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THE HERALD • MID-JANUARY 2024 • Tel: 01530 244069 • Email: info@markfieldherald.co.uk
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Across
1. Puzzle in which numbers must fit into a 9x9 grid (6)
7. Glass for sherry (8)
8. Sixth note in the tonic sol-fa scale (3)
9. Myth, fable (6)
10. Summit (4)
11. Woollen item worn about the neck (5)
13. Of the heart (7)
15. Container for small personal items (7)
17. Carved pole associated with native North
Americans (5)
21. Film of impurities on the surface of a liquid (4)
22. Military personnel (6)
23. Form of address to a man (3)
24. Storey below ground (8)
25. Organ of the body between the stomach
and the diaphragm (6)
Down
1. Extending the legs at right angles to the trunk (6)
2. Colourful flowering plant (6)
3. The Fall of the House of ___,
story by Edgar Allan Poe (5)
4. Popular British cheese (7)
5. Country, capital Warsaw (6)
6. Conference attendee (8)
12. Stick of black carbon material used for drawing (8)
14. Large feline of tropical America (7)
16. Woman often in distress? (6)
18. Paper handkerchief (6)
19. Senior nurse (6)
20. Caprine animals (5)
Friends of
Charnwood
Forest News
THE MEETING of the Friends of the
Charnwood Forest were given a talk on
22nd November about the local plan for
Charnwood by Richard Brown.
Work for the plan began in 2016 and was only
now completed. The talk tried to answer three
questions – the weight of the application of the area
as a Regional Park, the weight of the measures for
its protection, and the threats it faces, together with
the responses of the local inhabitants.
He started with the history of the area. In 1932 a
planning report had been submitted; in 1945 the
Doner report; in 1947 there was the Hobhouse
review and 1957 designation procedure were
begun. The idea of the area being an Area of
Outstanding Natural Beauty was rejected by the
local inhabitants. In 2005 it was not included in the
lists of areas designated as “Green Belt”.
A recent Government directive on housing
required Charnwood to provide 1189 new houses,
and planning procedures for this eliminate
speculative housing estates. Recently, south west
of Loughborough, there has been a lot of planting
of trees, and lower density housing, large buildings,
and tourism were dangers that threatened the
region.
The area was important for recreation, and
measures were needed to reduce encouragement
for large numbers of tourists from visiting all at once
to reduce the threat.
The local plan needed co=operation from other
organisations to complete its purpose. The example
given was for doctors’ surgeries.
The next meeting of the Friends will be at
Woodhouse Eaves village hall on 24th January
2024, when Ian Retson will give a talk on the Work
of the Woodland Trust.
Dr D McNeil
Why tea is “the
drink of getting
things done”
THE DRINKING of tea has
found an unexpected new
champion: James May, the
former Top Gear presenter.
Speaking recently on Radio 4,
James May said: “I’m just worried
that the cult of coffee is going to
destroy tea. And I don’t like coffee,
it is just rubbish. I like tea.” He
added: “Tea is the drink of getting
things done.”
How did tea get so embedded in
UK culture? Food historian Polly
Russell says the answer lies in the
Industrial Revolution of the mid-
18th century. “Tea became less
expensive and at the same time you
had agricultural wages slumping,
and agricultural workers literally not
able to buy food, to buy fuel, or to
afford a hot meal. So, tea became
a way of having something hot and
restorative – often with sugar –
and that habit then also translated
into the urban, as the industrial
revolution expanded into our cities.”
And so it was that “tea became
absolutely central to the diet of the
working poor.” And this provided
the basis for the idea “that tea and
sugar were fuelling the industrial
nation.”
James May argues that tea
drinking is still fundamental to
“bringing everyone together and
ensuring happiness as well as
productivity.”
He believes: “Tea in the British
workplace is more than a drink, it’s
a social glue. Britain is falling apart
because we don’t drink enough
tea.”
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