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Why is Bruce Springsteen on our cover? Well, finally, after years of waiting – Leeds has a fantastic new Arena and The Boss is opening it this month! Now we’ll be able to look forward to seeing all those great stars and shows that bypassed us previously. And, according to Billboard, the First Direct Arena is rated as one of the top such venues in the world! It’s another exciting month, with Open Season at The Playhouse, Opera in the Park, and St Gemma’s Garden Party. There are new Community Awards in Chapel Allerton; and there’s a great exhibition ‘From Page to Screen’ coming to The National Media Museum (currently under threat of closure, so please support them).

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There is so much going on around Leeds that it is impossible to fit it all in – so don’t forget to check our website (www.northleedslife.co.uk), you’ll find many more stories there and news items too. Follow us on Twitter for notification of events and website additions, and there’s facebook too – so please Like us there and give us your feedback. With holiday season coming up it’s easy to forget to send in your news – so make a note… editorial deadline for August is 1st July and for September it’s 1st August. Advertising deadlines are a week later in each case. We look forward to hearing from you

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In This Issue It’s Open Season at The Playhouse West Yorkshire Playhouse throws open its doors for a month-long showcase of youth and community performance.

19 Restaurant Review: Kendells Bistro You can forget Nouvelle Cuisine when you visit Kendells Bistro!

22 Leeds Mencap is Yorkshire Society’s Charity of the Year The award is particularly fitting as the charity marks its 60th anniversary this year.

24 New Community Awards Launched in Chapel Allerton Bruce Springsteen to Open First Direct Arena ‘The Boss’ is coming to town! Springsteen requests to play new Leeds Arena.

Community group cara presents awards in their first annual awards scheme.

34 It’s Festival Season! A quick guide to some festivals coming up right on our doorstep.

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On Sunday 14th July, the Hospice is holding its Annual Summer Garden Party in its lovely, award winning gardens. This is a great opportunity to help them celebrate and raise vital funds for the hospice. St Gemma’s seasonal fairs are popular and very important, raising in excess of £40,000 a year. This anniversary year they hope to raise over £10,000 for patient care, which will pay for 22 days of care. There will be plenty of stalls selling jewellery,

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Some of the great pioneering engineers of the nineteenth century, like Brunel and Stephenson, are household names today, while others remain in the shadows. Among them is Leeds engineer John Wignall Leather, whose work helped to transform life in Leeds. He partnered his father in the vast project to provide the town with a desperately-needed supply of pure water. He also planned and oversaw the vital drainage and sewerage of the town, essential to civilised life. John Wignall Leather came from a family of distinguished engineers: his grandfather George Leather had been an early railway engineer, and his father was consulting engineer for the important Aire and Calder Navigation, and surveyor of coal mines for Bradford, where John Wignall was born in 1810. After school at Hipperholme and Durham, where he excelled in mathematics, he joined his father’s firm in Leeds and began his professional training – no academic qualifications were available or needed then. One of the first projects he building of further reservoirs, remains was involved in was the planning of the basis for the city’s water supply a new water supply for Leeds. Few today. houses had a piped supply, and what While the Leeds scheme was in there was came from the River Aire progress, John Wignall Leather was and streams like Sheepscar Beck, also working on a new water supply stinking with human and industrial for Bradford, while his father, George, waste. Otherwise people relied took on the construction of reservoirs on boreholes and wells, and water in the hills near Holmfirth – a project carriers who charged an extortionate which was to end in tragedy in two shillings a week. By the 1830s, as February 1852 when the Bilberry dam the population multiplied, it was clear collapsed, killing 81 people. George that a new supply of clean water had Leather bore some of the blame, and to be found to meet people’s everyday retired three years later, leaving John needs and to fight the diseases and Wignall to carry on. epidemics which were rampant. By then he had established Several engineers submitted himself as an outstanding engineer plans, including George Leather, through his work on railways, docks, but the project got bogged down and bridges – notably the spectacular in rivalry, technical disputes and Stanley Ferry Aqueduct which still political conflict over issues of public carries the Aire and Calder Navigation or private control. After frustrating over the river Calder, and the elegant years of argument, the work was Crown Point Bridge in Leeds. He finally entrusted to the Leathers, won medals for both at the 1851 whose scheme involved building a Great Exhibition. But his other major reservoir at Eccup, and bringing the work for Leeds was in designing water through a tunnel, an aqueduct and overseeing the construction of (the Seven Arches in Adel woods, still a comprehensive scheme for the there though long disused), and pipes drainage and sewerage of the town. to storage reservoirs at Weetwood Instead of the river serving as an open and Woodhouse Moor and on to the sewer, waste was to be piped away to town. This vast undertaking, one of the the east, to Knostrop, where it could earliest of its kind, involved complex be treated and used as fertiliser. negotiations over compensation After a number of initial problems, claims and land purchase, and major work began in 1850: an ambitious, engineering challenges, particularly costly project, but of enormous lasting in building the tunnel, but it was benefit to the town. completed successfully in 1843 – for He continued to work on a wide the first time people had access to range of engineering projects, later clean water at low cost. This scheme, acting as consultant, including on the though later greatly expanded by the expansion of the Leeds water supply.

One of the first projects he was involved in was the planning of a new water supply for Leeds

He seems to have had a comfortable personal life: in 1834 he married Caroline Cadman, daughter of a wealthy liquor merchant, and they had four children. Their first home was a large house in Wellington Street, but by the 1860s they had moved out to Potternewton, and then to the grandeur of Potternewton Hall, and finally to de Grey Terrace (where the University Parkinson building stands now). He died there in 1887 aged 77 and is buried with his wife at Lawnswood. Leeds owes him much. Worth a thought when you turn on the tap?

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This month sees the long awaited opening of the First Direct Leeds Arena and we couldn’t have wished for a more spectacular inaugural gig – none other than bona fide Rock ‘n’ Roll behemoth, Bruce Springsteen! That’s right, The Boss is coming to town! With a forty year career already behind him, Springsteen is unreservedly adored and respected by fans and critics alike and he and his long time backing group, The E Street Band are famed for their high octane, three hour plus shows. Not merely a safe pair of hands to christen our new arena, but a guarantee of a live experience like no other.

The actual official opening is still in September and the honour of playing that show has gone to Sir Elton John, whose hip credentials were recently bolstered by an appearance on the latest Queens of the Stone Age album. Also in September, we have the magnificent Leonard Cohen to look forward to, another hugely impressive booking. The arena is sure to offer something for everyone and, casting an eye over the upcoming listings, it can appear something of a mixed bag (Nickelback? Really?). But with The Boss kicking off proceedings the standard is set particularly high and it’s clear that Leeds Arena will attract the most prestigious acts the world has to offer.

It’s certainly been a long time coming. For too long we have missed out on big name acts that have bypassed Leeds en route to other cities with the venues to accommodate them. The arena’s opening represents the slotting into place of a piece of the puzzle that has hither to been missing. Finally we have a purpose built, state of the art facility that can more than hold its own against similar venues the world over. The 13,500 capacity arena boasts

With The Boss kicking off proceedings the standard is set particularly high and it’s clear that Leeds Arena will attract the most prestigious acts the world has to offer

world class acoustics and features a fan-shaped seating structure which ensures that each seat is focussed on the centre of the stage. There’s not a bad seat in the house and the bowl is designed so that, even at the furthest point from the stage, you’re never more than 60 metres away from the action – in similar venues that distance can be up to 130 metres. We were treated to an arena tour recently and found the space, whilst vast, not overwhelmingly so. The generous performance area is capable of housing stage sets of epic scale but the distance from the seating is surprisingly short. Should the stage area need to be expanded, the seating up to the first tier can be retracted to create more floor space – handy for heavy rock acts who require a sizable mosh pit. I remember when construction began considering the designated site too compact and thinking surely there’s no way they could fit an arena in that space. As the raked seating went up it looked like it would be far to steep and I feared that those seated up in the gods would be gazing down on the stage from virtually a vertical perspective. But, venturing into the upper echelons, it became clear this isn’t the case. The interior is laid out so each seat provides a clear and comfortable view of the stage. User-friendliness seems

to have been key in the design and there are ample access points on each level to prevent excessive crowding. A common gripe about arenas or stadiums is that, especially in the case of music gigs, the vast, cavernous venues usually deliver a cacophonous, rather soulless experience. With Leeds Arena care seems to have been taken to ensure, if not exactly intimacy, then at least the highest degree of connectivity between audience and performer. The building’s exterior honeycomb structure even incorporates lighting design which changes colour to reflect the mood of each event, a nice touch. Of the 140 events to take place in the next year, many will be

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Soprano Laura Wright and operatic quartet Amore will join Aled Jones at this year’s picnic-style Opera in the Park at Temple Newsam Estate, on Saturday 27th July. Laura Wright topped the classical music charts in 2011 with her debut album ‘The Last Rose’ before embarking on a series of sell-out performances with Alfie Boe and Russell Watson. She was chosen to perform the official song ‘Stronger As One’ for The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee last year, and also sang the national anthem at all of England’s home matches in this year’s RBS Six Nations Rugby Union Championship. Rising stars Amore, the operatic quartet of Royal College of Music graduates, shot to national p ro m i n e n c e last year when

they braved the cold and driving rain to perform as part of the Diamond Jubilee River Pageant. The music for the evening will be performed by the Orchestra of Opera North, together with the Leeds Festival Chorus conducted by Martin Andre. The event, which will feature a stunning firework finale, is again being supported Classic FM and the Yorkshire Evening Post.

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“Classic FM is delighted to partner with Leeds City Council once more for Opera in the Park”, said Sam Jackson, Managing Editor of Classic FM. “Laura Wright and Amore are great friends of the station and, as one of our presenters, Aled is already part of the family! We’re also thrilled to be working with Classic FM’s Orchestra in Yorkshire, the Orchestra of Opera North, for what’s set to be a brilliant evening of live music in a stunning setting.” Tickets (£5 - £10) are available from the City Centre Box Office at The Carriageworks on 0113 224 3801, www.leeds.gov.uk/ opera or the Temple Newsam gift shop.

HRH EARL OF WESSEX RENEWS PATRONAGE OF NORTHERN BALLET HRH The Earl of Wessex KG GCVO has renewed his Royal Patronage of Northern Ballet, a position he has held since 2003. The news was confirmed recently during Northern Ballet’s run at Sadler’s Wells in London, where the company performed ‘The Great Gatsby’ to soldout houses. ‘The Great Gatsby’ has now concluded an extensive national tour, during which it was performed at nine venues, breaking box office records and making this Northern Ballet’s most successful Spring season ever. More than 50,000 people attended performances generating £1.24m in ticket sales. “We’re really delighted that His Royal Highness has renewed his patronage of the company”, said Mark Skipper, Northern Ballet Chief Executive. “He has been an excellent and genuine ambassador for us and shows us terrific support. He comes regularly to see the company perform at venues around the country and he officially opened our award-winning home in Leeds.”

Leeds IT Manager Gavin Campbell was recently selected for a place in the prestigious Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Gavin returned to fine art printmaking three years ago after a twenty-year break. Weekdays he’s the IT manager at the Doncaster advertising agency Public, but at evenings and weekends he works in his studio at his home in Alwoodley. “I’m thrilled”, said Gavin. “Family commitments have meant art has had to take a back seat over the past years. I know I have a lot of hard work ahead but getting into

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Shakespeare’s Shrew takes to the stage at Kirkstall Abbey and Dagmar Wood (off Grosvenor Road, Hyde Park LS6) this month when Theatre of the Dales brings this comedy to boisterous life in a swift new adaptation by David Robertson. The show has a bonus feature: the proceedings kick off with witty love scenes from As You Like It, Much Ado and Henry V from the company’s current road show ‘Get Thee a Wife’! Theatre of the Dales stages a free preview in Dagmar Wood on Friday 12th July at 7pm, returning to finish up there on Sunday 28th at 4pm (£10/ £8). It plays at Kirkstall Abbey on Saturday 27th July at 3pm and 7pm (£14/ £10 or online £10/£8). Nearby venues include Lister Park in Bradford, Knaresborough Castle and York Museum Gardens. Visit www. theatreofthedales.co.uk for full details.

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After a successful year with their interim chorus master – Darius Battiwalla – Leeds Philharmonic Chorus recently announced Richard Wilberforce as their new chorus master, starting in the 2013-14 season. Richard trained as a Choral Scholar at St John’s College, Cambridge under David Hill (the Phil’s current music director) and at the Royal College of Music, and now juggles a career as countertenor and composer. He’s one of the country’s most exciting young choral directors. He was also recently “I’m passionate about the ability appointed director of the Hallé of amateur singing to bring Youth Choir, is artistic director and communities together, and few conductor of the Exon Singers, choirs can boast such an enduring and director of the London- and central role within a city’s based Orlando Chamber Choir, cultural community as ‘The Phil’. which specialises in music from “My experience as a the Renaissance and Baroque professional singer gives me Canons. the tools to teach choirs about He recently directed the Choir vocal technique, and to coax of the American Cathedral in Paris the very best sound out of the and the Paris Choral Society, as available voices. Having worked well as founding the French vocal with the choir earlier in the year, ensemble, Les Voix Filigranes, I am encouraged by the quality which performs a contemporary of voices, and am confident that the Philharmonic will consistently and renaissance repertoire. “I’m very excited to be achieve musical results of taking on this illustrious and the very highest quality. The venerable choir”, said Richard. 2013-14 season is shaping up

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to be very exciting, with plenty of opportunities for our singers to get to know some real masterpieces. You can guarantee we’ll give memorable performances for singers and audience alike!” As a consort singer, Richard works regularly with La Nuova Musica, The Dmitri Ensemble and English Voices amongst others. Much of his week is spent singing in the choir of St Bride’s Church, Fleet Street, as well as with those of Westminster Abbey and Westminster Cathedral. Richards’s first work with the Phil will be Elgar’s ‘Spirit of England’ and Vaughan Williams ‘Dona Nobis Pacem’. It will be performed on 2nd November at Leeds Town Hall, supported by the Hallé Orchestra and conducted by David Hill.

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t was early evening as we made our way to Kendell’s Bistro on St Peter’s Square, opposite Leeds College of Music. It was chilly, quiet, and there were only a couple of people on the street. Kendell’s unassuming frontage also seemed chilly and quiet – then we opened the door………… A cacophony of chatter hit us. The place was already packed (the theatre crowd, we were told). It was warm, welcoming, and a hive of activity. Three blackboards with the dishes of the day took up virtually the whole of one wall. As we squinted from our table, binoculars were thrust into our hands and all became clear! Supreme de Volaille, Confit de Canard, Tar te Provençal, Cassoulet, Saumon en Croute – I could see already there was going to be a problem making a choice! Everything sounded so good, but choices had to be made. We all opted for seafood to start – a fabulous Soupe au Poisson with earthy, subtle but distinctive flavours, melt-in-the-mouth scallops on a bed of pea purée with bacon, and awesome Moules Marinière – definitely the biggest, meatiest mussels I’d seen in some time, in a lovely sauce, which we were soon all dunking bread into. On to the main course:

Cassoulet – a wonderful rustic dish with a slab of belly pork that lay langourously over the French sausage, flavoursome, slow-cooked beans and rich tomato-based sauce, definitely taunting the diner; a Tarte Provençal like no other with aubergine, peppers, onions and broad beans (skinned of course!), pine nuts and goat’s cheese nestled in puff pastry on a bed of crushed chilli-infused tomatoes, topped off with a little lacy fascinator of melted cheese; and Confit de Canard – preserved duck leg with smoked sausage, green beans wrapped in bacon (not individually!) and Dauphinoise potatoes with just the right amount of creaminess. A rich dish full of intense flavour. If you imagine that being French cuisine you are likely to experience a bit of Nouvelle Cuisine and enjoy a work of art but go away hungry…well think

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again! Steve Kendell will definitely never see anyone leave his premises hungry. You know you’ve been fed! But it is all so delicious you are tempted to keep going. One could be accused of a gastronomic binge. Dessert? It would be positively rude not to and hadn’t I just noticed a Tarte au Citron? Sometimes you can be disappointed with the level of citron but not here – it was intense, a positive explosion of citroness! And the pastry was by far the thinnest I had ever seen. The Parfait aux Pruneaux was rich and creamy and lovely, but that Tarte au Citron was a definite winner. This was an evening where you certainly couldn’t ignore the food – it demanded attention and we were happy to sit up and take notice. Forks and spoons were invited to be plunged into others’ dishes and there was much smacking of lips! Next time I might try not to be so greedy – I’ll spread the pleasure rather than trying to soak it all up in one night. Menus change every day, depending on fresh, seasonal ingredients – so you know you always find new taste sensations. A lovely, relaxed evening, surrounded by a warm ambiance and friendly, efficient service – all down to Sharon Nicholson who keeps staff on their toes and diners happy to soak up the atmosphere and appreciate their food. Our meal came to about £75 for two, including wine. Kendells also does a Prix Fixe menu (5 – 8pm Tues – Thurs, and until 7pm on Fri & Sat) at just £17.95 for two courses; £19.95 for three courses, or £25.95 including half a bottle of house wine. 3 St Peter’s Square, LS9 8AH 0113 243 6553

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s soon as Summer peeps out from behind a curtain of cloud, we head en masse for the shorts, beer, and the BBQ! But summer eating isn’t all about blackened meat, hotdogs and lager – with a little imagination, al fresco dining can become a much more exciting culinary experience. Start things off with a dressed in a Caesar dressing big platter of antipasti – with bacon lardons and garlic summer local cheeses and breads, croutons will be an instant charcuterie, freshly whizzed crowd pleaser. eating isn’t up pesto and hummus dips, Be adventurous! Paella is olives and chunky salsas. another dish easily prepared all about Keep the grilled meats, but outside in a large paella pan head for your local butcher on an open BBQ – full of plump blackened where you can get great quality rice cooked in good stock meat and good cuts for with fresh seafood meat, the BBQ. Choose and summer locally produced vegetables. hotdogs sausages and Drinkscoat them in wise its time a sticky chilli for cocktails and lager – and big punch glaze. Rub chicken thighs bowls full of with a little with Moroccan Pimms! Ginger spices, or head and elderflower imagination, to Leeds Market cordial added to al fresco soda or sparkling water for some superb fresh fish, which is lovely make great drinks for those dining can barbecued with garden herbs. not drinking alcohol. And, Then accompany these with white wine spritzers with a become a wonderful fresh salads – generous squeeze of lemon check your local farmers’ just shout long afternoons in markets for the ultimate in the sun. Of course, there are much more freshness. numerous ales and lagers exciting A chargrilled vegetable perfect for outdoor drinking cous cous is a great addition and many of them locally culinary to any outdoor meal, with brewed – seek them out. chunks of haloumi and chorizo Most importantly, keep experience mixed through. Little gem things simple. If you cook lettuces sliced into quarters, with good quality ingredients, lightly toasted on you are half way to making a the BBQ and great meal. Let the sun inspire you and bring a little bit of the Mediterranean to your English BBQ. By Matthew Bouch

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Alwoodley Ward Thanks to all those who contacted me with details of potholes in their area – and also to those who called to say what a good job we were doing at getting them ﬁxed! It was really appreciated. We are once again holding councillor surgeries at Moor Allerton Library on the first and last Thursdays of each month (4 – 5.30pm). We re-started these on a trial basis earlier this year. Whilst take up has been slow, we are getting a steady trickle

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It’s Time to Take Climate Change Seriously Recently atmospheric CO2 levels topped 400 parts per million (ppm) for the first time. Climate campaigner Franny Armstrong commented: “It’s been 2.5 million years since CO2 was last at this level - at which point, temperatures were 2 – 3°C higher, the Arctic was ice-free, global weather patterns were completely different, sea levels were up to 40 metres higher and humans did not live on the planet.” Is CO2 affecting our weather now? Climate scientists suggest a 30 – 40 year time lag before climate responds to increased emissions. We are seeing the consequences now of emissions

COMMUNITY NEWS of visitors seeking our help. Of course, you don’t need to wait for our surgeries to come and see us (we are always happy to meet you at your convenience). The drop-in surgeries are another opportunity to run an issue past us and see how we might be able to help (you can borrow a book at the same time!). Most of us are irritated by litter in our ward. We work hard to ensure that Alwoodley suffers less with litter than other parts of the city – and the Parish Council, together with their lengthsman (who helps to maintain a cared for feel within Alwoodley Parish), plays a huge part in that. Any litter needs to be dealt with as quickly as possible. We are in the process of drawing up a list of ten litter hotspots to receive special and regular attention from the litter locality team of Leeds City Council. Neil, Peter and I have a few areas in mind already (such as around the bottle bank next to the Moor Allerton Library and parts of Stairfoot Lane). We would also like your thoughts as to which spots to put on our action list. The more thoughts and views the better – so once again it’s over to you! For any and all local queries, your local councillors are always here to help. Daniel.cohen@leeds.gov.uk 0113 2041094

in the 1970s. But even so, last year America saw a hurricane hit NYC, and the Mid West grain harvest decimated by drought. Australia saw unprecedented temperatures, while at home it hardly stopped raining as 30% reduced Arctic ice disrupted the Jet Stream. And, don’t mention our miserable Spring! The 400ppm news caused barely a ripple in the press, even though climate scientists have calculated that the highest safe level is 350ppm. Perhaps people take little notice because, for now, the major consequences of releasing fossil CO2 are so far removed from those responsible in time and place. As new Lead Councillor for Climate Change, I want Leeds to play its part in reducing emissions. I hope that there will be a consensus to act based on scientific evidence. This is too important for party politics, and I don’t want the next generation telling us we could have done more. bill.urry@leeds.gov.uk 07891278717 / 0113 247 6927

LEEDS MENCAP IS YORKSHIRE SOCIETY’S CHARITY OF THE YEAR

Leeds Mencap was recently received the Yorkshire Society’s ‘Charity of the Year’ Award. “Leeds Mencap is proud to be the Yorkshire Society’s Charity of the Year in what is our Diamond Jubilee year”, said Martin Staniforth, Chair of the charity. “As a small local charity we are heavily dependent on organisations and individuals to enable us to provide much-needed services for our users, both children and adults. This award is a real recognition of our work and will help us to raise the money we need to maintain and expand our services.” The award is particularly fitting this year as the charity marks its 60th anniversary. Leeds Mencap is celebrating with a whole range of events, from exhibitions at Leeds City Museum, to a charity bike ride and tea parties throughout the city. For information on all of these please contact 0113 235 1331 or sinead.obrien@leedsmencap. org.uk or visit www.leedsmencap. org.uk

OAKWOOD CLOCK RESTORATION WORK Following several complaints about the deteriorating state of the road and footpaths on King Alfred’s and Moorland Drives, Councillors Sharon Hamilton, Rebecca Charlwood and Alex Sobel were delighted to announce recently that the Council’s Highways & Transportation Department would resurface the road and footpaths and replace the stone kerbs with modern concrete ones. The work is scheduled to start in mid-August. The councillors also secured funding from the Inner North East Area Committee, St Gemma’s Hospice (on Moorland Drive) and Leeds City Council Highways & Transportation to replace the grass verges with flexipaving. This paving allows rainwater to penetrate, which will help to avoid the flooding problems which often occur

when grass verges are removed. This will also allows people to continue to park on the verges without causing any environmental damage. An area has also been marked with low-level fencing for residents to cultivate and enhance the attractiveness of the street.

Detailed discussions have been taking place about precisely what needs to be done to restore the Oakwood Clock, and the best and least expensive way of doing it. OTRA’s objective is to renovate the clock so that it will be in first rate condition for at least another 20 – 30 years. Leeds City Council and other relevant experts have been very supportive. Applications for grants from various organisations prepared to help with this sort of project have been prepared and sent out. It may be months before the exact arrangements can be announced, but the OTRA Clock Preservation Committee is determined to finalise the arrangements as soon as possible, at the same time ensuring that the right decisions are made. It is proving a complicated and challenging process.

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Chapel Allerton community group cara has been making waves in North Leeds over the last few years, and has now launched the new, annual, Chapel Allerton Community Awards. Categories include the community-based categories like Best Neighbour, Young Achiever, Outstanding Contribution, and Mr & Mrs Chapel Allerton; as well as the commercial, such as Best Place to Eat, Best New Business, and Best Member of Staff. After the public made their nominations, the cara committee drew up a shortlist. The winners were announced in front of a 150-strong crowd in the sunshine at the group’s annual Big Lunch street party on Regent Street on Sunday 2nd June. Residents shared homemade food and drink, musicians performed, children played and had their faces painted, a local pub provided a BBQ, and funds were raised for St Gemma’s Hospice. cara also runs a monthly supper club at local restaurants, low-price ‘cara classes’ in anything from cocktail mixing and cupcake decorating to Kung-Fu and jewellery making, and members benefit from a huge range of discounts in over 50 shops, restaurants, and clubs. The group is non-profit, run voluntarily by local residents, and is fast approaching 1,000 members from all across Leeds. For more information on cara, it’s activities, the award winners, and how to join, please contact 07583 048759, cara@ lovechapelallerton.com, or visit www.lovechapelallerton.com Community Award Winners: Young Achiever - Aiden Chalinski; Best Neighbour - Louise Alderson & Philip Barwick; Best Street - Henconner Drive;

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SUNSHINE AND SMILES – LEEDS DOWN SYNDROME NETWORK Sunshine and Smiles is a support network for families and carers who have a child or young person with Down Syndrome. They meet on the second Monday of the month, 1.15pm – 2.45pm at Moortown Children’s Centre, and there are monthly family sessions on a Saturday at St Chad’s Parish Centre in Headingley. Sunshine and Smiles offers informal support and advice. They have activities for children, including music, tactile and water play, painting, singing and signing. At the Children’s Centre there is a sensory room and a quiet space. The group recently visited Sensory Leeds and the Donkey Sanctuary with further trips planned over the Summer. They are currently working towards running Speech and Language groups and also some Early Development Support groups, both of which are vital for children with Down Syndrome. The group is run entirely on an voluntary basis, with all funding coming from small grants or fundraising activities. Their next fundraiser is the Great Charity Book Giveaway on Saturday 13th July, 10am - 4pm at Immaculate Heart Church Hall, 294 Harrogate Road, LS17. Admission is by donation, then choose your free books from a selection of over 2000! For further information, please contact Ailith HarleyRoberts on 0113 226 8457/ 07725041601, sunshineandsmiles@virginmedia.com or via facebook.

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Gardens should now be at their best. With the long evenings you can hopefully sit out, relax and enjoy them. Maybe you’ll even entertain friends with a barbecue and impress them with freshly picked salad leaves from your garden. uly is usually a dry month, so water early morning or after sundown. To ensure roots get water, plant empty drinks bottles with bottoms cut off and necks inserted near to the plant – fill these with water and add a feed once a week. Take a walk around the feeding with a high potash garden and make a note of fertilizer. Cut lavender and herbs what may be in the wrong place for drying ready for use in the ready to move in the autumn winter. or spring. Keep deadheading Lift shallots and onions, to make sure your plants keep leaving them out to dry when the on flowering, especially sweet leaves turn yellow – garlic too, peas. but cover it if rain is forecast. Now’s the time to take semi Once strawberries have finished ripe cuttings of carnations, fruiting trim all the leaves with pinks, hydrangeas etc. and shears and add to the compost to transplant seedlings of heap. Remove straw mulches biennials sown earlier in the and mats, clearing all debris year. Disbud dahlias to get from the crowns, weed and larger blooms. Pinch out the gently fork over the ground tops of runner beans when between plants. they have reached the top of They say that women’s the stakes. Do the same with work is never done neither is outdoor tomatoes when four the gardener’s! We can always trusses have formed, removing find something to do. any side shoots at the same time. Fill any gaps in the beds - Kath Hall, Paxton or borders with bedding plants. Horticultural Society Sow the last of the vegetables for harvesting in the autumn. Order Spring flowering bulbs, or look out for them in garden centres from August. Pick strawberries, raspberries and other soft fruit. Don’t let them rot, otherwise it will attack the rest of the plant. For those with ponds, water lilies come into their own now so make sure you keep up the water levels using a hose with a spray attachment to help aerate, or a watering can. Shrubs in containers need regular watering, and weekly

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BIRD WATCH WITH STAN KENYON High on the peaty moors of the Pennines, dunlins are nesting. They are the commonest wader along flat seashores on passage and in Winter. The coast is where they are most often seen, large flocks performing perfectly co-ordinated acrobatic flights. Numbers are swollen in Spring and Autumn as birds migrate from West Africa to the high Arctic to breed, then back again. Relatively few nest in Britain, mainly in the Grampians and northernmost Scotland. Dunlins are small, active birds with shortish, slightly decurved beaks. In Summer plumage they are distinctive, with a black belly patch and bright rufous on the back. They are, however, mostly seen outside the breeding season, when they are relatively

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BYZANTIUM DIRECTED BY: NEIL JORDAN STARRING: GEMMA ARTERTON, SAOIRSE RONAN, CALEB LANDRY JONES, SAM RILEY, JONNY LEE MILLER, DANIEL MAYS CERT: 15 - RUNNING TIME: 118 MINS Buffy, Twilight, Blade, True Blood – with such a glut of bloodsuckers hurled in our direction over the last several years, the whole world should be suffering from vampire fatigue by now. Surely the un-dead have been done to death. Not so, it seems. Byzantium suggests there’s life in the old genre yet and reinforces the standing of the vampire as a potent and enduringly fascinating creature in our collective consciousness. Neil Jordan’s grubby, grimy neo-gothic tale is a brilliantly shot, deeply atmospheric picture with a compelling narrative and the most interesting take on the vampire theme since the wonderful ‘Let the Right One In’. Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan play mother and daughter Clara and Eleanor, a pair of centuries-old vampires eking out a grim and desolate existence in inner-city London. The ruthlessly resourceful Clara provides for her daughter by working as a prostitute and, at roughly two hundred years of age must be one of the oldest operatives in the world’s oldest profession. The action kicks off when Clara is tracked down in a lap-dancing club by a mysterious stranger and, after a foot chase, dispatches her assailant in spectacularly bloody fashion. Clara and Eleanor promptly flee the scene, pitching up in a dilapidated seaside town. While

looking to ply her wares amongst the fairground rides, Clara encounters the lonely, guileless Noel who takes the women in. Clara wastes little time turning his recently deceased mother’s guest house into a brothel. The more sensitive, kind-hearted Eleanor is disgusted by her mother’s methods and spends much of her

Favouring gritty realism over the more fantastical trappings of the genre, Byzantium just about manages to sidestep the usual hoary old vampire clichés focussing instead on the existential crises, which are part and parcel of the burden of eternal life

time in solitude recalling her life so far, writing her story and casting the pages to the winds. With a surprisingly humane approach to her blood-based diet, Eleanor chooses only to feed from those at the end of their lives, essentially providing a kind of vampire-assisted euthanasia for the old and infirm. After forming a friendship with the sickly Frank, Eleanor finds herself inclined to reveal her secret while those in pursuit of her and Clara close in. Neil Jordan has previous form with this kind of material but Byzantium eschews the high camp of his Interview with the Vampire or The Company of Wolves. After an uncertain start the plot becomes more engrossing as the women’s story is revealed in flashback. Favouring gritty realism over the more fantastical trappings of the genre, Byzantium just about manages to sidestep the usual hoary old vampire clichés focussing instead on the existential crises, which are part and parcel of the burden of eternal life. I mentioned ‘Let the Right One In’ earlier - Byzantium is very similar in style and tone. Admirers of Tomas Alfredson’s beguiling and moving film will find much to appreciate here.

the songs were I’m not sure if this is a brand spanking new release or not, but it’s new to me and it’s good and it’s local so here you have it. I came upon these fellows playing a support slot recently and, while the performance may have been a little rough around the edges and a tad wet behind the ears, the songs were definitely there with solid riffs and attention grabbing hooks. As for this EP, the recording retains a pleasing lo-fi, DIY quality and boasts eyebrow-raising rhythmic shape-shifting and a nice bit of clatter and twang. The first track, ‘Drive Around Him’, opens by coaxing the listener with a halting intro riff before shifting gear and hitting its stride and barrelling along, while driving its catchy vocal refrain into your brain. The vintage

definitely there with solid riffs and garagey vibe is cemented by a freewheeling guitar solo with just enough scuzziness. Succinct, too, clearly making its point in just over a couple of minutes. ‘I Don’t Know’ leads in with a lurching, almost menacing bass riff before that grinding, fuzzy, buzzy guitar falls in. Then it all goes a bit mental with a little swirling

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psych freak out that comes out of nowhere. Then just as quickly we ease back into the main riff and, again, we’re all done before the three minute mark. ‘Alice’ combines a spacey groove with swelling vocal harmonies and this time it does seem a little too brief, the breakdown to the rumbling bass mid way through seems to hint at a more prolonged and exploratory jam but short and sweet seems to be this band’s M.O. Never more so than on the last track, ‘Oh You’. At a scant 1 minute 30 it’s a languid, reverb-heavy, hazy strum-along. It’s really quite lovely and before you know it, it’s over. Low-key, unpretentious and unassuming, this EP certainly doesn’t demand a great deal of your time but it’s time well spent. I reckon with a few more gigs under their belt Jonny Quits could quickly develop into a formidable live act and with songs of this kind of duration they could probably pack a double album’s worth of material into a half hour set. A band to keep an eye out for, then. And that’s Jonny Quits. Let’s hope they don’t.

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The festival season is already underway. Here’s a quick guide to some of those coming up right on our doorstep.

and this year’s event boasts an absolutely cracking line-up but still remains reasonably small scale. Basement Jaxx, The Charlatans, Seasick Steve, Johnny Marr and Public Enemy, to name but a few, will be bringing the noise.

Beat Herder 5 – 7 July

With only 250 tickets available, Fell Foot Sound is a particularly intimate festival held on a beautiful site overlooking Lake Windermere. Curated by British Wildlife Records, the festival offers an intriguing selection of left-field and experimental acts such as Quack Quack, Juffage, Mucky Sailor, That F**king Tank and others.

Those who like their beats big and their festivals dance orientated may wish to venture across the Pennines to Beat-Herder in Lancashire’s Ribble Valley. With a number of smaller stages, this festival has a varied line-up that encompasses the entire dance music spectrum. Big acts this year include Groove Armada, Jimmy Cliff, Jaguar Skills and Chic featuring Nile Rogers.

Beacons 16-18 August From its humble beginnings as Moorfest, Beacons has evolved into a fairly formidable fixture on the festival calendar. Taking place at Heslaker Farm just outside Skipton, this year’s line up includes Django Django, Local Natives, Stealing Sheep and currently blowing up local lads, Hookworms to name but a few.

Deer Shed 19-21 July If you have little ones, this family-friendly festival held at Baldersby Park, Topcliffe, North Yorks could be just the ticket. Billing itself as a Music, arts and science festival, Deer Shed has a number of exciting workshops and activities alongside an impressive line-up including Edwin Collins, Public Service Broadcasting, Gaz Coombes, Darwin Deez and more. Tramlines 19-21 July No camping required at this inner-city music festival over in Sheffield. Not dissimilar to our own Live at Leeds, Tramlines features a great selection of both established and up and coming acts at various

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The Biscuit Badgers Sat 6 July The Fox & Newt, Burley St LS3. Celebrating launch of video Soy Milk! With Raphael Attar www. biscuithead.co.uk Seven Unplugged monthly acoustic music night, Seven Arts, Harrogate Rd. Chapel Allerton. Wed 10 July 7.45pm: Americana night with The Bean Train Gang, Backyard Burners, Traveller & more. £5/£4. It’s going to be a belter! The Despoilers Fri 19 July at The Old Ball, Horsforth Garforth Festival: Playground Party Sat 6 July, Garforth Academy, 2:30pm, £22. Featuring: Bellowhead, Kate Rusby, Ruby Turner, Lau. Fusion Sat 6 July, Otley Courthouse, £8-£10. Multiinstrumentalist band delivering mix of jazz, folk, flamenco & world music with a staggering range of instruments. The Temperance Movement Sat 6 July, Brudenell Social Club, £7. Five piece bluesdrenched, soulful, loud & explosive rock & roll band. Mestisa Sat 6 July, HEART, Bennett Rd. Headingley. £6.Traditional & popular music from Latin America; ranging from romantic Boleros & Peruvian marineras, to lively Bolivian huaynos. Jazz Café & Jam Session Sun 7 July, 1 – 4pm at Seven Arts, Chapel Allerton, featuring Seven Jazz workshop band & Seven Jazz choir. Ultramagnetic MCs Tue 9 July, Brudenell Social Club, £16. American hip hop group based in Bronx, NY, founded by Kool Keith. Martin Stephenson Wed 10 July, Brudenell Social Club. Outstanding singer/ songwriter formerly of The Daintees. Nils Frahm Wed 10 July, Howard Assembly Room, £12.50.Stunning pianist &

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Josh Record Wed 17 July, Nation Of Shopkeepers, free. Brixton-based singer/ songwriter, a unique talent whose star is on the ascent. IntroducingLive Recreate ‘Discovery’ Fri 19 July, Brudenell Social Club, £10. Take a classic electronic album & recreate it with a live band. Tonight they bring Daft Punk’s ‘Discovery’ to life! Dread Supreme Sun 21 July 1 – 4pm at Seven Arts, Chapel Allerton, with Richard Ormrod – John Coltrane given the dub treatment! The Thermals Mon 22 July, Brudenell Social Club, £9. Distorted guitars, drums, bass & vocals all collide into perfect distorted pop songs. B & B+Jennifer Jordan+Peter Marshall +Lomos Tues 23 July, Seven Arts, Chapel Allerton. Musical Comedy 8pm. £10. Emily’s Army Wed 24 July, The Cockpit, £6. Punk rock band from Oakland, California. Influenced by classic power pop, & garage rock. Leeds Bluegrass Club Thurs 25 July from 8.30pm, Grove Inn, Back Row, Holbeck. Live Americana Roots/ Bluegrass/ Country. Resident bands + guests Picking sessions. Musicians welcome. £3.Details: 267 0761, 267 7040. Six By Seven Sun 28 July, Brudenell Social Club, £10. Atmospheric rock influenced by the likes of My Bloody Valentine and Spaceman 3. ‘Somethin’ Else’ with Brendan Duffy + Band Sun 28 July, 1 – 4pm at Seven Arts, Chapel Allerton.

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This year there will also be lots of children’s activities, an Otley Lions plate smashing stall, roller racing and much more (most activities will run 2 – 5pm). Otley Cycling Club would like to thank Otley Town Council and Chevin Cycles for their generous sponsorship, without which the festival wouldn’t be possible. For more information visit www.otleycycleclub.co.uk/ festival or their Facebook page or follow them on Twitter @OtleyCycleFest

Girls’ football is rising rapidly in popularity and a local team is seeking to recruit more female footballing talent from North Leeds area for next season. Farsley Celtic Vixens play in the West Riding Girls’ Football League and will be competing in the U-15 section next season. The team, which recently finished runners-up in the West Riding County FA Youth Futsal Festival, trains on Monday evenings at either Hainsworth Park, Farsley, or the all-weather pitch at Farsley AFC’s Throstle Nest ground. Players should be currently in Year 8 or 9. For more information contact Ian Lewis on 07891 103881.

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There was another large turnout for the popular Apperley Bridge Canter on Thursday 23rd May, organised by Horsforth Harriers. The 2013 race saw victory for Woodhouse Grove School, the host location of the race since its inception. Phillip Tedd, Woodhouse Grove’s Director of Music, romped home in 33:06, almost two minutes ahead of second place finisher Joe Baxter (34:56), with Saltaire Striders’ Simon Pass in third place (35:12). Finishing fourth in 35:34 was Mark Smith, who was

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The National Media Museum, Bradford, has partnered with Seven Stories National Centre for Children’s Books in Newcastle on a family exhibition. ‘Moving Stories: Children’s Books from Page to Screen’ explores the process of adapting children’s books to film and television and runs from 12th July – 6th October.

The exhibition draws on both organisations’ knowledge and experience to explore the creative processes behind adapting some of the best loved children’s books and stories. “This is an exciting exhibition for all the family about how and why books inspire so many great films and television programmes”, said Claire Hampton from the National Media Museum. “’Moving Stories’, designed with families in mind, is interactive and bursting with wonderful stories, intriguing objects, and fun.” Using items like

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CBBC, in collaboration with BBC North and Leeds City Council, is coming to Millennium Square in Leeds from 25th – 27th July for a live weekend of events. The channel will be bringing some of its biggest stars and shows to Leeds for three days of fun-filled activities and everyone is invited. Blue Peter, Newsround and CBBC presentation will all be broadcasting live from Leeds over the three days. As well as watching their favourite shows live, children will

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Environmental Discovery Days Are you running a summer playscheme or working with children over the summer holidays? The Conser vation Volunteers have received funding to provide four Environmental Discovery Days at Skelton Grange Environment Centre, South Leeds. These will consist of activities suitable for 5-11 year olds, such as team games, pond dipping, minibeast hunting, environmental crafts and nature trails. The activities will be led by qualified and experienced TCV staff and volunteers and will run from 10am – 3pm. Dates can be agreed with interested groups.

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hen Matthew Lewis, best known for playing Neville Longbottom in the Harry Potter films, recently visited the Thackray Museum’s new Magic of Medicine exhibition he was fascinated by the links between the history of magic and medicine, and how medical notions and magical potions still complement each other in modern-day practice.

“It’s one of my favourite museums”, said Matthew. “I was amazed at how fascinated the children were by the element of magic in medicine and healthcare.” The Museum’s year-long magic project explores the timeless association between bedpans and broomsticks, helping to dispel fears that the story of medicine is just gory or scary. In addition to the Magic and Medicine exhibition, the museum is hosting Harry Potter’s World, a travelling display from the National Library of Medicine in the USA. Visitors will learn how historic medical resources from the history of medicine have been woven into the magic of J.K Rowling’s much

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Pudsey & District Rambling Club Walks of 5 - 10 miles Sun & alt Thurs. New members welcome in this friendly, long established club with members from all over the district. Annual membership £8 (£1 juniors). Try before you join. Details: 01943 430657

Meanwood Amateur Boxing Club Mon & Wed 5.45pm, Meanwood Workingmen’s Club, Stonegate Rd. Beginners welcome. Details: 07890 398968 Moortown Rugby Union Respect, teamwork, discipline, fun. Brilliant club for under 7s (Year 2) to adults. They train & play Sun 10:30am at Moss Valley, LS17 7NT. Details: Damian Curtis 07860 454701, damian.curtis@ bt.com or www.pitchero.com/clubs/ moortownrufc/ North Leeds Bowling Club (April – October) New members, experienced or complete novices, welcome at crown green club on edge of Soldiers’ Field, Roundhay. Opportunity to play matches, friendlies or just play with friends. Monthly social events. £30 pa/ social members £6. Details: Trevor 267 1071, trevmar32@aol.co.uk, or Frances 269 0978, francesdada6@gmail.com

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St Gemma’s Garden Party Sun 14 July 12 – 4pm at the Hospice on Harrogate Rd. Moortown. Fun & games for all ages, huge variety of stalls, live entertainment, international cuisine & BBQ, licensed bar & Pimm’s tent. Donations welcome for fundraising stalls. Please leave at Main Reception. Details: 218 5570, michelleb@stgemma.co.uk Sunshine & Smiles Great Charity Book Giveaway Sat 13 July, 10am - 3pm, Immaculate Heart Church Hall, 294 Harrogate Rd. LS17. In aid of Sunshine & Smiles - Leeds Down Syndrome Network. Adm £1 & choose up to 3 free books per person. Details: Ailith Harley-Roberts 07725 041601, sunshineandsmiles@virginmedia.com 208 Squadron (North Leeds) Air Training Corps Summer Fayre Sat 6 July 11.30am – 4pm, Towerhurst HQ, Oakwood Lane (100 yards from Library). Drill displays, art, craft & food stalls, children’s games & activities, BBQ, live music. Lord Mayor attending. All welcome. Entry: £2/ £1. Details: 2661184 GROUPS/CLUBS Air Yorkshire Aviation Society Interested in aviation, aircraft old and new, airports? Why not try Air Yorkshire - regular guest speakers, trips & social events. Details: Dave Senior 282 1818, www.airyorkshire.org.uk Alwoodley Motor Club Every other Thurs, 8.30pm, The Wharfedale Inn, Arthington Lane. All welcome. Details: 391 0403, www.alwoodleymc.org.uk. Chinese Brush Painters Society Sat 13 July: Kaili Fu run workshop on misty landscapes & on Sun 14 on water buffaloes & monkeys. 10am – 4pm at Pool-in-Wharfedale Memorial Village Hall, Arthington Lane. New members welcome. Details: Anne Allan 01422 368482, mail@cbpsyorks.co.uk Friends of Allerton Grange Fields Friendly group of volunteers working to maintain & enhance Allerton Grange Fields off Lidgett Lane, LS17. New volunteers welcome to join events & activities, including litter picks, bulb & tree planting, shrub clearance. Details: foagf@outlook.com, www. friendsallertongrange.org Friends of Leeds City Museums raise funds to finance acquisitions for Leeds’ museums, through a range of exciting trips & social events. New members

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The White Rosettes Female barbershop chorus (four part unaccompanied harmony), 12 x national champions, rehearse Wed 7.30 – 10pm at Moorlands School, Foxhill Dr, Weetwood Lane, LS16. Details: Jan Spencer 07852 210640, membership@whiterosettes.org.uk Yorkshire Late Starter Strings (YLSS) rehearse Sat, 10am – 12.30pm. Friendly, informal string orchestra made up of adult learners who play a stringed instrument. Players of all abilities welcome. Specific beginners group for those especially new to playing. Details: www.ylss.org Yorkshire Clarinet Ensemble Rehearses alt Wed, 8 – 9.45pm (term time) at HEART, Bennett Rd, Headingley. For players of Grade 5+ standard. New players welcome. Details: Deborah Pennington 07910 414586, mpenn. dpenn@ntlworld.com SENIORS Leeds & Bradford Friendship Group meets 1st Wed of month, 1.30pm at Pudsey Civic Hall LS28 5TA. Speaker or entertainment at 2pm. Friendship & activities for people of retirement age. Days out, dining, walks, computers, etc. New members welcome. Details: 258 5955 or 267 5657 Lunch Club & Over 55s Club Wed 12 – 3pm. Two course meal £3.50 followed by fun activities. Northcall Community Centre, Cranmer Bank, Leeds LS17. Details: 268 9993

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