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News Get well · Stay well
by Craig de Groot, chiropractor at Willow Brook Clinic
2020 here we come! On your marks… the chaos of the festive season is over. If you are feeling the after effects of all the festivities, I suggest that you wrap up nice and warm and take a walk in the winter sunshine. Exercise releases endorphins into our blood which make us feel more positive. Feeling positive makes us feel more in control and capable. Get set… very little can be achieved without a plan. It is fun to be spontaneous and impulsive. Not being tied to a plan lets you seize opportunities that might not otherwise present themselves. But when it comes to health and wellbeing, planning becomes important. This may mean careful meal preparation to help shift a few festive pounds, it may be planning an exercise routine to get your 2020 goals underway or it may be tidying up after the visitors have left. You may plan to get your aching back sorted out or that niggle in your shoulder seen to. A plan need not take more than a few minutes to prepare, plan and jot down. You will surprise yourself at how much time you will save if you have one. And you will be more successful if your goals are clearly defined and you have an action plan to achieve them. You also need to remember that Rome wasn’t built in a day. Changing habits and introducing new
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News Light pollution issue leads council to restrict opening hours of new car park
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rituals takes time and effort. It’s important to add rest days into your planning. We all need time out. Go… and see a chiropractor and get your problems sorted out. Chiropractors take a holistic view of an individual’s wellbeing and are able to help you identify why things are going wrong and what steps need to be taken to resolve them. A qualified chiropractor will work with you to achieve your goals, working as quickly as your body will allow, but also taking your lifestyle into consideration.
newly opened £37,000 extension to the car park at Bradley Stoke Town Council’s Brook Way Activity Centre site is having to be closed off by 4pm each day because of a dispute over light pollution. The new parking zone has been constructed on part of the former hard court sports area at the site (pictured right), which had lain unused for many years. In order to access the 18 new parking bays, vehicles need to negotiate a short incline, because the surface of the extension intentionally sits higher than that of the existing car park. As previously reported, the split-level design was necessary to comply with a planning constraint which forbade deep excavation of the former hard court area for fear of damaging tree roots. Following the opening of the extension in November, residents
Hard court area (archive image)
of neighbouring properties in The Common, which runs along the southern boundary of the site, have complained of light pollution caused by the headlamps of vehicles ascending the incline to reach the new parking bays. In a letter sent to the town council, the chair of Stoke Lodge and The Common Parish Council says the headlamp issue is affecting up to four properties in The Common. Residents say the beams of light are traversing up and down the front of their
Take time to think about what you want to achieve, prepare a plan and go for it. Willow Brook Clinic 1st Floor East Offices The Willow Brook Centre www.willowbrookclinic.co.uk
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