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friend’s killing pushed me to God’
Paris hosts Paralympics
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After the excitement of the Olympic Games earlier this month, eyes will again be focusing on Paris as competitors at the Paralympics provide more sporting excellence.
As we report this week, Channel 4 will be bringing viewers more than 1,300 hours of live events, including those featuring athletes representing ParalympicsGB. Each competitor will need to be at the top of their game to be in with a chance of winning a medal.
Many of those watching them will be inspired by their achievements – just as they were when watching the Olympics. Particularly so if they are aware of the challenges that an athlete has faced.
Such inspiration may help those fans to overcome some of the difficulties they encounter in their own lives, whether or not they share the specific challenges that athletes have had to contend with. They could be facing relationship breakdown, significant financial problems or even the realities of life in a violent or unsettled neighbourhood.
In an interview in this week’s issue, Preston Perry tells us how, growing up in Chicago, he woke one morning to the sound of gunfire. As he looked out on the street, he saw his friend being gunned down in cold blood.
The experience was a wake-up call for Preston, who decided that he would move to the suburbs of his city and live with an aunt who was a church pastor. The move, together with the influence of a young Christian mentor, changed him.
Preston is now a performance poet, and he draws on his skills with language to communicate his Christian faith to others. He explains that writing also helps him to stay close to God.
Whoever we are and whatever challenges we may face, if we follow Preston’s example and allow God to change us as people, then it’s possible for each of us to live a life of excellence and worth.
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Golden opportunity
Paralympic action is open to all
Feature by Emily Bright
Likely to win a TV audience of tens of millions in the UK alone, the Paralympic Games, which begin on Wednesday (28 August), are set to captivate the sporting world. All eyes will be on the competitors, whether they are making their Paralympic debut or are already household names.
The ParalympicsGB team line-up in Paris is rich with previous gold medal winners. David Weir, Jonnie Peacock and Hannah Cockcroft are returning to the track, with their events taking place at the Stade de France. Meanwhile, at the
Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Velodrome, gold medal-winning paracyclists Kadeena Cox and Dame Sarah Storey are looking to make history once again – the latter competing in a recordbreaking ninth Games.
The GB team of some 230 athletes are taking part in a total of 19 sports, including swimming, archery, powerlifting, wheelchair tennis and equestrian eventing. There are events for all spectators to enjoy.
Television host Clare Balding, five-time Paralympic swimming champion Ellie Simmonds and deaf actress Rose Ayling-Ellis will present the action live from Paris 2024 on Channel 4 – and the broadcaster is aiming to make its coverage as inclusive as possible.
More than 1,300 hours of live sport will be aired with subtitles across its networks and YouTube channel.
Some of its coverage will also have closed audio description
Channel 4 CEO Alex Mahon said: ‘We’re incredibly proud that these will be the most accessible Games yet and that we will make the sport available across even more platforms. It means everyone can witness the soaring success and drama of these elite
The Paralympics and the coverage of them provide a reminder that sport is for all people to enjoy.
The sense of inclusivity and accessibility surrounding the Paralympic Games is a trait to be treasured.
In wider society, people can be overlooked or undervalued, judged on what they achieve rather than who they are. Yet there is one place in which anyone can find unconditional love and acceptance: in a relationship with God. When we decide to follow him, we are welcomed into his family.
In the Bible, God promises never to stop loving us. Using poetic language, he says: ‘The mountains and hills may crumble, but my love for you will never end’ (Isaiah 54:10 Good News Bible).
That promise lasts for ever. When our race is run on Earth we can be reassured that – while everything else will disappear – God’s love for us will continue, right through into eternity.
But, before then, we can experience it every single day of our life. And we can know that, whatever hurdles we may face, God values and accepts us.
We don’t need to win God’s love – we can just be ourselves with him and make a daily choice to follow and obey him.
Enjoying a life defined by his unconditional love is a prize like no other.
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I know this much is true
Sarah Olowofoyeku gives her take on a story that has caught the attention of War Cry reporters
Claire Finney had finally plucked up the courage to come clean. On a third date with her boyfriend, the food writer revealed her secret – she hated oysters.
In an article in The Guardian, describing this moment that she says changed her life, Claire wrote: ‘To be a food writer who hates oysters is like being an author who despises Dickens. They are part of the culinary canon.’
She explained that by the time she met her partner, Chris, she’d got faking oysters ‘down to a fine art’, but when he asked to share some oysters at dinner, she felt that she was at a fork in the road.
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‘I could lie, as I usually did – but it felt as if I’d be doing him and our budding relationship a disservice,’ wrote Claire.
She decided to tell him the truth, and it was met with amusement, leading them into a fun conversation – the type of which she says has been a key ingredient in their relationship two years on. And what’s more, her revelation led to her own epiphany.
Claire wrote: ‘It taught me that better, deeper connections with others are usually rooted in truthfulness.’
While honesty about culinary preferences may not seem particularly groundbreaking, it is countercultural. I often think about how we live in a society where this lack of truth is normalised. Out of politeness, we don’t let someone know when they have offended us. On social media, we present polished images of ourselves. We tell white lies to make people feel better.
In the moment it makes us feel better too. Because the reality is, the truth isn’t always easy to tell. We don’t want to hurt people or experience rejection. But truth can be told with kindness; it doesn’t have to destroy people. In the long run, Claire is right. Our connections with others will be better and deeper if we’re honest.
And my most important connection is with God, who wants to know the real me. When I tell him the truth about how I’m feeling or where I’ve gone wrong, he’ll always meet me with understanding, acceptance, forgiveness and love.
That assurance should give me the confidence to be truthful in all my interactions. It’s the secret to better connections.
n King Charles, Greta Thunberg and a Womble have appeared in Norfolk churches – as sculptures made out of recycled material.
The Diocese of Norwich has teamed up with schoolchildren in the county to create the Eco-Angels Pilgrim Trail, which celebrates people who have campaigned to protect the environment.
Twelve sculptures have been crafted from lampshades, cardboard and willow and have been placed in churches across the region.
The trail was launched by the Bishop of Norwich, the Right Rev Graham Usher.
He said: ‘In the Bible we find angels giving us messages from God. We have an angel announcing the birth of Jesus. Sometimes they bring joyful messages, sometimes a warning. These eco-angels are carrying a message about how we look after this planet home that we have been given.’
A sculpture of Kings Charles in All Saints Church, Weston Longville
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Olympic bell rings off at cathedral
The Paris Olympics bell – which provided the soundtrack to track and field events at the Stade de France – will hang in Notre Dame Cathedral, The Independent reports.
In a practice instigated at the Paris Games, track athletes such as Noah Lyles, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and Keely Hodgkinson (pictured) all rang the bell after winning gold medals.
The bell, which is engraved with the words ‘Paris 2024’, will hang in one of the cathedral’s belltowers after the Games.
Notre Dame – which is being refurbished after a 2019 fire damaged its roof and spire – is scheduled to reopen to the public on 8 December.
Pierre-Andrew Lacout, a manager at the Stade de France, said: ‘A part of the Games and the Olympic spirit will remain in Notre Dame for life.’
From rags to environmental riches
Dunelm has teamed up with The Salvation Army to help people recycle their unwanted textiles, reported Ideal Home magazine.
The homeware retailer’s Online Textile Takeback Scheme accepts household textiles, including clothing, bedding, towels, curtains, cushions, blankets and throws, from any brand and in any condition.
To send items off, people can visit Dunelm’s website and enter their details to receive a free shipping label.
Depending on condition, the items sent will either be remade into something else or resold, with the proceeds going to The Salvation Army.
Christina Downend, head of climate change and sustainability at Dunelm, said the scheme meant that ‘customers can help to reduce unnecessary waste whilst supporting the fantastic work being done across the UK for people in need’.
nThe Archbishop of York has blessed and rehomed four orphan hedgehogs in his garden, BBC News reports.
Kermit, Peanut, Ginger and Corsa were found abandoned and dehydrated at a farm in North Yorkshire, but were rescued and hand-fed by Sarah Patterson (pictured with the Archbishop), who runs Dringhouses Hedgehog Rescue from her garden in York.
All four hedgehogs have now been released in the grounds of Bishopthorpe Palace, the archbishop’s official residence. The Most Rev Stephen Cottrell has gone the whole hog and offered to rehome more of the insectivores in future.
‘Bishopthorpe Palace is an enclosed environment with an abundance of natural food, so it’s a great place for these orphans,’ said Sarah. ‘The release was a blessed moment, it was so heartwarming because the archbishop did a blessing over the hedgehogs.’
Animal welfare charity the RSPCA celebrates its 200th anniversary this year – and the organisation hasn’t forgotten the Christian principles of its founders
Feature by Emily Bright
Waiting in the reception corridor of Finsbury Park Animal Hospital, I spot a wall that is covered in adorable mugshots of cats – some of the 300 rescued by the RSPCA and treated here last year. With its eight wards, two operating theatres and diagnostic and laboratory facilities, the hospital provides a veterinary hub in the heart of north London, serving all creatures great and small.
Thankfully, I’m not here because a pet is in peril. I’m here to meet the RSPCA’s chief executive Chris Sherwood. We sit in one of the hospital’s consulting rooms to talk about 200 years of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the charity which, as well as rescuing and rehabilitating pets and wildlife, lobbies for legislation, prosecutes animal cruelty cases and provides educational resources and activities for schools.
Chris starts at the beginning, explaining how the charity first came about.
‘In 1824, leading statespeople – including the MP Richard Martin, the Rev Arthur Broome and anti-
slavery campaigner William Wilberforce – met in Old Slaughter’s Coffee House in Soho. Back in 1824 practices like bearbaiting and cockfighting were seen as normal, and these people were saying this wasn’t right.’
Chris acknowledges that the faith of those three founders – and their understanding of Scripture – played an important role in shaping the charity as we know it today.
‘The RSPCA is a secular organisation, but it does have those roots with people of faith,’ he says. ‘In the Book of Genesis in the Bible, it says that God created the world in seven days – and not just humanity but also the animal kingdom. I think for humans, we’ve got that responsibility to animals who can’t articulate their voice in the same way that we can.’
For the founders, speaking out about animal welfare was a matter of conscience.
‘William Wilberforce wrote and talked about a social consciousness that it matters how we relate to one another, animals and the planet,’ says Chris.
‘That social consciousness underpinned the founding of the RSPCA. The vision of a world where all animals are respected and treated with kindness and compassion is still that golden thread that goes through the organisation.’
We work with pets and with wildlife
Since
its founding, the charity has been at the forefront of caring for animals.
Throughout the First World War, the RSPCA treated 2.5 million animals injured in battle. During the Second World War, inspectors rescued animals from the ruins of bombed buildings. The RSPCA also helped during the foot-and-mouth crisis of 2001. More recently, its inspectors and rescue officers were keyworkers, helping animals during the Covid pandemic. Another strand of the charity’s work is lobbying the UK government to crack down on animal cruelty. The RSPCA has had a hand in 400 pieces of legislation
in its history, such as the 2006 Animal Welfare Act, which enforces a prison sentence of up to five years for cruelty and neglect, and the 2024 Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Act, which prevents farm animals being sent abroad for slaughter.
RSPCA staff also fight to ensure that the law is upheld.
‘We continue to be the main prosecuting body for animal cruelty in England and Wales,’ Chris says. ‘We’ve been doing that since 1824. We investigate allegations of cruelty and abuse, and take cases through the court.’
Being on the front line in rescuing and rehabilitating animals is the cornerstone of the charity.
‘Our inspectors will bring animals into our facilities for initial treatment, and then often they will be networked out to one of our animal centres for that rehabilitation,’ explains Chris. ‘We work with pets, but
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we work with wildlife as well, in our four wildlife centres.’
The organisation also advocates animal welfare in farming.
‘Our RSPCA Assured scheme is the world’s largest welfare-based farming certification scheme,’ says Chris. ‘It operates across the UK, and it basically assures that farms rear to the standards that the charity accepts. That includes salmon, pigs, laying hens and broiler chickens.’
Given that the charity has a fairly wide brief, I wonder which part of being chief executive Chris enjoys the most.
‘The most rewarding bit of my role is getting out into our centres and spending time with our inspectors and with our animal rescue officers, and hearing about the work that they do,’ he replies. ‘That’s the thing that I draw my strength and my inspiration from.’
His love of visiting RSPCA centres becomes clear as he gives me a tour of the hospital, and – just as I’ve been hoping – we pause to meet one of the canine patients, who makes her presence heard in the food storage room. Beretta came in underweight, with a fracture on her front
right elbow. Chris kneels down, gently offering her a treat given to him by one of her carers.
Reluctantly we leave her behind to continue our tour past an x-ray room, isolation wards for very sick pets and an investigations room, where staff can process samples for evidence in abuse and cruelty cases. Staff buzz in and out of rooms as we walk past.
We are called to care for the planet and its animals
As we chat to members of staff during the tour, I discover that the hospital primarily sees cats and dogs, but cares for smaller animals such as rabbits and guinea pigs too. Three guinea pigs were taken into the hospital over the weekend, with another born soon after. An abandoned snake, hedgehogs and foxes have come in on previous occasions.
Suppressing a desire to belt out ‘All Things Bright and Beautiful’ at the sheer variety of animals mentioned, my mind wanders back to how the charity – which
now shares its expertise and experience across Europe, Africa and Asia – had humble beginnings 200 years ago with a handful of Christians who met in a coffee house.
To this day, Christian employees continue to take up the founders’ mantle and are shaping the organisation in their own way. Jake Massey is one of the RSPCA’s fundraising team.
‘As a Christian,’ he says, ‘I believe the same God that created me also created the Earth and all animals that share it with us. In fact, he created animals before humans, blessing them – as it says in Genesis – and allowing them to increase in number and fill the Earth.
‘Throughout the Bible we are called to care for the planet and its animals. In the Book of Proverbs, it says the righteous care for the needs of their animals, and in the Book of Exodus, we are told to care for working animals.
‘The RSPCA’s mission is to be there for every kind of creature and to treat them all with the respect they deserve. I believe I am called to care for God’s creatures. This is what motivates me to work for the RSPCA and end cruelty, neglect and harm.’
The RSPCA cares for tens of thousands of animals every year
Truth to tell
Performance poet and author PRESTON PERRY recalls how one moment changed the course of his life and explains why it’s important to engage people and their stories
Interview by Emily Bright
Aquiet spring morning in Chicago was shattered by the sound of gunshots echoing in the distance. A second round of shots rang out, this time closer. Teenager Preston Perry – who was still in bed – stuck his head out of the window of his home. He spotted his friend Chris, wide-eyed with terror, running down the street. Seconds later, a man followed in pursuit, firing a pistol. Chris fell.
Preston raced downstairs, called out to his mum and rushed to his friend’s aid. Together with three of his other friends, he hovered helplessly as his mother tended to the gunshot wounds. As Chris bled out, begging not to die, Preston did the only thing he could think of – he called a pastor.
He retells this formative encounter with Christianity – and what happened next – in his book, How to Tell the Truth
When Chris died, it was a wake-up call for teenage Preston. Later that week, he called his Aunt Denise, a church pastor who lived in the suburbs south of Chicago. She agreed to let him stay with her on the condition that he attended church.
She also introduced him to a young man who would become his mentor. Initially sceptical, Preston began playing basketball with Gary Brown, who modelled what it really meant to be a young Christian man from Chicago.
Preston had grown up around kind and generous Christians like his grandmother. So, as he tells me
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Preston Perry
when we meet in central London, he ‘had this idea that people came to know the Lord once they were older’.
However, when Gary showed up – a former gang member and drug dealer whose life had been transformed by God – Preston realised that Christianity wasn’t just for older folk. Gary dressed and spoke like the people Preston grew up with. So, he was relatable.
Looking back, Preston sees that his relationships with various Christians were pivotal in his discovering faith.
‘I feel like in different seasons in my life, God provided different people to teach me something different about himself,’ he says. ‘Even though I didn’t grow up in church, I saw my grandmother love God with her heart, mind and strength and love people.
‘Later on, God put somebody in my life who came from my context. Gary loved Jesus and loved people and was a young dude from the south side of Chicago. Without those people being in my life, I don’t think I would know the Lord. It was huge for me.’
Under Gary’s guidance, Preston began exploring his faith. He grappled with how to reconcile his upbringing with a loving God.
‘Growing up in the hood, I didn’t know what was wrong,’ he recalls. ‘In a lot of ways it was normalised to see and to hear
certain things. But I did have questions like: “If God loved me, why didn’t I have a relationship with my father? If God loved me, why did my friends get killed?”’
But, as time went on, Preston saw God’s presence in the events of his past.
‘God used situations – he didn’t cause them – to help shape and mould me. When my friend Chris was shot and killed, that pushed me to the Lord.
‘God is a master at using the sinful things of this world to help draw people to him and to help reveal himself, in the same way he used the death of his own Son to make me be here talking about him right now.’
Talking about God is the subject of How to Tell the Truth, which explores how Christians can communicate the gospel to those around them in a relatable way. As a performance poet, Preston is well versed in putting his faith into words. He believes that an important part of sharing the gospel is listening to and engaging with people’s stories.
Poetry helps you to express deep feelings
‘When people share their story, we don’t hear it,’ he says, ‘because we’re so concerned with policies and laws, not stories and people. We need to individualise people, we need to honour people. I always try to remember to treat people like they’re made in the image of God.
‘In the Gospel of John, I love the fact that it says: “Then Jesus saw a blind man.” The story doesn’t start off with
Jesus healing a blind man; it starts off with Jesus seeing him. Jesus was moved with compassion, because he didn’t just see the blind man’s situation, he saw him. He was moved with compassion, because he was in touch with him.
‘There’s a reason Jesus, in his humanity, is significant. God became man to dwell amongst his own creation, to experience life with us. He didn’t just tell us what to do from Heaven. He came to do life with us, to eat with us, to sit with us, to love us, to commune with us.’
Preston talks about his faith eloquently and enthusiastically. On YouTube, there are videos of him performing poetry on the subject. I wonder how using the spoken word helps him to connect with people. He says that he takes his lead from the Bible.
‘One of the reasons why the Scriptures use poetry is it helps you to express deep feelings that sometimes you can’t say normally. I like to use words, imagery,
metaphor – these mechanics that are used in poetry help create visuals.
‘Visual writing helps me dream, see and remember. That’s what poetry does – it paints a picture that never leaves my mind. I think it has helped my faith, because it has helped me to remember God.’
As well as being keen to tell his story, Preston believes God uses people from all kinds of backgrounds to spread the message of his love.
‘Look at the apostles. Jesus didn’t go to the synagogue and call those cats. He called fishermen and a tax collector. He came to call normal people.
‘When it was time for the apostles to be bold, the Holy Spirit came. When Jesus died, one of the first things they did was they went into a crib and hid, and the resurrected Christ had to appear, walk through a door and was like: “I told you all of this was going to happen. Why are you hiding?”
‘But then the next couple of verses over, it says that Peter and John healed a man who was crippled, and God empowered them and gave them Holy Spirit boldness to speak.
‘That shows me that trusting in the Holy Spirit will empower me to be bold when the time calls for it. God is not looking for our intellect. He’s looking for our “yes”. If the Lord can get our yes, he can use us.’
l How to Tell the Truth is published by
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Preston at his book launch last month
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jBecoming a Christian
There is no set formula to becoming a Christian, but many people have found saying this prayer to be a helpful first step to a relationship with God
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by Jim Burns
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
Great expectations
‘I am the greatest!’ Sports fans of all ages may recognise those as words spoken by Muhammad Ali, considered by many to be the best heavyweight boxer of the 20th century. He was certainly no shrinking violet and had great faith in his own ability and talent.
Another gifted athlete, who is perhaps not yet as well known but who has been on TV screens more recently, is the US gymnast Simone Biles. At 27 years old, she has achieved a huge amount in her sport: 7 national championships, 23 world titles and 11 Olympic medals. She is considered possibly the greatest gymnast in history.
Biles won a bronze medal for her performance on the beam at the Olympics in Tokyo in 2021, which was an amazing feat given that she had withdrawn from many other finals because of mental health concerns.
She went on to win her sixth world all-around title last summer, and in this year’s Paris Games she won three gold medals and one silver.
With such a record, it’s understandable why she has worn a rhinestone goat on her leotard, as a sign of her belief that she is the GOAT – the ‘greatest of all time’.
Interestingly, the one person who could truly have claimed to be the greatest of all time was too humble to look for that sort of recognition. Admittedly, Jesus said that he was God’s Son, which is a bold statement to make. But he backed it up with the miracles he performed and by coming back from his death on a cross – a death where he took the punishment for the wrong things that we do.
As the Bible says, Jesus, ‘who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness’ (Philippians 2:6 and 7 New International Version).
We may never be a GOAT, but by accepting Jesus’ sacrifice for us and trying to live by the example he set us, we can be the greatest version of ourselves.
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Noah’s Ark animation floats ideas about good and bad
The animals went in two by two, but there’s no simple hurrah for musical mouse duo Vini and Tom. In the animated film Noah’s Ark, out in cinemas this weekend, the two friends do find a way to get on the vessel – but once aboard, they face another mammoth task: steadying the ship.
Vini and Tom are struggling mouse artists who one day witnessed God telling a man named Noah that he was going to send a flood to wipe out the entire population as a consequence of humanity’s terrible actions. But God wanted Noah to build an ark to save his family, and one couple of every species.
It was devastating news for the two mice, who weren’t eligible for an invitation to board the big boat. With a bit of scheming they got themselves in. But then their problems really began.
The animals find themselves under the tyranny of Baruk the Lion. He wants to rule the roost, but he is a ruthless leader who oppresses the weaker animals.
Vini, Tom and a third mouse, Nina, try to stand up to Baruk and use music to bring everyone together. But at one point, the boys exhibit unfair behaviours themselves.
‘You think you’re the good guys,’ Nina tells them. ‘Deep down, you’re just as bad as the lion.’
Among humans in the real world, similar patterns have often played out. It’s why in the actual Bible story of Noah’s ark, God decided to start again with the human race by sending 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
When the waters receded, God promised never to flood the Earth again. Yet people continued to use their power to abuse and mistreat others – and they still do.
God has compassion for the oppressed, but the truth is that every human has the capacity to be ‘the bad guy’.
It’s why God had the big idea to send his Son, Jesus, as the one person who would bear the consequences of the actions that separate us from him. When Jesus suffered even the cruellest abuse and mistreatment, he responded by offering people of forgiveness and a new and eternal life. So, whether we find ourselves having little or lots of power, there’s good news: we can experience acceptance from God.
The invitation to receive it is open to everyone. We just have to get on board.
Film feature by Sarah Olowofoyeku
Vini, Nina and Tom try to bring harmony to the ark
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Soda bread pizzetta
INGREDIENTS
METHOD
1tsp rapeseed oil
125g wholemeal flour
½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
1tbsp yogurt
75ml water
1tbsp tomato puree
2 fresh tomatoes, thinly sliced
100g sweetcorn
50g reduced-fat mozzarella cheese, thinly sliced
1 red onion, thinly sliced Oregano, to garnish
Preheat the oven to 190C/Gas Mark 5 and lightly oil a baking sheet.
Add the flour and bicarbonate of soda to a mixing bowl. Thoroughly mix in the yogurt and the water. Shape into 8 small balls and roll into rounds on a lightly floured surface. Place the rounds on a baking sheet, then spread them with tomato puree and add the sliced tomatoes. Scatter the sweetcorn, mozzarella cheese and onion on top.
Bake for 10 minutes, then garnish with oregano, to serve.
Watermelon, butterbean and feta salad
INGREDIENTS
300g watermelon, rind removed
100g rocket leaves
5-6 sprigs mint leaves, torn
2tsp olive oil
400g can butter beans, drained
40g feta cheese
½ lemon, juice
Ground black pepper
METHOD
Cut the watermelon into small slices and set aside.
Scatter the rocket and mint leaves over a serving platter and drizzle with the olive oil. Arrange the melon slices over the leaves, then scatter the butter beans
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