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JUBILEE SPECIAL 2022

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What’s on this Summer
New - Shrewsbury News
Doughnut Workshops
Horoscopes
Oswestry Food & Drink
Festival
Unusual Phobias
Queens Platinum Jubilee
Enjoying the Outdoors
Sports
Tettenhall Food & Drink
Festival
WIN tickets to see
Ed byrne + Interview
Summer Recipes
Did you know?
- A Royal Special
Self Care - Essential!
Education
Vegan Hub
Motoring Reviews
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Summer events
2022
P!nk in Concert – with Vicky
Jackson and her live band
Friday 13th May
The Buttermarket, Shrewsbury
Soul & Motown club night
with the Rumble Band
Saturday 14th May
The Place, Oakengates, Telford
www.theplacetelford.com/wha
ts-on
Shropshire Party at the
Quarry Park
Friday 20th & Sunday 21st May
The Quarry, Shrewsbury
From the people who brought
you Shropshire Oktoberfest and
Shrewsbury Food Festival, we
know how to party, and that’s
exactly what we’re doing to do!
No festival of ours is complete
without live music and a bit of
entertainment, so while you’re
sitting on the green grass on
Quarry Hill, you can be singing
along to some incredible local
bands and musicians who will
knock your socks off
www.shropshirepartyatthepark.
co.uk/
WWII Weekend
28Th & 29th May
Dale End Park, Ironbridge
A fun packed weekend with
WWII Displays, Battles,
Entertainers, Vintage/Military
stalls, Food Drink and much,
much more. All funds raised will
go to Combat Stress.
www.ironbridgeWW2weekend.
co.uk
Shropshire County Show 2022
Saturday 28th May
West Midlands Showground,
Shrewsbury
The Shropshire County
Agricultural Show is a successful
and popular family event,
attracting thousands of people
year-on-year!
Tickets:
www.westmidshowground.digiti
ckets.co.uk/event-tickets/26758
Jubilee Country Garden
Door Wreath Creation
1st June
Weston Park
Kerry Goodyear will teach a
range of floristry techniques
using a range of British flowers to
create a living wreath for your
door or table to celebrate the
Queen’s Platinum Jubilee year.
Included in the workshop is an
indulgent Afternoon Tea in the
Granary Brasserie.
£90.00 per person
12 noon – 2pm / 2pm – 4pm
To book your place please call
Alison Poole on 01952 852130 or
email alison.poole@westonpark.com
Queen’s Platinum Jubilee
Weekend, Telford
2nd – 5th June
Join in the fun with an actionpacked
four days of events to
celebrate the Queen’s Platinum
Jubilee.
Activities include:
Lighting of the beacon - 2 June
Community events – 3 June
Big screen coverage and big
lunch at Telford Town Park – 4
June Concert in the park and
community picnic – 5 June
More info @
www.telford.gov.uk/jubilee2022
The Queen’s Platinum
Jubilee @ Severn Valley
Railway (All Stations)
Thursday 2nd June – Sunday 5th
June
Join the Severn Valley Railway
for this historic event and
celebrate Her Majesty’s seven
decades on the throne with a
four-day Queen’s Platinum
Jubilee celebration across all of
our stations.
We’ve got so much planned for
all ages for you to relax, unwind,
adventure, sing, celebrate and
much more across the bank
holiday weekend – plus, you’ll
have an opportunity for a
journey behind Taw Valley in its
new guise and new purple
livery!
Tickets: www.svr.co.uk/whatson/queens-platinum-jubilee
Camper Site – Jubilee Edition
2nd – 5th June
Weston Park
Camper Site is returning this
year to celebrate Her Majesty
The Queen becoming the first
British Monarch to celebrate a
Platinum Jubilee after 70 years.
Tickets: www.campersite.co.uk
The 90’s Revival Festival
3rd & 4th June, 2022
West Midlands Showground,
Shrewsbury
Bringing back the best of the
90's with the ultimate 90's
Revival Festival - featuring 18
Acts in total including your
favourite 90s artists, tribute acts,
and local bands!
www.the90srevival.co.uk/

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Bryngwyn Summer Fayre
2022
Saturday June 4th & Sunday 5th
June - 10.30am – 5pm
Bryngwyn hall and Estate
The best of regional food and
drink, unusual plants and trees,
antiques,
woodcarving, crafts, live
demonstrations including
cookery, jewellery, casting
lessons, children’s entertainment
and fun dog show. Delicious
refreshments and bar.
The gardens and poison
Garden are open throughout
the event, garden tours with
Head Gardener.
Dogs on leads welcome
Entry £5 per person, children
under 12 free
Bryngwyn Hall, Llanfyllin, SY22
5LJ
enquiries@bryngwyn.com /
www.bryngwyn.com
01691 648647 / 07967 821191
Wellbeing Festival 2022
11th & 12th June
The Quarry Park, Shrewsbury
Wellbeing Festival has selected
Shropshire as the 2022 location
of our brand new West Midlands
fitness and Wellbeing event!
Some of the U.K’s biggest fitness
and Wellbeing stars will be
coming to Shropshire to share
their secrets of a healthy and
happy lifestyle in four distinct
areas.
Wellbeing, Fitness, Nutrition as
well as a fourth Kids area will
make up the event. These four
are designed to Excite, Inspire,
and Engage. There will be
something for everyone to enjoy
and embrace.
Adults 16 and over £12.50
Children 15 and under Free.
(With a paying adult)
Tickets:
www.wellbeingfestival.co.uk
Great British Food Festival @
Trentham Estate
17th – 19th June, 2022
This Fathers Day weekend,
Great British Food Festival is
heading to Trentham Gardens
for three days of fabulous,
foodie fun!
Be sure to come and join us and
enjoy our unique Chef Demos |
light hearted challenge stage
competitions | Professional
Bake Stage Demos | Kids
Cookery Workshops | Kids
Circus Skills & Workshops | Top
Artisan Producers and of course
hot food and drinks
accompanied by some
amazing local music!
Come and Join Team GBFF at
Trentham for the perfect foodie
day out
www.greatbritishfoodfestival.co
m/tickets/trentham-gardens
Weston Park Firework and
Aerial Pyro Spectacular
Saturday 18th June
www.weston-park.com/
Shrewsbury Food Festival
25th & 26th June
The Quarry, Shrewsbury
We have exhibitors, as well as
cookery demonstrations, chef
schools, a dedicated field to
fork area, gin school, kids
entertainment, live music, and
so much more!
www.shrewsburyfoodfestival.co.
uk/
Newport Show 2022
Chetwynd Deer Park
09th July, 2022
Shropshire's best one day show
for all the family is back this year
on Saturday 9th July.
A festival fun day out for all the
family at the beautiful
Chetwynd Deer Park venue,
you will be treated to a large
variety of entertainment,
displays, activities, music, food,
competitions and much more.
Be sure to get your early bird
tickets today at
https://newportshow.ticketsrv.c
o.uk/tickets/
We are Telford Carnival
Sunday 17th July 11am – 5pm
Telford Town park
A carnival of colour and
celebration with groups from
across Telford coming together
to shout “We Are Telford”,
celebrating Telford’s people
and places, heritage and
future. Including a Carnival
parade through Telford, with
dancers, costumes and giants
arriving at Telford Town Park,
where there will be stalls, stories,
a performance stage, music
and entertainment
Join Vicky at The Garden
Room, Shrewsbury
for Terrarium Workshops:
Saturday 14th May at 11am
Thursday 19th May at 6pm
Thursday 16th June at 6pm
Saturday 18th June at 11am
Contact: 07831 537871
www.thegardenroomshop.co.uk

SHROPSHIRE PARTY AT THE QUARRY PARK
Shrewsbury’s brand-new drinks festival
Excitement is building for the debut of
Shrewsbury’s new festival this May.
The team at Shropshire Festivals are bringing
together local brewers, drinks producers, tasty
street food, the best bands in the region and a
host of fun for their new festival.
The live music stage will feature local favourites
such as Good 2 Go, The Vertigo Band, Five
o'clock Hero, Untamed Shrews, Lost The Plot,
Groove Dynamite, Dirty Rockin Scoundrels,
Chasing August, Microbaby and S4TW. After
bringing down the house at Shropshire
Oktoberfest, The Old Time Sailors have been
booked to play their 19th century style upbeat
bluegrass and folk, which transports the audience
to another world with their eclectic mix of
instruments and sounds.
There will be a silent disco tent, letting you choose
your own tracks to dance to, plus lots of fun
antics, including a bungee run, axe throwing,
human table football, volley ball and a rodeo
bull.
On Saturday 21st, festival goers can enjoy a
selection of top comics from the circuit, including
Barbara Nice, Michael Fabbri and Andy Field. The
Studio will also be open with dazzling belly
dancing, amazing hula hooping, line dancing
and performances from Get Your Wigle On.
The best local brewers, distilleries and drinks
on 20th & 21st May 2022
producers will be there including Hobsons
Brewery, Three Tuns Brewery, Joules Brewery, Fairy
Glen Brewery, Gillow Cider, Gwatkin Cider, The
Special Cider Company, Barbourne Cider, The
Shropshire Distillery, Kerry Vale Vineyard,
Monkhide Wines and Gindifferent.
CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale) will be running a
bar with all their favourite cask ales and top
recommendations.
Street food will be on offer from Bob’s Curry Hut,
Fabulous Food Guys, Fordhall Farm, Le Chariot,
Mukaase Afro Caribbean Cuisine, Oh My
Sausage, Olitory, Severn Valley Roasts, Wild Street
Kitchen and more.
Shropshire Festival’s charity of the year is Lingen
Davies Cancer Fund. Representatives from the
charity will be at the event providing a flower
crown making workshop to raise funds.
Beth Heath, Director of Fun at Shropshire Festivals,
said, “This event will mix all the most loved
elements of Shropshire Oktoberfest with sunshine
and outdoor fun, having a great time with friends
in the beautiful parkland of the Quarry, and
partying until the sun goes down. Ticket sales
have been going crazy – make sure you snap up
yours! Early bird tickets are on sale now.”
Tickets can be purchased from
www.shropshirepartyatthepark.co.uk.

Party
at the
Park
20th & 21st May ‘22
SHREWSBURY QUARRY PARK
Local brewers and producers serving real ales, ciders, gin, wine,
prosecco, and cocktails, the TASTIEST street food, the BEST bands in the region
performing on our live music stage AND the EPIC silent
disco!
BOOK TICKETS NOW
shropshirepartyatthepark.co.uk

Returns to
Shrewsbury Quarry on
25th & 26th June 2022
Shropshire’s thriving food scene is
celebrated annually in the 29 acres of
parkland of Shrewsbury Quarry. In the
festival’s 10-year history, it has been
voted Best Food Festival in the
Midlands multiple times.
The Shropshire Festivals team will once
again be providing a weekend of foodie,
family entertainment, celebrating lots of
amazing independent businesses from the
region and beyond.
Organisers are lining up 200 food, drink,
home and garden stalls, tasty street food,
plus beer, wine, gin, and fizz bars.
Talented chefs from the region such as
Stuart Collins, James Sherwin, Chris Burt,
Rob Gibson, Jimmy Worrel and Gareth
Howard, will be leading talks,
demonstrations and cookalongs, and they
will be joined for the weekend by multi-
Michelin star and 5 out of 5 AA Rosette
winning chef, Jean-Christophe Novelli.
For the first time, the food festival will be
dropping all mainstream alcohol brands so
only our local, independent breweries,
vineyards and distilleries are enjoyed and
championed.
The Shropshire Distillery will be running a
gin and cocktail bar at the festival,
“We’re looking forward to being a big part of
the Shrewsbury Food Festival again this year
and serving up our locally produced
handcrafted spirits,” says Emma Glynn from
the distillery. “It has become the premier
event for celebrating independent food and
drink businesses from the region. We’re
proud to be sponsoring the Chef Talks and
Demonstrations Stage for the second year
running, where the biggest chef names will
be all weekend.”
Shropshire Festivals are offering bursary
places to fledgling food and drink
businesses in need of a leg up in to the lime
light. They are also in search of more home
and garden stalls for the Monk’s home and
garden zone.
This event is more of a mammoth day out
for all, than a run-of-the-mill food festival,
with a live music stage hosting top local
bands all weekend (including Dirty Rockin
Scoundrels, Chasing August and Lost The
Plot), a huge free kids’ zone featuring a
circus big top, a BBQ competition, Fire
Stage, and educational Field and Fork area
with piglets, alpacas and ducklings. They
promise the biggest STEM offering to date.
There will also be a family entertainment
stage, with performances from ‘Get Your
Wigle On’ delighting audiences again.
Beth Heath, Director of Fun for the event,
said, “Join us again for a beautiful, sunny
weekend of amazing food, drink and
entertainment. You will get so much more
out of the festival than you will ever expect -
try a glider simulation, visit the Marmite
stand, enter a prison van, try axe throwing
or challenge yourself to try every single
food product in the festival! This is a must
visit event this summer – there is something
for everyone!”
For more information and
to buy tickets visit
shrewsburyfoodfestival.co.uk

200+ Food, Drink & Craft Exhibitors, Home & Garden Area,
Chef School, Chef Demo’s, Kid’s Activities, Field to Fork Area,
Street Food, Live Music & loads more!
25th & 26th June ‘22

Shrewsbury News
by Katie Wilson
River Severn Incidents –
Horror as three men are
found in river
A local 21-year-old has been found
dead in the River Severn in
Shrewsbury. Nathan Fleetwood was
reported missing on 27th March after
not returning home nor contacting his
family or friends after a night in the
town.
Nathan had left Albert’s Shed, a bar in
the centre of Shrewsbury and was last
seen in the early hours of the Sunday
morning on Kingsland Bridge before
walking back towards the town centre.
On Sunday 3rd April, hundreds turned
out at Hickory’s Restaurant in
Shrewsbury to aid in a search for the
young man; a search that had also
gathered over 10,000 followers on
social media.
Nathan’s body was found in the River
Severn by divers on the afternoon of
the 15th April. West Mercia Police
Search and Rescue had been deployed
on nine separate occasions since his
disappearance.
Toby Jones, another local man from
Shrewsbury was pulled out of the river
on the evening of 1st April.
The 32-year-old was pulled out by
firefighters after the emergency
services were alerted to a person in
distress in the river.
Jones was taken to the hospital where
he later died. Flowers and memorials
have been placed near Victoria Quay
with hundreds paying their respects on
social media.
A third man, Dan Walker was pulled
out of the river in the early hours of
Monday 4th April.
A local student, Will Mowbray rushed
to his aid, attempting to pull him out of
the river whilst another held on to his
ankles before jumping in and holding
Walker for half an hour whilst his
girlfriend, Molly Marr was on the
phone to the emergency services.
The 31-year-old was taken to hospital
where he was reported to have been
unresponsive. He has since begun his
recovery process though has been told
he may not walk again.
Mowbray and Marr have been called
‘heroes’ and he has since shared on
social media that he has been
recognised by the Lord Lieutenant of
Shropshire and is likely to be invited to
the Queen’s BBC Jubilee Concert at
Buckingham Palace as two of her
‘Platinum Jubilee heroes.’
New openings in Shrewsbury
town centre
Wilko
National favourite, Wilko has opened
it’s new store in Shrewsbury.
Located on the lower level of the
Darwin Centre, Wilko opened in time
for the Easter weekend and it’s first
100 customers were rewarded with
goody bags and gift cards.
The Pride Hill Centre in Shrewsbury is
now fully vacant in preparation for it’s
future development.
Floro Lounge
Loungers have opened their doors to a
new eatery in Shrewsbury town centre.
Floro Lounge embodies vibrant
colours, vintage interior design and
serves a wide range of food and drink
and specialist gluten-free and vegan
menus.
The lounge has been receiving many
positive reviews with customers
describing food as ‘excellent’ and
‘fantastic’ and their staff as ‘friendly’.
Hencote launches new menus
A Shropshire favourite, Hencote has
launched brand new menus in time for
summer, described by Mark Stevens,
their General Manager as offering
“mouth-watering seasonal flavours”
and seasonal produce though also are
priced to reflect the current economic
situation.
The View at Hencote is open
Wednesday through to Sunday and
features an outdoor terrace for the
Spring and Summer seasons.
Stevens has said there are fixed price
options on both lunch and dinner
menus, with lunch at £22 for two
courses and £26 for three courses and
dinner at £25 and £30.
Meteorite in Shrewsbury
A fireball was spotted in the skies near
Shrewsbury on Wednesday 13th April.
It is believed to have landed
somewhere near to Shrewsbury and the
UK Fireball Alliance are now
appealing to help locate the rock.
Professor Joy from the Department of
Earth and Environmental Sciences at
Manchester University has described
the rock as “probably a glossy black or
brown colour” and has said “the
largest pieces won’t be bigger than an
Easter egg”, comparing smaller pieces
to the size of a mini-egg.

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WINES: A CHOICE SELECTION
Certainly, there are many retailers,
independents, supermarkets and
other outlets, that offer numerous
wines. A good number of which are
of excellent and superb quality.
Whether a preference is for red,
white or something ‘pink’, there are
beverages to choose from. For this
quest I searched for a range of
wines, that are widely available and
decided to go for the red and white
options. Of course, sparkling wines
are available – perhaps for a later
time!
VINHO VERDE LOUREIRO (12% vol),
from Portugal, is a most acceptable
white wine production. I found this wine
to be fresh, fruity and, although great
on its own, to pair with white fish
dishes, plus salads, perfectly.
ALBARINO ADELANTE (12.5% vol) is
from Spain. This white wine is
extremely popular. Grapes are
handpicked, from the Galacia region.
Fruits, on the nose, are then enticed to
the mouth’s pleasures and sensation on
the palate. Great with seafood dishes,
particularly.
For red wines I chose TOSCANA (13%
vol) from Italy. This wine has many
‘devotees’, being handcrafted, in
collaboration with one of the oldest and
most highly-regarded wine estates, in
Tuscany. This very impressive, aged
production, has dark fruit flavours in
abundance, which follow from the nasal
pleasures. Wonderful to pair with red
meats and casseroles. Another ‘famous’
red wine is BAROLO (14% vol). This
‘King of Wines’ and ‘Wine of Kings’ is
renowned for its distinctive high-quality,
being produced by utilising Nebbiolo
grapes, to great advantage. Again, from
Italy, this wine, which is also aged, has
connoisseurs who regularly enjoy the
bouquet, pronounced flavours and long
finish. Perfect to accompany steak, beef
and red meat dishes.
I located these wines (just some of their
range) at a Morrisons store. Trading
from 1899, Morrisons now has a range
of wines and drinks, that are very
acceptable, indeed. The wines
described are within the ‘the Best’
range. This range of wines, from
Morrisons, comes from their wine
experts, who constantly search for
exceptional quality wines, from around
the world, which are produced by some
of the very best wine producers,
globally. Take time and pleasure, to
locate some favourites.
www.morrisons.co.uk
As always, Enjoy!
Trevor Langley

Moon Year Forecast - May/June 2022
Combining planetary influence, Astrology and Clairvoyance,
let these Moon Forecasts guide you in life with love and light....
45-minute readings giving guidance from the past present and future and information
from spirit are available at £20 via video. Telephone readings also available. contact
07519 584975 or Facebook page: Katie Anne Reynolds Clairvoyant and Artist
Libra - (23rd Sept - 23rd October)
Libra it may seem that the Universe is testing you over the
coming weeks, well it is, but it’s the Moon mostly... the
key thing here is to adapt and flow, and to accept
change. There will be two particular challenging periods,
the Moons Waxing Gibbous stages between May 12th
and 13th and then again June 9th and 10th. Good news
is life feels more rewarding mid-June onwards, as we
should then enjoy the rewards for our hard work and
patience, a holiday or impromptu break would be
perfect now, or even just a good day out and a treat for
oneself...
Scorpio - (24th Oct - 22nd November)
Scorpio, it’s an emotional time with the Moons pesky
Waxing Gibbous stage during May 14th and 15th, We
may be a little snappy, children, partners, families &
colleagues might be able to irritate right now, so just take
care and count to 10! We can soon release emotion
during the Full Moon stage May 16th, sometimes we just
have to let our feelings out, we can revisit sadness or
feelings of loss as we move forward, it is not a linear
process and take comfort in the thought that your only
human and this shall soon pass...
Sagittarius - (23rd Nov - 21st Dec.)
Sagittarius sees us holding our loved ones close during
April 19th and 20th during the Waning Gibbous Moon
phase, feeling blessed around areas of children and
concentrating upon those matters of family. We are also
'siding with the underdog', representing others and
fighting their corners, if we are in a caring role at work, it
is this type of characteristic that can lead to promotion
or growth in business, working from the heart...
Capricorn - (22nd Dec - 20th January)
Capricorn we may be evaluating matters on March 25th
as the Moon hits its Last Quarter phase, often centering
around forgiveness we may feel like we can see both
sides of an argument or why someone has acted the
way they have. We cannot change the principles of
others, but we can forgive to set ourselves free, free from
being tied to that issue, and the feelings around it.... let it
go. It’s all a learning process and has strengthened your
own ethics morals and sense of right and wrong...
Aquarius - (21st Jan - 18th Feb)
Aquarius sees the Last Quarter Moon stage during May
22nd, and this is a time of results and rewards! Projects,
work and career, house moves, family matters, health
etc. This is the time to reflect upon results, look at how far
you have come, this is your own personal harvest time.
Take the rewards and the accolade! A sense of selfrespect
and pride is deserved. We may even be given
awards, payments and financial gain.
Pisces - (19th Feb - 20th March)
Pisces have patience during the month of May, we may
feel that things are getting stagnant or indeed be feeling
a little bored. Are we ready for something new Pisces?
Use the Moon's Waning crescent stage 23rd and 24th
June as a catalyst to bring enthusiasm, take a gamble,
risks bring change, change brings excitement, change
brings unpredictability but change also brings fun, we
are ready now Pisces to take the leap of faith, Do it!
Aries - (21st March - 20th April)
Aries this is your time of year now! On May 2nd we see
Venus enter bringing a spark to the love life and our
feelings around relationships. Then we have Mars arriving
May 24th which fuels us full of drive to follow our desires in
love, ambition and passion projects. Jupiter will also join
the party arriving on May 10th promoting calming and
soothing energy therefore balancing us out perfectly so
we can both 'Go get em' but also have the required
sensitive touch.
Taurus - (21st April -21st May)
Taurus, enjoy the feeling of warmth in the area of
relationships as May 28th sees Venus arrive. We may feel
happy and settled if single, which is in fact perfect timing
to open the door to new love. First dates around the
Waning Crescent Moon of June 23rd are a perfect time
to start new relationships pairings or even friendships. For
those already paired, new starts or chapters involving
you both around this Moon stage are good for you to..
Gemini - (22nd May - 21st June)
Gemini sees the Sun enter on May 21st, bringing joy and
optimism and a feeling of general wellbeing. Interestingly
on May 23rd the planet Mercury leaves but then is back
again June 13th, Mercury has a bearing upon
communications, so we may just feel that things go on
hold or come to a standstill especially if we're waiting for
those important emails or letters, have faith that things
are meant to delay, so as they can happen at the right
time mid-June. By the last week in June, from the 23rd
Venus has Gemini focusing upon love and feeling cosy.
Cancer - (22nd June - 22nd July)
Cancer enjoy June 21st as the Sun enters your sign,
warming up family get togethers and celebrations and
happy announcements! Cancer should also utilize the
New Moon as it arrives June 29th boosting new ideas it’s
a perfect time to use those new thoughts and plans.
What with the suns warmth and the new moons
enlightenment this is a great time to bring in new career
moves or even look at where were living or starting those
new projects around the house.
Leo - (23rd July - 23rd August)
Leo, from May 8th and the 9th the First Quarter Moon
stage comes into influence. We may feel like we have
been going nonstop, upon a treadmill almost, working
hard, keeping our head down and getting on with it. This
First Quarter Moon stage just needs to be pushed through
now, it may feel challenging and tiring but all this work is
paying off its just a hard slog, this may be a theme in all
areas of life not just work. Hang on in there as by June
the 4th and 5th the Waxing Crescent stage brings in a
sense of renewed enthusiasm as well as reward.
Virgo - (24th August - 22nd Sept.)
Virgo will feel influenced by the Moon's Waxing Gibbous
stage on May 10th and the 11th as it’s a time to use
redirection adjustment and flexibility, this is not a time to
dig the heels in, adjusting now so that close Full Moon
stage doesn't make us overemotional and say things
uncalled for or act controversially! Smile sweetly and
rethink our moves... The June 7th First Quarter Moon
stage marks important endings, deadlines, and a feeling
of 'There its finished!'

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The very best specialist food and drink exhibitors
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the weekend. The streets will be alive with aromas
of African, Middle-Eastern, Malaysian, Indian, and
Spanish cooking plus we will be showcasing the
pick of local produce from sausages to hog roast,
and crepes to ciders. For the sweet of tooth,
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There are award-winning ciders and ales from
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liqueurs and wines from near and far too. We also
have Oswestry’s own gin and real ale producers
attending the festival. As well as the fabulous
food and drink, there’ll be live music and other
family activities throughout the weekend to
entertain, again all for free !.
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variety of independent coffee shops and retailers
available throughout Oswestry and perhaps take
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Sunday, 10th July, there’ll be the ever-popular
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with their festival goodies to some great music.
Both these events are again free to attend and
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exhibitors introducing themselves to an Oswestry
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Unusual
Phobias
We have all heard about phobias such as
Arachnophobia (Fear of spiders) or Acrophobia
(Fear of heights) but we thought we would have a
look at the unusual phobias out there and
highlight them for you. Lets see how many you
have heard of and we promise we haven't made
them up.
Arachibutyrophobia (Fear of peanut butter sticking
to the roof of your mouth)
For someone who can't stand Peanut Butter this is
one phobia I will never get!!
Nomophobia (Fear of being without your mobile
phone)
For all the teenagers out there, Recent research has
shown that almost 77% checked their mobile phones
more than 35 times a day.
Arithmophobia (Fear of numbers)
If you were rubbish at Maths at school, you can now
tell people you were suffering from Arithmophobia at
the time and this is the reason you failed your exam!
Plutophobia (Fear of money)
plutophobia, No it's not a fear of Donald duck
cartoons or planets in the solar system, but it is a fear
of money or wealth. Now I know why I'm always skint
just after payday, it's not the wife's fault!
Ablutophobia (Fear of bathing)
For all those smelly people out there now you know
why!!
Octophobia (Fear of the number eight)
If you suffer from Octophobia and Arithmophobia I
would even bother sitting down to do a maths Exam,
but just think if you lived in China and suffered from
this Phobia, as the number 8 is their Luckiest number
as it is associated with Wealth.
Globophobia (Fear of balloons)
Just Don't watch the film Up then!
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (Fear of
long words)
Now I'm sorry, Imagine if you have to fill in a form to
explain why you have a fear of Long words and have
to write that down and then imagine if you were
Dyslexic too...............Forget it!
Omphalophobia (Fear of belly buttons)
I don't think it's the fear of the belly button that's the
problem but the belly itself, you should see mine!
Pogonophobia (Fear of beards)
These people will not be watching any ZZ Top videos
in the near future!
Chaetophobia (Fear of hair)
These people will definitely not be making a visit to
their local barbers or hairdressers soon.
Vestiphobia (Fear of clothing)
Next time you speak to a naturist you can ask them if
they suffer from this phobia!
Ergophobia (Fear of work)
Especially popular with certain council workers,
where you have four people around a job, one
person doing the work and the other 3 "Supervising"!!
You know what I mean!
Decidophobia (Fear of making decisions)
Have you ever been out with a group of friends, got
in the car, got to the junction and then spent half an
hour deciding whether to turn left to one pub or right
to another one, well that's the reason why!
Eisoptrophobia (Fear of mirrors)
Not for the vain people out there!!
And finally...
Phobophobia (Fear of phobias)
So if you suffer from any of the other phobias above
does that mean you can't suffer from Phobophobia?
Very confusing
At the very least we hope we have enlightened
you on a few of the phobias out there that you
might not have heard of before and are now
thinking, "I suffer from that" this is a bit like a
medical dictionary.
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THE QUEEN’S
PLATINUM JUBILEE:
95 YEARS OF LIFE
The 2022 celebration of Queen Elizabeth II’s 70-
year reign with the Platinum Jubilee is one of the
UK’s major historic events. But although 70 years
on the throne is certainly an impressive
accomplishment, it has to be said that 95 years
of life are perhaps even more so. Her Majesty is
the world’s oldest monarch, following the death
of His Majesty King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz Al
Saud of Saudi Arabia at the age of 90. So, what
have those 95 years been like?
The war and the army
Queen Elizabeth II was born and named Princess
Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, on April 21st 1926. That
means that she was 13 years old when WWII
started, 14 when her home in Buckingham
Palace was bombed in 1940, and by the time
the war ended, she had already become a
Junior Commander at the ATS (Auxiliary Territorial
Service) and was training to become a
mechanic. As a member of the ATS, she was also
the first female of the Royal family to be an
active-duty member of the British Armed Forces.
And on May 8th, 1945, dressed in that ATS
uniform, she snuck out of the palace with her
sister Margaret to join the people celebrating the
end of the war in the streets of London. In 1985,
speaking to the BBC about that night, she said, “I
think it was one of the most memorable nights of
my life.”
Today, Queen Elizabeth is the last surviving head
of state to have served during the Second World
War.
Family
Two years after the end of WWII, and six years
before she would become queen, Princess
Elizabeth was betrothed and married to her
distant cousin – Lieutenant Phillip Mountbatten of
the Royal Navy. They were married in 1947. He
was formerly Prince Philip of Greece and
Denmark and, just before they were to be
married, was titled Duke of Edinburgh, earl of
Merioneth and Baron Greenwich by Princess
Elizabeth’s father.
In 1952 she became queen with the passing of
her father, then in 1953 was crowned Queen
Elizabeth II. At this point, she had already given
birth to two of her four children – Prince Charles
and Princess Anne. Ten years later in 1960 Prince
Andrew would be born, and Prince Edward in
1964.
Now, in 2022, those four children have given the
Queen eight grandchildren, and twelve greatgrandchildren.
The world around her
Queen Elizabeth II has lived through many
changes in the world around her. Many argue
that this century actually saw the most change
for human civilisation. Especially in terms of
technology.
She saw the world go from radio and black and
white televisions to smartphones and royal social
media pages. But, all in all, she has been said to
be quite a progressive and embracing monarch
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2012 recorded her Christmas message in 3D.
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change is her own words. “Change is a
constant,” said the monarch as she addressed
Parliament during her Golden Jubilee in 2002,
“managing it has become an expanding
discipline. The way we embrace it defines our
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KEEPING DOGS COOL THIS SUMMER
While most of us look forward to soaking up a few
rays in the summer sun when it comes out, our
four-legged friends are probably thinking
otherwise. Unlike their human counterparts, dogs
cannot enjoy a refreshing iced drink or luxuriate in
the cool of a gentle breeze through light summer
clothes.
Our hot and hairy hounds need a little extra help
to keep them happy and healthy this summer,
and animal welfare organisations are anxious to
alert owners to the potential perils for their pets.
not be allowed to exercise too much in the heat
of the day. Experts recommend walking dogs
early in the morning or later in the evening, when
it is cooler, and make sure shady spots and water
are available.
Pets can also get sunburnt, especially those with
light coloured noses, or light-coloured fur on their
ears. Human sunscreen can be toxic to our fourlegged
friends so buy a special pet version and
apply to areas most likely to burn - ears, nose, and
bellies.
Overexposure to the sun presents problems for
animals as they cannot sweat though their skin in
the same way as humans. Dogs cool down by
sweating through glands in their feet and panting
so it is vital owners help their canine companions
to stay cool.
Both the Dogs' Trust and the RSPCA warn that
warm or hot weather can be extremely
uncomfortable for pets and cause distress,
suffering and even lead to death.
It urges owners to avoid leaving animals in cars,
caravans, conservatories or outbuildings - even if
they are in the shade - during sunny spells as
temperatures can quickly rise to a potentially fatal
47 degrees C (117 degrees F).
Plenty of Water is Essential
They also require a constant supply of clean, fresh
drinking water to replace water lost through
sweating and panting. Without this, your canine
companion could become dehydrated, so it is
important to check and fill bowls regularly. And
remember to bring a supply of water if you and
your pal are taking a car journey.
Animals still need exercise when it is hot but should
Owners of very hairy hounds should also ensure
their pooches are clipped to ease the weight of
their summer coats.
Most importantly, it is vital to be alert to the
symptoms of heatstroke, which can be fatal. Signs
include excessive panting, heavy salivation, rapid
pulse, very red gums/tongue, lethargy, lack of coordination,
being unable to get up after
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cases, loss of consciousness.
Extra vigilance is needed with older, short-nosed,
and overweight dogs as they are more prone to
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If you suspect that your pet has heatstroke, move
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blow cool air over their head and body while
seeking urgent veterinary advice.
Remember, under the Animal Welfare Act owners
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F RESH ACTIVE
HOLIDAY IDEAS FOR
THE SUMMER
When we think about activity holidays, the same
ideas tend to crop up each time: skiing in winter,
surfing in summer and cycling and hiking at any
other time of the year. If you’re tired of the same
old things, read on to gain some fresh inspiration
with these novel activity holiday ideas:
Lose Weight On a Healthy Holiday in The
Algarve
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holiday, but if you’re looking to get back on
track then a health-focused holiday is perfect for
you.
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Thalassa Resort under an expert ‘Longevity’
team for a week-long tailored weight-loss
holiday. You can benefit from a combination of
detoxifying spa rituals, tuck into tasty but
slimming meals, and of course, join in with various
fitness activities.
For more of a fitness-focused approach, try the
Reshape programme, held at the stunning cliff
top Epic Sana hotel. The holiday includes 18
hours of fitness training as well as fitness
evaluations and workshops, plus you can choose
slimming therapies or body therapies to
compliment your weight-loss efforts.
Visit www.thehealthyholidaycompany.co.uk for
more information.
Climb Waterfalls in France With Via Ferrata
If you haven’t heard of Via Ferrata before, it’s a
type of rock climbing where you are secured
into a harness and use a series of steel handles to
climb up a rock face. It’s a great activity for
those who love climbing in cool locations.
Fly to France for an epic waterfall climb in the
picturesque town of Vaujany. You’ll start at the
edge of La Fare waterfall and follow a route of
winding walkways in the company of a
professional guide. The more daring and
experienced climbers can ascend up vertical
passages close to the cascading water, all with
spectacular views.
Visit www.vaujany.com for more information.
Get Behind The (Boat) Wheel in Amsterdam
Cool down your summer on a pleasant self-drive
river cruise through the quirky European city of
Amsterdam, no boating license needed!
Glide down the river from the south of
Amsterdam in Vinkeveen, where you can
escape the summer heat with swimming and
diving. A cultural day out in Amstelveen presents
an inspiring visit to the modern visual art
museum, Museum Jan ven der Togt, or the
Cobra Museum of Modern Art (or both if you
have time!).
Make sure to keep an eye out for the traditional
windmills, tulips and quaint villages as you
explore the canals, and level up your activity by
hiring a bike to pedal around the vibrant city of
Amsterdam.
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LESSER-KNOWN TRAVEL DESTINATIONS
So you want to book a summer holiday, but the
idea of heaving beaches and queues for the
minibar halts you in your wistful search. Fear not,
here are three hot destination swaps to get your
sunny fix minus the crowds.
Swap Croatia for Montenegro
Holidays to Croatia have become increasingly
popular over the past few years, which is why you
should peek over its border into Montenegro.
Scattered with mountains, unspoilt national parks,
lakes and sandy beaches to drool over,
Montenegro should be the focus of your
wanderlust. Summer temperatures typically hang
between 25-30-degree Celsius, making it a
dreamy holiday location.
What to do here:
Pick your sunbathing spot on Velika Plaža. This
12km stretch of sand is Montenegro’s longest
beach, situated southeast of the town of Ulcinj.
The shallow waters here are perfect for paddling
and several beach bars dotted along the resort
will satisfy those cocktail and food cravings.
For those looking for a mountainous backdrop,
the Bay of Kotor is not to be missed. Tucked
between picturesque mountains and home to
stunning medieval towns, a walk along the Boka
(that’s the localism for ‘bay’) will keep you
mesmerised for hours. Boat trips around the bay
are popular, and the waterfront has plenty of
fresh seafood restaurants to indulge in both food
and scenery.
Swap Santorini For Samos
Crowned at the top of the list for the most popular
Greek island is the glamorous Santorini.
Unsurprisingly, what with its stunning landscape,
traditional villages and pristine beaches. But
popularity comes with a price, and sometimes it’s
best to browse for a quieter Greek delight.
Peel away from the bustle of Santorini and head
to Samos instead. Neighbouring the Turkish coast,
this Aegean gem has a lively capital, Vathy, offthe-beaten-track
sandy beaches and distinctive
forested mountains begging to be explored.
What to do here:
Aside from the stunning beaches, Samos is
famous for its sweet local wine, so one should
take a tour around the Museum of Samos Wine in
Malagari. Housed in an impressive 19th-century
stone building, this former private winery evolved
into a museum in 2005. Visitors can explore the
unique artefacts displayed here: old photographs
and production records, barrel-making tools,
historic wine-making machinery and more.
Complete your visit with a wine tasting session
and pick up your favourite bottle at the retail
counter before you leave.
Swap Barcelona For Llafranc
Whilst the capital of Spain is a beautiful city with
amazing beaches, Barcelona is fast becoming
overcrowded. Head up along the coast to the
Costa Brava to find the tranquil Llafranc.
A favourite destination of painter Salvador Dalí,
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compared to the usual busy beach resorts of
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any other month and you’re likely to have this
cliffed-fringed beach to yourself.
What to do here:
Llafranc is the perfect spot for leisurely walks with
stunning coastal views. Take a mile-long stroll
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animated resort of Calella de Palafrugell. It’s an
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lapping sea, and also home to incredible
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ARE DIAMONDS A GIRL'S BEST FRIEND?
Diamonds may be a girl’s best
friend, but do they hold their
value? It has long been a widely
held belief that jewellery is a
good investment. Better than
money in the bank. But the
alarming news is that the
majority of it really isn’t.
Most jewellery is sold as under the
heading “luxury goods”. This
means the buyer will expect to be
able to select it in sumptuous
surroundings. Even if you buy it
from a high street chain store it is
likely to be bright and attractively
fitted, furnished, illuminated, and
staffed with smart and helpful
salespeople.
All this costs money and that can
only come from the profits on the
jewellery sold.
Most consumers expect to be
able to pay by credit card or be
offered interest free credit. This
also costs money and retailers
need to recoup the costs from
their customers, even if these
costs are concealed.
For these and other reasons, the
mark-up on jewellery is extremely
high, typically at least 100 per
cent. There is also VAT levied on or
included in the selling price and it
is unlikely to be recovered if you
ever decide to sell the piece on.
Of course, there are some
instances of gold and gemstones
making a great investment. This
happens when they are of the
highest possible quality, made by
a top-flight designer or have
good provenance - i.e. were
once owned by someone
famous, such as the Duchess of
Windsor.
In a 1987 auction, the late
Duchess of Windsor’s jewellery
was sold for £31m - six times the
expected figure.
In a buying frenzy about 1,000
bidders and 300 members of the
media crowded into a huge tent
erected by Sotheby’s next to Lake
Geneva for the two-day sale. The
buyers desperate to own
something that had once been
worn by the wife of the former
King Edward VIII.
Many items went for up to 10
times their expected price. The
highest price was nearly £2m for a
31-carat diamond ring by a
Japanese jeweller.
A plume-shaped diamond
brooch, designed in 1935 by the
then Prince of Wales for his future
bride, was sold for more than
£400,000 to actress Elizabeth
Taylor.
Ms Taylor, who was a close friend
of the Duke and Duchess of
Windsor, said she had often
admired the brooch when the
duchess wore it and bought it for
sentimental reasons.
“I loved it so much, I had to buy it.
It’s the first important jewel I’ve
ever bought myself,” said the late
actress at the time.
Another item, a sapphire
pendant, was rumoured to have
been bought on behalf of
another British actress, Joan
Collins.
Before you raid your money bank
for a bauble that catches your
eye, make sure you will be getting
your money’s worth by taking a
few precautions.
Buy only from reputable sources.
When you buy, get a receipt from
the jeweller stating the price,
weight and caratage (purity of
gold). Keep the receipt and ask
for an insurance valuation
certificate in case the item is ever
lost or stolen.
It is still possible to get jewellery
bargains abroad, in some cases
tax free, but there are lots of
confidence-tricksters out there so,
once again, buy only from
reputable suppliers.
And make sure that the piece of
jewellery you have chosen is a
design that will retain its appeal
and which you will love as much
in 50 years’ time as you do today.
Then it will make a cherished gift
to pass on to a much-loved
relative or friend when the time
comes.
But always remember, jewellery is
predominantly a pleasure-giving
fashion accessory - not a wise
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The Queens Platinum Jubilee
By Chris Dawson
Her Majesty The Queen has become the first British Monarch
to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee, marking 70 years of service
to the people of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth.
To celebrate this unprecedented anniversary there will be a
number of events nationally taking place over the bank
holiday weekend from Thursday 2nd to Sunday 5th June.
The four days of celebrations will include public events and
community activities, as well as national moments of
reflection on The Queen’s 70 years.
Nationally the plan is as follows:
Thursday 2nd June
The Queen’s Birthday Parade (Trooping the Colour): Over 1,400 parading
soldiers, 200 horses and 400 musicians will come together in the
traditional Parade to mark The Queen's official birthday, usually held on
the second Saturday in June. Beginning at Buckingham Palace, the
Parade will move down The Mall to Horse Guards Parade, joined by
Members of the Royal Family on horseback and in carriages. The Parade
will close with the traditional RAF fly-past, watched by The Queen and
Members of the Royal Family from the Buckingham Palace balcony.
Platinum Jubilee Beacons: The United Kingdom’s long tradition of
celebrating Royal Jubilees, Weddings and Coronations with the lighting
of beacons will continue for the Platinum Jubilee. A beacon chain, once
used as a tool for communication, has now become a symbol of unity
across towns, borders, countries and continents and is often the central
point of focus for any outdoor gathering or celebration. In 1897,
beacons were lit to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee. In 1977,
2002 and 2012, beacons commemorated the Silver, Golden and
Diamond Jubilees of The Queen, and in 2016 Her Majesty’s 90th
birthday. Over 1,500 beacons will be lit throughout the United Kingdom,
Channel Islands, Isle of Man and UK Overseas Territories.
Friday 3rd June
A Service of Thanksgiving: A Service of Thanksgiving for The Queen’s
reign will be held at St Paul’s Cathedral
Saturday 4th June
The Derby at Epsom Downs: Her Majesty The Queen, accompanied by
Members of the Royal Family, will attend the Derby at Epsom Downs.
Platinum Party at the Palace: The BBC will stage and broadcast a special
live concert from Buckingham Palace that will bring together some of the
world’s biggest entertainment stars to celebrate the most significant and
joyous moments from The Queen’s seven decade reign.
Sunday 5th June
The Big Jubilee Lunch: Every year since the idea began in 2009 The Big
Lunch has encouraged communities to celebrate their connections and
get to know each other a little bit better, coming together in a spirit of
fun and friendship. In 2022 The Big Lunch will bring the Jubilee
celebrations into the heart of every community. People are invited to
share friendship, food and fun with neighbours as part of the Platinum
Jubilee celebrations. A Big Jubilee Lunch can be big or small - street
party or picnic, tea and cake or a garden barbeque.
The Platinum Jubilee Pageant: Artistic performers, dancers, musicians,
military personnel, key workers and volunteers will unite to tell the story
of The Queen’s 70 year reign in an awe-inspiring festival of creativity.
The London based Pageant will combine pomp and ceremony, street
arts, theatre, music, circus, costumes as well as cutting-edge visual
technology, drawing on talent from every part of the United Kingdom
and across the Commonwealth.
Forming an important part of the Platinum Pageant, the ‘River of Hope’
section will comprise of two hundred silk flags which will process down
The Mall, appearing like a moving river. Primary and secondary school
children will create a picture of their hopes and aspirations for the planet
over the next 70 years. A selection of these creations will be transferred
on to silk flags, which will be carried by secondary school pupils in the
Pageant.The artwork for the flags will be focused on climate change and
incorporate the children’s messages for the future.
This will be a great weekend of celebration in what has been a wonderful
period of our Royal history and hopefully locally, you will also be
celebrating Her Majesty's 70 Years on the Throne. Why not drop us a
line on our facebook pages and tell us what you are doing.

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The Commonwealth
By Chris Dawson
This year the Queen celebrates
her Platinum Jubilee, the 70th
anniversary of her accession to
the throne which happened way
back on 6th February 1952. In
those 70 years Her Majesty has
also been the Head of The
Commonwealth. A position she
has always cherished as she has
always been devoted and loved
the Commonwealth of Nations.
But what is the Commonwealth
and why is it so important and
relevant in today's modern age?
Well we need to go back to the
British Empire and as the Empire
"Where the Sun never sets" it
actually covered a Quarter of the
population of the Planet as well
as a Quarter of the Planet's land
mass.
However, we then came into the
20th Century, which would result
in the declonisation of the Empire
and the breaking up of its
territories through increased self
governance and in 1926 at the
Imperial Conference in London
The Commonwealth of Nations
was born, through the Balfour
Declaration.
The Commonwealth nations take up a Quarter of the Planet!!
Nowadays, The Commonwealth
consists of 54 member states
which covers 11.5 million square
miles and a combined population
of 2.5 Billion People. Countries
such as Australia, Canada, The
West Indies islands, New Zealand,
India, Pakistan, Kenya & Tanzania
to name but a few are all
members, all pulling together with
Her Majesty as the Head and
leader of this wonderful
organisation.
Member states have no actual
legal obligations to one another
but are connected through their
use of the English language and
historical ties. The Commonwealth
Charter defines their shared
values of democracy, human
rights and the rule of law. In a
nutshell they are linked in their
belief in supporting their fellow
man.
This union with each other though
manifests itself every four years
with one of the biggest sporting
events on the planet, The
Commonwealth Games. This is an
opportunity to bring together
these nations, competing
together as one! Known as the
"Friendly Games" they first started
in 1930 as The British Empire
Games, largely copying the
familiar format of the Olympics,
being held in different countries
every time, however though the
commonwealth Games does not
have exactly the same events, for
example sports such as Lawn
Bowls, Netball, Cricket and
Squash are played here but not
at the Olympics.
By 1978 The Title of the event
changed to what it is today, The
Commonwealth Games and the
Next one is actually being held
this year during July & August in
our own backyard in Birmingham.
In fact some of the Cycling will be
held at the West Park in
Wolverhampton. Overall over
5,000 athletes will compete
together under the idea of one
Commonwealth celebrating
shared values of Democracy,
human rights and the Rule of Law
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A SUMMER OF SPORT
Well the Summer is here and we
look forward to some of the
exciting sporting events that will
be taking place over the next
couple of months:
On Saturday 14th May we have the FA
Cup Final, historically the showpiece of
the Football Season. As a young man
growing up, this was virtually the only
game you would see live and boy did
we watch it, from the build up at
8.30am, the cameras used to go into
the players hotel rooms, watching
them wake up and then we would
have programmes like FA Cup Final
Question of Sport hosted by Ron
Coleman and ex­players of either
competing sides!!
After that we would follow the players
on their coaches to Wembley!! The
build up was brilliant and because it
was virtually the only game shown live
during the season all football fans
would not miss a minute of it. Who
would ever forget the "Five Minute
Cup Final" when Arsenal were 2­0 up
against Man Utd with just 5 minutes to
go, then The Red Devils clawed 2 goals
back to make it level, only for Alan
Sunderland to get the winner for
Arsenal with virtually the last kick of
the game.
Alan Sunderland winning the
Cup final for Arsenal
Nowadays, what with wall to wall live
football The Cup Final doesnt have the
same prestige as it used to, in fact the
the kick off time has moved from 3pm
to a likely 4.30pm, the reason being
that some marketing person thinks
that more people will watch the game
at that time as they will coming home
from the shopping etc..etc...However,
what's wrong with 3pm on a
Saturday??
Across the Channel we have the
French Open from 16th May ­ 5th June
at the Roland Garros Arena in Paris and
after winning the Australian Open
earlier in the year, who is going to stop
Rafael Nadal winning his 14th Title
after a record 13 wins on Clay!
And then at the end of May we have
the most romantic Grand Prix,
Monaco, historically through the
streets of the Principality it is always a
great race and after the start they have
had this season will the Ferrari's be
crossing the chequered flag before
anyone else?
On Sunday 29th May we have the
world's richest football match, Not the
European Cup Final, not the World Cup
Final, but the Football League
Championship Play­Off Final at
Wembley, a game between two sides
in the "Second Division" of English
Football. So Why is it such a rich game
I hear you ask? Well the team that
wins and gets promoted, even if they
were to finish bottom of the Premier
League the following season, they
would receive a guaranteed £100
Million, then when they do get
relegated they then receive a cool £70
Million over the next two seasons in
"Parachute" money to cover players
wages!! £170 Million just for a game of
Football. You would think that with
that amount of money the Club would
be set for life, unfortunately most of
that money is taken up in Transfers and
Players wages, so sometimes getting
promoted this way can be a bit of a
poisoned chalice as if the club does get
relegated they can quickly drop down
the divisions and get into a financial
mess by gambling to get promoted
again as Derby County have found to
there cost, but we shall see.
One of the highlights of the Queen's
Platinum Jubilee is The Royal Epsom
Derby Festival on 3rd & 4th June. This
will be a meeting of Splendour and
Colour, oh and we will have two of
Horse racing's Classics, The Oaks and
The Derby and wouldn't it be poetice if
the Queens horse, Reach for the
moon, were to win it, but at the time
of going to print there are a lot of
horses put forward for the race.
Could the Queen's horse win the
derby? We shall see...
Then we have the highlight of the
Royal Jubilee Summer, Wimbledon!
The All England Lawn Tennis
Championships take place from 27th
June ­ 10th July, unfortunately I don't
think we are going to have any
homegrown success this year, but
Virginia Wade did win the women's
title in the Silver Jubilee year way back
in 1977, so you never know
And finally over this period we have
the British Grand Prix (3rd July) from
Silverstone. As mentioned previously
The Ferrari's have started the season
brilliantly but we all know how good
Lewis Hamilton is on his "Home" track,
winning it Eight Times, so let's all cheer
him on to win number 9!
Lewis Hamilton Winning the British Grand
Prix, Could he do it again?
Whatever happens I hope you have a
great summer watching brilliant
sport!!
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and Artisan Market
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Super traders with fabulous &
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Caribbean food, burgers,
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pizza, warm desserts, ice
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craft ales & cider, Pimms
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Not to mention a huge
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drink sellers, including coffee
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cannoli, brownies, cookies &
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handmade gourmet &
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cold Indian snacks, Italian
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desserts & cakes, cheese,
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An Interview with... ED BYRNE
A household name teetering on the brink of
national treasure status, award-winning
comedian Ed Byrne enjoys worldwide acclaim
for his stand-up. With 25 years under his belt, Ed
has parlayed his on-stage success into a variety
of notable television appearances. A regular on
Mock The Week and The Graham Norton Show,
Ed has recently co-presented Dara & Ed’s Big
Adventure and its follow-up Dara & Ed’s Road To
Mandalay, and managed not to disgrace
himself on Top Gear or whilst tackling one of The
World’s Most Dangerous Roads. As a semiprofessional
hill-walker himself and fully paid-up
humanist, he also brought a refreshing warmth
and honesty to BBC2’s recent hit The Pilgrimage.
But the Irishman is still best-known and best
appreciated for his stand-up performances. A
quarter of a century at the comedic coal-face
has equipped Ed with a highly evolved storytelling
ability and a silky mastery of his craft. Yet
his wit, charm and self-deprecatory
observational humour is often underpinned by a
consistently hilarious vitriol and sense of injustice
at a world that seems to be spinning ever more
rapidly out of control.
Having recently hit a new peak with shows such
as the sublime Spoiler Alert and reflective
Outside, Looking In, which explored the
minefield that is modern parenting and a
generational sense of entitlement, Ed’s new
show If I’m Honest digs ever deeper into a
father’s sense of responsibility, what it means to
be a man in 2019, and whether he possesses any
qualities whatsoever worth passing on to his two
sons. Occasionally accused of whimsy, If I’m
Honest is a show with a seriously steely core.
Gender politics, for example, is something Ed
readily engages with – deploying his customary
comedic zeal. ‘I’ll admit that there are things
where men get a raw deal,’ he says. ‘We have
higher suicide rates, and we tend not to do well
in divorces, but representation in action movies is
not something we have an issue with. It was Mad
Max: Fury Road that kicked it all off, even though
nobody complained about Ripley in Alien or
Sarah Connor in Terminator 2. Of course, social
media means this stuff gets broadcast far and
wide in an instant, which emboldens people.
By Jason Barlow
‘The problem with men’s rights activists is that it’s
not about speaking up for men’s rights, it’s about
hating women. If you’re a men’s rights activist,
you’re not going to care about the fact that
there’s an all-female Ghostbusters remake.
That’s nothing to do with men’s rights or female
entitlement. That’s everything to do with being,
well, a whiny baby.’
As ever, Ed manages to provoke without being
overly polemical, a balancing act that only
someone of his huge experience can really pull
off.
‘I did stuff about Trump and the Pizzagate right
wing conspiracy,’ he says, ‘and a couple of the
reviewers said, “Oh, I would have liked to have
watched a whole show of this”. And I think, ‘well
you might have, but the average person who
comes to see me would not like to see that’. I
like to make a point or get something off my
chest, or perhaps I’m talking about something
that’s been on my mind, but the majority of stuff
is just to get laughs.
‘People who come to see me are not political
activists necessarily, they’re regular folk. If you
can make a point to them, in between talking
about your struggles with aging, or discussing
your hernia operation or whatever it is, you can
toss in something that does give people pause
as regards to how men should share the
household chores.’
He continues, ‘It’s not that I feel a responsibility, I
think it just feels more satisfying when you’re
doing it, and it feels more satisfying when people
hear it. When a joke makes a good point, I think
people enjoy it. It’s the difference between
having a steak and eating a chocolate bar.’
Ed, who broke through in the mid-1990s when
the New Lad became a genuine cultural
phenomenon, doesn’t want to submit to any
unnecessary revisionism, but admits that if the
times have changed, he has changed with
them. He reflects a little ruefully on one of his
most famous jokes. ‘There’s an attitude towards
Alanis Morrisette in the opening of that routine
that I’m no longer comfortable with, where I call
her a moaning cow and a whiny bint… slagging
off the lyrics of the song is fine, but there’s a tone
in the preamble that I wouldn’t write today.’

The new show also takes his natural tendency
towards self-deprecation to unexpected
extremes. ‘I do genuinely annoy myself,’ Ed
concedes. ‘But the thing of your children being a
reflection of you, gives you an opportunity to build
something out of the best of yourself only for you
to then see flashes of the worst of yourself in them.
It’s a wake-up call about your own behaviour.’
When I challenge him over the degree of selfloathing
he displays, he disagrees.
‘Self-aggrandising humour is a lot harder to pull off
than self-deprecating humour,’ he insists. ‘A lot of
people get really annoyed when Ricky Gervais is
self-congratulatory. I always find it very funny
when he accepts awards and does so in the most
big-headed way possible. I think it’s a trickier type
of humour to pull off, talking yourself up in that
way.
‘So no, I don’t think I’m being massively hard on
myself. The fact is when you’re the bloke who is
standing on the stage with the microphone,
commanding an audience’s attention, you’re in a
very elevated position anyway.’
That said, If I’m Honest brilliantly elucidates the
frustration that arrives in middle age – and lives up
to its title. ‘I’m bored looking for things, I’m bored
of trying to find stuff, because I can never find it,
and it is entirely my fault,’ Ed says. ‘Nobody’s
hiding my stuff from me. Although my wife did
actually move my passport on one occasion’.
He insists that, while the show might have mordant
and occasionally morbid aspects, it’s also not
without its quietly triumphant moments. ‘I thought I
was being quite upbeat talking about the small
victories,’ he says. ‘You know, finding positivity in
being able to spot when a cramp was about to
happen in your leg and dealing with it before it
does. I was very happy with myself about that.’
Age, it seems, has not withered him. Especially
now that he’s figured out how to head off
ailments before they become a problem. ‘You
see comics who are my age and older but are still
retaining a level of “cool” and drawing a young
crowd. I can’t deny that I’m quite envious of that.
But there’s also something very satisfying about
your audience growing old with you.’
Since the pandemic hit and live comedy as we
know it temporarily ceased to be, Ed has done a
few socially-distanced gigs as well as some on
Zoom and he cannot wait to get back on the
road properly. It will have been 18 months since
he last performed a tour date. “I’ll have to see
what still works and what doesn’t. I’ve missed
doing stand-up the most during this lockdown. Noone
told me ‘you’re not going to be touring for 18
months’ or I would have planned it better”.
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SPICY LAMB
BURGERS
Lamb makes a change from beef in these
delicious home-made burgers which can
be cooked on the BBQ or under the grill.
Adjust the amount of chillies to suit.
Ingredients
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450g minced lamb
2 tbsps chopped fresh mint leaves or 1
tablespoon dried mint
2 tbsps chopped fresh coriander
2 tbsps chopped fresh oregano or 1
tablespoon dried oregano
1 tablespoon chopped garlic
1 tsp sherry
1 tsp white wine vinegar
1 tsp black treacle
1 tsp ground cumin
1/4 tsp ground allspice
1/2 tsp crushed chillies
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp ground black pepper
4 pitta breads
115g feta cheese, crumbled
‘These burgers can be served with pitta
bread or burger buns according to
personal choice’.
Method
1. Preheat barbecue or the grill to a medium
heat.
2. Place the lamb in a large bowl and mix
with the mint, coriander, oregano, garlic,
sherry, vinegar and black treacle. Season
with cumin, allspice, crushed chillies, salt and
black pepper; mix well.
3. Shape into 4 burgers.
4. Cook burgers 5 minutes on each side or
until well done, either under the grill or on the
BBQ.
5. Heat the pitta breads briefly and serve the
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on top.

BBQ PULLED
PORK
A family favourite and easy to prepare, the
pork can be served with mash and veg or
with crusty rolls and coleslaw
Ingredients
1 joint of pork
2 tsps onion powder
2 tsps garlic powder
2 tsps English mustard
3 tbsps dark muscovado sugar
30ml dark soy sauce
300ml tomato ketchup
500ml water
Method
1. Preheat the oven to 220
2. Remove fat from pork before mixing it with
all the ingredients into a lidded casserole
dish.
3. Place in the preheated oven for 30
minutes. Baste the pork with the juice in the
dish, then reduce temperature to 180 C for
the remainder of cooking time, basting every
30 minutes.
4. After 3 hours, or once pork is tender,
remove pork from the juices and pull apart
with 2 forks.
5. Transfer pork back into the dish along with
the juice, and cook for 30 minutes more.
ROASTED
VEGETABLE
COUS COUS
This dish is substantial enough
to serve on its own for lunch
or as a side dish to
accompany grilled meat or
fish from the BBQ.
Ingredients
2 courgettes, thickly sliced
1 aubergine, cut into chunks
1 large red pepper,
quartered and seeded
4 large ripe tomatoes,
halved
2 red onions, cut into wedges
2 carrots, peeled and cut
into chunks
4 large garlic cloves
2 tbsp olive oil
300g cous-cous
500ml boiling water
25g butter
2 tbsp chopped fresh parsley
or coriander
salt and freshly ground black
pepper
To Serve
Harissa or Chilli Sauce
Method
1. Preheat the oven to 200°C
. Place all the vegetables in
a large shallow roasting tin,
leaving the garlic cloves
whole but peeled. Drizzle
over the olive oil and season
with black pepper.
2. Roast the vegetables for
45–50 minutes, turning them
occasionally, until tender.
3. Meanwhile, put the couscous
in a deep ovenproof
dish, pour over 500ml boiling
water, cover, and leave for 5
minutes to allow the grains to
soak up the water. Cover
tightly with foil and put in the
oven with the vegetables for
their final 15 minutes, to keep
warm.
4. Fluff up the cooked
couscous with a fork, stir in
the butter and herbs and
season to taste. Serve the
roasted vegetables piled on
top of the couscous. Sprinkle
with harissa or chilli sauce, to
taste.

Did you know???
Everyone knows the Queen has
two birthdays, but do you know
why? The good old British weather
In 1748, King George II (who was
born in October) decided to
combine the annual summer
military march with his own
birthday celebrations. Since then,
every monarch has followed suit.
You’re Not Supposed to Touch
Her.
It’s long been a rule that nobody
but a royal should physically
touch a member of the royal
family, especially the Monarch.
That rule, though, is often ignored
nowadays. Michelle Obama
famously hugged the Queen at
Buckingham Palace in 2009.
That’s supposed to be a big ‘nono’,
but the Queen seemingly
embraced it – some even say she
initiated it.
You Can’t Get to the Throne by
Marrying One. There’s no point in
planning to marry a royal hoping
you can mastermind a plot to
take the throne. Nobody who
marries into royalty can ever
ascend to the top. If you married
a monarch, your title would be
either queen- or king-consort.
The Queen Sets the Tone at
Dinners.
Eating with The Queen can seem
like a bit of a race to guests, only
because as soon as the monarch
stops eating, everybody must put
down their knives and forks. Of
course, royal dinners are pretty
lavish, but if you don’t want
anything going to waste, you’d
better keep up.
The Queen Doesn’t Need a
Passport. Despite being a littleknown
fact, it makes sense when
you think about it: all UK passports
are issued in Her Majesty’s name.
Why would Her Majesty need
permission from herself to go
abroad? The Queen is one of the
only people in the world that
requires no passport for
international travel.
They Can’t Play Monopoly.
It may sound bizarre, but royal
family members aren’t supposed
to play Monopoly. It seems that,
like the rest of us, not even royalty
is immune from the inevitable rifts
and infighting. Back in 2008, the
Duke of York revealed that,
apparently, the traditional
Christmas game gets a bit too
vicious in the Mountbatten-
Windsor household.
The Queen Invented a Breed of
Dog. The Queen famously loves
corgis, and when one of her’s
mated with a Dachshund, she
created the new mixed-breed
Dorgi species of dog. Thanks to
their loyalty, intelligence and
friendliness, almost all Dorgis are
said to be as adorable and loving
as they are cute.
The Queen Owns a LOT of
Property
The holdings of the Crown Estate
are worth an estimated £14 billion
and extend all over the UK into all
sorts of niches including:
Royal palaces
Farming and agriculture
Forestry and parkland
Commercial and residential
Minerals including gold & silver
Plus much, much more.
She also holds the rights to
racecourses such as Royal Ascot
and even shopping centres.
She was the first monarch to be
crowned in a televised coronation
ceremony. Queen Elizabeth II
succeeded to the throne on 6
February 1952 upon the death of
her father, King George VI. On 2
June 1953, her coronation took
place in Westminster Abbey. She
was also the first monarch to be
crowned Queen of Canada.
She was born in a London
townhouse. The future Queen
Elizabeth II was born on 21 April
1926. Although she was the first
child of the Duke and Duchess of
York — the future King George VI
and Queen Elizabeth (the Queen
Mother) — and the eldest
granddaughter of King George V,
she was not born in a palace.
Instead, she was born at 17 Bruton
Street in the Mayfair
neighbourhood of London, in a
townhouse that belonged to her
Scottish maternal grandparents,
the Earl and Countess of
Strathmore. The house was
demolished in 1937. There is now
an office building and a Chinese
restaurant on the site.
17 Bruton Street in 1926
17 Bruton Street today

A Royal Special!
The Queen was the first female
member of the royal family to
become a full-time active
member of the British Armed
Forces.
Previous princesses, such as
Princess Patricia of Connaught,
had served as the honorary
colonel-in-chief of a military
regiment, but the future Queen
Elizabeth II assumed a more
active role during the Second
World War. In 1945, she joined the
Auxiliary Territorial Service as a
second subaltern and learned to
drive and service vehicles. Five
months later, she was promoted
to junior commander. On Victory
in Europe Day, she joined the
street parties in London,
inconspicuous in her military
uniform. As the monarch, the
Queen is head of the British
Armed Forces.
She promised to devote her life to
public service on her 21st
birthday.
In 1947, the future Queen
Elizabeth II participated in her first
overseas tour, travelling to South
Africa and what is now Zimbabwe
with her parents and younger
sister, Princess Margaret. Princess
Elizabeth celebrated her 21st
birthday during the tour. In a
radio broadcast from Cape Town,
she committed herself to a
lifetime of public service devoted
to the Commonwealth, stating, “I
declare before you all that my
whole life whether it be long or
short shall be devoted to your
service and the service of our
great imperial family to which we
all belong.”
She received more than 2,500
wedding gifts when she married
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh,
in 1947.
After the engagement of Princess
Elizabeth to Lieutenant Philip
Mountbatten (Prince Philip of
Greece and Denmark) was
announced on 9 July 1947, invited
wedding guests and members of
the public sent gifts to celebrate
the occasion. Canadian prime
minister William Lyon Mackenzie
King sent antique silverware and
a mink coat as the official
wedding gifts from Canada.
Since food and clothing rationing
was still in force in the United
Kingdom after the Second World
War, members of the public
around the world sent tinned
food (which was redistributed to
people in need) and nylon
stockings. Elizabeth and Philip
were married at Westminster
Abbey in London on 20
November 1947. The Queen and
Prince Philip were married for 73
years, until Philip’s death on 9
April 2021. They have four
children, eight grandchildren and
12 great-grandchildren.
She has owned more than 30
corgis over the course of her
lifetime.
The Queen’s hobbies include
spending time in the countryside,
horseback riding and walking her
dogs. Her preferred breed of dog
is the Pembroke Welsh corgi. She
brought her corgi Susan on her
honeymoon in 1947 and received
a corgi puppy as a gift from
members of her family in the
spring of 2021. The royal corgis
have become part of the
Queen’s public image. A British
coin commemorating Elizabeth
II’s Golden Jubilee in 2002
depicted the monarch with a
corgi. A Vanity Fair magazine
cover marking her 90th birthday
showed the Queen with four of
her dogs. At the opening
ceremony of the 2012 Olympic
Summer Games in London, the
Queen and her corgis appeared
in a video with actor Daniel Craig
as James Bond.
She is the most well travelled
monarch in history.
The Queen’s parents and
grandparents travelled
extensively in the British Empire
and then the Commonwealth,
but the Queen holds the record
for the most countries visited by
an individual monarch: more than
120 countries on six continents.
The Queen has visited Canada
more than any other country
outside the United Kingdom,
having undertaken 23 official
Canadian royal tours between
1951 and 2010.
She is the longest reigning
monarch in British and
Commonwealth history.
On 9 September 2015, Elizabeth II
became the longest reigning
monarch in British and
Commonwealth history when she
surpassed the record set by the
nearly 64-year reign of her greatgreat-grandmother
Queen
Victoria. Although separated by
more than a century, Elizabeth
and Victoria celebrated the
milestone the same way: a quiet
dinner at Balmoral Castle in
Scotland with visiting
grandchildren. If Elizabeth II reigns
for another two years, she will
exceed the 72-year record set by
King Louis XIV of France for the
longest reign in European history.
The Queen faces right on her
coins which is part of a tradition
which has lasted for over 300
years. Each King or Queen faces
in the opposite direction to the
one before. The Queen's father
George VI faced left on his coins
so Elizabeth II faces right, however
same does not apply to stamps -
the monarch always faces left.

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Self care is not a thing….
Self-care is not a thing.
It is a way of life.
More than a way of life.
It is every decision that you make.
Every thought you think.
It is every person, circumstance and energy
that you allow into your life.
Self-care is what you CHOOSE for yourself.
In every minute of your life.
It is what you eat, what you drink, what you
watch, what you read, what you invest your time
in, what you think about, what you dream about,
what you plan, what you allow yourself to desire.
It is every person you interact with, every
agreement you make, everything you say YES to!
Or don’t say NO to!
Every minute of every day we are making choices
for ourselves, choices that will affect how we see
and perceive life. Choices based on our internal
beliefs and programs. On what we have learned
about our self and others.
And based on this internal knowledge we decide
what is good and what is bad?
We decide between self-care OR selfpunishment.
That is how you know if it’s ‘good’ for you or not.
If it’s good it feels GOOD! (that is what
Alignment is).
If it’s not ‘good’ you can feel that too!!! In your
nervous system. And it feels ‘bad’.
Now I’m not talking about the things that give
you nerves or your natural, human fear of the
‘unknown’… I embrace that! That is what carries
us forward. Feel the fear and do it anyway!
I’m talking about letting go of the things that
‘churn you up’, that bring you genuine anxiety,
the friends that criticise you or make you feel
crap about yourself instead of lifting you up and
being a cheerleader, the people that abuse you or
don’t allow you to honour your own needs
without guilt tripping you. The stuff that makes
you feel ‘bad’, the things that affect your health…
your emotional, physical and energetic health.
Your body knows! And as you start to listen to
your body to start to feel it. You start to learn to
differentiate between that natural, nervous
feeling of doubt we ALL sometimes have when
we are pushing ourselves out of our comfort
zone and the things that are genuinely not good
for us, our mental health or our nervous system!
Self-care is also so hard because it is often so
unpopular with others. Self-care is cancelling
Between self-love OR self-judgment.
Between Self-serving OR self-sacrificing.
Self-care is putting yourself first, it is truly loving
yourself with reverence and compassion and
letting go of anything that affects your nervous
system…or in other words feels ‘bad’. You know
that feeling in the pit of your stomach when you
really feel you don’t want to do something or
something or someone feels ‘off’? That’s what I’m
talking about.

plans, ‘letting other people down’, or saying NO
and meaning it! It’s maybe being ‘selfish’ or
making yourself a priority. It is considering your
needs as well as the needs of others. Considering
your needs first!
Which is hard!!!
Especially if you have learnt to be a people
pleaser (Which we very often do to keep
ourselves feeling safe). We don’t want people to
be angry or disappointed with us. We don’t want
to feel their rejection when we don’t do what
they want. We don’t want them to think we
don’t care. And very often we fear their reactions.
Probably because we learnt it was NOT ok to
take care of ourselves. Or set boundaries with
others.
Maybe our Mum or Dad or our Grandparents
never did, maybe they thought it was indulgent,
lazy, wasting the day…. Maybe it was selfish, selfcentred
and attention seeking? Maybe they had
been raised to just ‘get on with it’ and ‘make the
best of it’ and ‘do their duty’ maybe they always
wanted to please everyone and we watched and
observed and became the best students! Maybe
you feel you don’t deserve to take care of
yourself, your experiences of life have been such
that you don’t feel worthy of this care, or you feel
so guilty every time you do anything for you….
yourself. One little decision at a time. One choice
at a time…. you start to choose you.
And the goal is to CHOOSE you EVERYTIME.
You can still be a kind, loving and caring person
without having to sacrifice yourself!
Start to listen to that voice in your head, start to
listen to yourself. Allow your emotional Sat-Nav
to guide you by following what feels GOOD!
What nourishes you!
And releasing, letting go of, and not giving your
energy to what doesn’t!
It may take a lot of practice, it may take some
real courage to speak up, it may take some
changes in how you communicate, it may take
getting some help to understand where the
thoughts, feelings or beliefs are coming from… it
could take time to change it… it will certainly
take effort…
Just make a decision every day to CHOOSE YOU a
little more.
And you are on your way to true Self-care.
Whatever the reason, if you find it difficult to
make time for yourself and take care of yourself
then you likely learned that somewhere! You
learnt your worth too and how much you could
love yourself, you learnt what you think you
deserve or what you have to put up with! All
reflected back at you via the eyes of your family
and the people around you.
And it would really help you to unlearn it. To
change it. Because it is NOT the truth!!! It is their
own programming reflected back at you. You are
actually a divine and magical being! With
infinite potential! You are made of the same
energy as the universe! YOU have so much
power inside you! You have the power to change
everything!!! You learned it all once and you can
unlearn it all now! You can choose what you
believe now! How you treat yourself! How
worthy you are!
And you start by making little decisions for
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Never mind the school bell as hot air balloon launches
the day in special surprise for Shropshire pupils
Pupils at a Shropshire school were left wowed after
arriving for class to find a Hot Air Balloon in their
playing fields.
The youngsters at the Old Hall School in Wellington
then gathered outside to see the red balloon inflate
to create a stunning sight on the grounds early on
Friday morning.
Organised by Virgin Balloon Flights the colourful
spectacle was greeted with cheers of delight as the
pilot guided the balloon on a few short trips up and
down, with the tether attached, so they see it in the
air.
Headteacher Martin Stott said the balloon certainly
caused a great deal of excitement with pupils
surprised by the early morning visitor.
“It was lovely to see such delight on their faces as
they spotted the balloon in the playing fields,” added
Mr Stott,
“I think they could not quite believe what they were
seeing. It’s not every day a hot air balloon ends up in
your school playground.
“We are also so grateful to pilot Steve for talking to
the children and answering questions so they could
find out more about hot air balloons and what a
fascinating job it is to fly in them.
“It is always worthwhile to encourage situations
where young children get to meet real people in
unusual jobs so they can see for themselves how
many opportunities there are out there in terms of
careers and even just trying new things.”
Matt Jones, Managing Director of Virgin Balloon
Flights said: “With such a busy flying season across
the whole of the UK, it really does feel special when
we’re able to say ‘yes’ to an invitation from a local
school.
“Hot air balloons give you the same magical feeling
whatever your age – the sight of them brings joy to
both kids and grown-ups alike.
“We’ve been doing this for almost 28 years now and
we never tire of seeing the expressions of wonder
and happiness when our big red balloons drop in.”
The balloon was at the school for just over an hour
with the visit proving a resounding success.
Old Hall will be holding an Open Morning on
Saturday 11th June from 10am – 12.30pm.
To book your place contact our admissions
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There are plenty of mysteries
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We typically think of yawning as
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it's not just a sign that we're
sleepy or bored, why exactly do
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And then there's the most
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yourself. Sometimes, all it takes is
just hearing a yawn or thinking
about one. You may even be
yawning right now.
So how much of yawning is
mystery and how much can
science actually tell us about
yawns?
Why do we yawn?
Experts classify yawns into two
types: A yawn that occurs on its
own, which experts call
spontaneous yawning, and a
yawn that occurs after seeing
someone else do it, which
experts call contagious yawning.
(Yep, secret's out of the bag,
yawning is indeed contagious.)
But, whether spontaneous or
contagious, why do we even do
it in the first place?
As it turns out, we don't really
know why we yawn.
Some theories, however, are that
yawning helps:
* Regulate your brain
temperature
* Wake your body up
* Bring more oxygen into your
bloodstream
* Keep your lung tissue
lubricated
While some of these theories
have been largely debunked,
one of the more recent and
prominent theories that still holds
some weight is that yawning
may be a way to regulate brain
temperature.
So Why are yawns contagious?
Similar to the mystery surrounding
why we yawn, experts also aren't
really sure why yawns are so
contagious.
What is known is that
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whatever reason it may occur —
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conserved behavior shared
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animals.
Contagious yawning, however,
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few animals, including people,
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domesticated dogs. What's
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doesn't really appear in human
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be a social communication tool
specific to higher-order animals.
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about whether you're tired,
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whether you're yawning on your
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theory of yawning you believe
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CROSS CODE
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Each number in our Cross Code grid represents a different letter
of the alphabet. You have three letters in the control grid to start
you off. Enter them in the appropriate squares in the main grid,
then use your knowledge of words to work out which letters
should go in the missing squares.
As you get the letters, fill in other squares with the same number
in the main grid and control grid. Check off the alphabetical list of
letters as you identify them.
MAGIC SQUARE
LIST ACE LIBRARIES
Using all 16 letters of the phrase above, form
four words each of four letters which will fit in the
grid to form a magic square in which the words
can be read both horizontally and vertically.
Quiz Challenge
1. Who was the first Olympic
gymnast to achieve the perfect
score of 10?
2. Which word can go before
grand, carriage, minder and sit?
3. Forest Whitaker won an
Academy Award for his
performance in which 2006 film
about Ugandan dictator Idi
Amin?
4. Which major international canal
has no locks?
5. Which fictional character was
called Sauron the Great?
NONAGRAM
C A N
P E G
H A M
How many words of four
letters or more can you
make from this
Nonagram? Each word
must use the central letter,
and each letter may be
used only once. At least
one word using all nine
letters can be found.
Guidelines:
24 Good; 28 Very Good;
33 Excellent.
Any word found in the Concise
Oxford Dictionary (Tenth Edition) is
eligible with the following
exceptions: proper nouns; plural
nouns, pronouns and possessives;
third person singular verbs;
hyphenated words; contractions
and abbreviations; vulgar slang
words; variant spellings of the
same word (where another variant
is also eligible).
WORD PYRAMID
Spell out a 15-letter word or
phrase by moving from one
chamber to another within
the pyramid. You may
only enter each of the
chambers once and
may only proceed
through openings
in the walls. The
first letter may
appear in any
chamber.
FIVE ALIVE
6. Which country gave the
Hebrides to Scotland in
1266?
7. What name is given to a
pistol which fires signal
flares?
8. What is bombazine - a semiprecious
mineral, a dress
fabric or a type of explosive?
9. Who composed The Four
Seasons?
10. The John Moores University
is in which British city?
A
RA LI GL OH TW
IT OR EO
LG RA YO EO RM
AI UA PL
SD EO LP OI DT
M
K
S S T
T A A D
R E H A R
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letters belong
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crossword.
SUDOKU
Easy
Each row and each column must contain the numbers 1 to 9, and so must each 3 x 3 box.
6 1 7 3
5 8 9
7 2 9 8
5 4 9 6 7 3 1
7 9 2
2 3 7
1 8 7 5 6
3
6 5 8 7
Hard
7 9
9 2 3 6
1 6 7
5 8 1 3
9
6 2
8 4
2
3 7 5 1 6
EQUALISER
2 12
10 2 4
2 2
9 2 6
1 1
Place the four signs (add,
subtract, multiply, divide)
one in each circle so that
the total of each across
and down line is the same.
Perform the first calculation in each
line first and ignore the mathematical
law which says you should always
perform division and multiplication
before addition and subtraction.
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CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
QUICK CROSSWORD
1
2
3
4
4
5
6
7
1
2
3
4
5
5
6
7
8
8
9
9
10
10
11
11
10
10
10
12
13
14
12
15
11
13
16
14
17
18
12
13
14
15
19
20
21
22
23
15
16
16
24
25
17
18
19
26
22
27
28
29
17
20
23
30
24
31
21
22
32
33
21
23
24
34
31
35
ACROSS
1. Blood count (7)
5. Company choose to
add someone to the
committee (2-3)
8. Outburst of anger on
stage (5)
9. Sink a vessel carrying
coal (7)
10. Biblical dirges? (12)
12. Counter work by model (6)
14. Where one might look when
in a reflective mood (6)
17. Decide to co-operate and
join the queue (4,4,4)
21. Enthusiast taking food with
a flourish (7)
22. It is not right in secret to be
envious (5)
23. Lunatic only upset about
nothing (5)
24. Small child accepting friend
completely (7)
DOWN
1. Old Penny unfortunately has
to hurry (4)
2. Strangely near a sphere of
action (5)
3. Vain conservationist’s
plea (7)
4. Property like televisions (6)
5. Sum up the aristocrat (5)
6. Exit in the open air (7)
7. New rate certain to be
considered valuable (8)
11. Powerful waterfall, almost
replete (8)
13. Point me out the pepper (7)
15. 49+51=100. It is not
allowed (7)
16. Give evidence at the
match (6)
18. Youth leader turned tail first
in the country (5)
19. In the main a valley full of
warships! (5)
20. Support scout leader on the
river (4)
ACROSS
1. Dispirited (8)
5. Female child (4)
9. Inert
medication (7)
10. Come in (5)
11. Vase (3)
12. Alcove (6)
15. Furze (5)
17. Just in case (4)
19. Take away (6)
22. Dylan ------,
Welsh poet (6)
24. Notion (4)
26. Echo sounder (5)
27. Farmhouse (6)
30. Rocky hill (3)
32. Farewell (5)
33. Give out (7)
34. Basin (4)
35. Agreed (8)
DOWN
1. Deceive (4)
2. Sea mammal (5)
3. Thin pancake (5)
4. Husband or
wife (6)
6. Time between (7)
7. Generosity (8)
8. Distance (6)
13. Dove’s sound (3)
14. Sleigh (4)
16. Enter
unlawfully (8)
18. Asterisk (4)
20. Brief notice (7)
21. Moral
excellence (6)
23. Possess (3)
25. Departure (6)
28. Astound (5)
29. Join on (5)
31. Unwelcome
plant (4)
SOLUTIONS
QUIZ CHALLENGE: 1 Nadia Comaneci; 2 Baby; 3 The Last King of Scotland; 4 The Suez Canal; 5 The Lord of the Rings; 6 Norway;
7 A Very light; 8 A dress fabric; 9 Vivaldi; 10 Liverpool.
CROSS CODE
EASY SUDOKU HARD SUDOKU
2 9 8 6 5 4 1 7 3
4 5 3 7 8 1 9 2 6
7 6 1 2 3 9 8 4 5
5 8 4 9 2 6 7 3 1
6 3 7 5 1 8 4 9 2
9 1 2 3 4 7 6 5 8
1 2 9 8 7 5 3 6 4
8 7 5 4 6 3 2 1 9
3 4 6 1 9 2 5 8 7
7 8 6 9 2 4 1 3 5
9 2 5 3 1 7 4 6 8
4 3 1 5 6 8 2 7 9
5 9 8 1 7 6 3 4 2
2 4 7 8 9 3 6 5 1
1 6 3 4 5 2 9 8 7
8 5 2 6 3 1 7 9 4
6 1 4 7 8 9 5 2 3
3 7 9 2 4 5 8 1 6
MAGIC SQUARE:
bail; acre; iris; lest.
WORD PYRAMID:
A hard taskmaster.
EQUALISER:
Clockwise from top
left – multiply;
divide; subtract;
add. Total: 5.
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD:
Across – 1 Ardent; 4 Basset; 9 Preston; 10 Giant; 11
Commodore; 12 Duo; 13 Cock-sparrow; 18 Pen; 19 Cartwheel;
21 Gable; 22 Tripoli; 23 Tassel; 24 Revere.
Down – 1 Alpaca; 2 Dream; 3 Network; 5 Angle; 6 So-and-so; 7
Tattoo; 8 Incorporate; 14 Omnibus; 15 Rawhide; 16 Spigot; 17
Alpine; 19 Crete; 20 Evoke.
QUICK CROSSWORD:
Across – 1 Downcast; 5 Girl; 9 Placebo; 10 Enter; 11 Urn; 12
Recess; 15 Gorse; 17 Lest; 19 Remove; 22 Thomas; 24 Idea; 26
Sonar; 27 Grange; 30 Tor; 32 Adieu; 33 Emanate; 34 Sink; 35
Assented.
Down – 1 Dupe; 2 Whale; 3 Crêpe; 4 Spouse; 6 Interim; 7 Largesse;
8 Length; 13 Coo; 14 Sled; 16 Trespass; 18 Star; 20 Mention; 21
Virtue; 23 Own; 25 Egress; 28 Amaze; 29 Graft; 31 Weed.
FIVE ALIVE:
(1)
(2)
Across – Right; Groom; Depot.
Down – Rigid; Group; Tempt.
Across – Allow; Layer; Solid.
Down – Atlas; Loyal; World.
NONAGRAM:
ache; acme; acne; agape; ahem;
amen; apace; apeman; apnea;
cage; came; canapé; cane; cape;
CHAMPAGNE; change; chape; cheap;
each; encamp; game; ganache; gape;
gean; haem; heap; hemp; mace;
mache; mage; manage; mane; mange;
mean; mega; name; nape; neap; pace;
paean; page; panache; pane; peach;
pean; pecan; phage.

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Welcome to our regular column
where we keep you up to date
with the latest vegan news
and views
Affordable Vegan Food
Many people assume that a vegan diet is more expensive.
Certainly if you use expensive meat replacements, artisan
vegan cheese or buy ready meals, it can cost a lot more
than the non-vegan alternatives.
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However, it doesn’t need to be like that. Using beans and
pulses as your protein source not only saves you money, but
is also better for your health than the processed meat
alternatives. You can’t give up fruit and vegetables, but
tinned or frozen alternatives can be cheaper, and it is worth
checking which ones are on offer in supermarkets. This
might mean having to be a bit more inventive with your
cooking, but there are lots of recipes online that can help
you.
If you are really struggling, then have a word with us when
you come into the shop, we often have short dated items
we can let you have at low cost or even for free, and
sometimes free food samples as well.
Raising Money for Cuan
Cuan Wildlife Rescue is Shropshire’s only rescue centre
open 24 hours a day, every day of the year. They rescue,
care for and rehabilitate injured wild animals and birds,
releasing them back into the wild once they are well again.
They treat over 6000 animals a year. We have raised
money for them in The Vegan Hub by selling cookies and
will continue to do so regularly through the year. If you want
to know more about this amazing charity then come in and
have a chat to us, or go to their website at
cuanwildliferescue.org.uk

Vegetable filled pancakes
Ingredients:
Vegetable Filling:
1 shallot (finely chopped)
2 medium sized mushroom (sliced)
tomatoes (I use cherry tomatoes but any will
work) halved
1 clove garlic (minced)
Gently fry the shallot and onions until the
onions have lost all their liquid then turn up the
heat to brown them and add the garlic.
Once they are brown (this won’t take long)
remove from the heat and mix in the
tomatoes.
Pancakes:
200g self raising flour
250ml plant milk (I always use unsweetened
soya)
.5 tsp mixed herbs
.5 tsp paprika
1 tbsp nutritional yeast flakes
salt and black pepper to taste
Put all the ingredients into a jug or bowl and
mix together. I use a hand blender to make
sure there is no lumps and it is fully mixed.
Put a small amount of vegetable oil in the
bottom of a saucepan on a medium heat.
Once it is hot cover the pan with a thin layer
of the pancake mix. Keep gently checking
the underside until it is brown. Then flip over
and cook the other side. This takes about 2-3
mins each side. To make up the meal spread
a thin layer of vegan mayonnaise on your
pancake and then add the filling to one side,
and flip over. Serve with fresh salad leaves.
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Get your oats to save
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One great way to help the
environment is to change cows milk
to oat milk. Oat milk only uses a
fraction of the water and land
compared to drinking cows milk, and
if you buy a barrista version with its
creamy taste, you will barely taste the
difference. There are lots of different
varieties to try, we like the Minor
Figures brand which come in a semi
skimmed version if you don’t like it as
creamy as well as barrista and
organic.
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The Vegan Hub can be found downstairs in The Parade Shops, Shrewsbury. To find out more you can go
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Sausage & Cheese Pie
There is something about sausage and pastry
together that create a real treat of a meal – or a
centrepiece for a buffet. To bring in some
changes, use different types of sausage for the
meat filling.
Ingredients:
368g puff pastry
1 large onion, chopped
225g sausage meat
170g Cheddar cheese, grated
2 tbsp tomato puree
2 tbsp fresh breadcrumbs
1 egg, beaten
salt and pepper to taste
milk to glaze
Method:
1. Preheat the oven to 200 C. Line a 25 x 36cm
baking tray with greaseproof paper.
2. Roll out the pastry, make sure it’s large enough to fit the baking tray, and place it on the
prepared tray.
3. Mix the onion, sausage meat, cheese, tomato puree, breadcrumbs, the beaten egg, and
salt and pepper to season together in a bowl with your fingers.
4. Lay the mixture in the centre of the pastry in a long sausage shape.
5. Dampen the edges of the pastry with the milk and seal. Turnover the pastry so that the join
is underneath. Make some diagonal cuts in the top of the pastry all the way along and then
brush with milk to glaze.
6. Bake the pie in the preheated oven for 35 to 40 minutes. 7. Serve immediately.
Coronation Chicken
A traditional party favourite, this spicy chicken salad with cashew nuts and raisins always
seems to be a hit with people of all ages. The quantities can be doubled for larger parties
or buffets.
Ingredients:
450g cooked chicken
breast, chopped
2 sticks celery, thinly
sliced
110g raisins
110g roasted and salted
whole cashew nuts
225g mayonnaise
1 heaped tbsp curry
powder
1 clove garlic, minced
1 tsp lemon juice
salt and pepper, to
taste
Method
1. Combine the chopped chicken
breast, celery, raisins and cashew nuts
in a large bowl.
2. Separately, mix together the
mayonnaise and the curry powder,
adding a little curry powder at a time
according to taste. Add the garlic
and lemon juice and mix well.
3. Add the curried mayonnaise
mixture to the chopped chicken
mixture and combine thoroughly,
making sure that the chicken is well
coated.
4. Season to taste and serve on a pile of lettuce, garnished with
the almond slices.

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The History of
The Molineux Stadium...
Widow agreed to sell the property and 8 acres of
land to clear the debt.
The Molineux family then extended the house
(which was better known as The Molineux Hotel),
and added a fine rear extension, which looked
even better than the main façade. It is certain
that by 1750 work had finished on the house, and
the rear formal garden, because they appear on
an Isaac Taylor map, which was drawn during
that year.
The Molineux family finally severed its connection
with the house in the late 1850s. By then the
surrounding area had completely changed. The
lovely view across to St. Peter’s Church and the
town centre had filled-up with terraced streets
and factories, and even the views to the north
were not what they used to be.
Molineux House and grounds in 1750. From
Isaac Taylor's map
Molineux - The Golden Palace (or Custard
Bowl as some people from Sandwell like to
call it), is the Mecca to most Wolves Fans,
the place where there dreams come true, a
place where at least 30,000 fans descend on
at least once a fortnight every fortnight
during the football season to watch there
beloved Wolves play. But how did
Wolverhampton Wanderers choose Molineux
as their home for over 100 years? Well we
look back at the history of Molineux and how
it has developed.
In the 18th century, a number of prosperous
businessmen built fine, substantial houses near
their place of work in Wolverhampton. As a result
large Georgian houses appeared in Dudley
Street, Victoria Street, Berry Street, and Bilston
Street, Wolverhampton.
The largest of all was Molineux House, later known
as the Molineux Hotel, which became home to
one of the town’s most successful families.
Benjamin Molineux took ownership of the Land in
1744 when the then owner John Rotton died and
because he owed Benjamin £700, John Rotton's
Charles Edward Molineux, who was born at Ryton
Rectory, became the last family member to own
the house. In 1856 he moved to Kilsall, near
Cosford, and put the house and gardens up for
sale.
In the late 1850s when the house and grounds
were still on the market, the ornamental terraced
gardens continued to be well tended. A number
of fetes were held in the grounds, which in effect
became Wolverhampton’s first public park.
During the time that the building and grounds
were up for sale, a large number of events were
held in the grounds, which became more
frequent as time passed.
Local promoters would organise entertainments
of almost every kind, to attract a large number of
visitors. The festivities were mainly held in the
summer months between early May and late
September, and became increasingly popular,
until they came to a temporary end when the
house and grounds were sold.
In 1860 Molineux House and grounds were
purchased by Oliver Edgar McGregor, a tobacco
importer who decided to capitalise on the
successful summer events. In the mid 1800s parks
and recreation grounds were seen as an
important amenity for the working classes in the
large towns and cities.

Mr. McGregor must have realised the significance
of the gardens, known locally as Molineux’s
Grounds. Such events could be extremely
profitable, and so he began to organise grander
and more varied events than ever before. There
were highland games, tightrope walkers, and
firework displays galore.
In 1869 Mr. McGregor also decided to capitalise
on the large number of industries that had
brought wealth and prosperity to the region, by
hosting the South Staffordshire Industrial and Fine
Arts Exhibition.
The event opened on 11th May and ran until 30th
October, during which time over 222,000 people
visited the house and grounds. .
Benjamin Molineux took ownership of the Land in
1744 when the then owner John Rotton died and
because he owed Benjamin £700, John Rotton's
Widow agreed to sell the property and 8 acres of
land to clear the debt.
During 1886 though Oliver McGregor sold the
Hotel and grounds to Mr. Edwin Steer, the first of
many new owners.
But, unfortunately the popularity of the grounds
diminished, and in 1889 the gardens were
removed, and the Molineux football ground was
built over the site of the trees, bandstand, and
ornamental boating lake. Wolves were now at
their Golden Palace!
In 1901 the Molineux hotel was acquired by local
brewer William Butler & Company. The football
club purchased their ground at the back of the
house, from the brewery in 1923.
And that in a nutshell is how Wolves ended up at
Molineux, their spiritual Home.
Molineux Hotel
Visitors enjoying the gardens during the
exhibition. The main hall is in the background.
(Now the South Bank!)
The pleasure grounds became extremely popular,
admission from 9 a.m. until dusk cost two pence.
On Tuesdays and Fridays, admission until 4 p.m.
was sixpence.Visitors could promenade around
the flower garden, go boating on the lake, or
play games such as football, cricket, croquet,
and quoits.
Mr. McGregor, was keen to attract sporting clubs,
schools, and parties, to visit the grounds, in fact
he built a cycle track and actively promoted
race meetings, which were also a great success.
Wolverhampton’s West Park opened in the
summer of 1881, and so in order to continue to
attract people to the Molineux grounds,
McGregor decided to concentrate on sporting
events.
Molineux today, over 200 years later when
Benjamin Molineux bought the land in 1744
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Car Review:
Toyota CH-R self charging
hybrid SUV
By Sue Cooke
I have always loved the exterior
looks of Toyota’s compact crossover
and as far as style goes there have
been few cars on the market since
its launch in 2016 that have been
able to divert my attention. The C-
HR (Coupe High Rider) for 2022 has
subtle design changes to the front
with a lower lip spoiler and there is a
sleek glossy spoiler now linking the
LED technology in the headlamp
and rear light clusters. Disguised rear
door handles are uniquely
integrated into the rear pillars at the
top of the door. Why change a
good thing.
Keyless entry gives access to a very
quiet cabin. Engineers have
improved noise and vibration levels
in 11 different locations. Seat
upholstery is a new synthetic leather
trimmed in a cool gun metal colour.
There is a new exterior colour option
of Deep Amethyst.
The SUV offers three equipment
grades: Icon, Design and Excel and
the GR Sport grade for a sportier
performance.
The interior is airy and spacious. I
found it easy to see the display on
the central 8 inch multi-media
touchscreen, which stands proud of
the dash with switches and dials all
angled towards the driver. I found
air conditioning, sat nav and audio
are simple to operate while on the
move.
Smart connected services, include
cloud-based navigation with
continuous, “always on” traffic
information, 3D city mapping,
highway signage and fixed traffic
camera locations. No phone
pairing is required and no additional
data costs are incurred. A new onboard
voice agent recognises
natural, conversational requests. A
four-year Toyota Smart Connect
package, includes local parking
and road event information and
over-the-air updates in the vehicle’s
purchase price.
I pressed the stop start button,
pushed back into the supportive
comfortable seats and relaxed,
making the most of the concert hall
quality sound from the JBL premium
audio system that has an eight
channel 800W stereo amplifier and
nine speakers. An option on my
road test car.
There is a long list of safety
equipment but the ones that
owners might find the most useful
include a Pre-Collision system with
pedestrian warning, adaptive cruise
control, lane departure alert with
steering control, automatic high
beam and road sign assist. Drivers
can ask for an analysis of their
driving style and how to save fuel.
The top hinged tailgate gives
access to a large boot, coping with
377 litres. I found some very useful
hooks for keeping shopping bags
upright.
The hybrid electric range offers a
choice of power from two selfcharging
hybrids. The original
120bhp 1.8 litre hybrid engine
system has been upgraded with a
lithium-ion high voltage battery. The
car I road tested was powered by a
2-litre hybrid engine system that
produces 182bhp and there is no
need to think about recharging.
When driving around town, the CH-
R has the potential to achieve up to
80 per cent zero emissions.
The suspension has been uprated
and is now quite firm, but this
maximises performance and
handling potential.
Toyota’s CH-R offers a gorgeous
distinctive exterior design which
definitely turns heads and with the
choice of a self-charging hybrid
there will be fewer turns into the
garage forecourt!
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Model: Toyota C-HR Excel hybrid
Price: £34,590 otr
Engine: 2 litre hybrid automatic
Performance: 0-62mph in 8.2seconds and on
to a top speed of 112mph
Combined fuel consumption: 49.6-53.3mpg
(WLTP)
CO2 emissions: 119-128g/km (WLTP)

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By Sue Cooke
The ever-fluctuating cost of fuel is
something all motorists would have
noticed over the past year and IAM
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to help to lower your fuel
consumption. But one of the most
dramatic ways to save on fuel is to
drive a hybrid. Mazda launches the
Mazda2 self-charging full hybrid that
combines a 1.5 litre 3 cylinder petrol
engine with a 59kkw electric motor
and arrives in the UK in May.
At start-up the Mazda2 Hybrid
automatically runs in all electric
mode, which is ideal for stop start
journeys in an urban environment
producing zero emissions. During
normal driving, power is adjusted
between the petrol engine and
electric motor to get the best
performance and fuel efficiency. On
braking or going downhill, energy is
recovered and stored in the battery.
The full hybrid will be sold alongside
the rest of the 2022 supermini range
which went on sale in October last
year and has a choice of seven
colours, new trim levels and is
powered by the 1.5 litre Skyactiv-G
petrol engine. A 115ps power output
has been reintroduced alongside the
75ps and 90ps outputs. In all, there
are seven models to choose from
starting with the £16,475 75ps SE-L
and topped with the new £20,845
115ps GT Sport Tech model.
The Mazda2 Hybrid has three trim
grades: Pure, Agile and Select with
prices ranging from £20,300 and
there are generous standard
specifications across the entire range.
The £21,150 Agile grade adds 15-inch
alloy wheels, reversing camera,8-inch
colour touch-screen centre display
and smart keyless entry. There’s also
the option to add the £980 Comfort
Pack which brings stylish additions
like gloss black bumper mouldings
and a gloss black front grille with
lower satin chrome surround. There
are LED headlights and front fog
lights, plus the Comfort Pack sports
style front seats with black fabric and
synthetic leather trim, and dual-zone
climate control.
At the top of the three-model hybrid
range, ‘Select’ features an extensive
range of additional equipment which
includes privacy glass, 16-inch alloys,
power-fold mirrors, Qi Wireless
smartphone charging and Blind Spot
Monitoring with Parking Support
Function to name just a few.
The long 2,560 mm wheelbase offers
comfortable
accommodation for
up to four adults, as
well as 286 litres of
boot space.
With a combined
power output and
driven via a CVT
automatic
transmission,
Mazda’s new hybrid
will accelerate from
0-62mph in 9.7 seconds and returns a
WLTP combined cycle fuel economy
of between 70.6 to 74.3mpg and
CO2 emissions of just 93-87g/km
depending on the specification of 16”
or 15” wheels. The battery power
level is constantly managed via an
engine-driven generator to remove
any need to recharge the system from
an external source.
Fitting into the B segment, the
Mazda2 may be the smallest car
produced by Mazda, but it has at its
heart the same values of style, driver
involvement and quality. The
addition of a hybrid gives customers
the opportunity to save on fuel and
CO2 emissions while keeping
performance.
If you are not lucky enough to get to
drive the new Mazda2 hybrid but still
need to save money on fuel, IAM
RoadSmart suggests - drive smoothly,
offload unnecessary weight, avoid
busy periods, keep your tyres well
maintained and avoid short journeys.
Facts at a Glance
Model: Mazda 2 Hybrid Supermini
Price: From £20,300 otr
Engine: 1.5 litre 93hp 3 cylinder petrol engine
and 59kW electric motor
Performance: 0-62mph in 9.7 seconds
CO2 emissions: 93-87g/km (16” or 15” wheels)
Combined fuel consumption:
(WLTP) 70.6 to 74.3mpg

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In light of the Queen’s historic original family name, Saxe-coburg and Gotha, originating
from Germany, we at the Scene & SYone magazines thought a good traditional
German recipe would be the perfect dessert to serve at your Jubilee party!
This is an old recipe from Germany.
The cake improves with aging, so bake several days ahead.
Ingredients:
3 tsps instant coffee granules
225m (8 fl oz) hot water
4 eggs, separated
150g (5 oz) caster sugar
5 tbsps vegetable oil
225g (8 oz) honey
375g (13 oz) plain flour
2½ tbsps of baking powder
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
½ tsp salt
½ tsp ground cloves
½ tsp ground allspice
Method:
1. Mix coffee in hot water and then cool.
2. In a large bowl, beat the yolks with the sugar until creamy.
Add the oil and then the honey, beating after each
addition. Beat until the mixture is smooth and creamy.
3. Sift the flour. Combine with salt, baking powder,
bicarbonate of soda and spices. Add these dry ingredients
alternately with the coffee to the honey mixture, stirring only
until blended. Do not overmix.
4. Whip egg whites until stiff. Fold in three additions into the
batter. Pour into 2 greased 20cm (8 in) square pans.
5. Bake at 160ºC / Gas mark 3 for 35 to 40 minutes, or until a
skewer inserted into the centre of cake comes out clean.
Tea Loaf - With no oil or butter in the ingredients, there
is room to indulge with a topping of choice once this loaf
comes out of the oven.
Ingredients:
340g self-raising flour
300ml strong hot tea
280g raisins
110g sugar
1 egg, beaten
1 tsp ground allspice
Method
1. Preheat the oven to 180ºC.
2. Steep the raisins in the hot tea
for half an hour.
3. Mix dry ingredients together.
Add the raisin-tea mixture and the
beaten egg. Gently combine
using a rubber spatula, but don't
overmix.
4. Scoop ingredients into an oiled
loaf tin.
5. Bake for 1 hour.

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