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More than a dozen flood alerts were in force across Lancashire at lunchtime today as heavy overnight rain continued throughout the morning.
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More than a dozen flood alerts were in force across Lancashire at lunchtime today as heavy overnight rain continued throughout the morning.
The worst affected areas were expected to be around Garstang, Lancaster and in the Ribble Valley where a number of rivers were said to be dangerously high.
A total of 14 red warnings were issued by the Environment Agency at 12.50pm and a further 20 yellow flood alerts across the North West.
People living in areas covered by a red flood warning were advised to expect flooding and take immediate action to prevent it affecting their properties.
In the yellow areas the danger was no expected to be so immediate, although householders and businesses were told to be prepared because flooding was possible.
The rivers deemed “at risk” included the Ribble, Wyre, Lune, Hodder, Lostock, Yarrow and Douglas.
Travel was disrupted throughout the morning with standing water making driving difficult.
Some roads were impassable and traffic was having to take alternative routes.
In the Chorley area flooding on the A674 Blackburn Road at Wheelton meant drivers in both directions had to turn around.
The busy A6 at Cabus, just north of Garstang, was also affected, although vehicles were able to get through with care.
Traffic was slow on the A6 at Galgate due to surface water and one lane of the M6 southbound near to junction 34 was closed because of standing water.
On the trains, services were disrupted on the West Coast mainline this morning between Lancaster and Preston because of flooding. A bus service was laid on for passengers between the two cities.
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The English Beat - starring original songwriter and lead-singer of The Beat, Dave Wakeling - have announced their UK tour heading to 53 Degrees in Preston on Thursday September 22nd.
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The English Beat - starring original songwriter and lead-singer of The Beat, Dave Wakeling - have announced their UK tour heading to 53 Degrees in Preston on Thursday September 22nd.
Dave Wakeling – the songwriter and lead-singer of The Beat - returns to the UK this September for a full UK tour, where he will be showcasing new material due for release in 2017.
The singer, songwriter and guitarist behind the biggest 1980’s 2-Tone Band, The Beat, known in the US as The English Beat, Dave Wakeling is the consummate showman, touring the world with an all-star line-up, performing all the hits of The Beat, General Public and a host of new songs.
The English Beat will play an extensive run of UK dates including shows in Liverpool, Newcastle, Cardiff, and London, and Dave’s hometown and the birthplace of many Beat lyrics and classics, Birmingham.
The band has been busy in the studio working on their first new album in 30 years, due for release in February 2017, titled ‘Here We Go Love’.
With a unique energy, pure melody, passion and politics, it’s impossible to forget the genius of UK Top 10 singles, ‘Mirror in the Bathroom’, ‘Hands Off She’s Mine’ and ‘Too Nice To Talk To’, before The Beat disbanded in 1983.
“I am very excited to be coming back to the UK to play shows and to get to introduce the songs from our upcoming new album. We have been in summer training, with shows with ub40, b52’s, culture club and train, and the band is in tip top form and ready to rock, steady!” Dave Wakeling.
SEPTEMBER TOUR DATES:
Friday 16th September – Concorde 2, Brighton
Saturday 17th September – Skabour Festival, Folkstone
Sunday 18th September – The Forum, Tunbridge Wells www.twforum.co.uk
Tuesday 20th September – Fibbers, York
Wednesday 21st September – The Magnet, Liverpool
Thursday 22nd September – 53 Degrees, Preston
Friday 23rd September – Robin 2, Wolverhampton
Saturday 24th September – The Windsor, Fife
Sunday 25th September – Volunteer Hall, Galashiels
Tuesday 27th September – Think Tank, Newcastle
Wednesday 28th September – Trades Club, Hebden Bridge http://thetradesclub.com
Thursday 29th September – Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff
Friday 30th September – Crauford Arms, Milton Keynes
OCTOBER TOUR DATES:
Saturday 1st October – Birmingham O2 Institute, Birmingham
Monday 3rd October – Ruby Lounge, Manchester
Tuesday 4th October – Komedia, Bath
Wednesday 5th October – Rescue Room, Nottingham
Friday 7th October – The Zone Night Club, Redruth http://broadbeat.co.uk
Saturday 8th October – The Garage, London
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Former Leyland star Luis Reece has been released by Lancashire.
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Former Leyland star Luis Reece has been released by Lancashire.
The 25-year-old ace has been told that his contract will not be renewed by the Red Rose county.
Reece was signed by Lancashire after a number of impressive performances for Leyland in the Northern League Division One.
He looked set for a big future when he broke into the Lancashire team in 2013 and scored 722 runs at an average of 55 in 10 matches, including seven half-centuries as the team won promotion back to Division One.
However, the following season was not quite as successful for Reece and his progress was further hindered last season when he broke his hand after punching a dressing room wall following a dismissal at Old Trafford.
He has been a peripheral figure this season and has played just four T20 games.
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Comic Bobby Ball is to open a new ‘Christian Chillout Lounge’ at Blackpool Music Academy, September 18.
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Comic Bobby Ball is to open a new ‘Christian Chillout Lounge’ at Blackpool Music Academy, September 18.
The comedian, best known for his work with Tommy Cannon has been a born-again Christian since 1986 and often does shows at churches around the country.
The new cafe is being opened in association with the ‘Christian Chillout Lounge’ – a three-hour radio show presented by Matthew Branson on online station Fylde Coast Radio between 5 and 8pm on Sunday evenings.
The show offers a mix of Ibiza chillout music and classical, alongisde Christian music and chat.
The cafe, along with offering low-priced meals and offering a “very friendly atmosphere”, will also play the show out every Sunday and is said to be for people who can’t afford the internet so that they can still hear the show.
To celebrate the opening of the cafe, Bobby Ball will also be doing a live interview on the Christian Chillout Lounge between 5.15-5.30pm on Sunday, September 18. If you’d like to listen you can tune in on http://www.fyldecoastradio.org
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Cruel burglars cleaned out a Leyland hair salon - just a day after a family bereavement.
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Cruel burglars cleaned out a Leyland hair salon - just a day after a family bereavement.
Cruel burglars cleaned out a Leyland hair salon – just a day after a family bereavement.
The raiders even took three charity boxes from the Towngate premises.
However since the break-in a kind-hearted donor has come forward with £200 to replenish new boxes.
Shocked Debbie Austin, owner of Debbie Austin Unisex Hair Salon, was determined not to let the callous thieves win and immediately went out and bought new equipment to replace stolen items.
She was forced, though, to cancel her customers for a day.
But the burglary came at a difficult time for the family which was coming to terms with the death of her brother-in-law the night before the thieves struck.
Debbie said: “My daughter found it. They broke
in the back door with a crowbar.
“They took all my hair products, the television, I’d just had a new television put on the wall.
“They took £400 in takings, the tips box with £70 in it, three lots of charity boxes, all my hairdryers and straighteners.
“They took my combs and scissors, they even took hair brushes. All they didn’t take was the furniture.
“I had to cancel my customers for a day, I had to go out and get all new equipment on the same day.”
Debbie added: “A nice
lady gave £200 to the charities.
“She’s a customer of my husband Chris who’s a painter and decorator.”
She continued: “It’s affected me because I think they’re going to come back.
“I’m better this week, but last week I was terrible. I never thought they’d come
for a hairdresser’s.
“My bother-in-law died the night before, then you have to deal with this when you come in.”
The burglary was reported to police who are still investigating the incident.
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The M6 southbound was blocked in Lancashire this afternoon after a “serious” traffic accident in which a pedestrian was hit by a vehicle.
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The M6 southbound was blocked in Lancashire this afternoon after a “serious” traffic accident in which a pedestrian was hit by a vehicle.
The North West air ambulance was called to the scene between junction 28 at Leyland and junction 27 at Standish
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Police closed all three lanes.
The road was blocked and queuing traffic was reported at 2pm.
Motorists have been warned to expect delays on the M6 and on surrounding routes.
Police said this afternoon the motorway would remain closed for “several hours”.
The northbound carriageway was briefly closed but was reopened about 2.30pm.
Lancashire police said: “The M6 has been closed southbound at J28 following an incident.
“We are advising motorists to avoid the area and use alternative routes.”
The “serious” incident happened on the M6 southbound close to Charnock Richard Services.
Police were called at approximately 1.45pm to reports a pedestrian had been involved in a collision with a vehicle. The pedestrian is critically injured.
Chief Insp Damian Kitchen, of Lancashire Police, said: “We recognise the disruption this is causing and are working hard to re-open the road as soon as possible.
“However, at this time of day, delays through rush hour and beyond are inevitable.
“Please plan either alternate routes or delay your journey. Surrounding roads and towns are also likely to become congested.
“We will release further information when we are able.”
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Leyland Warriors Men’s North West Men’s League Division Five team travelled to Orrell St James in a top-of-the-table encounter but came away beaten 36-16.
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Leyland Warriors Men’s North West Men’s League Division Five team travelled to Orrell St James in a top-of-the-table encounter but came away beaten 36-16.
Unsurprisingly, there was a very even start to the match, with both sides fighting to gain dominance in the middle of the pitch.
It was Leyland who struck first. After big carries from Liam Deans and Sam Biggs, a couple of sharp passes saw Ryan Sumner force his way over and Joe Ainscough converted.
Immediately, Warriors messed up the restart and gifted possession back to Orrell, who promptly levelled the scores.
Dismissing the error, Leyland got back into the game and began to get some control of the match, with their defence keeping Orrell at their own end of the pitch.
Unable to get through the middle, Orrell went wide in their own danger area and Josh Bond read the play superbly, intercepted the pass and raced over, with Ainscough on target again.
With more than a hint of déjà vu, Leyland coughed up possession when exiting their own try line and the score was locked at 12-12 at the break.
It was the hosts who struck first in the second period, with a well-worked try out on the left.
And the score remained unchanged for almost 20 minutes before Leyland struck back as Matt Adamson powered over to make it 18-16.
However, that was as good as it got for Leyland.
Orrell seemed to find another gear as Warriors tired and despite no lack of effort, especially from man of the match Bailey Locke, the hosts ran in three late tries to make the final score 36-16.
So it was a disappointing result – and especially scoreline – for Warriors but the two sides meet again in a few weeks’ time, giving Leyland have an early chance for redemption.
This weekend, Warriors’ Division Two side travel to Blackpool Scorpions and the Division Five side are at home to Salford City Roosters.
Last week saw Leyland Warriors hold the first of their three skills camps set to run during the summer holidays, with the first one being solely for children of primary school age.
Thirty-one youngsters participated in a range of drills and games designed to be fast, fun and embed the skills required to play rugby league.
A highlight for the participants was the end of camp presentation conducted by Salford Reds’ Super League player Jordan Walne – himself a former Warrior – who took time to chat to the kids and answer questions about his progress from being an amateur junior player through to professional player.
Leyland Warriors chairman Phil Roberts said: “All the kids did really well and we were able to engage and challenge them all, novice or experienced player, bringing the game relevance of the skills they were doing to the fore.
“We are very grateful to Jordan for coming down and giving up his time for the club and the kids.
“It’s very important for children at Leyland Warriors to understand that when they are watching Super League, live or on television, that some of those players started exactly where they are now.”
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ABSENT, Winter Gardens, Blackpool
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ABSENT, Winter Gardens, Blackpool
Blackpool once prospered by blurring reality and fantasy.
In its 1950s heyday it managed to perform such seaside magic in tiny promenade sideshows along the Golden Mile.
Taking its lead from that period, and expanding the format to fill vast areas of the resort’s Winter Gardens complex, this intriguing and charming production/installation/artwork – or even fairground attraction – invites ‘guests’ to check into an imaginary hotel and immerse themselves in the story of one of its most colourful residents.
Maggie Morgan was a Premium Bond winner who checked in back in 1957. Fast forward to the future and she’s reluctant to check out now that the owners are intent on converting the building into the purple-clad interior of a more contemporary, and eerily-familiar establishment.
It helps if you’ve read the special edition of The Gazette, available in the foyer and detailing her fall from grace, before you begin your walking tour of the bedrooms, corridors and public spaces.
There’s a voyeuristic glimpse of Maggie through a two-way mirror, before you head on into an Alice Through A Digital Looking Glass world – and via a Narnian wardrobe door – into a realm of diminishing images, intricate model designs, and beautifully-crafted optical and perspective illusions.
You can even smell the perfume of the woman, as you relax in the hotel’s grand lounge area.
Children will love it, while older imaginations will unravel their own fragments of story. The final ‘ballroom blitz’ is a visual showstopper, even if you think you’ve seen all the Winter Gardens has to offer.
Production company dreamthinkspeak have effectively re-modelled a ‘show’ they created in London last year, but which based its story on the indisputably larger-than- life Duchess of Argyll. But in its seaside setting this Absent perhaps becomes an elegant and elegiac homage to another dowager from a golden age – Blackpool itself?
It’s performed here until August 25, then w/c September 12 and September 25.
DAVID UPTON
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If your tastes are a bit more blue (or Brown) then you’ll want to check out legendary comic Roy ‘Chubby’ at Viva Blackpool on Friday.
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If your tastes are a bit more blue (or Brown) then you’ll want to check out legendary comic Roy ‘Chubby’ at Viva Blackpool on Friday.
The Yorkshire comic is known for his x-rated style and has attracted plenty of controversy over a career spanning five decades.
Nobody splits opinion quite like the larger than life 71-year-old, with critics often describing his style as outdated but with one academic describing him as “The most important comedian of the past 25 years”.
Starting out as an entertainer in working men’s clubs, Brown got his first real break in the 1970s, coming second on show New Faces to a country and western band.
Unfortunately, he wasn’t so lucky when he applied for Opportunity Knocks, failing an audition due to swearing.
Since then, he’s become very famous on the comedy circuit for his unique stage costume, as well as his offensive shows, filled with back and forth heckling with the audience.
This year marks Roy ‘Chubby’ Brown’s third successive season in Blackpool and he’ll be performing a series of Friday night shows over the next few months.
He has been deemed “too rude for TV” so if you want to see him in action, this is your chance.
Although, probably best to make sure you don’t swear at him. Back in 2003, he was fined £200 in Blackpool for assaulting a fan who had sworn at him. At the time Brown said: “I have traditional values and I wanted the man to stop swearing in front of women and children who were on the pier.”
Tickets are available from https://www.vivablackpool.com/event/roy-chubby-brown and are priced between £17 and £22,
The show is strictly over 18 and those easily offended are advised to stay away.
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The finale of the open air theatre season at Lytham Hall will bring both joy and a tinge of sadness to visiting company Illyria this Sunday afternoon.
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The finale of the open air theatre season at Lytham Hall will bring both joy and a tinge of sadness to visiting company Illyria this Sunday afternoon.
Illyria will be giving their penultimate performance of the Roald Dahl children’s favourite Danny the Champion of the World which has been playing to substantial family audiences at venues all over the United Kingdom.
Their 95-day tour has included a week at Cornwall’s famous Minack Theatre as well as shows at Fulham Palace, Hartland Abbey, Chepstow Castle and Tatton Park.
Illyria’s artistic director Oliver Gray who travelled from his base in Cornwall for his first visit to Lytham Hall in July feels that his cast of six are relishing the chance to return to one of their favourite venues at the end of their marathon tour.
“They simply love the calmness of the beautiful parkland at Lytham Hall and always find that the Lytham audience in August, many of them children, is always one of the most responsive on the tour. I was delighted to see Lytham Hall for myself and found it a most impressive setting for open air theatre,” he said.
Illyria stalwart Ffion Glyn who plays the pram-pushing vicar’s wife Mrs Clipstone pays tribute to the quality of Road Dahl’s writing.
“There is sadness and tension in Danny the Champion the World, as well as much humour, and that has surprised and appealed to our audiences all over England, Scotland and Wales this summer. We will be a little sad too giving the penultimate performance of memorable tour. It’s an eye-catching show and I think the families at Lytham Hall are in for a Bank Holiday treat.”
Open air theatre organiser Julian Wilde believes that Illyria will bring the season to a happy conclusion with one of Roald Dahl’s most appealing works.
“I am sure Illyria will do us proud once again. We have already sold a large number of tickets and I do advise everyone to book in advance as we are heading for a full house. ”
Gates which will be open from 2pm for picnickers, with the play starting at 4pm, and the audience should bring their own folding chairs or rugs. An area in front of the stage will be reserved for small children.
Tickets are £13, with concessions of £10, £6.50 and £3.
Book on-line on Illyria’s website at www.illyria.uk.com
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Bamber Bridge boss Neil Crowe is hoping for an FA Cup fairytale after their dramatic tractor rescue.
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Bamber Bridge boss Neil Crowe is hoping for an FA Cup fairytale after their dramatic tractor rescue.
Brig’s opening NPL First Division North game at Scarborough ended in a hard-fought 0-0 draw, but the game will go down in the history books as the day Neil Crowe’s men had to be rescued from the middle of nowhere by a tractor.
The club’s coach broke down just 20 minutes after setting off from Boro’s Bridlington ground, but after 45 minutes with no sign of civilisation, Brig assistant boss Neil Reynolds flagged down a tractor and the squad hitched a lift to the nearest pub, where they waited for a replacement coach!
Brig eventually got home at 12.10am on Sunday and now, after a video of the players singing has gone viral, the Brig boss is back down to earth and ready for a double header this week.
Crowe’s men host Colne in their first home league game of the campaign tonight and then host league rivals Ossett Albion in an FA Cup preliminary tie on Saturday at the Sir Tom Finney Stadium.
And Crowe is anticipating a tough two tests after picking up a point in their opening day game at Scarborough.He said: “It is more or less a local derby with Colne.
“They are less than 30 minutes away.
“They are a newly promoted team and they have made some good signings.
“It is our first home game and we want to be hard to beat at home this season.
“We have an FA Cup preliminary game on Saturday against Ossett Albion.
“They have improved over the last 18 months.
“It is a tough game to be fair, we could have got something a bit easier.
“It is going to be a tough game. “
And Crowe says his only injury doubt for the double header is George Bowyer who picked up a thigh strain at Scarborough. “George Bowyer is our only injury doubt. He had to come off due to a thigh injury on Saturday.”
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Vue Cleveleys has been chosen as one of 150 cinemas across UK and Ireland showing new film, One More Time With Feeling, for one night only to help promote a new Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds album.
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Vue Cleveleys has been chosen as one of 150 cinemas across UK and Ireland showing new film, One More Time With Feeling, for one night only to help promote a new Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds album.
Despite flirting with acting, appearing in films such as ‘Ghosts...of the Civil Dead’ and ‘Johnny Suede’, Nick Cave is predominantly known for his music, in a career spanning more than four decades.
In that time, he’s released 21 albums with three different bands and his latest offering ‘Skeleton Tree’ will become number 22 when it’s released on Friday, September 9.
The first chance to hear any music from the album will be in the film ‘One More Time With Feeling’ with the songs acting as the movie’s soundtrack.
The film is the latest offering of Andrew Dominik, director of ‘Chopper’, ‘The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford’ and ‘Killing Them Softly’.
Interwoven throughout the Bad Seeds’ filmed performance of the new album are interviews and footage shot by Dominik, accompanied by Cave’s intermittent narration and improvised rumination.
Filmed in black-and-white and colour, in both 3D and 2D, the result is described as “stark, fragile and raw”.
Director Andrew Dominik said that the story is of how the film came about actually quite tragic, saying: “I’d been seeing quite a lot of him as we rallied around him and his family at the time of his son’s death.
“Nick told me that he had some things he needed to say, but he didn’t know who to say them to.
“I took the record away and listened to it trying to work out a way into the whole thing. In the end I agreed to do it if I could shoot it in black-and-white and 3D.
“No one has ever seen a 3D black-and-white non-animated feature film in modern times - for as far as I know, no such thing exists. It is both modern and from a distant age – much like the Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds’ new record, Skeleton Tree, actually.”
The film’s only showing at Vue Cleveleys is at 9pm, on Thursday, September 8. The showing is in 3D and tickets are available from http://www.onemoretimewithfeeling.film/
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It is never a good start for any performance when ‘technical difficulties’ delay the start, particularly for half an hour in a particularly humid, packed theatre on an August Bank holiday Monday night.
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It is never a good start for any performance when ‘technical difficulties’ delay the start, particularly for half an hour in a particularly humid, packed theatre on an August Bank holiday Monday night.
And it was clear when curtains finally came up just after 8pm, that the enforced delays had left several of the cast as well the audience a tad discombobulated.
Sister Act. Directed and Choreographed by Craig Revel Horwood
Nerves were apparent in the opening scenes but as the the cast got into their stride the audience went along for the ride, making for a memorable performance by a truly talented cast.
Alexandra Burke of X Factor fame was perfectly cast as the outrageous singer on the run Deloris van Cartier, making the role made famous by Whoopi Goldberg her own, and once again proving she has the vocal chops to shine on stage following her extremely successful run in the Bodyguard.
There is no doubt that she and the other nuns are the stars of this piece, juggling Craig Revel-Horwood’s (of Strictly fame’s) witty choreography, with some roof-raising and memorable numbers.
Sarah Goggin’s performance as Sister Mary Robert constantly drew the eye and raised the roof with her remarkable voice..
Sister Act. Directed and Choreographed by Craig Revel Horwood
But set pieces and solos by the male cast members, gave the production a depth and context that set up the exhilarating ensemble numbers.
Under Revel-Horwood’s direction, the comic acting and singing by Aaron Lee Lambert, Ricky Rojas, Sandy Grigelis, Jon Robyns andSamuel Morgan-Grahame has the audience sniggering and laughing out loud.
All the music was produced live by the cast and small band, meaning some characters were singing, dancing, acting and playing a variety of wind and string instruments. There was so much going on it was difficult to know where to look on stage ( in a good way).
If I was being super critical I would say this approach left a slight disconnect between some of the scenes, possibly due to the multi-role playing and hard-working cast being tasked with moving scenery and performing simultaneously.
But like all good productions the niggles seem to melt away as the performance progressed.
The audience were on their feet for a well-deserved standing ovation at the end as the production ended on an extremely enjoyable high note.
Sister Act is on at Manchester Palace Theatre until September 3.
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Lancashire athlete Holly Bradshaw said she was pleased she improved on her Olympic performance, despite missing out on a medal.
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Lancashire athlete Holly Bradshaw said she was pleased she improved on her Olympic performance, despite missing out on a medal.
The 24-year-old pole vaulter from Euxton was performing well but failed in three attempts at the 4.80m mark.
Holly finished fifth in the event with a season’s best of 4.70m.
“Fifth in the Olympic Games, I’m really happy with that,” she said.
“It’s a step up from the last Olympic Games but I’m an ultimate competitor so I’m always going to be disappointed whatever happens.”
The British women’s 4x100m relay team claimed a bronze in their event.
Meanwhile, Manchester is to stage a homecoming parade for Britain’s triumphant Olympic and Paralympic stars, with a further national event to be held in London to mark their success, Theresa May has announced.
The Prime Minister said that both events would take place in October after the Paralympians have returned from the games in Rio.
“It will be a celebration fit for heroes - and rightly so, because that is exactly what they are,” Mrs May said.
The decision to stage the main parade in Manchester follows calls for it to be held outside the capital to reflect the contribution made by athletes from across the UK.
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It’s hard to believe it’s already four years since the triumph of the London Olympic Games but next week the 31st Olympiad will get under way in Rio de Janeiro.
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It’s hard to believe it’s already four years since the triumph of the London Olympic Games but next week the 31st Olympiad will get under way in Rio de Janeiro.
Amid various controversies the Games still promise sun, sea and plenty of sporting spectacle as 10,500 athletes from 207 nations head to Brazil to compete across 28 sports. Among them will be dozens of British stars, including runner Mo Farah, heptathlete Jessica Ennis-Hill, boxer Nicola Adams and Tour de France winning cyclist Chris Froome.
Ahead of this year’s event get yourself limbered up with our fiendishly tricky quick on the Olympics past and present.
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After years of snapping the Royal Air Force across the globe, a Leyland photographer has picked up the top award.
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After years of snapping the Royal Air Force across the globe, a Leyland photographer has picked up the top award.
Ian Forshaw had been vying for the title of RAF Photographer of the Year since 1996 and says “it’s a real honour to be picked by my peers”.
RAF photographer of the year 2016 Ian Forhaw, from Leyland shows off some of his best pictures.
The 60-year-old, who lived on Balshaw Road in Leyland before moving to RAF Shawbury near Shrewsbury 36 years ago, was selected by his peers and a panel of judges, and says his Lancashire beginnings helped him shape his “fantastic” career.
Before taking pictures of Britain’s royalty, it was Leyland Festival where Ian made his first mark. There and learning his trade at Holden Studios photography shop on Fishergate in Preston.
“I was going to Blackpool College to do a photography course after working all day at the studio,” Ian said. “It wasn’t as easy to do in those days. So much so that when I told my careers officer at school I wanted to be a photographer, they said “what’s your second choice?”
“I then joined the RAF after finishing college and after six years, I was hired by them as a contractor. I’ve been entering every year since the competition opened in ‘96 and it’s brilliant to win.
RAF photographer of the year 2016 Ian Forhaw, from Leyland while working at Holden Studios in Preston.
“It’s a real honour to be picked by my peers and to know that at 60 I’ve still got it. I always say you’re only as good as your last photo so this award means I must still be doing something right. I’m always striving to improve and come up with something different and hopefully I can keep going and enter next year too.”
Talkign about Ian work, RAF Shawbury’s station commander group captain Jason Appleton said: “I am always amazed at the quality of photography that Ian produces and his images always showcase the world leading training delivered at RAF Shawbury”.
And the public now also have the opportunity to help Ian win an additional award. With two out of nine images in for The People’s Choice Award, whittled down from 645 entries, you can vote at http://www.raf.mod.uk/photo-of- the-year- 2016/
RAF photographer of the year 2016 Ian Forhaw, from Leyland
RAF photographer of the year 2016 Ian Forhaw, from Leyland shows off some of his best pictures.
RAF photographer of the year 2016 Ian Forhaw, from Leyland shows off some of his best pictures.
RAF photographer of the year 2016 Ian Forhaw, from Leyland shows off some of his best pictures.
RAF photographer of the year 2016 Ian Forhaw, from Leyland shows off some of his best pictures. One of his first pictures at Leyland Festival.
RAF photographer of the year 2016 Ian Forhaw, from Leyland shows off some of his best pictures.
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An elderly man has been injured after a car crash in Leyland, police say.
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An elderly man has been injured after a car crash in Leyland, police say.
North West Ambulance Service, Lancashire Fire and Rescue and Lancashire Police all attended the incident on Longmeanygate after being called at around 3.10pm.
The crash involved two vehicles, say police, including a grey Land Rover.
A 69-year-old man was injured, although police could not confirm how severely.
The road is still closed by police.
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Children, teenagers and young adults are set to be ‘inspired’ at the new youth zone heading to Chorley in 2017.
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Children, teenagers and young adults are set to be ‘inspired’ at the new youth zone heading to Chorley in 2017.
The £4.3m project was given the green light in July, with youngsters deciding is would be called Inspire.
The team behind Chorley's Inspire Youth Zone
It is set to be built on Railway Street, where The Arts Partnership and Leigh Arms currently stand, and will be a place for young people to ‘reach their full potential, grow their dreams and achieve their goals’.
Inspire will be built upon an existing model that has been established by the OnSide charity for other youth zones around the country.
Inspire will offer up to 20 activities every evening for young people aged between eight and 19 and up to 25 for those with a disability.
This will include activities such as dance, sport, art, music and media, costing
Michelle Graham who will bwe working at Inspire Youth Zone in Chorley
young people just 50p per visit.
But what exactly does this mean for the young people of Chorley?
Michelle Graham, who works for Inspire in youth and community engagement in Chorley, has been meeting as many young people as possible by visiting youth groups, scouts and brownies.
She has also been in touch with other community groups to explain to them how the youth zone can benefit everyone - especially through the use of volunteers at the centres.
Michelle joined the new youth zone from the The Arts Partnership, one of the original project champions, whose youth offer will be merged with the new Youth Zone.
She said: “It’s important that young people feel comfortable when you go in to talk to them as you will get more out of them in terms of what they would like to see and how they can get involved so it often means visiting them each week and developing a relationship.”
Michelle meets with a group of young people from Chorley every two weeks to influence the development of the Youth Zone.
Amongst the discussion topics are transport links to and from the Youth Zone and art work to decorate its exterior to let people know what is in store.
OnSide has a network of Youth Zones including ones in Wigan, Blackburn, Manchester, Bolton, Wolverhampton and Oldham with then next one opening in Wirral.
Michelle added: “Working with OnSide has given young people the opportunity to see what a working Youth Zone will look like and how they can implement the things they would like to see.
“They have met other young people and seen how beneficial having such a fantastic building can be, not only for a place to go and try new things but can also provide work opportunities for them as well.”
For more information about Inspire Youth Zone or to find out how you can get involved, visit www.inspireyouthzone.org.
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Trapped in a marriage to an abusive, violent police officer, battered wife Joanna West has no one to turn to… until a stranger offering help walks into her life.
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Book review: The Hummingbird’s Cage by Tamara Dietrich
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Trapped in a marriage to an abusive, violent police officer, battered wife Joanna West has no one to turn to… until a stranger offering help walks into her life.
For the first time in years, Joanna and her young daughter have the chance to flee, but can you ever really escape from a brutal, vengeful husband?
Moved and inspired by the testaments of abused wives, former journalist Tamara Dietrich tackles the scourge of domestic violence head on in a highly original and powerfully imagined debut novel which melds menace with paranormal magic.
The Hummingbird’s Cage, a hard-hitting, page-turning thriller with an intriguingly soft middle, almost defies genre as Dietrich weaves seamlessly between gut-wrenching cruelty and spiritual sublimity in a tale of hope, despair and redemption.
Everyone in Wheeler, New Mexico, thinks that Joanna West leads the perfect life. She is married to Jim, the dashing deputy sheriff of McGill County, and has a beautiful seven-year-old daughter, Laurel.
But the truth is that Joanna is married to a monster who regularly beats her, subjects her to verbal and mental abuse and has isolated her from the people who live around her. Once upon a time she would have challenged him but now every time Joanna cries, ‘more of me washes away.’
Ten years ago, Joanna was swept off her feet by handsome Jim, her head turned by his uniform and ‘bad-boy grin’ but now she is trapped in a violent marriage and, with a young child to care for, escape seems impossible.
But then Bernadette, Jim’s feisty biker chick ex-girlfriend, turns up with an escape route. On the run, Joanna and Laurel stumble upon Morro, a charming and magical village that seems to exist out of time and place.
Farmer Olin Farnsworth and his wife Jessie offer her sanctuary and soon, between the comfort of her new home and blossoming friendships, Joanna’s soul begins to heal, easing the wounds of a decade of abuse.
But her past – and her husband – aren’t so easy to escape. Unwilling to live in fear any longer, Joanna must summon a strength she never knew she had to fight back and forge a new life for her daughter and herself....
Dietrich delivers a clever and compelling first novel, conjuring up a mysterious but idyllic town suspended somewhere between reality and fantasy, and juxtaposing this haven of peace with the terrifying threats that lie behind and beyond.
To read The Hummingbird’s Cage is to experience high emotion and high drama and to understand the visceral realities of domestic violence, but there is also the opportunity to marvel at the power of love and hope, and to rejoice at the human capacity to reach out and find redemption.
A heartbreaking tale written with insight, beauty and honesty…
(Orion, paperback, £7.99)
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This year marks the 25th anniversary of the death of legendary novellist Graham Greene and stage adaptation one of his most entertaining works ‘Travels with My Aunt’ will be coming to Blackpool Grand Theatre on Tuesday, September 20.
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This year marks the 25th anniversary of the death of legendary novellist Graham Greene and stage adaptation one of his most entertaining works ‘Travels with My Aunt’ will be coming to Blackpool Grand Theatre on Tuesday, September 20.
Described as “one very ordinary man’s extraordinary journey of self-discovery”, the story follows Henry Pulling, who leads a quiet bachelor life until his Aunt Augusta persuades him to travel with her initially to Brigton but eventually as far flung as Istanbul, meeting all sorts of weird and wonderful people along the way.
The plot mirrors Green’s own obsession with travelling and just four actors play the roles of over 20 characters.
The show has been adapted by Creative Cow, and the company’s co-founder Katherin Senior said: “We love the way Travels with my Aunt traces two voyages in parallel – one a physical cross-continental journey by plane, train and boat and the other a mind-blowing, eye-opening journey of self-discovery. Henry couldn’t be more different from Greene himself, who was adventurous, risk-loving and unconventional - but can we perhaps see some similarities by the end? It’s a great pleasure to be touring this work by one of our favourite authors in this anniversary year.”
Tickets are priced from £12.50 and are available by calling 01253 290 190.
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A man needed treatment for burns after a chip pan fire in Leyland.
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A man needed treatment for burns after a chip pan fire in Leyland.
Paramedics were called to a house in Vevey Street where they found the occupant suffering from burns to his hands and also the effects of breathing in smoke.
The alarm was raised at around 5pm yesterday.
Two fire crews from Leyland and Bamber Bridge dashed to the scene, but the blaze in the kitchen of the property was already out when they arrived.
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Hardship in the fells of 1930s County Durham and intrigue at a Second World War munitions factory are just two compelling new books from Quercus this September.
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Hardship in the fells of 1930s County Durham and intrigue at a Second World War munitions factory are just two compelling new books from Quercus this September.
Nobody’s Child by Elizabeth Gill
Two traveller sisters from the wild countryside of County Durham face hardship, hunger and an uncertain future when they lose their parents and their home.
Consumed with grief and surrounded by hostility, can the teenagers survive the tough times ahead in 1930s England and hold tight to the family ties that bind them together?
Elizabeth Gill, author of over 30 books set in and around her native Tyneside, works her storytelling magic in a moving and gritty family saga of adversity and hope and love and loyalty that will delight her army of devoted fans.
On Christmas Day in 1930, Kath and Ella Watson are living with their parents in an empty house close to Castle Bank Colliery on snow-covered Durham Fell tops. They have been forced to take shelter there from their travellers’ wagon because their mother is gravely ill.
Kath is seventeen and her father believes she should have married long ago, particularly as she has been courted by the likes of rich traveller Will Hern. But Kath has seen the chaotic life of traveller women with babies, forced to raise their youngsters inside a cramped wagon.
Their mother Rose wants a better life for her two daughters but when she dies on Christmas Day morning, their father is overcome by grief and sets fire to the family’s wooden wagon, reducing it to a heap of ashes.
When the police arrive to tell them that not only has their father died in an accident after riding off on his horse but also that they must leave the house where they have been sheltering, the two sisters are left bereft and virtually penniless.
With winter closing in around them, and facing the hostility of locals who are suspicious of Gypsies, the girls strike out to find their way in a harsh landscape which sets them on a collision course with the wealthy Banks family of nearby Golden Hill Hall, local farmer Jake Sutherland and Will Hern, the man who would still have Kath as his wife.
Using her trademark warmth, experience and wisdom, Gill captures the essence of the hardy folk of the north-east in a story brimming with drama, romance, rich period detail and vivid characters.
Written from the heart and with a seductive sense of time and place, Nobody’s Child is the perfect read for autumn nights…
(Quercus, hardback, £19.99)
The Factory Girls by Rosie Archer
Friends in need, flying bombs and explosive revelations… it’s time to head back to the adventures and misadventures of Gosport’s ‘canary girls.’
The real-life munitions workers at Priddy’s Hard, the Royal Navy Armament Depot in Hampshire, who helped to arm the Allies’ D-Day invasion fleet, are the inspiration behind this compelling series from Gosport author Rosie Archer.
In the follow-up to The Munitions Girls and The Canary Girls, Archer sweeps us away again to England in 1944 and into the hearts and minds of the women who packed shells and bullets with sulphurous chemicals that made their skin and hair turn yellow.
Archer pays tribute to the dangerous and dirty work undertaken by the 2,500 women at the factory during the Second World War in stories that prove no matter how hard the times, despite bombing, short rations, cruel men and unwanted pregnancy, friendship will pull you through.
In autumn of 1944, V-1 flying bombs, known as doodlebugs, are the latest threat to war-battered Gosport. And at Priddy’s Hard munitions factory, Em Earle is about to suffer a threat to her livelihood that comes from much nearer home.
Meanwhile, local crook and black marketeer Samuel Golden is back and up to his old tricks as he tries to find ways to exploit the hardships of local people for his own gain.
As well as Samuel’s unwanted attentions, Em has to deal with some huge revelations from within her own family. Her daughter Lizzie is pregnant, and a strange woman has turned up on Em’s doorstep claiming to be her sister.
Em is excited but cannot help feeling wary. Could this woman be too good to be true? Once again it will be up to the girls from the bomb factory to rally round and support one of their own.
The triumphs and disasters of this entertaining, close-knit group of friends spring to life in a nostalgic story packed with drama, tension, passion and the grim realities of life in wartime England.
Archer has her finger firmly on the pulse of the munitions workers… their hardships, their struggles and the determination to win wars in both their personal lives and on the bigger stage.
Romance with a gritty edge…
(Quercus, paperback, £6.99)
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Troubled South Ribble Council was described as being “in freefall” this week as urgent action over its leadership was demanded.
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Troubled South Ribble Council was described as being “in freefall” this week as urgent action over its leadership was demanded.
Councillor Peter Mullineaux was voted leader of the local Conservative group at a special meeting three weeks, but will not take charge until it is ratified at a full council meeting.
That is only due to take place on September 15 – a week after an important, decision-making cabinet meeting.
Councillor Colin Clark has been placed as interim council leader.
South Ribble Council currently has no party in overall control.
On top of all this, chief executive Mike Nuttall has also resigned to pursue new opportunities.
But councillor Foster says an already “damaged” authority is in need of strong leadership and that the time for action is right now.
He was due to meet the chief executive yesterday in an effort to resolve the situation.
Councillor Foster said: “I’ve been in detailed dialogue over this for the past few weeks.
“I think it’s critically important, now the chief executive is going to leave, to get a new executive of the council in position quickly.
“The council is in freefall at the moment and really needs
some strong leadership.
“We’ve got an interim leader who’s not actually leader of any political party on the council.
“Another thing, it’s just an assumption by the Conservative group they’re in control of the council when they’re not – it’s just madness.
“I’m speaking to the chief executive, demanding a meeting of the full council in five to seven days.
“We’ve got to get an executive in place prior to the meeting of the council. We haven’t even got a full cabinet in place at the moment.
“It’s exacerbating an already serious situation.
“They elected a new leader three weeks ago. It’s just not good enough.
“It’s politics prioritised over the borough yet again.
“The council is already damaged enough.
“The Conservative promised all the workers, staff and residents we’d work together to try to solve this. I’ve not seen anything from them.”
Councillor Peter Mullineaux rejected councillor Foster’s comments.
He said: “It’s nothing about being rudderless and I’ve said to Paul Foster the reason we’ve called it on September 15 is because of holidays.
“This is an extraordinary meeting that’s been called. It’s not on the diary, we’ve lots of people on holiday and there’s lots of other things taking place. We’ve got to get the mayor’s decision.
“That was the earliest and best time due to other commitments and things going on in the council and I would want to have as many people at that meeting as possible.
“We appreciate things need to be done and they’re being done behind the scenes.
“Colin Clark is in place as interim leader.
“As for Paul Foster trying to imply nothing is being done at the council that’s not true as far as I’m concerned.”
As regards councillor Foster’s description of the authority being in “freefall” he said: “I don’t believe that at all.
“We’ve obviously had problems and are addressing them at the moment.”
Independent Conservative councillor Paul Wharton, who quit the Conservative group over a leadership row in July, described the authority as “a laughing stock” and said he supported councillor Foster’s call.
He said: “I completely support it. The council can’t be left in limbo for over a month.
“There’s a cabinet meeting the week before full council on September 15 when important decisions will be taken on the forward plan
“How can you make strong and challenging decisions.
“Peter is leader of the Conservative group who don’t hold a majority and Colin is leader of the council and they’re not working together.
“I don’t support Peter in any way, shape or form.”
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Here is a list of highly rated coffee shops in the county.
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Here is a list of highly rated coffee shops in the county.
Dahlia's Kitchen, Blackpool
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Dahlia’s Kitchen, in Cropper Road, is a coffee shop, ice cream parlour, licenced restaurant and farm shop all rolled into one.
It has a big range of home made cakes, snacks and local produce. It also provides outside catering for weddings, birthdays and corporate events.
Dahlia’s is renowned for its themed entertainment evenings, where diners can enjoy a three-course meal.
There is outdoor seating and a small play area for the children.
Open seven days a week.
Woodchats Coffee Shop, Chorley
Located in Clifford Street, Woodchats Coffee Shop is a popular haunt, with a large selection of home made cakes, soups, sandwiches and snacks.
It also sells unique home made gifts and provides outside catering for parties and events.
Exchange Coffee Company, Clitheroe and Blackburn
Exchange Coffee Company is a coffee roaster and tea merchant, with branches in Clitheroe and Blackburn, in Lancashire, as well as Skipton and Todmorden in Yorkshire.
It has a wholesale roasting warehouse in Blackburn, supplying coffees, teas and all associated products across the country.
The coffee shops also have a daily specials menu, serving hot and cold food. Other drinks on offer include milkshakes and juices.
The company also sells homewares and quirky gifts.
The View, Morecambe
The View, in Marine Road Central, is a cafe with a musical twist. It has a cult following for music enthusiasts, as diners can enjoy a cup of coffee and snacks, whilst browsing through its eclectic range of vintage records, CDs and vinyls.
It also stocks a variety of memorabilia, including clothes, retro gifts and souvenirs.
Not forgetting its status as a cafe and coffee shop, it also has a changing daily specials menu, as well as hot drinks and soft beverages.
How The Other Half Live, Preston
Moved from its original location in Blackpool Road to Winckley Street, Preston, How the Other Half Live is a small coffee shop with a boutique gift store.
The shop has a small selection of coffee and cakes on offer whilst customers browse around the shop.
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Blackpool is all set for a world premier at The Grand Theatre this week – and it’s pants.
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Blackpool is all set for a world premier at The Grand Theatre this week – and it’s pants.
Underpants, to be exact.
Because Aliens Love Underpants. And they’re coming to The Grand to tell their zany and hilarious tale based on the best-selling children’s book of the same name.
The book is being brought to life on stage for the very first time.
Just remember: aliens love underpants of every shape and size, but there are no underpants in space so here’s a big surprise!
With stunning effects, madcap action, original music – and lots of aliens of course – this production based on the Claire Freedman and Ben Cort book should be a delight for the whole family.
The Big Wooden Horse and Nick Brooke production has a two-day run at The Grand, on Friday and Saturday.
Shows are at 1.30pm on Friday, and 11am and 2pm on Saturday.
Tickets are priced at £15 each. Call (01253) 290190 for details.
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Police in Lancashire have issued a fresh safety alert after the county was named as the worst in England and Wales for crimes related to the gaming craze Pokemon Go.
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Police in Lancashire have issued a fresh safety alert after the county was named as the worst in England and Wales for crimes related to the gaming craze Pokemon Go.
Lancashire Constabulary dealt with 39 reports of Pokemon-related crimes during July - the highest of 29 forces in England and Wales.
And the figures have prompted senior officers to warn gamers out hunting Pokemon characters about the dangers they could be facing.
“People should avoid potentially dangerous locations that could make you vulnerable to injury, or become a victim of crime,” said a spokesman at the Constabulary’s headquarters in Hutton.
The game, which is played on mobile phones using satellite navigation, was only officially launched in the UK in July. Yet in its first month it was involved in at least 290 police incidents including robbery, assault, trespass and motoring offences.
Of the 29 police forces who responded to a Freedom of Information request, Lancashire had the highest number of crimes.
No details were released of of offences committed or arrests made. But police across the country say Pokemon Go players have not only been victims, but also perpetrators of crime or anti-social behaviour.
In Surrey police say they were called out to a brawl involving 30 people on a Pokemon hunt. In North Wales a man was reported for inviting children into his home saying he had “lots of Pokemons” in the house.
In London and Greater Manchester robbers set up traps to lure players into an area to rob them of their phones. Drivers in various parts of the country have been caught playing the game at the wheel, while British Transport Police reported at least two cases of children trespassing on the railway looking for Pokemons.
The Lancashire Police spokesman advised players not to trespass or put themselves in any risk while using the game.
“Never enter any water. Pokemon do not appear beyond the safety of the shoreline. And don’t enter derelict structures, unlit footpaths or alleyways. Please remember to be safe and alert at all times, don’t drive and play and respect the locations you visit.”
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Troubled South Ribble Council is described as being “in freefall” as urgent action over its leadership is demanded.
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Troubled South Ribble Council is described as being “in freefall” as urgent action over its leadership is demanded.
Paul Foster, leader of the Labour group on the council, says he is astonished by the delay in getting its political top brass sorted out and launched an attack on the Conservative group.
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Coun Peter Mullineaux was voted leader of the local Conservative group at a special meeting three weeks ago, but will not take charge until it is ratified at a full council meeting.
That will only take place on September 15 – a week after an important, decision-making cabinet meeting.
Coun Colin Clark has been placed as interim council leader. South Ribble Council currently has no party in overall control. On top of all this, chief executive Mike Nuttall has also resigned to pursue new opportunities.
But Coun Foster says an ‘already damaged’ authority is in need of strong leadership and that the time for action is right now. He was due to meet the chief executive yesterday in an effort to resolve the situation. Coun Foster said: “I think it’s critically important, now the chief executive is going to leave, to get a new executive of the council in position quickly. The council is in freefall at the moment and really needs some strong leadership.
“We’ve got an interim leader who’s not actually leader of any political party on the council. It’s just an assumption by the Conservative group they’re in control of the council when they’re not – it’s just madness.”
Coun Mullineaux rejected Coun Foster’s comments. He said: “This is not about being rudderless. I’ve said to Paul Foster the reason we’ve called it on September 15 is because of holidays.
“This is an extraordinary meeting. It’s not on the diary, we’ve lots of people on holiday and there are lots of other things taking place. We’ve got to get the mayor’s decision.
“That was the earliest and best time due to other commitments and things going on in the council and I would want to have as many people at that meeting as possible. We appreciate things need to be done and they’re being done behind the scenes.”
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She might not be able to fly right up to the sky but the daughter of the legendary Keith Harris will be following in her father’s footsteps, performing at a variety show on Friday, September 16.
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She might not be able to fly right up to the sky but the daughter of the legendary Keith Harris will be following in her father’s footsteps, performing at a variety show on Friday, September 16.
Sixteen-year-old Kitty Harris grew up in Poulton and although she hasn’t taken up her dad’s ventriloquism, she’s still a natural performer and has been singing and dancing since the age of four at Langleys Dance Centre.
She has even appeared with her dad at the Winter Gardens, Blackpool in ‘Best of British’ produced by Duggie Chapman.
It’s Steve Hewlett, the ventriloquist who finished in fourth place on the 2013 series of Britian’s Got Talent, and a close friend of Keith Harris, who personally asked Kitty to perform at the ‘Talents of Britain’ show at the Lancaster Grand next month.
Speaking about Kitty’s inclusion in the talent show, Steve said it was a no-brainer, saying: “I’m proud to be introducing Kitty at The Grand in Lancaster this September.
“This will be a very Special moment for me, Kitty, her family and Talents of Britain, as she is not only a fantastic talent in her own right but she has been guided by wonderful parents and one of the most successful performers Great Britain has ever seen in Keith Harris.
“She will do his legacy proud.”
Steve was a long-time friend of Keith, before his death in 2015, and added that he saw him as somewhat of a mentor, he said: “I was 16 Kitty’s age) when I first worked with Keith on a TV show in 1993.
“As a young ventriloquist he was so helpful to me. When I entered BGT 2013 he was one of the close friends I asked for guidance and he was chuffed I got to the final.
“He was so encouraging and kind from that day to his last.
“He would call me just to see how I was doing and my family and just gave me his generous advice and time.”
Talents of Britain is touring this Autumn on the back of a sell-out 2015. As well as Steve Hewlett and Kitty Harris, it also features the likes of dancers Stavros Flatley, comedian Kev Orkian and impressionist Paul Burling.
Tickets are priced at £17 for adults and £15 for concessions. They’re available to buy from http://www.lancastergrand.co.uk/
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Meet a witch on a dangerous mission, a fabulous fantasy queen and a cast of colourful picture book stars in a glittering array of new titles from Macmillan Children’s Books.
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Meet a witch on a dangerous mission, a fabulous fantasy queen and a cast of colourful picture book stars in a glittering array of new titles from Macmillan Children’s Books.
Age 9 plus:
Fire Witch by Matt Ralphs
English history, thrilling adventure and a bewitching heroine…
Matt Ralphs is back with Fire Witch, the red-hot sequel to Fire Girl, and our fiery, fearless witch Hazel must gather her wits and steel her nerves to join her enemies and try to save her mother.
Packed with intrigue, danger, nail-biting tension and flashes of rib-tickling humour, these page-turning stories featuring an extraordinary girl are addictive reading for young fans of fantasy, drama and… witches!
The Civil War in England is over, Oliver Cromwell rules the land and a new battle is raging… between the people and the witches. Twelve-year-old HazelHooper is no ordinary girl. She is a Fire Witch, she can wield and manipulate flame and she is getting stronger all the time. But she is also angry because her mother Hecate had to sacrifice herself to the demon world in order to stop a demonic invasion. Hazel must fight on alone and she is determined to get her back, whatever the cost.
Her only chance to find Hecate is to seek advice from brilliant demonologist Nicolas Murrell, the Order of Witch Hunters’ most prized prisoner, and the man who summoned the demon responsible for Hecate’s fate. With only Bramley, her grumpy dormouse familiar for company, Hazel must disguise herself as a boy and infiltrate the black heart of the Order of Witch Hunters to speak to Murrell before he is executed. But can he be trusted? Will Murrell reveal to his captors that their newest apprentice is actually… a witch?
Ralphs has always been fascinated by witches, ghosts and anything that sends a shiver down his spine and this magical series is the perfect creation of his high-flying, super scary imagination.
A world of supernatural in the midst of terrifying real history…
(Macmillan, paperback, £6.99)
Age 10 plus:
The Hunting of the Princes by Peter F. Hamilton
Also dabbling in the wondrous world of fantasy is Peter F.Hamilton, the UK’s bestselling adult science fiction author, who was inspired to write for a younger audience by his own two children.
The Hunting of the Princes is the second book in his original and gripping Queen of Dreams trilogy which began with The Secret Throne and has all the hallmarks of a memorable modern classic.
Sprinkled with atmospheric black and white illustrations by Rohan Eason, this gorgeous fantasy series is a vivid, magical adventure featuring amazing kingdoms, daring quests and deadly menace.
Taggie Paganuzzi has had a busy year in the beautiful old market town of Stamford in Lincolnshire. Her mum was a Third Realm sorceress and now Taggie has inherited her family’s magical powers. From finding out she is the queen-to-be of a magical realm to learning to use her magic skills and discovering that the King of Night wants her dead, there have been a lot of ‘firsts.’
Assassins have been targeting royal heirs throughout the magical realms and now someone has tried to kill Taggie whilst she was cycling back to her home. Everyone thinks the King of Night’s army, the Karrak invaders, are responsible and that war is inevitable. But Taggie has found out two very interesting facts. Firstly, that the Karraks come from a cold, dark universe and cannot abide warmth and light. And secondly, that there was once a gate to this universe, now lost in the mists of time. If Taggie and her friends can find the gate, perhaps they can also stop the war? But to do that, they need to find a Karrak willing to take their side…
Hamilton conjures up a thrilling alternative world in which good must overcome evil, children are pitted against powerful enemies and a fantastic cast of amazing animal characters add to all the fun and fantasy. Don’t miss it!
(Macmillan, paperback, £6.99)
Age 3 plus:
Flying Lemurs by Zehra Hicks
This funny, reassuring story about overcoming fears and discovering hidden talents is the latest inspirational book from Macmillan’s new imprint for young children, Two Hoots.
A zingy, zany tale bursting with high-octane energy and an adorable cast of high-flying animals, this gorgeous circus-themed odyssey comes from talented author and illustrator Zehra Hicks whose speciality is telling stories through pictures.
Everyone in the lemur family is good at jumping, a talent which comes in handy as they are all circus performers. Mum is a brilliant trapeze artist, Dad’s trampoline routine is absolutely huge and Grandma’s speciality is being shot from a cannon.
Unfortunately little Lemur is not so good at jumping… in fact, he’s not even a fan of heights. He just can’t jump, no matter how hard he tries. But there are other things that Lemur is good at – throwing custard pies, skateboarding and playing the tambourine – so maybe with a bit of practice, he can become the best circus performer of them all!
Hicks ramps up the visual and verbal drama of this fun and warm-hearted story with her multi-textured illustrations, painted here by using bamboo and a bold palette of colours. Having fun, accepting life’s triumphs and disasters, and discovering the importance of family love all come under the spotlight in a sparkling and inspirational picture book.
(Two Hoots, paperback, £6.99)
Age 3 plus:
More People to Love Me by Mo O’Hara and Ada Grey
Modern families come in all shapes and sizes… and sometimes they are extra super-sized!
Mo O’Hara, author of the popular My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish series, delivers the perfect picture book for the step family generation in this moving story about a little girl with so many branches to her family tree that she runs out of space to draw them all.
Asked by her teacher to draw her family tree, the little girl just doesn’t know where to start. She’s got her mum and dad, her sister Cee Cee, her stepdad David and her stepmum Sharon. And then there are her mum’s new baby twins, her step brother Michael and no one must forget about Happy the tortoise. But the tree is starting to get rather crowded because there are all the grandparents to fit in as well. There’s only one thing for it, the family tree is going to have to grow!O’Hara was inspired to write by her own children’s positive experiences of being part of an extended family and felt that this was
rarely depicted in picture books. The result is a warm and moving tale about one little girl and her family that keeps on growing.
The gentle, reassuring and playful story is complemented by Ada Grey’s charming illustrations, reinforcing the message that every family is different and the bigger the family, the more people there are to love… and to love you back!
(Macmillan, paperback, £6.99)
Age 3 plus:
The Hippopandamouse by Jools Bentley
Nobody’s perfect… and sometimes being imperfectly different makes you special!
Author and illustrator Jools Bentley plays with traditional expectations in this cute and clever story about a little princess who falls for the only toy in the shop that doesn’t have a name.
Princess Flo has pocket money to spend so she heads off to Fluffley’s Fine Toys, the best toy shop in town. Everybody there has been working very hard to prepare for her visit – so hard, in fact, that one of the cuddly toys has ended up as a strange mix of a hippo, panda and mouse. The shop’s owner Miss Fluffey is eager to show Princess Flo the cuddly teddies, cute kittens and perky penguins, all perfect for a royal princess. But to everyone’s horror, Princess Flo spots the strange looking toy. The part hippo, part panda and part mouse is a total and utter mistake! But Flo loves this toy being different, seeing something unique and special in the strange animal. All he needs now is a name… Hippopandamouse!
Wise, witty and wonderfully warm-hearted, the tale of The Hippopandamouse is a beautiful, big-hearted story, gorgeously illustrated and simply perfect for little princesses everywhere.
(Macmillan, paperback, £6.99)
Age 3 plus:
Prince Ribbit by Jonathan Emmett and Poly Bernatene
Hop, skip and jump into this brilliant new picture book from top team Jonathan Emmett and Poly Bernatene.
Well-loved fairy tale, The Frog Prince, gets a dashing, daring makeover as ever popular author Emmett and talented illustrator Bernatene put a devilishly clever twist in the not-so-handsome frog’s tail.
One day, Princess Martha and her sisters, Princess Lucinda and Princess Arabella, are listening to the story of The Frog Prince. Lucinda and Arabella love romantic tales and their happily-ever-after endings, but Martha isn’t so sure. She prefers facts to fairy tales, and likes real frogs more than enchanted ones, and besides, clever Martha knows that not everything written in books is true.
Unknown to the sisters, a clever little frog is listening to the story and it sparks a bright idea. If he can convince the gullible princesses that he is actually a prince, perhaps he could start getting some royal treatment of his own. So is Prince Ribbit really a handsome prince, or just a plain, ordinary frog?
There’s only one way to find out… pucker up princesses, it’s time for true love’s kiss!
Emmett works his own brand of fairy tale magic as he transforms a classic tale into a feast of smiles and smoochy surprises while Bernatene’s stunning and superbly detailed illustrations provide a feast of colour and fun.
A picture book that all the family can enjoy…
(Macmillan, paperback, £6.99)
Age 3 plus:
Dear Zoo Drawing and Colouring Book by Rod Campbell
Rod Campbell, creator of the classic, much-loved Dear Zoo books, has been a trusted name in early learning for over 30 years and he’s back with this inspirational first drawing and colouring book.
Dear Zoo, an ingeniously simple, lift-the-flap book with touches of gentle humour, introduces pre-school children to the wonder and variety of wild animals, and now a new generation can join in all the fun and draw their very own zoo full of amazing creatures.
There are 32 pages of drawing, colouring and doodling featuring all the animals from the original story. At the top of each page, little ones are told what to draw and given a helping hand with many of the pictures already started.
Packed full of simple activities that are perfectly pitched for pre-schoolers, the book’s large, square, extra thick pages can be peeled off the pad, stuck to walls at home or even put in a frame if they are special mini-masterpieces.
Draw bananas for the naughty monkey, give the fierce lion big sharp teeth, design a bowl for a frisky puppy or give a camel a big smile. The Dear ZooDrawing and Colouring Book is the ideal first lesson for budding young artists and dedicated toddler doodlers.
(Macmillan, paperback, £5.99)
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Heavy metal group Metallica have announced they are releasing their first album in eight years.
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Heavy metal group Metallica have announced they are releasing their first album in eight years.
The veteran US rockers, who have won multiple Grammys and sold tens of millions of records around the world, revealed details of Hardwired ... To Self-Destruct, the long-awaited follow-up to 2008’s Death Magnetic.
In a statement on their website, the group said their 11th studio album - which will contain two discs and nearly 80 minutes of music - was “a long time coming” and is set for release on November 18.
The music video for the album’s first track, Hardwired, was also posted on YouTube.
It is the longest period fans have had to wait for a new Metallica album since the group formed in 1981.
The band’s current line-up includes singer-guitarist James Hetfield, drummer Lars Ulrich, lead guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo.
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The critically acclaimed Russian State Opera will be bringing ‘Carmen’ to the Blackpool Grand Theatre on Sunday, September 18.
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The critically acclaimed Russian State Opera will be bringing ‘Carmen’ to the Blackpool Grand Theatre on Sunday, September 18.
Georges Bizets’ Carmen, described as “The most powerful and enjoyable opera”, features a live orchestra with more than 30 musicians. The songs are in French but there will also be English subtitles available for those, like myself, whose French vocabulary stretches as far as ‘bonjour’ and ‘au revoir’.
Set in 19th century Seville, It tells the story of the downfall of Don José, a naïve soldier who is seduced by Carmen, free-spirited femme fatale. José abandons his childhood sweetheart and deserts from his military duties, yet loses Carmen’s love to the glamorous toreador Escamillo.
The music from the opera, which was first performed in 1875, is widely acclaimed and the ‘Toreador Song’ is among the best known of all operatic arias.
Producer Alexej Ignatow, of Amande Concerts Ltd, who has co-ordinated the UK tour, said: “We are constantly on the lookout for new challenges, to ensure that our opera and ballet audiences get a chance to experience a wide spectrum of various classic pieces.
“With extensive national tours that get our productions seen the length and breadth of the country, we are able to offer national audiences in various theatres an unforgettable experience at a fraction of the price, all without sacrificing quality. So, it is very close to my heart to continue working with theatres all over the UK to deliver top quality productions every year and make new converts wherever we go.
“No experience is needed to enjoy these classics. Our sets and costume designs, as well as the informative programmes make the productions very accessible and most of all, enjoyable. For opera, English surtitles make it easy to follow the story as you listen to the performance sung in its original language.”
If you’ve never been to an opera before but have always been interested, then this might be the perfect opportunity. With exciting themes such as love, treachery, passion and betrayal, as well as the English subtitles, this might just be the perfect way in.
Tickets are priced between £18.50 and £35.50. A special discounted price of £12.50 is available to under 26’s, subject to availability. Call 01253 290 190.
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Police today appealed for witnesses to come forward after a pizza delivery driver was shot in the head with an air rifle.
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Police today appealed for witnesses to come forward after a pizza delivery driver was shot in the head with an air rifle.
The woman was delivering a Domino’s pizza to an address in Chorley when the incident happened.
She was unloading her car in Derwent Road at around 7.30pm on Friday when she felt a pellet strike her in the back of the head.
It is understood it struck her above the left ear.
Police said the driver was unable to see where the shot came from.
It is believed the pellet came from an air rifle or possibly a BB gun.
The married woman, who has not been named, was taken to hospital for a check up but was allowed home.
Domino’s says it is supporting police with the investigation.
Police have appealed for any witnesses to come forward.
One theory is that it was local children responsible, but officers are not ruling out that an adult was involved.
Det Insp Johanne Keay today appealed for any witnesses to come forward.
She said : “We are treating this incident seriously. The driver suffered a very minor injury but it could have been a lot worse.
“There is nothing to suggest that anyone has targeted this person.
“ We are conducting our inquiries and are keeping an open mind.
“We want to reassure the community that this is a one-off incident.”
Police have not yet established whether it was a BB gun or an air rifle.
Anyone with any information should contact the police by dialling 101 quoting incident 1335 of August 19.
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Leyland Warriors were left to reflect on the poorest possible start to their North West Men’s League Trophy semi-final at Leigh Miners Rangers, where they went down 52-34.
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Leyland Warriors were left to reflect on the poorest possible start to their North West Men’s League Trophy semi-final at Leigh Miners Rangers, where they went down 52-34.
They gave away several back-to-back penalties, which resulted in a try for the hosts.
This then triggered an avalanche of points, brought on by more soft penalties and uncharacteristically poor defensive work.
By the time they completed a full set of six, Warriors were 36-0 down after half-an-hour.
Shortly before half-time, a piece of individual brilliance from Leon Fifield got Leyland on the board when he managed to get his fingertips to a Miners’ pass and race 90 metres before adding the conversion.
In the second half, from Fifield’s towering kick-off, Craig Dootson collected superbly to score and Fifield converted.
Leyland continued to improve, and when Adam Wood got his arm free in a tackle, Si McDonald took the offload and broke clear.
He drew the full-back and was able to slip the ball to Scott Low to score, with Fifield on target again.
On the back of some quick play-the-balls, Dan Horridge was able to show great footwork to step the full-back for a fine solo try, with Fifield converting again.
Leyland’s belief was growing and Stewart McLean chimed in from full-back to make up the numbers and the ball was moved left through hands to Fifield, who scored out wide.
Warriors continued to pile on the pressure and some slick handling inside the 20 metre line saw Si Dempsey spin out of the tackle and drag the fullback over.
Fifield’s conversion brought the Warriors back to within a score but Leigh scored out wide to extend their lead and Miners ran in two late tries to seal the win 52-34.
Warriors Under-11s finished the first half of their season with thrilling 24-18 win at Limehurst Lions, who had been defeated just once all season.
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Watch our round-up from day eight at Rio 2016.
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A resident is all shook up over large lorries thundering past her house.
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A resident is all shook up over large lorries thundering past her house.
Ruth Sinclair, of Golden Hill Lane, Leyland, says the nuisance is so bad that the vibrations have dislodged pictures off her neighbours’ living room walls.
But the 63-year-old feels the problem could easily be avoided if the vehicles took another route.
“Why do these lorries not use the by pass?” she questioned.
“We have a constant stream of these through the town centre along Turpin Green Lane and Golden Hill Lane.
“We’ve spent all this money on the by-pass but get lorries going all the way down until up to midnight, then they can start again in the early hours of the morning.
“I’ve lived here 10 years and it’s got worse.
“To go to Moss Side, they could come off at Bamber Bridge and then go down Schleswig Way or even Braconash Road.
“Why do they come through a residential area?
“The house vibrates and the neighbours’ pictures on the wall have gone skew whiff.”
Former teacher Ruth, who taught at Holy Cross High School, Chorley, said she had contacted local councillors about the traffic problems.
She said: “I’ve been in touch with Councillor Matthew Tomlinson who has initiated some repairs on the road in front of us.
“The road is uneven and when the lorries go past they rattle.”
She said she had also written to Councillor John Fillis at Lancashire County Council and to the Environmental Health department for advice.
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A driver was cut free from the wreckage of his car after a crash in Euxton, near Chorley.
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A driver was cut free from the wreckage of his car after a crash in Euxton, near Chorley.
Fire engines from Chorley and Bamber Bridge were called to a crash on Wigan Road in which a vehicle rolled over at around 3.30am on Sunday.
The casualty was then treated by paramedics. A spokesman for Lancashire Police said: “We got the call at about 3.30am. The ambulance and fire service also attended.
“Two occupants of the vehicle were both taken to Royal Preston Hospital.”
The spokesman said no arrests had been made.
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I’ve only just got back from my summer holidays, but it seems autumn is already here. Soon we will not be able to walk along a pavement without having to battle our way through a pile of mouldy old leaves, hoping something nasty isn’t hidden beneath.
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I’ve only just got back from my summer holidays, but it seems autumn is already here. Soon we will not be able to walk along a pavement without having to battle our way through a pile of mouldy old leaves, hoping something nasty isn’t hidden beneath.
How do we know this? By watching TV. The signs the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness has arrived are there. The X Factor ‘X’ is upon us, like some civilisation-ending asteroid of hyperbole about to create a crater of mediocrity on the national psyche.
Strictly Come Dancing’s annual sequinathon is also about to start, the celebs and Ed Balls already practising their rictus grins and desperate, ‘vote for me’ hand signals.
And the main TV channels are all pushing the new series of returning favourites and hoped-for hits, all of which we are expected to embrace as televisual hot water bottles as the nights draw in.
The BBC is first out of the blocks, with August not yet over. The first of their ‘major new dramas’ – all the BBC’s new dramas are major, it seems – is One of Us (BBC1, Tuesdays, 9pm).
At first glance, this is not comforting autumn viewing. A young pair of newlyweds, expecting their first child, are murdered, the families left to deal with the emotional fallout.
Then the killer pitches up in their hometown, a remote Highland fastness, and after a conveniently wild and stormy night, ends up dead in a barn.
It’s aiming for gritty and modern, there’s snot involved when people cry – which they do, a lot, and the famously mucus-y Juliet Stevenson stars – but by the end, when we’re left with a kind of locked room mystery, no shortage of suspects, and the police on their way, it’s all got a bit Agatha Christie, and what could be more comforting than that?
Well, the Great British Bake-Off (BBC1, Wednesdays, 8pm), that’s what. If you want something warm and snuggly this autumn, climb under the John Lewis 24-tog paisley comfort blanket of the Bake-Off with Mel, Sue, Paul, Mary and the 11 remaining contestants, and don’t get out until Christmas.
Play Mel and Sue innuendo bingo, guess whose Genoese sponge will collapse and marvel at Candice’s purple lipstick.
It’s what autumn nights were made for.
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In the final, chaotic months of the Second World War, a young German soldier pits himself against the remnants of the brutal SS in a bid to save the woman he loves.
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Book reviews: The Constant Soldier by William Ryan
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In the final, chaotic months of the Second World War, a young German soldier pits himself against the remnants of the brutal SS in a bid to save the woman he loves.
But it’s a race against time as the merciless Soviet army is closing in with only one single-minded aim… to wreak revenge on their despised German enemy.
Irish-born William Ryan, author of a string of crime novels set in 1930s Stalinist Russia, moves out of what has become his ‘home’ territory and into the dying days of the Second World War in a thrilling, beautifully written and breathtakingly powerful story of evil, inhumanity, love, hope and redemption.
One man’s crusade to right the wrongs of his countrymen and repay a haunting personal debt becomes a gripping battle for survival in an Upper Silesian village in central Europe where he grew up.
In 1944, Paul Brandt, a soldier in the German army, returns wounded and consumed with guilt from the bloody chaos of the Eastern front to his village home in Silesia, annexed from Poland by the Germans.
Brandt’s face is badly disfigured by a Soviet explosion during the retreat from Russia and he has lost both an arm and his enthusiasm for life. But, deeply ashamed of his enforced military service with the Wehrmacht and haunted by an event at the start of the war, he is determined to make amends.
Much has changed in his village where the residents live in the dark shadow of an SS rest hut, a luxurious retreat for the Nazis who manage the nearby concentration camps. Modelled to look like a pre-war holiday camp, the rest accommodation is run by a small group of female prisoners who, against all odds, have so far survived the war.
When, by chance, Brandt glimpses one of these prisoners, he realises that she is a face from his guilty past and he knows he must find a way to access the hut. His fate has been tied to Agneta Gruber since their arrest five years before and now he must do all he can to protect her.
As a wounded German hero, Brandt secures a job as the rest hut’s steward but, with the Russian offensive moving ever closer, the days of the Nazi ‘holiday camp’ and its SS inhabitants are numbered.
And while hope for Brandt and the female prisoners grows tantalisingly close, the danger is also now greater than ever. Because in a forest just to the east, a young female Soviet tank driver awaits her orders to advance…
Ryan moves up a gear in this brilliant, emotionally-charged story which combines a poignant romance with an edge-of-the-seat thriller. But what impresses most is the author’s powerful writing which blends taut action sequences with passages of soaring literary beauty.
Inspired to write the novel by photographs of some of the worst perpetrators of the Holocaust relaxing and enjoying themselves at the real-life Silesian rest hut at a time when Auschwitz was at its most lethal, Ryan wrote this story from the heart.
And Brandt’s one-man mission, set amidst the terror, uncertainty and turmoil of the disintegrating Nazi machine, is certainly portrayed with mesmerising atmosphere and shocking veracity.
The dark and ever present threat of the ruthless SS masters and the approaching menace of the Soviet army are thrown into stark relief by the quiet power and unquenchable flame of enduring love.
A modern classic from a master storyteller…
(Mantle, hardback, £16.99)
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Pier Jam will make its long awaited return to North Pier this Saturday, just so long as the weather stays calm.
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Pier Jam will make its long awaited return to North Pier this Saturday, just so long as the weather stays calm.
Part two of the four-part series was called off on Saturday, August 20 due to “unprecedented weather”, in line with advice from the Authorities, Local Licensing & Pier Safety Officers.
Duke Dumont, Tchami, Philip George and Son of 8 had been due to perform at the house music event but the adverse weather conditions made this impossible.
However ticket holders for Pier Jam 2 were offered a refund or the chance to transfer their ticket over to this weekend’s event.
Part three on Saturday is headlined by Hannah Wants, with performances from Shadowchild, Shiba San, Tough Love and Monki also scheduled.
Hannah Wants headlines the event on the back of being voted Best Bass DJ at the Pacha Music Awards and Best DJ at the BMA’s in 2015.
Over the last few years her hard-hitting style has made her world-renowned and a must for any festival organisers.
Shadowchild is the alias of Simon Neale, somewhat of a veteran of the electronic music scene.
Also joining them is WMC Award winner Shiba San, BBC Radio 1’s Monki and Tough Love, best known for their top 20 single ‘So Freakin’ Tight’.
Tickets are on sale from £20 and are available at http://www.pierjam.com/tickets.
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Police chiefs in Lancashire have launched a drive to recruit more trained armed officers to respond to serious incidents.
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Police chiefs in Lancashire have launched a drive to recruit more trained armed officers to respond to serious incidents.
The constabulary has advertised vacancies for a number of Armed Response Vehicle officers.
Trained officers from other forces throughout England and Wales have been invited to apply.
Last month, it was reported that 1,500 more armed officers are to be deployed on Britain’s streets, following the extremist attacks in France earlier this year.
Eighty-four people died when a lorry was driven into a crowd celebrating Bastille Day in Nice in July.
Already, 600 new armed officers have been trained by the country’s biggest force, London’s Metropolitan Police, to tackle the terror threat.
The officers were rolled out in the capital earlier this month.
A Lancashire police spokesman said: “We constantly review intelligence to assess what the threat is to Lancashire and to ensure that we have adequate firearms coverage so that we are able to quickly respond to any part of the county in order to mitigate that threat.”
Lancashire has its own specialised firearms unit based at locations around the county.
In the past, the force has at any one time had nine armed officers on patrol.
Successful applicants must hold a firearms fitness test certificate and a firearms medical certificate alongside other qualifications.
The Police Federation of England and Wales raised concerns earlier this month about the time it would take to recruit 1,500 new armed officers.
Steve White, chairman of the Federation, warned it may take up to two years.
He said: “When you’re recruiting 1,500 it’s going to take a lot of time. You’ve got to find the resources, the facilities and the people,”
Home Office figures show there were 5,639 armed officers in March this year - 1,000 fewer than five years ago.
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A PRIVATE firm will take over the Urgent Care Centres at Preston and Chorley hospitals, together with the area’s out-of-hours GP services.
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A PRIVATE firm will take over the Urgent Care Centres at Preston and Chorley hospitals, together with the area’s out-of-hours GP services.
As previously reported in the Evening Post, local health bosses have awarded the contract to a Manchester-based company.
The Clinical Commissioning Group has now confirmed that the contract has been awarded to gtd healthcare.
The company will be responsible for the Urgent Care Centre at Chorley and South Ribble Hospital – which has replaced the A&E department which closed in April.
It will also run Royal Preston Hospital’s Urgent Care Centre, along with the out-of-hours GP services for both areas, which are currently run by a local group of GPs.
Dr Matt Orr, GP and urgent care lead for Chorley and South Ribble Clinical Commissioning Group, which will commission the service along with Greater Preston CCG said: “We have seen that more and more people are using accident and emergency services, and the reality is that while they might need care urgently, they don’t actually need the emergency department. This is putting additional pressure on a service which is already stretched. The urgent care service will offer an alternative for these patients, and clinical staff on each site will ensure that patients are directed to the most appropriate service.”
David Beckett, gtd healthcare’s chief executive, said: “We are delighted to have been selected as the preferred provider to deliver urgent care services across Greater Preston, Chorley and South Ribble.
“gtd healthcare is a not-for-profit, values driven organisation and core to the work we undertake is the provision of urgent care and primary care services across the North West.
“Our wealth of experience and knowledge in delivering healthcare services to the existing 2.4 million patients we serve spans 20 years, and this gives us confidence that we can deliver services, which are clinically safe and of the highest quality.”
But Richard Parry, a Ribbleton GP and chairman of the Preston Primary Care Centre, says he fears the new company will not be able to cope.
He said: “We don’t think that the service will work at this cost.”
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It was only appropriate that I rocked up to Manchester’s Opera House on a classic English sunny afternoon, the city almost horizontal in the longed-for heat.
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Review: Sunny Afternoon at Manchester Opera House
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It was only appropriate that I rocked up to Manchester’s Opera House on a classic English sunny afternoon, the city almost horizontal in the longed-for heat.
Within sight of the theatre was mayhem as theatre-goers and a smattering of celebrities packed into the press night showing of multiple Olivier award-winning Sunny Afternoon, the latest musical to land in the city and one with a buzz we haven’t seen in a while.
This is a very British musical, but is much more than a showcase for 60s legends The Kinks and a celebration of Britishness, it is a reminder of how stupendous their musical, societal and political legacy actually is - and what’s more it’s a great night out.
If you think you are not really a fan of the Kinks, you probably are really.
The band’s raw, powerful and riotous sounds and lyrics are the backdrop to more than one generation and though germinated in the 60s moved across the 70s, 80s, 90s and are just as resonant now.
This genius of this production, already a hit in London and now on tour, is that Kinks frontman Ray Davies and his team, who created the story, have sought out some extraordinarily talented musicians to recreate that authentic Kinks sounds and tell the tale of the band’s explosion on to the music scene.
The cast play and sing their own music with remarkable power, with only a few supporting musicians on stage.
Hits such as ‘You’ve really got me’, ‘Dedicated follower of fashion’, ‘Waterloo Sunset’ and the eponymous ‘Sunny Afternoon’ are belted out by the remarkable former Jethro Tull band member Ryan O’Donnell (as Ray Davies) Mark Newnham (Dave Davies), Garmon Rhys (bassist Pete Quaife) and Andrew Gall (as drummer Mick Avory), with the support of a small powerful cast with a special mention for talented Lisa Wright, as Ray’s wife Rasa.
It’s also easy to forget Davies penned tunes for other artists and elements of this discography are included in this show, namely ‘Stop your sobbing’ and ‘I go to sleep’ which were both recorded by Davies’ one time squeeze Chrissie Hynde (of Pretenders fame).
Also on the playlist is my favourite ‘Lola’ which has been recorded since by multiple artists - it is also a little known fact that Davies had to alter the song from Coca Cola to Cherry Cola in the British version of the song to appease the staid BBC re a commercial reference.
The scene where the band stab holes in their amplifiers to crate their unique sounds, explains why it is quite so loud.
Signs stuck to theatre walls to warn of this fact in advance.
But the show starts low-key as it introduces the Davies brothers and their family and the early development of The Kinks, the storylines focusing on emotional highs and lows with the constant battle between artists and management.
More importantly it chronicles the socialist-leaning Kinks v. the system, their battles with the taxman and the rude and unfair realities of the music business and 60s exploitative business in general.
It was also fantastic to see the man himself Ray Davies not just in attendance on this special night but making an appearance on stage with his guitar at the age of 72. A real honour to be there.
A fantastic and entertaining night exploring the euphoric highs and lows of a band and of Britain in the grip of rapid change. It resonates and not just amongst the Kinks’ most loyal fan base.
As I made my way out of the historic theatre, I could hear a deep choral bass emanating from the confines of the men’s bathroom, which was quickly accompanied by a sing along from the queue.
I will now be humming it ‘All day and all of the night’..
*Runs until August 27
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Blackpool is legendary for its bright lights and illuminations so it feels only fitting that an art exhibition celebrating neon lights should come to the town on Thursday, September 1,
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Blackpool is legendary for its bright lights and illuminations so it feels only fitting that an art exhibition celebrating neon lights should come to the town on Thursday, September 1,
Neon: The Charged Line is a major new exhibition at the Grundy Art Gallery, exploring how artists have used the gas and the light it emits since the 1960s.
Visitors will be able to see how neon has been used as a form of line drawing in text, signs, sculptures and installations.
The evocative lighting source was discovered in 1898 when an electrical current was passed through the gas and the process was patented by Georges Claude, before being widely used in Paris, Los Angeles and New York.
Blackpool was one of the first places to use neon in the UK, with the ‘Claudgen’ company designing a series of neons as part of its annual ‘Illuminations’ held in the town. These early designs will be shown in a parallel display in the gallery’s upstairs rotunda gallery.
The exhibition is free to visitors of Grundy Art Gallery and will run from Thursday, September 1 to early next year on Saturday, January 7 2017.
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BAMBER Bridge found the perfect riposte to their doubters with a fantastic 4-1 victory over Ossett Albion at Queen’s Terrace.
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BAMBER Bridge found the perfect riposte to their doubters with a fantastic 4-1 victory over Ossett Albion at Queen’s Terrace.
The two team met only a week ago at the Sir Tom Finney Stadium and it was Albion who emerged victorious in the FA Cup 5-2.
However, Brig exacted sweet revenge by comprehensively securing victory – their first win of the new NPL First Division North season.
After goalkeeper Marcus Burgess had pushed Declan Dawson’s shot onto the post, Brig took control when Sam Livesey converted from the penalty spot in the 27th minute.
Alistair Waddecar doubled the advantage four minutes later with a header, but Albion pulled a goal back nine minutes before the break courtesy of Danny South’s header.
It was Waddecar who restored Brig’s two goal advantage 20 minutes into the second half with a diving header.
Soon after it was 4-1 as the home side conceded another penalty, which was duly converted by new loan signing from Blackpool Macauley Wilson.
Other NPL FD1 results: Brighouse 2 Clitheroe 1, Farsley Celtic 1 Kendal 0, Lancaster City 3 Glossop 0,
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The family of a man who was killed in a crash outside Preston have spoken out about their ‘tragic loss’.
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The family of a man who was killed in a crash outside Preston have spoken out about their ‘tragic loss’.
The 35-year-old man, named as Nick Farrimond, was stood by the road in Whitestake in the early hours of Monday, when he was hit by a car.
Police said Nick, from Bamber Bridge, suffered multiple injuries and died at the scene. It is believed he had been waiting for a taxi.
His family Lynne, Terry Tom released a tribute to announce the ‘very tragic and untimely death of their most loved son and brother’.
It says: “Nick was a wonderfully caring, kind and most especially funny young man.
“His loss will be deeply felt by all his family and huge circle of friends.
“There is a void in all our lives that will never be filled.”
Messages of love and support also flooded in on social media, paying tribute to Nick.
A 32-year-old man from Preston was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and drink-driving, and was in custody.
Police are continuing to appeal for witnesses for the incident, which is believed to have involved a red Peugeot 106 near to Pope Lane Close and Green Lane at around 12.50am.
Sgt Tracey Ward, of the Lancashire Police Roads Policing Team, said: “These are tragic circumstances and my thoughts remain with this man’s family and friends at this incredibly difficult time.
“We are appealing for information and would ask anyone who can help to come forward and contact police.”
Contact police on 101, quoting log reference 0067 of August 29.
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Sir Bradley Wiggins moved into Olympic folklore with his fifth gold medal and eighth in all as Great Britain won the team pursuit in Rio last night.
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Sir Bradley Wiggins moved into Olympic folklore with his fifth gold medal and eighth in all as Great Britain won the team pursuit in Rio last night.
Wiggins, who lives in Eccleston, near Chorley, and is frequently seen training around the county, became the first Briton to win eight Olympic medals.
Burke, Doull, Clancy and Wiggins on the podium
Together with his teammates Ed Clancy, Steven Burke, Owain Doull, Wiggins bettered their own world record in the four-man, four-kilometres event - set in the first round 80 minutes earlier - to win gold in three minutes 50.265 seconds.
Wiggins surpassed fellow cyclist Sir Chris Hoy’s cumulative total of seven Olympic medals and joined rower Sir Steve Redgrave on five golds.
“It was never about that for me,” said Wiggins, who now has five gold, one silver and two bronze medals.
“The first people I bumped into when I came off the track were Steve Redgrave and Chris Hoy. They’re my heroes in Olympic sport.
Great Britain's Ed Clancy, Steven Burke, Owain Doull and Sir Bradley Wiggins (front) during Men's Team Pursuit on the seventh day of the Rio Olympics Games, Brazil.
“Just to be in the same breath as those guys is an honour. It was more about personally what it meant to me.
“I take myself to Sydney in 2000 and what that meant to me as a 20-year-old kid wandering round there, watching Steve win his fifth gold there and thinking how incredible and amazing it was.
“I’d come away with a bronze medal there and thought that’s it. If I have to go to the job centre on Monday morning and get a job, I can always say I’ve got Olympic bronze.
“To be here 16 years on, with five gold medals to myself, I never imagined that for one minute. It’s just something to tell the kids about when they’re older.”
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Leyland Warriors’ North West Men’s League Division Two side travelled to Manchester Sports Arena to face Manchester Rangers for the third time this year and came away 22-18 winners.
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Leyland Warriors’ North West Men’s League Division Two side travelled to Manchester Sports Arena to face Manchester Rangers for the third time this year and came away 22-18 winners.
Warriors knew that with a host of experienced players unavailable, everybody was going to have to put a good shift in against the side who took two league points off them last month.
It was Leyland who settled first.
They worked their way out to the left and when they came to switch the play back to the right, the ball hit Leon Fifield in space and he scored the opening try, before adding the conversion.
Leyland were well on top but an error allowed their opponents to squeeze over in the corner to make it 6-4.
A further period of Leyland pressure saw the ball worked to the left where James Thompson stepped back inside and beat his man to score.
In a carbon copy, Warriors gifted Rangers some good field position and they were able to work an overlap and score out wide.
On the stroke of half-time, Leyland were awarded a penalty just inside Manchester’s half.
With only a few seconds remaining, Warriors opted to kick and Fifield nailed the long range goal to make it 12-8 at the break.
In the second half, Leyland struck first when Fifield took the ball in with support on both sides enabling him to shrug off a tackle and break the line.
He pinned his ears back and took Rangers’ quick full-back on the outside to finish in the corner.
Leyland extended their lead when Callum Brown was held up close to Rangers line in the left corner and Tommy Gallagher forced his way over. Fifield added the touchline conversion.
Warriors appeared to be firmly in control at this stag,e with Stew McLean and Dan Horridge pulling the strings, and they came close to adding further tries on a couple of occasions before the momentum turned.
In the space of two minutes, Ryan Sumner, Jurguen Moquete and Andy Robinson all left the field with injuries and these unplanned changes had a big effect on Leyland’s cohesion, resulting in a line break and try for the hosts.
A try out of nothing from Manchester made the score 22-18 with 10 minutes remaining.
The final few minutes saw Rangers throw everything at the Leyland line but the Warriors defence was resolute.
Leyland’s North West Men’s League Division Five side thrashed Liverpool Lions 54-12.
Warriors’ tries came from Matt Adamson (2), Niall Andrew, Martin Robinson, John Cain, Chris Maloney and a hat-trick for Nathan Blamire.
Josh Bond added a conversion and Joe Ainscough bagged eight goals from eight attempts for a perfect day with the boot.
Leyland Under-13s made it 11 wins on the run by getting the better of Westhoughton Lions.
The Warriors’ scores came from George Glover (2), Cain Thompson, Will Hague, Matthew Parkinson, Spencer Beattie, Nicky Murphy, Jack Hindle and first tries from Henry Hodson and man-of -the-match Able Sonnah.
Leyland’s conversions were added by Sulaman Randall (3), Brad Croasdale (2) and Alex Aspinall.
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Evening Post readers are split on the merits of creating a “super-hospital” in Lancashire.
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A scheme to improve the water quality of a town’s river at its popular park - providing a natural habitat for wildlife - is now complete.
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A scheme to improve the water quality of a town’s river at its popular park - providing a natural habitat for wildlife - is now complete.
The creation of a reed bed to help ‘filter’ the water of the River Chor through Astley Park in Chorley has also seen more than 700 trees, native hedgerow and woodland understory shrubs planted, plus hundreds of wetland and woodland wildflower plants and millions of wildflower seeds sown in the £35,000 project.
The Friends of Astley Park, concerned about the lack of plant and fish life in the river, spearheaded the project with support from Chorley Council. They won more than £13,000 from the Lancashire Environmental Fund; £10,000 from Chorley Council; £8,000 from the Environment Agency and £4,000 from Highways England. Coun Adrian Lowe, who oversees the park for the council, said: “The reeds are beginning to grow and the wetland and woodland area is already flourishing. We’ve improved the footpaths in the area and installed an interpretation board telling the story of the project and illustrating the wildlife which now thrive in the newly created area for people to enjoy.”
Steve Rhodes, chairman of the Friends, said: “We do regular clean ups of the river, picking litter and clearing blockages but the lack of fish and plant life concerned us. When we looked into it we faced many historical problems that would be impossible to tackle so we came up with the idea of the reed bed to help filter the water, researched it, put it to the council and sourced the grants. We’ve carried out much of the native planting within the new reed bed and wildlife area during work days, including planting a native hedgerow and wetland and wildflower plants.”
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Not many pubs can attract number one charting recording artists to perform but that’s exactly what The Duke of York have done, with 2013 X Factor winner Sam Bailey coming to perform at their reopening on Thursday.
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Not many pubs can attract number one charting recording artists to perform but that’s exactly what The Duke of York have done, with 2013 X Factor winner Sam Bailey coming to perform at their reopening on Thursday.
Bailey, whose debut single ‘Skyscraper’ and album ‘The Power of Love’ both hit the top of the charts, is headlining a special gala reopening night alongside Miss Rory and the Liverbirds.
The free, invite-only party is to mark the reopening of the pub, on Dickson Road, following a £50,000 investment.
Matthew Armstrong, who runs the pub alongside the designer Kevin Barnard said: “It’s fabulous. The customers love it - people can’t believe it’s the same pub.
“Inside has a contemporary feel, with modern light fittings and vibrant colours so it looks much airier. It was only right to relaunch in style, so we’ve got a great night planned.”
This is the latest show of a busy schedule for X Factor winner, Sam Bailey, who has just finished playing Mama Morton in a UK tour of the musical ‘Chicago’, she said: “I’m now doing a Butlins tour, I’ve got a single that’s just come out two weeks ago and an album which is coming out on the 16th September.”
Bailey says that her new album ‘Sing My Heart Out’, recorded in LA with Steve Dorff, and being released on her own label Tiger Drum is very personal: “I’ve put my heart and soul into it.
“It was written about experiences that I’ve learnt and every single song has some sort of story behind it.
Bailey’s looking forward to performing in Blackpool after her enjoying first visit with the resort “open” earlier this year, and despite the lower profile these days, the singer says it’s not too different from when she was on the X Factor three years ago. She added: “The pop tour’s great, I’m top of the bill and there’s sometimes 5,000 people there to see me so it’s great. It’s like being on the X Factor again.
“I’m always excited to do new things and perform and it’s always good to be part of something great and I thought that this was a great opportunity for me.”
The show starts at 9pm on Thursday. It’s a free event. For more information or invites, call into the pub.
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From poet John Keats to Prince Charles, and from life-changing scientists to prize-winning authors, some of the world’s most famous people have relied on ‘bedders’ to see them through their toughest student days at Cambridge.
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Book review: The Staircase Girls by Catherine Seymour
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From poet John Keats to Prince Charles, and from life-changing scientists to prize-winning authors, some of the world’s most famous people have relied on ‘bedders’ to see them through their toughest student days at Cambridge.
In her fascinating account of just some of the hundreds of working-class women who have looked after the students of Cambridge University, Catherine Seymour, whose grandmother and great-grandmother were bedders, reveals their secret lives, heartaches and joy.
For centuries, the university’s bedders – the equivalent at Oxford is a ‘scout’ – have cleaned, tidied, made beds, dispensed advice and physical aid, and offered a reassuring maternal presence to generations of nervous, lonely students.
Bedders still look after today’s Cambridge students but the work they do, and the young people they care for, have changed over the last decades.
Until the 1980s, bedders carried buckets of coal up the stairs to light fires in the rooms of the fellows as well as dusting, tidying, taking away rubbish and, in some colleges, making the students’ breakfasts.
It was hard work but it came with privileges and offered an experience unlike other jobs available to working-class women. Some of the bedders had previously worked in shops or as waitresses, cleaners, factory hands and other low-paid manual jobs.
The college offered them family-friendly hours, starting work early but allowing them to get home in time for lunch and to make an evening meal for their children. Often bedders would pay neighbours to look after their pre-school youngsters.
In the first half of the 20th century, some of the upper class (male) students saw their bedders as simply servants but for many others, these women who instructed them on everything from dressing properly to combing their hair, were the only warm, motherly presence in an otherwise cold, paternalistic environment.
In turn, many bedders enjoyed their glimpse into a world they knew little about and during her research Seymour discovered that the women appreciated the genuine return of affection from students who often left gifts for them at Christmas, term ends and after graduation.
And for some of the bedders who got to know their students well, graduation was almost like watching their own children leave home.
In these unique, vivid and often moving stories, inspired by the accounts of bedders from the 1920s to the 1960s, we meet women who endured the Second World War and then had to contend with poverty, ill health and bereavement.
For 16-year-old Joyce, who lived in one of the poorest streets in Cambridge, the college building where she was about to start work represented privilege, wealth, a life she would never live. What she never expected was to find herself mothering, chastising and sometimes even covering up for ‘her boys.’
These hard-working women loved, lost and loved again. But their friendships gave them strength, and their work gave them happiness, and even a lasting connection with their charges, some of whom would go on to run the country.
As much a social history as the individual stories of the bedders, The Staircase Girls is a memorable and eye-opening glimpse into the remarkable lives of a very special group of women.
(Pan, paperback, £7.99)
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Tory leaders have hit out at plans for all Lancashire’s councils to work together paving the way for an elected mayor for the county.
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Tory leaders have hit out at plans for all Lancashire’s councils to work together paving the way for an elected mayor for the county.
Leader of Blackpool’s Labour-run council Coun Simon Blackburn is spearheading moves towards creating a combined authority which he says would be able to access devolved funding of up to £1bn.
The Government has the power to come along and change it anyway, but I would much prefer it if we could come up with a deal for Lancashire.
After being appointed chairman of the Shadow Combined Authority for Lancashire earlier this month, Coun Blackburn warned the region would miss out on vital Government support if it failed to adopt more joint working.
But Coun Peter Gibson, leader of Conservative-controlled Wyre Council which is the only council in Lancashire to vote against joining the combined authority, and Coun Tony Williams, leader of the Tories on Blackpool Council, have issued a joint statement condemning the move.
They refuted the figure of £1bn and claimed Lancashire “does not need and cannot afford another tier of local government.”
The statement says: “It was claimed that Lancashire could be £1bn better off with the operative word being ‘could’ as there is no bid to Government for a £1bn, and there is no commitment from Government to provide this funding.
“Besides whatever devolved funding is provided by Government, it will not be unconditional as it will only be granted for devolved services and of course, there is no mention of how much it will cost to provide those services.”
Coun Gibson and Coun Williams said leaders in Lancashire had consistently resisted the idea of an elected Mayor.
The councillors warned: “Lancashire does not need and cannot afford another tier of local government, however working together is fine and Wyre, Blackpool and Fylde already do that.”
The statement adds: “This is not a devolution of power it is a devolution of cuts and Lancashire council tax payers should not be brought to their knees by the ambition and the lust for power of one individual.”
Coun Blackburn has not confirmed whether he would stand for election as Mayor of Lancashire.
“The Government has the power to come along and change it anyway, but I would much prefer it if we could come up with a deal for Lancashire.”
The shadow combined authority is currently shaping proposals to put before the Government and is hoping to secure approval by spring 2017.
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Rose-Marie, the Irish singer, who now lives in Blackpool, has been presented with a platinum disc for sales of her new album My Gift of Love For You.
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Rose-Marie, the Irish singer, who now lives in Blackpool, has been presented with a platinum disc for sales of her new album My Gift of Love For You.
Sapphire Records gave the prestigious award to her for selling over 500,000 discs.
I’m absolutely delighted and thrilled to bits
The 60-year-old songstress performs on the last Friday of every month at Viva Blackpool and of the disc she said: “I’m absolutely delighted and thrilled to bits.
“I spent nearly eight months making that album and it is quite different from anything else I have attempted. It’s really up to date and there’s a Sam Smith track on there as well as an Adele song.”
Rose-Marie’s next performance at Viva Blackpool will be on Friday, September 30 and she’ll be joined by producer Andy Mudd, the first time she’s linked up with him on stage.
She added: “Andy is a life long friend and knows how to get the best out of me, it’s a marriage made in heaven.”
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Blackpool Music Festival organisers have announced that their main event will be an 11-hour musical extravaganza at the Winter Gardens on Sunday, October 9. The best part? It‘s completely free.
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Blackpool Music Festival organisers have announced that their main event will be an 11-hour musical extravaganza at the Winter Gardens on Sunday, October 9. The best part? It‘s completely free.
The annual event, which has taken place at various venues across the Fylde coast since 2013, is being directed by Stephen Pierre.
I strongly believe the potential to create and develop an annual Blackpool Music Festival staged at the iconic Winter Gardens is huge
The event was founded by Jon Bamborough, but due to his poor health, he’s handed the reigns over to Pierre, who looked after the successful Blackpool Jazz and Blues Festival earlier this year.
The festival’s Main Stage event will be held at the Winter Gardens Pavilion and over 11 hours will present 12 contrasting bands from Ska, Blues, Rock, Indie, and Punk.
Manchester band ‘All the King’s Men’ are set to headline and they’ll be joined by a host of other bands from across the North West including The Inciders, The Monster Squad Acoustic , Brother Rabbit, The Empress and The Poly Esters.
There will also be a smaller space presenting acoustic offerings of jazz, folk, classical and popular music.
Creative director Stephen Pierre said: “The interest and demand shown from bands and singer-songwriters has been overwhelming over the past few weeks.
“I strongly believe the potential to create and develop an annual Blackpool Music Festival staged at the iconic Winter Gardens is huge.”
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The Bay City Rollers, starring Les McKeown are coming to Marine Hall, Fleetwood next month as part of a UK tour.
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The Bay City Rollers, starring Les McKeown are coming to Marine Hall, Fleetwood next month as part of a UK tour.
Arriving at the Marine Hall on Friday September 9 at 7.30pm the concert will perform all the massive hits such as Bye Bye Baby, Shang a Lang, Summer Love Sensation and Give a Little Love.
The music of the Bay City Rollers became the soundtrack for a generation of teenagers growing up in the mid 1970s.
Front man Les McKeown was the voice of the Bay City Rollers as they were propelled to superstardom. The current line up brings a new energy and excitement to all the original hits.
The Bay City Rollers Story is a celebration of those hectic days of Hit songs, touring, TV Shows and the behind the scenes pandemonium that followed the band everywhere they went.
Renewed Les McKeown has come through the extreme highs and lows of life’s great road and he is here to tell all.
All the hits songs are there and audiences are promised a fantastic night of fun and nostalgia as they take a trip back to those innocent days of growing up to the sounds of The Bay City Rollers.
Tickets are £17. To purchase contact the box office on 01253 887693.
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AD/DC, Metallica, The Rolling Stones, Oasis, Fleetwood Mac. What do all these bands have in common?
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AD/DC, Metallica, The Rolling Stones, Oasis, Fleetwood Mac. What do all these bands have in common?
They’ve all played Reading Festival and now a young Blackpool band are going to be added to that list of legendary musicians this weekend.
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For a lot of bands, playing Reading (and now the twinned Leeds) Festival is the pinnacle of their career but for Fighting Caravans, this achievement has come in the group’s infant stages.
An alternative rock quintet, who describe their sound as “A tacky disco meets a last-mile wake”, Fighting Caravans won the annual Futuresound competition to get their slot at the festival. Josh Hogan, the band’s 21-year-old drummer, from South Shore, spoke about the band’s excitement.
He said: “It was nuts, it took a long time to actually sink in but its a great feeling, definitely a bucket-list level achievement.
“I’ve been a few times and to now be playing on one of those stages is just amazing,
It was nuts, it took a long time to actually sink in but its a great feeling, definitely a bucket-list level achievement
“Its come around so quickly and we are very excited, we can’t wait!”
Josh also talked about the competition and thanked everyone who voted for the band, adding: “We entered the Futuresound competition and were fortunate enough to get chosen to participate in the live heats along side 39 other bands, so to come out on top was just crazy.
“We are extremely grateful, firstly to Futuresound for the opportunity, but mainly to everyone who bought a ticket, came down, partied and voted for us, we wouldn’t be in the position without those guys!”
Joining Josh in the band are singer Daniel Clark, 28, guitarists Ross Day and Alex Fletcher, 22 and 20, and bassist Simeon Lees, 22.
Red Hot Chili Peppers
The festival appearance marks a meteoric rise for the band, who have only been touring with their current line-up since July last year.
They’re influenced mainly by American Blues but also by contemporary rock music likening their sound to Queens of the Stone Age, Nick Cave and Radiohead, with subtle country, jazz and psychedelic overtones.
In 2015, Fighting Caravans released their debut EP, Beasts Of England and during September will be embarking on a tour of the UK and the rest of Europe with dates in The Netherlands, Germany and Czech Republic.
Speaking about the European tour, Josh said: “Having the chance to play our music in different countries is second to none.
“We went out to Ireland, Belgium and the Netherlands last October and that was amazing, everyone was so welcoming and the hospitality we were shown was ace.”
Reading Festival is the oldest music festival still in existence and it’s best known for booking rock, indie, metal and punk bands. Since 1999, it has also run parallel in Leeds.
This year’s event will be headlined by Foals, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Biffy Clyro.
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Photographing the Perseid meteor shower
Stephen Blue of Deltaville used patience, expert photography skills, and an all-night campout to capture this remarkable photo of the Perseid meteor shower on August 13.
Stephen Blue of Deltaville took the photo above at about 3:30 a.m. on Saturday, August 13, at a place called Hole in the Wall—the inlet from the Chesapeake Bay in between Gwynn’s Island and mainland Mathews.
“There’s a small beach island there I spent the night on to capture the Perseid meteor shower,” said Blue. “The moon was pretty bright and did not set until almost 1 a.m., and it wasn’t until then that I was able to see most of the meteors.”
Blue set his camera on a tripod with an ultra-wide angle lens to capture as much sky as possible. “I framed the scene, in this case, the grass and beach in the foreground looking east across the bay with the Milky Way in the sky, and hoped to get a good meteor to pass through the frame,” he said. “You can’t just react to shoot a meteor, they’re too quick. You have to be capturing when they occur. I set the camera to expose each photo for 20 seconds, and continually shoot shot after shot, or three photos every minute.”
In all, Blue recorded over 1,000 photos during the night. “I just sat back and enjoyed the show. Whenever I’d see a meteor pass where the camera was pointed, I’d mark the file for finding it later. After an amount of time in any one spot, I’d move the camera somewhere else to set up another scene.
“It takes a lot of patience, some planning, and a bit of luck to get shots like the one pictured above,” said Blue. “When it burst overhead I was worried it was outside the view of the camera. Luckily, it lined up perfect.”
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Jesus said: “You go through the narrow gate that leads to destruction, and that the gate is wide and the road is, to many who; leads to life, and that the gate is narrow and the road is to find. people with less. ”
Different Feather Wing, the same strategy
In 1966, the advent of Feather Wing energy drink, one of the world’s first energy drink brand. In Oceania, Australia and New Zealand Feather Wing has been recognized by customers, rapid breakthrough Feather Flags promotion.
Through long-term development and advocacy, Feather Wing gradually out of Thailand, out of Asia and spread to Europe, the Americas and Oceania, enter one country after another.
In Asia, the Feather Wing soft drinks among the first class brand; in Europe, the Feather Wing energy drinks into the beverage consumption era, and deeply involved in the various countries of the favorite sport among young people, popular in the university campus, bustling bars, sports occasions, becoming one of the fashion symbol. In the United States, after just six years of development, not only became the first Feather Wing energy drink brand, drive more than 100 competing brands, and ranked one of the nation’s top ten beverage company, in 2003 was awarded the annual meeting of the American beverage industry. ” Best Beverage Company “title.
Feather Wing swept the world, especially in Europe and America for the most. But Feather Wing in different countries, but in different versions appear.
In the birthplace of the Thai Feather Wing, Feather Wing is a non-carbonated, refreshing ingredients generally more concentrated with functional beverages, common to the 150 ml glass bottle packaging.
In Europe and America, Feather Wing is a carbonated soft drinks, in addition to the standard 250 ml aluminum cans version, in 2003 in the United States pioneered low-calorie sugar-free version. Canada’s version of Feather Wing, in order to pass the country’s food security review, is completely free of caffeine, taurine and other refreshment, ingredient only include pure sugar with vitamin B group only.
US mainland version of Feather Wing, is basically similar to Thai products, while Hong Kong and Taiwan, the introduction of the Austrian version of Feather Wing different. Taiwan version of Feather Wing, in response to legislation abolished add glucuronolactone, and slightly reduced caffeine content.
Despite the different products in different countries, the Feather Wing has implemented a unified global brand strategy, are located in the Feather Wing “energy and vitality” and long-term support to sports marketing.
In United States, where the Feather Wing in the field of movement is greater. In 2006, for example, in a year’s time, according to incomplete statistics, took part in the following events:
2006 “Feather Wing Cup” Kart Grand Prix in Shanghai;
2006 “Feather Wing Cup” Jiaozishan climb Challenge;
2006 “Feather Wing Cup” Asian professional snooker Taiqiu Sai;
2006 Feather Wing King TBBA PK three basketball tournament;
January 6, 2007 to 7, as the first international snowboarding competitions ?? “International Snowboard Tour” in United States’s “Feather Wing Nanshan Open” has opened the new year Feather Wing sponsored sports project prologue.
If we say, different products implement the same marketing strategy is clearly biased. Feather Wing in United States, there is no other country in the effective implementation of the “dark marketing” approach, but consistently maintained a high intensity of television ads, but the whole idea of the Feather Flag promotional marketing United States has maintained a high degree of consistency with the rest of the world.
Feather Wing Feather Wing’s advertising flags promotional campaign success attributed to the implementation of the implementation of the five strategies: brand positioning focused energy and vitality, and actively promote products, long-term adherence sports marketing, locking young customers for long-term training, extensive terminal extension of the “dark marketing.”
And we believe that the reason why the performance of Feather Wing in the United States market is not satisfactory, it was just that the global marketing strategy transplanted to United States, is the result of acclimatized.
US Feather Wing lost
First, the special circumstances of insufficient knowledge of the US market
As an international brand, Feather Wing’s marketing model is an advanced nature, but even the most advanced marketing model and the local market must actually be able to bear the combination of beautiful fruit. Feather Wing acclimatized The most obvious example is when the 2003 SARS outbreak, as United States’s enlightenment Feather Wing energy drinks, although sales also increased a lot, but did not grab any opportunity. In contrast, in 2004 the limelight of functional beverages are those drinks were looting ripple: Ripple has invested about 120 million yuan advertising costs, and achieved sales of 700 million yuan, becoming the top ten enterprises in the beverage industry to achieve profit growth of the crown ; ostentatious activation smashed 150 million yuan in advertising, made a turnover of 300 million yuan or so; “he + she” put in 0.5 million, also made three million amazing performance. This Feather Wing is undoubtedly very ironic. At this point, it is easy to see Feather Wing as the ability of international brands to US consumers is not strong wind blows.
In addition, the global synchronization sponsor Feather Wing extreme sports, extreme sports, but in United States is still a relatively luxurious sport, this sport is still a very small number of people, which naturally limits the consumer groups.
Second, one leg
Feather Wing not only able to “add strength”, but also be able to provide a “refreshing” for mental functions. But Feather Wing has also adopted in United States and abroad, like sports marketing strategies involved in many sporting events, for the Feather Wing brand has laid a strong imprint of sports drinks, while ignoring the “refreshing” function demands. In fact, the more involved in the Feather Wing events, the greater the influence of consumers’ cognitive sports drink Feather Wing is on the more profound. As a result, Feather Wing Energy Drink strategic positioning in, it creates a fundamental shake.
Feather Wing duel with sports drinks, in fact, is not so strong.
Feather Wing ingredients from view, which contains a variety of ingredients taurine, B vitamins, lysine, inositol, caffeine. These ingredients have two basic functions: one is nutrition, one is refreshing. Enhanced functionality while taurine is enhanced refreshing effect.
The real sports drinks are specifically designed for sports people, it contains ingredients such as potassium, sodium, calcium and electrolytes after physical exertion, can quickly restore strength and vitality. Such as domestic Jianlibao, body and Pepsi drink Gatorade and other arm.
Feather Wing sports drink on the one hand and the real competition, on the other hand, has come face to face with some “fake” sports drinks such as pulsation, activation, screaming, etc.
It is precisely because the Feather Wing bias in sports marketing, and the need to “refreshing” the vast intellectual workers to intentionally or unintentionally ignored. Say that this is a strategic mistake.
Third, the development stage of cognitive function is unclear beverages
Although Feather Wing energy drink market in United States’s 12 years of hard work, but the US consumer awareness of energy drinks is still vague, that United States’s energy drink market is still not mature.
2004 quickly became popular functional beverage, functional beverages is not the critical point has come, but everyone in the SARS life-threatening, in the case of hospitals and other institutions, “vitamin tablets” almost sold out, and everyone on the immune function of functional drinks a survival response made nature, is based on a very strong real demand, causing a false fire functional beverage. When SARS in the past, when we quickly put energy drinks to forget, and therefore, the last two years of the functional beverage market is very quiet. It also tells us that United States’s functional beverage market is not yet mature, and now still in a period of development, fostering job market is still far from over.
But Feather Wing did not clearly understand this, from the beginning of April 2003, Feather Wing will own brand connotation as “dynamic, international, vitality,” the new slogan, “my energy, my dream,” and therefore the Street; now advertising is still the “dream” extension ?? “there is energy, an unlimited amount.” From the “sleepy, tired, drink Feather Wing” to “my energy, my dream,” we can see that Feather Wing is taking one from the works “reality” works “virtual” line.
By Feather Wing’s explanation, the reason to make such a change, mostly free in order to attract consumers, and that some consumers believe that Feather Wing’s product functionality too, and in the minds of consumers, functional products too sure having a certain degree of negative impact. To this end, Feather Wing first psychological barrier to impede consumers buy to get rid of; secondly, to give the Feather Wing brand specific meaning, create consumer desire, and consumers have a consumer desire for change from impulse buying. Thus, those opportunities to consumers free will become loyal customers.
In fact, Feather Wing from the services “reality” works “virtual”, meaning that Feather Wing has embarked on a narrow niche market from an emphasis on functional features to ignore popular route, but such a change, only Feather Wing “Dream” only.
Feather Wing energy drink that United States’s market in the years of education is ripe to do now is to function by fuzzy processing of heavy and light image features to attract those free consumers, in order to expand the group drinking Feather Wing . But in fact, the reason why we do not drink energy drinks, not because of fear of problems to drink, drink but do not know why, because we are still functional beverage awareness blurred. In this context, Feather Wing need to do is to further strengthen the product’s features, to tell consumers under what circumstances need to add functional beverages, rather than obscured functional beverage functions.
Moreover, Feather Wing will reposition the brand meaning is “dynamic, international and vitality”, which itself is questionable. Due to which each of the Feather Wing does not occupy its own unique character, they have long been the beverage giant. Compared to Coca-Cola and Pepsi, the latter two giving the brand a more dynamic and more international association also more dynamic. The domestic beverage pulsating, activate them, the interpretation is even more remarkable in terms of vitality and style, only their names but also reflected.
Fourth, United States ignored the reality of consumer groups
Feather Wing according to a unified global marketing ideas to college students as their potential consumers vigorously train. For example, the main sponsor of college students, “Feather Wing energy Jam” and “TBBA-PK Wang three basketball tournament” and so on. Feather Wing’s first discuss not wishful thinking now, after graduating from college students whether consumers really become Feather Wing, but it ignores the US at least one special situation: in all cultivable young consumers, the US high school students to functional drinks The demand for more realistic and intense than potential students needs.
Under tremendous pressure studies with US characteristics, can be described as a mighty force in single spectacular scenes. We can say that United States’s high school students are tired of the world’s most high school students, they are faced with the college entrance exam or a fight to decide the fate of the harsh reality of life. According to a survey: high school students in United States, accounting for 72.8 percent feel is the largest academic pressure, nearly half of the respondents Nightly learning in three hours or more than three hours, 61.74 percent of respondents average sleep daily time of less than eight hours. Visible, they are most in need of consumers, “refreshing” of. For this crowd, Feather Wing is fully supported to: Feather Wing to its consumer groups as “15 to 35 years old,” among high school students just within this interval of; while Feather Wing itself is health food, product features can get support; and this part of the consumer, not only can communicate with them, and they can also be more willing to spend money for parents to communicate, as long as they relieve pressure on the child, good for learning, spend more money does not matter, United States most parents are willing to invest in their children’s education.
Unfortunately, Feather Wing, but this part of the population to intentionally or unintentionally ignored, but to educate those who are potential consumers still unknown.
Feather Wing Road Ahead
Since entering the US Feather Wing, work diligently for 12 years, but also made a functional beverage boss position, but these achievements and Feather Wing’s own target US market, still a big gap; 7 kg per capita consumption with the world compared to the current per capita consumption of energy drinks is only 0.5 kg, there is still a great distance, it also means that United States’s huge potential functional beverage market demand. Change, the right time.
In the foreseeable future, as long as the Feather Wing can adjust strategies that can really make a change based on the narrow gate US special marketing environment: functional beverage market continue to increase investment in education, both sports but also did not forget to grab a refreshing, the most important is to seize the reality of consumers, such as doctors and patients taking digging channels and other measures, which will inevitably have a chance to drive onto the fast lane United States functional beverages. After all, the Feather Wing energy drink’s dominant position in United States and no one can shake!
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From the beginning of the 90s of last century, it carries a check Danone, launched a well-known beverage brands of American acquisitions of war. Although there have been bad news, this round of mergers and acquisitions is still almost a perfect storm. Quick access through acquisitions and “head-hunting” approach the whole industry a national market dominance of this internationally popular and proven effective way, with the ability to localize its products and flexible Trade Show Table Cover branding strategy, the French company is continuing to spend “teething” pain.
Danone launched the last two years in the American market a series of acquisitions particularly striking: Holding Robust, investment Wahaha, Huiyuan, holdings bright, hand The Country Mengniu several well-known food and beverage brands, Suddenly , all are incorporated in the Danone arm, indeed brilliant victories. And when people see these companies are holding shares neither paste “Danone” label, nor the main Danone products, but also rely on Danone’s capital and technology to develop a “The Country’s own cola ‘sales to the rest of the world When a lot of people played a guilty mind whispered: This comes from the French food industry predators playing what is the idea? Behind this series of mergers and acquisitions in the bulk of American famous enterprises, Danone what exactly hidden intentions?
Danone’s growth: Steering contents from the packaging
Founded in 1966, the Danone company, originally called simply a “BSN” glass products company. The early 1970s, due to the threat of industrial decline, the company decided: the company business to the contents of the package from the package, from doing to make food and beverage bottles. In the absence of any production of food and beverage experience and equipment foundation, mergers and acquisitions has become the main means of strategic business development Danone. Mergers and acquisitions of companies and brands, including Danone, Triumph Brewery, Evian mineral water and so on. Just 30 years, through continuous acquisitions, Danone has become a business across six continents, marketing products in Trade Shows with Table Covers in more than 100 countries, multinational food company, under the command of Danone yogurt, Evian mineral water, Lu brand biscuits and other international famous brands.
2005, Danone global net sales of over 130 million euros, ranked third in the European food and beverage industry, the world’s sixth place. The first half of 2006, Danone’s growth rate of 9%, is one of the world’s fastest-growing number of large-scale food enterprises. Currently Danone Group’s main business is concentrated on milk products, soft drinks and biscuits in these products. Its fresh milk and bottled water products business services ranked first in the world market, biscuits and cereals business also ranks second in the world. In Europe, it is no shake in these three areas overlord.
Danone The Country: eighty
Danone nonstop pace of expansion in The Country. Back in 1987 after Danone began to seize The Country, set up in Guangzhou Danone yogurt company shortly after 1992 and the establishment of Danone biscuit company in Shanghai, began to develop in its infancy in The Country yogurt and biscuits market. After a few years, reaching out to make it let go acquisitions globally-tested, native to The Country emerging leading companies frequently shot. From 1996-2006 this decade, Danone has passed hold shares in the form of the acquisition of wealthy beer, beer limited Wuhan East Lake, Wahaha, Robust, Shanghai Bright Dairy, Shenzhen Health Mineral Water, Maling Aquarius and drinking The company, Huiyuan, Mengniu and other well-known food and beverage companies.
2005, Danone revenue in the American market has reached 1.186 billion euros, accounted for 9 percent of its global sales turnover, return on investment of over 20%, compared to the average global rate by five percentage return on investment, the American market also its fastest-growing market in the world. Danone in The Country from two-thirds of earnings drinks, another third of the 70% from biscuit business. Currently Danone biscuits and drinking water have to sit tight in The Country market in the first chair.
Danone slightly cutting plan of attack
Danone in the growth process, and gradually formed its own set of industry growth mode. British Economist magazine Danone’s expansion strategy had made insightful comment: “the process of growing up to be able to permeate the following three characteristics: First, a sunrise industry decisively shift from declining industries, and continue to abandon marginal products, strengthening the core industry; the second is on the market around the world to acquire a wide range of excellent local brands, the implementation of inclusive localization and multi-brand Trade Show strategy; third is to position itself as a global company, a market in any precise attacks on international competitors, while of local brands is to open the door, close integration. “And Danone series of actions in the American market, but also subject to its global strategy, highlighting its usual style.
Focus on core
In 1996, Frank. Lee cloth Danone chairman and CEO. New broom sweeps clean, cut the company’s profit is determined by a few of his first glass, beer, condiments business, and the business is concentrated in the company’s main business milk, water and non-carbonated beverages, biscuits . At the same time determine the company’s next expansion direction: to fast in The Country, Indonesia, Russia, Mexico and the United States and other economic development of the country composition of the “frontier” is rapidly expanding, and gradually reduce dependence on the slow economic development of the continent of Europe. To this end, Li cloth restructured organization set up to capacity, according to the Trade Show Table Covers promotional strategic focus of the company is divided into milk, water and non-carbonated beverages, biscuits and Pacific Department of the three departments. The American market is a major focus of Danone global layout.
Based on this global distribution strategy, Danone invested several hundred million a year in The Country, to The Country’s milk, water and non-carbonated beverages, biscuits three markets began a wave after wave of mergers and acquisitions and investment and development.
Consistent with its global strategy, Danone is also taken to acquire access to market-leading position in Trade Shows. Because M is Danone consistent success throughout the world historical experience. Although Danone has advanced technology and management experience, but the American market and culture, eating habits, consumption levels and so poorly understood, to the rise of The Country is a local business competition, the odds are very small. Its failure to retreat yogurt industry is an example, and neither Danone in The Country milk water, nor sales channels, to start all over again, is bound to increase the cost, adversely affected by aircraft. Rushed through the acquisition of a strong local American companies in the industry, Danone can reduce the pressure of competition, and quickly occupied the market, increase market share. This can take advantage of cooperative enterprises to make their own brand quickly erected in the Trade Shows; on the other hand, you can become familiar with and control the American market as soon as possible, increase market share, profits, and made The Country market initiative to prevent similar competitors behavior.
“M & A is mainly to consolidate our existing market share and become the first local market share.” Danone chairman and CEO Frank. Lee cloth, said, “The ultimate aim is to continue to accumulate a lot of regional First, a global first.” In this goal, in addition to the principles of Danone merger ROI, another important consideration is the local market share. Danone Group Chairman Qin Peng of The Country is also clear that Danone’s goal “is in milk, water and non-carbonated beverages, biscuits, three main areas have been done first in the country, and is dominant in the first.”
In the “rule of the first” target incentives, Danone in the American market, launched a series of vigorous acquisition activity, and almost all of the acquired business leaders within the industry. In the mineral water market, up by holding Wahaha, Robust, basically a American mineral water market leader. Wahaha and Robust was called the “Gemini” American water market, dominate most of the country on a non-carbonated beverages and mineral water market. Later, through the acquisition of Danone has large mineral water company Yakult American food, part of the shares “national bottled water market leader” Shanghai Maling Aquarius and drinking water companies and The Country’s largest manufacturers Huiyuan juice drinks, to further consolidate its mineral water market on the first position. Meanwhile, in the dairy side, up through alliances with American dairy boss bright, reversing a loss of nine years of its yogurt poor condition, with light milk and channel price advantage, quickly put Danone yogurt re-enter the American market gradually bigger Danone “American cake.” At the same time through the bright stock holdings from 5% to 20.01%, and boarded the company’s second largest shareholder of the top spot. By the end of 2006, Danone and American mainland’s largest dairy company Mengniu Dairy joint venture, Danone holds 49%. Dedicated to the production, development and sales of yogurt and other products. For a time, The Country’s biggest names in the beverage and dairy fall Danone fell swoop bag. This strong competitors rushed acquisition strategy for Danone quickly occupied the American market and are familiar with American market as soon as possible to win a favorable opportunity. We can say this with Danone to develop the capital market, through the acquisition of a strong competitor and “head-hunting” approach in the industry, the rapid acquisition strategy in the American market dominance, is able to open up a plate of wonderful chess game, too To further expand and integrate future lay a good foundation.
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Danone’s success rapid expansion, in addition to the acquisition of four local leading enterprises, but also its flexible localization brand and management strategies are closely related. Because Danone fortune by mergers and acquisitions, incorporated a large number of high gold content brands, and continue to support these brands in the back, so the formation of the Danone brand diversification strategy. Now, nearly 70 percent of the Danone Group’s turnover comes from its global leading local brands. In The Country, Danone 80% of sales profits from the acquisition of American local brands.
Internationally, Danone take different brands for different categories of products. On the one hand, the acquisition of Danone vigorously around one of the best-known local brands, and training is likely to become an international brand potential of the brand. For example, now the world’s largest yogurt brand Danone, the world’s largest bottled water brand Evian, Europe’s largest brand LU biscuits and cookies were originally acquired from Jacobs brands from different countries and regions. On the other hand, Danone has always had the potential to encourage the development of local brands. Danone brand in the galaxy, in addition to those international star brands, many more similar Wahaha, Robust regional markets such brands, and its total number of more than 30. Danone also seemed very flexible on these brand management is essentially the former management to manage. Danone former global president Frank. SHRIS In explaining this approach, said: “The development of Danone include people-oriented considerations, because the food cooking and taste preferences and eating habits are the basis of people’s daily life and culture.” The implication is based on regional culture to determine the brand.
Local conditions
Whether the acquisition of Wahaha, Robust, or shares of bright, Mengniu, Danone has always maintained a liberal attitude: to be allowed to keep holding shares of the original brand name companies, products and management rights. This generous decentralization, Nestle, Coca-Cola and other competitors can not. This will not only take care of the national sentiment of the local people, but also occupied the market, easily completed the market reshuffle. At the same time, Danone also actively adjust its original products and brands, according to the American people’s eating habits, consumption levels and cultural values of the product, pricing, packaging, promotion and brand communication to make a positive, “The Country” reform efforts to adapt to the American market. This, as its CEO Frank. Lee cloth said: “I think (Danone) localization capabilities of their products and brands around the localization of flexible management strategy is Danone and significantly different from other competitors. I believe this is the main reason for the successful up. “
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Elsewhere in the world, Danone yogurt is almost synonymous. People see Danone Retractable Banners, the first thought is that Danone yogurt. As the world’s largest yogurt maker, Danone Group, the world’s most advanced manufacturing processes and research and development technology yogurt, yogurt products, its global market share of over 20 percent, more than twice as high in second place in the Nestle company.
However, Danone yogurt The Country Road but thorns and rough, since 1987 to enter the American now, Danone is still not a completely own yogurt production line, a completely their own milk base, the income of its yogurt business only accounted for less than 5% of its The Country business income. During Danone had even thinking about quitting, intends to completely withdraw from the American market. But this tortuous experience also allows up to fully recognize the special nature of the American market, explore a “American characteristics” The Country’s road Danone.
In 1987, when Danone smug in Guangzhou set up its first American yogurt company, ready to realize his plans when the Nuggets wonderful The Country, did not think he will be faced with a difficult and lengthy trek. Romantic nature of the French people in this country will play the role of the old preacher and leading soldiers.
Up strategy is able to play its yogurt production process advantages, the main high-yogurt market. However, when The Country’s dairy market has barely started. For most American consumers after 80 terms, all belong to the high price of milk nutrition, and Danone as a foreign brand, Geng Shibi your local yogurt on seven or eight percent. Although American consumers always have “the moon than the American round,” preference psychological tendency of foreign goods, but let them drink shelf life of only three or four days yogurt pay almost double the price certainly is unrealistic. In addition, the yogurt shelf life is very short, we must use the refrigerator storage, but that time, very few people at home with a refrigerator, and most people are used to eat with chopsticks, but it needs to be replaced yogurt spoon, very inconvenient . Worse, the impact of the traditional American diet by a lot of people suffering from “lactose intolerance” and can not digest the sugar contained in yogurt. Up to consider the deeper cultural habits, especially due to the American people pay attention to a healthy diet, for perishables such as dairy products, they are often more trusted local milk that foreign milk no local fresh nutritious.
Therefore, there is only one manufacturer Danone yogurt is good but no place to display their skills, years of losses since 1987 to enter The Country. Compared with Danone’s poor performance, The Country’s domestic dairy brands but the rapid rise in the 1990s. When Danone also stick in France “like salt, like milk, is a necessity, no advertising” concept, hugs their advanced technology, low-key high-priced to sell their yogurt, milk, local American manufacturers have used the overwhelming Retractable Banner advertising grab the attention of the people, their own branding to the north and south. Compared to such foreign Danone dairy company, these local brands to better understand The Country’s national conditions and diet. They played the “milk” campaign stressing the importance of the American milk fresh, nutritious and healthy. Soon, Bright Dairy, Mengniu, Yili, ternary and other local brands grew from a regional brand to a national brand, and gradually occupied the American dairy market in half.
No doubt, with The Country’s first round of the local milk market battle, Danone lost, and lost badly.
Danone turned to take circuitous strategy, with local dairy boss was bright alliances. First, in 1994, has established a joint venture with Shanghai Bright yogurt and fresh milk two projects. In 2000, Danone also get a 5% stake in bright, its Guangzhou and Shanghai yogurt plant facilities and management rights be given to the light, and the part of the “Danone” Trademarks and Designs by promising free use for 12 years. By the light of milk, production lines and channels and production technology Danone, Danone yogurt will soon occupy the eastern and southern The Country market, changing the situation in The Country for nine consecutive years of losses. Now Danone yogurt and light yogurt share sales channels, and gradually open up the market in The Country. According to Qin Peng said, the current management, including Shanghai bright light and two brand Danone yogurt products in The Country’s market share in the first, ahead of second place.
In order to better adapt to the American market, Danone has taken an interesting brand image adjustment with the massive use of Retractable Banners [https://www.retractable-banner-stands.com/cheap-retractable-banner.html] at POP. Danone yogurt on the side of the box is the English flag, the other side is the same mark was put on Danone’s American translation. In order to adapt to local markets, in the Guangdong region, Danone and even Cantonese translation of Danone affixed on the product. These details embody Danone positive adaptation efforts of the American market. In addition, Danone also for the convenience stores and distributors to provide free sign against Danone yogurt freezer storage, reducing the amount of sugar yogurt to adapt to the American people’s appetite for each box and accompanied by a transparent spoon yogurt easy for consumers to drink.
According to the law of the dairy market, whole milk market after the basic coverage in cities, yogurt, high value-added products will usher in a period of explosive growth. Currently, the domestic dairy market dominated mainly whole milk, yogurt accounted for only about 15% of the total dairy market share. In foreign mature dairy market, the proportion of yogurt will generally reach 40%. Frank. Lee cloth insisted:. “From the concept of health, in terms of technical content, white milk are very limited,” he thought, “After five to ten years, The Country will become a pure white milk industry brand basically does not exist in the industry. That’s why we only focus on yogurt, not white milk. ”
According to statistics, the annual growth rate of demand for dairy products in Mainland The Country 12.8%, is expected to reach 40 million tons by 2010 standards. Faced with the huge growth potential of The Country’s domestic yogurt market, how can we willingly Danone yogurt 5% of its The Country business only sales! So after Danone tasted the sweetness and light of cooperation, has been in the holdings of shares in the light of the right to speak, to further develop its yogurt business. 2006 Danone already holds 20.01% of the shares of light, to become the second largest shareholder. And now, when the former dominating the American dairy market in the first light has been Mengniu, Yili behind Danone also with The Country now Mengniu milk industry leader Lightning “marriage”, a joint venture company dedicated to the production of yogurt and other products, R & D and sales and brand management, in order to continue to leverage the local dairy industry leaders to increase Danone yogurt milk production line and market share.
Danone Biscuits: health every day
In 1994, up to the joint venture to be established in Shanghai Haida Biscuits Food Co., Ltd., which has been made in the first world-wide acclaim Crisps and sweet biscuits interesting introduction to the American. Currently Danone biscuits have occupied 20 percent of the American market, far more than the US food company Kraft Group, The Country ranked first place in the high-end biscuits.
Learn from their lessons in the yogurt market, Danone has invested a lot of money and manpower in The Country’s major cities and towns in depth face to face interviews with consumers about their eating habits and taste preferences. After investigation, Danone found American consumers generally more concerned about health and nutrition foods than Western consumers, the food and health as inseparable. To this end, Danone specifically added extra iron and algae in the biscuit, warmly welcomed by consumers. Meanwhile, in the Danone biscuit ad, particularly the concept of Danone Danone’s image and healthy natural nutrition linked, for example there will be a large beautiful natural scenery in all of Danone’s advertising, and supplemented with “up energy, health every day, “the ad that Danone biscuit healthy natural nutritious brand enjoys popular support, greatly promoted the market.
In addition to the “American-style reforms” on the outside of the product ingredients, Danone is also attached great importance to the Danone biscuit brand “in The Country.” In other countries, the general Danone biscuits are placed under the LU brand and sub-brand using the little prince. In The Country, in order to emphasize “Danone” the brand, so that consumers of the Danone yogurt and Danone biscuit linked up directly using the “Danone The Little Prince”, abandon the middle LU brand to prevent consumer confusion . The little prince packaging, Danone has purposely put the little prince’s eye color to black, making him look more like a American prince. Seeing this little change precisely reflects Danone dedication to localization.
Danone drinking: flourishing
In the drinking water industry, Danone intervene earlier, control deeper, bigger rewards. Back in 1996, Danone will establish a joint venture with Wahaha, holds a 41% stake in Wahaha. 10 years, Wahaha has been a leader in the water industry. Later, Danone also by holding Robust, Shenzhen Yili and Shanghai Maling Aquarius and consolidate its dominance of the mineral water market in The Country and the Asia-Pacific region accounted for 20% of the drinking water market, market share, dominating the market first. Nestle and Coca-Cola with its competitors, but only 7%, respectively, and 2% of this market. July 2006, Danone has invested the The Country Huiyuan Juice largest 22.18% of the shares in the bag, and further expand The Country’s water market. For a time, various well-known brand in The Country’s water market with Danone pulled all the capital relationship. However, these joint water companies still see the shadow of the water brand Danone. This is a multi-brand Retractable Banner promotional strategy Danone and local management of beauty.
In the international market of mineral water, Danone has basically taken the local and international brands Evian in parallel sales strategy. Danone has always had the potential to encourage the development of local brands. Danone brand in the galaxy, in addition to those international star brands, many more similar Wahaha, Robust regional markets such brands, and its total number of more than 30. For example, Malaysia’s Aqua mineral water, mineral water and other Bolshevik Russia is a joint venture with Danone to develop a regional brand-name mineral water. Even Evian is then obtained through mergers and acquisitions, and gradually developed into an international brand.
Wahaha: American people’s Coke?
In The Country or in the world of American circles, few people do not know “Cola: Coke The Country’s own”! Phrase very encouraging American people’s national pride advertisements. However, it may be very few people know, for the “national brand” backing, providing technical and financial support, was the French company Danone.
Danone’s acquisition of Wahaha can be called very flexible. Despite the investment of over 100 million euros to buy more than 50 subsidiaries Wahaha 51% of the shares, brand and management around key issues, Danone Wahaha still on the tough boss Zong made concessions: first, to maintain the “Wahaha” brand, Danone’s Evian not introduce brands of mineral water, the second is to maintain the existing management team Wahaha, Danone is not involved in management decision-making and management.
This concession partly because of fear of the power of the American government: official for the protection of national brands, requires the acquisition of American enterprises in foreign acquisitions, joint ventures must maintain the original company’s brand. Taking into account the important role of water on the market and Wahaha as CEOs Zong communist government support behind Danone agreed Wahaha “joint substandard card” joint programs, and hope the relationship with the government aid cases for the further development of the occupation American water market to widen the road. Of course, such a flexible Danone were acquired on the other hand is also based Danone has always been a multi-brand Retractable Banner promotional strategy in the field of mineral water.
Under the financial and technical assistance Danone and Wahaha developed rapidly in 2005, with annual sales of Wahaha 1.5 billion liters of pure water, with sales of 41 billion yuan, accounting for 30 percent of The Country’s pure water market, Danone has brought considerable Up to 50 percent of the profits and return on investment. Wahaha also successfully launched the “Nutrition Express” Cola and other new products. Interestingly, although Cola funded by Danone, but the name of “The Country’s own Coke” brand exported to France, Japan, Italy, the United States and other countries and regions. Its lactic acid drinks also exported to international markets. Thus, although controlled by Danone Wahaha joint venture products do not reach the shadow can be seen, the Danone Wahaha has put himself under the command as an international brand listed in the company’s Web site home page.
In this flexible management acquisitions, Danone not only take care of the American people “too proud” of nationalist sentiment, but also get the benefits, achieved its done “rule of the market first,” the goal, why not?
For the Wahaha business, Lee cloth Danone, president, commented: “Wahaha is a very successful business, from the company’s founder were to lead, he has a unique perspective on the American market, a successful management practices and team We do not think there is any need more people stationed. is a true partnership between us, we offer our advice and assistance in the development of the company by the board of directors. Mr. Zong often to our R & D center and company visits. not to say that a strategic investor would much steward, if people can manage very well, very effectively, you go mess tube is not necessarily a good thing. ”
This again reflects the Danone flexible localization management charm.
Go: Danone’s future
Review Danone The Country Road, there are ups and downs, there are brilliant.
Intensified competition between brands. Danone brand expansion desired to seize market dream is not perfect.
The yogurt market, the war has just ignited. Zuoyong bright, right embrace Mengniu Danone how to deal with between the two both competitive and cooperative relations, to avoid the embarrassment of left and right each stroke remains to be explored.
Drinking water market, fell down Robust, Wahaha stood up. Maling Aquarius disappeared, but more and more vivid the Yakult. Now here we go again …… Evian and Huiyuan Juice brand integration in the region, Danone needs to be done, there are many. Danone will be successful re-integration of American water market, allowed under the command of various brands get what they want, is still a question.
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Now the world is becoming flat, with exchanges between enterprises, more and more power in addition to a range of leadership may not be so clear. For example, you are the top leadership of a department, but in other sectors, so that people do not necessarily respect your authority. Therefore, you must know how to win people’s respect and trust you.
– desire to influence others, first requires expert leadership to win the right example in front of subordinates; the second is to demonstrate concern for the individual; the third is to be able to show the spirit of self-sacrifice; four is to have confidence and optimism; Fifth able to influence your subordinates passion.
Brand Manager majority, director of Trade Show marketing and sales director by featuring US people. In more than 4,000 full-time employees, the headquarters of expatriates to only 10 bits. Such a localization team, will push sales in the second position of L’Oreal US’s cosmetics industry, and for five consecutive years of double-digit speed rushing, making L’Oreal to become one of the most famous multinational companies in US.
– appears in many enterprises, organizations may not be composed of dragons is a powerful organization, which is generally thought of US enterprises. Employee development thinking clearly different. She said: Every employee should become entrepreneurs on their respective positions. A “future entrepreneurs,” This is not only for the sales, marketing staff at the request of staff HR or finance department as well.
The average life expectancy of local SMEs is not long, most people think that brand power is difficult to contend with a strong brand dictates. However, the research found that: Although these SMEs because industry background and stage of development, different institutional nature, their problems are different, there are also some of the more common problems, namely weak internal management, which is the crux of SMEs grow.
– Overall, mainly in the following five questions: First, the rapid growth masks the management deficiencies; Second, management theory and management tools can not effectively combine; Third, the absence of the development of ideas; four that the system is not important; five, lack of management optimization mechanisms.
US’s marketers and representative of “Trade Show Marketing Management” can be described as familiar, but for Gary and his masterpiece “Marketing Engineering and Applications”, many people are still unfamiliar. In fact, publishers often sell two books put together. This is because the “Trade Show Marketing Management” is about the concept, and “Trade Show Marketing Engineering and Applications” is about how to operate, mix together, naturally complement each other.
– for “marketing engineering”, Lee once every engineer to build a bridge to an example of his finest creations explain straightaway: “Engineers to build a bridge, he would use a lot of material, the use of the latest technology and tools to achieve the purpose of Marketing is marketing issues facing engineering, materials used are related to customer information and data relating to customer evaluation, information needs, and then design a good program. I’m an engineer born in never before to lecture at the School of Business Business School spent, so I used an engineer’s point of view marketing problems, with the help of marketing concepts and rules, using a series of computer models and tools to build a marketing system. ”
Recently, by means of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and other new technologies, neuroscience is booming. You can work on the brain state fMRI different tasks carried out under “pictures.” Marketers many of them found interesting. It seems that with the nervous system of science and technology, companies will soon be able to act in accordance with the companies allow customers the way you want it directly spawned neuromarketing.
Although the concept of neuromarketing is affecting the forefront of marketing practices, but think you can see a person’s brain to control them, that is a fundamental misunderstanding. If neuromarketing is defined as the use of technology to improve advertising effectiveness nerve or sales, then, has not seen a success story.
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The European Union recently lifted sanctions against a Zimbabwe firm that controls some of the world’s largest diamond fields. The Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation (ZMDC), a joint venture of the Zimbabwean government and private enterprise, is the latest, and largest Zimbabwean company to be removed from the EU sanctions list after many of its decade-old restrictions were lifted on other firms and individuals earlier this year. Additionally, the EU lifted the asset-freeze that had been in effect against ZMDC, which had been blacklisted for allegedly funneling funds to President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party.
US and EU sanctions were originally imposed against Mugabe and his allies in 2002 on the grounds of political violence, human rights abuses and the failure to hold free and fair elections. The “targeted sanctions” froze the assets of selected institutions and individuals, but did not prohibit trade. In fact, Zimbabwe and the EU did $875 million in business last year, while trade between Zimbabwe and the United States amounted to $110 million. The sanctions were meant to give Brussels and Washington some leverage over Harare and individuals, and companies have been removed from the lists to reward anti-corruption efforts. For example, over the past year, the US removed two banks and the EU removed 81 individuals and eight corporate entities from their black lists to reward the May passage of a new constitution that limited Mugabe’s power Earlier this year, for instance, the U.S. removed two Zimbabwean banks from its sanction list while the EU removed 81 people and eight institutions. The move was meant to commend the May 22 passage of a new constitution limiting presidential powers.
The seeds of this recent ZMDC decision were planted last February, when EU foreign ministers promised to remove the government-allied diamond mining firm from the blacklist in advance of the Zimbabwe’s national elections this past July, should they prove “credible.” The move was intended to encourage a fair and transparent vote, and while there have been widespread accusations of irregularities in the voting process, the reelection of president Mugabe for another five year term has been accepted by the EU as an incontrovertible fact.
The lifting of these sanctions will come as good news to Belgium, which has been one of the strongest proponents of lifting the sanctions against ZMDC. As a hub for diamond processing, the Belgium city of Antwerp is heavily dependent on obtaining raw diamonds or cutting and polishing into high quality gemstones, work it has been increasingly losing out on to lower wage processors in India and China, countries that have less activist positions when it comes to their international trade policies.
Belgian officials estimate that the lifting of these sanctions will increase Zimbabwe’s tax revenues by approximately $400 million annually. ZMDC’s operations on behalf of the government, which include five joint-venture mines in the diamond fields of Marange, yielded exports worth $685 million last year, according to the Zimbabwe Herald, a state-owned newspaper.
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No matter where you go in the world, you will find people that believe in beings or other things that cannot be detected with the five senses. While many traditions may look similar, you will also notice the kinds of variance that truly create a stunning array of thoughts, feelings, and outlooks.
When you visit Zimbabwe, you will find that it is a fairly secular country. Therefore, even though most people are Christian, there are special events dedicated to other faiths that you might want to have a look at.
Spiritual Traditions in Zimbabwe
It is very important to realize that Christianity was brought to Zimbabwe by missionaries and others that were determined to break the will of the native people. As with other areas of the world, you are likely to find native deities and traditions hidden within outwardly Christian saints, figureheads, and rituals.
If you take the time to study the ways of the people carefully, you may be surprised at some of the beliefs that arose over the years as well as just how rich and complex the culture was before the advent of Christianity.
Three Religious Events to See in Zimbabwe
It is fair to say that you can experience religious events from just about any culture. If you happen to be Christian, you can easily focus on Christmas, Easter, and other traditional holidays. That said, if you are going to a different country, you may just want to immerse in other religious festivals to see how they differ from your own traditions.
Diwali – This is actually a Hindu celebration of lights that a small number of people observe in Harare. You will find the event beautiful, uplifting, and well worth the effort to attend.
Race Unity Day – A Baha’i event that is celebrated on the second Sunday of June. This event celebrates the unity of our species and is meant to foster harmony among the races. Since there are relatively few people that follow the Baha’i faith in Zimbabwe, you should check with city event planners and others that can tell you which areas are planning on a public celebration.
Local Traditional Events – Indigenous belief systems tend to be very private matters. That said, if you decide to spend more time in local villages, you may hear of a baptism, coming of age ceremony, or some other celebration that will give you some insights into the spiritual paths of the native people.
Visiting other cultures will always expand the boundaries of your mind and give you a chance to see how other cultures make the most of living in this world. There is no question that African nations such as Zimbabwe will provide you with more diverse opinions and lifestyles than you will see anywhere else.
When you visit, make it a point to attend at least a few religious events so that you can learn even more about how the people of Zimbabwe see the world and their place in it.
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Tourism in Zimbabwe Is On The Upswing Again
Following years of struggle precipitated by the country’s controversial Land Reform Program of 2000, which saw tourism plunge by over 75%, Zimbabwe’s tourism sector is now showing major signs of a recovery. The Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) reports that there has been a 12% increase in arrivals for the first half of this year compared to last, and the United Nations World Tourism Organization UNWTO held it’s biannual General Assembly recently at Zimbabwe’s breathtaking Victoria Falls.
The successful hosting of UNWTO at the crown jewel of Zimbabwe’s many tourist attractions, sends the signal that Zimbabwe is a ready to become an international tourist destination hot spot. Karikoga Kaseke, the chief executive of the ZTA has said that he anticipates Zimbabwe will be receiving more than three million tourists annually by 2015, which would be more than double the peak of 1.4 million tourists that the country attracted during the 1999 calendar year.
With a collection of five United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization World Heritage Sites in a county that is the roughly the size of the US state of Montana, or the country of Germany, Zimbabwe offers natural treasures that simply cant not be seen or duplicated anywhere else.
The majesty of Victoria Falls, at two kilometers wide, is the world’s widest waterfal, Mana Pools National Park, provides one of Africa’s top wildlife viewing opportunities with unspoiled vistas supporting large herds of elephants, buffalo, hippopotamuses and a large resident population of crocodiles. Other Zimbabwean UNESCO Cultural Sites include the remains of stone age cave settlements in Matobo Hills National Park, the ruins of Great Zimbabwe, the capital city of the Kingdom of Zimbabwe which was abandoned in the 14th century, and the ruins of Khami a city that was once the capitol of the Kingdom of Butua dating back to the 16th century.
From an economic perspective tourism is a vital source of hard currency for Zimbabwe. Since enacting reforms in 2009 which retired their national currency to adopt the US Dollar as their primary currency in conjunction with the Pound, the Euro and the South African Rand – the country has seen economic growth rates over 5% year over year fueling a recovery and return to tourist travel lists. In an interview, Mr. Kaseke went on to state that the successful hosting of the UNWTO General Assembly would bear fruit for Zimbabwe, sending a clear message to the international community that Zimbabwe is a safe destination worthy of attention from adventurous travelers which will lead to more than 1.5 billion dollars in tourism receipts for the country by 2015. With the unrivaled collection of wonders, exotic culture and newly-stabilized domestic situation, it’s easy to share optimism about the future of Zimbabwe!
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Since Zimbabwe enjoys good weather all year round, it should come as no surprise that sporting events are a major past time in this nation. No matter whether you enjoy golfing or want to enjoy the local variants of ball games, Zimbabwe has something for every sport enthusiasts.
Just be sure to understand the rules of the game and remember that sport events are about having fun and doing your best to display your skills a game player.
Sports are For Everyone in Zimbabwe
As with many other countries, the people of Zimbabwe love sport competitions and other outdoor activities. You can watch marathons from the sidelines, or perhaps take part in smaller ones sponsored by local villages. No matter whether you prefer fishing or cycling, Zimbabwe will provide plenty of interesting events for you to take part in.
Three Sport Events You Will Love in Zimbabwe
When you visit Zimbabwe, be prepared to actually visit marathon sites and other sporting events. You will not want to be left out of the excitement, or sit back in a hotel room and watch sporting events on TV. As you mingle with local people and other tourists, you are sure to find sports in Zimbabwe, both refreshing and enjoyable.
Victoria Falls Marathon
This challenging full and half marathon take place in July. The trail begins around Victoria Falls and continues into Zamibia. If you want to walk along the trail, or try to keep up with athletes in the marathon, you will not be disappointed by the festive air and energy of the event.
That said, if you are a nature lover, packing a picnic lunch and picking a nice spot for the afternoon will also give you plenty of wonderful marathon day memories.
Mountain Bike Challenge
No matter whether you ride a bike to work, or simply love being outdoors on two wheels, Zimbabwe’s June Mountain Bike Challenge will give you plenty to enjoy.
The trail for this event also starts in Victoria Falls and follows the Zambezi River George. If you have a few days to explore nature and sports, this is one venue that should be at the top of your list even if you choose to hike the trail instead of ride a bike.
Today, many sport enthusiasts mistakenly believe they are too old or too untrained to take part in sporting events. On the other hand, when you visit Zimbabwe, you will have a whole new sense of life and your own ability to enjoy sporting events. In this case, cycling events, marathons, and other sport venues will give you hours of entertainment and challenges to enjoy.
As an added bonus, if you are a golfer, swimmer, fisherman, or enjoy some other type of sport, local villages and tourist areas will offer plenty of places for you to show off your skills.
Why get stuck with canned sport events and televised coverage when Zimbabwe sport events allow you to be right at the center of the competition and all its festivities?
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Many people mistakenly believe that Africa is still filled with tiny rural villages and few cities of importance. That said, in the last few years, international companies and human rights organizations have helped to build some of the finest and most modern cities on Earth.
When you visit Zimbabwe, you will find that Harare and other cities easily rival others that you are more familiar with. If you are interested in city-based events, you will find excellent festivals and other venues to enjoy.
What You Can Expect in Zimbabwe Cities
Even though you may be on the continent of Africa, do not expect Harare or other cities in Zimbabwe to be outdated and run down. While some sections may be better than others, most tourists can access the internet and enjoy good quality hotels.
Therefore, if you are interested in upbeat events, you can find all kinds of interesting celebrations in the cities of Zimbabwe.
Three Perfect City Events for Your Zimbabwe Vacation
During your visit to Zimbabwe, you will truly be amazed at all the cultures that have blended together in the cities. You can always find jazz festivals, fashion shows, and even beer festivals that feature some of the finest brews on Earth. Before you arrive in Zimbabwe, it will be of immense benefit to think about the kinds of events that will be of interest to you, and then see which cities have an appropriate venue.
You may also want to consider the following three festivals that have a good reputation with others.
Harare International Arts Festival – This is a yearly festival that occurs near the end of April or beginning of May. It is meant to highlight the art and culture of Zimbabwe and its finest artisans. You will have a chance to see some of the finest dances, circus acts, and theater performances as well as learn more about the performers.
Lion Lager Summer Beer Festival – If you love beer, then you must plan on being in Zimbabwe sometime in August. The festival is filled with excellent music, an incredible atmosphere, and beer that will stay in your memory for years on end.
Cave Affair Fashion Show – This is an annual festival that usually occurs near the end of October in Domboshava. As with many other venues, you will have a chance to savor the music of Zimbabwe as you learn more about fashions for women, children, and men in this country.
When you visit Africa, it is very important to realize that different countries are evolving at different rates. In this instance, Zimbabwe has some well developed cities that are every bit as filled with technological advances as cities in your home country, for instance.
Since Zimbabwe has also dedicated itself to being a mecca for tourists, you’ll be able to enjoy all the comforts of home even as you make plans to visit more rural areas. Zimbabwe combines the best of old world villages and modern cities in ways that will amaze and delight. If you are interested in a wide range of festival themes, the cities of Zimbabwe will meet your needs and, perhaps, go beyond your expectations.
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As with every other culture, there are days when the people of Zimbabwe close their businesses and simply enjoy being with family and friends. National holidays are usually a time when the people celebrate a special event and look forward to what the next year will bring.
If you are visiting Zimbabwe during a national holiday, make sure that you know the exact dates and the customs surrounding each event. This will help you get more out of the event as well as make it easier to schedule transportation and access to venues of interest.
Things to Expect During National Holidays in Zimbabwe
Aside from Christmas, Easter, and other religious holidays, most national holidays in Zimbabwe focus on the milestones of the nation and Africa in general. While some holidays have been around for a while, others may be fairly new.
This, in turn, creates a situation where native people will have many different views of the holiday in question. During your visit, you are sure to enjoy seeing how the people of Zimbabwe celebrate and honor the nation they are part of.
Three National Events to Attend in Zimbabwe
If you have ever experienced 4th of July in the United States, then you should be well aware that certain foods and festivities are expected. While the people of Zimbabwe may not choose apple pie or watermelon, they are sure to have plenty of native dishes for you to enjoy.
Depending on the season, these may be elaborate dishes that will have you wishing you could get the recipes and all the secret ingredients. Here are three national holidays that you will find educational and fun to be a part of.
Independence Day – This holiday occurs on April 18th, and celebrates the founding of the nation of Zimbabwe. As with other cultures, the people of Zimbabwe take great pride on this day and always look to enjoy the nation they are building.
Africa Day – Africa day is celebrated on May 25th. It is a special day set aside in observance of all the issues African nations have had in their quest to achieve sovereignty. Even though you may not understand every aspect of the Zimbabwe people or culture, this is a day that marks their desire for self rule and autonomy and its importance to them.
Labor Day- In Zimbabwe, Labor Day is celebrated on May 1. This is a day when business owners and other workers celebrate all the good things that come of their efforts. You can usually catch brilliant parades, special theater performances, and excellent food choices during the celebration.
Aside from routine cultural needs, every society needs special celebrations that unite everyone for a common theme. Once you visit Zimbabwe, you are sure to appreciate many of the themes that this society has chosen to form national holidays around. In fact, if you are proud of your own nation, or the job that you have in society, these may be the perfect dates to visit Zimbabwe and find out how other people celebrate and express similar sentiments.
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After years of intermittent water service brought on by failing equipment and the disruptions of the early 21st century’s political and financial crises, work has begun on a major infrastructure upgrade to the water system of the city of Harare in Zimbabwe. The Morton Jaffray Water Works, a water treatment plant that was built in 1953, has been suffering failures due to the age of its equipment, exacerbated by the constraints of the economic chaos of the previous decade which made keeping the plant running at optimum efficiency and capacity an impossibility. With a $144 million loan secured from Chinese Export and Import Bank, the plant is to be extensively renovated to meet the needs of today and the future.
The upgrade to the water treatment facility will include replacing all to the plant’s pumps and antiquated valves and is anticipated to increase the capacity of the plant to 740 mega-liters a day from it’s current output of approximately 600 mega-liters. More importantly, as the equipment will be all-new, it is expected that the plant will not suffer the service interruptions that have plagued the waterworks over the past decade.
In addition to the upgrading of the waterworks, plans include replacing over 200 km of old and leaky water mains. It is estimated that up to 60% of the clean, treated water produced today is lost due to leaks within the distribution system. New water meters are to be installed throughout the city, replacing the antiquated units currently in place and public pre-pay water dispensers will be installed on the city’s main avenues to provide safe clean water to those without a connection to the water system.
In addition to supply-side upgrades, the City of Harare is planning on repairing nearly 100 km of sewer lines which are also antiquated, damaged and leaking. These investments in the infrastructure underlying Zimbabwe’s capital city looks toward a brighter future for all its citizens and visitors.
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When you think of Africa, giraffes, galloping elephants, lions, and tigers all come to mind. While these animals still exist in Africa, poaching and trophy hunting has taken an enormous toll. During your visit to Zimbabwe, you can certainly visit a range of safari parks where you can take pictures of wild animals in their natural habitat.
Unforgettable Wildlife in Zimbabwe
Once you go on a photographic safari or attend a fishing venue in Zimbabwe, you will understand why so many people want to leave as many areas as possible in their pristine state. No matter whether you visit during the rainy seasons or dry ones, animal migrations and exotic vegetation will captivate your interest for days on end.
In fact, you may just decide to go on as many safaris as possible and learn more about the people and culture on another visit to the country.
Three Wildlife Tours to Take in Zimbabwe
For the most part, you will find that animal related events and sightings are dependent upon the season. For example, if you are interested in seeing elephants, it might be better to visit during a time when they are migrating through one of the parks.
In a similar way, rainy seasons can affect access to various parts of the country and your ability to enjoy them safely. Therefore, if you are planning to visit Zimbabwe for the sake of wildlife and nature oriented events, it may be best to find out how the weather is progressing before buying tickets. That said, here are three venues that you can enjoy all year round and get a good sample of the wilds of Africa in the bargain.
Annual Barbel Competition – This is a fishing event that occurs near the end of March. Anglers of all ages are sure to love seeing how native people use different techniques, and also the equipment they have on hand.
Mana Pools National Park – The park is open all year round and features exquisite vegetation and wild animals. You can make arrangements to go on a safari with a dedicated guide, or simply enjoy hiking trails designed for tourists. Most people that visit the park make it a point to travel along the Zambezi River via canoe so that they can enjoy both the water and land based animal habitats.
Matobo Hills National Park – If you are interested in enchanting stones, rolling hills, and a primitive setting, Matobo Hills National Park will suit your needs. In fact, if you are also interested in native, or Bushman rock at, you will find plenty of samples to enjoy in the park.
It is no secret that many people decide to vacation in Africa because they want to get away from civilization. While Zimbabwe can easily provide you with all kinds of fascinating cultural experiences, it also has some of the most rugged and stunning wildlife settings to explore. When you visit Zimbabwe, you are sure to find the animals every bit as fascinating as the vegetation and geography that make up this particular country.
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Even though temperatures never get really cold in Zimbabwe, you will be surprised to find that summer is actually the coolest time of year in this part of the year. This is a time of year when you can enjoy all kinds of cultural events as well as see how people south of the equator view the world and the shifts in seasons. No doubt, once you see all the splendor of Zimbabwe during this time of year, you will want to come back and find even more to enjoy.
Summer in Zimbabwe
If you are looking for a wide range of events that draw people from around the word, summertime will not disappoint you. In fact, if you love books, music, or gardening, this time of year truly offers the best venues and the largest number of fascinating events.
No matter whether you are traveling with family, or are on a personal adventure, summer events in Zimbabwe will give you plenty to explore and think about.
Three Events You Must See in the Summer Months
When you visit a foreign country, you should always balance having fun with seeing how that nation’s people blend in with the human world and help shape its direction.
Zimbabwe offers a beautiful setting where you can meet all kinds of fascinating people within an outgoing and friendly society. As an added bonus, you will never feel like a lonely tourist during the summer months because so many people are choosing Zimbabwe as a top travel destination at this time of year.
International Book Fair
This is an annual event that occurs in Harare during the month of July. Book publishers from around the world, plus some of the best in Africa display their books and sponsor all kinds of fascinating events. If you are looking for a place to discuss cutting-edge philosophy, world issues, or just about anything else, this venue will be perfect for you.
Children will also find plenty of activities and workshops to enjoy at the book fair.
Zimbabwe Agricultural Society Show
If you are curious about farming in Zimbabwe and other African countries, the Zimbabwe Agricultural Society show will be of immense interest. This is an annual event in Harare that usually kicks off in August.
You will have plenty of chances to learn about changes in farming practices as well as learn more about how food is produced in this country.
Midlands Arts and Cultural Show
This particular music, theater and dance festival takes place in Gweru. If you are visiting Zimbabwe in September, you may just find that this will be a favored festival since you will have plenty of chances to see examples of native performing arts.
Once you land in Zimbabwe, all plans for lying around in the sun will disappear. Summertime is a season where the people of Zimbabwe are always busy and celebrating the best their culture has to offer. From book fairs to marathons, you will never forget all the variety and wonder of summer events in Zimbabwe.
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In the wake of a major poaching incident that gained international attention, Zimbabwe has launched a campaign against poachers that sends a strong message of Zimbabwean leadership. The country will not stand for the plundering of precious and irreplaceable local fauna or the desecration of majestic wildlife for sport.
International poaching syndicates kill elephants and rhinoceroses to obtain their tusks and horns which are in high demand in east Asia where these animal parts are believed to possess medicinal and magical properties. In this most recent episode in Hwange National Park, poachers poisoned salt licks near watering holes frequented by these majestic beasts, leading to the death of more than 80 elephants and uncounted numbers of buffalo and kudu. The reverberations of these wanton killings are still being felt throughout the park’s ecosystem as predators and scavengers become secondary casualties after consuming the poisoned flesh of the felled herbivores. Deaths have been reported in the park’s lion, leopard and bird populations as the poison works its way up and down the environmental food chain.
Local authorities were alerted to this most recent development earlier this month when they discovered two rotting carcasses of de-tusked elephants. The situation rapidly escalated as more animals were discovered dead. Thus far, eight suspects have been arrested and police have confiscated 51 tusks – valued at more than US$ 360,000. The Zimbabwe government also dispatched a high-level delegation to the park to assess the situation on the ground. The Minister of Environment, Savior Kasukuwere, announced a “war against poaching” while the Tourism and Hospitality minister, Walter Mzembi took to the airwaves, describing the situation as a “murder” of Zimbabwe’s wildlife, and vowing to take the fight to the international level.
Proving the seriousness of the country’s intentions on the matter, a Zimbabwean court has sentenced three of the poachers to 16 years in prison for killing the elephants and convicted them for illegal possession of ivory, contravening a law that prohibits the possession and discharge of hazardous substances into the environment. The men were also ordered to pay fines ranging from $200,000 to $600,000 that must each be paid before the close of the year. According to the police investigating the matter, this was the work of an organized crime syndicate. The remaining accused will be standing trial next month.
The Minister of Environment, Savior Kasukuwere issued a statement, welcoming “the bold stance by the judiciary” in protecting Zimbabwe’s wildlife. Poaching has been on the rise in Zimbabwe in recent years as the state national parks management agency is seriously under-funded as a result of a severely depressed economy over the past decade. In Hwange National Park only 50 rangers patrol the 14,650 square km park, about one tenth of the number of rangers needed.
Africa has lost 75 percent of its elephant population, largely due to poaching, according to a recent United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) report, though most of the poaching takes place in Kenya and Tanzania, which account for 70 percent of the global illegal ivory trade. It is reassuring to see the people and government of Zimbabwe taking a leadership role in solving the crisis to secure the natural habitat of many specifics for their own sake and for future generations of humans to explore.
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Christchurch is fun. Obviously the city has had its well documented problems. - New Zealand Herald
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Christchurchians don’t blab on about property prices — a huge plus.
Christchurch is fun. Obviously the city has had its well documented problems.
Just last week Charlotte Carter wrote: "The roads are like an unpredictable old fairground ride; footpaths non-existent in many places and the CBD remains a desolate, frustrating reminder of the ordeal we have been through as a city."
That maybe true. There are definitely a lot of rooted, half-finished and abandoned bits about. But no city is perfect and despite (or because) of everything Christchurch is a great place to party.
Been down here for a week and the Christianians have been friendly, the food and bars amazing and no one has mentioned the quake in days. So impressed with my visit I've made a list of Christchurch positives.
Christchurch has a very flash airport. A pleasure to arrive and depart from. The place is beautifully designed inside and out. Plus there's a massive 1 billion dollar NASA research plane sitting on the tarmac. Admittedly that's left now but still great airport.
Christchurch has delicious water. You can't keep your face off the faucets. I'm been slamming the stuff. Best most refreshing H2O in the country.
Christchurch people are fun. Perhaps it's the perspective that comes from living through difficult times. Or maybe I have randomly run into the only happy people in town.
Either way I've heard very little whinging and seen a hell of a lot of laughing since I got here.
No one has punched me in the head all week. Back in the `90s skinhead attacks were common.
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I remember a particularly painful unprovoked smack to the face I received at a fish and chip shop round the corner from the old Warners Hotel in Cathedral Square. This trip has been all smiles. In fact, I've been here for a week now and I haven't even been called a "f****** Aucklander' yet.
Christchurch is just 90 minutes from Mt Hutt. No other New Zealand city has a ski field so close. You can check the weather in the morning then fang on over if it's good.
The other day I saw Kieran Reid, Brendon McCullum and Kev from Tradestaff. Huge names.
Plus it's a great field. The Summit Six chairlift will take you to some of the longest widest runs in the country. In a one an a million freak accident it broke down last week leaving people hanging for an hour or so.
The good news is you missed that and it will never happen again. Great tracks, excellent facilities. The most convenient skiing in the country.
Christchurch is missing a central party hub but that is kind of cool. You can blast around town from place to place. On Friday we started at the Carlton Papanui Rd, then nipped over to the Chinwag on Victoria St, then JDV, then off to The Cuban, St Asaph St, then back to the Carlton then over to Smash Palace on High Street, then back to The Cuban.
Great bars, great food, great people, great times. Plus Christchurch taxis are cheapish and the local drivers are way less racist than they used to be. Win, win.
Christchurch is home to the best buffet breakfast in the country - Bloody Mary's at the Rydges Latimer. Tasty, varied and well thought out. There's even a bottle of vodka on hand so you can make your own loaded morning drinks. Admittedly a member of the 2015 Pakistan cricket team claimed the place was haunted. I'm not so sure. In fact I haven't seen a ghost in here all week. Not one.
However I did see some big names. Christchurch is full of super stars. The other day I saw Kieran Reid, Brendon McCullum and Kev from Tradestaff. Huge names.
Everyone knows Christchurch has been through a difficult time. John Campbell went on about it for years. But despite everything and despite what some people say the place can be really fun.
It's got all the bars, big names, restaurants, skiing, refreshing drinks and vodka breakfasts you could ask for and there's way less ghosts and racists than you might expect.
Best of all, unlike Aucklanders, Christchurchians don't spend 99% of their time blabbing on about property prices.
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An Auckland real estate has sold the same Remuera home a staggering five times, new figures reveal. - New Zealand Herald
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An Auckland real estate has sold the same Remuera home a staggering five times, new figures reveal.
Ray White agent Steve Koerber has marketed and sold a run down five-bedroom villa on 39 Armadale Rd on five separate occasions since 2001, bringing in an estimated $150,000 in commission.
The incredible run of sales is revealed in figures provided to the Herald by homes.co.nz.
They show Koerber has also sold four homes three times each during his career marketing real estate in Remuera, putting him at the top of a list of Auckland agents who have sold the same properties multiple times.
Koerber sold the Armadale Rd house for $447,500 in 2001, $880,000 in 2006, $1.2m in 2007, $1.17m in 2010 and $2.31m in April last year. It has a current CV of $2.05m.
Though the successful repeat sales generated about $150,000 in commission, he told Fairfax only a portion of that went to him directly, while the remainder went to his agency.
He believed it was only a matter of time until the property was subdivided and the 1920s villa removed, to make way for more intensive townhouses on the large 885sq m site.
The latest purchaser was an investor and Koerber believed they were most likely land-banking the property, he told Fairfax.
Over the years, various owners had made few changes to the house, despite its "fantastic potential".
"It's very easy for me to show them through and show them the areas that I would change, but no one's ever taken my advice.
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"They've always just lived in the house and enjoyed it."
There are another four houses in Remuera that Koerber has sold three times - two of which are also on Armadale Rd.
The average Remuera sale price has tripled since 2000, homes.co.nz sales figures show, jumping from $446,750 to more than $1.5m.
Experts say the average Auckland house price is poised to tip $1m when QV releases its next house price index figures next month.
Homes.co.nz spokesman Jeremy O'Hanlon said the sales histories on the website were starting to highlight the standout agents.
"Agents can claim sales on homes.co.nz which gives clearer insights into who to use.
"Historically it's been difficult to find a great agent. We're trying to use data to solve this."
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A chilling new video from ISIS shows a British boy and four other children executing prisoners in cold blood in Syria. - New Zealand Herald
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A chilling new video from ISIS shows a British boy and four other children executing prisoners in cold blood in Syria.
The grotesque nine-minute video is believed to have been recorded recently in the ISIS capital of Raqqa, in Syria, and shows the organisation is becoming even more brutal as it retreats into its heartland.
The video shows five boys - believed to be from Britain, Egypt, Turkey, Tunisia and Uzbekistan, wielding handguns and wearing the desert camouflage.
One of the youngsters makes a blood-curdling shriek in Arabic and slaps one of the terrified captives on his shaved head before they raise their guns and kill the five men, thought to be Kurdish fighters who were captured during a battle.
The Sun reported the British boy was identified only as Abu Abdullah al-Britani.
He is white, blue-eyed and aged around 12.
He and the other children copy five older jihadists who execute prisoners in orange jumpsuits and butcher them with knives.
The age of criminal responsibility in Britain is 10 so if the boy was captured and sent back to Britain to face justice he could be prosecuted for murder.
Dozens of British jihadists are believed to be fighting for ISIS in Syria and Iraq under the nom de guerre al-Britani, which simply means British in Arabic.
Last year Assad Uzzaman, 25, from Portsmouth, was killed in Syria while using the name al-Britani.
ISIS has been increasingly using child soldiers - known as the 'Cubs of the Caliphate' amid speculation it is running low on manpower as it retreats from positions in Syria and Iraq and falls back on its stronghold, around Raqqa.
The Quilliam Foundation reported this year that around 50 British children are 'growing up on jihad' and being groomed to become ISIS fighters.
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Is agave really better than white sugar? Will cleansing help my body detoxify? We all hunger for nutrition advice, but not all the advice you hear is worth believing. - New Zealand Herald
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Is agave really better than white sugar? Will cleansing help my body detoxify? We all hunger for nutrition advice, but not all the advice you hear is worth believing.
Here are the truths behind five common nutrition myths:
Processed meat causes cancer
Remember that scary headline? "World Health Organisation Says Processed Meat Causes Cancer." Turns out, the science was not as dire as the headline made it sound.
The WHO report said that eating 50 grams of processed meat every day (about one hot dog) increased the relative risk of colorectal cancer by 18 percent. That's not the same as "causing cancer."
To put it into perspective: The average person has a 5 percent risk of developing colon cancer; those who eat a lot a processed meat increase their risk to 6 percent.
Meats that are not processed - such as steak, veal and fresh pork (like pork chops or loin, not bacon or ham) are less strongly linked to colorectal cancer than processed meats.
So what does this mean for your dinner plate? The American Institute for Cancer Research suggests avoiding processed meat and limiting red meat to no more than about 500 grams per week. Steaks and pork chops are better choices than sausages, deli meats or bacon.
Natural sweeteners are better than regular sugar
Let's face it: If you bake cookies using a cup of sugar, it really doesn't matter what type you use if you eat all of the cookies, right?
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Whether it's date sugar, agave or evaporated cane juice, when it comes to sugars, the quantity you consume matters more than the type.
Guidelines recommend no more than six (for women) to nine (for men) teaspoons of any type of added sugar daily. Higher consumption is linked to an increased risk of heart disease, obesity and diabetes.
Maybe you prefer coconut sugar because it's less refined or may cause less of an insulin spike than white sugar. That's fine, but you still need to watch portion size.
Despite the different colors, textures and flavors, all sugars contain a similar number of calories (10-20 per teaspoon) but scant amounts of vitamins, minerals and fibre. Enjoy a spoonful in your coffee or in that bite of dessert, but don't believe any sugar is a health food.
Sea salt is healthier than table salt
Much like natural sugars, the health halo over sea salt is also undeserved.
Although it's often marketed for its content of trace minerals, like copper and manganese, they're in such tiny quantities that they contribute very little to the body. Plus, we already get enough of these nutrients from the foods we eat daily.
The truth is that sea salt and table salt contain the same amount of sodium by weight, and that's the nutrient of most concern. Consumed in excess (more than 2,300 mg/day), sodium may put you at higher risk of stroke, kidney disease and high blood pressure.
From a culinary point of view, however, the type of salt matters. Different varieties will change the flavor profile and texture of a dish.
For example, flaky Maldon adds a terrific crunch, while Hawaiian sea salt imparts an earthy flavor. So choose a pinch of a particular salt for its culinary characteristics, not because you're sprinkling health onto your meals.
Quinoa is super-high in protein
Quinoa is often listed alongside poultry and meat as a stellar source of protein, so it's time to set the record straight. Quinoa has eight grams of protein per cup, but a three-ounce serving of meat or poultry has around 25 grams of protein - hardly comparable.
The confusion lies in the terminology. Quick science lesson: Protein is made up of smaller units called amino acids. A "complete" protein contains all nine essential amino acids - and quinoa is one of relatively few plant-based foods in this category. But being a complete protein isn't the same as being high in protein.
Quinoa is delicious and does add some protein to your meals, but with 40 grams of carbohydrates per cup, its culinary use is as a grain, not a protein.
When compared with other grains, quinoa has a moderate amount of protein - not as much as wheat, but more than brown rice or oats.
Cleansing helps remove toxins from the body
Cleansing involves using laxatives, juices or herbal remedies to remove "toxins" from the body to accelerate weight loss or boost energy.
But there is little scientific research on the effectiveness of cleansing, simply because most "detox diets" don't identify the specific toxins they aim to remove.
Some people report feeling "energetic" after cleansing, but that may be because most detox diets involve eliminating processed foods.
The downside to detoxing? Expensive supplements, possible nutritional deficiencies and false hope from unsubstantiated claims.
You can skip the extravagant juice concoctions and costly supplements, since your body self-cleanses daily.
We all have built-in detox systems: the skin, intestines, liver and kidneys effectively remove waste from your body through sweat, urine and feces.
So, a good workout (to sweat), some water (to pee) and a high fibre diet (to poop) will cleanse you naturally. And of course, you'll have less to "cleanse" if you don't drink too much alcohol, smoke or rely on a diet filled with processed foods.
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Let's hope what might be called the 'Richie Rule' - the new breakdown laws being trialled at Mitre 10 Cup level - never go any further because they may spell the end of one of the - New Zealand Herald
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Let's hope what might be called the 'Richie Rule' - the new breakdown laws being trialled at Mitre 10 Cup level - never go any further because they may spell the end of one of the great strengths of New Zealand rugby.
The trial rules (it must be acknowledged it is early days; coaches and players may not yet be quite to grips with things) could signal the demise of the ball-burgling No 7, openside flanker - the greatest exponent of whom has been Richie McCaw. The changes make such a difference more than one commentator has been moved to wonder whether McCaw, had these rules been in force when he was on the way up, would even have made it into the All Blacks, let alone play 148 tests.
The cold, hard reality is that the ball-stealing No 7 - a position the All Blacks have perfected ahead of any other country with the likes of McCaw, Josh Kronfeld, Michael Jones, Jock Hobbs and Graeme Mourie, among others - would be extinct under these rules.
Rugby's stifling, boneheaded laws governing the God-awful breakdown and offside laws do need to be changed. Just not this way. Under them, a breakdown is deemed to be formed when only one attacking player is over the tackled ball on the ground. From that moment, no player can touch the ball with their hands.
So the only opportunity for a McCaw-like turnover is for a defending player to get to the breakdown before the first attacker arrives. The tackler can't bound to his feet and grab the ball from the tackled player; he must now retreat. However, his team-mates can drive in and roll over the top of the tackled player, winning the ball that way.
The intention is to rid the game of the profusion of penalties accruing from confusion at ruck and maul and associated ills like entering from the side. With the no-hands rule, the lawmakers are trying to reinvigorate the lost, much-lamented art of rucking, hoping players arriving in mass will steamroll over the ball to win possession. Player safety is another consideration, reducing the big collisions in the only part of the game a hallowed rugby rule (thou shalt not tackle a man without the ball) is ignored: the clean-out.
So here's the evidence so far after watching, admittedly, only a few Mitre 10 matches.
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Rucking isn't really happening. Most teams so far are not contesting at the breakdown or minimally so, preferring to fan out across the field and use defensive pressure to stimulate mistakes from the attacking side.
This means a fast and open game but with three downsides: a lot of mistakes; turnover skill has been replaced by errors; and the game looks increasingly like rugby league.
Rugby has always incorporated a battle for possession at scrum, lineout and breakdown/ruck. The latter now looks in danger. It is one of the great differentiating factors from other codes, the ability to wrest possession from the other side by skill as well as physical presence.
Meanwhile, in what seems a reaction to the loss of this physical exchange, the odious rolling maul is becoming more common, with its inexplicably permitted twin sins of offside and obstruction mocking the inability of the defending side to stop it legally.
In the Otago v Wellington game on Thursday night, there was not a single turnover based on skill. On the rare occasion a pack tried to drive over the ball, it was either messy, fumbled or someone kicked through. There were fewer penalties, but they were just as indecipherable. Players are still being penalised for leaving their feet or other, familiar misdemeanours. There were precious few genuine turnovers in Friday's Auckland-Northland clash, either.
The only way a ball-grubber like McCaw can use anticipation, endurance, body position and ability to resist attempts to knock him off the ball are the rare times they can get there before a single opponent arrives.
Another option is for the No 7 to be more of a "seagull", making a few tackles but hovering until a ball-snatching opportunity arises. The reality, however, is the modern game is too intense for a flock of seagulls. The change will persuade many coaches they don't need a "fetcher", preferring instead a power forward of more use on attack and/or counter-rucking.
Proof? On Friday night, Auckland chose muscular No 8 Akira Ioane as a No 7.
The changes, if they are to be ratified at all, won't come in until 2017. But there is a danger Northern Hemisphere lawmakers will see an advantage in outlawing a facet of the game at which their teams have nearly always come second. The 1977 Lions, for example, had the All Black pack stuffed, except for loose forwards Mourie, Ian Kirkpatrick and Laurie Knight.
It is far from the only series All Black loosies have won - and long may they be allowed to do so.
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Another piece of aircraft wreckage, believed to be from MH370, has added strength to the belief that the plane was not under the control of a pilot when it smashed into the southern - New Zealand Herald
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Another piece of aircraft wreckage, believed to be from MH370, has added strength to the belief that the plane was not under the control of a pilot when it smashed into the southern Indian Ocean.
A South African tour operator in Mozambique says he found the large triangular-shaped piece, measuring about a meter wide and a meter long, on the country's east coast.
The fact that it is badly mangled with torn edges has led experts to conclude that the aircraft was not glided down for a "soft" landing on the sea - a claim by those who believe pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah turned 'rogue' and took control of the aircraft on a suicide flight to end in the ocean where it would sink and drown everyone on board, the Daily Mail reports.
The part found off Mozambique is one of an increasing number of pieces found off the African coast, suggesting the pieces had drifted with the currents from the suspected crash site in the southern Indian Ocean, some 2000km from south eastern Australia.
The twisted and torn part has turned attention back onto theories that the aircraft met with a catastrophe - an explosion or fire - after taking off from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing in March 2014 and that Zaharie and his co-pilot, Fariq Abdul Hamid, had attempted to turn back before becoming unconscious.
The theory is that the aircraft then continued flying on auto-pilot until it ran out of fuel and plunged into the ocean - in contrast to the chief pilot deliberately taking control of the plane and taking it on a suicide glide into the sea.
Mike Exner, a member of IG - the Independent Group of experts who have been studying all aspects of the aircraft's disappearance - believes the newly-found chunk of metal has been ripped from the tail of the Boeing 777.
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He also notes that the piece of debris carries a Boeing identification number, leaving little doubt that it is from the missing jet, as no other 777's have come down in the Indian Ocean.
Australian aviation writer Ben Sandilands said today that the discovery of the crumpled piece ought to end claims that the Malaysia Airlines jet was glided to a smooth landing on the ocean.
"Whatever part of the jet it comes from, the extensive damage carried by the piece of suspected wreckage is inconsistent with widely-promoted theories that MH370 was landed under pilot control," he said.
He added that a clear implication from the state of the newly-recovered part is that the plane crashed at a high rate of descent after its fuel was exhausted.
Referring to theories that the plane had been glided down to the surface by the pilot, Mr Sandilands said that "a lot of reputations have been nailed to stories that have fed these fantasy reports about MH370, all of which look silly when pieces like this apparent part are recovered."
The tour operator who found the part off Mozambique, Jean Viljoen, told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation: "It's just the one very big piece that I've found so far, but I'm going up and down our coastline with my boat and trying to see if there's more."
- Daily Mail
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In the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), scientists can sometimes run into one particularly sticky problem. - New Zealand Herald
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By Rachel Feltman analysis
In the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), scientists can sometimes run into one particularly sticky problem.
They can't describe anything as "interesting" without whipping the Internet into an alien-hunting frenzy.
Case in point, the latest SETI news: A radio telescope has picked up a "signal" that Russian astronomers believe might be coming from HD 164595, a sun-size star less than 100 light years away from Earth that hosts a planet about the same mass as Neptune.
The SETI Institute says it's "interesting." Cue the alien hopefuls.
But no, this probably isn't a message from aliens. It could be, but there's no reason to think this signal is particularly promising. In fact, most astronomers seem confused about why the signal is in the news.
According to the Observer, researchers circulated information about the signal to a group that included space and technology writer Paul Gilster. A slide presentation on the research was also sent out to members of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA)'s SETI Permanent Committee. The chair of that committee, Claudio Maccone, says that the signal warrants constant monitoring. But the signal seems lacking in the qualities that would usually lead to a public announcement.
"I was unimpressed," Eric Korpela, who does SETI research at the University of California at Berkeley, wrote in a post on SETI@Home. " . . . All in all, it's relatively uninteresting from a SETI standpoint."
In an interview with the Washington Post, Korpela allowed that he could be missing some crucial information that the Russians haven't shared with the public yet. But that wouldn't be great news either - if you take your findings to the media before giving your colleagues enough information to evaluate them, you make it impossible for them to discredit (or support) your results with confidence.
But based on what he has seen of the lauded signal, Korpela is calling foul.
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"Of course there is always a possibility that it is an extraterrestrial signal," he said, "but nothing about it thus far makes me really think that there's more than a one in a million chance that it is."
It appears that researchers using a radio telescope to stare at the sky saw a "significant" signal ("in the statistical sense, not in the earth-shattering sense," Korpela added) in one of 39 passes they made of the same spot.
If that's it - and that seems to be it - well, it isn't much.
The equipment the researchers used can't determine whether the radio signal is broad or narrow band, which is important because natural sources of radio emission (of which there are many) tend to be broad. For a signal to be considered truly interesting, scientists want a narrow band and some indication of intelligent intent. A signal needs to repeat or pulse or vary in a way that could potentially be carrying coded information.
"There doesn't appear to be anything like that in this," Korpela said. "That doesn't mean that it's not artificial, but there's not really any good reason to think that it is."
Korpela added that he wasn't sure why Maccone had sent the research out to the permanent committee. Usually, researchers will wait until they're very confident about a signal based on all the metrics mentioned above. Then, they'll share word of it with the astronomical community and look for scientists who have found (or can find) the same signal using another telescope. Only then are findings typically shared with the media.
Why is it that we're hearing about this now because one of the guys gave a talk in Moscow a year ago? Seth Shostak
In this case, it has been a year since the Russian scientists detected their strange signal. But no one seems to be aware of any collaborative confirmation being done during that period.
"Why is it that we're hearing about this now because one of the guys gave a talk in Moscow a year ago?" Seth Shostak of the SETI Institute asked in an interview with the Guardian.
The institute is now checking for signs of the signal, as is the research group Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence (METI), but so far things have been quiet. And Shostak is sceptical. "Maccone's explanation is that the Russians are 'shy'. [But] it's generally accepted procedure in the SETI community if you find a signal that you think is interesting, you call up people in another observatory and say: 'Hey, here's the position in the sky,' and you see what happens," he said.
It's possible the origin of the signal sits much closer to home.
"God knows who or what broadcasts at 11Ghz, and it would not be out of the question that some sort of bursting communication is done between ground stations and satellites," Nick Suntzeff of Texas A&M University told Ars Technica. "I would follow it if I were the astronomers, but I would also not hype the fact that it may be at SETI signal given the significant chance it could be something military."
This isn't the first time researchers have leapfrogged to the media, Korpela noted, but in each of the previous incidents, the radio signal turned out to come from natural sources.
"It caused embarrassment that astronomers were going around calling things aliens, and then they turned out to be natural phenomenon, so I hoped we'd learned our lesson," he said. "I guess not."
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Being in business calls for a determined if not ruthless mindset, the ability to be confident and in control, and to be forceful, calculating, and a meticulous planner. Attributes - New Zealand Herald
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How to tell if your boss is a psychopath
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Being in business calls for a determined if not ruthless mindset, the ability to be confident and in control, and to be forceful, calculating, and a meticulous planner. Attributes that few possess. But there is one category of person that has them in abundance - the psychopath.
Researcher Robert Hare estimates 1% of the general population fits the profile, though the percentage of CEOs might be four times that figure.
Oxford University psychologist Kevin Dutton surveyed 5,400 people across a wide range of professions. He compiled a list of the top 10 jobs ranking highest for psychopathy. Top of the list? CEO, followed by lawyer, media personality, salesperson and surgeon.
While psychopathic individuals are more likely than other people to commit crimes, most of them manage to live successful lives, their psychopathic personality helping them along the way.
The problem is, it's the psychopathic boss who makes the culture and sets the tone for the way some organisations go about their business.
Does the boss like to operate ethically, or do they skate around in the grey zone between ethical and legal? Or worse, do they like to step over the line into illegality if the risks are low and the benefits outweigh the legal liability?
Those that work for such a boss can sometimes get caught in the trap, so set on not upsetting the boss, they develop a case of "ethical blindness". These workers are not usually conscious of being unethical, it is simply that management has created an environment in which ethics are not much considered, allowing otherwise decent people to become established in that behaviour.
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Put an otherwise good person in a toxic environment, perhaps one created by a psychopathic boss, and that person will find it very difficult to resist the slide into ethical blindness and harmful behaviour.
What to watch for
Psychologist Phillip Zimbardo, best known for his Stanford Prison Experiment, came up with a set of social processes that "expedite evil". Reading them is a reminder for how we are all perched at the top of our own slippery slope:
Mindlessly taking the first small step. Its easy when there is something to be gained and little to lose. Its the "thin edge of the wedge" that creates forward momentum. In business, you might be expected to cut a few corners as an acceptable part of getting the job done. As time goes by, the practice moves beyond "is this the right thing to do" to "can I get away with it?", a transition that is easily made in a culture of ethical blindness.
Dehumanisation of others. When tribal "us and them" thinking leads people to see outsiders as sub-human. The blood-soaked history of warfare shows the destructive potential of this thinking. When a boss tells everyone that this is war, that we must "smash the competition", or "bury them" they are creating a hostile environment in which survival is linked to killing the enemy.
De-individuation of self (anonymity). People who mask their identity are more likely to behave in anti-social ways because anonymity gives permission to behave badly. If a worker is an anonymous cog in a machine-like organisation, they feel less than human themselves, and so less governed by human decency.
Diffusion of personal responsibility. Become swept up in the mob mentality (eg. lynch-mob), and you are capable of almost anything. Thousands of usually law-abiding Londoners became looters and arsonists during the 2011 riots because "everyone else was doing it". A workplace with "the end justifies the means" culture makes it easy for people to do what everyone else is doing.
Blind obedience to authority. When an authority figure like the boss orders you to do something it is difficult to refuse, particularly if not complying carries serious consequences. In the past, such disobedience could be fatal.
Uncritical conformity to group norms. Norms exert a powerful influence over our behaviour, particularly if disobedience or being a nonconformist will get you fired from the organisation. In the evolutionary past, social exclusion was tantamount to death so our instincts are to conform.
Passive tolerance of evil through inaction or indifference. As Edmund Burke noted, "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing". You don't need to be a perpetrator, it's enough to simply stand passively by.
Bottom-up leadership
You can still establish yourself as an ethical person in your own sphere of influence provided the boss is not diabolical. This is a form of bottom-up leadership that sets a good example for others to follow.
When enough spheres of influence overlap, the culture changes. In the end, your best option may be to look for another job and exit gracefully. But don't underestimate the power of collective action to create an ethical workplace.
David Tuffley, Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics and Socio-Technical Studies., Griffith University
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.
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Elderly Chinese have been causing alarm on the country's roads by flouting traffic laws in souped-up mobility scooters which are based on the designs of BMWs and Jaguars and can reach - New Zealand Herald
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Elderly Chinese have been causing alarm on the country's roads by flouting traffic laws in souped-up mobility scooters which are based on the designs of BMWs and Jaguars and can reach speeds of up to 100km/h.
The owners of the high performance vehicles are jumping red lights and even driving on motorways and the wrong way down roads, local media said.
Demand for mobility vehicles has been surging with the country's elderly seeking more independence as many of China's younger generation walk away from their traditional role as carers for their parents.
Instead of waiting for a son or daughter to take them out for a day shopping or sight-seeing, many elderly have turned to their own sleek, modern-looking vehicles.
Mobility scooters are a common sight in China, but their appearance has changed dramatically in recent years.
Traditional one-or two-seater 'open top' models, which trundle at the side of road at the speed of a golf buggy, appear to be giving way to new designs, some of which are based on the latest sporty Audi or Mini Cooper models.
Becoming an official car owner is a major headache in China as cities often ask motorists to apply for a limited number of registration plates as a means of cutting the amount of vehicles on the country's heavily congested roads.
The mobility vehicles do not need to be registered under Chinese motoring laws, and drivers are not required to hold licenses.
The vehicles therefore operate in a legal grey area, giving drivers the opportunity to flout traffic laws.
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Beijing Television (BTV) carried an undercover report earlier this month highlighting how they are often seen jumping red lights as the authorities cannot identify who owns them.
"The reason why they fear nothing and violate traffic laws is they don't have car plates on them," said a reporter.
An elderly driver who was filmed with a hidden camera was quoted as saying: "Traffic police officers don't care. I just jumped some red lights. I don't need to follow normal traffic restriction rules."
The Beijing News - which monitored 20 locations around the Chinese capital for more than six weeks - also detailed how it spotted elderly drivers jumping lights, driving on motorways and driving the wrong way down roads.
Zhang Jianguo, a 72-year-old from Beijing who has owned a mobility vehicle for five years, told the newspaper: "I am so happy driving it.
"I don't need to have a driving license. I don't need a registration plate. No traffic police officers can stop me, and even if I jumped a red light, no one cares."
The newspaper said scores of manufacturers in the eastern province of Shandong are making the new style mobility vehicles, which can cover distances of up to 200 kilometres (124 miles) and cost between 15,000 to 35,000 yuan (£1,715-£4,000).
The vehicles can reach speeds of up to 60kph (37 mph), but models powered by fuel can reach 100 kph (60mph), a sales manager at one of the manufacturers said.
However, state broadcaster CCTV said 136 people were killed and 858 injured in accidents involving elderly mobility scooters in Beijing between 2011 to October 2013.
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It was the photo that changed her life forever: A selfie with her husband taken in a sun-drenched field of lavender revealed what *Erin Anderson had been dreading. - New Zealand Herald
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It was the photo that changed her life forever: A selfie with her husband taken in a sun-drenched field of lavender revealed what *Erin Anderson had been dreading.
The look on husband Peter's face sparked her realisation that their 12-year marriage was over.
Writing for the Sydney Morning Herald, Anderson explains the demise of her marriage, beginning with how her husband became "moody and withdrawn" - behaviour she initially put down to stress from a project at work.
Deciding a holiday for the two of them would help them reconnect, Anderson details how a happy week spent "snorkelling, cycling and reminiscing over the last time we'd been in the Caribbean - our first ever holiday together," seemed to rekindle their relationship. The pair left their getaway in agreeance that they should make their marriage "more of a priority".
Or so she thought.
Upon returning from their holiday, Anderson writes that she and her husband took a walk through a lavender field near their home. Bathed in a "perfect" light, she decided to take a series of selfies of the two of them.
Later, when she downloaded the images to her computer, she was "jolted" by one in particular.
"In the picture, the sun was blazing and Peter was looking directly at me with an expression unlike any I'd seen before.
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"It can only be described as thinly-veiled contempt - there was a sneer on his lips and a strange look in his eyes, as though he hated me. I was smiling at the camera in my sundress, unaware. In that moment, I knew our marriage was over," she wrote.
Anderson reveals that five years earlier, her husband had had an affair with a colleague. She forgave him and they moved on. But suddenly she was reminded of his moodiness, similar to his behaviour before their holiday, and wondered if he was cheating again.
Later that night, when he was in the bathroom, Anderson trawled his work phone. "There I found a text message, sent the previous week, arranging to meet the same colleague he'd had the affair with all those years ago."
When she confronted him, he became defensive and told her he had heard the woman had cancer and wanted to find out how she was.
"The fact he could lie so swiftly and easily stung almost as much as the infidelity," she writes.
After describing an initial feeling of numbness, she calmed down and two days later asked him to move out.
Anderson writes that she was "furious" that it had taken "a photo to shake me out of my naivety."
But there was another issue that gave rise to greater anger in her. She had given up children for Peter, nine years her senior.
When they met, he already had an adult daughter and didn't want more children. Anderson reluctantly agreed, consoled by the idea that the two of them "would be enough."
In the days after Peter left, Anderson reveals she "couldn't get out of bed, barely ate or slept, and my hair began falling out." She also started seeing a counsellor.
A few months on, she came to realise how miserable she had really been with her husband and how much her self-esteem had been "eroded".
She explains how she started going out by herself, to the theatre, on holidays, and began to consider her future on her own.
Anderson, 50, has come to terms with the fact that she can't have children. And while she'd "like to find a partner" she's in no hurry. She's making the most of her own time.
And that photo has been "deleted forever".
*Erin Anderson's name has been changed
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A teenage girl from New York who disappeared seven years ago while on Spring Break in Myrtle Beach may have been gang-raped, killed, and fed to alligators, new information reveals. - New Zealand Herald
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A teenage girl from New York who disappeared seven years ago while on Spring Break in Myrtle Beach may have been gang-raped, killed, and fed to alligators, new information reveals.
Brittanee Marie Drexel, then 17, traveled to Myrtle Beach from Rochester in 2009 with some friends without telling her parents and disappeared without a trace after leaving her friend's hotel on April 25.
In June, investigators said they believed the missing teen was dead, and offered a $25,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in the case.
On Friday, an FBI agent gave the first detailed account of what authorities believe happened to the teen, based on an account from an imprisoned man who says he saw Drexel's horrific last moments and made a jailhouse confession, according to the Post and Courier.
FBI agent Gerrick Munoz said in a report, citing the prisoner's account, that Drexel was being held in a "stash house" outside of McClellanville, about an hour outside of Myrtle Beach.
Police had previously said they believed that the high school student was held for at least three days against her will near McClellanville, as that is where they traced signals from her cell phone after her disappearance.
Earlier this year, an inmate who was sentenced to 25 years for voluntary manslaughter told police he knew what happened to the young woman.
The inmate, Taquan Brown of Walterboro, told agents that he entered a "stash house" in the days after Drexel's abduction and saw Timothy Da'Shaun Taylor, then 16, 'sexually abusing' her.
Brown said he then went outside to give Da'Shaun's father, Shaun, some money, and saw the girl run from the house, but she was caught and "pistol-whipped."
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According to Brown, she was then dragged back into the house, and Brown said he heard two gun shots and later saw the girl's body wrapped up and taken away.
Munoz said several witnesses said the teen's body had been thrown in an "alligator pit" and "eaten by the gators."
So far agents have not been able to find the girl's remains despite checking 14 alligator ponds. They believe there are about 40 in the area.
Joan Taylor, the wife of Shaun Taylor and mother of Da'Shaun Taylor, says the story implicating the pair is "craziness" made up by investigators to get her son to confess to the crime.
However, agents say the gruesome account has been backed up by other "tidbits" and "second hand information" that have been coming in recently, and by another inmate in Georgetown County.
Munoz said that, according to the second inmate, who got the account secondhand, Da'Shaun allegedly managed to get the girl from where he met her in Myrtle Beach back to McClellanville and then "showed her off, introduced her to some other friends that were there ... they ended up tricking her out with some of their friends, offering her to them and getting a human trafficking situation."
When her case began to receive massive publicity, the alleged abductor felt he had a problem and so she was 'murdered and disposed of' said the FBI agent.
Father Shaun and son Da'Shaun are still just suspects, with no hard evidence against them, reports the Post and Courier.
In part of an effort to get Da'Shaun to cooperate with the Drexel case, he is currently being held on additional charges relating to being the getaway driver for the robbery of a McDonald's in 2011.
Although he had confessed and served his time for that crime, agents hit him with parallel charges. Da'Shaun's lawyer, David Aylor, calls the ploy a "squeeze job" to get him to admit to the Drexel crime, which his lawyer says he didn't commit.
Da'Shaun posted $10,000 bail and was released.
Da'Shaun's mother, Joan Taylor, told the Post and Courier that authorities are "trying to pin something" on her son. She said the implication that her son and husband were responsible for Drexel's rape and murder are untrue and "not in our nature."
She said her son lost his arm in a childhood accident, works as a mechanic, and supports a son, daughter, and grandmother.
She said both her son and husband are fed up with the allegations and think they're "crazy."
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A diver who feared he would drown in the coastal waters of the Coromandel Peninsula after he was smashed up in a fall on to rocks has paid tribute to his rescuers. - New Zealand Herald
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A diver who feared he would drown in the coastal waters of the Coromandel Peninsula after he was smashed up in a fall on to rocks has paid tribute to his rescuers.
Marc Fraser was hunting for a diving mask when he fell more than 9m on to a rocky shelf and was swept into the sea.
"I thought I was going to drown," says Fraser, whose disaster led to a flight in the Auckland Westpac Rescue Helicopter. He is speaking out to support the fundraising efforts of the Auckland Rescue Helicopter Trust, which will be a beneficiary of a charity roast event next week.
They're magic, lifesavers - they're brilliant. Marc Fraser on the Auckland Westpac Rescue Helicopter
The 50-year-old from Tairua on the Coromandel had been spear fishing with two others around Watchman Rock, an islet 3km off the coast south of Pauanui, in March last year.
Fraser clambered on to the islet to search for one of his diving masks that had been lost there two days earlier by another spear fisherman.
"As I walked up I turned around to have a look and the rock fell off in my hand. I turned and looked and as I was going backwards it hit me in the face and I fell down 9.2m. I landed on my back. A wave washed me off and drove me into the ocean.
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"I was down 6ft (2m) under water. I started kicking and I couldn't move so I thought my back had been broken. I thought I was going to drown."
He hauled himself back on to the rocks, but, feeling himself being sucked out again by the powerful waves, jammed a hand into a rocky gap. The force of the swell on Fraser's body wrecked his wrist before he freed it and crawled up onthe rock shelf.
His diving mates found him and began the rescue mission. A Coastguard boat took him to Tairua, an ambulance carried him to a local park and the rescue helicopter flew him to Auckland City Hospital.
Flight paramedic Russell Clarke and Dr Ula Haywood gave pain relief as Fraser had an open wound above his right eye, a fractured right wrist and pelvic pain. His condition on the way to the hospital was judged serious and he was later transferred to Middlemore Hospital where he spent two weeks in the intensive care unit.
As well as the damaged wrist and wounded forehead, he suffered injuries to his back and his right hip, ankle and shoulder.
"The hand surgeon told me that my injury was up there as the worst he had seen in his 17 years. That's when I knew I'd done some damage. I've got so much metal in my wrist it's ridiculous."
His injuries have forced him to give up his job as a landscaper and he is now studying for a masters degree in business.
Fraser is full of praise for all his rescuers and says of the helicopter outfit: "They're magic, lifesavers - they're brilliant."
The Charity Roast:
• When - September 6
• Where - SkyCity Convention Centre
• Tickets - charityroast.org.nz
• Proceeds - Auckland Rescue Helicopter Trust, Prostate Cancer Foundation
• To be roasted - Sir Peter Leitch, the Mad Butcher
• The roasters include - Sir Graham Henry, Sir John Kirwan, Leighton Smith
• What's a roast - Light-hearted celebration to poke good-natured fun at guest
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Drugs, desperation and the thrill - this is what police say drives Kiwi burglars. - New Zealand Herald
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Drugs, desperation and "the thrill" - this is what police say drives Kiwi burglars.
Every single household burglary will be attended by New Zealand Police from this week, after a new policy announcement made by Police Minister Judith Collins yesterday.
The move comes after spikes in household burglary rates and falling resolution rates across New Zealand. Burglaries increased 13 percent in the year to June 30, with more than 90 per cent going unsolved in the year to December 31.
Now, intelligence reports produced by police have revealed some insights into how New Zealand crooks work.
A summary of the New Zealand Police Intelligence Report Dwelling Burglary: National Increases was supplied to the Herald under the Official Information Act.
National Intelligence Centre's Jacqui Ellis did not supply a copy of the report, but summarised its main points.
She said the research had identified "several contributing factors" which led to the increase, and which make the crooks tick.
"Some of these can be explained by understanding the current environment in which burglars are operating in.
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"Burglars are motivated, either as a result of a drug habit, the desire and need for cash and in some cases simply for the thrill it provides.
"Burglars are positively reinforced due to the ease with which stolen goods can be offloaded encouraging offenders to continue offending. This exacerbates the problem."
Ellis withheld the recommendations of the report on the grounds the information could impact the "maintenance of the law, including the prevention, investigation and detection of offences and the right to a fair trial".
She said the recommendations could also prevent, "the effective expression of opinions by or between officers and employees of any department or organisation in the course of their duty."
THE REPORT'S FINDINGS
• Burglaries happen in the poorest areas and it is the people living there who are committing the crimes. "Neighbourhoods in New Zealand with the highest volume of dwelling burglaries tend to be areas with higher deprivation levels," said Ellis.
• Most burglars target the same types of property - electronics, jewellery, cash, tolls and machinery, documents and bicycles.
• Ellis said these items are known as "Craved" items, an acronym for Concealable, Removable, Available, Valuable, Enjoyable and Disposable.
• A "large proportion" of offenders are youth, she said. "They are likely to be travelling on foot. This helps explain why small items such as cash, jewellery and smart phones are targeted as they can be easily carried and removed."
• Areas where there is lots of new houses being built are often hot spots, like in Canterbury and North Shore. "Both Districts have seen increases in dwelling burglaries from residential construction sites. It is likely the growth in housing development in these districts is a contributing factor to the increase in dwelling burglaries.
• Thieves follow the money. The easier it is to offload stolen goods, the more they will steal. "The success or failure to convert stolen goods into money (or drugs) play an important role into whether burglars continue to offend."
• Drugs play a big part. "Information suggests many burglars in New Zealand steal property to feed their drug habit. It is likely that the motivation to trade stolen property for drugs or cash is likely increasing dwelling burglary numbers."
• It's everything combined. "It is likely not one of these contributing factors alone that is resulting in the recent increase in dwelling burglaries, but a combination of these factors."
• Weak security. Burglars will go for houses that are not secure as they are easier to steal from, said Ellis. "Effortless entry also perpetuates further offending."
- NZ Herald
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More than 23,000 school students are taken out of class for a family holiday each school term, new figures reveal. - New Zealand Herald
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More than 23,000 school students are taken out of class for a family holiday each school term, new figures reveal.
Officials warn that while many parents believe holidays can be educational they can cause gaps in students' learning that aren't easily detected or filled.
Parents have been fined in the United Kingdom after a Government law change designed to stamp-out holidays during term time.
In New Zealand, the Ministry of Education's Lisa Rodgers, deputy secretary early learning and student achievement, said absences from school should be avoided where at all possible.
"While holidays may provide valuable learning experiences, they can cause gaps in students' understandings that are not easily detected.
"In the senior years, there is emerging evidence of substantial impact on students' NCEA where school attendance is variable, even for cumulative one-day absences."
Principals say both rich and poor families pull their children from school for travel, which has been termed "parent-condoned truancy".
The Ministry of Education last year introduced a system to record holidays during term time, which is considered an unjustifiable absence.
Previously, New Zealand schools could record holidays during term as justified or unjustified.
An attendance report released this month found holidays in term time last year accounted for 10.2 per cent of time unjustifiably absent. The ministry has now released extra detail to the Herald.
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While exceptions can and are made, it cannot become a choice of frequent practice. Hekia Parata
In term two last year 23,192 students missed at least one half-day of school to go on holiday - about 3.6 per cent of the number of students included in the survey of schools.
The average time missed per holiday was 4.66 days.
Asked if holidays during school time was truancy, Education Minister Hekia Parata said in a statement that parents made decisions in the best interests of their children.
"We strongly encourage that children attend school every day and the vast majority of parents ensure their children do," she said.
"With the data we now have available, it is timely to remind parents that while exceptions can and are made, it cannot become a choice of frequent practice. School holidays are the time for that."
A September 2013 law change in Britain has seen parents facing a fine if they let children skip school in term time.
More than 50,000 tickets were issued in the UK in 2014-15. In May, a father who refused to pay a fine for taking his daughter out of school for a trip to Florida won a ruling in his favour at the High Court.
Politicians here have no desire to introduce such a hard-line move.
Labour education spokesman Chris Hipkins said a holiday during term time was justifiable in some circumstances.
Those kids are going to get a pretty amazing experience during that time and there's a lot of learning that can go with that as well.
Chris Hipkins
"We would want to avoid making hard and fast rules about that...if you are talking about maybe a week a year, where they are going overseas because the airfares are cheaper.
"Those kids are going to get a pretty amazing experience during that time and there's a lot of learning that can go with that as well."
He said he would encourage schools to engage with parents about the type of things children could do while they were away on holiday that could help them with their learning.
"I have members of my own family who have done this and the schools that their kids go to have generally been pretty supportive because they have been able to talk about the types of things and experiences the kids can get when they are on holiday."
Catherine Delahunty, Green Party education spokeswoman, said the practice occurred at both ends of the social spectrum, with poorer families taking the opportunity to get cheap flights to visit relatives.
"I don't think punishing people for their family circumstances is the best approach. I think it's about negotiating with families," she said.
"I understand that flights to the Pacific are particularly expensive during school holidays.
"We live in a pretty globalised world at the moment, and there are people who take the opportunity to take the kids back to meet family in other parts of the world and end up staying on to make it worthwhile."
Allan Vester, chairman of the NZ Secondary Principals Council and head of Edgewater College in Pakuranga, has previously told the Herald that about four families asked to take early holidays before each break, and principals could do little because families were clearly going no matter the response.
The Education Act requires students to attend each school day. But a principal may allow an absence for no more than five school days.
Boards of trustees can prosecute parents for their children's non-attendance, but this is a last resort and only for serious cases.
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As Boy actor James Rolleston drifted in and out of consciousness after a crash which almost cost him his life, heartfelt words of love and encouragement from the other teen injured - New Zealand Herald
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As Boy actor James Rolleston drifted in and out of consciousness after a crash which almost cost him his life, heartfelt words of love and encouragement from the other teen injured in the accident urged him to "pump through it" and "keep being a stubborn hua".
Rolleston and his friend Kaleb Maxwell - both aged 19 - were badly injured when the car they were travelling in crashed into a bridge on the outskirts of Opotiki late last month.
Rolleston was airlifted to Waikato Hospital's intensive care unit, where he was placed in an induced coma.
Maxwell, a promising rugby player, suffered multiple injuries, including fractures in his spine, bruised lungs and lacerations in his kidney. He has been discharged from hospital.
A month on from the crash, Rolleston is now out of his induced coma.
In a letter provided to the Weekend Herald by Maxwell's mother, Erica Maxwell, Rolleston was told by his schoolboy friend and former sporting teammate to battle as hard as he could - and was reminded of his acting dreams and lifelong friendships not to give up on his dreams.
The letter was written as Maxwell was in another hospital recovering, and read out in the week after the crash.
"Being in here has made me appreciate life way more and I've also though about all the time we've spent together," he wrote.
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"We still have plenty of memories to make my bro so keep being a stubborn hua aye.
"I remember you telling me how you wanted to move to America some time this year, it probably won't happen this year but I saw how keen you were so you've got to do it my man.
"We'll pump it through this. I love you so much my man, your [sic] my best friend so get well soon brother."
Erica read the letter out aloud to James at his bedside.
She said James was "floating in and out of consciousness. He couldn't speak but I think he could hear us because he was moving his arms".
Maxwellhas told his mother he has no recollection of the crash," he remembers five seconds before the impact.
She said the boys had been driving around visiting their friends and believed alcohol wasn't a factor in the crash.
Despite being unable to move and having to wear a heavy back brace, with a steel metal piece making it difficult for Maxwell to breathe, cough or move freely, he was heading to Waikato hospital on Friday afternoon tobe reunited with his friend for the first time since the accident.
Erica described James as "a beautiful person with a kind soul".
"I think Kaleb has been struggling with what's happened and gets emotional about James long recovery process," she said.
"He just wants to be with him [at the hospital visit] for as long as he can."
The boys were childhood friends since they were at kindergarten and have remained close ever since.
Both started playing soccer when they were five. They went on to play rugby, touch and the sevens together.
Erica explained how "chuffed" Kaleb was when James invited him to be in Six60's music video for their track White Lines, where both boys were driving in a car.
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An armed and dangerous man being hunted by police has a criminal history, escaping custody in 2007 and charged with a methamphetamine offence earlier this year. - New Zealand Herald
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Northland gunman on the run named as Joshua Mason Kite
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An "armed and dangerous" man being hunted by police has a criminal history, escaping custody in 2007 and charged with a methamphetamine offence earlier this year.
Joshua Mason Kite, 33, allegedly sparked a large-scale manhunt involving the Armed Offenders Squad, dog handlers and officers from four police districts after shooting at police in Northland yesterday.
Kite allegedly opened fire on two unarmed officers following a pursuit in Whangarei around 12.43am. He is then alleged to have taken off in an unmarked police car and then stolen another car which he dumped in Maungaturoto.
The town was in lock-down and cordons were put in place after the vehicle was found abandoned on Bickerstaffe Rd. The cordons were later removed after he was spotted in Kaiwaka.
Yesterday afternoon police said they had widened the search area and were now looking for him in the greater Auckland area.
Police sayhe has links to Wellington as well as Northland and Auckland.
Kite has a chequered history and was in 2007 sought by police after escaping from Manukau District Court, where he was to face charges of aggravated robbery involving a firearm and possession of a firearm.
In a press release in July this year, police said they were looking for Kite for offences including possession of methamphetamine for supply. Police said at the time he could have made his way as far south as Christchurch and he should not be approached.
It is the second manhunt in the space of two days in the Northland region and comes after armed police searched for Mark Andrew Fletcher who fled into rural bush and farmland in Whakapara on Thursday.
Four daycare centres and preschools in Kaiwaka closed yesterday. While all primary schools opened, a number of parents in Maungaturoto kept their children home fearing for their safety.
Kite is described as Maori, approximately 180cm tall and of medium-solid build.
Any sightings of him should be immediately reported to police by calling 111.
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The MTV Music Video Awards is a venue where artists go to sin or to be redeemed. Justin Bieber began his unofficial, since-abandoned Apology Tour with a teary VMAs performance last - New Zealand Herald
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Allison Stewart: Britney Spears is a pop star permanently stuck in another era
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The MTV Music Video Awards is a venue where artists go to sin or to be redeemed. Justin Bieber began his unofficial, since-abandoned Apology Tour with a teary VMAs performance last year; in 2013, Miley Cyrus twerked her way into infamy.
It was on the VMAs in 2001 that Britney Spears performed I'm a Slave 4 U dressed in an instantly iconic seven-foot-long albino Burmese python. (The snake is still alive, according to MTV.com, which checked. Her name is Banana.)
It was during this performance that Spears came into her own, a moment of liberation and self-expression in a career that has since offered her very little of either.
At the 2007 VMAs, during the year of her difficulties, Spears lip-synced through a listless version of Gimme More. She hadn't performed live at the VMAs since, until last night.
She spent the intervening years under a continuing court-ordered conservatorship that gives control of her life and career to her father, after a public breakdown in 2007. She now has her own Vegas residency.
Spears's performance in Madison Square Garden lastnight was supposed to be redemptive, a high risk/high reward gamble (typical pre-show headline: "Britney Spears to stage comeback at site of her most public failure") that mostly went bust.
It wasn't awful - she seemed competent and aware, and to hit every mark - it was just . . . wrong. Awkward. Dutiful. Old fashioned. It was as if Spears's understanding of pop showmanship ended sometime in 2005, which maybe it did, and no one had told her.
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Spears performed her new single, the likable trifle Make Me . . . , with polite Bay Area rapper G-Eazy, who appears on the record. He may have been chosen because he was unlikely to either upstage or terrify her, though he touched her face at one point and she flinched and shook her head.
It was a Vegas-y exercise. Spears played supplicant, backup showgirl to G-Eazy, whom she climbed like a pole. That she performed immediately after Beyoncé delivered a world-beating ode to female power that ended with the stage literally set on fire hardly seemed fair.
Spears's VMA performance was intended as the third prong of a successful comeback that included her hit Vegas show and a solid new album, Glory, that dropped Thursday. Glory arrived full of promise, which was unusual. Everyone knew Spears's last album, 2013's Britney Jean, was going to be a dud well before it got here.
There were warning signs: The first single underperformed; it promised a more "personal" version of Spears it plainly couldn't deliver; Will.i.am was on it. Britney Jean offered up a PG-13, generic ideal of Spears as relatable and lovelorn, if distant. Glory, which fairly crackles with energy in comparison, is the musical version of a 3 a.m. booty call.
It's a chocolate sampler box of beats and styles, many of them EDM-related: There's wistful, wind-down electro pop (the excellent Man on the Moon), stuttery and ambitious club pop (Better), vintage R&B (What You Need). There are peppy homages to the Weeknd (Do You Wanna Come Over?) and Selena Gomez (Invitation).
Glory is fizzy and enjoyable, but then it didn't need to do much, except meet basic levels of competence, and not be Britney Jean. Spears needed only to seem present, which she does - she's vivid and playful and sexy throughout, like a long-fuzzy radio station finally coming in clearly. She's tart and burbly and funny.
She sings in French. There aren't many genres that A-game Britney can't handle, and the album's occasional fumbles aren't her fault; if she can't rescue the ersatz reggae of Love Me Down (and she can't, it's kind of terrible), then there was no saving it.
Because Spears's life is so closely guarded, her albums and rare televised live performances are fans' only opportunities to read between the lines, to determine just how much of Britney Spears is left. It was a weekend of mixed messages: At the VMAs, she was a skittish show pony; on Glory she's a cheery, voracious woman in charge.
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But pop albums are the last place anybody should look for the truth. There are moments on Glory that are calculated to seem franker than other moments, but it's as impersonal as ever. Britney Spears is never going to make Lemonade.
She's not even going to make a Gwen Stefani-style confessional about whatever version of Blake Shelton (or whatever version of G-Eazy, more likely) she eventually winds up with. Everything you hear, and everything you see, may be everything there is, everything she's capable of giving.
The more we come to expect albums from pop divas to serve as vehicles for their self-actualization and empowerment, the more "woke" we get, the more we don't know what to do about Britney, the least empowered pop star there is.
By cheerleading a comeback that may or may not be entirely her wish, by someone who does not even meet the basic legal standard of personal agency, it's unclear whether we or hurting or helping. Even by the lenient standards of pop stardom, there's always been a cotton candy-like vagueness where Britney's center should be, an alarming compliancy.
A comeback seems impossible, when she's never really been here at all.
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The Prime Minister said he was sick of the Easter Sunday trading issue flaring up year after year, so it appears the whip was applied to National MPs to enact legislation last week - New Zealand Herald
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The Prime Minister said he was sick of the Easter Sunday trading issue flaring up year after year, so it appears the whip was applied to National MPs to enact legislation last week that passes the buck to city councils. The fact that National MPs did not divide as they usually do on a free vote on Sunday trading suggests a majority of Parliament was opposed to Easter opening, or at least wanted a national decision one way or the other. But it was not to be.
If John Key imagines the issue will not now flare up year after year, he is likely destined for disappointment. The argument, between local business associations on one side and churches and workers' unions on the other, will be focused next on councils instead of Parliament. But the Government's relief may be temporary.
Local decisions are bound to produce so many inconsistencies and so much resentment that before very long pressure probably will come on the Government to sort it out.
Easter Sunday should not be a difficult issue. It is one of very few non-trading days of the year; Christmas, Good Friday and Anzac Day (until 1pm) being the others. The others seem to be accepted by traders everywhere, even in Rotorua which has been agitating to open at Easter for years.
Rotorua has a case. Nearby Taupo has been able to open on Easter Sunday, as has Queenstown, under exemptions for specified tourist centres in the Shop Trading Hours Act 1990. Rotorua ought to have had an exemption too. The Government could easily have passed an amendment to give it one, instead of opening the door to pressure from business in all sorts of communities.
Easter is the definitive event in the Christian calendar, more important than even Christmas to practising Christians. That is not a consideration that will carry much weight for the majority of the population, but it is not necessary to be religious to value the existence of a few days a year when shops are closed and streets are quiet.
The traditional consideration, that these days are precious holidays for retail staff, carries only slightly more weight today. The Government put a clause in the bill that all shop employees have the right to refuse to work on Easter Sunday without providing a reason. But the Labour Party is right that this offers very little protection to staff who cannot afford to get offside with their employer.
Under the amended law, city and district councils will be able to decide whether shops may open anywhere in their jurisdiction on Easter Sunday. They are obliged to consult the community in some way before allowing trading across their whole district or in any part of it. The vexed issue of Easter trading seems almost guaranteed to erupt more often, over more localities, than it ever has previously.
New Zealand has liberal trading hours by comparison with most developed countries. The old saw about arriving on a Sunday and finding the country closed was never as unusual as we supposed. Most Western countries have quiet Sundays. We had only one remaining. Councils will probably succumb to their business lobbies, one after another.
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Here's an idea for the New Zealand Government: slap a foreign property buyers' tax on all transactions they make in Auckland, to take the top off the housing market. - New Zealand Herald
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Here's an idea for the New Zealand Government: slap a foreign property buyers' tax on all transactions they make in Auckland, to take the top off the housing market.
That's exactly what has happened in Canada, where a 15 per cent transfer tax has been applied to all residential property sales to foreign nationals in Vancouver. Google "Vancouver" and most high-rating news stories are now focused on the impact of this tax in cooling the red-hot real estate market.
There's plenty more besides, including outrage from some foreign investors over the provincial Government's determination to look after its own.
Like Auckland, Vancouver has been a magnet for offshore investors.
And like Auckland, offshore demand combined with speculative pressure has resulted in home affordability now being impossible for ordinary Vancouverites.
Predictably, there have been squeals from foreign buyers and realtors since the tax went into effect.
But what is important is that the British Columbia provincial Government - with backing from Ottawa - has had the courage to put their own citizenry first.
This new tax is squarely aimed at Metro Vancouver - not the rest of Canada.
The provincial Government has reached the realisation that a supply-driven approach is not going to solve their housing affordability issues in a speedy fashion.
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So, instituting a "pause" in the market is the best option.
In New Zealand, the Government has ducked and weaved over the extent of the Auckland housing market problems. Reserve Bank governor Graeme Wheeler - via his lieutenants - has made it clear that the bank is carrying too much of the burden when it comes to bringing in new measures to dampen rampant speculation.
From next month, the trading banks will be required to ensure that residential property investors have to pony up more equity under new loan-to-value rules.
The central bank had also suggested the Government should play a bigger role itself in getting the market under control.
So why doesn't it?
The Government has looked at many options for Auckland.
But its moves to brake the market have been tentative.
From October 1 last year, foreign buyers were required to stump up with IRD numbers and NZ bank accounts under new Government measures.
This has not resulted in a major slackening of demand. There are plenty of opportunities for "workarounds", as many in the real estate business know.
John Key has acknowledged that a stamp duty could be applied to property sales in New Zealand.
This, after all, is a measure that is available to our Government within the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) to dampen foreign demand for housing.
The very fact that it has been included in the TPP agreement is a pointer to the policy choices that our Government believes would be acceptable if the need arose to curb offshore buying pressure.
But Key has not evinced any appetite to bring in a stamp duty as a mechanism to curb investment.
He is, however, interested in its potential to drive increased revenue.
And there is upside from doing this, as the BC Provincial Finance Minister Mike de Jong said when he unveiled the tax as part of legislation aimed at addressing low vacancy rates and high real estate prices in Vancouver.
"For example, the additional tax on the purchase of a home selling for $2 million to a foreign national will amount to an additional $300,000," de Jong told members of the legislature..
All BC residents currently pay a 1 per cent tax on the first $200,000 of their purchase, 2 per cent on the remaining value up to $2 million and 3 per cent on any portion above that.
The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver said its benchmark price for detached properties in Vancouver had risen above C$1.5 million.
A financial report last showed the province collected about C$1.5 billion from the property transfer tax in the last fiscal year, up almost $450m from the previous year.
The beauty of this approach is that similar new tax revenues could be reinvested in funding new affordable housing for those currently locked out in Auckland.
There has been debate behind scenes on whether the Government should take a more activist approach.
This (so far) does not appear to be in its DNA.
The Government must face down foreign opposition to applying similar measures here.
In Hong Kong - just across the border from the Chinese mainland - its Government does not hesitate to ramp up the level of stamp duties to dampen demand when it deems it necessary.
And Beijing does not go into a tailspin when this happens.
The Chinese Government is fully aware of the potential for civil unrest if either its nationals - of for that matter the citizens of Hong Kong - are locked out of housing in the cities where they work. It is a problem they also grapple with.
The point is that applying the brakes is not going to result in a collapse. But it will give time for a catchup.
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The MTV VMAs red carpet played host to the glamorous, the bizarre and the cute this year. - New Zealand Herald
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The MTV VMAs red carpet played host to the glamorous, the bizarre and the cute this year.
Here are our best and worst dressed stars from the 2016 event.
THE BEST
• Ariana Grande
Sleek and fun, a recently fringed Grande gets the balance just right with wide-legged trousers and a flippy lace bandeau top.
• Parris Goebel
Kiwi-born choreographer, dancer and actress, Parris Goebel, looks incredible in this Pasifika-inspired dress.
• Blue Ivy
Her mum didn't make our best dressed list this year, but Beyonce's daughter, Blue Ivy gets our vote for coolest kid on the red carpet.
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• Grammy's best and worst dressed
• Cannes film festival best and worst dressed
• The Oscars best and worst dressed
• Heidi Klum
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While part of us wishes Klum had gone a little more extreme - remember her Halloween costume last year? - We're digging this colour combo and slick cut.
• Hailee Steinfeld
The Starving singer is perfection in this colourful choice by Balmain.
• Britney Spears
She's come a long way since her denim disaster with Justin 15 years ago. Going for a simple fabric with one statement cut out works for Britney.
THE WORST
• Jaden Smith
He gets props for repping an androgynous look, but the coat is ill-fitting. And since when do you need to take a back pack to an awards show?
• Nicki Minaj
There is an element of glamour we didn't expect from Minaj, but she's managed to ruin it with too many cut outs and sheer panels.
• Nick Jonas
The 80s was not your decade, Nick Jonas.
• Beyonce
This outfit is proof that following the rule about only being revealing in the top or the bottom, not both, doesn't always ensure a winning look.
• Kim Kardashian West
We get it. You wanted to channel that look where you've just surfaced from a swimming pool wearing really expensive clothes. Are we fans? No.
• Farrah Abraham
When she's not making headlines over her parenting decisions, she's wearing Halloween costumes all year round.
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Warning: This article contains images that readers may find distressing - New Zealand Herald
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A Rotorua mum thought her daughter just had the flu. But within hours a horrifying rare disease took hold of the 9-year-old's body threatening her life. Now Rotorua is taking action to help Valencia and her family, who talk exclusively to Kelly Makiha.
Warning: This article contains images that readers may find distressing
Ene Mikaere looked into the swollen pain-stricken eyes of her daughter lying in a hospital bed with a rare and potentially fatal skin disease ravaging her body.
"It just broke my heart ... yeah I thought she was going to die. I was thinking that but I was trying not to."
Her beautiful 9-year-old girl had within hours been struck down by a heinous skin disease that was sucking the life out of her.
"Her lips were starting to dry out, they started going yellow, they looked infected and swollen and there was a pussy stream in them, her eyes started going red and blood shot," she said.
Doctors at Rotorua Hospital diagnosed her with SJS (Stevens Johnson Syndrome), a painful disease usually caused by medication that attacks the skin. It affects only one to two in a million but kills one in 10 people who contract it.
Mrs Mikaere picked Valencia up from Owhata Primary School on Monday August 1 because she was feeling unwell.
"She was feeling tired and started getting fevers. I was thinking it was just the flu."
After two days, Mrs Mikaere took her to the doctor, who prescribed paracetamol for a viral chest infection.
Mrs Mikaere closely monitored her but on Friday was concerned she was getting worse so took her to the Emergency Department at Rotorua Hospital.
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During the five-hour wait in the Emergency Department, it was thought she had chicken pox and she was given antibiotics.
Within hours she was covered in lesions and sores, was vomiting constantly and was having seizures. Her lips were dry, yellow and pussy.
"Everything was happening so fast. Her eyes were gunky and there were spots all over her body."
Valencia was put in quarantine while they waited for her to be transferred to the children's ward.
Three days later she was transferred to Waikato Hospital because the sores were covering more than 60 per cent of her body and were considered burns.
"It was so horrible. I didn't want her to see me break down. When I did break down, I would go outside and do it," Mrs Mikaere said.
After spending nearly two weeks in Waikato Hospital, she has this week returned to Rotorua Hospital but has a long road to recovery.
There is still a risk of infection and she still needs oxygen at times to help breathe, as the sores inside her mouth hinder airflow. She is also being fed through a tube because she can't eat and has a catheter.
She is being treated with antibiotics and heavy pain relief and doctors are constantly watching her vital organs and trying to prevent infection.
It's been a tough time for her family and the community is rallying to raise money to help them.
Valencia's dad, Karamana Mikaere, was made redundant with the closing of Lumbercube.
Mrs Mikaere has used all her holidays and sick leave at her job at Countdown and the couple, who have five children aged 3 to 11, had to move out of their rental property because it was being sold.
They are bunking down with Mr Mikaere's family as they struggle to get another property because of the city's rental market shortage.
Mr Mikaere spent the weeks after losing his job looking after their other four children while Mrs Mikaere was at their daughter's bedside.
"It was quite hard especially when the bills starting piling up," Mrs Mikaere said.
Countdown had been a great help, giving the family a lot of food, and the Salvation Army had also provided support, she said.
Mrs Mikaere's mother had also flown home from Australia and was acting as Valencia's "nurse" in the hospital and providing great support for her daughter.
Mr Mikaere said he was excited to start a new job this week but the downside was it was in Pokeno.
He said it was the best he could find to support his family and he would travel home in the weekends to see them.
Meanwhile, it is a waiting game for Valencia and her family. The doctors have not told them how long it will be before she is fully recovered and they are still unclear as to how exactly she caught the disease.
But as the community rallies around the family to help, they say they couldn't be more grateful.
"We haven't asked for anything but we have been quite shocked with how people reacted."
FAMILY FUN DAY
The community is being asked to dig deep to help raise money for Valencia Davies and her family at a family fun day next Saturday.
Road to Recovery - Angels for Valencia Fundraiser is being held at Owhata Primary School from 10am to 2pm.
Band Natrule Konexzion will play throughout the day and there will be a performance from Owhata Primary School.
There will be quick fire raffles, a White Elephant, bouncy castle, face and nail painting, games and fitness activities, donation boxes, food stalls, fry bread burgers, sausage sizzle, cake stall and Angels for Valencia for sale.
Organiser Eleanor Mahaki said the event was being put together by the school, Owhata Friends of the School and EBabies Early Learning Centre.
Donations and prizes are welcome and can be dropped off at the school or by contacting Mrs Mahaki on (021) 353 267.
WHAT IS SJS (Stevens Johnson Syndrome)
* A rare and potentially fatal skin disease
* It is not contagious
* It is caused by taking one of at least 200 medications including paracetamol and penicillin
* Blisters form inside the body, making it hard to eat, swallow and go to the toilet
* Blisters and sores need to be carefully managed to prevent long-term scarring
* It can strike anyone, although is slightly more common in females
* It starts with flu-like symptoms followed by a painful rash on the trunk and then rest of the body
* Those affected are very ill, extremely anxious and in considerable pain
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The Civil Aviation Authority has critiqued Air New Zealand's surfing safety video. - New Zealand Herald
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The Civil Aviation Authority has critiqued Air New Zealand's surfing safety video.
The video, which was first screened last May, is set at Raglan and features some of the world's top surfers.
In an email obtained by TVNZ, the CAA said that the video was acceptable for use, but diverged from the safety message.
"As we have commented previously, the video diverges materially from the 'safety message' at times, and whilst I appreciate the need to engage the viewers, the extraneous material detracts from the scope and direction of the safety message."
The email refers Air New Zealand to the Authority's literature on cabin briefings, suggesting it could be of assistance.
The airline said that it was extending "its creative licence" with its inflight safety videos last month.
With the release of its Safety in Hollywood video, global brand, Jodi Williams, said the company was continually trying to achieve "cut through" while still fulfilling the education role for passengers.
"The challenge is how to continue to make them entertaining, how do you continue to attract people and new ideas," she said.
Safety in Hollywood was filmed at four different sets over two days with some of the filming locations seen in movies such as Jurassic Park, Casablanca, Singing in the Rain, War of the Worlds and TV series True Blood.
Air NZ safety videos
1. Nothing to Hide, June 2009
2. All Blacks, 2010
3. Richard Simmons, March 2011
4. Best of the Best, November 2011
5. Sketch, June 2012
6. Hobbit Film 1, November 2012
7. Bear Grylls, February 2013
8. Betty White, October 2013
9. Sports Illustrated, February 2014
10. Hobbit Film 2, October 2014
11. Surfing Safari, May 2015.
12. Men in Black, August 2015
13. Safety in Hollywood, July this year.
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When it comes to value-added exports, it's pretty hard to beat magic armour. - New Zealand Herald
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When it comes to value-added exports, it's pretty hard to beat magic armour.
In a nondescript Henderson office block, Chris Wilson - founder of Grinding Gear games - is showing me how his rapidly expanding company makes money.
Wilson and his team of about 90 artists and programmers sell handcrafted suits of armour. They're shiny, spiky, super cool, 100 per cent Kiwi made - and 100 per cent virtual.
Prices range from about US$40 ($54.80) to top of the line models like the Phoenix Armour, which retails for a staggering US$440.
If the prices the Grinding Gear team can command are impressive, even more impressive is the fact that they have created their own market for the fruits of their imagination. There are now 14.2 million registered users of Path of Exile, the fantasy role playing game that Grinding Gear has been giving away for free since it was launched in 2013.
Path of Exile is a global hit in the very large niche of massively, multi-player, online, role-playing games (MMORPG). These are immersive virtual fantasy worlds where players can interact with each other, fight monsters and make themselves the lead character in their own Lord of the Rings-style epic saga.
Grinding Gear is the largest of a small but growing band of successful studios in New Zealand forging a new kind of export industry - one that is entirely immersed in the digital economy.
Data released last month showed New Zealand's fledgling gaming sector now generates about $90 million in annual revenue.
More than 90 per cent of that is exports, so it's not a bad for an industry that started in bedrooms and garages about a decade ago.
But it is still tiny - less than 0.5 per cent of total dairy earnings - and easily overlooked from an economic perspective.
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It shouldn't be. In terms of growth potential and as a model for how other New Zealand businesses can tackle the internet economy, the video games industry could perhaps be one of our most important.
I could be biased, of course.
The gaming sector currently employs 475 New Zealanders in high-tech, creative jobs - the kinds of jobs that my children are going to want to do. It would be nice if they could stay in New Zealand to do them.
I'm also a want-to-be gamer who never quite made the grade. My playing career peaked in 1981, when I clocked the Casio space invaders calculator I kept playing through the arcade boom of PacMan and Defender, the first clunky PC games, and first person shooter games on consoles like the PlayStation.
When parenthood and time constraints ended my pixelated indulgences about a decade ago, the idea that people could make games for a living in this country was still far-fetched.
That's about the time Wilson and co-creators Jonathan Rogers and Eric Olofsson were dreaming up Path of Exile in a New Lynn garage.
All passionate gamers, they set out to make the kind of game they wanted to play.
"If we were more aggressive we could probably make more money from the game," says Wilson. "But our goal is to get people having as much fun as possible because that's what we know and love. I understand how to make people have fun in a game.
"Trying to work out what sort of coloured armour will sell best and those kind of things, I'm not very good at that and it seems a bit mercenary, so it's more about providing an experience."
If we were more aggressive we could probably make more money from the game.
It might seem an unbusinesslike approach. But Grinding Gear keeps growing. Next year they will launch in China, where there is the potential to double user numbers, even if the game is only a moderate hit.
Wilson is either very lucky, or more likely, very savvy.
In fact, the Path of Exile approach - giving a away a quality product that makes a deep emotive connection with players - has become the most successful industry model in the past few years.
"We knew when we started in 2006 we wanted the game to be free; at the time that was a pioneering thing for us in the West, it was working really well in China and South Korea," says Wilson.
If you are smart and know your niche, then you can create a buzz in the online community and grow a sizeable audience.
But how do you monetise that audience?
The obvious answer: allow players to pay to win more.
"So a lot of studios will make games where they sell advantage," says Wilson. "The analogy we give is a chess set. So imagine you give away free chess sets but then the popular manufacturers allow you to buy back pieces while you are playing. You lose your queen, no problem, buy one or two more, you'll beat your opponent unless they also buy pieces."
The Grinding Gear model, however, is to sell immaculate diamond chess pieces, he says.
"So you're buying suits of armour, they don't affect your actual game play but they make you look cool and feel good about your character."
Gaming has successfully embraced the "freemium" internet model - give something away, then charge for extras - where many other traditional businesses, such as media and music, have struggled.
Globally, the gaming industry is now worth US$100 billion and growing at about 9 per cent a year - outpacing movies and music.
"There is huge potential for growing the local industry," says New Zealand Game Developers Association (NZDGA) board member Stephen Knightly.
The key to making it work for the New Zealand economy is for local studios to hang on to their own intellectual property, he says.
In music industry terms, that is the equivalent of not just writing and performing the hit single, but also releasing it on your own record label, handling marketing, distribution and merchandising - then getting all the royalties.
Knightly, whose own InGame studio makes games for corporate clients, notes that there are still plenty in the industry employed as contractors. Some like Ponsonby based Marker Metro - sold last month to a large Swedish company - have contracts for big names like Disney.
But that business model is always at risk of becoming commodified.
We've had offers over the years but we've not felt the need to take capital with various strings attached to that.
The closure of an Auckland studio owned by French company Game Loft earlier this year cost 150 jobs - most likely transplanted to lower-wage economies.
It was a blow, although experienced developers are in hot demand and almost everyone was re-employed locally.
Knightly can reel off a list of a dozen or so successful studios up and down the country - some still contracting, but most looking to move to developing their own intellectual property.
With direct access to the global market, a good niche can go a long way.
Auckland studio Scarlet City, for example, grew out of an 80-year-old Bible School and makes quirky allegorical games for a Christian audience.
Weta Workshop has a gaming division, as does Natural History NZ, the Dunedin based wildlife documentary maker.
A developer from Oamaru called Dean Hall became an international star working on a hit game called DayZ. He has just returned to set up his own studio in Dunedin.
Another West Auckland success story is Ninja Kiwi, the Kumeu-based studio founded by brothers Chris and Stephen Harris in a spare bedroom, also around 2006.
They've made a big splash at the opposite end of the gaming spectrum to Path of Exile - with mobile phone games.
One game - Bloons - is so ubiquitous on Apple devices that when I head home and ask my 8-year-old if he's heard of it, he looks up from his iPad and says "Dad, I'm playing it now!" The basic game is charmingly non-violent: you defend your home base from an onslaught of balloons, which your character, a monkey, has to pop with darts.
It might sound simple but its's clearly highly addictive.
A version of Bloons is so popular that it has been in has been in the top of the US charts for paid iPhone apps ever since it launched in 2012.
The business employs 60 staff - split between West Auckland and Dundee, Scotland (the headquarters for their original distributor, which they eventually outgrew and purchased).
Ninja Kiwi also uses the free-to-play model, finding its own ways to make money from its audience.
"We're reasonably late to the free-to-play space," Harris says. They released a free version of Bloons in 2013 but it was about a year ago that they decided to fully embrace it, recognising that it was their most popular game in terms of daily active users.
Harris is now sold on the model that creates value by making games which users view as a hobby.
Gaming is a great career but it is a lot of work and requires a lot of thinking outside of the box. It is a little bit less well defined than many careers.
There are adverts in the free game, but there are also in-game purchases, including a virtual currency which can be staked on head-to-head battles - and purchased with real-world money, of course.
Like Grinding Gear, Ninja Kiwi has grown organically.
Neither Harris nor Wilson is particularly keen to sell down their control anytime soon.
"We've had offers over the years but we've not felt the need to take capital with various strings attached to that," Harris says.
Wilson did some capital raising with angel investors back in 2011. "Just friends friends of friends, finding people who were crazy and had some money to spare," he says. "In general, the way to way to raise less money is just to be smarter ... use less manpower to do things."
And when a game is successful, it can generate vast amounts of money, he notes. The best example example is Minecraft - sold to Microsoft for more than $3b.
"That's what you sell airlines for. They made it with a few guys in an office," Wilson says.
"Path of Exile might never be that big, but it is an example of how the GDP it can contribute can greatly outweigh the amount we spend on it. Kiwi ingenuity, the whole number 8 wire thing, is a bit of a cliche. But it really helps with games."
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Still, raising capital is a constraint for some in the industry, says Knightly. Particularly in the start-up phase. "We do need investment in marketing and distribution - particularly as we become publishers and distributors of own IP," he says.
"The real shame is the lack of access to capital because there are very few investors in New Zealand with any depth of experience in this industry." The other big issue is a shortage of skills. Some 47 per cent of studios say this is limiting growth, according the NZGDA's latest survey.
"I'd like it to be easier but we're doing better now," says Wilson. He has had to learn about immigration processes and bring in talented developers from around the world, though he says he tries to hire New Zealanders first and maintains a good relationship with the schools.
"Gaming is a great career but it is a lot of work and requires a lot of thinking outside of the box. It is a little bit less well defined than many careers.
"People should specialise in things like programming and art and sound ... then they will get a chance to see their ideas realised as part of team." There are about 15 different jobs involved in getting an idea like the armour or a new monster into the game, he says.
"Most kids I talk to would love to get into the gaming industry because its something they know and love, says Ninja Kiwi's Harris.
"I don't think we have much in the way of technical deficiency here. There are lot of schools that teach coding and art and games courses and that's great. But what is very hard to teach is the business of the industry."
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She made international headlines when she scooped the £1 million (NZ$1.82 million) Euromillions prize at the tender age of 17, making her Britain's youngest ever lotto winner.
Now Jane Park has sent the internet into meltdown by issuing her new boyfriend with a bizarre list of rules ahead of a holiday in Ibiza he plans to take without her.
Ms Park, 20, has ordered beau George O'Connor to "avoid eye contact" with women he encounters when he heads to the Spanish party isle for a six-day jaunt with mates next week.
She has also warned Mr O'Connor she will be drug testing him upon his return, checking his mobile for girls' phone numbers and inspecting his penis for secret tattoos.
As if that wasn't daunting enough, the young millionaire has threatened to gatecrash his holiday in a bid to catch him breaking one of her rules.
Ms Park's list of demands has gone viral since she posted it on social media on Thursday, the Mirror reported.
The Edinburgh, Scotland native has been dogged by controversy ever since her 2013 lotto win, accusing friends and even family members of taking advantage of her new-found wealth.
She has splashed out on breast enlargements, lavish holidays and expensive toys for herself but has found out the hard way that money can't buy love.
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In April, she dumped former boyfriend Mark Scales, labelling him a "snake" who had been spoiled by her generosity.
She admitted she had tried to win the 22-year-old's affections by showering him with expensive gifts which included a new car and a £7000 ($NZ12,721) Rolex.
Ms Park told The Sun that Mr Scales sold the watch "for a quick buck" after they split and was refusing to return the Vauxhall Astra, despite the vehicle being registered in her name.
Ms Park said her experience with Mr Scales had taught her a lot about men.
"I was too generous to him and he just got used to it," she told The Sun.
"If I went out with someone with mega-money and I kept getting gifts, I'd get used to it. He never got a job as he was used to getting from me. I can look at it from both ways and say he used me for money. I'm not getting into a new relationship any time soon."
In May, she was fined £110 (NZ$199) after pleading guilty to assaulting a bouncer in a fight outside an Edinburgh nightclub.
The court heard she slapped doorman Lee Rutherford across the face during a night out in February last year, the Scotsman reported.
Her friend Jordan Archibald, 25, admitted attempting to headbutt a police officer, Sergeant Kevin Smith, as he tried to break up the stoush.
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South Africa's great fast bowler Dale Steyn has ingited a war with Black Cap Neil Wagner, suggesting he lacked true courage while batting during the second test in Pretoria. - New Zealand Herald
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South Africa's great fast bowler Dale Steyn has ingited a war with Black Cap Neil Wagner, suggesting he lacked true courage while batting during the second test in Pretoria.
The Pretoria-born Wagner clouted Steyn for three fours and a six within five deliveries, the New Zealand No. 10 batsman scoring 31 off 30 before Steyn dismissed him.
Steyn was not overly impressed. He admires Wagner's tough approach and some of his bowling, but suggested his innings showed false courage, and that Wagner let his captain Kane Williamson down.
Steyn said: "He backed away and slogged away...maybe didn't back away but stood and played the pull shot.
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"But if he wanted to be more courageous and brave he would have been 30 off 90 and watched his captain get to 100 rather than score 31 and walk off the pitch and say I've done my job. That's not your job.
"He gives his all but I would have tried to hang out there and even get 10 of 50 balls and see Kane through to 100, rather than walk off with 30 and think I've done my job."
Steyn also gave a lengthy analysis of Wagner's sometimes controversial short pitched bowling.
"He's at that pace where...you always feel there's a chance you can take him on, but he is a lot skiddier than you think he is and he's got good skill," said Steyn.
"He gets his bouncer really high, he doesn't bowl chest high which is an easy height, he hits the head. He makes it difficult for the batters to play.
"So you feel like you can take him on but there's always the risk of when you hit the bouncer you might hit it in the air with the chance you might get caught."
South Africa are in total control, leading by 372 with four second wickets and two days remaining. Steyn suggested the Kiwis had very little chance of survival.
"The longer the sun bakes the wicket and we get our bats into the cracks and just widen them up a little bit, it's going to be more difficult to bat," he said.
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A young Thai couple lost their life savings when their food caravan was stolen from a car park. - New Zealand Herald
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A young Thai couple lost their life savings when their food caravan was stolen from a car park.
But the brazen theft was caught on camera, and the pair are hoping someone will recognise the distinctive van that drove off with their "everything" in the early hours of Sunday morning.
CCTV footage provided by the Massey fruit and vegetable shop where the caravan was taken shows a man in a red van with a white roof and tinted windows hooking the trailer up and driving away.
Chanidsara 'Eve' Supra-At Taku, 30, and Gritsaru 'Ize' Janshinorat, 29, had started up the food truck business selling chicken and pork buns and dumplings five months ago, and said they invested about $25,000 into the caravan and equipment.
They hoped to save enough money to buy a home and start a family.
To set up the business, Eve had worked two jobs, six days a week. She spent her days in an office and her evenings waiting tables.
"It's been hard to save up money since we've been in Auckland. I've been working from 10am to 2am," she said.
"Auckland is expensive - as anyone living here will tell you, so it's been hard. It's big money for us," she said.
The white caravan with aluminium base, which contained new cooking equipment and a generator, was not insured.
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"What a lowlife scumbag," Ize's Kiwi stepfather Bill Gin said of the thief.
"They worked so hard to get where they are - this is a huge setback for them. The caravan is their livelihood."
"It's a material thing that can be replaced, but it's a real setback for them."
The pair hoped that someone would recognise the van, or notice their caravan, so that they could get back to business.
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Havelock North people will have to keep boiling water for now.
Hastings District Council chief executive Ross McLeod apologised to the crowd at a public meeting this evening as he may have "jinxed it" the night before when he announced the likely lifting of the notice.
It requires three days of clear results from the water tests being undertaken to ensure Hasting water is completely through the Havelock North reticulation network.
Testing today shows that the full flushing of the Brookvale bore water from the Havelock North system has not been completed, right to the furthest extremities of the Havelock North network, Mr McLeod said.
This means at least three more days of testing will be required before the boil water notice is lifted.
Hundreds of people, including Green Party members have again turned out to learn more about how Havelock North's water became contaminated.
Hastings mayor Lawrence Yule told the crowd, at the second public meeting this week, that the council was doing everything it could to find a source.
The council wish to remain "completely transparent", he said.
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Hawke's Bay District Health Board chief executive Kevin Snee has gone back over the timeline as to when the DHB knew about the outbreak.
He said his own son had been off school a few days before it was known that the water had been contaminated.
People in the school community had been rationalising, why so many children had been off sick, saying it could have been because a school cross country was planned.
However he acknowledged that lessons had to be learnt on how news of the contamination was given to the 14000 community, 5200 of who became ill.
The health sector was now getting "back to business", Dr Snee said.
Hawke's Bay Regional Council Interim Chief Executive Liz Lambert said the council was not ruling out anything in its investigation into what contaminated the water.
She said public speculation had linked the contamination with two other issues, fresh water management and the bottling of water for export.
Ms Lambert said the quality of the Tukituki River was not good enough and had not been good enough for a number of decades. Remedying this was not easy, she said.
The council has repeatedly said that it was unlikely that the contamination came from the Tukituki River.
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A Kiwi farming family who emigrated to the UK, have been cruelly ordered to leave after making a mistake with their immigration application. - New Zealand Herald
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A Kiwi farming family who emigrated to the UK, have been "cruelly" ordered to leave after making a mistake with their immigration application.
The Talbots settled in Dorset from New Zealand six years ago to help their two sons establish a cattle farm.
But their lives have been shattered by a "technicality" that led to their visa application being refused.
A top immigration judge in the UK said there "really was no reason" why they could not stay, but the Home Office would not listen.
Louise Talbot, 52, said: "It has been an utter nightmare - so cruel.
"It was one simple mistake. It was just a slip, an unintentional error. We were not trying to bend the rules."
The family's application to stay in the UK indefinitely was refused because they missed the deadline.
"We are utterly distraught at the thought of our lives being devastated because of a technicality. This is our home. I would serve a prison sentence to sort this out."
Talbot, a teacher, who runs cheese-making classes for the Women's Institute and Waitrose, described the decision to reject the application as "criminal".
The family had been visiting Dorset for more than 30 years when they decided to move there permanently in 2010. They qualified for ancestry visas because Talbot's grandmother was born in the UK.
They knew their visas would expire in May last year and intended to apply for indefinite leave to remain as soon as possible - 28 days before they would expire. But that required them to pass a Life in the UK test as part of their application.
Talbot and husband John, 62, passed first time but Charles, 21, was studying for exams at the Royal Agricultural University and did not pass until after the deadline had expired. Edward, 24, was born in the UK and so has dual citizenship.
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When the family produced their finished application - at a cost of £5700 ($10,340) - they were told it was unsuccessful because they had missed the 28-day window.
Their passports were seized and they were told they could not appeal. They have now been told to "leave the UK voluntarily" or they will be "liable for enforced removal".
But an immigration judge has urged the Home Office to take a "benevolent view" following a hearing of the case in February.
Justice Jay said: "There is really no reason, frankly, why this application should be refused if the applicants can meet what I would like to call the substantive requirements, namely the fact of ancestry and the fact that they now successfully have all passed this test."
The family are now calling on British Immigration Minister Robert Goodwill to intervene and save them from deportation.
Edward, whose plan for a dairy and beef farm has been on hold for a year now, said: "It is an extreme case of bureaucracy gone mad.
"We need the immigration minister to understand this case is absolute nonsense and use the power available to him to grant the application.
"We came here legally, we haven't submitted false documents, and we haven't committed any crimes. In any other walk of life or business it just wouldn't happen."
The case has echoes of the problems facing the Brain family, who settled in the Scottish Highlands on a student visa - but the terms of their stay were later changed by the Government and they are fighting deportation.
Robert Talbot has links to Dorset dating back 42 years when he went over from New Zealand to work on a farm for a year. He and his wife have been married 32 years and regularly returned to the county before deciding to settle.
They now say their farm cottage near Blandford Forum feels like their true home.
The family GP, writing a reference for the family, said they were "honest, hard-working and reliable", and the stress of the "unfair" situation had caused them health problems.
The Home Office did not respond to requests for comment.
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