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Dorothy Glen is looking forward to spring, as she focuses on frogs and toads in her latest Wildlife Matters article. Meanwhile, Gill Greenwell is making the most of the winter weather with her interiors feature – check out her ideas for creating an alpine ambience in your home, even if you don’t live anywhere near the mountains!

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Police and Crime Commissioner Chris Nelson’s

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Fixing the price of policing In contrast with other areas of the country, the cost of policing in Gloucestershire is now split almost equally, between a grant from Central Government and funding from local taxpayers. The Government settlement, announced last month, has to meet pay rises, inflation and additional cost increases.

In or der to begin to imp lement some of the manifesto proposals on which I was elected, there will have to be an increase in the part of the council tax that pays for policing. Having won your votes on the promise of recruiting more police officers, driving down antisocial behaviour and making it easier to contact the police, I am determined to keep my word.

New officers already on board So far, the Government’s uplift programme has helped me make a start and enabled the Constabulary to bring in a number of new officers already. As part of this year’s central grant settlement, I am also allowed to increase the precept – the part of the council tax that pays for policing - by up to £10 without a referendum. But as my manifesto was based on what the public said they wanted, consultation is important to me.

Let me be clear; I remain committed to my manifesto promises and I am working with the Chief Constable to ensure that a £10 increase meets his most as immediate needs such investigating crimes against the most vulnerable in society, by, for example, increasing the numbers working in Child Abuse Investigation Teams. A £10 rise would also

Consulting inside and outside the Constabulary is key to getting the police the resources they need. ensure that we can start to increase the number of people in the Force Control Room who take 999 and 101 phone calls from the public.

Much-needed additional investment In building the budget I have also asked the Chief to make savings in other non-pay areas to help towards ensuring that every penny can be targeted towards these improvements. We are working together to make sure that every part of the existing budget is as tightly squeezed as it can be to make as much space as possible for this much-needed additional investment.

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than £10 would enable me to meet my manifesto commitments more quickly. However, I have to take into account the need to avoid a costly referendum, the financial position of our residents and their ability to pay, which may mean it takes longer to achieve the recruitment numbers I aspire to.

I will be submitting my proposed budget to the Police and Crime Panel soon, but if you haven’t already done so and would like to have your say, please email me at PCC@gloucestershire-pcc.gov.uk

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1 FEBRUARY SIMON KEMPSTON A unique talent performing thoughtprovoking, evocative original songs in a wonderfully intimate setting. Simon’s beautifully crafted, folk-tinged material showcases his incredible, distinctive and intricate fingerstyle guitar work, an exciting blend of the folk-baroque, blues and classical styles, and his gently nuanced, compelling tenor vocals. 8.30pm. Tickets £15. The Roses Theatre, Sun Street, Tewkesbury, GL20 5NX. 01684 295074. rosestheatre.org 3-6 FEBRUARY PANTO – DICK WHITTINGTON Promenade Productions present their traditional family panto Dick Whittington, the story of the boy from Gloucestershire who sets out to find fame and fortune in London.

Performances Thursday and Friday at 7pm, Saturday and Sunday at 12pm and 4.30pm. Tickets £16 (adults) and £12 (children) from the box office at Cheltenham Playhouse – 01242 522852 or online: www.cheltplayhouse.org.uk 4 FEBRUARY THE GREATEST HITS OF MOTOWN – HOW SWEET IT IS This stunning live show combines first class music with slick choreography and an amazing band to deliver truly outstanding performances for the best Motown experience you will ever have!

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And, of course, you’ll marvel at oversize murals of Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos on Plaza de la Revolución – before going up its 142m-high José Martí Memorial.

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Father Father and and son son are are star star tturns urns Like father, like son. In the case of the James family that is most certainly true – well, almost.

Whereas dad David was a top junior pentathlete back in the day, son Henry is making impressive strides in the sport of triathlon.

Both are multi-discipline events, of course, and both require fitness, hard work, dedication and no little talent.

David – or Professor David James, Dean of Academic Development at the University of Gloucestershire to give him his full title – was a national champion some three decades ago, winning the British Junior Modern Pentathlon title in 1992.

Son Henry, meanwhile, is certainly a rising star, with the 19-year recently returning from his first overseas competition representing Great Britain where he finished in the top 10 in the elite Junior world duathlon championships in Spain.

Henry is Cheltenham born and bred – although he went to school at Sir Thomas Rich’s in Gloucester – but his dad is originally from Evesham, just over the county border in

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Worcestershire. David moved to Cheltenham after a few years in Sussex at the University of Brighton and the now 50-yearold has lived here for the past 25 years.

Gloucestershire has always been closely associated with modern pentathlon – think Richard Phelps and Graham Brookhouse back in the 80s and 90s – but it wasn’t the standout performances of those two Olympians that got David, who was also a British champion in several sports at under 16 and junior level, into modern pentathlon.

“We had a really strong swimming club in Evesham at the time,” he recalled.

“They produced a number of Olympians but it wasn’t just the swimming, the club were very strong on multi-sports.

“In those days, triathlon wasn’t as big as it is today, and wasn’t in the Olympics, so I chose modern pentathlon.”

And that’s a sport that if you w a n t t o m ak e a n i m pa c t – a n d David certainly made an impact – you have to be good at running, shooting, fencing and show jumping as well as swimming.

“Initially I did biathlons,” he said, “that’s a run/swim combination. I went to the nationals and my swimming was always good, it was my running that wasn’t so good.”

That wasn’t the case for too long.

“I started to excel in my runs and I went from doing triathlons to modern pentathlon, it was a revelation,” he said.

“I was never good enough at swimming to win at the top level even though I was still quite good, but the pentathlon was great because there were four other sports I was good at

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as well, which made me competitive.”

And he was a lot more than just “competitive”, of course, as is son son Henry who he is keeping a close eye on.

“He’s doing really well,” David said. “I never pushed him to do a similar sport as me, he kind of gravitated towards it.”

So what was it that got Henry into multi-sports – and triathlon in particular.

“I went to Hyde Park to watch the triathlon at the London Olympics,” he said. “It was from that moment really, I remember thinking, ‘This is pretty awesome’,” before adding with a laugh, “Dad says he never pushed me but it was always in the background, he always liked me to do it.”

Dad knew that young Henry had potential of course although, equally, there is a realisation that there is a long way to go if he is to attain his goals. He is currently focusing on the shorter distance triathlons but the expectation is that he will compete in the longer Half Ironman and Ironman in years to come.

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