June 2015 | Issue 1 | ÂŁ1.50 where bought
Planning Matters
Round up of planning applications
Over the HEDGE Local gardens in print
The new Ford Mondeo
Navin Sukram
Brooklands School pays tribute
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Localal info Loc info Useful Phone Numbers COMMUNITY
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Community Association 023 9255 2841 Family & Friends Lesbians & Gays 0845 6520311 Local Councillor 023 9255 2177 Local Council Offices 023 9258 4242 Locks Heath Infant School 01489 584180 Locks Heath Junior School 01489 572226 Neighbourhood Watch 023 9258 3637 Police 101 or emergency 999 RSPCA 01329 667541 Tourist Information 023 9252 2944 Victim Support 0845 3899528
Alcoholics Anonymous 0845 7697555 Dental Helpline 0845 0508345 Lockswood Surgery 01489 576708 NHS Direct 111 NHS Smoking Helpline 0800 0224332 TRAVEL Coastguard 023 8032 9486 First Bus Service 023 9286 2412 Hampshire Highways 0845 8504422 National Rail Enquiries 08457 484950
What’s on in June Thursday 4th
Rotary Club of Locks Heath - Tea on the Beach
Saturday 6th
Indoor car boot sale at Lockswood Centre, Locks Heath. Sellers 9am, buyers 9:30.
Saturday 13th
Classic Car Club display at Locks Heath Shopping Centre from 9am - 3pm
Saturday 13th
Gardeners’ Fair at West Street, Fareham from 9am - 3pm
Thursday 18th
Locks Heath WI “Flowers with Music” at Locks Heath Memorial Hall 7pm
Sunday 21st
Father’s Day Bike Challenge from 10am - 1pm at Brookfield School in aid of Prostate Cancer
Friday 26th
U3A monthly meeting at St Johns Church Hall 2pm
Local Groups
The Edge
Fridays at Locks Heath Free Church. For school years 7-9 from 6:30 - 8:00pm
Hedgehogs Baby and Toddler Group
At Lockswood Community Centre, Locks Heath. 10-11:30 every Tuesday in Term Time for age ranges 0—5 years. £2 per family plus £2 annual registration fee. Contact Sam Jackson on 0797 4644671
1st Locks Heath Scouts
If you’re interested in joining then email Keith Jefferies on gsl@1stlocksheathscouts.org.uk
Let us know about your local groups and we’ll advertise them on this page free of charge! Parent and baby groups, sporting and children's clubs - they’d all be welcome here. Simply give us a ring on 01329 630630 or email editor@bigvoicedirectories.co.uk 3
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COMMUNITY
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Brookfield School pays tribute...
...to the sudden and sad passing of their treasured teacher, Mr Navin Sukram.
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Planning Matters
Check out this months round up of planning applications in and around Locks Heath
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Over the Hedge
Go for it!
Jessica McGregor Johnson give us a gentle nudge to make sure we get the most out of life. After all, there just isn’t enough of it, right?
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Martins Money Tips
They don’t want you to know this stuff, but Martin’s right on topic this month. Read on to find out more.
A new feature from this month where we take a peek into a local garden and enjoy a printed view of all its glory!
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New Ford Mondeo
Is this just a new model for a field sales rep to play with or is there more to it? Tim Barnes-Clay takes a look.
FOOD & DRINK Little lucy has been in the kitchen again conjuring up some tasty snacks!
Share your garden with us to be in with a chance to feature in the beautiful Over the Hedge feature. Your garden doesn’t have to be landscaped, showready or perfectly manicured. It can be a rambling meadow of lavender, full of loved children's toys or hold special places for wildlife. Big or small we want to see them all! Email editor@bigvoicedirectories.co.uk
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Lucy’s recipe corner
Little snacks Little forr El fo Elev evenses enses INGREDIENTS 5 stalks of celery 10 tablespoons of peanut butter Quarter of a red pepper, chopped into small pieces Making healthy nibbles for children can be super simple, especially if you get them involved. These crunchy nibbles are easy to make and really tasty too! Give the celery a wash under the tap and then cut into smaller sticks about 10cms long. Fill up the inside bit with some peanut butter. Chop up the red pepper into little pieces and add to the top of the peanut butter. Sultanas work well too if you want to add some sweetness!
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Strawberry fields There’s nothing more lovely than going down to your local strawberry grower and spending an hour or so in the warm sunshine, running your hands through the straw and plucking plump and juicy fruits from the low lying plants. Commercial strawberry growing began in Titchfield and Locks Heath around the 1850s and is renowned for being one of the first areas to start the “Pick your own” service.
particularly mild winter in December 1818). The strawberry industry was once incredibly thriving which saw thousands of tonnes of fruit travelling off to London and around the country, being shipped by train from Swanwick. In 1931 it was reported that 1.7 million baskets of fruit left the station on what became known as the Strawberry Specials.
Sadly, in the Titchfield and Locks Heath area the producer numbers have decreased from around 80 to just four major growers. Facing competition from supermarkets these producers are super proud of their strawberries. They are succulent and bright, not dulled from refrigeration.
Those already picked for you have been lovingly plucked from the plant at just the right time to make sure that they are super The trains soon became replaced fresh and that’s why they are With a mild climate free from with lorries called the “Fruit lovey and shiny. spring frosts and the gravelly and Freight”. About 40 of the local So this summer pop out to one of sandy soil, this ensured that the producers used the large container lorries that were our local producers, grab a local strawberries were always loaded up at the station - around basket and enjoy this old one of the first crops of the season (indeed a crop of 5000 trays a day were being fashioned but lovely English strawberries was reported in placed on these trucks. pastime. (oh, and don’t forget Fareham as late as December in a the cream!)
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Com omee meet meet Jenny and and the team for great great food food andd entertain an entertainmen mentt in bebeauti autiful ful surroun surroundings! dings! JUNE
Wednesday 3rd June - Perrystone Hill, sax and guitar Friday 5th - The Pete Harris R&B Allstars Sunday 7th 8:30pm - The Blues at Curbridge Creek Monday 12th - The Vultures (Rock Covers) Friday 19th - 3rd Anniversary Party with Thee Sultan Sheiks Saturday 20th - Snake Oil, tex mex yee ha knees up! Sunday 21st - Father’s Day Thursday 25th 8:00pm - King John’s Morris Men Friday 26th - Tom Canning, Tom Jones & Neil Diamond Tribute Friday 3rd July - The Power of 3, electric blues rock
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Remarkable Relationships Jessica offers Life Guidance, connecting back to your spirit, the true heart of you. If you want to know more you can visit her website http://www.jessicamcgregorjohnson.com
Trusting yourself to go for it Life is for living to the full and that means that in all areas of life you need to go for it! As we all know stretching out of your comfort zone can be both scary and exciting. And it should be! Any goal that is only exciting is too small and we will grow out it far too quickly. Any goal that is only scary is too big and we simply won’t go there. So the right kind of goal is the one that is both scary and exciting!
as many times as he could remember when he hit a challenge and what he did to overcome it. When he reported back the stress was all but gone from his face. He said that he had seen many times (and some he had forgotten about until he did this exercise) when he had indeed hit a challenge, and got himself through it successfully. Sticky situations where he had come up with a solution that until faced with the question he would So much for the theory, but what never had foreseen himself about the practise? When you finding. He saw just how are sitting in front of a big resourceful he was in the face of stretchy goal often one of the challenges. That information was challenges is “Can I trust myself enough for him to commit to to be able to handle this? Will I following his heart and trusting be able to handle the challenges himself that he would take care inherent in this, and succeed?” of whatever arose. Of course there are no guarantees that any decision we take will work out as we want. It’s par for the course that we might hit obstacles. It is these challenges that help us grow as human beings, they are a necessary part of our life. However if we feel we can trust ourselves it is so much easier to take that first step. I recently asked a client to take a walk through his life and identify
that you will make this work, take a moment to look back through your life and see just how resourceful you are. Notice all those challenges and how you overcome them. Also see how each of those challenges taught you something important about yourself or even helped you clarify the direction you wanted to go in. Life is too short not to live it to the full, no one gets to their death bed wishing they’d played it more safe – you learn to trust yourself by playing the game of life full out – so, go for it!
Sure he went on to make a clear plan of how he would achieve his goal and what contingencies he wanted in place to move on with it. However, that process of seeing that he could trust himself to take care of not only himself, but his family too, was a key ingredient in the process. Use your past to give you the confidence for the future. When you are faced with a moment when you need to trust yourself
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Brookfield School pays tribute to Mr Navin Sukram It was a terrible shock to the students and staff of Brookfield School in Sarisbury Green when they learned of the sudden death of their popular teacher and colleague Navin Sukram, aged just 40. As well as raising money for the British Heart Foundation in his memory, as requested by Mr Sukram's family, the school hope to raise enough money to build a garden in the school grounds where students can relax and spend time together. The garden will contain a seating area and will have the colour themes of blue and white for his favourite football team and orange for Ainslie House of which he was leader. Ria Allan, headteacher of Brookfield, would love the garden to be completed in time for the end of the summer term in remembrance of Mr Sukram of whom she said: "He was a dedicated and inspiring teacher, a much-loved and committed house leader and a dear colleague and friend. For those of us privileged to work with Navin, we valued his professionalism, integrity, humour and care" If you would like to make a donation to Navin Sukram's garden please contact the school on 01489 576335.
Mr Navin Sukram, who passed away suddenly this month
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Auto biographies Mondeo press launch wasn’t exactly upbeat. This just goes to show how marketing and image affects people’s preconceptions. Don’t get me wrong; Ford is no stranger to spin either, but I’ve got to tell you this latest Mondeo is the real deal.
offer Pre-Collision Assist with Pedestrian Detection. This is designed to detect people in the road ahead – or that could cross the vehicle’s path – and automatically applies the brakes if you don’t respond to warnings at the wheel.
Also introduced for the first time in Europe is Ford’s ground-breaking Inflatable Rear Seatbelt technology. In the event of an accident, the seatbelts expand to disperse crash At launch, I tested the Mondeo Titanium Estate 2.0 forces across a body area five times Duratorq TDCI. With 148bhp greater than that achieved by a conventional belt. This offers and 258 lb.ft of max torque, the Ford is able to dig deep at valuable extra protection to very young or old passengers with low revs, resulting in proper weaker chest areas. pulling power.
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CO2: 117g/km Price: £24,745 on the road
The fifth generation Mondeo is now available with Ford’s range of economical EcoBoost engines and, for the first time in the UK, a hybrid petrol-electric option. Introduced in 1992 to replace the Ford Sierra, the Mondeo went on to become a piece of popular culture in 1996 when Tony Blair used the phrase ‘Mondeo Man’ in his Labour Party Conference address. What a shame there’s so much badge snobbery around these days though. The reaction I got from premium-badge car lovers when I mentioned I was attending the Ford
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The diesel estate, in particular, excels in every single area. It’s fantastic to drive, it has a refined engine and the boot is the perfect shape for carrying a range of everyday items, from a family-sized weekly shop to a stack of suitcases. It’s good value and will be less costly to run than many of its competitors.
On the entertainment front, Ford’s SYNC 2 connectivity system boasts an eight-inch colour touch-screen to operate phone, entertainment, climate and navigation systems using voice commands. For example, simply pushing the voice control button and saying “I’m hungry” will display a list of local restaurants, and the MICHELIN guide can help you choose where to eat. SYNC 2 will then connect you by phone to the restaurant to book a table and guide you there. Groovy, or what? So, this Ford Mondeo with its ‘common-as-muck badge’ is as good, if not better, than many of the eulogized German ‘premium’ cars. Go on – hop in one and try one out. You may be surprised and have an epiphany.
The car is crammed with The all-new Ford Mondeo is now on entertainment tech and safety sale from £20,795. gadgetry too. In fact it’s the most advanced Ford ever introduced in Europe, and has been awarded the maximum five-star safety rating by independent crash test authority Euro NCAP. The Mondeo is the first car from the Blue Oval brand worldwide to
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Classic Car Show returns to Locks Heath
Locks Heath Shopping Village will be hosting its annual Classic Car Show on Saturday 13th June. From 9am until 3pm, the Locks Heath Classic Car Club will be showcasing over 40 timeless motoring icons such as the 100 year old Model ‘T’ Ford and the Austin Healey 3000 at the centre for local residents to enjoy. This is the third time Locks Heath Shopping Village has hosted the Classic Car Show, with this year looking to be even bigger and better than ever. The car club supports local charity Discovery Sailing Project, a charity based in Warsash that aims to give local residents the opportunity to experience sail training. The Discovery Sail Project team will be at the shopping village raising awareness and money for their cause.
Ian Goodridge, Centre Manager at Locks Heath Shopping Village, commented: “We are very excited for our Classic Car Show as there is always a fantastic display of beautiful cars for the whole family to enjoy. The event has become something that many local residents look forward to seeing and we are thrilled to once again welcome the Locks Heath Car Club to the shopping village.”
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Things they don’t want you to know
Martin Lewis
Clothes there are often cheaper in euros than in pounds, even before the currency conversion. In fact on a basket of goods it was on average 38% cheaper. Some of you may think ‘ah yes I’ve seen the euro price on some labels in the UK’, but that’s Their techniques are wide and varied. One usually the French price, which is generally more expensive. This trick works example is 'price differentiation', where for others in the same group, Massimo they aim to charge each customer as Dutti, Pull & Bear and Uterque. much as they'll pay - often done using 'white labels', where the same thing is sold under different names. So here are 7 If a loan's advertised at 3.9% rep APR, they're allowed to charge 20%. Every loan tricks to turn the tables… these days is listed as a 'representative' or 'rep' APR - that means by law only 51% of British Gas customer? It also operates accepted applicants need to get the under the name Sainsbury's Energy but advertised rate. The rest can be and there it's £200/year cheaper. British Gas usually are charged more, and there's no runs Sainsbury's Energy for the supermarket, yet there you pay it far less. cap on how much more. Worse, the only Based on a year’s typical dual fuel usage... way to know is to apply, and that leaves a footprint on your credit file. So be very - On British Gas’ standard tariff you pay an careful. average £1,154. One way to mitigate this somewhat is to - On British Gas’ Price Promise March use the calculator at www.mse.me/ 2016, its cheapest deal, you pay average eligibility which tells you your odds of £1,100. being accepted without marking your - On Sainsbury Fixed Price March 2016, credit file. The higher your acceptance you pay average £950. odds the more likely you are to get the Sainsbury's Energy does have separate call advertised rate, although it’s not guaranteed. centres, but it's still operated by British Gas and while like many energy firms it Amazon shopper? You're entitled to gets its fair share of complaints, in my music going back 16 years. If you've most recent poll 43% rated its service bought CDs or vinyl, you're entitled to the 'great', British Gas 37%. downloads for nowt going as far back as 1999. To be fair Amazon doesn’t hide that So if for some reason you're brand loyal you can do this, but it’s a good trick. and want to stick with British Gas, huge savings are still possible. However, as always price varies by region Just login to your www.amazon.co.uk and usage, so do a comparison to see how music library to see if you’ve any past tracks available. As JHL1959 told me: it stacks up for you via my "Crikey, it's given me 182 albums, that's www.CheapEnergyClub.com (where you 2,367 tracks. Amazingly, I still like a lot of also get switching cashback) or any www.ofgem.gov.uk approved comparison them - cheered me up." site. It’s not always such a success though, GingerJuice said: "Just did this - thought Zara sells its clothes at a fraction of the price. If you’re one of millions planning a it was brilliant then realised I'd bought the mother-in-law the Susan Boyle CD trip to Spain this summer, you may want last year... ugh." to stop shopping at Zara here right now. Spain is Zara's home country and it Only get good mobile signal with one sells its clothes at vastly lower prices network? Switch to a piggyback. Many there. Better still, the www.zara.com people tell me "I wish I could switch Spain website has an English language network but only Vodafone/EE works in option, you can compare prices before my home." Yet there's a way to switch you go (you can’t order UK delivery from provider but keep the same signal... it). A company’s job is to make money, nowt wrong with that, but our job is to keep it. Some firms use a host of tricks to keep us in the dark, yet if you can uncover their secrets you can win.
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Only EE, Vodafone, Three and O2 are actual mobile networks, yet there are many cheap virtual networks piggybacking on the same signal. E.g. Giffgaff is O2, Asda is EE, TalkMobile is Vodafone and Shebang is Three (full piggyback list at www.mse.me/piggyback). So check which other providers piggyback on your existing network and see if they’re cheaper. Energy firms can't charge exit penalties within 49 days of a fix ending. If you’re on a cheap fixed energy deal you needn't wait until the last day to switch to avoid exit fees as rules state that 49 days before your fix ends, you're allowed to switch without penalty. Play the codeshare trick - where two airlines sell the same flight. Airlines don't shout that their partners often sell their flights too, sometimes for less. If you're going on popular long-haul routes this can be a way to save.
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P lanning Matters A monthly round up of planning applications submitted since 1 April 2015
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P/15/020 67 Church Road Locks 7/DP/A Heath Southampton SO31 6LS
Erection of detached chalet style bungalow with garage and driveway: details pursuant to p/15/0207/fp condition 7 (hard surfacing), condition 8 (mud on road) and condition 9 (construction layout)
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P/15/016 67 Church Road Locks 8/DP/A Heath Southampton SO31 6LS
Demolition of existing bungalow and erection of 2 no. Two storey semi-detached houses and 1 no. Detached chalet style house with detached garage and associated access & parking: details pursuant to condition 7 (materials), condition 8 (hard surfacing), condition 9 (measures to prevent mud on road), condition 11 (construction layout) and condition 13 (boundary treatment)
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P/15/040 38 Hazel Grove Locks Single storey rear extension 1/FP Heath Fareham SO31 6SH
Undecided
P/15/038 44 Heath Road Locks 6/FP Heath Fareham SO31 6PJ
Single storey side conservatory
Undecided
P/15/039 2 Greenacres Road Locks 8/VC Heath
Variation of condition 13 of p/12/0974/fp to enable a garage door to be added to the car port
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P/15/032 Flagstaff House 75 Heath 3/TO Road Locks Heath SO31 6BJ
1 lime protected by tpo 440: crown raise to 5 metres APPROVE above ground level by removing small diameter branches <75mm.
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Over the Hedge
Heathlands is a large secret garden lovingly tended for 50 years by Dr John Burwell and Mrs Burwell. The garden was opened for the NGS for over 20 years but now can be visited by appointment only, with all donations going to the Alzheimers Society. Heathlands is at 47 Locks Road, Locks Heath SO31 6NS. 01489 573598 32
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