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It’s murder out there There’s a killing in Provence to investigate in ITV drama

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THERE are certain places you might expect to encounter The Salvation Army – in a shopping centre at Christmas with a band playing carols; at a food bank, providing support for families; or on the streets of a city, helping people who are experiencing homelessness. One place you might not expect to find the church and charity is at the headquarters of the United Nations in New York. Yet, as we discover in this week’s War Cry, Major Victoria Edmonds works there as part of The Salvation Army’s International Social Justice Commission. As she explains in her interview, Victoria is raising awareness of The Salvation Army’s existing initiatives in various countries while also working to help the UN meet its 17 Sustainable Development Goals. ‘The secretary-general, António Guterres, has continued to push work with faith-based organisations, because he knows that they are already doing this type of work and that the UN can learn from it,’ she says. Victoria first visited the UN as a child with her mother. Now, almost 50 years on, she is working with the organisation. The future career of Ken Dark was also influenced by a childhood experience. While on holiday in Cornwall, 12-year-old Ken bought a book about the origins of the Arthurian legend. He read it, and then another book and then many more. It was to spark an interest in history and archaeology that led the now Professor Dark to discover a previously unknown town on the shore of the Sea of Galilee that dates back to Bible times. ‘Archaeology has a bright future as a tool to help us understand the emergence and growth of the community of people who believe in the divinity of Christ,’ Ken tells us. It’s always good to discover more about Christians and the positive impact they have made, whether in the 1st or 21st century. It’s also good to ad the War C e re ry discover for ourselves the difference that the u’v Christian faith can make to our own lives.

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UELLE horreur! A university professor is found dead in his study. Forensics reveal he was hit on the head with a blunt object. Investigating judge Antoine Verlaque is asked to cancel his mini-break to solve the case. And so begins ITV’s latest crime drama, Murder in Provence, which starts tomorrow (Sunday 17 July). It doesn’t take long for Antoine (Roger Allam) to deduce that victim Georges Moutte (Jeremy Clyde) was a complicated character. On the night of his murder, he held a party at which guests expected him to announce his retirement, appoint his successor and allocate a prestigious scholarship. He did none of that. ‘I’ve decided not to retire after all,’ revealed Georges. ‘This is due, let’s just say, to circumstances beyond my control.’ While the applicants for his job failed to hide their frustration, Georges announced that he would also be delaying his decision regarding the scholarship. Cue the disappointed faces from his students, each of whom had hoped to receive the huge grant. The next morning, Georges is dead. The news shocks the community. But when Antoine begins his investigation, he is surprised to come up with numerous potential suspects. There’s the university secretary, who is

Investigating judge is on the hunt for a killer in ITV drama TV preview by Claire Brine

caught leafing through bank statements in Georges’s apartment but won’t explain why. There’s the student with a criminal record, who got drunk after the party and whose fingerprints are found all over Georges’s office. And there’s the colleague, who had an argument with Georges when he learnt that he wasn’t about to retire. The more Antoine pieces together the evidence, the more confused he becomes as he tries to work out the murderer’s motive. ‘You don’t kill someone because you didn’t get a scholarship or a job,’ he tells his partner, Marine (Nancy Carroll), a criminal psychology professor. ‘Where’s the logic in that?’ ‘Logic isn’t a strong point for most killers,’ she replies. Antoine agrees. His career in the criminal justice system has taught him that people often commit outrageous acts not because they make sense, but because strong emotion can drive people to behave badly. Feelings are powerful – especially when they

People commit outrageous acts

become all-consuming. Even away from any highly charged crime scene, we all know what it’s like to find ourselves saying or doing things against our better judgement. Perhaps we speak unkindly to those we love, or get caught up in bad habits that we know have the potential to cause damage to our relationships or ourselves. Sometimes we feel guilty for our behaviour, but have no idea how to stop it. We’re not alone. The Bible writer Paul felt the same. ‘Even when I want to do right, I cannot,’ he said (Romans 7:18 Contemporary English Version). But he went on to explain that, in spite of their wrongdoing, anyone can find forgiveness from God and the power to live differently. He said that God’s ‘Holy Spirit will give you life that comes from Christ Jesus and will set you free from sin’ (8:2). Paul’s logic was that when we turn to Jesus, we can find freedom from the worst parts of our nature. Transformed by his love, we can discover how to live a life of joy and hope that we never thought possible. Magnifique!

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BACK IN THE HABIT OF PERFORMING After being postponed last year because of Covid-19 restrictions, gospel musical Sister Act has finally hit the stage Feature by Sarah Olowofoyeku

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NE day there was theatre and the next day there wasn’t. The impact of Covid at the beginning was massive,’ actor Clive Rowe tells me over the phone. We are discussing his role in the new production of the musical Sister Act, which began its run in Manchester last month, and what the pandemic has been like for him as an actor. ‘Theatre literally stopped,’ Clive says. ‘It was a shock to the system. But storytelling will always be a part of society. No matter what happens, stories will always be told. ‘There have been dark days, there have been hysterical days. Being an actor, you know you’re going to have times of unemployment – that’s part of the remit of what you do – but with Covid there was no light at the end of the tunnel. When you saw that there was not going to be any more theatre, you couldn’t ask yourself “What else can I do?” – because there was nothing else to do. It was a crazy time.’ But he is grateful to be back on stage, doing what he loves. He is currently playing the role of Eddie Souther in the gospel musical.

‘Eddie is a detective,’ he says. ‘Unfortunately he has gone through a situation where he has been put behind a desk, but he ends up being the detective who takes Deloris to the nunnery to hide in witness protection. ‘It’s beautifully written, with a couple of lovely songs, and it has been a joy to play. People are loving it. Standing ovations at shows, so we must be doing something right!’ The musical of Sister Act is based on the 1992 film of the same name, which starred Whoopi Goldberg. This run stars Beverley Knight and Sandra Marvin as lounge singer Deloris Van Cartier, and Jennifer Saunders and Lesley Joseph as Mother Superior. It tells the story of Deloris, who sees a murder committed by her gangster boyfriend and has to go into witness protection. Eddie takes her to a place where he thinks her boyfriend will never find her – a convent. She goes undercover as Sister Mary Clarence but is unimpressed by the strict life that the nuns must lead and the

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Clive Rowe plays detective Eddie Souther

rules she is given by Mother Superior. However, when she is made to join the choir, her love of music transforms her time at the convent and blesses the other sisters. Clive describes Deloris and the nuns’ encounters as ‘the meeting of two minds’. ‘You’ve got Deloris, who is completely and utterly devoid of a spiritual journey in the sense of God, and you’ve got the nuns who are completely entrenched in their spiritual journey. The show says that both those attitudes enhance both those sides. So it’s not just about the spirituality

that the nuns are opening up to Deloris, it’s also about the idea that Deloris’s drive and her love for music open up the nuns to a way of celebrating their faith and their God in a way they didn’t know they could.’ Clive mentions one of the songs at the end of the show, in which Deloris and Mother Superior describe what they have learnt from each other. Mother Superior sings, ‘Every song that we play’, and Deloris sings, ‘every prayer that we pray’, and both go on, ‘makes a bond in a way that’s profound’. Deloris describes the friendships and connections she has made as ‘a gift from above’. The song is about how bringing their two worlds together has given both of them a richer life, full of love. And it’s true that, for Christians, life isn’t meant to be lived in a holy bubble. Connecting with God and spirituality doesn’t mean sitting in church pews and shutting the door to all the enjoyable things in life. When anyone turns to God, they can experience his love and can live full lives,

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Sandra Marvin, as Deloris, helps the nuns celebrate their faith with music

enjoying the good things God has given. Clive comments: ‘As an agnostic, I understand that faith, belief and spirituality can enhance life but equally I know that there can be people with faith and belief who completely close out the rest of life, and don’t experience the fullness of life as they truly can. Ultimately, the show is a fun romp and part of that fun and part of that romp is to show how people can move together.’ Sister Act is billed as a feelgood gospel musical, and a large part of its fun is provided by its songs. ‘The show is rooted in the ’70s and gospel,’ says Clive. ‘Gospel music is written to uplift the spirit, to heighten your awareness and connect you to a spiritual side of you. And disco music in essence does that to your feet and your body and your limbs. So the show engages all parts of you, mentally and physically.’ As the show continues on its tour of the UK and the Republic of Ireland, Clive says he wants audiences at each performance ‘to leave feeling that they’ve had the best time that evening, that their spirits are lifted and that nothing can dampen them’.

Gospel music is written to uplift the spirit

Jennifer Saunders stars as Mother Superior

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A seat at Major VICTORIA EDMONDS, a senior UN representative for The Salvation Army’s International Social Justice Commission, explains why the church and charity’s presence in the global organisation makes a difference Interview by Sarah Olowofoyeku

ROWING up, Major Victoria Edmonds spent summers in New York with her parents and, every year, her mother would take her and her brother to the UN building. She loved strolling the halls as a tourist, but almost 50 years later, she strolls the halls in a different capacity – as a senior UN representative for The Salvation Army’s International Social Justice Commission (ISJC). The UN, which is made up of 193 countries, has 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that it is working towards achieving by 2030. More than just strolling the halls, The Salvation Army, Victoria says, has a seat at the table, helping the UN reach those goals. She notes how the church and charity’s work in many countries is aligned with the SDGs, which include ending poverty and hunger and providing quality education and clean water and sanitation. By being at the UN, Victoria is able to raise awareness of The Salvation Army’s existing initiatives around the world, such as schools or food programmes, and offer its support. She explains: ‘The secretary-general,

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António Guterres, has continued to push work with faith-based organisations, because he knows that they are already doing this type of work and that the UN can learn from it. So the UN will ask if they can visit one of the Salvation Army schools, or they will ask what we are doing to help the zero hunger Sustainable Development Goal, or how we are reducing poverty. ‘The Salvation Army is also part of committees – the indigenous committee, the migration committee, the human rights committee, the anti-trafficking committee, the children’s rights committee… Some people probably wonder how I have the time to do all that,’ she laughs. Each committee mostly meets just once a month, she explains, and sometimes a subgroup may meet to prepare for an event, such as the Commission on the Status of Women session, which took place earlier this year. ‘At the Commission on the Status of Women, they wanted women to sing. So I wrote to The Salvation Army across the world, looking for groups of women, from

about a hundred countries, who could sing,’ she explains. ‘For the children’s rights committee, I found out what is being done in Salvation Army schools. I co-ordinate what The Salvation Army is doing with what is happening in the UN. It gives us a voice and is a way for people to see what we do globally. ‘It’s a hard job, because I’m constantly looking at the conditions of the world. But I just have to think: How can I make an impact? How can The Salvation Army make an impact? What can we do to make life better?’ Victoria comments that in western countries, people may think certain issues arise only elsewhere. But her work has shown her that problems occur everywhere. ‘Here in America, children are getting married at the age of eight, FGM is taking place, children are going to school and they can’t read when they come out. Trafficking is one of the biggest profit-makers here and in other western countries, so it’s not just “over there”. Things are happening globally. But I can

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The ISJC team with Lopa Banerjee, director of the civil society division at UN Women

Major Victoria Edmonds represents The Salvation Army at the UN in New York

advocate for people every day.’ The Salvation Army is active in 132 countries, and much of its work is about meeting people’s needs and campaigning for social justice. ‘We believe that people are all created equal,’ she says. ‘We want people to

have their fair share. We want women and children to be able to attend school and we don’t want early marriage, forced marriages and the trafficking of women or men or children. We live by the standards of Scripture. ‘We value people – their lives are important. People having the opportunity to have food, education, water, sanitation – that’s important to us.’ And people have value, Victoria believes, because they are made in the image of God. She finds it upsetting to see so much injustice and so many people not being treated as though they are worthy. But her faith helps. She admits: ‘It hurts to see that another human could do the things that they do to children and think it’s OK. Seeing things

that are happening globally first-hand hurts. But I’m grounded in Jesus Christ, and so I turn to prayer. I have friends here in the UN, in the ecumenical women committee. We have no problem calling each other up to pray for an issue or a country.’ Victoria says that she feels honoured to hold the position that she does, describing her appointment as ‘a dream come true’. ‘I don’t look at it as a job,’ she says. ‘It’s an opportunity to carry out ministry, not in the sense that I’m preaching to people here, but in that I’m living out my Christian ethics before them. I feel blessed to do this, because I believe in advocacy for those who have been downtrodden, those who have been left out and those who have been left behind.’

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It’s a question of time Next Friday (22 July) is #AskAnArchaeologist Day, when the organisers of the annual nationwide Festival of Archaeology encourage people to post their questions on Twitter and any archaeologist who has the answer to respond. Ahead of the day, the War Cry itself did some digging and asked archaeologist Professor KEN DARK why he is fascinated by the past, what techniques archaeologists use and what information he has unearthed Interview by Philip Halcrow

How did you become interested in archaeology? It happened when I visited Tintagel in Cornwall on a family holiday when I was about 12 years old. It was a rainy day and, there not being much to do, I bought a book called All about King Arthur, which purported to give an account of the origins of the Arthurian legend. It contained a lot of history and archaeology. Before that, I hadn’t been interested in either. But I read the book – possibly twice – before we went home. I was absolutely taken with it. As well as Tintagel, we went to Glastonbury, which also has strong Arthurian associations, and I bought a book there that seemed to be the next step up in detail. It was Arthur’s Britain by Leslie Alcock, which – although I didn’t know it at the time – was pretty much the textbook for university students on the archaeology of the west of Britain in what might be called the Dark Ages. I read it on the way home. Then, having seen all the books and articles mentioned in the bibliography, I went to the local library and asked for them. To me, it was a teenage hobby – it might as well have been stamp collecting – but unbeknownst to me I acquired quite a lot of knowledge about archaeology and history. By the time I was 14, I had decided I wanted to be an archaeologist. In the careers session at my school in London, the teacher asked what we wanted to be. I put my hand up and said: ‘A professional field archaeologist

Professor Ken Dark

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KEN DARK

Roman-period column fragments that Ken has identified as probably being from the previously lost town of Dalmanutha specialising in the Dark Ages period.’ The archaeology of what we now call late antiquity – the centuries immediately before and after the end of the Roman Empire in the west – is still a central element of my archaeological work. Why have you paid so much attention to that period? The period from the fourth century to the seventh century is a fascinating one. It’s when the European nations and languages formed. It’s also when a largely pagan Europe and Middle East became a largely Christian Europe and Middle East, before the rise of Islam changed that balance again in the Middle East. Studying that period is an opportunity to watch, as it were, a major state – the Roman Empire – collapse and re-form as a series of first independent kingdoms and then as states of their own: the

modern European and Middle Eastern polities. Archaeology, together with history, has an opportunity to answer some of the big questions about that period, which can have implications for how we live today – the questions that social scientists ask, such as: How do states collapse? Why? How do new identities form? And how do people change religion? What other areas of archaeology have you worked on? As my career developed, I became interested in the theory and method of archaeology – how to do it. And, having been interested in the history of the Bible since I was young, I have also worked on biblical archaeology. If archaeology can shed light on questions, what information can it potentially provide about the development of early Christianity? Archaeology has a bright future as a tool to help us understand the emergence and growth of the community of people who believe in the divinity of Christ. In modern mainstream archaeology, we are not looking to find definitive proof of religious truth. Archaeology is not going to provide an alternative narrative to Scripture. What it can do is to provide verification of individual people, events and historical circumstances. For example, there has been a modern

myth that Nazareth didn’t exist in the first century AD. This has been absolutely refuted by archaeology. No one who has studied the archaeology of Nazareth could claim that it didn’t exist. So archaeology can confirm places. Archaeology can also confirm types of activity. For example, Jewish ritual purity is evidenced by texts, but we now also have a lot of archaeology relating to the practice. Stone water jars – mentioned

Archaeology can illuminate what life was like in the biblical story of how Jesus turned water into wine at the wedding feast at Cana – are common finds in what is now Israel. As well as places and practices, we can occasionally confirm people, usually from discovering inscriptions. So, finds can provide context and a deeper understanding of biblical history than we could find in the texts alone. Archaeology can illuminate what life was like in a certain time and place in a way that no book can. It can reconstruct the social organisation, the economic organisation, the beliefs and the everyday

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The Sea of Galilee

From page 9 life of people worldwide. Even if people have tried to keep aspects of their lives secret, archaeology can find them. The scale of archaeology worldwide is often not appreciated. Thousands of excavations go on every year in the UK alone, as well as archaeological surveys and other methods that mean we now don’t have to dig to find out information. Is it technology that has made digging sometimes unnecessary? Some of it is. We can detect and learn things about archaeological sites in farmland by using aerial photography, because differences in a ripening crop will create marks that show buried walls, ditches and so forth, allowing us to draw the plans of settlements and field systems that are not visible at ground level. In recent years we have been able to supplement that by using satellite imagery and using different spectra of light to detect features. We can also use technology to survey the ground. Geophysics consists of a series of techniques that can enable archaeologists effectively to see beneath the soil. By walking or driving with a scientific instrument over a piece of land in a systematic way, we can get a computer read-out that gives a plan of the landscape, enabling us to see the outline of buildings, ditches, earthen enclosures and field systems. Sometimes we can detect other types of activity. For example,

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intense burning from metalworking is easily detectable. Those are high-tech methods, but low-tech archaeological surveying can be equally informative. For instance, from the 1920s, archaeologists have been aware that, if you walk through a ploughed field and record bits of pottery and other fragmentary objects, then plot them in a distribution across the field and do the same in field after field, you can detect the pattern of settlements through time. This technique, called field walking, is very effective. It was the technique I used round the Sea of Galilee where, without doing any digging, aerial photography or geophysics, we detected a previously undiscovered town. What did you find? We had expected to find a pattern of small farms in the Roman period – and probably also in subsequent periods – but instead found a massive single settlement that produced the sort of objects that led to the interpretation that this wasn’t a farm or a village but a town, right on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. In fact, it’s probably Dalmanutha. It’s a town that is mentioned in the Gospels and that Jesus visited, but it was not known archaeologically until we did our field walking. From analysis of the objects we found, we can say something about its architecture – for instance, we found a lot of cubes from mosaic floors – and

something about the way of life of the people who lived there. It seems to have at least included a Jewish population and, judging from the date of the objects found within this cluster of material, it seems to have been in existence from before

We detected a previously undiscovered town the time of the Gospels to well into the Byzantine period. Strangely enough, about a decade before we did our work, water level changes had exposed a fishing boat from the first century – it had been recorded by Israeli archaeologists and there’s a museum for it on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. The boat was in one of the harbours of our previously undiscovered town. What kind of insights into biblical history can archaeology provide? Archaeology, together with texts outside the Bible, has helped people understand quite a lot of the New Testament. For instance, in my own work, the discovery that the area around the Sea of Galilee was densely populated by what we could call ‘nucleated populations’ – that is to say, clustered populations – taking advantage of the resources available in the Sea of Galilee, which is very rich in

A 2,000-year-old boat was found on the western shore of Galilee in the years before Ken began the work that uncovered the lost town

fish, sounds a trivial point of no relevance to the Gospels. But it may explain why Jesus spent so long around the Sea of Galilee: it was where the people were. If you were going to speak to four or five thousand people, you weren’t going to find that in rural Galilee or in much of the countryside of the Holy Land. And going to one of the big towns, such as Jerusalem or Caesarea, to speak to

thousands of people and say things that weren’t in accordance with the party line would have proved extremely hazardous, given the nature of Roman imperialism. So a good way to spread the word would have been to go to places round the Sea of Galilee, because that’s where people were, but Roman authority was not so strongly apparent. What would you like to find out more about through archaeology? I would like to have the opportunity to investigate the cemetery surrounding the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, the church built in Roman times over what was believed to be the site of Christ’s burial. But there are

other questions. Not much archaeological work has been carried out in Bethlehem, just as 100 years ago not much had been published about the archaeology of Nazareth. Nazareth was not well studied archaeologically before my research on Nazareth and its hinterland. One of the things I found during it was a church whose crypt was said by the Byzantines to have within it the house where Jesus grew up. I did find a first-century domestic building there. Whether it was Jesus’ house, I cannot say. Essentially, the Byzantines might very well have been correct, but equally they might have been incorrect. It would be good to have much more work on the earliest pilgrimage sites that the Christians of the Roman Empire used. It would be useful to know whether the sites really did originate in the first century. I think they probably were places that were remembered by Roman-period Christians as being where biblical events did take place. Whether their memories were correct, I can’t tell you, but they probably were not just invented. When the Roman state became Christian, it invested in developing these places as pilgrimage centres, so I’m not saying that there wasn’t a certain amount of spin put on them. But at several of them there does seem to be an early core that predates imperial involvement. Why do you do your archaeological work? My motivation for being an archaeologist can be summed up in a simple sentence that I often use: telling the truth about the past. l Ken Dark is visiting professor at the University of Navarra, Spain

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Lord Jesus Christ, I am truly sorry for the things I have done wrong in my life. Please forgive me. I now turn from everything that I know is wrong. Thank you that you died on the cross for me so that I could be forgiven and set free. Thank you that you offer me forgiveness and the gift of your Holy Spirit. Please come into my life by your Holy Spirit to be with me for ever. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Amen

talk ‘ ’ Team talk TEAM TALK We can rebuild our lives on forgiveness

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HOW does a person survive and rebuild their life when they have suffered an atrocity? One way, suggests journalist Marina Cantacuzino, is by practising forgiveness – a concept that she has been exploring for 20 years. I have been listening to Radio 4’s week-long series Forgiveness: Stories from the Front Line (now available on BBC Sounds), in which Marina hears from five individuals who have found peace and strength by forgiving the people who destroyed their lives. The first story I heard was that of Rosalyn, a mum who was sexually violated when a rapist broke into her home and attacked her at knifepoint. She told Marina about the day she met her attacker as part of a restorative justice programme. ‘I don’t forgive the act, but I forgive the man that you are today,’ she told him, as he sobbed uncontrollably. She explained that bestowing forgiveness gave her back a feeling of power, which was vital for her if she was to move on with her life. Another profound interview from the series was with Anglican priest Father Michael Lapsley, an anti-apartheid campaigner who lost both his hands in 1990 when he opened a letter bomb. He outlined to Marina his attitude towards forgiveness. ‘I can choose to forgive and I do it as an act of healthy selfishness,’ he said. ‘I do it in order that I may be free. It’s very interesting that in the Greek of the New Testament, the word for “forgiveness” is aphiemi – the same word as untying a knot. So I untie the knot of me being a prisoner by choosing to forgive you.’ While I’m not sure that I could ever be as gracious as Rosalyn or Father Michael, their outlook on the importance of forgiveness and the example they have set inspire me. Forgiveness, I understand, can be the hardest thing in the world – especially if the people who have hurt us aren’t sorry. But what, I wonder, are the consequences of not forgiving? Are we setting ourselves up for prolonged feelings of anger, pain and bitterness? Are we limiting our capacity for joy in the next chapter of our lives? Though forgiveness can be life-changing for the person who receives it, surely its greatest gift is liberating the one who offers it.

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6 9 7 2 5 3 8 7 9 7 9 2 1 7 3 8 3 6 18. Tennis shot (3) 20. Pope (7) 21. Perspire (5) 22. Move strategically (6) 23. Ward off (5) 24. Confirmation (5) 25. Pale (5) 27. Ease tension (5)

8 2 4 1 6 3 9 7 5 6 7 backwards 1 9 4and5diagonally 8 2 3 Look up, down, forwards, on the grid to find these composers 5 3 9 7 2 8 6 1 4 P W W I H O N A1M T P L8E 9 H C2A 4 R Q7 5 R3O 6 R Z Y E N O G L V S N Y N Q ZMMX A J 6 A8W 4 R R S N T I J S2F Q Z S7C 1 Q I5 T 3 A O9 I Q S I G A C D4A N D Q B T Z O Q E C 9 7 3 5 2 1 8 H6 C Z U Y O Y Z C S C Z D Q T H A E B QN 4 E2P 5 H W B J J T G I 9U S P E1V 7 E R3D 6I W8 A H E J G T B K3Q P A Q Y G I A 1 6 8 9 4 Z7P 5I I2 R C D Y A R B E T T O L R A H C OQ P L 8 C5M G 2 O3E 6 D Q E O S L H Z7L L H N4Z 9 B L1

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Each solution starts on the coloured cell and reads clockwise round the number

WG A C GQ N E E Z R H S N I Q Z R F H

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1. Primary colour 2. Eight pints 3. Cloth hanging over a bed 4. Notable sight 5. Hug 6. Oval edible nut-like kernel

4 1 9 3 8 7 2 6 5

8 9 3

1 9 7 6 4 3 5 8 2

6 4 2 8 7 5 1 9 3

3 5 8 9 1 2 7 4 6

9 8 6 2 5 1 3 7 4

7 2 1 4 3 8 6 5 9

5 3 4 7 9 6 8 2 1

3 6 2 2

1 7 3

HONEYCOMB 1. Yellow. 2. Gallon. 3. Canopy. 4. Eyeful. 5. Cuddle. 6. Almond. QUICK CROSSWORD ACROSS: 1. Prank. 4. Adept. 8. Nil. 9. Motto. 10. Ennui. 11. Who. 12. Mirth. 13. Vatican. 16. Scrawl. 19. Upends. 23. Appease. 26. Nurse. 28. Pit. 29. Epoch. 30. Inlet. 31. Oaf. 32. Fancy. 33. Fixed. DOWN: 2. After. 3. Know-how. 4. Alcove. 5. Eject. 6. Tonic. 7. Alien. 9. Mumps. 14. Ice. 15. And. 17. Cap. 18. Ace. 20. Pontiff. 21. Sweat. 22. Deploy. 23. Avert. 24. Proof. 25. Ashen. 27. Relax.

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WORDSEARCH

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DOWN 2. Following (5) 3. Expertise (4-3) 4. Recess (6) 5. Expel (5) 6. Something which invigorates (5) 7. Extraterrestrial (5) 9. Infectious disease (5) 14. Frozen water (3) 15. Also (3) 17. Headwear (3)

Fill the grid so that every column, every row and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9

D U A L C I E A X C

B H F L C P V B E A

K H A A I Q O F T B

G X R Y N T WN K Q O I H T L O N F N A

M C O Y A F E R N I

Q F N L U D E E K T

K Q I L Z D B N D S

R N O O E C N C D A

Z N V R O G A E S B

O S I R K D V P L E

P C V E H Y G R I S

C Q I B A L Q I H P X K I W I C WR N N

Z A D I G Z D E L A

Q U I C H P U Q V H

Q I Z A HM R S WR P P L X RO Z R O J

CHARLOTTE BRAY

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

CLAUDE DEBUSSY

JOHN WILLIAMS

ERROLLYN WALLEN FLORENCE PRICE

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN

FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN

PHILIP GLASS

GIACOMO PUCCINI

RACHEL PORTMAN

GIUSEPPE VERDI

RICHARD WAGNER

ANTONIO VIVALDI

Summer crab tacos Ingredients 200g strawberries, hulled and roughly chopped 1 lime, ½ juice, plus zest 1 green chilli, chopped 8 taco shells 300g fresh crab meat

Method Soften the strawberries by combining them with the lime juice and chilli in a bowl and set aside for 10 minutes. Warm the taco shells in the oven according to the packet instructions. Combine the crab meat with the lime zest and some salt and pepper. Fill the taco shells with the lettuce and avocados. Top with the crab meat, strawberries, a scattering of coriander and some soured cream, if using. Serve immediately.

Salt and ground black pepper 2 Little Gem lettuces, shredded 2 avocados, peeled, stoned and sliced

SERVES

Fresh coriander, torn 150g soured cream (optional)

Healthier strawberry ice cream Ingredients 200g strawberries, hulled and chopped 1 ripe banana ½ tsp lemon juice 2tbsp low-fat yoghurt 1tbsp honey or maple syrup (optional)

Method Freeze the strawberries overnight. Add the frozen strawberries, banana, lemon juice, yoghurt and honey or maple syrup, if using, to a blender or use a stick blender and whizz into ice cream. Alternatively, use a fork to mash the fresh unfrozen strawberries with the banana and other ingredients in a container and freeze until firm enough to scoop. Serve the scoops in cones.

Ice cream cones, to serve SERVES

Recipes reprinted, with permission, from the British Summer Fruits website lovefreshberries.co.uk Recipes reprinted, with permission, from the Vegetarian Society website vegsoc.org

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