Talk of the Town March 2016

EDITION 177

CIRCULATION 4,800

MARCH 2016

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SALTBURN’S TOWN TALK Letter from the Editor

At the time of going to press, the campaigns for the referendum on membership of the European Union had already started a few days before. We now have a few months of this to tolerate but after only a few days I already felt exasperated with it all. That’s not because I don’t take it seriously or that I don’t think it’s important. In fact, I think it’s very important but my irritation comes from observing what utter rubbish politicians on both sides of the debate say.

All their arguments, for or against, are simply emotional, unconvincing and irrational and it is obvious that they are not thinking about what is best for the country. Love, Ian.

Send letters, adverts and contributions for the next issue (by Friday, 18th March 2016) to: The Editor, Talk of the Town c/o Jackie’s Saverstore, 8 Station Buildings, Saltburn, Cleveland, TS12 1AQ. Telephone: 01287 623903 (or email: talkofthetown@tyasi.freeserve.co.uk). Talk of the Town has a website: www.tottsaltburn.co.uk and the Friends of Talk of the Town can be found on Facebook.

Saltburn Farmers’ Market: A sure sign that spring is in the air, the popular monthly Farmers’ Market returns after an annual winter break with their first market of the year on Saturday, 12th March. Hard to believe it’s now eight years since they first set out their stalls, and we can expect another tasty mix of good local food right in the heart of town. 9am2pm, near the Railway Station. More information at www.saltburnfarmersmarket.com and see our story on page 36.

Saltburn Valley Gardens - Now and The Future: Following on from the acclaimed Saltburn Symposium last spring, a further public event is being organised. A Spring Seminar on Thursday, 14th April at the Community Theatre from 6.00 to 8.00pm will provide a twelve month progress report and look ahead to the next five years. All residents are invited to participate and can register their interest during March at the Library.

Women’s World Day of Prayer Services: Three events with a Caribbean twist will take place at Saltburn on Friday, March 4th when the annual Women’s World Day of Prayer will be held for Cuba. The day will start, as usual, with a 2.00pm service when Mrs Elizabeth Morris, wife of the Saltburn Methodist minister, will speak at the Milton Street Methodist church. A Cuban café serving refreshments accompanied by Cuban music at the back of Emmanuel church will open at 6.30pm followed by a prayer service at 7.00pm. All welcome.

The day is being organised by an inter-church group who hope the evening events will attract people who are unable to attend in the afternoon. See article on page 11.

WI Report: The Saltburn ladies WI was held on Thursday, 11th February.

This are month was our where a new Our next dates Saturdays 6th AGM and 20th committee was and chosen and our 5th president February, then Saturdays and 19thwas returned unopposed. wereENTRANCE to have advisors down from the March.WeFREE and a warm Federation, but our (Mrs Cowie) could welcome to Ann everyone.

With over 26 advise stall them, with the years she has been lots running our WI. She runs a good ship holders, selling of bric-a-brac, books, and a ship as good as its and captain. toys, is baby goods, all We sortshave of an excellent secretary in Lyn, who is always thinking of new things to do.

This year our WI did a hundred things to celebrate the WI centenary and we walked 114 miles (not all at once) - not bad for us old girls. Pauline always works hard with interesting outings, as does Olive in choosing the speakers that we all enjoy. Dawn and Jane always decorate our room nicely when we hold a party and the members always come up trumps with the delicious food.

E. Leonard

Post Office proposal: The public is being consulted into a proposal that the Post Office be moved from Station Street to the new Nisa convenience store, Windsor Road, 350 metres away. Comments can be made until Friday, 1st April and can be made by Freepost YOUR COMMENTS, Post Office Ltd via email to comments@postoffice.co.uk or the helpline 03457 223344 or Textphone 03457 223355 or online at postofficeviews.co.uk mentioning the branch code 159327.

The Post Office says three serving positions would be provided at the new premises.

Sea View Care Home and the walk for dementia: The walk in aid of the Alzheimer’s Society took place in August last year and the society have been in touch with Sea View to tell them they were in the top 3% for fund raising in 2015. They had raised over £2,325.

Redcar Lecture Society: On Tuesday, 8th March at 2.15pm in the Redcar East Community Centre on Durham Road, Barry Warrington will be giving a Visual Presentation on the work of ‘The Cleveland Mountain Rescue Team’. Then, a fortnight later on Tuesday, 22nd March, at our final Meeting of the Season, we will now be welcoming Doug Worton who will Visually Present his ‘Italian Delights’ following which we will have a short A.G.M. when those present will be given the opportunity to suggest Presenters and Topics for our next Season. Admission at the door is £2.50 and visitors are very welcome.

Tony Crow The Guisborough and District Branch of the Embroiderers’ Guild are holding their monthly meeting on Saturday, 5th March 2016 at 2pm in Sunnyfield House, Westgate, Guisborough TS14 6BA. Our guest speaker will be Lesley Bentham and her subject is Yes We Have National Costumes – Staithes Bonnets. On the 2nd April our speaker will be Marie Wray and her subject is A Tapestry Journey.

Visitors are welcome whether non-stitchers, beginners or more experienced stitchers. For more information please contact 01642 314860.

Linda Emmanuel Church Hall Table Top and Collectors’ Sale: the sales in March have been cancelled due to the organiser’s need for recuperation following a heart operation and the church have said they will do some spring cleaning and maintenance work in the hall while they are off. Denise and her husband Ken would like to thank everyone for all the cards, gifts and flowers etc that they have received. Denise says, “Everyone has been so kind and tell them not to worry: WE WILL be back in April with cakes, pies and all!”

Cover Illustration: Saltburn Sea Spray in February by David Hankin

Disclaimer: Talk of the Town tries to make sure the articles and announcements made on its pages are accurate, but views expressed in letters and articles printed in Talk of the Town are not necessarily those of the editor. Any offers in adverts included in Talk of the Town are made by the advertisers; details should be confirmed with them. Always confirm event details with the organisers, in case of alteration or error. Talk of the Town is printed by DC (Yorkshire) Print, Unit 34a, Lidgate Crescent, Langthwaite Business Park, South Kirkby, West Yorkshire, WF9 3NR. Website: www.dcprintyorkshire.co.uk Tel: 01977 642331. Proprietor/Editor of Talk of the Town: Ian Tyas c/o Jackie’s Saverstore, 8 Station Buildings, Saltburn, TS12 1AQ. (Ian Tyas tel: 01287 623903.)

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National Service Part 4 – Aged 18 and walking the Streets with a Pick Axe Handle

Last sight of England for 16 months, Liverpool river frontage.

All those posted overseas were sent on fourteen days embarkation leave so I duly came home and said my fond farewells to all and sundry in Guisborough and at work. I reported back to the Royal Engineers Drafting Regiment based at Barton Stacey near Andover in Hampshire to await a sailing date. What a shock awaited our arrival at this camp: there were no doors on the billets, all the lockers had disappeared and anything made out of timber that was not structurally required was missing. Apparently during the hard winter all the timber had been burnt on the stoves to keep the occupants warm, blankets being hung over the doorways in place of doors. I made a lot of new friends at this camp but it was an ever changing population as personnel left for their overseas destinations. My sojourn at the camp lasted through July and August before sailing in September. To keep us occupied each weekday we were paraded and allocated duties of a varied kind from cleaning the ablutions and the officers’ mess, guard duties, town pickets, potato picking, gardening and many other jobs that bore no resemblance to our training. Camp guard duties involved two of us patrolling the camp and at 10.30pm turning off all of the street type lights, one of which was in a compound occupied by ATS members. We were warned to take precautions to avoid being grabbed by the girls when we entered the compound. Another duty when on camp patrol was to check that premises such as the canteen were locked up securely. On one occasion we found the door unlocked; cautiously opening it and entering we switched

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on the lights and were startled to see large shadows of rats who were running along the overhead pipe work.

Needless to say we swiftly shut the door and reported back to the guard room. The result was that the canteen was closed for two weeks while the rats were eliminated meaning we had to march half a mile to the next camp canteen for meals. Weekends, when we were not granted a leave pass, we had to patrol the town of Andover on Friday and Saturday night armed with pick axe handles; the purpose was to keep the peace between rival factions of other regiments with permission to use our weapons if necessary. After asking where we were most likely to encounter trouble we decided to patrol the streets away from the trouble spots, feeling that if we intervened in a fight between two different factions they would jointly turn on us, and our RP (Regimental Police) armbands would provide no protection. One consolation was the generous leave allocations and travel warrants and I think some of my friends in Guisborough began to wonder if I was going to spend my service at home. Many weekends when we didn’t travel home we spent in London, usually staying at the Union Jack Club near Waterloo Station or with the Salvation Army in their underground hostel at Clapham Common where the breakfasts were enormous.

Also while we were at the transit camp we had to have all our injections and some were less comfortable than others.

Our sailing date was eventually announced and after a final spell of leave we made our way to Liverpool by train with an overnight stop in London staying in a deep section of the underground at Goodge Street. Our cross London journey took place during the evening rush hour on the underground. I cannot imagine that we were very popular with all our kit and rifles sharing the space with rush hour travellers. Our overnight billet was at the foot of a spiral staircase with the daunting thought that we would have to climb out again on the following morning. Of course we were not allowed out to taste the City Life!

The following morning we boarded a troop train for our journey to Liverpool, which I found very interesting passing through countryside that I hadn’t visited before. The troop train went straight to the quayside where we embarked on M.V. Cheshire, a troopship of about 10,000 tons.

Cath and Tony Lynn

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Once Upon a Time in the Wapentake So, carrying on from last month, what is to be done?

What can we, as individuals, communities, corporations and all together as the whole human race do about: 1/ the causes of climate change, 2/ the effects of climate change, 3/ convincing people that climate change is real.

As far as 3/ goes, I rely on my own senses, and would ask others to do the same. I have known seventy springs and have never known before snowdrops, crocuses, primroses and daffodils come out at the same time. Ever since we have had a garden pond, I have had to break the ice, so that the birds can drink, almost every winter morning. I have had to do this once this winter. And the clincher? Only once this year have I had to don my thermal Long Johns.

I’ll try to deal with 2/ next: how to cope with the consequences of weather systems gone crazy, which at the moment, in these islands, are high winds and torrential rain, but which might later mean severe heat waves and prolonged drought. There are even suggestions that the North might have the water while the South East has the drought, which might, at least, be a business opportunity for some enterprising northerners.

There are those people, especially in North America, who seem to believe that the way to cope with any kind of disaster is to form communities, armed to the teeth, that will fight any one who tries to stop them grabbing what scarce resources remain. If the river runs low, they will grab what water reaches them, and too bad for those downstream. If the river is too high, then floods will be diverted down stream and ditto. They don’t seem to think about what will happen if there is a bigger gang with more guns upstream of them.

“Continual fear and danger of violent death…solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short,” is how Thomas Hobbes described such an existence, and I believe that anyone dreaming of this as a possible future must be in some way seriously disturbed.

In such a savage world there can be only one winner and only the utterly deluded can imagine it will be them. We either work together or perish together.

Now to practicalities: what to do about the floods. The immediate response seems to be to plan massive flood defence systems that contain the rivers within high concrete walls, which will have the effect of sending the water downstream even faster. It’s really a very expensive way of doing what those American Survivalists would do. ‘Beggar my Neighbour’ it used to be called…and of course give our rulers the opportunity to stride around in hard hats pretending to do a proper job. That these same rulers may end up being paid large sums to be directors of the companies that land the contracts to pour the concrete has, of course, nothing at all to do with their decisions.

An alternative would be to let the land absorb more water. Instead of concreting over the flood plains to build houses and roads and shopping malls and car parks, let the flood plains flood. And further upstream, plant trees. A wellgrown forest will soak up massive amounts of water. In addition trees will act as windbreaks (nothing to do with breaking wind. Stop sniggering at the back). Trees will also soak up, if that’s the right word, carbon dioxide out of the air, which will help achieve 1/, slowing, or even stopping, climate 6

change.

But, you may well ask, won’t this make it impossible to build the houses we need for a growing population? No, because there are plenty of brown-field sites (former industrial or military land) available for building. Perhaps more seriously, wouldn’t it mean taking good agricultural land out of cultivation, just at a time when the supplies of imported food that we’ve become so dependent on may be at risk. Not necessarily, but to explain that I might have to digress somewhat.

It is often said that one of the major causes of human hunger and environmental damage is the eating of meat.

Millions of acres of good land have to be devoted to producing feed for our farm animals, which are kept permanently indoors and pumped full of hormones and antibiotics in order for them to survive and grow. (I do not use the word thrive.) The chemicals enter the rivers, the food chain and ultimately us with, as yet unmeasured, effects on human health. Meanwhile the animals are pumping out methane, a far more potent greenhouse gas than CO2. As a non-vegetarian I would agree with this but with three observations: the finished product, while cheap is very poor quality; it is milk and eggs as eaten by vegetarians, rather than meat, that are characteristically produced this way; and, most importantly, I think, this is not the only kind of animal husbandry possible; for thousands of years animals have been raised in a very different way. They have been pastured on land unfit for growing crops. Pigs have rooted for acorns in the forest, sheep have grazed on the moor and the salt marsh, and cattle, especially dairy cattle, have grazed on what they used to call the water meadows. This was land that flooded every winter, the floodwaters bringing silt to enrich the soil, and in summer produced the richest pasture possible, as well as a fine crop of hay for winter-feed, the flood plain in other words.

The butter and cheese, eggs and chickens, pork, and beef and lamb produced like this would be less plentiful but much healthier and tastier. It might have to return to being an occasional treat, or be used sparingly as a sort of garnish in the way of much Chinese cooking. But how to divvy up things that are increasingly in short supply might be one of the key questions that will face us. At the moment, in a free market economy, if things are scarce, then they become so expensive that only the very rich can afford them. Consider what has happened to housing in the London Area: nobody doing an ordinary job can afford to live there. But I am old enough to remember when scarce resources, food and clothing, fuel and furniture, were rationed so that everyone got a fair share, and those whose needs were greatest, pregnant and nursing women, for example, got extra. In addition those whose contributions to society were thought to be the greatest also got extra. It will probably come as a terrible shock to younger readers to learn that these were not Advertising Executives or Merchant Bankers, not even Professional Footballers, or TV presenters, but members of the Armed Forces and those who produced the food and the fuel: farm workers and miners and other key workers.

Next month: How to act local whilst thinking global, and can we afford it?

Tim Beswick

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Councillors’ Column For the time being there will be no closure of Saltburn Police Station. However, in a further retrenchment, the Front Desk at this Police Station will now close.

Her Majesty’s Inspector has found that Cleveland Police performance ‘requires improvement’. This judgement was in three categories of inspection which covered how ‘effective, efficient and legitimate’ the force was in keeping people safe and reducing crime. It is hoped the new senior appointments will address these deficiencies and the questionable performance of previous senior officers, whilst considering reviewing Neighbourhood Policing as a high priority.

The Post Office has plans to cease trading in Station Street, relocating to Windsor Road. This matter will be on the agenda of the Saltburn Neighbourhood Action Partnership when its Public meeting is held at the Library on Wednesday, 9th March at 6pm. All residents, as usual, are welcome to attend and express their views.

The housing development agreed for land south of Marske Road is having some detail applied to the outline planning permission. Circa 116 houses will now be constructed and the detail of proposed access from Marske Road is being clarified.

Last month a motion was passed at the Borough Council requiring that the exact boundary of the town should be set out, stating, ‘that without further delay, the delineation of the western boundary should be accurately identified by using specific Ordnance Survey references, following the boundary line of current development, incorporating the land boundary upheld in the recent Public Inquiry Appeal, and this

work to be carried out for completion by the end of April 2016’.

After failure to apprehend more than a few dog owners who continue to allow their pets to foul walkways, the Borough Council are now seeking to acquire more stringent enforcement powers and increase penalties for this anti social practice. It is intended to introduce further measures which will include: increased fines of £100 for a failure to pick up after a dog, excluding dogs from fencedoff children’s playgrounds and requiring dogs to be kept on leads in agreed designated areas. All members of the public are encouraged to express their views on the Borough web site under Consultations by the beginning of April.

After visits from HRH and Lord Heseltine the pressure seems to be rising in the recovery chambers. Words are being spoken into the right ears and a proposal to create a new Mayoral Development Corporation is being advocated.

Whilst there is much to do, all will take time and patience.

Meanwhile, returns from business rates are being phased directly into Local Authority banks. Regrettably, with a major industry decimated and supply companies suffering resultant downturns, the flow into Redcar’s coffers will not be enough to address all the challenges that lie ahead.

The 2016/17 Council Tax setting will propose a ring fenced levy to fund greater Adult Care Costs and, as expected, charges for policing and fire services will also increase.

Good news at last. Green bin collection starts on the 3rd of March.

Philip Thomson

Saltburn Library and Friends of Saltburn Library We will be having a number of activities and events in March in Saltburn Library so hopefully there will be something happening that may be of interest to you.

Thursday, 3rd March is World Book Day and we will be holding a craft session for children between 3.30 and 4.30pm. Pop in and tell us about your favourite book and if you come dressed up there will be a small prize! Or for the grown-ups (!) pop in during the day for a cuppa and borrow a mystery book!

We have a number of informative drop-in-sessions during March. A representative from Tees Valley Public Health Shared Service will be available at the following times to raise awareness about breast cancer and also about sugar in your diet. You may be surprised about the sugar content in some of the foods you eat.

Wednesday March 2nd am Breast Cancer awareness Friday March 4th pm Breast Cancer awareness Wednesday March 14th am Sugar display Friday March 16th pm Sugar display Friends of Saltburn Library’s March offering is a talk and demonstration by Chocolinis. Donna and Sam will be along to talk about the history of Chocolinis followed by actually making chocolate, possibly tasting it too. What a treat for all you chocoholics! Don’t miss out – it’s on Tuesday, March 15th at 2pm.

Hard to believe but Easter is almost upon us and so we will be having a number of exciting activities for

children during the school holidays.

Wednesday, 30th March - 2pm A drumming workshop with Colin Grant from Ee by Drum, for all those budding drummers! We will also have a tombola stall.

Thursday, 7th April 2pm Come along to meet a range of weird and wonderful animals with Zoolab. Places are limited for this so booking is essential for this event.

Saturday, 9th April 2.00pm Join illustrator Katherine Lynas at the library for an hour of Superhero art and craft.

Design your own superhero, with their own special powers.

Can they fly, control the weather or even teleport? Are they serious like Batman or crazy like Captain Underpants? We can’t wait to find out.

Please ring or pop into the Library to book a place for any or all of these events.

We may be also offering our popular Easter walk on the morning of March 30th – more details will be available later.

For further information on any of the above activities just pop into Saltburn Library or ring us on 01287 623584.

Tracey Saltburn Library and Tourist Information Windsor Road, Saltburn-by-the-Sea Yorkshire TS12 1AT 01287 623584 Email: saltburn_library@redcar-cleveland.gov.uk Website: http://www.redcar-cleveland.gov.uk

Saltburn Photographic Society Wednesday, 6th April Annual General Meeting. There will be summer outdoor meetings in May, June, July and August details later. The Society are presenting an exhibition of members’ work at Kirkleatham Museum from April until June.

Practical nights will be held frequently; more details available from contact number or web site.

Meetings are held in the upstairs hall, Saltburn Milton Street Methodist Church TS12 1EB at 7.30pm.

Visitors are welcome to any of our meetings; there will be a small charge.

For more information visit our web site www.saltburnphotographicsociety.co.uk or contact Tony Lynn 01287 622519.

Saltburn Athletic FC The wet weather continues and is affecting the fixture schedules as pitches are waterlogged. This has hampered much of our outdoor training for the past two months or so.

The season will have to be extended for all age groups and instead of ending in March the season for league fixtures is likely to end late April time.

The under 8s have done well recently by winning two of their last three games including a win against a previously unbeaten team Boro Rangers. Liam Jeffels continues to score most of the team’s goals. Luke Kesterton has been an excellent defender and together with the first game regulars of James Drage, Aaron Bell, Ben Malbon, Ryan Dobson and Will Robinson the team have been improving.

Second game members Daniel Franks, Daniel Blair, Sam Malbon, Will Grayson, Charlie Bright, Euan Found and 8

Ronnie Brunskill-Smith continue to play and improve.

The under 13s continue to struggle a little whilst both the under 11 sides the Seagulls and Dolphins continue their winning ways.

The under 12s continue to have an up and down season.

Players at school year 2 and 3 are still required and should contact Andy Croll on 07779 648877.

Our football Gala day this year will be on Saturday, 25th June at the Huntcliff campus for invited teams at the under 8, 11, 12 and 13 age groups.

Many thanks to Saltburn and Marske Parish council for a donation towards equipment.

Contact for the club is Andy Croll on 07779 648877.

Saltburn Station Gallery Heralding New Artists for March Saltburn Station Gallery are pleased to announce that there will be two new artists exhibiting within the gallery from March 2016. Both artists are from the local area.

The first artist, Lord Alan Tollinson (latliveart.co.uk) will be exhibiting creative digital art, unique, vibrant, thought-provoking work that is full of colour, shapes, forms and graphic design. His work comes from within, directed by moods, feelings and emotions exhibited through his work. The colourful vibrant work cannot fail to conjure up a smile on the voyeur. The mix of shapes and colours brightening any room – strong vibrant masculine colours and shapes to more delicate feminine pastel hues.

If a smile can be summoned, then the artist has succeeded to bring happiness and pleasure in often difficult times: a true gift!

The second artist, Anthony Taylor, will be exhibiting

high quality photography of the local area, including landscapes, places of interest and stunning wildlife photographs.

The gallery also continues to exhibit many forms of local art at reasonable prices. So come on in and enjoy the eclectic range of artworks including a range of handmade cards, jewellery, woodwork, ceramics, pottery and assorted gifts and souvenirs. Handmade wooden garden ornaments are also being re-introduced for the coming spring.

We are constantly on the look out for new artists and we offer wall / table / cabinet space at very low prices – drop in and enquire if interested. Also please note Spring / summer competition closing date end April – so get your entries in!

Sean and Sue

Saltburn and District Group for Visually Impaired People Our last meeting was held on February 10th but unfortunately out first scheduled speaker was unable to attend due to family issues – we will book him for a future session.

Some of our members had attended an open day at James Cook Hospital, on macular degeneration. Rita informed the rest of us how the day progressed. It contained a lot of information delivered by specialists in this area and those who attended said it was a very worthwhile experience. The day was also attended by representatives from the Macular Society, as well as manufacturers of aids for visual impairment. We understand the catering was good also! A bit of form filling to do, but overall it is hoped they will hold similar sessions in the future (hopefully on other eye conditions too).

Valley Players The Valley Players had a very successful visit to the one act drama festival at the Georgian Theatre in Richmond. We won trophies for the best set, best actor (Craig Hannaway), best supporting performance (Sally Lewis) plus the adjudicator’s award for Sarah Paterson’s wonderful live harp music.

The final performance of ‘Keeping the Feast’ will be on Wednesday, March 16th, as one of our entries in the Saltburn drama festival.

Our other entry is ‘Best Foot Forward’, a two hander set at the end of WW2, written and directed

by Sue Wilkinson. This will be performed on Friday, 18th March.

We are always happy to take part in the Saltburn festival; all the plays are generally of a very high standard and the festival has a friendly and welcoming atmosphere.

We’ll see you there!

Djenane

Our planned main speaker was Mike Morrisey, a local well-known person in the area, a retired journalist.

His work has taken him to many countries around the world and we had a question and answer session covering many topics. An interesting and varied career covering topics from politics, the demise of local industry, and gossip columnists!

Thanks Mike for sharing your profession with us.

Please join us on Wednesday, 9th March in the Coffee Room, Community Centre, Albion Terrace Saltburn when out guest will be Pam from COESI, Centre of Excellence for Sensory Impairment.

For further information please call Chris Ferguson on 01287 204 170.

Malicious Damage to Horses Fencing Over the last few years there have been several acts of deliberate damage to fencing surrounding the fields at Hob Hill. The damage done allows the horses to escape, sometimes on to the Golf Course as happened on Monday morning (15th February) but also, more seriously, onto the road.

Monday morning saw bad weather in the region and icy conditions. We are thankful that in view of this no horses or people were injured in this incident whilst the horses were out.

I, and others at the Golf Club are concerned for the safety of the horses and the road users who may be affected by this thoughtless vandalism. We hope that by this letter we can raise awareness of this problem and encourage people who use the area to be vigilant and report any suspicious activity to the local Police so we can either help the Police to catch the person/people responsible or somehow pass the message on that these acts have to stop before a serious accident occurs.

If you require any further information on this matter please do not hesitate to contact me.

Dave Tongue President Saltburn Golf Club Ltd 9

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WOMEN’S WORLD DAY OF PRAYER

(INTERNATIONAL AND INTERDENOMINATIONAL) Receive children. Receive me.

Women’s World Day of Prayer is an international, ecumenical, prayer movement that invites women, from a different part of the world each year, to prepare a worship service through which their hopes and fears for their country may be brought before the whole world in prayer.

On Friday, 4th March an estimated 3 million people in over 170 countries and islands will gather to observe the day of prayer, using an order of service written by Christian women in Cuba and translated into over 60 languages and 1000 dialects. In the British Isles alone over 6,000 services will be held.

The day begins as the sun rises over the island of Samoa and continues until it sets off the coast of American Samoa, some 35 hours later.

The theme ‘Receive children. Receive me’ reflects St Mark’s Gospel, chapter 10 verses 13-16, which is the focus of the service and a reminder that everyone is a child of God and equally worthy of our love and respect.

The Republic of Cuba is the largest Caribbean island, located at the entrance of the Gulf of Mexico and called ‘the Key to the Gulf’. Politically at odds with the USA, Cuba suffered greatly due to the economic embargo imposed upon it in 1960 but has found strength within itself to move on and overcome many of its problems.

This is not a day of prayer just for women - everyone is welcome to attend the service and for further information and resources, together with details of the services in your area, please see the WWDP website (www.wwdp.org.uk).

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Saltburn Charity Crafters Many apologies for the Angie error (wrong date) in last month’s Talk of the Town.

We will be meeting on Wednesday, 2nd March from 2pm to 4pm (and the first Wednesday of every month). Do drop in for a cuppa if you fancy joining us. A warm welcome awaits you in the Coffee Room at the Community Hall. Please use side entrance. For further details please contact Angie on 01287 205153.

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Saltburn Beachwatch Whales and Wind Turbines Several people have contacted me recently regarding the possibility of a link between the recent stranding of Sperm whales on North Sea coasts and the presence of offshore wind turbines. At the time of writing Saltburn, fortunately, has not had to witness the very sad sight of Sperm whales being found dead and dying on the beach. Over the last few weeks speculation as to the causes of these strandings has included not only the possible effects of wind turbines but an underwater earthquake, sun flares and the use of sonar by companies surveying the ocean bed for suitable sites for the turbines. Also there are rumours of military testing of advanced sonar in the North Atlantic.

The answer, according to marine scientists at the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Trust, is that they just don’t know why these magnificent animals have ended up on North Sea beaches. What is known is that this particular pod consisted of juvenile males who normally travel off the west coast of Ireland at this time of year on their way to the North Atlantic. Sperm whales feed in deep water where they catch fish and giant squid so why this pod turned right at the top of Scotland and made their way down the North Sea is a mystery.

Preliminary results of autopsy indicate that these whales were very dehydrated meaning they had not been eating their prey species. This is thought to be a major cause of weakness leading to disorientation. The North Sea is too shallow for their prey species and once the whales are in shallow water the outcome is usually poor as sperm whale echo-location does not work effectively at such shallow depths.

What is specifically known about wind turbines and cetaceans is that the underwater noise generated by construction and pile driving can travel up to 80km depending on the type of bedrock. It is thought that on hearing this noise whales tend to swim away from the source of the disturbance although to some extent some species can become disorientated. Little is known of the effects of the noise and vibration of the turbines when operational. Some whales and dolphins have learned to follow fishing boats to take advantage of the by-catch which is discarded overboard. This has led to some species getting caught in the nets and drowning.

Experiments are taking place where fishing nets are fitted with ”pingers” which emit “sounds” which hopefully will discourage these animals from following the boats. All whales use sound for communication and navigation but different species use different frequencies and so it remains to be seen how sensitive whales are to these “pinger” experiments.

Because people living in countries bordering the North Sea do not want to see wind turbines from the shore, there are plans in the near future to have much larger arrays further out to sea up to the edge of the continental shelf in deeper water. So based on limited current information it appears that the greatest risk to cetaceans will come from the construction of offshore wind turbines compared with their operation.

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Wartime Guided Walk Come on a free guided walk around Loftus and the surrounding area with local historian Stuart McMillan on Saturday, 26th March. Titled Loftus in Wartime, the walk will explore the impact of both world wars on the town and its vicinity and Stuart will take you to some key sites in the area.

This circular walk starts at the Angel cafe in Loftus Market Place at 11.00am and is due to last up to three hours. Please wear clothing and footwear suitable for a country walk and bring refreshments; dogs under proper control are welcome.

There’s free parking at South View, off North Road (TS13 4JL); Loftus is on Arriva bus routes X4 and 5. There’s no need to book a place; for more information please phone 01287 641000 (or email office@loftustc.co.uk).

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Views wanted on dogfouling crackdown TOUGH new powers to clamp down on dog-foulers have been proposed and the council wants residents’ views.

In a bid to tackle dog owners who think it is acceptable to not pick up after their pet, Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council is proposing three new offences along with a more expensive fixed penalty notice to act as a stronger deterrent.

The new offences, which would be grouped alongside existing offences under a wide ranging Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO), are: Failure to have the means to pick up after a dog, requiring dogs to be kept on leads in to-be-determined areas and banning dogs from fenced-off children’s playgrounds.

Enforcement Officers will be enforcing the new offences from July 2016 and will be issuing fines of £100 to anyone who flouts the PSPO. Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council could become one of the first authorities in the UK to implement the new PSPO legislation and it is hoped this will benefit the wider community.

The feedback residents give during the consultation period, which runs until Monday, April 11th, will help decide the final content in the new order.

These new offences are part of a wider campaign to promote responsible dog ownership across the borough following the launch of the ‘Pick up the poo before they do’ campaign last year.

Councillor Helen McLuckie, Cabinet Member for Neighbourhoods, said: “The council is keen to make a determined stand against a minority of dog owners in Redcar and Cleveland who think it is acceptable to not clean up after their pet. We are interested in hearing the views of residents, whose feedback we will use to fine-tune these proposals into an Order that will be of benefit to communities across the borough.”

Residents from across Redcar and Cleveland are invited to give their views on the proposals (at www.redcar -cleveland.gov.uk/consultation).

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Saltburn Golf Club Ladies Section We would like to give a warm welcome to Ladies of any age who would like to learn to play Golf. We are offering 8 Ladies at a time a weekly 1 Hour ‘Taster Session’ for a total of 6 weeks starting on Thursday, 21st April from 1.30 – 2.30pm or for working Ladies Sunday, 24th April 1112am.

Our Golf Professional Mike Howes will be conducting these Sessions providing all necessary Golf equipment. The cost will be £25 for the 6 Sessions; this will include refreshments when the social facilities of the Club will be explained. Do come with friends and enjoy a new ‘Keep Fit’ experience!

To Book a place please contact either the Secretary or the Professional at Saltburn Golf Club on 01287 624653 (or the web site www.saltburngolf.co.uk).

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Science News

For the first time in history, scientists have discovered ripples in the fabric of space time called Gravitational Waves. This confirms one of Albert Einstein’s biggest predictions in his 1915 general theory of relativity and opens new windows onto the cosmos. Gravitational Waves carry information about their origins and about the nature of gravity which can otherwise not be observed. Physicists have said that the gravitational waves that have been discovered were produced during the final phase of a second of the merging of two black holes to produce just one, bigger spinning black hole. The joining of the two black holes had been predicated before but never observed.

The gravitational waves were detected on September 14th, 2015 by both of the twin Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors, which are in Livingston, Louisiana, and Hanford, Washington, USA. The LIGO Observatories are funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), and were thought of, built, and are run by Caltech and MIT. The discovery, was made by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration using data from the two LIGO detectors.

Based on the signals that have been found, LIGO scientists estimate that the black holes for this event were about twenty-nine and thirty-six times the mass of the sun, and the event took place 1.3 billion years ago. About three times the mass of the sun was converted into gravitational waves in a fraction of a second, with a peak power output about fifty times that of the whole visible universe. By looking at the time of arrival of the signals, the detector in Livingston recorded the event seven milliseconds before the detector in Hanford. Scientists can say that the source was located in the Southern Hemisphere.

According to general relativity, a pair of black holes orbiting around each other lose energy through the emission of gravitational waves, causing them to gradually approach each other over billions of years, and then much more quickly in the final minutes. During the final fraction of a second, the two black holes collide into each other at nearly one-half the speed of light and form a single more massive black hole, converting a portion of the combined black holes’ mass to energy, according to Einstein’s formula E = mc2. This energy is emitted as a final strong burst of gravitational waves. It is these gravitational waves that LIGO has observed.

The existence of gravitational waves was first demonstrated in the 1970s and 80s by Joseph Taylor, Jr., and colleagues. Taylor and Russell Hulse discovered in 1974 a binary system composed of a pulsar in orbit around a neutron star. Taylor and Joel M. Weisberg in 1982 found that the pulsar’s orbit was slowly shrinking because of the release of energy in the form of gravitational waves. For discovering the pulsar and showing that it would make possible this particular gravitational wave measurement, Hulse and Taylor won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1993.

The new LIGO discovery is the first observation of gravitational waves themselves, made by measuring the tiny disturbances the waves make to space and time as they pass through the earth. The discovery was made possible by the enhanced capabilities of Advanced LIGO, an upgrade that increases the sensitivity of the instruments compared to the first generation LIGO detectors, enabling a large increase in the volume of the universe probed—and the discovery of gravitational waves during its first observation run.

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Saltburn in Bloom The days are certainly drawing out now and we can look forward to Spring. The Saltburn in Bloom gardeners have come out of hibernation and will be seen gardening around the town each week. We work mainly around Marine Parade, near Sainsbury’s, Albion Terrace, the Bandstand and on Marske Road, but don’t venture down into the Valley Gardens, which is the responsibility of the Friends of the Valley and the Countryside Rangers.

We meet on a Wednesday morning between 9.30 and 11.30, with the compulsory break for coffee and a chat. People work within their own capabilities, with some carrying out the heavier tasks, whilst others are on lighter duties, but all being equally valued. People come for as long as they wish, but the group all agree that we feel much better at the end of our morning sessions. It is so lovely to garden around Saltburn and we particularly enjoy working on Marine Parade (despite the wind!), as the view is so stunning and never the same two weeks running. One volunteer commented last summer that it wasn’t just about gardening, but the fact that we are helping in our community, enjoying the fresh air and each other’s company. We care about Saltburn and that is why we volunteer here.

If you have relocated and are missing your garden, lonely and missing company or if you have spare time on your hands for whatever reason, you might consider joining us. No experience is needed! We would love to see you. Younger people would be most welcome too, particularly if you want some gardening experience to put on your CV or merely that you have spare time on your hands. You could learn a lot from the more experienced gardeners. Ring for further details Lynda Parkes on 01287 209518 (or email lyndaparkes4@gmail.com).

Thank you to those who have already sponsored floral displays for the summer. Our treasurer has been very busy banking the money. If you would like to sponsor a basket or tub or give a donation we would gratefully receive anything that you can spare.

On March 19th we are holding a Table Top sale in the Community Centre, when we have a tombola and sell plants that we have grown and also serve snacks and light lunches, all homemade. Ann’s bacon sandwiches are lovely and the corned beef pies go down a treat. Why not pop in to see us there or, even better, if you could help in any way just get in touch!

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Megan’s Mind Had a mixture of a good month and a bad month in February. I got the results from my MRI and it showed I have a mild dilation of the aorta. I have to have annual echo surveillance and an MRI every five years. Not looking forward to that, because after the last MRI I had I said I never wanted to have another one ever again. At least I know what to expect next time I suppose! I read online that a dilated aorta is only a problem if it is over 50mm, but on my letter from the hospital it said that mine was maximum 31mm. So I don’t think I have to worry just yet! I think they advise taking regular exercise and healthy eating, which I do anyway, not smoking, which I don’t, or drinking too much alcohol. I drink red wine but I don’t drink it very often, or very much of it when I do have a drink. I’ve also been referred to see an occupational therapist and for a course of hydrotherapy, which sounds very exciting; looking forward to it!

I got a second in my Spanish university work. It was a high second. I didn’t think I would beat my first, but I’m very happy with my results! University is really hard but it’s nearly my first year over. I’ve got an end of year assessment in May and I’m absolutely dreading it.

Before that though I still have a few more assessments.

I’m visiting a gym soon about a job. I’m going to go and have a look around and then if I like it I think they want me to work there. The man I spoke to on the phone said I didn’t need to make any decisions straight away so it seems like it’s all up to me. So I’ve got everything crossed that I absolutely love it! Can’t wait to earn some proper money and then go shopping! I have a wish list of MAC make up that I would like to get and I think it adds up to around about one thousand pounds. Oops. I know, who needs all that make up, right? I’ve only got one face!

But it would still be fabulous to be able to buy make up or anything I wanted really with my own money and whenever I wanted. It’s not very fun seeing things you want but not being able to afford it!

The money that I get now I tend to just save it up. I would rather have little to no money for now but know that I’ve got money for the future. I’m not really sure if I am saving for anything in particular but I know that if I ever wanted or needed anything important that was a little bit expensive then I’ve got extra money in savings. It’ll be incredible to be able to add more money to my savings than what I can do now and just see the amount build up.

Might be useful for my first car or first home. Or I might just blow it on whatever I fancied! Hehe. It’s comforting to know I’ve got the option though. Just hope I love this gym and then can finally start with my career!

Megan

Brotton Library Knit and Natter Group We are a small group making items for charity whilst sharing skills and friendship. It is free to come to the group. We have a few regular members and would welcome more. Thursday afternoon 2pm till 4pm in Brotton library (attached to Freebrough Academy).

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Saltburn, Marske and New Marske Parish Council The Parish Council office is moving from 1st April 2016.

Our new address will be: The Conference Centre, Saltburn Learning Campus, Marske Mill Lane, Saltburn, TS12 1HJ. The telephone number will remain the same. The building we will be occupying was formerly the caretaker’s bungalow on the School site and is just a short distance away from the current office - visitors will still be able to use the Leisure Centre car park.

Please note that the Leisure Committee meeting due to take place on 21st March 2016 has been cancelled. All meetings times and dates will be reviewed so please check our website for further details.

At the recent Parish Council meeting grants were approved to New Marske Cricket Club, towards the cost of a new cutter and to Saltburn 1st Scout Group towards the cost of fire safety equipment.

Members were pleased to note that Councillor Vera Rider (Longbeck Ward), had been successfully nominated to attend the Buckingham Palace Garden Party which will be held in May. She will be accompanied to the event by her husband.

The Annual Parish Assembly will be held on Wednesday, 20th April 2016 at 7.00pm in the Club House on Marske Recreation Ground, Mount Pleasant Avenue, Marske. There will be a short presentation from the new tenants of the sports grounds regarding their future plans.

Members of the public are invited to attend and may submit questions in writing or via email to the Clerk of the Council â„… Saltburn Leisure Centre, Marske Lane, Saltburn to be received by Monday 21st March 2016.

Allotment rents are now due and can be paid at the Saltburn Allotment shop which is open Sunday mornings approximately 10.30am to 12 noon.

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There’s no March gig at Saltburn Blues Club because the main event this month is Rotary Club’s GRAND OL’ OPREY at The Community Theatre. The 4-night festival of music brings together some fine entertainment and significant fundraising for cutting edge medical equipment – the British Heart Foundation’s Cardiac MRI Scanner for South Cleveland’s James Cook Hospital. Saltburn Blues Club is sponsoring the first night, Sunday, 27th March, with artists playing a variety of Blues Music. The headline act is the wonderful singer/songwriter, CHRIS JAMES, and harmonica maestro, MARTIN FLETCHER, along with their band. Also on the bill that night is local duo Easy Street, Josie Llloyd and Joe Kemp. A fabulous start to the festival.

There will be an SBC gig the following Saturday, April 2nd, and this is definitely one for blues lovers to put in their diaries. Main act: THE TREVOR SEWELL BAND. Winner of 9 major awards in the U.S.A., the Independent Blues Broadcasters Association noted that Trevor became one of the most played artists across the whole of 2014. His debut album, ‘Calling Your Name’ spent 7 weeks at No 1 in the American Blues Scene Chart. His next album, ‘Independence’, won multiple awards and his latest album, ‘Hollow’, is continuing his amazing success. Stuart Epps, a record producer who has worked with Led Zeppelin, Elton John and Robbie Williams says this: “I’ve only just met this brilliant musician but I can tell you he is the real thing.

Heartfelt, passionate and truly excellent rock/blues guitar playing and singing comparable with some of the greats I’ve had the pleasure to work with.”

To cap it all, I can say this because I know Trevor.

He’s a genuine, modest, thoroughly nice guy. His response to all this success is, “I’m really happy with the way it’s all gone, but then I’d be happy anyway. I’m a happy person.”

How cool is that for a Bluesman! Traditional, raw and roots driven Howlin’ Mat supports.

Tickets £10 available from 07960 935263, Whistlestop Wines, Saltburn and www.yorkshiretic ketshop.co.uk Doors 7.30pm.

F i n d a l l o u r d e t a i l s at www.saltburnbluesclub.co.uk and our Facebook page.

My radio show, ‘Still Got The Blues’ is going well.

Join the regular listeners on Zetland FM - 105FM or on line every Monday, 7-10pm. You can also listen to it on Mixcloud by following the Mixcloud link on Zetland FM’s webpage.

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Weds 2nd, 16th & 30th March – BINGO – eyes down 8.00pm.

Sat 12th March – ST PATRICK'S IRISH NIGHT with “Brigit's Mantle” in aid of Air Ambulance – tickets £5 – great night on the cards!!

Wed 23rd March U3A QUIZ – test your little grey cells.

Sat 2nd April ...SALTBURN BLUES CLUB …keeping music live in Saltburn ** TREVOR SEWELL BAND support HOWLIN MAT **AsAll-ticket night (£10) with 10% discount for Club members SATURDAY 9TH APRIL – ABBA TRIBUTE BAND “REVIVAL” Calling all dancing queens – voulez vous a cracking night? Cos I do, I do, I do – it's not much money, money, money, so bring Chiquitita and Fernando and come along to dance to the band which WON the National Tribute Awards!!! Yes, here in Saltburn. Keeping music live in Saltburn – does your mother know? ***Free WiFi in Club *** ***BIG screen TV showing SKY sports etc ***

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Redcar and Cleveland Twinning Association AGM The Redcar and Cleveland Twinning Association will be holding their AGM on Thursday, 17th March at the Redcar Heart. The meeting will start promptly at 7pm with light refreshments available from 6:30pm. It is hoped that as many members as possible will attend the meeting. If you are interested in Germany and international links you might like to consider joining us. Annual subscription is currently £5 for individuals and £7 for a family/household membership. For more information about our association please visit our web-site (at www.redcarandclevelandtwinningassociation.org.uk).

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Cleveland Diving Club

‘A job worth doing is a job worth doing well,’ and on a very cold Sunday morning in January our spirited members did not disappoint. After the wet and mild weather of December a short icy spell of weather came as a bit of a shock at 8am on the 17th January. However, not deterred by a temperature reading of -2 degrees our brave group of volunteers headed off for our meeting with Staithes RNLI team. We were greeted with a nice hot cup of tea and an assurance that if we wanted to cancel the event then this would be perfectly understood. However, as I have stated many times before the resilience and commitment of our members is a credit to them all.

The plan was to simulate rescue scenarios, so that the life boat crew could practise de-kitting a diver, whilst in the water, before landing them into their boat. Limited space on the RNLI boat required the scenarios to be carried out with two different RNLI crews. Once in the water our divers went into action and simulated an incapacitated diver, the RNLI team responded and carried out their rescue drill taking instructions from the casualty’s buddy in how to dekit the incapacitated diver. Thankfully the weather was kind to our divers, as by now the sun was shining and with no wind our divers were not feeling too cold and the second set of scenarios were carried out with as much success as the first.

During the debrief session, over another cup of hot tea, it was agreed we would meet up at sea, during the summer months, and simulate a range of rescues which involves various boat and diver distress situations. January

29th was the Jim Maidens Fund,’ presentation evening to present both Redcar and Staithes RNLI and the ‘Great North Air Ambulance with a share of £3500 raised from events carried out throughout 2015. Cleveland Divers contribution was approximately £1000 made up of funds raised from our Farmer’s Market tombola and our boxing day dippers. On the night we were pleasantly surprised to be awarded the ‘Redcar RNLI,’ cup in recognition of our efforts. Cleveland Divers would like to offer our grateful thanks to all those who supported our efforts.

February 5th, Cleveland Divers held their own annual presentation to acknowledge those members who have shown commitment to their training, diving and contributed, above and beyond, to the club. Congratulations go to John, Mark, Paul and Ben. February 19th ‘Radio Zetland FM,’ invited Cleveland Divers for a live interview, and we were happy to take this unique opportunity to reach a wider audience across the region, and let people know what Cleveland Divers are all about. If you missed the 6pm interview and would like to learn more about us why not pop along to Saltburn Leisure Centre between 8pm and 9:30pm or after that in Saltburn Cricket Club, and have a chat with some of our members.

The success of our 6 week scuba courses continues with the January/February course completed on the 29th February. However, if you fancy having a go at scuba diving contact us on 079 6060 8529 to do a ‘Try Dive,’ session or look out for our posters about the next six week introductory course due to start in April.

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East Cleveland residents are being encouraged to take advantage of free healthy heart checks taking place every Tuesday up to March 29th. Public health experts from the Tees Valley Public Health Shared Service are working in partnership with Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council to deliver the checks between 10am and 4pm at the Old Co-op Community Building on Loftus High Street.

As part of a rolling programme of community health checks within Redcar and Cleveland, the checks are available on a walk-in basis and do not need to be prebooked. The checks will assess the risk of residents developing cardiovascular disease and consist of a blood pressure and cholesterol check, pulse monitoring, a body mass index calculation and a lifestyle questionnaire.

They are available to anyone aged 40-74 who has not been diagnosed with cardiovascular diseases like high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, or kidney disease; is not taking medication for high blood pressure or cholesterol; and has not had a healthy heart check in the last five years.

Cllr Lynn Pallister, Cabinet Member for Health and Housing at Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council said: “The healthy heart check will take about 20 minutes, which could prevent more long term illnesses developing as well as save lives. So we are encouraging as many people as possible to take part and receive this fantastic health advice for free.�

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Heart Unit needs the Oprey The man behind the Rotary-backed scheme that has successfully raised a million pounds for the South Cleveland Heart Scanner says that this year’s Grand Ol’ Oprey fundraiser is needed more than ever.

Adrian Davies, a retired leading heart surgeon, said that every penny raised by the Rotary Club of Saltburn’s Easter musical extravaganza will boost the effectiveness of the state of the art MRI scanner.

He said: “We will carry on fundraising for the Heart Unit to keep it at the leading edge of heart patient care by funding requests for important additional equipment, which is VAT exempt, staff training, pump priming of new therapeutic techniques prior to them being commissioned, and research – none of which would be available through current NHS funding.

These are hard times in the NHS as a whole, and the work we do is important by helping our Regional Heart Centre further its excellent reputation nationally and internationally. It is vital for us to continue to attract the best people to work in Middlesbrough.”

The regional Cardiothoracic Unit serves a catchment population of 1.6 million.

This year’s Grand Ol’ Oprey runs from Easter Sunday, 27th of March to Wednesday, 30th at the Saltburn Commu n ity Theatre.

Tickets which cost just £8 a night are moving well at the sales points in Destinations and Whistle Stop Wines on Station Street, Saltburn, and at the Community Theatre and its online booking facility.

Rotarian Harry Simpson, who picked all the acts and who also runs Saltburn Blues Club, said: “It’s a great line-up with a wide range of talent. Some nights there are five acts, which makes it an absolute

bargain ticket.”

The line-ups by night are: EASTER SUNDAY: Joe Kemp, Easy Street, Josie Lloyd, Martin Fletcher and Chris James Band.

MONDAY: Marie Marx, Old School, John Weighell, Peg Fowler and Joe Kemp TUESDAY: Steve Dagleish, The Dam Jammers, Plumhall, Les Glover, The Caffrays WEDNESDAY: The Guisborough Big Band Doors open 6.30pm.

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At Ryedale Auctioneers,

OllieB Lovely Ladies Clothes and Accessories 12 Dundas Street East Saltburn-by-the-Sea TS12 1AH Telephone: 01287 623715 Opening hours: Monday to Saturday 10am to 5pm We have an extensive range of clothes and accessories to suit most ages and sizes.

Brands include Masai, Joe Browns, Lily & Me, Luca Vanucci and many more.

We still have some Winter items available, including scarves, hats, gloves and warm tights and vintage style socks.

New Spring/Summer stock arriving all the time.

Lots of lovely bright new scarves and handbags, and pretty jewellery too!

For updates and details of our special offers, like us on our Facebook page:

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we have fortnightly general sales, with live internet bidding. We also have Specialist Sales, Antique & Fine Art Sales, Militaria & Sporting Sales and Railwayana & Toy Sales. We also do house clearances, and have our own collection/delivery service. We provide valuations for probate, insurance and sales.

Upcoming Sale dates for March are: General Household Sales - 5th, 19th Outdoor Sale - 12th Antiques & Fine Arts - 26th Railway, Toys & Collectables - 6th

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EMMANUEL CHURCH OPEN FOR YOU What direction is my life going?

How do I make sense of the suffering I see in the world and in my own life?

Is there somebody out there who loves me?

Are science and faith really incompatible?

Why do my friends go to church?

Why are there different religions?

Where is truth to be found?

Many people experience times when they wish they could find a sanctuary or a safe space to sit and ponder.

If you have asked yourself questions like these from time to time, then come along to Emmanuel Church is such a place, and over START and discuss some possible answers the last twelve months we have tried to open with other fellow explorers. the church more often to Saltburn residents and visitors to the town.

Begins Tuesday 12th April at 7pm During March we would like to offer you a warm welcome and some space to reflect at St Thomas Church Hall on the following days and times:

New Marske

START 2016 runs for 6 weeks during April and May. If you would like more information or would like to confirm your attendance please speak to the Rev’d Adam Reed. Contact details can be found at the bottom of the page.

Saturdays 5th, 19th & 26th March 10am-4pm Sundays 13th & 27th March 1pm-4pm

‘The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field.’

(Gospel of Matthew 13:44) Sundays at Emmanuel Church: 9.00am & 10.45am services with refreshments served from 10.10am Tuesdays at Emmanuel Church: 9.30am service with refreshments served from 10.15am Emmanuel Church: Tel: 01287 622251 / Email: emmanuelsaltburn@hotmail.co.uk / www.saltburnparishchurch.co.uk

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Live by the Sea 2016 Are you ready for something more…?

For Saltburn’s next instalment of musical mayhem “Live” by the Sea, the Spa Hotel brings you some new and exciting artists to look out for. As well as being your music destination of choice we want to bring the stars of tomorrow to Saltburn today, and have sought out the best in unsigned, up and coming talent to entertain you on Easter Sunday, 27th March.

We didn’t have to look far to find Josh Newell-Brown.

Josh, as most of you will know, lives and works in Saltburn, co-managing Signals Bistro in Station Square. His own inimitable brand of alternative folk-pop will infect you with his flamboyantly colourful spirit and have you singing along.

Josh has recently been championed by Zetland FM, who have hosted him playing live in the studio and Costa Coffee who have been playing his single “Shine” in all of their branches.

Josh says he can’t wait to join in the fun and we are more than thrilled to have him onboard.

One of our main aims is to promote singer songwriters and to give a platform to real local talent. Well, we couldn’t get more local or more talented than Josh! If you want to come along and see him play, phone our reception to book your tickets on 01287 622544 quoting the code “Inner Treasures.” You won’t be disappointed.

Our unsigned headliners for the evening come from a little further afield. Jeramiah Ferrari are a four piece roots/ reggae, ska/punk band who hail from Leigh in Lancashire.

These four young lads met at school, honed their craft playing rock and punk covers and progressed to win the City Sound Wave Competition in 2012 in front of a crowd of more than 19,000 people. They went on to proudly support the Wailers on their recent arena tour of the UK. They now write all their own songs and have self-released 2 EPs and one highly recommend album. Some of you may have seen them at the Willowman festival in 2014 and they have just been announced for this year’s Kendal Calling. The lads have

never been to Saltburn before and lead singer Ryan Barton told us how he feels about playing in front of such large crowds compared to the smaller more intimate setting of the Spa Hotel: “A massive crowd is harder because you really need to concentrate on making a good sound, whereas in smaller clubs and venues you get to interact with the crowd.”

It won’t be their smallest crowd, however, as they once played at the One Love Festival, with the most awful time-slot of 9am, to a crowd of just two people from the back of a van! We think we can guarantee the people of Saltburn will give them a far warmer welcome than that!

We also told Ryan about the musical legacy of Philmores and asked his thoughts on this: “We love playing venues where our favourite bands have played, you feel like you’ve got to put on a good gig because you’re conscious of who has played there before.”

There are plenty of famous foot-steps for these young lads to follow in at the Spa Hotel with the likes of Edwin Starr and Sting paving the way for their future successes.

Finally we had to ask Ryan what the band would most like to do most when they are “by-the-Sea?” He said “busk” so do keep a look out because you might just get a preview on the pier! With a beat you can’t stop dancing to and lyrics that make you sing “Scooba Ding Ding” you really can’t go wrong! Just remember you saw them first at the Spa Hotel.

Tickets for “Live” by the Sea, Easter Sunday, 27th March are £10 available from the Spa Hotel reception on 01287 622544 or online via Eventbrite: http:// bit.ly/1NkK9UV Josh Newell-Brown: http://www.joshnewellbrown.co.uk/ https://m.facebook.com/joshnewellbrown/ Jeramiah Ferrari: http://jeramiahferrari.com/ https://m.facebook.com/jeramiahferrari/

Join the fun choir that’s for everyone Especially for people who have never sung in a choir before – but also for those who have. If you have ever wanted to sing in a choir, now is your opportunity.

Led by Jeanette Wainwright the mixed choir meets on Monday afternoons in the Dance Studio of the Saltburn Earthbeat Centre.

Janice Jarvice, one of the members, says about being in the choir: “I really enjoy attending Jeanette Wainwright’s Monday singing group in Saltburn. It’s just great to contribute to the lovely sounds that a mixed group can make when Jeanette arranges glorious harmonies for us. We learn a wide variety of songs - and what’s more, it does me good but it’s also soul food.

I learn, I benefit, I have fun.”

Jeanette, who is also an opera singer and musical director, has been leading choirs for fifteen years. She currently has over 100 singers in her choirs located in East Cleveland and North Yorkshire.

Jeanette says: “We sing a huge range of different styles of music...something for everyone.”

The choirs come together throughout the year – raising money for amazing charities in spectacular concerts. Together the choirs are called the 100 VOICES. 28

Jeanette in full flow leading a choir

To find out what to do next call or text Jeanette on 07884 020031 or email her at: jeanette.wainwight1@outlook.com web address: www.jwainwrightsinging.co.uk

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Why Saltburn House? 

Wednesdays Parmo Night starting 2nd of March.

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Fridays Fish Night. Followed by a night of Karaoke.

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Sunday Carvery, 12 -5pm, ( Booking Advisable )

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Sky & BT Sports!

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All the Latest bands!

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Rooms & Function rooms available to hire.

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Afternoon Tea, perfect for Mother’s Day.

Bands this March include: Big Sigh & the Yawns on Friday 11th.

Long Wave, Sunday 26th

For more information or to reserve a booking please contact us on

01287 622008 or email us at: saltburnholidaycentre@hotmail.co.uk

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Saltburn Drama Festival 2016 What’s so special about a one-act play? And why is it worthwhile having a festival for this particular type of theatre?

The Greeks first celebrated drama in this way, around 2,700 years ago. The fact that the tradition has lasted all this time surely means that, quite simply, throughout history, in different countries and different cultures, people have loved this type of entertainment. The Greeks set such store by theatre that they held festivals to find and honour the greatest playwrights, and their names echo down the years: Euripides, Aeschylus, Sophocles, for their plays are still performed today.

We are enthralled by stories, whether they are read to us, or shown to us, on TV, film or live theatre. It’s actually quite difficult to imagine a life without story telling. It influences the way we look at the world by exploring situations, attitudes, emotions, beliefs and dreams. There is certainly something magical that can happen between a group of actors and a live audience: a bond sometimes so powerful that a particular performance can stay in our hearts for the rest of our lives.

You might think that it is easier to write or perform in a one-act play simply because it is shorter than the three or five acts that are required for a full evening’s performance. In fact, as people involved in writing, directing or acting soon find out, one-act plays are much more challenging.

Playwrights and actors have to create, situations and characters which must, almost immediately, attract the interest of the audience. There is less than an hour in which to give us a glimpse into another life, another world. And it has to be a compelling glimpse: we have to care about the situation and the people or the story doesn’t work.

Over the years at the Saltburn Festival we have seen an extensive range of plays including tragic, comic and everything between: themes concerning war, domestic strife, the supernatural, science fiction, psychological thrillers, hilarious farce and quirky humour. And part of the excitement is not knowing what the next play will have to offer because the title sometimes doesn’t give much away!

Classical, modern and original plays are all welcomed. But

it’s creating that snapshot, that intriguing situation or fascinating character, that can make the one-act play a masterpiece in miniature.

The difficult task for the adjudicator is to choose, on the Saturday night, the winners of the awards; in other words to select the people who have best met the challenges of their chosen play based on the criteria of acting, production, stage presentation and dramatic achievement. Those who have attended many Festivals know that the interest of the event lies not just in the awards, but in the valuable insight that adjudicators can give, in almost every aspect of theatre craft, when they comment on the plays each evening. The overall winner of the competition will go forward to the next round of the All England Theatre Festival. The audience can choose their favourite play, too, by voting on the Friday night, if they have attended all seven plays.

This year’s Drama Festival runs from Wednesday, 16th March to Saturday, 19th March and we are very pleased to welcome drama groups from Durham, Northallerton and Scarborough who will be joining our two local groups, the Saltburn ’53 and the Valley Players.

The Saltburn ’53 are rehearsing two plays to enter in the Festival. The adult play is newly written and the theme has been inspired by events of the Spanish Civil War. The Youth entry is a lively, comic re-telling of the tale of Little Red Riding Hood, in which the characters do not exactly match up to their fairy tale counterparts.

If you have attended the Festival before, you will know what a wonderful few days of drama is on offer at the Community Theatre. If you have not yet joined us, this is the perfect opportunity to experience a very special aspect of theatre. We are confident you will agree with us (and Hamlet) that “the play’s the thing.”

Venue: Saltburn Community Theatre Dates:16-19 March 2016 Time: 7.30pm. (Doors open & bar 6.45pm.)

Tickets: £7 (concession £5) Weekly ticket £18 (concession £12) Tickets on sale: The Book Corner, Station Square; Theatre Box Office (Wed, Thurs, Fri 2-4pm) and on line at www.saltburnarts.co.uk

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The Countryside Ranger and Volunteers, February 2016

Path clearing in the rain.

Litter picking by the Albert Memorial

Pulling himalayan balsam in Skelton Beck. Walkers enjoying the November sunshine.

If You Go Down to the Woods Today......

If today is Friday and the woods are in a valley in Saltburn, It shouldn’t be a big surprise if you come across a small group of people wielding what appear to be deadly looking weapons! The “weapons” are only grass slashers, billhooks, loppers and rakes, and the people are just a group of volunteers trying to help improve the appearance of, and access to the valley.

The group was first started when Neil, the new Countryside Ranger was appointed to work full-time at the Woodland Centre in the year 2000. This “Task Group” worked with the Ranger every Friday, maintaining paths, mending fences and keeping the valley tidy in various ways.

In 2012, the Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council (RCBC) gave up running the Centre, and took away the full-time Countryside Ranger who then only came to work with the Volunteers on alternate Fridays. The Volunteers, however, continue to work in the valley every Friday, doing jobs as agreed with the current Ranger, Paul Murphy, now responsible for the area.

We are questioned occasionally about who we are, by people walking through the valley. They wonder whether we are council workers, or even people doing their community service. We are happy to inform them that we are just local residents enjoying the outdoors and the exercise, even if it is raining, snowing or freezing etc.

In March 2015, the Volunteers had a meeting in Mill Field Meadow and agreed to set up a volunteer group “Saltburn Countryside Volunteers” to meet and work every Friday at some point in the valley. We set up a Website – www.saltburncountrysidevolunteers.btck.co.uk – to inform people what we do, and how to join us. We also agreed a constitution and elected a committee.

We are made up of about 12 regular members, men and women aged from under 40 to over 70. We are always pleased to welcome new volunteers, and only ask them to register as volunteers with RCBC so that any training in the safe use of tools etc can be given by the Countryside Ranger (for 34

Cutting and raking on Camp Bank.

Working in the Community Orchard.

information on volunteering, contact – paul.murphy@redcarcleveland.gov.uk).

We have been provided with several tools by the Countryside Ranger, and would also like to thank the Saltburn, Marske and New Marske Parish Council for their grant to help us buy more tools.

Here are some of the projects we have worked on in our first year:1. Path clearing and litter picking are on-going tasks. The paths throughout the valley are checked and cleared of obstacles and litter whenever we walk from one area to another.

2. We occasionally remove himalayan balsam from along the river banks. This invasive species suppresses the native plants which results in increased erosion of the banks. Unfortunately, when ripe, the seed heads explode scattering the seeds far and wide if we allow them to grow.

3. We have started cutting and raking several areas in the valley, such as Camp Bank, and the area below the Albert Memorial, to reduce the amount of coarse grass, bracken and brambles so that wild flowers can thrive. This is very slow work when it has to be done manually.

4. Every Spring and Autumn, we organise and supervise the cutting and clearing of Mill Field Meadow by a local farmer, to encourage the growth of the wild flowers. We also carry out a butterfly survey for Butterfly Conservation. You may even come across the occasional picnic as it is a popular place for families to visit. Passing walking groups will also take advantage of the sunny weather as they walk the Cleveland Way. 5. For the last 12 months, we have been clearing and extending the Community Orchard on the opposite side of the path to Mill Field Meadow, cutting back overgrown blackthorn to encourage new growth. We only plant new fruit trees if they are a suitable variety as agreed with the ranger.

In the Summer, we will be looking at the results of our work, and I hope to provide an update in Talk of the Town later in the year.

Paul Spight – Saltburn Countryside Volunteers.

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Canine Rehabilitation and Fitness

Foodie Fans set for Seaside Treat Saltburn Farmers’ Market ready for brand new season It’s a sure sign that spring is in the air …. And “And our visitors always tell us that foodie fans are in for a tasty seaside treat, two of the things they like best about the when Saltburn Farmers’ Market returns for a Market are the fantastic family atmosphere brand new season on Saturday, 12th March. and the chance to buy good local food that’s Fresh from its annual winter break, the often hard to find elsewhere. That’s exactly first market of the year sees the popular what we set out to achieve when we first monthly market celebrate its eighth birthday started the Market, and that’s exactly what after its debut during a freak Easter blizzard in we still do today. But more than just food, 2008. our market is about people – the people The first ever Market saw a dozen who actually make or produce the food brave local foodies set up their stalls in the itself and, obviously, the people who come snow, a number that has since trebled in size along and enjoy the day. as the Market quickly became a firm favourite “Our stallholders are always happy with shoppers and local food producers alike. to chat with shoppers about the food or art It’s since gone on to become one of the they produce, and a lot of friendships have most popular Farmers’ Markets in the Market Manager Lorna Jackson been forged over the years. So, we’re country, attracting more than an estimated looking forward to another really enjoyable and Steve Ashton from half-a-million visitors during that time, and year and catching up with everyone again, Tees Valley Wildlife Trust. was shortlisted as National Farmers’ Market and we can’t wait to add to that Saturday of the year in 2014. morning buzz around the town again.”

Now, over 35 stalls plus special guests the Tees Valley Saltburn Farmers’ Market. Sat 12 March. 9am-2pm.

Wildlife Trust are looking forward to another busy year in the Based just outside Saltburn Railway Station, a tasty mix of seaside town. over 35 stalls includes a wide range of locally produced Market Manager Lorna Jackson said: “The first Market sausages, meat & game, fresh fruit & veg, wild mushrooms, of the year is always a really exciting day for us, and we’re garden herbs & garlic, freshly baked artisan bread, really pleased that the Tees Valley Wildlife Trust are joining handmade cheese, Skinningrove Wines & locally brewed us this year. I live in Saltburn and obviously know what a beers, cakes & biscuits, ginger wine & gingerbread, gourmet great place it is, but there’s always an extra special buzz scotch eggs, a gluten-free bakery, hot street food, chilli around the town on market day. It’s great to see so many sauces, fresh coffee bar, hog roast, plus local art, crafts and people exploring the town while they’re here and discovering much more besides (for further info, visit their new favourite shop or café. www.saltburnfarmersmarket.com).

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Saltburn Animal Rescue Association A small charity seeking to rescue and re-home cats and dogs, Tel: 01642 488108 (weekdays only, 10am to 2pm).

SARA has many dogs and cats that need new homes. All are clean, healthy, neutered, vaccinated and microchipped.

Hello! We are Roger and Rodney the cats and Toby the dog. We all live at SARA but we are all now ready to look for new forever families. First up are Roger and Rodney.

We are probably the most pleasant and friendly cats you could possibly meet. We love lots of cuddles and cosy lap time. Roger is white with black markings and Rodney is white with ginger markings, just so you don’t get us confused! We are adult male cats who came into SARA’s care as strays, so that they don’t know our exact age and nor do we, as we are cats and we can’t count. We would be very happy in our new homes as either indoor or outdoor cats, because that’s just how chilled out and easy going we are!

And now it is Toby’s turn. He is a 3 year old Labrador/Staffordshire Terrier cross lad. He is mostly black with white and brindle markings. He’s quite a sturdy boy, so his weight may need watching as he gets older. As he is still fairly young he is very playful, and full of fun and bouncy. He enjoys nothing more than a good long walk and a play with his ball. On the beach or in the woods doesn’t matter to Toby just so long as he is with those who

love him best. Toby would be happiest with an active and outdoorsy family, possibly with an older child to play with him and take him to dog training classes. He would make a very loyal and loving companion to the right family.

Love from Roger, Rodney and Toby.

SARA fundraising events during March The next monthly meeting of SARA will be held on Wednesday 2nd March, at 7.30pm in the TocH premises, Albion Terrace, Saltburn. The Annual General Meeting will precede the meeting. Members of the public are cordially invited to attend. New members are welcome.

Our 20th Anniversary since SARA was founded has just ended. It has been a good year with some special events that will be repeated this year. We look forward to meeting you.

Events for March: Saturday, 12th Community Centre Saltburn 10 - 4pm Table-Top sale.

Saturday, 26th Easter Fayre 10 - 1pm Marske Hall.

Funds raised at the Marske Leisure Centre amounted to £179.40. Thank you to everyone who attended and made it a pleasant and successful event.

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Dyslexia? Dyspraxia? Dyscalculia?

The first thing that might cause a teacher or parent to by a qualified assessor with an Assessment Practising wonder whether a child may have dyslexia, could be that Certificate (APC) from Patoss provide the evidence this otherwise bright, sparky child, who may be interested needed when applying for Disabled Students’ Allowance. in many things, seems to be having an almighty struggle to All Higher Education Students living in England can make the progress in reading that would be expected. apply for a Disabled Students’ Allowance (DSA) if they Spelling will usually be even more of an uphill climb - have a disability including Specific Learning Difficulties sometimes the very spellings that gave an almost perfect such as dyslexia or dyspraxia (DCD). score in Friday’s spelling test will be all but forgotten by A Diagnostic Assessment may sometimes uncover Monday, when the next lot have to be learnt! Sometimes, difficulties in the area of motor skills associated with even learning five out of ten ready for the coming test will dyspraxia (Developmental Coordination Disorder – be a time-consuming and frustrating task!

DCD). In this case an educational diagnosis of dyspraxia Difficulties with Literacy are not the only indicator may be deemed appropriate. This would not be the same of dyslexia but they are the most obvious one. No two as a medical diagnosis of dyspraxia. As with dyslexia people with dyslexia are exactly the same but all will have home and classroom strategies would be recommended some weakness in phonological awareness – that is their along with appropriate exam concessions. Dyslexia and awareness of the sound structure of words and the way this dyspraxia can occur together, so a dual diagnosis might is processed in the brain. be given. The parents of a child with dyspraxic However, people with dyslexia often experience a tendencies would also be encouraged to consult their GP range of other symptoms which can affect everyday life who might decide to refer the child to the Paediatric and not just reading and writing. There may be visual Occupational Therapy Service. stress, reversals of numbers and letters, slower processing Unfortunately, there is no space in a short article to speed, poor organisation skills, poor working memory, cover all the complexities of the conditions I have slow handwriting speed or difficulties with sequencing. headlined (and I haven’t even mentioned adults with Some people with dyslexia excel at Maths while others these conditions) so just a quick explanation of will struggle. dyscalculia. Dyscalculia is a lack of an awareness and There are particular strengths associated with understanding of number. Even if a child learns a times dyslexia and famous dyslexics such as Richard Branson, table or a number bond by heart, it is quickly ‘lost’ again Keira Knightly, Steve Jobs, Roald Dahl, Whoopi Goldberg and the dyscalculic just really doesn’t ‘get it.’ It is rather and John Lennon, to name but a few of the many, are a like reciting a foreign language parrot fashion with very brilliant testimony to this. Neither dyslexia, dyspraxia or little idea of what any of the words mean or how to use dyscalculia are related to intelligence, poor teaching or them in everyday situations. Persistent failure in Maths social and economic background. can obviously cause lots of frustration and heartache in There are some simple screening tests in use which the classroom and an assessment for dyscalculia can can be good for flagging up a child or adult with uncover the difficulties being experienced and suggest difficulties but because of the way scores in these tests are strategies to help numbers ‘come alive’ a little more for weighted, a student may sometimes be told that they are the child who is struggling, as well as giving teachers a not dyslexic when in fact they are. These screening tests better picture of the problem. also do not screen for visual stress which can be a major To ask any questions and arrange for an cause of reading difficulties and which, if present, needs assessment please contact me at Cleveland Dyslexia referring to a specialist ophthalmologist.

Assessments – details in the advert here in Talk of the A full Diagnostic Assessment will uncover the Town. unique pattern of strengths and weaknesses of the Jayne Holland individual and can be used to design a teaching programme and suggest classroom DYSLEXIA? DYSPRAXIA? DYSCALCULIA? strategies tailored to the individual as well as encouraging the person with dyslexia to be aware of and build on their strengths. The - a full diagnostic service conducted test results contained within a Diagnostic Assessment Report are needed as evidence by a PATOSS registered Assessor. for allowing special arrangements for exams To arrange a free consultation, such as extra time, scribes, readers or transcripts. Ideally, any such contact Jayne on 07842 134016. recommendations would become the jayne.holland1@btinternet.com normal way of working in the classroom too, as far as that is possible, so that the student www.facebook.com/dyslexiacleveland is used to them when exam time comes. www.patoss-dyslexia.org Diagnostic Assessments carried out

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Redcar & Cleveland Philatelic Society March meetings and February 2016 Review March’s Wednesday meetings at the East Cleveland Community Centre, Durham Road, Redcar, 7:00 for 7:15pm will be: 2nd March: Auction (viewing from 6:30pm, non-members welcome). 16th March: NEPA President Steve Dixon Horn of Africa display.

Always an enthusiast for his subject, on 20th January President Martin Snowdon gave a spectacular display on Karl Bickel, the Swiss stamp engraver who produced not only many of Switzerland’s stamps, but also for Luxembourg, Portugal, Liechtenstein and engravings for elsewhere including British QEII postal orders. The photo highlights a presentational style worthy of serious attention by all who display or aspire to do so, and indeed, lessons for all. As shown he used A3 (rather than traditional A4) sheets to advantageously display a wide variety of large, spectacular Third Reich covers, Balloon and Rocket flights and other material.

In February we shortlisted Redcar’s entries for the North East England’s (NEPA) annual competitions in April,

and for the local Spirit of Teesside Trophy. It was gratifying that we had more displays to consider than in previous years.

Geoff. Reynolds (Secretary 01642 478229) David D. Turner (01287 624736)

Earthbeat Open Day Our open day is fast approaching and it looks like it’s going to be fantastic! Come along and see how we’ve improved the building, enjoy some delicious food and be thoroughly entertained – all for free!

We’ve got: Hot food and drinks An indoor market Wrestling Line dancing Tombola Belly dancing Yoga Earthbeat performance Spirals/keep fit Jet Set Morris Painting African drumming Elsa, from Frozen Peppa Pig The Earthbeat centre, is a community building and is here for everyone to enjoy so please come along and share in the fun and excitement.

Hope to see you between 10.00am and 2.00pm on Saturday, 5th March.

Tony PS If you have any unwanted Christmas presents, we’re looking for prizes for the Tombola. We’re also looking for car park attendants (2 hour slots).

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If it’s grown locally we do our best to source it.

Quality Fresh Fruit and Veg at Competitive Prices.

The winner of this month’s Pride of Saltburn Award is Lynda Parkes. Lynda was nominated by Jane Burke. Jane said, “I, on behalf of the volunteer Saltburn in Bloom gardeners, would like to nominate Lynda Parkes as Pride of Saltburn. Lynda, as Chair of Saltburn in Bloom, donates an enormous amount of time and energy to fund raising, organising sponsorship of tubs and baskets, liaising and planning with organisations and businesses, co-ordinating the annual RHS judging in the town, as well as managing our weekly Wednesday gardening sessions across the various sites in town. The group thoroughly enjoys the mornings we spend together - there is always time for a chat and a coffee as well as some weeding and planting. Lynda, supported by husband Dave, doesn’t only garden on Wednesdays though: they put in many hours looking after other planted areas, as well as co-ordinating putting up and taking down the hanging baskets each year. She does such a lot of hard work, appreciated by those who enjoy our beautiful town.” Thank you, Lynda, for being you, the Pride of Saltburn.

Every month, a £30 bunch of flowers, kindly donated by Ruby Lilly’s Florists of Marske, is awarded to someone in Saltburn who has earned admiration, gratitude and love for whatever reason. Talk of the Town invites nominations from readers, to chose whom to receive recognition and a bunch of flowers. Send your nominations to Talk of the Town’s postbag at Jackie’s Saverstore, 8 Station Buildings, Saltburn, Cleveland, TS12 1AQ or email Ian (talkofthetown@tyasi.freeserve.co.uk). (Please include your name, phone number and the reason you are nominating the person of your choice.) Please also confirm with the nominee that they are willing to receive the award (many people feel shy about it). All the nominations will be read and kept for future use, so even if your choice doesn’t win this month, they might do so next time.

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Suma Herbs and Spices Grasers have an impressive array of the many different herbs and spices available from Suma. Too many shown here to simply list, one can be confident not only of finding the herb or spice one is looking for, but also in the quality of the product. Suma Wholefoods is the UK’s largest independent workers cooperative and wholesalers of organic, vegan, vegetarian and specialist foods, all of which are ethically sourced and fairly traded and natural, and 100% vegetarian.

Suma also care about the environment and all their products come from sustainable business practices with recycling and limiting global warming. Suma even have an anti-slavery policy and will not exploit workers anywhere in the world.

Their own workers in the UK are all paid the same wage.

You can read more about this fantastic ethical company on their website (www.sumacoop).

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The de Brus Symposium

The de Brus Symposium is a day which will open your mind and discover the real story of our North Yorkshire Heritage.

The Symposium is to take place in Prior Pursglove College in Guisborough on Saturday, 5th March 2016 from 10.00 to 4.00pm.

This is a full day event with free parking, coffee on registration, light lunch and guided tours of the de Brus Cenotaph in the Parish Church and also to Gisborough Priory. There will be stalls and displays on site for everyone to enjoy.

Tickets for this event are only ÂŁ20.00 inclusive.

Details of how you can obtain tickets we ask you to visit the website, www.debrustrail.org.uk, or telephone 01287 633700. Tickets are on sale now so please book this memorable day of interest and intrigue.

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Tel: 01287 625700 Mob: 07775 610745 45

Chocolinis Chocolatier Continental Chocolates Moulded Figures Our Own Recipe Bars Speciality Ice Cream Celebration Cake Toppers Wedding Favours Luxury Hot Chocolate Coffees Teas www.chocolinissaltburn.com

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CHOCOLINIS NEWS NUGGETS Mad March Well, what a month February was!

Now we’re all set to do it again this month!

Hopefully Spring is just around the corner which brings us to a very Early Mothering Sunday On March 6th, followed by Easter at the end of this month too.

So, we have Hearts and Flowers (in Chocolate of course) Bunnies and Lambs, Ducks and Chicks, Easter themed Continentals and some very Unique Easter Eggs, for giving as gifts, but not forgetting the true meaning of Easter.

We are open as usual throughout the Bank Holiday, with steps rebuilt, a new wall, doorway damage repaired and new handrails (for the safety of our customers) With thanks to Rick and Rees Woodall 46

Shoulder Pain Shoulder pain is very common and affects all age groups. Pain may come on after a specific injury, but also develops out of the blue with no obvious cause.

Shoulder pain frequently becomes persistent and can affect all aspects of people’s lives from sleep disturbance to daily difficulties at home and at work. It has been estimated that up to 3 in 10 adults will experience significant shoulder pain at some time in their lives. Younger people tend to have more injury related shoulder pain, whilst older generations are more likely to experience pain from conditions that come on gradually. These include joint surface changes and to conditions that affect the shoulder muscles and soft tissues such as frozen shoulder and rotator cuff problems.

People who come to us with shoulder pain often have other, associated areas of pain, such as the arm. It is therefore important to carefully check for other causes of the pain, with the most common one being an issue with the neck.

There are a number of treatment options for shoulder

related pain. These include pain relieving medication, injection therapy, passive joint mobilisation and exercise. These all have a part to play, but to be effective they need to be administered in a logical and orderly fashion. Popping pills and having needles stuck into your shoulder are pretty simple interventions and it doesn’t take long to find out if it has helped. Exercise, however, is a different matter as it frequently takes several weeks for this to bring about significant improvements.

Specifically targeted exercise can reduce pain and more importantly improve the load bearing capacity of the joint, which will help to maintain good function & prevent pain recurrence.

If you are having persistent problems with shoulder pain, Physiotherapy can be an effective solution. You can call us for a chat and to discuss the best way to manage your shoulder pain.

Philip Newton Chartered and Health Care Professions Council Registered Physiotherapist www.newtonphysio.com

Pink Ladies – East Cleveland We are all guilty of taking life and loved ones for granted and to a certain extent I believe we should, for it would be totally exhausting to live life as if every day was our last but then every now and then a death, a diagnosis, an accident or even a birth can make us stop and take stock of what we have.

Well my story is just that. It’s a reminder of how precious our lives really are and to ask you all to just stop! Just look at her or him or the kids or your friend or neighbour and breathe it in. Breathe in the love and appreciation for all that you have.

My mother, as are all the women in my family, was a formidable character so when at 56 she was diagnosed with breast cancer, we (her 2 daughters, son and husband) new this would not take her from us. She didn’t need chemo but did have her breast removed; however, even a foam prosthesis to fill her ample bosom did not phase her. Life returned back to normal for 2 years. Then our world was rocked when she was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a tumour on her brain and there was no going back. The decline was fast and unforgiving, we all stood around her bed to kiss her goodbye.

She never saw the 7th grandchild she’d been waiting for but her uncanny resemblance to nanny brought us all comfort and a smile. Life is never going to be the same I thought. I was right but we learn to cope and years rolled on. Then 3 years ago, another breast cancer diagnosis from my mother in law and a year later another, from me.

How does this family no matter how strong, cope with this I would ask myself. As I said previously all the women in

my family are formidable characters and we would cope with the chemo, the radio and wigs etc, but this was just so unfair on my family and my mother in law felt the same. So she decided we needed to do something, something positive, something to try and stop other families from going through this, to raise funds and awareness to help. There was born The Pink Ladies East Cleveland. Nine of these formidable women I’ve talked about will do our utmost to raise the much-needed cash for research. The Pink Ball 12th November at Guisborough Hall is a dinner and dance and Pinkfields 11th June at The Arches Brotton, a mini festival.

Both events are a great success each year raising more than 20k so far.

Jac (my mother in law) loved these events but she would not see the 3rd pink ball: her cancer returned and even she could not fight it. Again I stood around that bed and said my goodbyes and again I’ve wandered through the coming days and months taking each day as it comes but this time it’s different; the ticking clock is louder this time and my own mortality is in question, but why has it taken heartache to make me sit up and take stock? It shouldn’t: we should all feel blessed and grateful for those around us and appreciate life. Let’s not wait for a life-changing event. Let’s smile and love life now.

If you would like to join The Pink Ladies at the events listed or donate please check out our facebook page or text LADY53 to 70070.

Many Thanks, Sharon.

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Churches Together in Saltburn invite you to join our Easter worship Palm Sunday: 20th March 2016 10.00 am Holy Communion, Palm Procession followed by Soup Lunch in ECHO 10.30 am Holy Mass (Blessing of Palms) 10.45 am Morning Worship 6.00 pm Evening Worship

Catholic Church Methodist Church Methodist Church

Holy Monday: 21st March 2016 9.15 am Morning Prayer 9.30 am Holy Mass 6.30 pm Service of Reconciliation 7.00 pm Holy Communion

Catholic Church Catholic Church Catholic Church Parish Church

Holy Tuesday: 22nd March 2016 9.15 am Morning Prayer 9.30 am Holy Mass 7.00 pm Holy Communion Holy Wednesday: 23rd March 2016 9.15 am Morning Prayer 9.30 am Holy Mass 7.00 pm Holy Communion

Parish Church

Catholic Church Catholic Church New Marske Parish Church Catholic Church Catholic Church Parish Church

Maundy Thursday: 24th March 2016 7.00 pm Holy Communion followed by Parish Church the Watch of the Passion 7.00 pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper Catholic Church Watching before the Blessed Sacrament Good Friday: 25th March 2016 10.00 am Good Friday Worship 10.00 am ‘All Engage’ Morning Worship 10.00 am Children’s Way of the Cross 11.00 am Town Centre Act of Witness 2.30 pm Good Friday Devotion 3.00 pm Celebration of the Lord’s Passion Holy Saturday: 26th March 2016 9.00 am Morning Prayer at the Tomb 7.00 pm Easter Vigil and Holy Mass 9.00 pm Easter Vigil followed by Cava & Easter Eggs Easter Sunday: 27th March 2016 8.00 am Holy Communion 10.00 am Holy Communion followed by Sherry, Easter Eggs, Tea & Coffee 10.30 am Easter Day Family Mass 10.45 am Morning Worship 6.00 pm Evening Worship Easter Tuesday: 29th March 2016 9.30 am Holy Communion followed by Refreshments 7.00 pm Holy Communion Church Locations and Contacts Parish Church of Emmanuel Windsor Road Parish Church Office Macnay Street Methodist Church Milton Street Our Lady of Lourdes Milton Street Roman Catholic Church 48

Methodist Church Parish Church Catholic Church Station Portico Parish Church Catholic Church Parish Church Catholic Church Parish Church

Methodist Church Parish Church Catholic Church Methodist Church Methodist Church Parish Church New Marske Parish Church 01287 622007 01287 622251 01287 623245 01287 623619

Easter Message At Easter Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus, his coming back to life after being crucified and then buried for three days in a cold tomb.

Christians believe that the resurrection is a fact of history, something as certain as the death of Julius Caesar.

2000 years ago something happened which did more to change the history of the world than any other recorded event. We believe that the only plausible explanation for the evidence and effects is that Jesus truly rose from the dead.

This belief in the resurrection has two main impacts on the life of the Christian.

Firstly, it proves that all Jesus said and did was God’s plan. The resurrection is the divine stamp of approval for all of Jesus’ ministry. When Jesus said that only through faith in Him can we be saved and enter heaven we know this to be true because He rose from the dead. When Jesus said that He was God come to take our place and face our justly deserved punishment for sin so that we could be set free, we know this to be true because of the resurrection.

For Christians the resurrection is the ultimate historical vindication for all of our beliefs and principles.

Secondly, the resurrection gives the Christian great hope which nothing and no one can damage or take away.

Do we feel discouraged and unloved?

The resurrection promises us that the God of the Universe loves us more than we can imagine. Do we feel alone and ostracised?

Jesus was betrayed by all His friends but in the resurrection we are promised hope of a new life in a new community of saints. Do we struggle with poor health and daily pain? Jesus was broken on the cross and tortured in the most horrific ways but the resurrection gives hope of a new body free from pain and free from death.

Do we struggle with sin or are we constantly messing up in life? The resurrection says to us that there is always a new beginning when we have faith in Jesus. Are we struggling with finances? The resurrection tells us that this life is fleeting but in the life to come we can live in a city paved with gold where we lack nothing so long as we believe in Jesus.

Hopefulness has been sucked out of society. Hopefulness has been stolen from our lives. This Easter, accept the offer of Jesus; welcome into your life the only hope which nothing can destroy.

Reverend Adam Young, Emmanuel Church, Saltburn.

Marske Hall MARCH EVENTS Spring Ball - Saturday 12th March, 7pmlate, Spa Hotel, Saltburn. Join us at our annual Spring Ball. Tickets £30 each include a three course meal and disco.

Only a few tickets left. Please contact the Hall.

Easter Coffee Morning - Monday, 28th March, 10am12.30pm, Marske Hall. Enjoy some family fun on Easter Monday with kids’ activities, hamper raffle, refreshments, tombola, cake stall, crafts and other stalls, musical performances and much more.

Get cracking and enter the Easter Bonnet competition - ‘eggscellent’ prizes to be won. Free admission, donations welcome.

Look Ahead Coffee Morning - Saturday, 2nd April, Marske Leisure Centre, 10am-noon. Homemade cakes, bric-a-brac, tombola.

Architectural Services & Chartered Structural & Civil Engineers Architectural Planning and Building Regulation Advice Listed Building Experts House Extensions & Loft Conversions Alterations and Refurbishments Residential New Builds Shop Layout Designs Alcohol Licence Applications Office Warehouse Designs

Structural & Civil Engineering

Appeal Bottles of wine or other drink along with bottle gift bags are needed for the bottle draw at the Spring Ball. The fundraising team is always looking for tombola and raffle prizes to use at events throughout the year.

Structural Surveys Beam Designs Building Restoration Foundation & Underpinning Design General Building Works

Simply call into Marske Hall from 9am - 5pm, Monday to Friday or telephone 07714291979 for collection.

Professional and Friendly Service Gregory Sills BEng (Hons) CEng MIStructE FGS

Visit www.facebook/marskehall.com Thank you for your continued support.

Funds raised at these events will enhance the lives of people living at Marske Hall.

t: 01287 624644 m: 07960 967865

Registered Charity No: 218186. For details of these and other events call 01642 482672 or visit: www.facebook/ marskehall.comMarske Hall, Redcar Road, TS11 6AA.

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Help! Your local Playgroup needs you!

NEED HELP?

Little Nippers is in desperate need of willing volunteers to help out on Monday and Wednesday mornings, either in the kitchen or in the group. We need people to help set up and put away. If you can help, even if it is only for a few hours each month, we would love to hear from you. So, if you love spending time with young children, painting, glueing, singing, making music or reading stories, or even simply making drinks, then please contact Little Nippers Playgroup on

01287 624575 We have spaces in March for babies and newcomers to the town

Craft Magic Craft Magic is a beautiful new gift shop in the heart of Saltburn, offering affordable shelf rental to local crafters.

We sell handmade items and gifts at affordable prices. We are located at 4 Dundas Street West Saltburn and we open Monday – Saturday 9am-5pm.

Look forward to seeing you.

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I’M YOUR GUY Based in Saltburn CALL GUY ON

07780 008985 Used Stamps for Charity There is a box in Saltburn Library for used postage stamps which are a valuable source of income to a number of charities. Please drop your stamps in the library. Many thanks for your support. There is also a box in Marske Library.

Eric Matson (volunteer), 25 High Street, Skelton, Tel: 07985 767587 49

Citizens Advice Bureau

Do you want to make a difference to an individual’s life, change the way things work for the better, receive highly respected training, get invaluable work experience, develop new skills or put existing skills to good use, get involved with the community? Then why not volunteer with Citizens Advice Redcar and Cleveland? We are currently recruiting volunteer administration workers, gateway assessors, advisers, casework assistants and trustees to join our team.

As part of a national organisation, our service aims to provide the advice people need for the problems they face, and to improve the policies and practices which affect people’s lives. Our service is free, independent, confidential and impartial. We value diversity, promote equality and challenge discrimination.

Citizens Advice: a brief history At the beginning of the Second World War, the government of the day looked to form an agency that could advise the public on social problems that would be evident during the time of conflict.

The WRVS and the Red Cross formed the Citizens Advice Bureau in December 1939. Funded by local authorities, Bureaux began to spring up nationwide. Citizens Advice Redcar and Cleveland opened on November 4th, 1939. At that time the Bureau gave advice on rationing, missing persons and homelessness through bombings. To ensure that everyone had access to advice and information, horse boxes were often used to travel to rural areas.

We are open five days a week throughout the borough and offer a telephone advice service for clients unable to get to our drop in sessions.

Although times have moved on and we no longer use a horse box to reach people, we still provide advice at outreach locations in Skelton and Loftus.

At present, due to the economic climate and welfare reform, our biggest enquiry areas are welfare benefits, debt and employment. We also provide advice on family and relationship issues, consumer services, housing law and rights, discrimination, immigration, health and education plus many other issues.

Who are our volunteers and what do they do?

Volunteers are at the heart of our service and we could not manage without them. Volunteer advisers receive full training in the skills needed to help people deal with their problems and learn how to find the information the client needs from our extensive database. Volunteers are supported and supervised as they begin to give advice and will get feedback and development opportunities throughout their time with Citizens Advice. There are a variety of roles and tasks up to giving full advice.

Volunteer administrators help to make sure the service runs as smoothly as possible. Some of the duties include: word processing, file management, using databases, answering phone calls and updating information.

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are either given information to deal with their enquiry, or directed to an appropriate source of information or advice.

Some of our volunteers working hard at one of our drop in sessions. Advisers interview clients to find out what the problem is and help them understand options available to them by researching relevant advice and information to assist in making an informed choice of action, such as interviewing a homeless client to find out what their housing options are and helping the client decide their next steps.

Casework assistants help our specialist debt caseworkers follow up clients to ascertain outcomes of advice and recording outcomes, closing files, completing client satisfaction surveys, following up calls with professionals where necessary and gathering appropriate information.

If you are interested in any of the above roles and want to find out more, please contact Debbie Hesk on 01287 203324.

Trustees Because every local Citizens Advice is a registered charity, each has its own board of trustees. All local Citizens Advice trustee boards welcome people of all ages, backgrounds and experience who are passionate about advice services and can bring innovative ideas, their unique perspective and good judgement.

As a trustee you would: shape strategy and give direction to the local Citizens Advice; act as employer for paid staff; manage the local Citizen Advice finances; ensure the local Citizens Advice complies with the law; be responsible for upkeep of the local Citizens Advice’s premises, insurance and equipment.

Some trustee roles, for example Chair, Treasurer or Company Secretary require specific skills and experience.

Local Citizens Advice trustee boards are particularly keen to hear from people who have business, legal, funding, income generation, charity governance or advice sector experience.

Trustees are voluntary and unpaid, but out of pocket expenses can be claimed. The role is rewarding and interesting, whether you want to give something back to your local community, use your skills, or gain knowledge and experience of the voluntary sector to develop your career. If you are interested in the role of a trustee and want to find out more, please contact Helen Howson on 01287 203324.

Anyone seeking advice can find us at the below venues REDCAR LIBRARY Tuesday & Thursday Redcar & Cleveland House 10.00am – 1.00pm GUISBOROUGH Monday & Wednesday Belmont House 9.30am – 12.30pm SOUTH BANK LIBRARY Friday Normanby Road 9.30am – 12.30pm LOFTUS LIBRARY Thursday – every 2nd & 4th week 1.30pm–3.30pm SKELTON LIBRARY Monday – every 1st & 3rd week 1.30pm – 3.30pm TELEPHONE ADVICE Friday 10.00am – 12.00 noon 01642 469880.

March into the Cons Continues The end of March will bring to an end my first year as President of Saltburn Conservative Club and I would like to reflect on what has been a hectic, but rewarding period. The negatives I have taken from the year are so insignificant compared to the positives which have been achieved.

The main project the committee took on was to transform the club entrance and foyer area into a snug. This work was achieved on time and in budget, with the work been done by committee and club members. It looks absolutely fantastic, is being well used, and the comments from members have been very positive. During the past year the membership has increased on a weekly basis; an example of this is that from the beginning of this year to the middle of February 27 new members have been accepted into the club. The response rate of members re-joining this year from the previous year is very high.

Throughout the year we have held regular monthly music nights, on varying themes, which always bring in a full house, and, with no overhead expenditure involved, these are very good events for the finances of the club. Quiz and Charity nights are also held on a regular basis and we have had an increase in the number of members having celebration parties in the club. When you add these events to our regular established events such as Barbecues every two weeks from May to September, Tuesday night club draws, the ever popular and well supported Beer Draw (cash rollover stands at £575) plus the 3 days of the Saltburn Folk Festival which attracts more people every year, you can see how we had our best year of takings in 2015. The members must also be praised for supporting the charity events we have held. Their efforts helped us to raise almost £3,000 towards good causes in Saltburn and the surrounding area. Holding and arranging the many events we have requires a great deal of organisation and to this end the committee have put themselves out and performed their duties to great effect. The fact that a large percentage of the committee are working and have families makes me realise that I cannot thank them highly enough for the time they commit towards the success of the club. A true indication of their commitment in carrying forward the success we had last year is that all the present committee coming to the end of their 2 year term in office have indicated that they are seeking re-election for a further 2 years at the AGM in April. Lastly I would like to thank Michelle, our Stewardess, and the bar-staff who have worked tirelessly throughout the year. We are an award winning Real Ale club and their dedication and professionalism has helped us to entice so many new members .

One part of the club’s entertainment programme that I have not mentioned yet is the ‘Open Mic Nights’, run by ‘Teesside Steve’ and Liz Bishop which take place on the last Friday in every month (occasionally 2 times a month). The work they put in to organise these nights is so much

appreciated and enjoyed by all who attend. It was, therefore, a worrying time recently for Steve who has been in hospital for tests. He is now on medication and should start improving very quickly. Although he has a chronic illness the first signs are very positive and, knowing Steve, he won’t be out of action for long.

Everyone at the club wishes Steve a full and fast recovery.

In February we again held a Quiz, Bingo & Buffet night which gave us another full house. It was a great evening with lots of laughs and nothing too serious and was enjoyed by all present.

Thanks to Julie Towel for asking the questions and calling the bingo and to Michelle for the fantastic buffet she prepared. More of the same will follow throughout the year. Members are informed by email of all events happening at the club so don’t forget to mark down in your diary everything that will be taking place. Members who have not given their email addresses will find all the information they want on the club notice board.

Coming up in March we start our programme of events on Saturday 5th with an 80s Music Night with Shaun on the decks.

The evening starts at 7pm and 80s costumes are encouraged but not compulsory. The Champagne, Prosecco and Cocktails, which are always available, will again be flowing well and everybody is welcome. Entrance is free. On Friday 18th we will be holding our monthly ‘Open Mic Night’. This is slightly earlier this month owing to Good Friday and a clash with the ‘Grand Ol’ Oprey’ at the Community Centre. ‘Teesside Steve’ and Liz Bishop invite you along to listen, sing or perform on the stage. Everyone is welcome and once again the entrance is free. Starts from approx.

7-30pm. The following evening on Saturday 19th we welcome back the ’53 Drama Group who will be holding their after show party following the adjudication night at the end of the Drama Festival held throughout the week at the Community Centre.

Several of our members are members of this group and we very much appreciate them using the Cons Club for their social gatherings. On Tuesday 22nd CAMRA (campaign for real ale) are having a meeting in the club lounge. Once again, several of our members are in CAMRA and again it is much appreciated that they choose to meet and socialise in our club.

Membership is still open for people to join so why not call into the bar and get an application form (try us out at the same time). Apart from the many functions we hold, as a member, you receive 15% discount on all alcoholic drinks plus you also get ‘Happy Hours’ including beer at £2.10p per pint 5.30 to 7pm midweek and 3-5pm weekends.

Finally, this is an advance notice that the Club Annual General Meeting will be held on Monday, 4th April at 7.30pm in the lounge. All members are strongly urged to attend.

Have a good month. Stay safe and happy.

David Rigg, Club President Email: davidrigg21@yahoo.co.uk Article financially supported by Saltburn Conservative & Unionist Club

Saltburn Cons Club Future Events to entertain in March Every Tuesday: Club Draw nights for Meat Voucher, Wines & Chocolates. 10pm.

Every Sunday at 6pm: Beer Draw & Cash Rollover. This increases by £25 each week if not won. Currently standing at £575.

Saturday Afternoons: A get-together by ‘The Conmen’: Americano Musicians Jam sessions from 3pm.

Tuesday 1st: SLUG Meeting (Saltburn Line Users Group) - if you like trains you will enjoy this.

Saturday 5th: 80s Music Night from 7pm. (80s costumes encouraged but not compulsory).

Friday 18th: ‘Open Mic Night’ with Teesside Steve & Liz Bishop. All welcome. Free entry.

Saturday 19th: ’53 Drama Group. Private after show party.

Tuesday 22nd: CAMRA ( Campaign for Real Ale) Private Meeting.

Advance notice: Annual General Meeting is on Monday, 4th April at 7-30pm.

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Packed church for Lilian Some 300 people packed into Emmanuel Church for the funeral of Lilian Waton, a community activist and former nurse, who died in January aged 80.

Lilian, who lived on the Wilton Bank estate, packed ‘a lot into her life,’ said Rosemary Nicholls in a Saltburn Profile on her in Talk of the Town of December 2012.

This included being born the daughter of the vicar of Marske, being educated at St Hilda’s School, Whitby, and training to become a nurse. Among patients in her worldwide career trail were Queen Marie of Yugoslavia, the Rotheschild family in the USA and the Duchess of Marlborough.

She worked her way to Australia and back working as a ship’s sister when many passengers were emigrating to Australia on a £10 assisted passage scheme in the 1960s. She also worked at ICI Wilton as an occupational health nurse and became a health visitor in South Bank and Grangetown, Redcar and Dormanstown.

She lived with her parents in Hilda Place from 196990 and developed an interest in golf becoming captain at Saltburn in 1982 and 2003. Groups she was an active member included Saltburn Ladies Luncheon Club, the UK Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs, the University of the Third Age, the National Trust, Winkies Castle at Marske and Saltburn Photographic Society.

She also enjoyed the annual weekend train trips from Saltburn.

Mike Morrissey

Veterinary Matters When the microchip was introduced into the UK in the late 1980s, it was viewed with suspicion, even gaining a mention on Mr Kilroy-Silk’s TV programme. Since then it has proved to be a more suited method of trying to identify all our animals from horses to tortoises. On 6th April the law comes in that all dogs over 8 weeks of age must be identified by having a microchip implanted. Legally identification of other animals has been around for a while, with farm animals being ear tagged, horses needing to be “chipped” since July 2009, and UK bred tortoises that are to be bred from also need to be chipped.

So, what is a microchip? It is an electrical emitting device that is about the size of a grain of rice, encased in silicon. To read the unique number associated with each microchip, an electrical field has to be passed over the top of the chip’s position to cause it to vibrate and send this number to the handset that has activated it, where the signal is decoded and displayed on a screen. Each country using chips to identify animals have their own code, as does each chip supplier. This gives a 15 digit number that, once implanted, is your pet’s number. With the development of chip technology, some chips now have anti-migration collars to stop unwanted movement around the body with other chips being made very small for use in cats and exotic animals, and there has even been a chip developed to take the animal’s temperature. There are guidelines as to where a chip should be placed in all animals, birds and reptiles, so when your pet comes to be scanned, and no reading shows up, then it is more than likely that the pet has not been chipped.

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Unlike some countries where all dogs need a licence, or an up to date rabies vaccine with a passport, here in the UK we do not. All our dogs do need to be identified by wearing a collar with an identity tag of some sort when out of our houses, and the chip is an extension of this rule, as well as making it easier to identify dogs should the collar or tag come off. The method of implanting is straightforward, quick, and should be minimally painful. Sometimes owners will ask for their pets to be chipped when being operated on, and sometimes they need to be sedated to place the chip for everyone’s safety. Ask your vet if you are not sure.

With any chipped pet, to make sure you know where the chip is then pop in to your vet’s surgery and ask one of the staff to check where it is and that it is indeed working, as a few will move from the original site of implantation if they do not have an anti-migration collar, and about 1 in 20,000 may suddenly stop working.

Happy Easter for March 27th! Remember that although we all like chocolate Easter eggs it is not always a good idea to allow any animal to eat chocolate. The Veterinary Poisons Unit has suggested that the risk of eating chocolate may not be as hazardous as we used to think. Even so, it is not a good idea to feed chocolate to our pets. Should you find your pet has eaten some chocolate you should ask your vet, as they will know what to do.

As ever, if you are not sure or have any questions, ask your vet. If you want to ask me a question or raise a topic for this article, contact me by e-mail (on j.haddow@live.co.uk).

James Haddow, Veterinary Eye Consultant, GP and Saltburn resident.

Making Health Simple - Right Place, First Time Public Consultation 11th January - 1st April 2016 South Tees Clinical Commissioning Group (STCCG) found in its Summer 2015 Consultation that people find the current system of Urgent Care confusing; this feedback has helped staff to develop a range of options for the future. These take on board the Government’s direction to CCGs to further develop the NHS 111 telephone service and to increase GP surgery hours to cover weekends and evenings by 2020. So doing nothing is not an option.

What is Urgent Care? It’s the range of health services available to people who need urgent advice, diagnosis and treatment quickly and unexpectedly for needs that are not considered life-threatening. It includes NHS 111, pharmacies, GPs during and outside normal working hours, walk-in centres and minor injury services.

Excluded from this is Emergency Care, which is defined as immediate or life-threatening conditions or serious injuries or illnesses, which are usually dealt with by 999 calls and A and E departments.

However, sometimes A and E is chosen by patients inappropriately for Urgent Care needs. In 2014 - 15, 44% of South Tees A and E patients were discharged without requiring any treatment. Not only is it more expensive to attend to people in A and E, it sometimes happens that they are given inappropriate procedures, because the emergency doctors don’t have the up to date knowledge and experience of a GP. To learn more, I attended the second of nine local two hour Public Consultation events recently and was fortunate that discussion on my table was led by Amanda Hume, Chief Executive of the South Tees CCG. We were given an informative booklet to take away (including contact details in Albanian, Arabic, Farsi, Slovak and Tigrynia) and advised of the website: www,makinghealthsimple.org which gives access to a report on the Summer 2015 consultation and to the Formal Public Consultation Questionnaire. (A paper version can be requested on 01642 745401.)

The report provides some interesting statistics. South Tees has a population of around 274,000 and our age profile is set to change with fewer younger people and more people aged 70 and above. We also know that the health of people in South Tees is worse than the England average. In the most disadvantaged areas of Middlesbrough, men can expect to live 14.2 years and women 10 years less than those in the least disadvantaged areas.

The number of emergency admissions in South Tees is high. Provisional data from the Health and Social Care Information Centre shows that for October 2013 – September 2014, South Tees had the second highest (age

standardised) rate of emergency admissions in the country for acute conditions that should not usually require hospital admission: 2,060 per 100,000 population. For comparison, the England average was 1,258 per 100,000 population.

Not everyone who reports to A and E needs Emergency Care, so to ensure that the less ill get appropriate Urgent Care, South Tees CCG proposes that its Clear and Credible Plan 2012-2017 sets out its vision for future health services and its desire to transform Urgent Care by ‘designing a simpler, more responsive and cost-effective system, with streamlined access points, that makes sense to patients and helps them get the right care in the right place’.

Three options are being put forward for four geographical areas: Middlesbrough (with 139,395 people registered with a GP), Redcar/Eston/Marske (81,351), Saltburn and East Cleveland (36,223) and Nunthorpe/Guisborough (33,059). We are asked to vote for the one we think best and to state where we think the evening and weekend GP centres should be.

Option 1 envisages six extended hours GP centres open from 6.00 p.m. - 8.00 p.m. on weekdays and from 8.00 a.m. - 8.00 p.m. at weekends. The GP Out-of-Hours service would be reduced from 8.00 p.m. - 8.00 a.m. seven days a week. A GP led Minor Injuries Unit with X-ray would operate at James Cook University Hospital at all hours and at Redcar Primary Care Hospital from 8.00 a.m. - 9.30 p.m. A GP would also be employed at the front of A and E at James Cook.

Option 2, the South Tees CCG’s preferred option, offers the same services as Option 1 with regard to the Minor Injuries Unit and the A and E GP, but the extended hours facility is different. Option 2 proposes four extended hours GP centres open from 6.00 p.m. - 9.30 p.m. on weekdays and from 8.00 a.m. - 9.30 p.m. at weekends. The GP Out-ofHours service would be reduced to 9.30 p.m. - 8.00 a.m. seven days a week.

Option 3 does not include a GP working at the front of A and E at James Cook, but has the same service at the Minor Injuries Unit as Option 1 and 2. However, it does suggest eight extended hours GP centres, open from 6.00 p.m. - 8.00 p.m. on weekdays and from 8.00 a.m. - 8.00 p.m. at weekends. The GP Out-of-Hours service would be reduced to 8.00 p.m. - 8.00 a.m. seven days a week.

Are you full of questions and opinions? There are four more consultation sessions in March: at Eston (10th), Guisborough (15th), Middlesbrough (19th) and Redcar (31st) at varied times of the day. For more information, ring South Tees CCG 01642 745401.

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Sedated and Indoctrinated on the Path to Happiness How would you know if you were indoctrinated? Can you reflect on yourself and tell? Can someone indoctrinated, say by a religion, tell that they are indoctrinated to do something they otherwise wouldn’t want to do?

How would you know if your society had indoctrinated you to believe it was normal to feel lethargic and politically impotent, or hazy and drunk most nights of the week? How would you know if you’ve been taught to be cynical of people who want to support you or offer you help or if you’ve been sedated to not really care either way?

How would you know if you have been subtly led to just keep going with your life, aim low, know your place, follow the path you are on, keep paying your taxes and don’t question how they are being spent or what’s going on in the rest of the world.

What if people who are driven by religious doctrine don’t see themselves as indoctrinated? How can you tell that they are but you are not?

Is it “true” what the government and the BBC told us were the reasons we were going into Iraq, or was there another truth about geopolitical strategic oil security that they were not telling us? Is David Cameron really going into Syria because he is so concerned at the welfare of the Syrian people? Are our troops being lied to about the ‘real’ reason they are being put into dangerous situations in the Middle East? Does someone need to be brainwashed to be prepared to die for what their senior officer tells them it’s their duty to do?

How do we know when we are being manipulated by others, and I include myself in that question. How do we know that the water we drink from the tap is safe for example? Do we just trust that it must be because our government wouldn’t want us to drink something that wasn’t, or have you actually looked into what’s in it and decided for yourself? Do you know what the air quality around Saltburn is like and if (with the old ICI plant so close) there are dangerous levels of chemicals in the air? (Nitrogen Dioxide for one is in high levels in this area and some of the highest rates of cancer in England are registered in this area, particularly mesothelioma cancer as well as some of England’s highest rates for heart disease). But surely our government wouldn’t put the health of people above economic benefit.

Do you know what the sea quality is like here for the surfers and the fish that are caught? Do some container ships dump their excess fuel or other chemicals and harm an ocean that is all of ours? Has the old ICI plant used sea water perhaps for cooling and sometimes polluted, do you know, do you care? Do you know what’s in the food you eat? What GM crops have got into your milk and cheese and fish and meat through animal feed (and they are there, even though most English people believe that GM food is not yet legal in England it has got in through the animals). What do GM foods do to you or to your children or grandchildren? And have the antibiotics that those animals have been injected with entered your food chain? Surely your government wouldn’t let a company sell you something that was bad for your health; you trust them not to do that after all don’t you?

Food companies can’t knowingly allow chemicals and preservatives and flavour enhancers into your food that could contribute to illnesses that you and your family get, can they?

They are regulated not to be allowed to do that, right?

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Take away food or restaurants or sweets in sweet shops, are often full of harmful preservatives and flavour enhancers, but they don’t tell you. Certainly pharmacies: they must be honest, they are scientific, they have men in white coats, I think he’s a doctor or something, surely they can’t sell you any deodorants or toothpastes or medications that could harm you?

Doctors are safe at least, they’re not encouraged by massive pharmaceutical companies to persuade you to take their products that can harm you, are they? Supermarket vegetables: they can’t be sprayed with pesticides that soak into them and then soak into you, could they? TV, that isn’t used to subdue you is it? At least in this country we are not indoctrinated to stay watching, stay docile, buy what they sell and believe what we’re told; are we?

I think it’s interesting to ask myself a question, if I don’t know some of these things why have I not been interested to find out what’s going into my body and potentially sedating me or setting me up for potential illness later on?

What has stopped me asking questions of the food companies or the factories or the pharmaceutical companies or the banks behind all these massive industries or the government? Have you been indoctrinated to presume that they are all acting in your best interests, or have you been encouraged to believe there is nothing you can do about it, because you are too small.

Why have I allowed myself to be dumbed down and pacified and encouraged to get on and do what everyone else is doing and buy what everyone else is buying? Why has it not really crossed my mind that many people in England don’t seem very happy or very healthy? How have I got persuaded not to ask too many questions?

If I am breathing in harmful chemicals and ingesting food and drink that’s laced with things that are toxic and my doctor is telling me I really should take certain medication that may in the long run create more health problems than they cure, if sugar in my drinks and hidden in the ingredients of common foods is giving me diabetes that is going to debilitate me but the supermarkets have never told me, if I trust my government would never allow anything that would knowingly harm me to be on sale to me, if I thought that the X factor and all the other similar programmes was making me docile and mindless, how would I be able to tell? And if I can’t tell then how do I know if I’m living my potential or being encouraged to fall way short?

How do you know you are making empowering choices for yourself if you live in a haze of stress and tiredness and toxic food, alcohol and withheld information?

The hope is that we recognise our power through books and studies and the internet to educate ourselves and to ask the relevant questions of the relevant bodies. The hope is that we can reach a place of clarity through healthy food and clean water and air. From that stand point we at least have a chance to think clearly and be able to look out and notice how we feel when we don’t feel sedated or disempowered or indoctrinated by thoughts that do not serve us. To choose happiness is to choose self-respect and self-love and that often means asking tough questions and being honest with ourselves and actually getting to a point of clarity before we can even start to decide how we want to move on from there.

For comments, questions or support, contact me Kendal Aitken Health and Happiness Coach / Counsellor, on coach@happygreenblueeyes.co.uk or 07944 883961.

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Look after your heart….

Your heart keeps you alive; it’s your body’s life force.

Essentially a muscle, it sends blood around your body. The blood provides your body with the oxygen and nutrients it needs. It also carries away waste.

In its symbolic sense the heart represents love as the centre of emotion. So how can we look after our hearts?

Love An open heart can light the darkest of places, increase energy, emotional balance and the ability to cope with what life throws at you with grace and acceptance.

Think of a time or occasion when you were happy, really feel it. You attract love by being a magnet for love.

Exercise People who exercise are half as likely to get heart disease as those who don’t. Regular exercise can help you to burn calories and lower your blood pressure. 30 minutes a day is enough to make a difference to your body.

If you’re new to exercise start small, try brisk walking or

give your home a cleaning blitz!

Diet A healthy diet can help reduce your risk of developing heart disease and stop you gaining weight.

Balance is the key, try to eat plenty of fruit and vegetables, plenty of starchy foods such as bread, rice, potatoes and pasta and choose wholegrain varieties wherever possible and only a small amount of foods and drinks high in fats and/or sugar.

You can’t beat a healthy heart!

Vicky Rees Vicky lives in Saltburn and is Pilates Teacher and owner at Studio 21 Yarm, a Pilates and Yoga Studio on Yarm High Street. Vicky is happy to answer any questions about health, fitness and nutrition, please contact mail@studio21yarm.co.uk or http:// www.studio21yarm.co.uk

Friday Friends

Saltburn 500 Club

Friday Friends is an inclusive friendship group based in Saltburn, for people of all abilities, over the age of 18.

First some sad news, Tess, Caroline’s doggy friend for 17 years, passed away. Tess has been going to the group every week and she is missed by all of us.

On a happier note, we have collected 7,734 Evening Gazette wish tokens. Thank you to all who saved them for us, including the anonymous ‘well wisher from Grangetown, Michael Morrisey from the Catholic Church and Tom Blenkinsop MP: you have all been very kind. And a big HUGE thank you to Saltburn Fire Brigade for their fire safety talk and demonstration of their amazing new fire engine! To Officer Chris and his Crew, thank you for taking the time to visit us and to let us see the hydraulic platform and two intrepid firemen 100ft up in the air! We think you do an amazing job and we were all, especially James!, thrilled to meet you.

Thank you all again.

Now back down to earth for the March programme...

March 4th, Seated-Keep-Fit with Taylor 10 - 11, then Bingo till lunchtime. Caroline’s arts and craft afternoons start with making pom poms.

March 11th, Sing-along morning with Ian on guitar.

Making a tissue paper picture.

March 18th, A dance demonstration by The Tribal Marsquers, they are a pleasure to watch and there may be time for us to learn some steps! A Quiz then making a flower mobile after lunch.

We are closed on Good Friday. We meet at Emmanuel Church Hall, Macnay Street, Saltburn every Friday. Activity mornings 10 - 12.30. Craft afternoons 1 4. Your 1st session is free and carers are always free.

There is a small charge to help with the rent of £2.50 per session/£4 all day.

Website: Thefridayfriends@outlook.com or phone: 07833 895 501. You’d be most welcome.

Anjee Charman, Chairperson.

Congratulations go to W Lilleker for winning the £100 First Prize in the February draw! If you are sitting there wishing it was you who had won, the first step you have to take is to join Saltburn 500 Club. It has become easier than ever to join as you can now join online as an alternative to filling in a form (obtainable from Saltburn Library or Jackie’s Saverstore). If you wish to join online, please contact our membership secretary (phil.saltburn500club@outlook.com).

I would also like to pass on congratulations to Jackie Taylor who will be receiving a well-earned Freedom of the Borough award on 15th March.

I have been attempting to finalise the Summer Bands Schedule for 2016 and have been successful in filling all of the Sunday slots but there are still many Saturday slots to fill. If you are aware of any individual or group who may want to perform at the Bandstand, please let me know by email, or dropping a letter into the library for me. The type of music played on a Saturday is varied so don’t be shy!

I recently attended a meeting to discuss the last Christmas tree lighting-up event. Members of the committee had received various comments about the night, ranging from praise through constructive criticism to outright criticism. The general consensus appears to be that people are satisfied with the time of the event but there is a strong view that there “is not enough happening in the town to keep people interested”. We are considering various options on what we can do to make the event more interesting. We cannot force businesses to stay open so, other than that, please let me now what you would like to have changed and we can consider suggestions at our next meeting.

Our Queen has her 90th birthday this year and I am sure that there will be various events around the town to celebrate the tremendous achievement. The Friends of Saltburn, like other organisations, are looking at ways of celebrating – how about putting suggestions forward? ` Trevor Welburn Secretary, Saltburn 500 Club/Friends of Saltburn trevor.welburn@btinternet.com

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The Saltburn Profile by Rosemary Nicholls Faye Simpson “I’ve got a very varied CV,” says Faye Simpson. “But now I have my own business as a Canine Hydrotherapist with the only aqua treadmill (apart from one vet’s) between Sedgefield and Scarborough!”

Faye was born at Middlesbrough General Hospital and lived with her parents and older brother Carl at Eston until she was two. Then her Dad, Harry, got a job at Saltburn Police Station and they moved to Bristol Avenue. Faye went to Saltburn schools and Prior Pursglove College, before taking an English degree at Teesside University.

Her first job was with the radio station, TFM, where she produced adverts, but after a while, she decided to go travelling to Australia for a year. She worked for a mining company there and did some waitressing and bar work. Her strangest job was working for the King of Poo, spreading manure around rich people’s gardens. Moving on, she visited New Zealand and Indonesia too.

On her return to the UK, Faye worked for the Ambulance Service, handling calls for non-emergency transport before taking a post as a nanny to two children, aged four and five, for six years. “Now they’re at University and we still keep in touch,” she says.

At this time, she and her ex-partner bought the derelict old school at Brotton and over the next eight years they renovated it. “I’m a very practical person,” explains Faye. “I can plaster, put up stoothing walls, lay flagstones and mix cement and I love transforming houses.”

As well as doing the renovations, Faye worked with the Youth Offending Team and the National Citizen Service.

She got her NVQ Level 2 qualification in Youth Work. Then she became an Arts and Education Co-ordinator at the Arc in Stockton. She was made redundant there and filled in with some waitressing, before joining Saltburn’s Chocolinis.

She was taught the art of a chocolatier by Elaine Dyer and worked there for five years. Having learnt all she could, Faye decided she’d like to set up her own business and went for training as a Canine Hydrotherapist to Hawksmoor, a leading provider of Hydrotherapy qualifications in Warwickshire. There she achieved her Level 3 certificate in Hydrotherapy and is currently working towards a Diploma.

“It’s about controlled exercise in water for dogs,” she says. “There are other canine pools in Middlesbrough and Stokesley, but I offer the only local public aqua treadmill, in my unit on Skelton Industrial Estate.”

Some owners bring their dogs for general fitness or fun swims and some breeders bring their dogs for muscle strength and conditioning before shows, but most of Faye’s work is in rehabilitation. Dogs with injuries are brought to benefit from twenty minute sessions on the aqua treadmill.

“It’s possible to see real improvements and feedback from the owners has been very positive,” Faye adds. She is building up her business by working over seven days (as well as working in a pub three nights a week.)

Faye has two rescue dogs of her own, Mac (a Saluki) and Tia (a lurcher), and she walks them in Saltburn woods.

“They are complete delinquents,” she admits, but they are keeping her fit.

As befits an English graduate, she likes to read and her favourite authors are Thomas Hardy and the Brontes. She enjoys historical fiction, especially books about Chinese

dynasties. Her taste in films includes musical documentaries, such as the Johnny Cash story and her favourite film is ‘Withnail and I’.

Faye enjoys ‘old music’ by artists such as the Rolling Stones, David Bowie and The Who, all of whom she has seen live. She has been to many festivals, including ones at the Isle of Wight, Glastonbury and the Willow Man at Thirsk. “I used to sing blues and rock in a band, too,” she adds. “I liked to sing Coco Taylor songs at Saltburn Blues Club.”

Having trained as a chocolatier, Faye enjoys dessert making, but not so much savoury dishes. From the age of five, she was brought up as a vegetarian, but now eats freerange chicken too. She used to have an allotment at Brotton and grew her own vegetables, but she doesn’t have a garden at her Saltburn house. “My Granddad in Carlin How had an allotment and he taught me the basics of growing things,” she remembers.

Faye has a large number of friends and relatives. Her Mum was one of eight siblings and Faye has twenty-four cousins on that side of the family. Her brother, Carl, is still in Saltburn and is a manager of building sites. In 2013, she went on a girly holiday to Cyprus to celebrate a friend’s fiftieth birthday, but she prefers to visit historical sites abroad, such as Pompeii and to get off the beaten track in Morocco. She loves Spain too and has passed a Beginners’ Spanish course to help her talk to the locals there.

“I really enjoy hill walking as well,” she says. “I’ve been up the Cuillins in Scotland and up Helvellyn. I took a helicopter ride to the top of a glacier in Italy and walked down. But my knees gave up on me by the end. It was amazing, but horrendous!”

For more information about Faye’s Hydrotherapy, please see her Facebook entry.

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1st Saltburn Scout Group My Talk of the Town article for this month last year opened with ‘We are continuing to grow’, this following completion of the Scout Association’s annual census and on a total youth membership of 47 (with 19 Beavers, 16 Cubs and 12 Scouts). This year it is far greater with: 20 Beavers, 26 Cubs and 18 Scouts; my, how we have grown!

We must be doing something right, but we still need ADULT HELP! Essentially Beaver numbers have remained steady, with new members joining us in January: Bodhi, Harry and John, have all settled in well. All Beavers having fun creating their own “Super Beaver” persona and the following week arriving for a party (delayed Xmas) in their own created outfits; Super Gardener and ‘good brother of Darth Vader’ were very good! The session at the Leisure Centre pool meant 12 Beavers achieved their Swimmer One Staged Activity Award. Beavers also said a farewell to James (undertaking his Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award Community Service). He has been with the Colony for a year. His support has been outstanding, Beavers enjoyed his support and interest. James will be missed. Many thanks and good luck in the future!

With a Pack of 26 Cubs the room seems smaller and noise levels have to be carefully monitored; however, all are enjoying themselves and at present are busy ‘practising’ for the District Cubs Quiz; we won the event last year and live in hope of a repeat! We already know that 20 of them have booked to attend our Cubs 100 Camp – celebrating 100 years of Cub Scouting with District Cubs – later in the year. All Cubs (and Leaders) have also signed two Group ‘neckers’ which are to join others to create two “large” Scout ‘neckers’ for both our County and Regional Centenary events.

Saltburn Line User Group Next Meeting: Tuesday, 1st March 2016 at 7.10pm

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Scouts with the new recruits of Drew, Leon, and Harry has created a Troop of 18; they are boisterous and as Scouts very active! They are also planning for their District Quiz (and just like Cubs, they also won last year’s event), so again we live in hope! The Scouts continue to enjoy a varied programme, albeit inside rather than out, but plans are now afoot to be ready for the ‘great outdoors’; thanks to Gordon and Keith (two active Scout parents), as well as assistance from Chris and another Keith (other parents) for their continued assistance.

Over the Christmas period and into the New Year, our fundraising has been particularly successful, raising some £650 with Scout Post; many thanks to all involved.

Also thanks to Saltburn & Marske Parish Council for their support in our building improvements; granting us £465.74p towards our new fire safety improvements (new fire door), as well as our new vacuum cleaner ensuring a cleaner and pleasanter meeting room. Many thanks.

Some of our parents continue to assist us with Section activities and in many other ways and we thank them for their excellent support. We are continuing with our recruitment strategy to attract Leaders for the Group and young people to our Sections. It is pleasing that parents are involved in supporting our young people, they often find it is more fun than they realised and they get to see their children in a different environment; although sometimes it is an eye opener as to how their children can behave! It does ensure that meetings or activities are exciting and interesting for our young people.

If you can offer assistance or are interested in joining us, please enquire. Phone me, John G. Hannah, on 07811 801627 (or email johnghannah@yahoo.co.uk).

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Put a Sock in it by Alan Butler I mentioned to Kate a couple of days ago that she was wearing odd socks – not incredibly different but certainly not exactly the same. “I know,” she confirmed. “I was wearing an identical pair yesterday.” I knew immediately that Kate was experiencing sock fatigue, one of those times when the wretched things seem to be more trouble than they are worth and when it is simply easier, as is also sometimes the case with a petulant child, to let them have their own way.

I have noticed on my journey through life that identical twins, for example our brilliant editor Ian and his twin Shaun, invariably share something extremely special, which normal siblings don’t have. Identical twins frequently dislike being kept apart for any length of time; they often wear the same or very similar clothes and even occasionally choose marriage partners who are also twins.

I suppose it is inevitable that there will be exceptions that prove this rule and that there are also certain to be identical twins somewhere who can’t bear to be in the same room as each other and it seems to be into this category that socks fall. It is a simple fact of life that can be and probably has been observed by everyone that socks do not like to be with their partners and that further to this they will do almost anything to avoid being together.

Socks will go to any length, not only to be individuals, but to escape domesticity altogether and frequently attempt to leave home for a wild and free life, far from the conventions of human society. In order to achieve this they will often crawl into the recesses of a quilt cover when it is being washed or hide down the sleeve of a jumper so they can wait for a quiet moment and drop out onto the lawn when the item is on the washing line. After that they literally go where the wind takes them.

Even socks that have no desire to get back to the wild often hide in the house, slithering into places where only the most fastidious housewife or househusband ever ventures. We have found socks under mattresses, tucked under the edge of carpets, beneath the bed, at the back of the underwear drawer and in a box of knickknacks that was put in the attic last time we moved and hasn’t been looked at for years.

It seems to me that socks are a little like the sort of semi-feral cat that sometimes attaches itself to a family or maybe even a series of families. The creature isn’t exactly wild anymore but neither could it be considered to be fully tame. It maintains its own identity and its greatest hatred is to be paired up with its birth twin for any length of time.

Despite the fact that socks have never been totally domesticated, as has been the case with dogs for example, their relationship with humanity goes back a very long time. The Ancient Greeks and Romans certainly wore socks and it appears that they were probably also known even further back in time to the Egyptians. Socks are of course a sub-species of stockings or hose which have an equally illustrious and grand history. For hundreds if not thousands of years both socks and stockings were created by hand, ultimately on knitting needles. These items of

clothing were so important back in Tudor times that Queen Elizabeth the First absolutely refused to grant a patent to the first inventor of a machine that could knit stockings. This amazing device was created by a clergyman, William Lee, who was supposedly attempting to make life easier for his wife and for other hard-pushed wives and mothers.

It doesn’t appear to have been the case that the Queen was unimpressed with the capabilities of the machine but feared that it would put thousands of her subjects out of a job. Reading this story one gets the impression that almost everyone in Tudor times spent a great percentage of their time making stockings and socks and perhaps this is accounted for by the stress of the times because the same thing appears to have happened during both World Wars.

Over the last few days Kate, her sister Maria and myself, have been reading literally hundreds of letters sent back and forth between their father and mother during the Second World War. Of course the letters are fascinating as social documents but they do most definitely highlight the same sock and stocking obsession that clearly prevailed in Tudor England. There is barely a single letter in either direction that doesn’t mention socks, often for pages at a time and I came across one letter yesterday from Kate’s father in which he suggested that he had now been sent so many socks from home that he was seriously thinking of finding some way to pass them onto the enemy.

When Wilfred was not worrying about dragging hundreds of pairs of hand knitted socks across war torn Europe he was trying to work out how to acquire the greatest number of pairs of stockings for his wife Elinor that he could send in the opposite direction. Of course Wilfred was too busy trying to liberate Europe to actually consider ‘making’ silk stockings, so instead he seems to have spent every waking moment when he was not fighting scouring the countryside for stocking sellers.

There is a near obsession in his letters regarding the price he had to pay for the stockings and he was also extremely critical about the quality of some he did purchase. The maximum price he seems to have been willing to pay was 7/6 per pair. If every soldier and his wife or sweetheart was behaving in the same way, a good third of everything that was passing back and forth between Britain and Europe in those frenetic months after D Day must have been sock or stocking related.

There came a fateful moment at some stage in the not too distant past when somebody became so annoyed by the behaviour of socks and stockings, with their insistence on parting company that they took the logical step of joining them together, thus scuppering forever the ability of each item to seek an independent life. The advent of tights was certainly a milestone in taming the species but proved to be a sad day for many red blooded males. Since I count myself as one of them and this is a family article, the least said about that the better!

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News and Views from the Valley

5th GUISBOROUGH CHARITY BEER FESTIVAL

The earliest signs of spring have started in the Valley, the first snowdrops, some sign of greenery and even a few daffodils. The birds have started their song and I’ve heard the woodpeckers. With the promise of renewal and starting a fresh, the team of Volunteers set to and cleaned the centre ready for the start of the new year. And it looks great, so now is the time to get in touch if you would like to use the centre. With its kitchen and large class room that can be divided in two, it’s a great place to run an activity, chill, meditate, party, run an event, whatever you feel would work down there. So do please get in touch as your support will keep the centre going!

The Friends of the Valley have also been busy compiling their own events, which will include some of the great successes of last year and some new ones. Paint the Woods, music, fairies, and goodness knows what else in the woods should keep everyone busy. With Easter so early this year you will be eggcited to note that Clara the flying hen will appear on Easter Monday! (providing the weather is suitable for low flying hens) with some real live chickens from Heather’s Hens, so get painting your eggs for flight or come down and paint them in the centre the weekend before and to find out what I’m talking about, pop down between 11am and 3pm on Easter Monday, 28th March.

Jane Cuthbert

Organised by The Rotary Club of Guisborough and Great Ayton, The Guisborough and District Round Table and Cleveland CAMRA, this will be held on Friday, 8th and Saturday, 9th April 2016 at the Guisborough Parish Hall, Bow Street.

There will be 36 cask conditioned real ales, predominantly from East Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Staffordshire, as well as local breweries, plus real cider, perry and fruit wines (the full beer list can be seen on www.clevelandcamra.org.uk). Soft drinks, tea and coffee will also be available, also a charity tombola stall.

Guisborough butcher John Lund, of Enfield Butchers, will again be supplying Steak and Ale pies made with a dark real ale from local brewery, Wainstones. Alongside these will be other choices of hot food and snacks.

Admission times and entrance prices (which includes a free commemorative tankard, celebrating the Rotary Club’s 50th anniversary, and programme) are as follows: Friday and Saturday 11:00 – 16:00 £3.00 Friday 18:00 – 23:00 £5.00 Saturday 18:00 – 23:00 £7.00 Evening entertainment SATURDAY ONLY provided by the folk group ENDEAVOUR BAND. CAMRA concessions £1.00 off entrance price by refund at the door on production of a valid membership card.

Tickets are available from Guisborough Book Shop in Chaloner Street. More details from paul@whitefoot.plus.com (and www.clevelandcamra.org.uk).

4 People Not Profit present

‘Blueberry Soup’ 4 People Not Profit’s film night ‘Open your mind’ returns with an emotive and thought provoking film about how Iceland dealt with the financial crisis in a radical but stunningly successful way in ‘Blueberry Soup’.

The film will be screened as usual upstairs in The Marine, Saltburn and will be on Thursday, 17th March, Doors at 7pm and the film starts at 7.30pm.

With time for discussion after the film, and as ever the event is free entry.

Blueberry Soup is an extraordinary documentary about the constitutional change in Iceland following the financial crisis of 2008. This is a notwell-known-story of grassroots constitutionalism, an inspiration to the rest of the world. The film is a deeply touching account of an eclectic group of individuals reinventing democracy through the rewriting of the nation’s constitution.

“Iceland, that small and mighty island nation in the middle of the Atlantic, decided to crowd source its constitution in 2010, making it a pioneer in policymaking.” - The Brown Institute for Media Innovation.

“A Genuine historical record.” - Student, Stanford University.

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The Muses of Jim There has been a number recent deaths in the news lately.

David Bowie, Terry Wogan, Alan Rickman and nearer home Alistair Brownlee. Whilst I can feel for their families for I too have lost a very dear and much loved member of the family, namely Betty my wife. So I know the pain and the sense of wasteful loss they must be enduring but they will have the support and love of their families. The news of their deaths appeared to consume the airways, TV and print, pushing back really important international news of the real suffering of truly desperate people around the world.

On the other hand the death of two friends has left me desolate because they were not just wall paper in background of my life.

Alan Peacock of Saltburn spent much of his time working quietly and assisting organisations in Saltburn, Toch H, The Bowls Club and Cricket Club and of course Lune Street Club. He will be missed and cannot be replaced.

The other friend is or rather was even more remarkable, Councillor Peter Spencer of Guisborough.

He represented Hutton Ward for many years and was respected by all other politicians of all parties. He was for many years the Chair of Tees Valley Rural Community Council and Vice-Chairman of Redcar Voluntary Development Agency as well as the Cleveland Local Council Association as well as many other organisations.

I am proud to call both men Friend. I lived and worked with them for a long time and know they will both sorely be missed.

I had a rather interesting trip to London the other Tuesday. At Middlesbrough a load of teenagers boarded the train. There were more girls and boys, but one lad was known to me and the look on his face when he saw me was a picture. I told him I would tell his mother if he did anything wrong. I normally nap on the train but the girls were rather noisy and grown up in their talk. I think I learnt quite a lot. Thus entertained we arrived at Kings Cross. As I got off the train the lad I knew asked me why I was on the train. I told him I was an important man and I was attending a meeting in London.

After a very good policy meeting, where much good work was done, I returned to Kings Cross where I collected a free copy of the London Evening Standard for a friend in Saltburn, with its massive, also free, colour supplement.

On the journey back I got talking to the passenger in the next seat. He was Chinese, and he had just been appointed a fellow of Edinburgh University and he had a medical background. He spoke better English than I did. Which is not hard I suppose? We got on very well. He told me he had just met David Cameron at 10 Downing Street and I said he should take him back to China in exchange for a breeding pair of Pandas. I also told him about the effect Chinese steel was having where I lived and explained we were not blaming the Chinese people. Likewise, the British working class could not be blamed for the opium wars of the 19th century and I explained about the charm of the far north west of Scotland. We of course discussed the importance of New Year and whiskey. We then discussed stories in the Evening Standard and I nearly missed my stop at Darlington. When I got home Spud looked at me in a certain way as if he knew I had over stepped the mark, or he could have been just hungry.

My new door as been fitted and it is great and has made a real difference. I have had to lower the thermostat.

I have only to replace the big bay window and four windows at the front of the building and then the jobs are done. Then to find a wife. Only joking, daughters, nobody would have me apart from your mother.

Now I have returned to a one vehicle household having failed to get my three wheelers to breed. I had hoped to make a fortune. More of my study carpet is being revealed. Well, it is the dining room really. I have found a few missing things that have been missing for some time which gives me some encouragement to do more exploring. That sounds better that tidying up.

Finally, can I invite people to attend the Saltburn Neighbourhood Action Partnership on the Wednesday, 9th of March 6pm at the library. This is an opportunity to have your say on what happens to Saltburn. This is a genuine chance to influence the way that Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council look at the town and remember Saltburn is the jewel in the crown. Help make it shine even better.

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The Saltburn Crossword no 177 set by Duke Across 1 Does this local old lifeboat belong to the Marquis? (7) 5 This academic may clash or revise (7) 8 Musical note is smallest when joined by Al (5) 9 Sea bird sorts a lab investigation (9) 12 See 6 Down 13 Fuel den may become necessary (7) 14 Flight provider under increased pressure from this? (7) 16 and 20 Across Hovers about stay due to mixing pancake day?

(6, 7) 19 and 22 Down Direction Her Majesty encourages for traditional gift this Sunday (6, 4) 20 See 16 Across 23 Harsh discordant sound found from preserve container and phone call (7) 24 To stay or conform to an offer inside accident and emergency (5) 26 Dreamers have a thought before leanings to one side (9) 28 Old e.g. about looked at amorously (5) 29 Garage worker might adjust prayers to get his job (7) 30 Door we’d made from mahogany for example (7)

Down Name___________________________________ Address_________________________________ ________________________________________ Telephone_______________________________

1 Mediterranean sponge found in Paparazzi moccasin (7) 2 Following count of 10, knock out old Japanese prison TV series (5) 3 Surprisingly, I scare Tim and make a truce on this day (9) 4 A tired me is mixed up and produces a circular dimension (8) 6 and 12 Across and 10 Down You don’t need to raise temperature or get angry to eat these at Easter (3, 5, 4) 7 Make up your mind to do this crossword again? (7) 10 See 6 Down 11 May be past its sell-by date a lot so get rid of it (7) 15 Reverse alteration and keep something back (7) 17 Aid at home may become blood related (9) 18 Arise Tom and become a perfume distributor (8) 19 Imposes a command backing North East connections (7) 21 Gave up Eli, Eddy stirred (7) 22 See 19 Across 25 Could sound like I use adhesive to make this ice house (5) 27 Prepare the table to produce an egg (3)

Solution to Crossword no 176

The winner of last month’s crossword was Suzanne Hicks of The Headlands, Marske.

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Send your completed crossword to: Saltburn Crossword no 177, c/o Jackie’s Saverstore, 8 Station Buildings, Saltburn, TS12 1AQ

by Friday, 18th March 2016. First correct solution out of the bag wins a £10 voucher kindly donated by Tim and Sheila of Real Meals.

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