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May & June 2012Issue 38

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Hello dear reader!Welcome to the latest edition of

Widnes Local... Remember we’re the little magazine with the BIG distribution!

Does life go quicker the older you get? (That was a rhetorical question, I don’t really want an answer, ‘specially off you Mr LocalMags…). I can’t believe we’re almost half way through our magazine year, and what an exciting few months we have ahead of us! I don’t know if you remember my excitement at THAT Royal Wedding, well The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Celebrations has me in a complete tizz! I am one of the 1000s and 1000s (and 1000s…) of residents that have applied for one of the 10,000 places to watch the celebrations from seats around the Queen Victoria Memorial outside of Buckingham Palace. Realistically I’m probably not going to get one, but I can keep my fingers crossed and dream! If not I will be glued to the telly coverage, my royal bunting decking my living room, enjoying a nice cup of team and a home baked cake (thanks mum!).

We’ve got TWO great competitions this month – in recognition of the Queens Diamond Jubilee instead of our popular ‘spot our little jigsaw logo’ we’re having a ‘spot the crown’ competition. Same great prize – you’ll win £50 cash! Simply email, text or phone your entry... Good luck! The other amazing competition is from Matt Fiddes Martial Arts. Steve James, the local franchisee is offering an prize worth an incredible £400! The prize is 3 months family membership for up to 2 adults and 2 children, this includes all the tuition and the uniforms for everyone! What a way for a family to be active and

having fun TOGETHER! I love that prize. Have a look at page 42 for more details.

Last month’s winner is Loraine Middlehurst! Well done Loraine. Like I said last month... I love ringing up our lucky winner – they’re always so nice!! Thank you all for entering!

I thought I’d finish my letter this month with a little look at inspirational messages. I really aim to live my life in a very positive way, always (try!) to see the best in people, really appreciate how blessed I am and how much luck I have had in my life but sometimes it just feels a bit harder than it should or indeed really is! Life sometime seems to conspire against you and it’s at times like that when I like to look at the little stash of inspiration I keep on my computer. I save little bits of allsorts – some pictures or images that have made me smile, maybe something someone has emailed over to me or maybe something it’s just something I’ve seen on the internet, probably on facebook. One of the favourite quotes I’ve seen recently is this one from that well known author Anonymous..it suits me down to the ground as I have to say I am a bit of a Procrastinator! What keeps you motivated?

Until next time...

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Congratulations go to Loraine Middlehurst won our last competition. Loraine correctly spotted on which advert the symbol was hidden and is now the proud winner of a £50! Well done!

WIN £50 with this month’s competition: This crown is hidden in the magazine somewhere! To enter, find which advert it is hidden on and let us know: 1. Your name 2. Your postcode 3. Your contact telephone number 4. Which advert the symbol is hidden on!

Email us at [email protected] or call us on 01928 739607 to enter (office hours only, please.)

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A Queen By Any Other Name

There won’t be many republicans in evidence in London this summer. Even non-royalists will be caught up in the pageantry of Her Majesty’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations; an event guaranteed, even more so than the Olympics, to lift the nation’s spirits at a time of general despondency. As part of the celebrations The Queen has granted city status to four UK towns: Perth in Scotland; St Asaph in Wales; Chelmsford in England and Armagh in Northern Ireland.

There was another time in history when the country’s collective spirits needed lifting – sixty years ago. Residential streets were closed to traffic so that local communities could hold street parties. Bunting and Union flags hung from lines strung from upstairs windows on either side of the streets. Makeshift tables sagged under the weight of sandwiches, jelly and custard and bottles of Tizer.

Games were organized, one of which consisted of the father of a family threading a needle and cotton which he then handed to his impatiently waiting offspring who would sprint down the road to the mother. The mother would sew a button onto a square of material which the offspring would then rush to the referee. Not all the families could participate in this game; some of the fathers had not returned home eight years previously.

In the evening we sat round our wireless sets to listen to our new Queen’s speech: “…Throughout all my life I shall strive to be worthy of your trust…”

In this speech the Queen also paid tribute to the support of her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, and the speech is as relevant today as it was sixty years ago.

Times changed. Britain changed;

in some cases beyond recognition. But there has been one constant: a tower of strength whose influence will not be fully appreciated until she is no longer with us.

In a much earlier speech, made in Cape Town on her twenty-first birthday, 21 April 1947, the then Princess Elizabeth declared “… my whole life whether it be long or short shall be devoted to your service…” Well, we all know now that it was to be long. We also know that she meant every word she said.

How differently history would have read had her would-be assassin, Marcus Sarjeant, succeeded in acquiring a real gun and live ammunition. The mentally disturbed teenager fired six blank shots at the Queen as she rode in the Trooping the Colour ceremony on 13 June 1981. He was quickly overpowered by Police Sergeant John Woodcock and St John Ambulance man John Heaseman. He told them “I wanted to be famous. I wanted to be a somebody.” And he had written a diary entry: ‘I am going to stun and mystify the world. I will become the most famous teenager in the world.’

Most notable was Elizabeth II’s majestic reaction to the incident. As her horse, nineteen-year-old Burmese, panicked and reared she calmly brought him under control and continued with the scheduled ride

to Horseguards Parade, comforting him with a few pats on the neck while turning to smile at the cheering crowd.

This was, allegedly, the second attempt on the Monarch’s life. According to a retired senior police officer in Australia he was in charge of an investigation in 1981 after a train carrying the Queen and Prince Philip collided with a large log which had been placed on the track after police and a pilot train had passed along the route. There has so far been no comment from Buckingham Palace on the validity of these claims. True or false I doubt that the Queen loses much sleep over these stories.

It was the Queen’s consort, HRH Prince Philip, who pointed out that sometimes a position is more important than the person who occupies that position. With typical clarity he had put the concept in a nutshell: if a nation chooses to have a figurehead then there must be a human to give that position substance, but the human is secondary to the position, not vice versa. For the past sixty years we have been fortunate in having a person worthy of that position; a person of supreme dignity and dedication the like of which this country may never see again. God Save the Queen.

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BlindsOnce considered something of a poor cousin to curtains, blinds are increasingly fashionable, offering a clean-lined look that is sophisticated and laid-back yet still pleasingly tactile. What’s more,

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they tend to be far cheaper, as they require much less fabric – just the size of the window opening, plus hems. There are different options to suit different styles of room, many of them easy to make yourself or inexpensive to buy off-the-shelf. A roller blind in a neutral colour will blend into the background in a modern, minimal space, or could be used in conjunction with ‘dress’ curtains (fixed either side of the window) in a more formal room. Roman blinds pull up in lovely soft folds that give an attractive drape without going over the top, while fabric roll-up blinds which, literally, roll up from the bottom and tie in position, show off their reverse, thus offering an attractive combination of two fabrics. When choosing fabrics, mid-weight, not-too-textured fabrics tend to be best for blinds, which need to roll or fold easily against themselves.

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Weird Things Customers Say In Bookshops So many people say “I’d love to run a little bookshop.” It can be a very satisfying job, helping customers to fi nd just the right book for the right occasion, and it certainly has its humorous side. Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops by Jen Campbell, (£7.99) is so accurate it had us in stitches. Example – “Do you have this children’s book, it’s supposed to be very good? It’s called Lionel Richie and the Wardrobe.” Or - “I’ve just discovered I’m David Cameron’s cousin. Is there a biography about me?” In Runcorn we have been asked “Do you sell razor blades?” “Sorry, no.” Customer, looking puzzled, “Oh, why not?”

Haunted Liverpool 17Tom Slemen’s much awaited Haunted Liverpool 17 (£6.99) has now arrived. As usual it is packed with strange happenings from the past in our local area. Many are afraid of clowns, but one small boy was actually scared to death by Tickle the Clown on New Brighton sea front. Then there was the book bought in Renshaw Street that brought bad luck wherever it went. The owner later found that it had been bound in human skin, and that the bump on the spine was a nipple! Then there are the ghostly children of Liverpool… And forty-one other mystifying tales to intrigue confuse the most sceptical of minds.

The Etymologicon This book, emerging from Mark Forsyth’s Inky Fool blog, details the strange connection between words. Ribald, witty, and erudite it swings from monks and monkeys to fi lm buffs and buffaloes, and even has an explanation for how the German pharmaceutical company Bayer, after producing a new chemical – diacetylmorphine – a supposedly non-addictive form of morphine – came to be known as Heroin! The “non-addictive” label however turned out to be a little misguided. Published by Icon Books, price £12.99.

The Book of RunestThe Book of Runes by Ralph Blum must have relevance even in today’s technical world as it is still considered the defi nitive guide to gaining insight into the present and the future. The book of interpretation is classic and the 25 rune stones, with their imprinted gold symbols, come complete with drawstring casting bag. As a tool for self-help, decision making and inner guidance, the ancient art of the runes is pivotal in illuminating the journey of self-discovery. Usual price £19.95. Special price £9.99 while stocks last.

Parker’s AstrologyThis beautifully produced and updated edition of Julia and Derek Parker’s classic guide to astrology will broaden anyone’s understanding of the subject, whether beginner or more experienced practitioner. It contains not only descriptions of sun signs, guidance on chart interpretations and location astrology, but an easy-to-follow ephemeris to the year 2020. Packed with information and including many full-colour illustrations the recommended retail price is £25, but is presently on offer at £9.99, while stocks last.

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Greener gardening is not difficult, it is just different. Many infuriating pests can thrive in greenhouses and conservatories, but there are now many ‘natural’ controls available in the form of predators and parasites, which can be purchased from mail order suppliers (including www.pippagreenwood.com) and then

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The Mini brand is expanding yet again – this time into the niche Coupe market. James Baggott, editor of Car Dealer Magazine (CarDealerMag.co.uk) finds out more...

WHAT IT IS?Yet another Mini that’s been tweaked to keep the brand’s sales moving upwards. Sales for the maker are up 14 per cent year on year in a market down five per cent and the Coupe aims to add around 3,000 a year to that total. Classed as a ‘halo’ model, it’s not expected to be a volume seller, but a rival to the likes of the VW Scirocco and Audi TT. It has a lower roof, boot spoiler and only two seats.

WHAT’S UNDER THE BONNET?There are diesel and petrol options. As it’s the halo model, Mini won’t be offering One versions, only Cooper, Cooper S, SD, and John Cooper Works versions. We tried the SD and John Cooper Works. The latter is the range-topper offering 149mph top speed, 0-60mph in 6.2 seconds and 39.8mpg. The diesel is a bit clattery but great to drive. It returns 65.7mpg, hits 134mph and passes 60mph in 7.7s.

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WHAT’S IT LIKE TO DRIVE?Enjoyable, but for taller drivers, extremely uncomfortable. The low roofline means you have to constantly crick your neck and the seats sent our legs to sleep within 10 minutes. It handles much like the hatch and in the dry is extremely chuckable, but in the wet it suffered with understeer. But none of that will stop fashion-hungry buyers snapping them up.

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D-Day, it seems, hasn’t been celebrated as it should. The focus of Britain’s military commemoration has always been Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday, when we mourn the dead of both world wars, as we should. But D-Day was a different battle and should be marked in a different way.

The courage of the 200,000 naval and 160,000 army personnel who set out for Normandy on that stormy Tuesday is worth celebrating for itself. They faced 59 German divisions, approaching 700,000 men, who had spent four years digging themselves in and converting every beach on the French seaboard into a death-trap of landmines, barbed wire, tank traps, machine guns and artillery. To the soldiers, Operation Neptune must have seemed like an enormous gamble on their life.

Of course, the odds weren’t as long as seemed. Those 59 German divisions were scattered over France, Belgium, and the Netherlands and the prolonged

bombing of their communication lines made rallying quickly impossible. German high command was expecting an invasion to be launched in the obvious place, the Pas de Calais. A huge army remained there long after it was clear that the Normandy landings were no mere diversion. Many of the thin cordons of troops along the Norman coast were conscripted Poles and Russians, never trusted by the Germans (rightly, as most of them deserted quickly and many Poles turned up at Arnhem on the Allied side). The German forces had been rendered negligible by a long campaign of attrition and thanks to Hitler’s paranoia and indecision, command of the ground forces was divided and virtually paralysed.

For their part, the Allied commanders enjoyed overwhelming air and naval superiority. They had gained valuable experience of amphibious operations in North Africa and Italy, and had dedicated two years to planning and reconnaissance. They had the attacker’s advantage, concentrating their armies, while forcing the defenders to disperse theirs. Eisenhower, Montgomery and the rest had good reason to feel nervous, but confident.

It can’t have seemed like that to the men in the landing craft,

though. Their prospects of victory as an army might have been better than fair, but so were their personal prospects of injury or death.

In the event, the mainly British, American, and Canadian invaders fared surprisingly well. The next two months were an arduous slogging match, but “only” 4,400 Allied lives were claimed out of 150,000 – 4,400 too many, but at 3%, rather better than the Somme. Indeed to a soldier of the Red Army, with memories of Stalingrad and Kharkov (the largest tank-battle in history), D-Day must have seemed not much more than a skirmish.

But D-Day is important for more than just its scale and what it achieved towards the downfall of Nazi Germany. D-Day should stand as a beacon for democracy against totalitarianism. Totalitarian regimes may appear strong, but they are hollow. Willing confederations of free men and women uniting their energy, intelligence and courage towards a common goal are always stronger than a people that only obey orders. Tuesday 6th June 1944 proved that, and we should celebrate the day not with the wreaths and silences of Remembrance Sunday but with fireworks and a joyous chorale.

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When one of our advertisers, Jeff Chesters of JDC Ceramics and Bathrooms, invited me to come and have a look at his new showroom so that I could take some photos for a new advert design, I was wondering what could be different as they only moved into their last showroom about 12 months ago.

Well, when I walked through the door I could see instantly why new photos were necessary: the place was completely different! Just meters away from their last place but at least four times bigger, JDC’s new showroom is a showstopper to say the least! The local family-run business has now opened the doors to the showroom in Moor Lane Business Centre, Widnes after a stunning £30,000 fit out and they are absolutely delighted with the response from customers.

Jeff who runs the business with his wife, Jennie, told me that “the new showroom is much bigger than what we previously had and it really enables us to showcase the huge variety of bathroom suites and products that we offer to our customers.

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It’s easy to understand why JDC are extremely proud to supply and fit bathroom suites and products from many top quality suppliers and some of our ranges you can only get exclusively from them as no other local firms have them and they are not available to buy online.

“When the opportunity arose to invest in this new showroom we jumped at the chance. We currently have the best range of bathrooms and products that we’ve ever had and we really needed somewhere to show them off properly!” Jeff told me.

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These past few weeks have been quite eventful for me. We travelled to Wales for one weekend to celebrate my Grandparents’ fiftieth anniversary, and thankfully, the weather remained glorious for the entirety of our stay. We stayed in a farmhouse with seven bedrooms in Llangollen, and brought along most of the family. One of my favourite pastimes is exploring new places, especially in woodland and forests, and while we were in the valley I spent most of my time in the mountains. Fortunately, there was no internet access, so I wasn’t distracted by my usual pastimes. All in all, it was a good weekend, and I look forward to doing it again!

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Like most students during the gap between college and further education, I’m hoping to go on holiday this July or August with some friends. Last year I travelled to Wales with some friends and that was quite exciting; however, this year I’m hoping to take a step further and travel abroad. Europe has always fascinated me, and I have some friends in Holland who I’m hoping to stay with. I’ll be 18 then, and I’m looking forward to becoming a little more independent in my travels – hopefully I can learn a lot through my experiences. I do intend to move out of

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0151 423 3557

Deacon Rd Veterinary Surgery61 Deacon Rd, Widnes, WA8 6EF

0151 424 2852

Local EntertainmentThe Brindley TheatreHigh Street, Runcorn, WA7 1BG

0151 907 8360

Catalyst MuseumMersey Road, Widnes, WA8 0DF

0151 420 1121

Norton PiororyTudor Road Manor Park,Runcorn, WA7 1SX

01928 569 895

School & College NumbersRiverside College (Kingsway) 0151 257 2800Riverside College (Cronton) 0151 257 2020Fairfi eld High 0151 423 3571Saints Peter & Paul Catholic College

0151 424 2139

The Bankfi eld 0151 424 5038Wade Deacon High 0151 423 2721All Saints Upton CE 0151 424 7248Ditton Primary 0151 424 5861Fairfi eld Infant 0151 424 4879Fairfi eld Junior 0151 424 0123Farnworth CE 0151 424 3042Hale CofE Primary School 0151 425 3023 Halebank CE 0151 424 4878Lunts Heath Primary 0151 423 3322Moorfi eld Primary 0151 424 3108Oakfi eld Community Primary 0151 424 4958Our Lady of Perpetual Succour 0151 424 6130Simms Cross Primary 0151 424 5031Spinney Avenue CE 0151 424 4234St Basil’s Catholic Primary 0151 424 7839St. Bede’s Catholic Infant 0151 424 3112St. Bede’s Catholic Junior 0151 424 3386St. Gerard’s Roman Catholic 0151 424 2879St. John Fisher Catholic Primary 0151 424 7794St. Michael’s Catholic Primary 0151 424 4468West Bank Primary 0151 424 2799

School Term TimesSummer Term 201216th April - 4th May *Bank Holiday 7th May8th May - 1st June: Half Term 4th - 8th June (inc 4th & 5th as Bank Holidays)11th June - 19th July: Summer 20th July - 31st August

Council Numbers24 Hour - Halton Direct Link 0303 333 4300Halton Housing Trust (Not council) 0151 510 5000Planning Services 0151 907 8300 Police Station (Non Emergency) 0845 458 0000Social Care (Adult) 0151 907 8306Transport & Highways 0151 471 7600Waste Management Division 0151 907 8300

Household WasteJohnsons LaneWidnes, WA8 OSJ

0151 495 1251

Opening Hours1st October - 31st March: 8am to 6pm1st April - 30th September: 8am to 8pmFor any large items, contact the Waste Management Disivion of Halton Borough Council on 0151 907 8300 to arrange collect, fees from £10 per item.

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