. Most Chablis have a floral bouquet, but sometimes they also offer aromas of apples, almonds, hazelnuts or hay. They are vigorous and have a characteristic bite to them.

Most Chablis is designed for immediate consumption. However, premier and grand cru Chablis age magnificently.

Jackie (pictured above) was reported as saying: “Following the sale of my last business, I wanted to take every-thing I learnt and apply it to a completely new industry. Wine has always been a passion and the fact that the drinks industry is incredibly competitive is what made my foray with this business that much more attractive.

“I am delighted to launch Rebel Pi with the aim to disrupt the wine industry, much like I did with the sponsorship industry.” The price? A disrupting £139 a bottle!

Indeed grand crus, sustained by a core of acidity, will often outlast their richer, more illustrious (and expensive) neighbours from the Côte de Beaune.

The wines do go through mid-life crisis when four or five years old, so drink them young or be prepared to hang in there for the long haul.

Although the Apprentice was recorded earlier in the year, Jackie wasn’t able to reveal who won. The question is, could her Ice Wine have been sweetened by a little Sugar investment?

Next month, I’ll be taking another look at some more of the wines we’ll be drinking this Christmas - and pointing you in the direction of a few bargains as well!

Jackie Fast, currently competing (at the time of writing) on BBC’s “The Apprentice”, has launched a Canadian Ice Wine. The Wine and Spirits Show, held in London during the middle of

* Beverley wine merchants and delicatessen Roberts & Speight holds its annual wine and food tasting at Longcroft Lower School in Church Road, Beverley, on Wednesday November 14 (6.30 - 9.30pm). There’s a chance to try more than 150 wines as well as spirits, liqueurs and certain food stuffs. Tickets are £10 a head.

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Cave des Vignerons de Chablis, Petit Chablis Price: £12.99

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FISH plays HULL - City Hall The Human League

on Wednesday 12th December! featuring very special guests Midge Ure’s Band Electronica Following the digital release of his entire solo catalogue in June, which has generated well over a million streams already, FISH has released his play the FlyDSA Arena brand new single, ‘Man With A Stick’, the first track to be taken from his upcoming EP A Parley With Angels, and the first taste of his final studio Friday 7th December 2018 album, Weltschmerz.

A brooding blend of minimalist drums and possessing synthesizers, ‘Man With A Stick’ is a reflective and thought-provoking track from Fish.

Regarding the single he says, “I was inspired to write this lyric after my father died in May 2016. He was a strong, proud, well-respected man who, like most of us, found growing old difficult. When he reached his mid 80’s he was becoming a shadow of his former self and in the last few months of his life he relied more and more on his trusty walking stick to get around. After he left us I found it hard to look at any old men walking with a stick. I started to think about our relationships with sticks in our lives and how they go from being associated with fun and play to becoming something more sinister and symbols of power eventually supporting us as our strength weakens and old age takes its toll.”

The new EP, A Parley With Angels will feature four tracks recorded live at London’s Islington Assembly Hall last year: ‘Emperor’s Song’, ‘State Of Mind’, ‘Circle Line’ and ‘Voyeur’, in addition to two other brand new tracks – ‘Waverley Steps’ and ‘Little Man What Now?’, both of which will also appear on FISH’s final studio album, Weltschmerz.

The tour will see him perform the classic Marillion album Clutching At Straws for the final time, as well as material from Weltschmerz.

As recently announced by Warners the remastered version of Clutching At Straws will be released on November 23rd.

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Following their 2016 sell-out show at the FlyDSA Arena with A Very British Synthesizer Group, The Human League have confirmed they are to return to the intimate Steel Hall setting of the FlyDSA Arena on Friday 7th December 2018.

The Human League’s new tour, Red Live 2018, will feature the very special guests, Midge Ure’s Band Electronica.

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Much more than a game, chess is an alternative history of humanity In the third episode of “The Wire”, D’Angelo Barksdale, the hard but secretly soft-hearted Baltimore drug-dealer, comes across two of his narco underlings sitting at a chess board. Except they aren’t playing chess – they don’t know how.

“Yo, why y’all playin’ checkers on a chess set?” he asks. “Chess is a better game, yo!”

In fact, he says, it is more familiar than they think. There is a king like the man they work for, Avon, who doesn’t do much himself because everybody “got his back”. There’s a queen who does whatever she likes, “the go-get-shit-done piece” like Avon’s sidekick, Stringer Bell.

And then there are the pawns.

The pawns, D’Angelo says with an emotive flare of his nostrils, are the foot soldiers, and they tend to get “capped quick”. But they are unlike the other pieces in one crucial respect: they have prospects. If a pawn stays alive long enough, and gets to the other side of the board, it gets to be queen. “And she got all the moves.”

The history of chess is a history of metaphors and moral lessons.

It emerged in fifth-century India, and wherever it has gone since has been a ludic mirror-image of the world around it. Until the 19th century, when the set was standardised – becoming the Staunton version we play with today – the mirror’s reflections were preserved in pieces, which show chess’s extraordinary ability to adapt to new places and people.

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in ivory or stone, the pawns lined up like a battalion of salt-shakers.

And in 12th-century Norway the kings were bearded brutes with lustrous hair, flanked by crazy, shield-biting berserkers – the world of the Lewis chess set, now held in the British Museum.

Adaptability has been a condition of chess’s long life, and has sometimes proved a game-changer in a deeper sense. The queen in the Lewis set is slumped on her throne, her face held idly in her hand. Far from the go-anywhere, do-anything figure of today, she is a study in boredom. When that set was made, the queen was a relative newcomer to the board, having replaced the minister in the tenth century: the moment when chess first encountered European royal courts. But, like him, she was a meek little homebody with a range of one diagonal square – “aslant only”, as a medieval chess treatise put it, “because women are so greedy that they will take nothing except by rapine and

game is to get lost in a swamp of algebraic notation. When the 13-year-old Bobby Fischer sacrificed his queen against Donald Byrne in the so-called game of the century in 1956, it was considered one of the finest moves in chess history – a greatness not quite communicated by “Be6!!”.

Then there are the numbers involved, frequently quoted and always unimaginable. When mathematicians tot up the possible positions on the board, they come up with figures like ten

FAR FROM THE GO-ANYWHERE PIECE OF TODAY, THE QUEEN IN THE LEWIS CHESS SET IS A STUDY IN BOREDOM injustice”. Only in the 15th century – the age, the chess historian Marilyn Yalom has pointed out, of powerful women such as Queen Isabella of Spain – was she given the freedom to roam. Suddenly chess had more speed, more dynamism, more lines of attack and angles of defence. The game, already a thousand years old, never looked back.

Underlying all this shape-shifting is an essence, an abstract structure of rules and relative powers. Aside from ornamental beauty, it’s this that either gets you hooked or makes you feel, like Montaigne, that you “hate it and avoid it because it is not play enough”.

Chess, let’s face it, is mindboggling. To follow a professional

to the power of 120. Whether that’s greater than the number of atoms in the observable universe – currently it is – is a hostage to telescopic fortune. But the point is clear: chess is an endless pursuit, which, in the game of longevity, gives it an edge.

This abstraction, this refusal to be contained, accounts for our fascination with chess’s prodigies and lunatics. But it is also what makes the game so oddly human.

By move 17 of that tussle with Byrne, Fischer’s queen was under attack from Byrne’s bishop. But Fischer got thinking. The best move, he decided, wasn’t to put his queen in a place of greater safety. The best move was to shift his own bishop two squares, to

e6. It looks, on the face of it, like blindness to the danger. But chess is a game of logical consequences and sly entrapment, what Benjamin Franklin called its “vast variety of good and ill events, that are, in some degree, the effects of prudence, or the want of it”.

Another 24 moves later, Fischer won – a result, he’d worked out, that was inevitable if he let his queen go. It was sacrifice that was also attack, violence that was also composure, and about as close as chess comes to a rhyming couplet.

The set that perhaps gets closest to chess’s abstract beauties is the one designed for the Bauhaus in 1924 by Josef Hartwig. Like the old Islamic pieces, the figures are stripped of their worldly imagery.

What Hartwig did instead was to capture the movement of each figure in three dimensions, their form following their function. The knight assumes the L-shape of its crosswise leap, while the bishop’s diagonals appear as an X. The queen is a cube mounted with a sphere – the embodiment of world domination – and the king a sturdy and taciturn concoction of boxes. “When a chess player looks at the board,” Arthur Koestler wrote while covering the worldchampionship match between Fischer and Boris Spassky in 1972, “he does not see a static mosaic, a ‘still-life’, but a magnetic field of forces, charged with energy.”

Hartwig distilled this energy, and after 1,500 years of changing with the times, chess finally looked like itself.

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MAKING THEIR MARQUE Hull Mag looks at some new motors which are helping to drive sales for their brand or coming on the market soon.

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LEXUS RX 450H L

The new hybrid RX 450h L is the first seven-seat Lexus sold in Europe, offering significantly more space thanks to a third row of seats.

The new RX L gains an extra 110mm at the back and has a more upright rear screen to create comfortable leg and headroom for third-row passengers and versatile luggage space.

The seven-seat version has a 40/20/40 split second row bench seat which slides forward for easy

access to the two third-row rear seats which, for added convenience, can have a power folding function.

The RX L has a longer load space floor behind its third row seats than competitors while the second row is set slightly higher than the third, creating more foot room in the back.

Leather seats, separate air conditioning controls and vents for the third row are standard while the full-length side curtain airbags cover all three rows of seats.

The all-new Nissan LEAF is not only the world’s best-selling electric vehicle, it has also been named 2018 World Green Car at the World Car Awards held in New York.

A significant update over the previous 30kWh model with dynamic new styling and a highercapacity battery, official range is up 50 per cent to 235 miles and power 38 per cent to 150PS. The first EV to undergo the worldwide harmonised light vehicle testing procedure (WLTP), it delivers up to 168 miles combined, or up to 258

miles in city conditions, on a charge.

New advanced technologies include autonomous ProPilot, which controls distance to a vehicle in front and steers to help keep it centred in the lane, and e-Pedal that allows drivers to start, accelerate, decelerate and stop by simply increasing or decreasing the accelerator pressure.

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Trailhawk with off-road low-range mode that arrived in the summer.

Sport has 16in alloy wheels, air conditioning, cruise control and forward collision warning. Longitude adds 17in alloys, front fog lamps, reversing camera, Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, 8.4in audio and navigation, dual-zone climate control and keyless entry and go.

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Trailhawk has a red rear tow hook, off-road bumpers, raised suspension, skid plates, hill descent and rock transmission mode.

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Skoda’s all-new Karoq has won its first UK award – best midsize SUV title in the Fleet News Awards.

The five-seat Karoq, a scaled-down version of the award winning Kodiaq with the option of seven seats, offers four turbo engines: 115PS 1.0-litre and 150PS 1.5-litre petrol, the latter with fuel-saving technology that sees it cut to two cylinders on a light throttle, and 115PS 1.6-litre and 150PS 2.0-litre diesel. All are available with manual or seven-speed DSG automatic gearboxes while four-wheel drive is standard on the 150PS diesel.

A generous 2,638mm wheelbase gives good legroom and the Varioflex seating system, standard on SE L and Edition and optional on SE, sees three rear seats, with a 40/20/40 split, that can be individually adjusted to increase boot space from 479 to 588 litres or removed for a maximum 1,810 litres. The SE’s standard rear 60/40 split rear bench seat, which does not slide, gives a 521-litre boot, rising to 1,630 litres.

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Gardening

Gardening Fitness Whether you spend five minutes or a whole day gardening, all the stretching, pulling, pushing and lifting will help you and your garden stay in great shape Balance

Planting containers (sitting); pruning, raking and mowing (standing) WHY Falls cost the NHS over £2 billion annually, so there’s a good economic reason to prevent them.

“Part of the treatment for any balance problem is physical exercise,” says Dr Sam Everington.

“If you’re in a dark space it’s not so effective, but if you’re outside in good light it’s far better. In a garden you’re in a safe space, too.”

Light physical exercise encourages good balance. Regular gardeners are 30% less likely to have falls than other adults.

DID YOU KNOW? A 10% increase in adult physical activity would save 6,000 lives and £500 million a year.

Dexterity

Sowing seeds, pinching out seedlings, deadheading, planting broad beans WHY Fiddly gardening tasks hone fine motor skills, such as the ‘pincer’ movements you make when fastening a button or writing. One study found that women in Korea developed better dexterity after gardening twice a week than a non-gardening group.

In Horatio’s Garden at the Spinal Treatment Centre in Salisbury, Wiltshire, a therapist helps patients practise fine motor skills by sowing seeds and planting bulbs. “Patients spend time laughing, so it doesn’t feel like therapy,” says Olivia Chapple, the garden’s founder.

DID YOU KNOW? School gardening clubs teach children fine motor skills through tasks such as transplanting seedlings and tying in tomatoes.

Coordination

Potting up seedlings, deadheading, watering with a watering can WHY Complex gardening activities demand good coordination. Stroke survivors, autistic children and patients with Alzheimer’s develop better connections between hand and eye after gardening.

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Strength

Digging, wheeling wheelbarrows, raking, hoeing, cutting hedges, planting trees WHY More intense activities in gardening – the ones that make you really sweat, like raking up leaves – do wonders for upper body strength.

Chief medical officers in the UK list gardening alongside weight training and sit ups as activities for strengthening muscles. In the USA, elderly gardeners are shown to have stronger hands than the norm.

The Green Gym’s Craig Lister says gardening goes even further.

“People are continuing to be more physically active even when they’re not volunteering at a Green Gym session,” he says.

DID YOU KNOW? NHS guidelines suggest two strengthening exercise sessions a week.

Patience Craig Lister runs the Green Gym programme of guided gardening sessions created by The Conservation Volunteers. “It’s strength with control,” he says.

“Unlike in a regular gym where you don’t have a fixed control. [In the garden] if you want to pick up something, you’ve got to control it at the same time.”

DID YOU KNOW? Good hand-eye coordination also affects other areas of life too, as it’s been linked to cognitive ability and social skills.

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Medium intensity activities such as mowing, raking, hoeing and weeding WHY Gardening gets us off our sofas and increases physical health by an average 33%, with knock-on benefits for rates of heart disease and diabetes. Half an hour pushing C a lawnmower burns 150 calories – equivalent to a moderate gym session – and unlike gym M membership, you don’t give it up Y after a month.

“The gym stays the same, but garden tasks are always changing,” CM says Jules Pretty, Professor of Environment and Society at Exeter MY University. “This makes adherence more likely.”

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DID YOU KNOW? Gardeners tend to be fitter: ACMY 2015 study found 68% of non-gardeners are overweight or obese, compared K with 47% of gardeners.

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Flexibility

Pricking out seedlings, tying in sweet peas, planting hanging baskets WHY You’re constantly bending down and stretching up when you’re gardening, and that helps keep joints supple and flexible.

Gardeners who garden at least once a week stay more mobile for longer.

During ‘Sow and Grow’, a threeyear outreach programme, horticultural therapy charity Thrive used techniques like tabletop gardening and adapted tools so visitors with mobility-limiting disabilities such as multiple sclerosis could keep gardening. As a result, they found mobility improved measurably.

DID YOU KNOW? HullMag.pdf Just 30 minutes’ gardening a day can improve flexibility and mobility.

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WHY “Gardening teaches you to slow down,” says Sara Venn, who runs community food-growing movement Incredible Edible Bristol. “People come here and sow a seed, then a week later they ask, where is it? If you’re going to work on the land, you have to go at nature’s pace.”

Children learn to appreciate patience through waiting for crops to ripen in school gardening projects, and are taught ‘stickability’ – seeing a project through to the end.

Gardening can also help calm children with attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder.

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The Last Word

FIONA’S FOOD FOR THOUGHT

By Fiona Dwyer, broadcast journalist, PR & media consultant, slave to 2 children and a husband.

CHRISTMAS COUNTDOWN Is it really November already? Time to put my Christmas shopping plan into action then!

Ha! That would require me actually having a Christmas shopping plan. Much as I’d like to believe I will be more organised this year than ever before, I sincerely doubt that will be the case. I can try though! “Do or do not. There is no try.” Yes, thank you very much Yoda. On that note, I’m going to write a list because lists make me feel better. And maybe this year I will finally write my Christmas Cards early so that I can send them at the beginning of December rather than the week before the day itself.

AMAZING WOMEN I’m really looking forward to compering the Women of Achievement Awards again this month. Organised by Women in Business, it’s always such an inspiring event.

This year’s guest speaker is Paralympian Martine Wright, MBE, who lost both of her legs during the 7th July 2005 bombing in London. Her story is one of triumph over adversity. Rather than dwelling on her loss, she has used it as a springboard for her new life.

I can’t wait to meet her.

UNUSUAL CHRISTMAS GIFTS While you’re contemplating your Christmas list, if you get stuck, why not try something a little different? Buy your loved one a goat, a chicken, a water supply or even a vegetable garden.

Charities like CAFOD, World Vision, UNICEF and Water Aid, in fact most registered charities, have essential gifts that can save lives in the poorest of countries.

There are literally hundreds of things to choose from – medical aid, vaccinations, sanitary products for girls/women, food for a family. Just go online and search for a charity you admire. We are so lucky to have a roof over our heads, food on the table, clean water and free medical care – what better way to celebrate Christmas than to help those in need? alone.

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