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Welcome September signals the end of summer, the beginning of autumn and the start of a new school year. With that in mind, I do remember how anxious I used to be when the new school year was approaching. Having discussed with various parents, I decided to share with you some 5 steps to deal with back-toschool worries. Turn to page 19 to read more about it. You will find it very helpful.

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Help to Buy Editor-in-Chief Jackie Osborne jackie@localbuzzmagazine.com

As we move towards the latter part of the year, our minds focus on refurbishing the home for a special end of the year occasion ‌ dare I mention the word! However, decision such as buying a property come into the equation and in this issue, we focus on Help to Buy. Great tips and opportunities from the Government are available and not many people know about it. Go to page 24 to learn everything you need to know

Thank you to all our readers and advertisers for making Local Buzz their number one community magazine.

Enjoy your September issue and I look forward to bringing you more fabulous articles next month.

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Lastly, moving into a retirement home or choosing one for a loved one, can feel daunting. To help you make the best choice we have come up with some tips on how to find a good retirement home. You will find all the information on page 34. Make sure you research in detail before deciding which one would be most suitable.

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The Care Quality Commission The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has rated West Berkshire Council's 'Shared Lives' services as 'Good.'

A service that provides homes within a family environment for some of the district's most vulnerable adults has been praised following a recent inspection.

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Issues Work continues to clear the air A government direction, issued with the aim of reducing vehicle emissions on a short stretch of the A339, has been withdrawn after air quality in the area was found not to breach exposure levels for Nitrogen Dioxide.

Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council and Hampshire County Council were instructed by the government in October 2018 to look into whether a speed limit reduction along the stretch of road, near the Reading/A33 exit, would reduce air pollution to meet the national limit.

The direction came after data modelling indicated that the short stretch of road was unlikely to be compliant with the national limit for Nitrogen Dioxide before 2020.

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But a detailed and more thorough study, carried out as part of the council’s scoping work, has shown that the concentrations of nitrogen dioxide are already below the required level at this location and are predicted to continue decreasing in 2020 and 2021.

The government have approved the conclusions of this report and that no further action is needed to meet the national limit.

Cabinet Member for Environment and Enforcement Cllr Hayley Eachus said: “This is really positive news but it is important that we continue taking action to improve air quality in the borough.

“Councillors have collectively agreed to work towards becoming a carbon neutral

council by 2025 and a carbon neutral borough by 2030. “I would call on all residents to do their bit to help clear the air.

Simple steps to make a big difference:

1. Using your car less 2. Switching off your engine while you are waiting

3. Thinking about the fuel you use in your own home

For more information about local air quality, and how you can help keep the air clean, please visit www.basingstoke.gov.uk/clean-air

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Households in the borough will start to receive a form from Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council’s Electoral Registration Officer asking residents to update or confirm that their details are correct on the electoral register, as part of the annual electoral registration canvass.

Each year a Household Enquiry Form is sent to every household to ensure the electoral register is up to date and to identify anybody who is not registered and to delete those who have left the property. Residents must provide the information to the Electoral Registration Officer even if there are no changes to make.

Even those people who registered for the recent European elections, will still need to confirm that their details are correct for this revised version of the register, which the Electoral Registration Officer has to publish in December every year.

With all of the borough council seats up for election, parish elections and the Police and Crime Commissioner elections on Thursday 7 May 2020, this is an opportunity for residents to make sure they will be able to vote. Being on the register is also important because credit agencies check the names and addresses of people applying for credit and is also used to detect and prevent crime.

Ensuring your name is on the register of electors is essential and people are asked to respond updating or confirming their details by following the simple instructions on the form. The quickest way of responding is online, via text message or over the phone and you don’t need to return the form if you use one of these methods.

The revised register of electors will be published in December 2019.

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Kit Malthouse MP

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Richard Benyon MP

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It’s been a busy summer as I’ve got stuck into my responsibilities as Policing Minister on top of my constituency duties. We have a big job to do recruiting 20,000 more police officers over the next 3 years.

This will make a huge difference deterring criminals and providing visibility and reassurance to people in our neighbourhoods, on our streets and in town centres across the country and here in North West Hampshire.

But increasing officer numbers isn’t the sole answer. The nature of crime is changing be it knife crime, hate crime or moped robberies and we need to make sure we equip our officers with the right mix of skills, equipment and powers.

As some of you may know, I’m familiar with this area of work. During my time as Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime, I worked with Boris, then Mayor of London, to cut youth murders in half, homicides to an historic low and bring crime down overall.

Locally, I will re-double my efforts to make sure we crack down on the crimes affecting our communities be it theft, burglaries or anti-social behaviour.

20,000 extra police officers are an ambitious target. It will benefit people living right here in North West Hampshire and across the country and I’m looking forward to meeting it.

When I was first MP for Newbury, word was that the pub down the road was to be avoided at all costs. People used to speed up as they walked by.

However, last month, the Catherine Wheel in Cheap Street got a stellar review in the Pint to Pint column of the Sunday Telegraph, praised for its Gin Yard (220 gins), its real ales, its food and music and congratulations must go to Warwick and Pauline who took it over five years ago and have presided over its transformation.

Almost 90% of the beer consumed in the UK is also brewed here and we have excellent examples of local breweries with West Berkshire Brewery, Two Cocks, and Butts Brewery on our doorstep. It is calculated that alcohol duty cuts and freezes in the Budgets over the last six years have provided £4.4 billion of support to pubs and the drinks industry, with a typical pint of beer 14 pence cheaper than if taxes had been allowed to rise with inflation.

Pubs like the Catherine Wheel are at the heart of our town and village communities and I am always keen to support local campaigns to keep them open. If you are in town on Saturday 14th September, the Newbury Real Ale Festival at Northcroft Fields is a chance to try a range of local ales, ciders and gins.

Kit Malthouse MP Minister for Housing and Planning in the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Rt Hon Richard Benyon MP for Newbury

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Eating a diet with the right number of calories and amount of fat is an important part of taking care of your heart and some foods are particularly attractive in this regard because of their nutrient profiles.

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Cancer Cells

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vs. a Plant-Based Diet What happens if cancer is put on a plant-based diet? Dr. Dean Ornish and colleagues found that the progression of early-stage prostate cancer could be reversed with a plant-based diet and other healthy lifestyle behaviours.

If the blood of those eating the standard diet is dripped onto cancer cells growing in a petri dish, cancer growth is cut down about 9 percent. But if they’ve followed a plant-based diet for a year? Their blood can slash cancer growth by 70 percent. Indeed, the blood circulating within the bodies of those eating plant-based diets had nearly eight times the stopping power when it came to suppressing cancer cell growth.

That was for cell growth of prostate cancer, so researchers repeated the study with women using breast cancer cells, by seeing what a plant-based diet could do after just two weeks against

three different types of human breast cancer.

The cancer cell growth started out at 100 percent, but then significantly dropped after being exposed to blood from subjects who ate a plant-based diet for 14 days. A layer of breast cancer cells was laid down in a petri dish and then blood from women eating the Standard American Diet was dripped on it. Even the blood of women eating pretty poor diets had some ability to kill off some cancer cells. After just two weeks of eating healthfully, blood was drawn from those same women—so they acted as their own controls—and it was dripped on a new carpet of breast cancer cells. Only a few individual cancer cells remained.

Their bodies cleaned up. After only 14 days on a plant-based diet, their bloodstream became that much more hostile to cancer.

From the start of the study, you could see that the blood of an average woman on a typical American diet can knock off a few breast cancer cells. After 14 days of healthy, plant-based living, however, the same blood now coursing through these women’s bodies gained the power to significantly slow down and even stop breast cancer cell growth after just two weeks of eating a plantbased diet.

Slowing down the growth of cancer cells is nice but getting rid of them all together is even better. This is what is called apoptosis, programmed cell death. After eating healthfully, the women’s own bodies were able to somehow reprogram the cancer cells, forcing them into early retirement.

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5 Steps To Deal With Back-to-School Worries Anxious feelings are normal and expected in children and teens returning to school, changing schools, or for first-timers starting preschool.This transition can be stressful and disruptive for the entire family.

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What is help to Buy scheme?

Help to Buy is a government scheme which can help first time home buyers get a property with just a 5% deposit.

The Help to Buy scheme offers an equity loan where the government lends first-time buyers and existing homeowners money to buy a newly-built home.

In England, the government's Help to Buy scheme has four main parts: Help to Buy equity loans London Help to Buy Help to Buy shared ownership (commonly shortened to 'shared ownership')

Help to Buy equity loan Help to Buy equity loans provide a popular route into home ownership but are only available to people who want to buy a new-build property. The home you're planning to purchase can be worth up to ÂŁ600,000.

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You put down a deposit of at least 5%.

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Help to Buy Isa This is a type of tax-free savings account aimed specifically at people saving to buy their first home. For every £200 contributed, the government will add an extra £50 towards buying your first home, up to a maximum bonus of £3,000.

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Forces Help to Buy People in the Armed Forces can borrow up to 50% of their salary interest-free to use for a property deposit and other buying costs, such

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LASTING POWER OF ATTORNEY – THE IMPORTANCE OF MAKING THE RIGHT CHOICE Lasting Powers of Attorney (LPA’s) allow people to choose someone they trust to make decisions on their behalf if something happens and they are unable to make decisions for themselves.

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One in three people over 65 will develop dementia¹. Dementia can affect a person at any age but it is more commonly diagnosed in people over the age of 65 years. In 2014, 5% of those suffering from dementia in the UK were aged 30-64.

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