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Op Switch Dursley Neighbourhood Team have been busy introducing Gloucestershire Constabulary’s new Community Engagement Vehicle aptly named CEV. PCSO Oli Clark and PCSO Josh Griffiths have been out around Dursley promoting Home Security and Target Hardening as part of Operation Switch. CEV’s function in Op Switch is to offer reassurance and advice to communities that have fallen victim to Burglary related crime. We have had a really positive response from residents all over Dursley attending and raising concerns they have with us. As a Neighbourhood Team we are looking to utilise CEV & NEV our two Mobile Police Stations at various events, pop up surgeries and reassurance visits in and around Dursley. So if you see us in your road or the Town Centre please come over and say hello!!

Rednock Sixth Form PCSO Joshua Griffiths recently held a burglary stand for the students at Rednock Sixth Form. The purpose behind this is because statistically student areas are more likely to be targeted for burglary. This is usually because they bring their expensive gadgets and they aren’t as security conscious. PCSO Joshua Griffiths put together a security pack, containing leaflets on how to protect their property and a free UV pen to read before they head off into the big wide world!

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how pristine your premises and staff are, if this isn’t reflected in your website they may go elsewhere.” Since April the search engine Google has actively penalised websites that are not mobile and tablet friendly, explains Nick. “Most websites more than 3 years old were not designed for the modern mobile ways of viewing them” he says.

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by Jon Mason of Highfield Garden World in Whitminster With everything coming to life now is an excellent time to start feeding our plants. Established shrub borders and fruit trees would benefit from a good mulching of Westland Gro-Sure farmyard manure. Now is a great time to be sowing seeds. Lots of annuals and vegetable plants can be sown this month. Use a good quality seed compost or Jacks Magic multi purpose. Seed potatoes can now be planted, watch out for any late frosts and cover with fleece to protect young delicate shoots. The Garden Centre is now full with a huge range of plants. Small herbaceous plants can go in now, I recommend planting in groups of 3 for a quicker, bolder display. New shrubs can fill in any gaps that you have, just remember to keep them all watered if we have a dry spell. Lawns will be starting to grow very quickly now and will require a regular weekly cut. If moss is a problem treat with lawn sand now to kill off the moss. A monthly feed with Miracle Gro Lawn Feed will keep your lawn a lush green colour.

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Last secure place for over 550 animals and birds rescued from abuse, neglect, slaughter and abandonment. Please donate or sponsor to keep them safe. The Farm Animal Sanctuary, Manor Orchard Farm, School Lane, Middle Littleton Evesham, Worcestershire, WR11 8LN jantaylor.sanc@tiscali.co.uk www.thefarmanimalsanctuary.co.uk

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STINCHCOMBE MANOR

‘Our home is your home’

We are a small family run Home set in the heart of the Cotswold’s. The Home is a grade 2 listed Manor house built 1836 .We have an excellent reputation for supporting individuals with dementia and enduring mental health needs. The proprietors have over 25 years’ experience working in this field. We make a commitment to provide a home for life for people from diverse and often challenging backgrounds.

We are a 36 bedded nursing / residential home, with a popular “sunflower” cafe designed tea room, a drawing room overlooking the paddock and a dementia friendly garden room leading out to the sensory garden following through to the mature gardens. You can also take a stroll through the reminiscence shopping area, following through to promenade along the beach and then rest in the orangery, or have a new look in the hairdressers /barbers area. The home accepts each person as an individual with a holistic view of their care, with their needs upmost in all we aim to achieve. We operate a rigorous staff selection process to ensure that you or your family member feel safe and secure when moving in to the home. We aim to ensure that their own feelings and memories are paramount in the mood of the home ensuring that a person feels stress free, happy and settled in their new surroundings. Areas of the home have been designed to promote continuous opportunities for stimulation, reminiscence and dementia friendly activities for all encouraging integration, participation and socialisation.

Person centred The Manor goes the extra mile to make it homely, from personalising individuals bedrooms to the soft furnishings you will find in our drawing room and garden room. We are forefront in enabling residents to lead fulfilling lives. Staff have achieved exceptional results both in dealing effectively with physical illness and with reducing and managing aggressive and abusive outbursts. Facilities • Stinchcombe Manor offers a homely, stimulating environment, over two floors. • Wet rooms throughout the home • Parker bathroom for those relaxing times • Sensory garden • Garden room where we bring the outside to the inside for those rainy days • Sunflower tea room for that family / friends time • Drawing room for relaxation and entertaining • We offer deluxe single or double rooms • With An environment to meet your needs

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A Peek into the Past April 1953 - Watson and Crick On 25th April 1953 two Cambridge University scientists published their answer to one of the most fundamental questions of biology - how do living things reproduce themselves? James D Watson and Francis Crick described the structure of a chemical called deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA in a in an article published in Nature magazine. DNA is the material that makes up genes which pass hereditary characteristics from generation to the next.

Watson and Crick discovered that DNA consists of a double helix of two strands coiled around each other. The strands are made up of complementary elements that fit together and when uncoiled can produce two copies of the original. The modest duo began their article: "We wish to suggest a structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid (DNA). This structure has novel features which are of considerable biological interest." Indeed it was. They had discovered the secret of life.

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Karen Mellerup will be familiar to many people in Dursley. As well as being the Dursley Funeral Service funeral director, she has lived here all her life. I was born in Berkley hospital and I went to school at Highfields Junior and Rednock Secondary. I took a course in retail management and for a while worked at W H Thomas & Son in Wotton Under Edge. How did you become a funeral director? I started working just three days a week, arranging the funerals and looking after the relatives. We had a funeral director who was with the families on the day of the funeral whilst I stayed in the office. I thought ‘I’d like to follow the whole job through’. When you look after a family you want to be there from the beginning to the end, helping them all the way. Around the same time my manager said ‘You know it’d be really good if you were with your families. Would you like to conduct the funerals on the day?’ Even though I wanted to I was hesitant and I thought ‘Can I do this?’ I was nervous at first, but our chauffeurs looked after me and I got my confidence. Shortly after that I was promoted to Funeral Director and that’s what I’ve been for two years now. My job is a passion – it never feels like work.

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23 . What do you like most about the job? Helping people. It’s a terribly difficult time and if you can just make it that bit more easy for them – guide them and support them – then you feel you’ve done something useful. Believe it or not, I also like the social side. A lot of people come in here after the funerals to let me know how they are and to have a chat. It’s good that my relationship with my clients doesn’t end with the service itself. I’m always here for them and it’s good to see how they’re getting along. The kettle’s always on! You give talks. Yes, I do. I talk to groups who are interested in my work, or to people are thinking of planning for their own funeral. We have funeral plans for people who want to do this, so I find myself talking a lot about those. But my talk covers everything that I do. What do you do when you’re not working? I love to go walking. There’s some beautiful countryside round here, especially around the Cotswold Way routes, so when I can, I put my boots and anorak on. Last year I took part in the Twilight Walk in aid of Cotswold Care Hospice. I am also proud of having been involved in the GL11 Community Project. We helped mums get back to work after having children. I also love spending time with my two grandsons. And for the future? More of the same, I hope. I love living in Dursley. I like the people. It’s my home. I love the job that I do and if I can continue to help people I will be quite content. For further details of Dursley Funeral Service please see page 11

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A User’s Guide to a Healthy Mind Managing Stress to avoid Burnout April is Stress awareness month. According to Health and Safety Executive (HSE), in 2014/15 stress was responsible 9.9 million lost working days! But it’s not just the economy that suffers, and we can all do something about dealing with life’s challenges. But what can we do about all this? 1. Make it challenging, but not overwhelming. Stress is not always a bad thing. The problem is not actually that stress exists, but how much of it there is, how well we feel we can handle ourselves when confronted with it, and how we apply stress management techniques to use the stress as a stepping stone instead of a stumbling block. We need to re-frame the task, so that we can feel good about the achievements we do make, instead of worrying about the ones we’re still getting round to.

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2. Ensure a proper work-life balance The saying “all work and no play makes jack a dull boy” is very much applicable. Without rest and recreation, we don’t have a way to empty our stress buckets, which is a metaphor used by hypnotherapists to describe the things that we’ve not yet processed. In the long run, this will stifle creativity and our ability to concentrate and solve problems. It also causes major strain in relationships. 3. Create a positive environment within. Human beings thrive within a community setting. This is why primitive man existed in tribes and villages. We get a certain reward when we have positive interactions with others, and that reward came in the feel-good chemical that our brains produces called serotonin, which is produces when we go in for positive activity, interaction, and thought. 4. If it works, do more of it There are lots of approaches to helping people deal with stress, including many therapies that really do offer great stress relief. But a good stress management strategy is more about making lasting changes that will help you avoid the accumulation of stress in the first place. And great way to gather up the tools and habits you need to achieve this is Hypnotherapy.

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26 APRIL/MAY 2016 FRI 1ST - ‘Kung Fu Panda 3’ showing at the Electric Picture House at Wotton-under-Edge.Visit www.wottoncinema.com for details of this, and many other films showing throughout April/ May. You can book tickets online or for programme information call 01453 844401. On Mondays all tickets are £5.50 & many other discounts. SAT 2ND - Slimbridge will hold a Spring Show in the Village Hall starting at 2.15pm. This is sure to be a lovely afternoon event. SUN 3RD - 3C Community Church hold a Sunday Morning Service from 10.30am -12 noon. Tea/coffee served from 10am and again after the service. Call 01453 546775/ www.3Ccommunitychurch.org SUN 3RD - The RNLI Five Peaks Challenge Sponsored Walk is set for today with car parking/registration at Cam Peak and Coaley Peak from 9.30am. Details Dave 01453 543026. WED 6TH - The Dursley & Cam Friendship Club will meet again for Paul Evans and ‘Humorous Poems’. Meetings are held at St. James Parish Centre, Dursley from 2-4pm and more details are available from Barbara Weldon on 011453 766421. Also note that ‘Extend for You’ (movement to music for the over 60’s) runs at this hall every Tuesday at 2pm. Email:- bandbweldon1@gmail. com THURS 7TH - The Knitting Group hold their monthly group meeting today at Prema, South Street, Uley. More details 014534 860703. SAT 9TH - The Farmers’ Market runs again in Dursley Market Place with high quality local produce direct from the producers. Tea/coffee and homemade cakes available in Market House also. SAT 9TH - St James Church & Parish Centre welcome Oriana Singers Annual Concert starting 7.30pm at St. James Church. 01453549280 WED 13TH - Dr Jenner’s House Berkeley hosts a talk by Liz Godsell on ‘A history of cheese making’. Starts 7.30pm. 01453 810631. WED 13TH - Uley WI will meet again in the Village Hall at 7.30pm for the ‘Wonders of Westonbirt’ by Carol Tipper. Visitors welcome. WED 13TH - Wotton Women’s Probus meet again at United Church, Bradley Street, Wotton with coffee at 9.45am, followed by a talk at 10.30am on ‘Rodgers & Hammerstein Some Enchanted Evening’ by Malcolm Lewis. More details from Maureen on 01453 845287. FRI 15TH - There will be a performance of ’Tortoise in a nutshell’ taking place at Prema, Uley. 01453 860703/www.prema. org.uk SAT 16TH - A sale of used furniture and household items takes place this, and every Saturday, from 8.30 -11.30am in May Lane Dursley. This is entry free, run by the Lions Club, with proceeds to charity. MON 18TH - Friends of Berkeley Castle (01453 810303) will hold their AGM starting 7pm, followed by a talk by Charles Berkeley with tickets priced at £12 each. WED 20TH - Castlegate WI will meet at the Community Centre, Rednock Drive, Dursley at 9.45am. This meeting will include talk on ’Dentistry’ by Sarah Hartridge with visitors/new members welcome and more details from Maureen on 01453 548683. THURS 21ST - U3A will hold their monthly U3A branch meeting at Dursley Methodist Church starting 10.30am. This month’s talk will be about the Cinnamon Trust; a charity that

COMMUNITY NEWS helps people who are in their final years to care for their pets, and continue having their invaluable companions. Refreshments to follow with visitors very welcome. More details www. U3Asites.orguk/cam-dursley. THURS 21ST - St Bartholomew’s Church, Cam Pitch, will host an Afternoon Tea to Celebrate the Queen’s 90th birthday at 2.30pm. MON 25TH - SAT 30TH - DODS perform ‘Sister Act’ with tickets available via www.the-dods.com SAT 30TH - St James Church & Parish Centre (01453 549280) will have Coffee Cake & Music- Organ Recital with Anthony Burns Cox. SUN 1ST MAY - Many garden openings under the ngs gardens open for charity scheme including Highnam Court etc. www. ngs.org.uk MON 2ND MAY - Bank Holiday. WED 4TH - Dursley & Cam Friendship Club meet for ‘Simply Foot Care’ with Victoria Swift & Vivienne Kennedy in St James Parish Centre, Dursley with more details from Barbara 01453 766421. SAT 7TH - Cam and Dursley Community Cinema will show ‘Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted’ starting at 10.30am. Tickets are £3 adulst/£2 children from www.ticketsource.co.uk/ dursleycinema WED 11TH - Uley WI will welcome Jacqueline Natt for a talk on ‘Marah Trust Charity’ starts 7.30pm in the Village Hall with more details from Linda Duffett on 01453 860337. Visitors welcome. WED 11TH - Wotton Women’s Probus will meet at the United Church, Bradley Street, Wotton at 9.45am for ‘Tales of a Commercial Academic’ by Chris Arnison. Details 01453 845287. SAT 14TH - Slimbridge Gardening Club hold their Annual Plant Sale starts 10am in the Village Hall, Slimbridge. SAT 14TH - There will be a Farmers’ Market in Dursley Market Place with refreshments available in the Market House upstairs. SAT 14TH - St Bartholomew’s Church will hold a Spring Fair starts 10am on Church drive with a variety of stalls, and a Grand Draw. WED 18TH - Castlegate WI will hold their Resolutions Meeting, followed by a talk by Ken Brightwell, Cheltenham’s Town Crier. This meeting will start 9.45am in the Community Centre, Rednock Drive, Dursley with new members welcome. Details 01453 548683. THURS 26TH - Highfield Garden World will run a Coach Trip to Bowood House & Gardens with a price for adults of £29 each. Leave 9.45 and arrive back at 5pm. More details of this, and other events, from 01452 741444, or visit www. highfieldgardenworld.co.uk MON 30TH - BANK HOLIDAY - Friends of Berkeley Castle will host an ’Audience with King Henry V111’ -an historical and hysterical talk about his life and wives!’ Tickets £14/£5 including finger buffet. WED 1ST JUNE - The Dursley and Cam Friendship Club will meet for Susan Marshfield and ’Oh yes, I remember it well’ at St. James Parish Centre, Dursley at 2-4pm. More details 01453 766421. Details may change, so please check before setting out. To list your events/activities for June, please contact Mary Jarrett on 01453 762812 as soon as possible thanks.

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Best Western The Gables strikes gold with Green Tourism Business Scheme Best Western The Gables Hotel in Falfield, near Bristol has been awarded for its commitment to excellent environmental practices in the form of an internationally recognised prestigious gold award from the Green Tourism Business Scheme (GTBS). The Green Tourism Business scheme evaluates businesses in areas such as energy and water efficiency, waste management and environmentally friendly purchasing policies and it recognises companies that have taken significant steps to minimise the environmental impact of their activities. Members of the scheme are assessed every two years and depending on the standards achieved, receive a bronze, silver or gold award. In order to achieve their gold award, The Gables has introduced many energy saving measures to reduce the waste of resources and promote sustainable business practices, including installing a biomass system which provides all the heating and hot water for the building. The Green Tourism Scheme judges were particularly impressed with The Gables’ knowledgeable in-house “Green Team” which meets on a monthly basis to share ideas and to develop further initiatives, and by the staff’s awareness of green issues generally. Chief Executive, Angela Burns said: “We are absolutely delighted to have been awarded gold status by the Green Tourism Business Scheme. This award recognises the staff’s genuine enthusiasm and long term commitment to reducing the hotel’s carbon footprint while still providing excellent service for our guests. We will continue to work hard to improve our environmental performance still further in the future.” Please mention DC&U Directory when responding to adverts

EVERYBODY’S GOT A BOOK IN THEM We all have stories to tell, the pity is that so many go unheard. We’ve printed books on local history, novels, illustrated children’s books, guides, and even personal books perfect for recording family stories for future generations. With modern printing methods we can print and produce as few or as many as you would like. We offer advice on how to prepare your book for print or we can design your book for you. We also offer advice on paper, the best binding technique and even marketing your book. But before we print anything we talk, so if you have a story to tell call David Pealing on 01452 416391 or email davidp@severnprint.co.uk and let’s make your book a reality. www.severnprint.co.uk

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