AVV - Alfreton & Broadmeadows edition (Feb 2013)

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Welcome to Amber Valley Voice Hello and welcome to the latest edition of AVV. In the last month, I have experienced a couple of milestones a big birthday, a bridesmaid dress fitting in adulthood and several hairy moments involving snow and a car!! I really can’t say that 2013 is uneventful, so bearing all that in mind, I thought I’d start AVV3, which means that we will soon be going out to over 10,000 homes in the area!

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All developments on that front are planned for the next couple of months but we’re also developing the current magazines based on popular opinion. Carla has been very busy this month developing a ’useful telephone numbers’ section. If you know any numbers that you would like to see on here, then drop Carla a line. Also, we always ask for you to submit your local dog walks or recipes but just to re-iterate...this is a local magazine for your local area, so if you have something to share….please do!

Finally, we have some great offers as always, Body & Sole are on hand to blow away those winter blues with a couple of fantastic packages. Tile Town are back again with an offer if you fancy giving your house a make-over and if you are wanting to save some money, check out binsured on page 7. We also Re have lots of events going on in the ‘Things to do’ Section...so Of ade remember, if you would like us to promote your event, club or fer r news...give us a call.

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Over 50’s Sequence Dancing at Riddings Community Centre

This small, friendly group would welcome anyone who is looking for a bit of light exercise and friendship.

Wednesday afternoons. 2pm until 4pm. £1.75, which includes a free raffle entry and tea and biscuits.

For further details contact Alison on 01773 607907 or 07450064829.

Upcoming walk with Alfreton and District Rambling Club We walk on alternate Sundays and meet in the car park near Alfreton Library. Bring a drink and packed lunch. Suitable footwear and clothing required. New faces made welcome. . For more info call 01773 835437

Alpine Garden Society - Derby Group

A must for all gardening fans! The group meets on the first Wednesday of each month and has guest speakers to discuss topical issues. You can also bring and buy plants and seeds that have been cultivated by the members. The next meeting is on the 6th March which will host short talks by members, followed by a plant auction.

Wednesday 6th March, 7:30pm at Breadsall Memorial Hall, Breadsall, Derby. DE21 5LF. For more information, contact David Charlton on 01332 668915.

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Ark Youth Theatre

Are your kids bored after School, enjoy drama and making new friends? Join Ashton and Lauren at the Ark Youth Theatre, first class is free and ÂŁ4 thereafter. Kids at ages 6-11 enjoy the 5pm until 6pm class and older kids from 12-16 are 6:15pm until 7:15pm. For more information visit ww.arktheatrecompany.co.uk, email; admin@arktheatrecompany.co.uk or call 07532014318. Every Tuesday evening at Stretton Village Hall, Stretton, Alfreton. DE55 6EW

Magic Show - Half Term Treat!

A real treat for kids of all ages whilst helping to support the work of Valley CIDS. Tickets can be reserved by phoning Jenny Whittaker on 01773 604215 or e-mail: jenny.valleycids@w3z.co.uk Wednesday 20th February - 4:30pm until 5:30pm at The Hayes Conference Centre, Swanwick. DE55 1AU.

FREE Play Fun Session with Derbyshire Children’s Centre

Lots of fun play activities provided by community members for you and your child to enjoy. Plus get your FREE goodie bag to enable you to continue enjoying these activities at home.

Thursday 28th March, 1:30pm until 3pm at Alfreton Community Centre, Off Mansfield Road.

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WEA Alfreton Programme Wildlife on Your Doorstep Starts 17th April 2013 - Wednesdays 6:30pm to 8:30pm 8 week course tutored by Debbie Alston at Alfreton Adult Community Education Centre, Church Street, Alfreton. DE55 7BD. The course will look at some special habitats and the species they support. Learners will discover why habitats have developed the way they have and why they need to be managed.

The course will include two field visits to nearby nature reserves.

Please note booking is essential for this popular course.

To book contact our Branch Secretary, Denise Glover on 0115 938 4025 Fee £56.

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Warm Chocolate Fondant Pudding With Molten Filling.

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This month we welcome back Derbyshire’s culinary elite, Scott and Kelvin to bring a delicious dessert into our lives. We’ve had really great feedback about the recipes that these guys have kindly submitted and I would love to hear about it if you made the recipes, it’d be even better if you sent in a picture! Also, if you have a recipe of your own that you would like to share with everybody please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Happy Cooking xx

Ingredients Molten Filling

Cake mix

9oz Dark chocolate 6fl oz Double cream 1tbsp Brandy or other flavouring

9oz soft butter 9oz caster sugar 4 eggs

6oz plain flour 4oz cocoa powder

Method Make the filling first, ideally the day before you make the fondants.

Warm the cream and whisk in the broken chocolate until thick, add flavouring.

Pour into a shallow container and chill until set, minimum 3 hours.

Pre heat oven to 200 degrees Celsius.

In a electric mixer cream the butter and sugar together till light, fluffy and almost white in colour. Add eggs 1 at a time and beat well. Sift the flour and cocoa together and add to the butter and egg mix making sure its all worked in. Transfer the mix to a piping bag.

Butter 8 dariole moulds or ramekins.

Starting at the bottom pipe the chocolate mix so it covers the bottom and then pipe around the sides till you get to the

top, making a well in the centre.

Do this with all the moulds making sure you still have some mix left.

Now make a ball about the size of a marble out of the chilled molten filling mix and place in the well.

Do this with all the moulds then pipe over the top with the remaining cake mix.

Bake at 200 degrees Celsius for 15 minutes.

Once cooked, leave to cool slightly then gently run a knife around the edge of the mould and gently remove the cake.

If still warm you can serve immediately with vanilla ice cream and seasonal berries.

Alternately you can leave to completely cool then once ready to serve gently warm through on medium setting for 1-2 minutes in the microwave.

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Book Review Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn is definitely a book you can imagine being turned into a film. It may not be high art but it reads fast and keeps you gripped – maybe just the thing to distract from dark February nights.

Nick and Amy are five years married; happily it would seem, then on their wedding anniversary Amy goes missing amid signs of a struggle. Nick is a weak and less than brilliant husband, but you start to wonder – could he have killed her. Or is there something else going on here? What follows are Nick’s recollections of the days after the event, interspersed with sections of Amy’s diary from the beginning of their relationship. Bit by bit we start to find out what was going on in this marriage. Our understanding and expectations are teased along; we’re given just enough information to think we know what is happening – but do we? The inconsistencies of their narratives leave you as confused as Gillian Flynn wants you to be.

This is a smart read, with twists and turns every few pages. It may leave you feeling you’re glad you don’t inhabit the world of the trust fund baby - and everyone will have a different view on the ending; but as a fast and furious February pageturner, it fits the bill.

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12 This month we head to Ambergate for a really dog friendly walk around Shining Cliff Woods. This walk is part of the Amber Valley Routeways series and is well know as the Betty Kenny Trail as the route takes you past the Betty Kenny Tree, where she was reputed to live with her family in the 17th Century and rocked her children to sleep in the branches of the tree. The woods themselves are wonderful and are a sight of special scientific interest due to the range of plants and trees that live here.

If you have a favourite walk of your own why not share it with us by email at info@ambervalleyvoice.co.uk or by calling Emily on 01773 604178 or 07891 639638.

4 mile walk along the Betty Kenny Trail in Shining Cliff Woods, Ambergate A lovely walk for you and your dog along a well established trail that offers a piece of local history and some lovely views across the Derwent Valley. The route will take around 2 hours There are some moderate climbs and the terrain can be muddy and uneven so a good pair of boots are a must. The path is well marked by posts with a white strip.

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Exit the car park and walk down the road before taking the steps on your left to cut out the bend. Carry on along the road until it meets the A610. Turn left and pass under the railway bridge. When you meet the A6 turn left again and carry on along the road and when safe cross before reaching Holly Lane.

Take Holly Lane. After crossing the der a e Ha’penny bridge take the turn that R ffer O leads off to the right and into the woods. Carry on along this road for around 400 meters looking out for a sign on the right which indicate the Betty Kenny Trail.

Take the footpath and carry on through the old wire works site. As you exit you will see a sign for Shining Cliff Wood ahead.. Head towards this with every purchase of passing through a barrier and take the Millers Complete Dog Food path into the woods. This path will with this coupon take you roughly parallel to the A6 and the River Derwent.

After around 400 meters, when you reach a fork in the path keep to the right and follow the path as it goes down hill.

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8. After around 800 meters follow the main path, which is marked by white striped posts, as it turns off to the left and uphill. Follow the path uphill, with the pine trees on your right.

9. As you get to the top of the hill keep your eyes peeled for a path marked by white striped posts that leads right uphill into the pine trees. Follow this path and it will wind up to the remains of the Betty Kenny Tree.

10. Follow the path marked by the white posts as it leads back down hill as it joins up with the path you left to visit the tree. This path takes you to the outskirts of the wood, which is marked by a stone wall.

11. Follow the path, over the boardwalks and continue as it climbs up through the woods. Y0u will near the edge of an old stone quarry so take care, especially if your dog is ‘enthusiastic’ as mine.

12. Carry on along the path marked by the white posts as it leads you up to the top of a hill where you have great views across the Derwent Valley.

Continue on along the path downhill through the woods.

13. As the path joins a wider path and you see a sign for the YHA keep to the left. You will come to a T-junction, again turn left going downhill. This will bring you pack to where you entered the wood near the wire works, retrace the route back from here.

This walk is for illustrative purposes only. The Amber Valley Voice takes no responsibility for anyone who chooses to follow this route and encourages all walkers to obey all byelaws and signs and to respect the area they are walking in, ensuring they pick up all dog mess and obey the countryside code at all times.

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South Normanton Neighbourhood update

The South Normanton and Pinxton Safer Neighbourhood Policing Team includes PC Pete Wilbourne (top left), PC Chris Wilkinson (top right) PCSO Vicky Hill (bottom left) and PCSO Marrion Jeffery (bottom right). We are dedicated to helping make your area safer, cleaner and a more pleasant place to live by working alongside many different agencies and organisations in your community.

Every three months we hold a meeting to bring together partner agencies and the local community to set local priorities and discuss concerns. They involve the police, the councils, fire service, housing associations and many others who can all work to address the issues that matter the most to the community.

We also hold regular drop in surgeries at the police office, based at The Hub, on Shiners Way (off Market Street), South Normanton. Residents are always welcome to call in and speak to us. Our office is based just next to the reception desk and we keep an up-to-date list of available dates on the door.

If you do have any issues or concerns or want to contact us then please don’t hesitate to get in touch. Call 101, the non-emergency number for Derbyshire police, or email: alfreton.neighbourhoods@derbyshire.pnn.police.uk. You can also check the website too for details of your team, meeting dates and current team priorities by visiting www.derbyshire.police.uk.

KLEEFORD COIN AUCTIONS Calling all local businesses to a Business Networking Forum for Breakfast.

Wednesday 6th March 2013 @ Alfreton Hall - 7:30am until 9am Change of location for this month only

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It’s that time of year again when we start to hear the gardening groan - not “What has happened to my garden over winter?” but rather “I was just tidying up a bit..” and the enthusiasm of getting hands covered in soil again - means overdoing it and becoming injured. We all understand how easy it is to get carried away; “I’ll just do this” or “finish that...” and suddenly an afternoon has slipped away. But before you turn your couch potato state into an edible one consider that at this time of year gardening injuries exceed football or rugby injuries!

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Repeat after gardening to stretch tired muscles gently. These are good basic habits whether you are a gardener or not, but getting joints free and muscles firing off just alerts your body to some of Warm up the posture strains associated with So perhaps it’s worth taking this form of gardening. exercise more seriously: Notably, warm up first! Some of those muscles will have Most importantly vary your activities, degenerated in a few weeks, let alone all have frequent rests and clear up often, so winter, so give them a chance to wake up you can stop at any time without leaving and strengthen up. Make sure you are a mess. warm: stride around the garden a few times - do a few jumps, run up and down And if all else fails -Come and see us! some steps - whatever warms you up, then repeat these stretches 10 times each, holding for 20 seconds each (check with your doctor if you have medical issues): ·

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Assembly Rooms, Derby - Box Office 01332 255800 www. derbylive.co.uk The Winters Tale

The Derby Shakespeare Theatre Company present the tale of King Leontes, laced with tragedy, comedy and tense psychological drama.

Tuesday 12th - Saturday 16th March, at 7.30pm.

Tickets £10(online) concessions £7-£8. Group and school rate available.

Winding Wheel, Chesterfield - Box Office: 01246 345333 www.chesterfieldtheatres.co.uk Madam Butterfly

Puccini's masterpiece performed by the Grand Opera of Belarus . A tragic story of a Japanese maiden and an American military officer whose love defies cultural divides and family ties.

Performed with a live Orchestra.

Monday 4th March. 7.30pm Tickets - £30-£32 (concessions available)

Buxton Opera House - Box Office: 0845 127 2190, www.buxtonoperahouse.co.uk New Jersey Nights

The international hit show arrives in Buxton. Celebrating the music of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons with four great singers a live band and amazing dancers. Set in the Sixties the show takes you on a musical journey though their greatest hits.

Monday 4th Feb – Tuesday 5th Mar at 7.30pm.

Tickets £24 - £26 (evening), concessions and group bookings available

Derby Theatre - Box Office 01332 593939, www.derbytheatre.co.uk Robin Hood and His Very Merry Men

International touring theatre company Uncontained Arts bring you an interactive family show that’s not to be missed. There will be robbing from the rich and giving to the poor, there will be a men in tights, there will be a love story with Maid Marian and there will be a villainous sheriff of Nottingham but most of all there will be fun.

Fri 29th - Sat 30th Mar at 11am and 2pm, Tickets £8.

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17 Sporting Futures and US Girls are bringing the Women and Girls of Derbyshire a multi action packed event free of charge on March 9th @ Tupton Hall.

The event is to mark the end of the US Girls funding, which has offered activities specifically for Women and Girls and has had a huge impact on the number of Women and Girls taking part in Sport and Physical Activity all over the Country.

The day is also linked into International Womens Day supported

by Oxfam and Women and Girls are being asked to drop off any unwanted BRAS at the event. These BRAS will be sent to Women and Girls in Third World Countries. Bras are the one of the most expensive things to buy in these countries and as a result many Women and Girls go without.

The event boasts to be an action packed and most of all FUN day, with over 12 different sports and activities to try such as Zumba, Pink Punch, Hoola Fitness and Netball. You can also make you own Smoothie whilst riding a bicycle and have a go on the inflatable obstacle course.

Come down, have a look and show your support for Women and Girls Everywhere.

Please contact Sporting Futures on 01773 841 645 for more information.

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Are you ready for RTI? A major change in payroll is set to hit UK businesses in 2013. Real Time Information (RTI) represents the biggest change in payroll since the introduction of Pay As You Earn (PAYE) in 1944.

What is RTI? RTI is a new system for reporting payroll details to HMRC. As an employer you will be responsible for all tax deductions and calculations but instead of submitting this data once a year to HMRC, you will be required to send information to HMRC about employees’ pay and deductions before or at the same time as they are paid, whether weekly, fortnightly or monthly. HMRC have now confirmed that all companies with up to 5,000 employees will need to start making RTI submissions from April 2013, with larger employers needing to comply by October 2013.

What to report

RTI reports will need to be made where at least one employee is paid above the lower earnings limit (LEL), (£109 per week for 2013/14). For wages between the LEL and the Primary threshold (£149 per week for 2013/14) the worker is given NI credits although they don't actually pay any NI, so the level of their wages needs to be reported.

A major difference between RTI and the current system, is that once the employer is reporting under RTI, reports must be made for each employee even if no tax or NI are deducted for a particular period. This is because RTI has two functions; - to report deductions to HMRC and to report net pay for each worker to the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) to allow the DWP to calculate top-up benefits such as Tax Credits and the new Universal Credit.

The wages for employees aged under 16 are not required to be included in the RTI report, unless those wages are so high that the worker will be subject to income tax.

Workers aged under 16 do not pay NICs, and are not eligible to claim Tax Credits.

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This Jiu-Jitsu club was founded in 1991 in the Chesterfield area by John Rake and he still runs clubs in Chesterfield, Derby, Mansfield and now Alfreton.

Jiu-Jitsu is a fantastic self-defence martial art for kids of all ages, whether you want to learn self-defence, improve your fitness or simply meet like minded people, this is the club for you.

The classes are mixed but John and Darren make time for each individual and split the class into adults and kids, as you will learn different combative skills as an adult.

You could also enter competitions or just work through your belts. Everything is tailored for you to work within your own limits, so come along and give it a try.

Why do Jiu-Jitsu?

Some benefits from learning the art include: Self Confidence Fitness Respect towards other people Peace of mind Meet new people Self defence Working towards tournaments We look forward to seeing you at: Alfreton Leisure Centre Church Street, Alfreton, Derbyshire, DE55 7BD Darren Kershaw 2nd Dan

Everyone welcome First Lesson FREE Then ÂŁ4 each lesson From 7 till 8pm every Wednesday evening President Professor Kyoju John Rake 8th Dan Jiu-jitsu Founder member, chief instructor and consultant to E.M.J.J.A.

Email: hanshi.johnrake@yahoo.co.uk Tel: 07816423579 You can also find us at: www.emjja.com

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Gardeners Calendar - February Assuming you can tear yourself away from the plant catalogues which keep flying through the letterbox, there’s surprisingly lots to do this month.

Snowdrops are just about up and flowering. But to give an even bigger display next year, lift and divide once the flowers have finished. Bluebell and dog’s tooth violet also respond well to being moved in leaf.

Buddleia and summer flowering clematis can be pruned.

Buddleia to about a foot, clematis to within a couple of buds of old wood.

Dahlia tubers and gladioli corms can be coaxed into life. Place both (corms in seed trays) in a light warmish (around 10+C) place to sprout. Potatoes can be chitted in a light cool place, with the end showing most buds uppermost (egg box works well for this). They’ll be ready for planting in March when sprouts are 1” long.

Top Tip Deadheading doesn’t just work on summer flowering plants. Keep lopping the tops off winter pansies to produce more blooms.

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