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ISSUE No. 95 APRIL, 2012

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For advertising and general enquiries contact: Tracey Keogh – [email protected] or call 01264-310476 / 07775 927161Delivery of the Eastleigh Gazette is alternated monthly between two local areas. On even numbered months it will be delivered into Eastleigh, and on the odd numbered months to Boyatt Wood and Bishopstoke. This will give a total coverage of 10,000 addresses over a two month period (5,000 per month). It has been in publication since 2004, and is one of several Gazettes and associated magazines published and distributed through various SO and SP post code areas. Many of our advertisers repeat monthly, whilst some have been advertising with us for many years. Please feel free to call for more information and prices.

Advertisers have the benefit of our free in-house design for their advertisements by a professional artwork and graphics team.

Clients or agencies supplying artwork or images should send JPGs or PDFs, 300 dpi minimum if actual size, or at a higher resolution if smaller than the size required.

Gazette Franchising Limited reserve the right to accept or reject any article or material supplied for publication or to edit such material prior to publication. The opinions expressed or advice given in this publication are the views of the individual authors and do not necessarily represent the views or policies of the publisher. Every care is taken when compiling this magazine, however we cannot accept liability for any misprints or mistakes and no responsibility can be taken for loss, damage or omission of material due to error. It is the client’s responsibility to ensure they have permission to use any artwork which they supply to us or request for us to reproduce. Unless prior consent of the publisher is given, no part of this publication is to be reproduced.

Welcome…to the April edition of the Eastleigh Gazette.

At last the clocks have gone forward, and with the increasing daylight at this time of year there always seems to be a general brightening of moods as well as increased optimism. Let us hope that this is reflected in all aspects of our lives as we all strive to make the best of things.

The Eastleigh Gazette is one of five magazines in our group of publications – others cover the Andover, Romsey, Totton and Wellow areas, and many of the villages throughout the Test Valley region.

Our magazines are printed in a factory that is FSC® and ISO 14001 certified. Sustainable and environmentally friendly printing is part of our ethos. Using vegetable-based inks and recycling nearly one hundred percent of our paper waste means you can be confident that this publication isn’t harming the planet.

We are currently looking for another salesperson to help increase the advertising within the Eastleigh and the other magazines. Anyone interested should give me a call on one of the numbers below.

Hope you have a lovely Easter. Tracey

6 Unfair Dismissal Changes Coming Into Force

10 Surinder Bellamy talks about Family Time!

12 Are You Sitting Comfortably?

14 Skyline Gold – Eastleigh’s Local Community Radio Station

16 “Couples… should undergo a relationship MOT” says Maryanne Steele

18 Caught In The Net at Bishopstoke Memorial Hall

19 Cooking With Ian – Purple Sprouting Broccoli, Feta and Sesame Tart

20 The Anorak Man talks about Remote Controls

20 Index of Advertisers

21 Useful Local Information

22 Dates For Your Diary



In this issue…6 Unfair Dismissal

Changes Coming Into Force

10 Surinder Bellamy talks about Family Time!

12 Are You Sitting Comfortably?

14 Skyline Gold – Eastleigh’s Local Community Radio Station

16 “Couples… should undergo a relationship MOT” says Maryanne Steele

18 Caught In The Net at Bishopstoke Memorial Hall

19 Cooking With Ian – Purple Sprouting Broccoli, Feta and Sesame Tart

20 The Anorak Man talks about Remote Controls

20 Index of Advertisers

21 Useful Local Information

22 Dates For Your Diary

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recruiting new employees until after 6 April.

Shaun Underhill, a Partner at Winchester-based solicitors Shentons, says, “The extended qualifying period has been brought in to kick-start the UK’s employment markets in the hope that it will lift the red tape burden faced by employers.”

Announcing the doubling of the qualifying period in October, Business Secretary Vince Cable said that businesses have told the government that unfair dismissal rules are a major barrier to taking on more people.

Shaun Underhill comments, “The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills claims the aim of the policy is to encourage recruitment and it does not believe that it is appropriate or necessary to apply it to those already in work.”

Shentons Solicitors and Mediators can advise anyone who may feel that they need help with regard to the latest law in this field. Shaun Underhill can be contacted by telephone on 01962-844544 for further information.

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Going out together and spending time as a family is an ideal way to build physical activity and fitness into your lifestyle when time is short because work, school and home life occupy most of your waking hours! The health and fitness of the family doesn’t become a priority or even something that many people think about. Relaxation and leisure time is usually filled with television, cinema, restaurants or other non-active past-times and they’re often done separately, as opposed to being family activities.

However, it’s not difficult for a family to slot in some time, either at the weekend or in the long summer evenings, to start being active and to spend quality family time together. Making a plan to take up an activity to try and get fit as a family, while spending time together, helps parents to bond with their children and couples to benefit from doing something together instead of everyone sitting in front of the television not talking to each other.

Just being out in the fresh air is beneficial to everyone and it’s something you can do regardless of age, weight or poor health. Certainly, it can be an effort to get up from the sofa and get out, but the feeling of well-being afterwards is wonderful. Not everyone in the family is going to want to leave the television or video games, so it’s a good idea to have a family meeting and agree that everyone will commit to an hour or two out of the day or weekend to spend time outdoors doing something physically active. There are lots of options for all budgets – walking costs nothing, swimming, biking and tennis are cheaper than the cinema or eating out in restaurants.

Even on rainy days, there are many family activities that can be carried out, such as badminton, swimming, martial arts classes, aerobics and yoga classes. If getting out is really difficult or even impossible, for example, with very young babies, then family time indoors or in the garden is just as good. Choose from

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Regularly spending time together in this way brings more than the physical benefits of good health because it creates a feeling of togetherness and family that can so easily be lost! When exercising as a family, it's important to make it fun and to become part of your lifestyle. Children, like all of us, lose heart and give up if they feel something is beyond them, so always try to be encouraging and to keep a spirit of energy and have a positive attitude!

Small changes all add up and making a change for your children's health and your family’s well-being is an on-going process that will lead to a lifetime of healthy habits.

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Skyline Gold, based in Hedge End is one of the “third tier” of UK radio stations licenced by Ofcom, which launched in January 2006 as Skyline Community Radio. The station broadcasts on 102.5 FM from studios based in The Old School House, St John’s Road primarily to the villages of Hedge End, West End and Botley, although it can be received in other parts of the Borough of Eastleigh and a few areas outside of the borough. The transmitter is located by the golfing range in Hedge End next to the M27.

Skyline Gold is run entirely by volunteers. Nobody is paid. Unlike many community radio stations it receives no money or grants from the taxpayer and is entirely funded by its volunteers and advertisers. The station is proud to provide such a service free of any charge to the general public, particularly in these difficult times.

Ofcom granted a new five year licence in 2011 and also allowed the station to enforce its oldies format of playing mainly 50s-80s era music weekdays between 8.00am and 7.00pm, and to change its name to Skyline Gold.

In its short existence Skyline Gold has directly, through publicity, found apprenticeships for over thirty young people (Carillion Construction Training),

and helped raise thousands of pounds for charity, through publicising charitable events, including the regular charity soul events held at the Concorde Club in Eastleigh hosted by disc jockey Paul Mico.

Specialist shows such as those specialising in big band music, country music, rock, rock ‘n’ roll, etc., continue to be aired during weekends and evenings and are presented by broadcasters with many years experience in radio work and having a vast knowledge of their particular specialist area of music.

The Skyline Gold website, www.skylinegold.co.uk, shows the programme schedule, pen pictures of the presenters, and also features a forum and a section detailing local news and forth-coming events.

Anyone interested in trying their hand at radio presenting should get in touch with Skyline Gold’s owner Mike Green. The studio telephone number is 01489-799000, the text number is 07903-100100 (texts should be started with the word studio followed by a space and then the message) and the e-mail address is [email protected].

Likewise, Mike is the person to contact regarding advertising, which is offered at very competitive rates.

Anyone who is a music fan, whatever the genre, should give Skyline Gold a listen – they may be pleasantly surprised!

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Baroness Tyler, The Head of Relate recently stated in the Times newspaper that couples in their forties should undergo a relationship MOT in order to prevent their marriage falling apart as the strain of midlife takes its toll. She particularly highlighted couples who lead parallel lives spending what little free time they have doing their own thing.

Statistics are showing that divorce rates have surprisingly been falling since 2002 but figures published in December 2011 show a rise of 4.9% overall with the sharpest rise amongst the 40-45 age group.

So where do couples get to in their relationship when one or other partner gets to this age? When we take time to reflect on partnerships and life it is probably no wonder that this age group struggle. Individuals within a relationship have gone through setting up home, having a child or children, perhaps struggled to build up a business or career, changed jobs and even relocated and moved home at least once if not more. They have perhaps soldiered on through life events like redundancies, illnesses and bereavements. There has possibly been no time to pause and just talk together about how many of these life events might have impacted on them. Instead there have possibly been demands from immediate family and others for help and support. Even couples who believe that they have a strong relationship

can become so busy that they take their eye of each other whilst they attend to everyone and everything else; UNTIL THE CRACKS START TO APPEAR….. And often one or other might react in confusion, question what is happening, perhaps blame the other. Usually there is no space or time to take a step back to reflect on where the years have gone and what has happened to the other person in the relationship and most importantly why this has happened.

As Baroness Tyler observed – We take time for “health checks, dental check-up and even put our cars through MOTs”. And yet most people do not invest time in their emotional lives and in particular in their relationship. We meet the person we love, and with all our hopes and dreams, commit to marriage or a partnership but then somehow think that things will just work. It seems that often there is a feeling that people within a relationship have changed and therefore the inevitable answer is to part, begin a new relationship etc.

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Maryanne Steele says“Couples should undergo a relationship MoT”



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From May 17th to 19th, the Bishopstoke Players will be presenting Ray Cooney’s Caught In The Net at Bishopstoke Memorial Hall.

The sequel to Run For Your Wife finds bigamist taxi-driver John Smith still keeping both his families, one in Wimbledon and one in Streatham, happy and blissfully unaware of each other.

However, his teenage children, a girl by one wife and a boy by the other, have met on the internet and are determined to see each other in person, especially when it transpires that they have so much in common – the same surname, a taxi-driver dad of the same age, etc! When it dawns on John that they are

about to meet he plunges into a hell-hole of his own making in order to keep them apart.

His saviour could be Stanley, his lodger, who is about to go on holiday with his decrepit old father, who turns up thinking that he his already at the guest-house.

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Method -Heat the olive oil in a pan and fry the onions gently for 10 minutes or so until softened and starting to brown. Set aside. Next, on a lightly floured surface, roll out your puff pastry into a 26cm circle using a standard round dinner plate as a template. Cut around the dinner plate and dis-guard the trimmings. Place on baking tray covered with parchment. Score a circle around the edge of the pastry with a knife to make a 2cm border. Now carefully spread the cooked onions inside the scored circle. Brush a little milk along the exposed border of the pastry. Bake for 10 minutes at 220˚C (200˚C fan)/Gas Mark 7 and remove from the oven. Meanwhile, bring a pan of salted water to the boil and blanch the purple sprouting for 1 minute,

then drain and rinse under cold water. Leave to drain completely in a colander. Arrange the sprouting spears over the onions. Mix the yoghurt and beaten eggs together and season with the salt and pepper, then pour over the top of the tart. Scatter the feta cheese over. Reduce the oven temperature to 200˚C (180˚C fan)/Gas Mark 6 and bake the tart for 10 minutes. Then s p r i n k l e t h e sesame seeds on top and bake for a further 10 minutes.

Cooking with IanIan Wooldridge, Head Chef,

at Kimbridge Farm, near Romsey

with your Seasonal Produce Recipe

Purple Sprouting Broccoli, Feta and

Sesame TartIf you have never tried the great vegetable, visit your green grocer this April! It’s also

good with pasta and as an attractive vegetable to accompany most meals. This recipe is enough for four or six persons when accompanied with salad and some

buttered new potatoes.

1 tablespoonful of olive oil2 onions, peeled & finely slicedA little flour500 gram packet of puff pastryA little milk6 spears of purple sprouting broccoli (about 150

grams), trimmed

200 grams of Greek-style natural yoghurt

2 large eggs, beatenSalt & black pepper100 grams of feta cheese, diced

into small cubes5 grams of sesame seeds

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The remote control can be a mind boggling experience

for many people!

Having made an impressive television, the manufacturers want to provide you with an equally impressive remote control with lots of buttons that are much too small for the human finger. Do we really need all those buttons? And even if you work out what they are supposed to do, actually pressing the correct button and not several at the same time can be very difficult.

There are lots of mystery buttons that don’t seem to have a purpose in life and when I’m bored I can’t resist pressing them just to see what they do. Suddenly the picture disappears half way through my wife’s favourite series or a number comes up on the screen that just won’t go away whatever button you press. And why does the manual always disappear when you really need it? Most people only ever press a few of the buttons anyway, so perhaps there should be a separate section marked “for techno boffins only”

The poor old remote gets dropped, sat on and

wedged down the back of the settee and often disappears when I really need it, and I often miss the start of a programme because I can’t find the it! After a long search around the house I often find it in another room or my wife has put in on top of the television – not much point in that as I need it alongside my armchair.

Have you tried changing channels with the controls on the television lately? It’s more complicated than using the remote. Then the batteries seem to die at the worst possible time. I was in bed and just about to fall asleep recently so I reached out for the remote to turn the television off. No amount of pressing would turn it off so I had to get up to change the batteries and after that I couldn’t get back to sleep.

Then there is the clutter of remote controls, I picked up one to turn the TV off once but no amount of pressing would turn it off and after changing the batteries I realised that I was using the wrong one!

If you have a story about problems with your remote, please send the details the details to me at [email protected].

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OTHERUSEFULINFOEastleigh Market days are held each Thursday and Saturday

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Apr.8th New Forest Spring Fair at The Showground, New Park, Brockenhurst (telephone 01590-622400 for details)

Apr.8th “Titanic Tower Tour” at Royal Victoria Country Park, Netley Abbey (2.45pm) (telephone 023-8045-5157 for details)

Apr.11th Lunchtime recital with pianist Michael Karnecki in Romsey Abbey (1.00pm)

Apr.14th NOMADS Table Top Sale at Woodley Village Hall (2.00pm) (telephone 01794-523578 or 01794-523947 for details)

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Apr.18th-21st The Performing Arts Company presentation of “Titanic – Pride Of The White Star” at The Berry Theatre, Hedge End (telephone 01489-797009 for details)

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Apr.22nd Hampshire Farmers’ Market at Hythe (10.00am) (telephone 01420-588671 for details)

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