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Karols Korner Make a difference this autumn!

October already? Where has the year gone? Its already turning colder and summer seems a distant memory!

With this issue our thoughts are already turning to autumn half term and the dreaded Christmas preparations and present shopping!

Or maybe you are super efficient and have already wrapped and squirreled away all your gifts for this year?

Well if you have please, spare a thought for organizations needing your wonderful skills, perhaps find time to donate a couple of hours a week to doing something in your community? It would get you out and about and meet new people. It could be as simple as dog walking at the local rescue or manning a phone line, or even just talking to an elderly person living alone near you.

Whatever your plans are this autumn, clearing a space to give your time is an incredibly generous thing to do and one that will really make a difference. Perhaps the best gift you can give this Christmas is yourself.

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Technology

AVOID TECH HORRORS THIS HALLOWEEN What to do with a watery phone and how to protect your photos‌ Not everything that goes bump in the night is a ghost or a ghoul. Sometimes it’s a crucial bit of kit getting damaged. Unfortunately no piece of technology lasts forever, any device can be VWROHQ RU GDPDJHG DQG DQ\ GLJLWDO ÀOH FDQ EH deleted or corrupted. If it contains something that really matters to you – your priceless family photos or home videos, perhaps, or your university dissertation, or the book that’s going to make you a superstar – then any problems could be catastrophic.

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That means if you lose your phone or PC, you can still download the photos to a different phone or PC later. Those services aren’t just limited to photos, either. You can use them to store and share documents of any kind.

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older computers. That means you can take advantage of super-speedy USB 3.0 drives. You don’t need to spend much to get a good one: for example, Toshiba’s Canvio Basics is currently £44.99 for 1TB of space, more than enough for even the biggest photo library. Even a massive drive such as the 4TB WD My Passport is less than £100.

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So far we’ve talked about prevention. What about cure? One of the most common computer, tablet or phone disasters is a liquid spill. If that happens to you, turn the device off immediately and if it’s a laptop, turn it upside down so the keyboard is facing down. Whatever you do, don’t turn it back on until you’re sure it’s completely dry inside. If it isn’t, you could cause a short-circuit that’ll ruin the computer.

Have you heard the one about putting a phone in a sealed bag of rice? That works, because the rice draws out the moisture – but it takes at least two days to work. As with laptops, keep the phone off until it’s completely dry.

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Finance

By Ann Haldon

Want to save for your children? What are the options? the money once it has been deposited.

• This tax year (2018/19) the savings limit is £4,260 for each account.

• There is no tax to pay on the interest or investment returns in a Junior ISA. Putting money aside for your children is a great way to offer them a little security as they get older. You do not need to save a huge amount – even a few pounds each week adds up to a nice little nest egg over time.

You can teach younger children good money management skills by offering a little more pocket money as long as they save the extra amount. If they are old enough, get them involved in choosing a savings account and physically putting the money into it each month.

JUNIOR ISA There are two types of ISA for children – a Cash Junior ISA, and a Stocks and Shares Junior ISA. They are available if your child is under-18 and living in the UK. The money in a Junior ISA belongs to your child and is locked away until their 18th birthday, when the account upgrades to an adult ISA. Unlike other savings accounts aimed at children, you will not have access to 10

FRIENDLY SOCIETY TAXEXEMPT PLAN A child tax-exempt savings plan offers a guaranteed minimum tax-free lump sum at the end of the term from a share-based investment fund. This type of account is designed for saving over a relatively long period of time – usually 10-25 years.

• You can currently save £270 a year if you make ad hoc deposits, or £25 a month if it is on a regular basis.

• Charges vary between Friendly Societies so it is worth shopping around.

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• Prizes totalling more than £2million are paid out each month.

CHILD PENSION You can set up a pension fund for your child and transfer it to them when they reach the age of 18. Starting a child pension offers a little stability when they become an adult, and gives them a valuable head start in their retirement savings.

• The government tops up each contribution you make into a pension by 25% (up to a total of £2,880 in 2018/19), which considerably increases its overall value over time.

• You can still contribute more than £2,880, but it will not attract the government’s topup.

However you decide to put money aside for your child, your attitude to risk may guide the decision as to whether to save or invest. You will also need to consider any fees and charges if you decide that investing is the preferable option. www.moneyadviceservice. org.uk/en/articles/childrenssavings-options www.gov.uk/junior-individualsavings-accounts www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/ national-savings-andinvestment-products#toc-2

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THINGS TO DO, THAT’S NEAR TO YOU! Mum2Mum Market on Saturday 13th October 1.30 til 3.30. At The Newark Academy, London Rd, NG34 3AL. Nearly New Stalls are £15 Email: Newark@mum2mummarket.co.uk 25th Anniversary of the BRAMLEY APPLE FESTIVAL OF FOOD & DRINK Saturday 20th October 10am – 4pm at Southwell Minster Winter Craft Fair Saturday 3rd November 2018. 10am – 4pm At Southwell Minster and Archbishops Palace New Theatre Royal “Tabby Mc Tat” Sunday 4th & Monday 5th November 2018 www.newtheatreroyallincoln.co.uk 01522 519999 Learn 2 Dance Social dance classes for Adult Beginners Thursdays 7.30 – 9.30. At The RAFA club, ondon Rd, Newark.

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KFA Moves Friendly exercise class every Tuesday at 10.45 am at Coddington Village Hall Monthly group meeting for hearing impaired people.

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Newark Stroke & Aphasia Association 1st Tuesday of every month, 11am – 1pm at Parsons Mount Meeting Room For more info call: Gordon Flowers 01636 688188 Oh What a Lovely War Showing 6th – 11th November The Robin Hood Theatre, Newark on Trent www.rhtc.co.uk

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By Alison Runham www.alison.runham.co.uk

Achieving A Better Work-Life Balance

1st – 5th October is National Work Life Week, an event run by the Working Families charity and focusing on how employees and employers can improve work-life balance.

The charity wants to create a society in which everyone can fully meet their work and caring responsibilities and has “real choice in balancing the interdependent demands of family, work and community at different life stages.�

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However, this vision seems a long way from being realised.

In research undertaken by Working Families, half of parents said their work-life balance was a source of stress and one in ten said they were ready to resign without another job to go to. It also revealed that seven out of ten parents worked at home in the evenings and at weekends, due to increasing workloads, lack of time for planning, organisational culture, and manager attitudes.

Kivimäki showed that people working 55 hours or more per week have a 33% higher risk of stroke and a 13% higher risk of coronary heart disease than those who work a 35 to 40-hour week. While his study didn’t look at the potential reasons behind this link, experts have suggested that these increased risks are probably due to prolonged sitting, stress, less time for exercise and less time for relaxation and healthy eating. Working long hours can mean not enough time looking after your health and wellbeing.

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roots of the bulbs will not penetrate it well and you’ll end up with bulbs popping out of the top of the bowl.

Position the bulbs pointed end uppermost – you can put them quite close to each other but not so close that they are touching their neighbours, and make sure they are not in contact with the sides of the bowl either.

Nestle the bulbs gently into the compost and then top up with compost so that just the noses (the pointed end from which the shoots will appear) are poking out.

Water the compost lightly, making sure it is moist but not waterlogged. Then cover the bowls loosely with a black bin liner and put them in a cool, dark place

– a cool shed, garage or cupboard under the stairs is ideal. It needs to be both dark and cool or the bulbs will not form good root systems.

Check the bowls every week or so and apply a little more water if necessary. It is time to bring the bowls out into the daylight once the shoots are about 2-3cm tall, which usually takes 3-5 weeks. Put them in a cool spot with plenty of natural daylight – a cool but frost-free greenhouse or a spare room window sill for instance. The shoots will continue to grow and develop a healthy green colour; they will now need a little more water.

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Barmy about the British Bulldog

by Kate McLelland

With some puppies costing as much as £2,500, an English Bulldog Fan Club on Facebook with 154,000 followers and merchandise that includes tshirts, fridge magnets, cushions and Christmas cards, it’s clear that we Brits are more than a little barmy about our bulldogs.

So what’s the reason for this enduring love affair? Over the past two hundred years our perception of this popular breed has gradually changed, as its image has transformed from IHLVW\ ÀJKWLQJ GRJ WR HYHU\RQH·V favourite family pet.

Bulldog beginnings Nowadays, as we laugh at funny Facebook posts of bulldogs in hats, or bulldogs splayed on couches, legs outstretched in an oddly human pose, it’s hard to grasp that the ancestors of this well-loved family pet were bred to excel in vicious blood sports.

With its stocky, muscular body shape and vice-like jaw, the bulldog breed was deemed perfect for the violent sport of bull-baiting, in particular the practice of ‘pinning the bull’, where specially trained dogs were taught to bite and hold on to the captive animal’s snout.

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Throughout the 19th century the phrase ‘British bulldog spirit’ – as a watchword for unrelenting courage and bravery – became embedded in the public’s consciousness, and when the First World War broke out in the early 20th century, images of plucky bulldogs accompanied by slogans such as “They can’t muzzle me!” became a staple of wartime propaganda posters.

It was a strange co-incidence that the man at the forefront of British politics during the Second World War (as the country faced the very real possibility of a Nazi invasion) bore a striking resemblance to a bulldog, and a famous poster entitled ‘Holding the Line’ showed Winston Churchill’s head superimposed onto a bulldog’s body.

Brexit bulldogs 'XULQJ WKH ÀQDO GHFDGHV RI the 20th century the bulldog breed fell out of fashion, but in 1994 a string of popular TV ads featuring Churchill (aka ‘Churchie’) – a nodding-head

car mascot with a cheerful “Ooooh yes!”/”Oooh no!” catchphrase – helped the bulldog reclaim its place in the nation’s hearts. And it was, perhaps, inevitable that as soon as the referendum vote was cast back in June 2016, the British Bulldog would be summoned out of its kennel to do battle once more, with pundits from both sides using the image to support their arguments.

The last word According to a survey conducted in 2017 and 2018, one in four of us owns a dog, but despite the enduring popularity of the English Bulldog breed, it seems that it has only managed to reach number six in the nation’s poll of most popular dogs, while –Sacre Bleu! – the French Bulldog has recently been tipped to replace the Labrador as Britain’s best-loved canine pet. As our withdrawal from the EU draws ever closer, could we be preparing to swap our 250year-old icon of British identity for something a little more … um … European in style?

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Horoscopes by Russell Grant ARIES

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March 21st - April 20th

24th - August 23rd

The New Moon on the 9th puts strain on a close relationship. Just when you thought you were making a breakthrough with a romantic or business partner, an argument breaks out. On the 24th, the Full Moon could bring an influx of income. Use this money to treat yourself to something you've set your heart on and wanted for a long time.

TAURUS April 21st - May 21st Despite your best efforts, it will be difficult to get organised on the 9th.

That's when a tense New Moon keeps calling you away from your duties. The Full Moon on the 24th invites you to enjoy some self-pampering. Instead of pouring all your energy into a close relationship, do something nice for yourself. Take a few days off work and get a massage.

Acquiring a skill will be more difficult than expected on the 9th. That's when the New Moon puts you in the path of a relentless critic. It will be hard to study with their disdainful voice in your ear.

On the 24th, the Full Moon marks an impressive turning point in your career.

You'll be given a promotion or high profile position. This will come as a total surprise.

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August 24th - Sept 23rd

December 22nd - Jan 20th

The New Moon attracts a moneymaking opportunity on the 9th.

Taking this job will limit your personal life. You'll spend virtually all your time at the office, trying to satisfy a demanding client or supervisor. The Full Moon on the 24th finds you returning from a trip, finishing an ongoing project or collecting a diploma. There will be a surprise bonus for your hard work.

LIBRA

May 22nd - June 21st

September 24th - Oct 23rd

CANCER June 22nd - July 23rd The New Moon on the 9th warns against confiding in an untrustworthy person. A relative who pretends to have your best interests at heart is really jealous. The Full Moon on the 24th brings a group project to its successful conclusion.

Much to your surprise, you'll be named most valuable player. The other members of the group appreciate your leadership ability.

November 23rd - Dec 21st On the 9th, the New Moon will spark a group project. This venture will not pay very well. To add insult to injury, you'll find your indecisive colleagues highly unpleasant. The Full Moon on the 24th is perfect for getting organised. Getting rid of clutter will make space for new energy in your life. Make three piles: Donate, discard and sell.

VIRGO

GEMINI On the 9th, the New Moon puts you in the path of romance. Although the lure of a creative person is powerful, you should hesitate before getting involved in a serious relationship. On the 24th, the Full Moon will bring a welcome chance to rest and recharge your batteries. If an appointment or trip is cancelled at the last minute, don't complain. Instead, treat it as a chance to relax.

SAGITTARIUS

You yearn to break out of your shell on the 9th, when the New Moon prompts a personal change. Your family won't be supportive of your desire to pursue a particular career, move to a different neighbourhood or take up another belief system. The Full Moon on the 24th brings a cheque and bonus that is much bigger than you expected.

SCORPIO October 24th - Nov 22nd The New Moon on the 9th makes you yearn for privacy. Unfortunately, a relative or neighbour keeps trying to pry into your personal business. On the 24th, your romantic or business partner will have some surprising news. A big promotion or hefty raise will increase your standard of living. If you're single, you won't be for long.

A professional opportunity will beckon on the 9th, but think carefully before accepting it. A conflicted New Moon will force you to choose between having a wildly successful career and a comfortable home life. The Full Moon on the 24th marks an exciting turning point in your personal life. You might decide to get engaged or married on the spur of the moment.

AQUARIUS January 21st - Feb 19th The New Moon on the 9th will bring an enticing opportunity to travel, study or write. Unfortunately, you won't be able to make the most of this chance. An expired passport or tight enrolment window will force you to postpone plans for another time. On the 24th, there will be unexpected changes at home. You might have to relocate for work.

PISCES Feb 20th - March 20th A physical relationship forces you to make a decision on the 9th. That's when the New Moon causes someone very close to you to question your feelings towards them. Spending all your time with friends makes them feel neglected. It's time to change your priorities. Surprising news will reach your ears on the 24th, when the Full Moon brings hidden information to light.

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Twisted d Fairy Fairy Tales Tales If y If you ou lik like ey your our fairy tales tales more m re mo B rothers th G Gr i imm Brothers Grimm than Disney, Disney y, you’re you’re in for for a trea th treatt wi with this lot… lot…

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Motoring

By James Baggott

The most rugged cars you can buy A Ford Fiesta is perfect for EXVWOLQJ FLW\ WUDIÀF ZKLOH D BMW 5 Series is ideal for motorway mile-munching. But whack either of them into a challenging situation and they soon become unstuck – they simply aren’t rugged.

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