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Contents Top Gardening Tips by Claire Jones Quick Crossword Nicky Morgan MP Slimming World Recipe Beef Ko as Fresh Cherry and Almond Cake Quiz – Last Lines Turning Heartbreak into Hope Stamp Duty Land Tax How will you submit your next VAT Return? Dermatosis Papulosa Nigra Astronomy Ge ng you Moving Walking – Swithland Fields, Woods and Railways Leg Length Discrepancy Girlguiding is having the busiest of mes... Hot and Cold Treatment for Pain Spot the Difference Henry Hedgehog’s Puzzle Page School may pause but learning never stops Leicester’s Oldest Charity? S ll going strong Recipes for Children Pets Page Find the Robin Onion Therapy! Easy & Hard Sudoku Looking your best naturally Win! Fab Clinics Treatment up to £160! The Independent Traveller’s Holiday Helpline Tracing your Family History Short Story – A Bad Day for Brutus? Local Business Directory Solu ons and Winners
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High Days and Deadlines! Apparently, we’ve just had the ho est Easter since 1940... Usually, on a deadline weekend, Mary and I are to be found with noses to computer screens and ears to phones, chasing adverts and features; fran cally fending off the looming stress of ge ng the mag off to our faithful graphic designer Ali on me, so as not to miss our print deadline and thus avoid the catastrophe that would surely ensue if we did. But this me, for the first me since we started the magazine seven years ago, our deadline weekend fell on a bank holiday. So, on Good Friday, with the sun blazing down, we escaped and went on what we call “The Seagrave Walk”. We were looking a er Max for the week (my son’s Cockapoo) so we had a good excuse. “The Seagrave Walk” starts at the north west corner of Sileby Memorial Park and follows the footpath along through the village; the path used to finish a er crossing Heathcote Drive, and the last me we did the walk (shame on us—it must have been before we started Soar Valley Life) it was all countryside from there to Seagrave, about two miles further on. As we le ‘old’ Sileby, it came as a bit of a surprise to see how much Sileby has grown since 2012. Jenham Drive, the new Belway Homes estate at the top of Seagrave Road and running down to Ladkin Close, is the latest project. As a business we know first hand how much our area is growing; in Sileby alone we now deliver more than 3,900 magazines, it was a mere 3,488 when we started, and this is mirrored throughout the Soar Valley with an addi onal 20,000 homes to be built by 2030! Anyway, when we got to Seagrave and the lovely White Horse Inn, we treated ourselves to a pint of Cumberland Real Ale and the best cheese and salad bague e this side of the river Soar! See photo above... And, if you’re reading this, you’ll know we didn’t miss our deadline—VIVA BANK HOLIDAYS!
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Recipe Just Great Music!
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Beef ko as Middle Eastern spiced beef ko as with a green chilli sauce and cooling yogurt drizzle
Serves 8 Time: 45 minutes
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Fresh Cherry and Almond Cake
Serves 8 Ready in: 1 hour 40 minutes, plus cooling me
This delicious fruity cake can be served warm as a dessert or cold as a classic a ernoon tea cake.
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Ingredients: • 225g unsalted bu er, so ened, plus extra for greasing • 225g golden caster sugar • 225g selfraising flour • 4 medium eggs, beaten • 300g fresh cherries, pi ed and halved • 100g ground almonds • 150g icing sugar • Extra fresh cherries, to decorate
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“Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.” Last line of the film “Gone With the Wind”
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Turning Heartbreak into Hope... Just Great Music!
Rainbows Children’s Hospice situated on the very edge of Charnwood Forest on Lark Rise, Loughborough, has been providing comfort and hope to children who have life limi ng condi ons and their families since 1994. Ge ng only 15% of their funding from Government bodies, Rainbows rely heavily on public, community and local business for financial help, without whom they could not exist. In this modern day, luckily, there prevails a very strong culture of corporate community responsibility, (together with society at large always at the ready to dig deep to help with funding) in as much that many companies, large and small, recognise the need to help the
communi es and people they serve, and put some of their revenues back into local causes. Rainbows has dozens of businesses signed up to help by way of monthly direct debit. Our local Soar Valley Green Thumb Franchise, owned and operated by Mar n and Michelle Williams, have chosen to support Rainbows last year and this year by dona ng £10 for every new customer to the Hospice’s cause. Mar n said “Last year we launched our plans to help Rainbows before the long hot and very dry summer. Even though it was quieter for us last year we s ll raised over £1800. This year, especially if we have a more typical summer, we hope to raise even more. We do realise that, in the whole scheme of
things, our dona on might seem small against the massive amount Rainbows need to do their job to the very best of their abili es, which runs into hundreds of thousands of pounds every year. But as they point out very ably on their website: Every Gesture Ma ers, Every Penny Counts! We also believe it is important to let people know about Rainbows and that even a li le enterprise like ours can do its bit to help Rainbows’ cause; to bring a li le hope, when it must seem that all there is at mes is heartbreak.” Mar n and Michelle Williams’ Green Thumb franchise has been successfully caring for local lawns for nearly twenty years. In that me they have tended and improved thousands of local lawns, and every year they welcome hundreds of new customers to their excellent lawn care service. Mar n’s top p for a p top lawn is: ‘Prepare for dry weather this summer with a water management treatment for your lawn.’ To find out more why not give them a call for a no obliga on lawn analysis and quote. Green Thumb Leicester West 0116 269 4019
Mar n (le ) and Michelle (right) meet with Tom Stanyard, Rainbows Corporate Fundraiser, to hand over last year’s cheque for more than £1800
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“Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high There's a land that I've heard of once in a lullaby.” Judy Garland
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Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) is a tax that is payable when land is purchased. Like most taxes, the rules are rather complex and there are some mes arguments between the buyers of property and HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) about the amount of SDLT payable. In a recent case, a couple who bought a derelict bungalow had just such an argument, which ended up in the First er Tribunal (FTT). They had bought the property for £200,000. It was uninhabitable as it stood and their plan was to demolish it and build a new house on the site. They formed a company to undertake the transac on.
When a second home is purchased or a company buys a residen al property, a higher rate of SDLT is payable. A lower rate of SDLT is due if the property is not a residen al property. HMRC took the view that the higher rate of SDLT applied to the property purchase, and the couple understandably disagreed. The law says that the higher rate is payable if the property is 'suitable' for use as a dwelling, and the property clearly was not. The FTT's response was to reduce the SDLT demand to the non residen al rate.
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Dermatosis Papulosa Nigra These small domed, pedunculated or platelike growths are a type of Seborrhoeic Keratosis and, like them, tend to increase in size and number with age. They are very common on adults with black skin, tending to form in clusters or chains on the face, neck, upper back and chest. It is
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The ul mate paradox. It’s called a Black Hole because its gravita onal field is so powerful not even light can escape. But, as Stephen Hawking predicted in his paper of 1974, we should be able to detect its presence by the radia on caused by the ac vity surrounding it, and, a er taking two years to expose here it is! The supermassive black hole at the core of supergiant ellip cal galaxy Messier 87, with a mass about 7 billion mes that of the Sun, as depicted in the first image released by the Event Horizon Telescope on 10 April 2019. Visible are the crescentshaped emission ring and central shadow, which are gravita onally magnified views of the black hole's photon ring and the photon capture zone of its event horizon. The crescent shape arises from the black hole's rota on and rela vis c beaming; the shadow is about 2.6 mes the diameter of the event horizon.
Sunrise & Sunset Times in GMT This month we have realigned the start and finish dates of the Sun Times Table so that all readers, North & South, have more dates that are relevant a er they receive delivery and un l the next edi on arrives Date
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Special Events Calendar for May/June 2019 May: Eta Aquarid meteor shower is at its maximum on the night of 5/6 May and this year, with the Moon out of the way, should be good for seeing pieces of Halley’s comet flashing into our atmosphere. 19/20 May the moon forms a triangle with Jupiter (lower le ) and Antares (lower right). During the last few days of May Mars s ll holds sway in the evening sky but has compe on from Mercury as she roars above the horizon in the North West. Finally, you’ll catch Venus at mag – 3.9 very low in the South East, rising about 04:30 just before Sunup. June: Jupiter is opposite the Sun on 10th June (opposi on) with li le us in between. Although, because none of the planets’ orbits are circular, our closest approach is not un l 12th. Mercury is very low on the North West horizon at 10.30pm on 18th June and if you look through binoculars you can see the twin stars Castor and Pollux just above and Mars just below. 21st June at 16:54 pm is the Summer Sols ce longest period of daylight at 16 hours 38 minutes and 20 seconds. All down hill then ‘ l Christmas! :)
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Ge ng you Moving We all see manual or powered wheelchairs and mobility scooters being used, but where do they come from? How do you get one? Un l you find yourself in a situa on that needs one, it’s not something most people think about; likewise, you may not be aware of local retailers, such as Bromakin in Loughborough. Buying the equipment that is right for you can make a real difference to your quality of life, giving you
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Walking Swithland Fields, This page sponsored by Woods and Railways Walk instruc ons 1
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1 Go back to the footpath signpost at the entrance and turn le down the wide stony track, through trees at the edge of the wood. Bear le , back upslope and keep direc on on this track, through a clearing to a fork close to the far edge of the wood. Bear right to a s le and step over, keep ahead along this narrow path to Main Street. 2 Turn right for 150yds to the s le at the footpath signpost on the le . Cross and take the path uphill through the kissing gate, up the field edge with the hedge to the right. Go through the kissing gate at the top and carry on with the hedge s ll right; cross the s le/footbridge in the dip and bear right, across the midway fence to the s le at the far right of this next field. Take the tarmac farm road to the le , to the signpost on the right. 3 Turn right across this grass field to the trees and hedge in the dip, turn right across the s le and through the kissing gate at the concrete farm road. Con nue with the trees s ll le , over the next road and the s les in the next boundary to the signpost in the corner. 4 Turn right, along the field edge with the hedge s ll right, through the first gate and the second gate at the yellow top marker post. Bear le , on the track in the grass, le of the tree to the foot of the railway embankment. 5 Turn right up to the kissing gate right of the railway bridge. Take this wide hardcore road to the right for 90yds to the signpost on the le and descend to the marker post. Take the path along the field edge, with the dyke to the right, through the kissing gate at the end. Keep on the path going right and le ; as the trees end turn right through the hedge gap over the wide sleeper bridge. 6 Carry on with the trees s ll right, into the corner and follow the field edge le , upslope with a hedge now right, through the boundary to the far right corner. Go through the narrow gate and turn right up the narrow path with the metal Armco barrier to the right. Take the field edge le , to the road in Swithland village. 7 Turn le along the roadside path, past the ‘Griffin Arms’ to the signpost on the right as the road swings le . Turn right, with the wall then hedge to the right, up to the yellow top post, keep ahead then bear le through the right hand gate. 8 Con nue right ahead, between fields all the way to the road, (Leicester Lane). Cross this surprisingly busy road, turn right for 30yds and take the driveway le , between the gateposts. Keep direc on along the narrower path right of the house and the stony track into Swithland Wood, up to the central junc on. Turn le and retrace steps back to the car park and your star ng point. © Clive Brown All our walks are compiled by Clive Brown; buy any of his 74 walking guides at: www.walkingcloseto.com.
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Leg Length Discrepancy Leg length discrepancy (LLD) is an issue in which the two legs are unequal lengths. Causes can be divided into 3 categories: • those causing a limb to shorten, • those causing it to lengthen • those that are caused by an issue above the legs e.g. a lt in the pelvis. There are a number of congenital growth deficiencies that can be the cause, the most common however is trauma, over use in strained condi ons and with more ac ve lifestyles misaligned hips. Common symptoms are waddling or uneven gait, pain in feet, ankles, top of legs and lower back. Whatever the cause, treatment to correct LLD and make the body more stable can be quick – chiroprac c alignment and use of ortho cs correc ng the difference and stabilising the feet. This in turn can reduce ankle, knee, hip and back pain. Self help is not advised. Uninformed choice of ‘off the shelf’ ortho cs may be detrimental – preferably consult with a professional!
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Girls from Thurmaston, Stocking Farm and Wymeswold have had an awesome me during a photoshoot at Birmingham’s Bear Grylls Adventures. 150 Rainbows, Brownies, Guides and Rangers, from Loughborough and surrounding villages, celebrated World Thinking Day together while taking part in a fantas c performing arts and interna onal ac vi es day. The new interest badges are proving VERY popular, with Rainbows working hard to complete Agility, Drawing and Helper badges while Brownies have been busy Baking, Collec ng and Performing. Our Guides and
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Open: 8am - 6pm Mon - Fri 51 Weeks of the year Now in our 15th year, Rothley Park Kindergarten is one of the most modern children's nurseries in Leicestershire perfectly equipped to provide your child with the best care and development in Leicestershire. And that’s not just us saying that. We were inspected on 23rd January 2017 by Ofsted and were judged outstanding in all categories. Nursery manager Narinder Kaur and her team of professional nursery practitioners deliver a second-to-none childcare service tailored to your child’s individual requirements. Limited Government funding is available for 3 and 4 year-olds. We also offer full or part-time sessions as required, depending on availability, for all children under the age of 5 years throughout the year and during school holidays. A warm welcome awaits you – no appointments are necessary as all new and prospective parents are invited to visit us at their own convenience.
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Leicester’s Oldest Charity? S ll Going Strong! As the nineteenth century rolled to its close a new charity to give joy to poor boys who’d never been to the seaside was born… Lady Rolleston of Glen Parva Grange, wife of noted architect of the day Sir John Rolleston, was a local philanthropist and o en invited poor children to her home for food and recrea on. In 1898 the mayor of Leicester, Alderman Wakerley, called a public mee ng, promoted by Lady Rolleston, to discuss a week’s holiday by the sea for boys who a ended the recently formed Poor Boys’ Club and Leicester Poor Boys’ Summer Camp Associa on was founded. At the August Bank Holiday, the
first group of boys went camping in tents on the sandhills at Mablethorpe, accompanied by Samuel Ellicock, who became the first chairman of the charity. Volunteers came from Leicester and the camp was opened by Lady Rolleston. In 1930 a purposebuilt holiday home to house boys and girls was opened on the sand dunes where the first boys had camped. By the end of 2017 more than 60,000 children had been provided with a holiday by the sea when sadly the home had to be closed because of rising costs. But this was not the end of the road at all. A new facility was found at Hill Top, in Sheringham, Norfolk and now
deserving boys and girls can s ll have a holiday by the sea and it is planned to provide hundreds of free holidays over the coming years. The Leicester home of the charity is in Sha sbury Hall, on the corner of Holy Bones and Vaughan Way, the opposite side of the road to the High Cross Shopping Centre. Sha sbury Hall was built in 1908 with the support of Lady Rolleston to provide educa on and recrea on to children in need. If you would like to help, volunteer, donate or just want to know more, take a look at their website at h ps://leicesterchildrens holidays.co.uk/
School may pause for the summer, but learning never stops. Everyone needs a summer holiday and, in our frene c modern world, family "down me" is more important than it's ever been. But with some pupils losing 2030% of their maths, reading and language skills from the previous school year, summer is also the perfect me to help your child to avoid ‘learning loss’ or to provide them with the support they need to catch up, if they've already fallen behind in certain subjects, well in advance of the new school year which will come around oh so quickly! Just an hour or two of onetoone tui on each week, away from the classroom, can make a world of difference to your child's confidence. We build a personalised programme and adapt our techniques to coincide with your child's individual needs. We are a local company, employing local tutors to help children at Key Stages 1, 2 and 3, GCSE, and A level, to be the best they can be at Maths, English, Sciences, Languages any subject. Great tutors always required. Call 01509 767007 for an informal chat, or see www.tutordoctor.co.uk/loughborough.
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1 can sweetened condensed milk 400g desiccated coconut 400g icing sugar 75g frozen raspberries 1tbsp Chocolate syrup of your choice 1tsp vanilla extract
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1. Allow the raspberries to defrost a li le bit. 2. Put the condensed milk, 340g desiccated coconut and 340g icing sugar in a large bowl and mix together with a wooden spoon. When the mixture becomes s ff and difficult to mix, use your hands to bring it fully together. 3. Divide the mixture equally between three bowls. 4. Add 1tsp of vanilla extract to one bowl and mix or knead to combine. 5. Add 1tbsp of chocolate syrup to another bowl and mix or knead to combine. 6. Use a hand held blender, the back of a fork or a food processor, to blitz the frozen raspberries un l smooth. Add to the final bowl and mix.
Add enough of the remaining desiccated coconut and icing sugar to make the raspberry layer the same consistency as the other two. 7. Grease and line a n with greaseproof paper (we used a 16cm square n). 8. Dollop the vanilla layer into the bo om of a n and fla en with the back of a metal spoon to reach all the edges. Pat even with fingers. 9. Spread the raspberry layer on top of the vanilla layer and pat down. 10. Add the chocolate layer and spread to cover the raspberry layer. 11. Put in the fridge for at least 3 hours to set (we le ours overnight) then cut into small squares or rectangles.
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Four Summer Pet Health Hazards You May Not Have Considered You’re probably aware of many of the dangers your pet faces during the summer months, but here are four unusual health hazards you may not have thought about. 1. Bee s ngs Not all bee s ngs cause anaphylac c shock, but some animals can be affected in the same way as humans. It’s a poten ally serious health issue, and you should look out for vomi ng and diarrhoea, breathing difficul es, and general unsteadiness. 2. Snake bites Although adders are the only venomous snake in the UK, their
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presence can be a problem for dogs in the summer. Snake bites may cause swelling of the airways, organ failure and shock, as well as considerable inflamma on at the injury site. 3. Slug bait Some slug pellets contain a poisonous substance called metaldehyde, which can quickly cause serious health problems for pets if ingested. Signs of poisoning include vomi ng, seizures, tremors, and fits, and it’s crucial to seek help from a vet as a ma er of urgency. 4. Poisonous plants and flowers There are many common plants and flowers that present a serious summer health hazard for your pet. Lilies are par cularly poisonous to cats, and even the pollen can cause kidney failure. Other poisonous flowers and plants include foxgloves and lily of
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Onion Therapy! Book Launch 2pm Sunday May 5th at Mountsorrel Memorial Centre There! That caught your a en on, didn’t it? Since May of last year Steve (Yes, editor Steve, joint editor of this wonderful li le magazine you’re holding in your hands right now) has been busy helping Paula (of Reed Wellbeing fame – see adjacent advert) write her book. Paula has amassed a formidable amount of evidence, knowledge and informa on about cancer together with complementary therapies that help improve survival and remission rates and, probably more importantly, how to give yourself the very best chance to dodge the Big C altogether! We met most weeks for a progress session and to review where we were and where we wanted to go next. On about week 40, as we were discussing the principle therapy that held all the others together the tle Onion Therapy popped out. Simply put, it’s all about peeling back the layers of any problem un l you get to the start. If that has whe ed your appe te and you’ve missed the book launch, give Paula a call and purchase a copy of her book. Or ring us on 01509 813125. The White Horse Inn, 6 Church Street, Seagrave, Leicestershire, LE12 7LT
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“Don’t leave anything but your footprints, don’t take anything but your memory.” Epigram at beginning of ‘On Safari’ chapter of the book A Life on Fire by Bill Ford and Steve Johns
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A Bad Day for Brutus? “Look, there’s a sign for a country park,” Pauline pointed. “Let’s stop for ten minutes and let Brutus out for a ddle.” “A bit of fresh air will do us all some good,” Neil agreed, slowing down. They had spent the bank holiday weekend camping with Neil’s brother and his family, who were the devoted owners of Brutus the lurcher although not quite devoted enough to make room for him in their own car. Neil and Pauline luckily had a roof box for all their extra camping equipment so had Brutus riding with them. Brutus had an unfortunate habit of jumping out of vehicles, so they’d been driving for an hour with the windows shut. Brutus had also spent the en re weekend luxuria ng in cow fields so the air in the car was eyewateringly pungent. They drove towards the car park entrance. As they approached the barrier a young man in a baseball cap waved his hands at them, as though warning them not to go in. “Why doesn’t he want us to go in?” Pauline asked anxiously. “Do you think it’s full?” Neil drove on. “There’s always someone about to leave if you’re pa ent.” “I’ll ask him, he seems pre y insistent.” Pauline began winding down her window. “You never
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know, there could be a wild animal on the loose.”
Neil said, feeling queasy. “Should I go forward or back?”
“Round here?” Neil snorted at the sugges on. “Like what? A horde of rabid squirrels?”
“I’d try reversing slowly. It’s going to be nasty but at least you’re only going back over the bits that are already crushed.”
At the men on of squirrels, Brutus leapt through Pauline’s open window. “Stop, Neil!” Pauline screamed. “The dog’s jumped out.” “I can’t stop,” Neil said, “I’ve got cars behind me.” He regre ed his decision instantly. With a sickening bang, the car made impact with something large. Pauline shrieked. “We’ve run over the dog!” Neil slammed on the brake. The man who’d been waving at them tapped on Neil’s window. Neil wound it down. “Mate, I tried to warn you.” He shook his head. “I’d recommend you stay in the car. It’s pre y bad,” the man grimaced. “Not sure it’s retrievable to be honest.”
The sound of scraping and dragging vibrated through every nerve in his body. Finally it ended. “That’s it mate, you’re clear,” the man said, tapping the bonnet. “Do you want to get out and have a look?” Neil did not par cularly. He turned off the engine and climbed out. This was just the opportunity Brutus needed to leap back in, smearing muddy footprints all over Pauline and the upholstery. “He’s fine, he’s fine. Not a scratch on him. So what was that awful noise, Neil?” Neil was just discovering that the roof box he’d forgo en all about had been two inches higher than the car park height restric on barrier. Had been, but no longer was.
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Spot the Difference Answers 1. Yellow sprinkles 6. 2. Man's mouth 7. 8. 3. Cake knife 4. Pink Spill 9. 5. Hair band colour 10.
Icing missing Eyebrows Tshirt pa ern Blue icing Brown Cake
Sudoku Solu ons
Last Lines Quiz Answers 1. King Kong 2. They should be in rhyming couplets and they should not be performed in rehearsal 3. The Life of Pi 4. Amen 5. The Dirty Dozen 6. Romeo (from Romeo and Juliet)
7. The Owl and The Pussycat 8. London Bridge is Falling Down 9. Steven Spielberg 10. The female of the species is more deadly than the male
Henry Hedgehog Solu on Solving the 'coin clock' 1. 12 onto 3 2. 7 onto 4 3. 10 onto 6
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4. 8 onto 1 5. 11 onto 2 6. 9 onto 5
Quick Crossword Solu on
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Dog Photography Winner
Find the Robin Winner
Congratula ons to Abi Lakin of Sileby whose entry in our dog wordsearch was the first correct answer to be drawn a er the closing date. The phrase was,“Happiness is a warm puppy.” Abi wins a one hour dog photography session plus a fully mounted fine art print by Havers Dog Photography.
Congratula ons to Maureen Mee of Shepshed who spo ed our li le robin on page 14 hiding in Claire Jones Gardens advert.
See pages 49 and 55 for more compe ons!
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Maureen wins a £25 voucher to use at The Waterside Inn Mountsorrel.Dennis wins a £25 voucher to use at The Waterside Inn Mountsorrel. See pages 49 and 55 for more compe ons!
“The winner takes it all, The loser's standing small, Beside the victory, That's her des ny” The Winner Takes it All Abba
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