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Issue 36 March 2013

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Generation 7 Golf The Seventh Generation VW Golf

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W’s all new, seventh generation Golf went on sale in the UK last month and it has already proved a real winner amongst the car buying public. With a history of some 29 million sales of this ever popular model, VW have expanded the new range to now include an economy special four cyinder1.2 Tsi producing 85PS, a 1.4 TSi producing 122PS and a high power 1.4 with 140PS that offers 60.1 MPG. The new model also offers considerable innovative improvements that have catapulted it over many of its rivals. With a weight saving of over 100kg from the previous model, for instance, it handles beautifully and is also very, very quiet thanks in no small part to innovative engine and suspension mounts that act as very efficient noise reducers.

All Golfs now feature seven airbags – including knee airbag for the driver – antilock brakes, central locking, immobiliser, electric front windows, electric mirrors, Bluetooth with audio streaming, colour PAGE 4 | Local Answer - Issue 36

touchscreen, Digital DAB radio, colour sat-nav with a 5.8in screen, a CD player and iPod or MP3 player connections.

Construction wise, the new look is much sharper than the previous version but is still very much in the familiar Golf mode.

The wheelbase has been stretched by some 50mm and the new chassis soaks up bumps and potholes with ease. It also includes remarkable new hardware – the VW Group’s ‘MBQ’ classic architecture – that makes parking so, so easy. Some models also include the superb DSG gearbox.

Inside there’s more space for the driver and four passengers and two significant improvements are the new multifunctional steering wheel and the impressive ‘ergoactive’ seats. The wheel puts all controls within immediate reach and works well with the large display screen.

All in all, then, the new Golf is a refined, comfortable, compliant and high quality car, and for a model that has always been highly rated anyway, this new version really is exceptional.

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Is Tech Advantageous?

Just How Advantageous Is Modern Technology?

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t’s obvious that modern technology has added dramatically to our quality of life but some of its influences also seem to be having a detrimental effect on the way we enjoy the more normal aspects of our everyday existence. . . See how many of these observations are relevant to your particular lifestyle: YOU KNOW YOU ARE LIVING IN 2013 when...

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You accidently enter your pin on the microwave.

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You haven’t played Solitaire with real cards in years 3.

You have a list of fifteen phone numbers to reach the three members of your family.

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You e-mail the person on the desk next to yours.

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You claim the reason you don’t stay in touch with family and friends is that they are not on Face-book.

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You pull up in your own driveway and use your mobile phone to see if there’s anyone around who will help you carry the groceries into the house.

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Leaving the house without your mobile phone, which you didn't even have the first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to retrieve it.

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You get up in the morning and go on-line before getting your coffee.

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Despite the fact that every bus stand displays a comprehensive timetable you still insist on going ‘on-line’ to find out how long you are going to have to wait for your particular bus!

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When you visit a sick friend in hospital your biggest fear is that you are going to have to spend the next sixty minutes without your mobile phone.

Our advice is to try doing without all those gadgets for a week or so. We can assure you the world will not collapse and you might actually enjoy talking to people again!

Does This Sound Familiar?

"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.'' People must again learn to work instead of living on public assistance." - Cicero , 55 BC So, evidently we've learned nothing in the past 2,067 years.

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ver the past couple of years the rise of mobile gaming has increase tremendously, and statistics show that 80% of mobile and tablet owners play games on there device. Even if you don't class your self as a gamer, without a doubt, you will have seen a family member playing a game on there phone and been a little bit interested. Here are two of the most popular games at the moment.

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hat's The Word, which also known as 4 pics 1 word, is another popular smart phone game at the moment. It is a simple but addictive puzzle game where you guess what's the word based on the pictures you see?

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Why Remake A Classic?

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here can’t be many TV programmes that have surpassed – or even equalled - the excellence of the ‘Yes Minister’ and ‘Yes, Prime Minister’ series. The original Yes, Minister and its sequel Yes, Prime Minister ran from 1980 to 1988 for 38 episodes, and starred Paul Eddington as Prime Minister Jim Hacker, Nigel Hawthorne as Cabinet Secretary Sir Humphrey Appleby and Derek Fowlds as Hacker’s Personal Private Secretary Bernard Woolley.

Wonderfully written, superbly acted and on many occasions introducing pioneering ideas and political hypotheses that would eventually emerge in the true world of twenty first century politics, the series was an untouchable classic. Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn’s marvellous scripts survive the test of time better than almost any other series from the time and I for one watch my complete set of DVDs on numerous occasions and always find them both funny and exceedingly watchable.

So whose idea was it to remake the series?

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Haig as Jim Hacker and Henry Goodman as Sir Humphrey Appleby – loses enormously in the translation. As one notable critic put it; ‘Sadly, it doesn’t come even close. It is stagey and unsubtle, with nothing new or relevant to say about modern politics and with weaker oneliners. Far less artfully constructed and written than the 1980s series.’

David Haig has actually been in a couple of things I have liked. His cameo in ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’ was excellent and his performance as Inspector Grimm in the Jasper Carrott series ‘The Detectives’ was one of the highlights of that show. But Jim Hacker he certainly isn’t and while Nigel Hawthorne was silky smooth in his portrayal of the manipulative cabinet secretary Henry Goodman has little to offer as far as humour is concerned. If it survives for a second series, I, for one, will be amazed.

It’s probably been the worst idea since Adolf Hitler’s mum and dad decided to have an early night!

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The Finest Story Of The First Man On The Moon

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integrity would finally let him tell the real story of Mr Gorsky.

His first words on stepping onto the moon’s surface were ’That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.’ Just before he re-entered the craft, however, he also uttered the statement ‘Good luck, Mr Gorsky.’

Many of the people at NASA thought it was a throw–away remark aimed at one of his rival Russian cosmonauts, but their checks on the subject proved that there was no Gorsky in either the Russian or the American space programmes. Over the years it became an often asked question of Armstrong. ‘Who was Gorsky and why did he need good luck?’

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In 1938, he said, when he was just a small kid in a mid-western American town, he was playing baseball with a friend in his backyard.

His friend hit the ball which landed in his neighbour’s yard just by their bedroom window. His neighbours were Mr and Mrs Gorsky, and as Neil went to retrieve the ball he leaned down to pick it up and heard Mrs Gorsky shouting at Mr Gorsky ‘Sex, you want sex? You’ll get sex when the kid next door walks on the moon!’

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March Gardening Tips GARDEN MAINTENANCE

Frosts can still be a hazard during March, so keep vulnerable plants protected at night if frost is forecast.

March winds are also notorious for their ferocity so check exposed plants are well supported.

Now is the time for a thorough spring clean; weed and dig over your borders incorporating as much organic matter as you can - those chilly winds will really help to dry out the soil. Mulch bare soil once you have done the work and remove moss and weeds from paths, terraces and driveways. They may be boring tasks but if you don’t get on top of the PAGE 16 | Local Answer - Issue 36

garden now (especially the weeds!) it will be a nightmare for the rest of the season.

Mark out the shape of new beds and boarders with sand trickled from a bottle, remove the top layer of growing vegetation and dig the ground over, incorporating as much organic matter as possible. If you are making a bed in the lawn, remove the turf and stack it upside down somewhere out of the way - after a year or two it will rot down into fantastic compost.

Alternatively chop it up and bury upside down in the planting hole a good spade’s depth down. Beware - if you just dig it in the buried grass will regrow.

Clean and repair your garden tools, book the lawn mower in for a service and check garden furniture for any rot. When it is warm enough, treat sheds, fences and trellis with wood preservative; brushes and rollers are fine for most things, however a sprayer is well worth buying for tricky projects such as woven panels!

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Cosmetic Surgery – Facts Before You Decide!

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n the past ten years, the number of people having cosmetic surgery has increased considerably with most procedures carried out on women. Not to be confused with plastic surgery which usually repairs damaged skin and tissue following injury or illness, the top five most popular cosmetic procedures for women are breast enlargement, eyelid surgery, face and neck surgery, tummy tucks and breast reduction. For men, the most popular are nose reshaping, eyelid surgery, ear pinning, liposuction and male breast reduction. A number of non-surgical procedures like Botox injections, dermal fillers and chemical peels have also come to the fore in people’s attempts to change their appearances to achieve what they perceive to be a more desirable look. There are, however, other situations where surgery may be needed for functional reasons. Breast reduction, for instance, is often used to alleviate back or neck pain.

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be expensive and time consuming, results are often variable and since the end result can't be guaranteed it's important that you give careful thought and consideration when deciding to go ahead. It's a good idea to discuss your plans with your GP, and if you finally do decide to have surgery, be absolutely sure about your reasons for wanting to have it.

On extreme occasions cosmetic surgery can be made available on the NHS but there must be major physical or psychological reasons for considering cosmetic surgery or that cosmetic surgery is required to protect a person’s health. Because NHS resources are limited and waiting times are usually long, however, many people still tend to pay to

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If you do decide to have it done, it's vital that you make sure the surgeon and other healthcare professionals undertaking the procedure are fully qualified and experienced in the type of work you are contemplating.

You should discuss the procedure in detail with your surgeon, asking as many questions as you can so that you're fully aware of what the procedure involves, how it will be carried out, what he anticipates the results will be and whether there may be any after effects.

And to reduce the chances of disappointment you should also make sure that your expectations of what surgery can achieve are realistic, make sure that the surgeon understands what you want and follow any advice he gives you about aftercare.

Properly undertaken, though, the end results can give a huge confidence boost to the patient and certain procedures have been

known to be life-changing for the better. It is, of course, a very personal decision but one that should be discussed with those people closest to you because they can often achieve the same results by making you aware how much you are already valued exactly as you are.

Whatever you decide, though, good luck and we wish you every future happiness!

Nutrition Advice So you’ve got yourself on a fitness regime

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If evidence since Christmas is anything to go by, ‘Boro – for the first part of the season at least – must have been fighting well above their weight. The truth is that vital goals at vital times gave us points that we were grateful for because the defence was mean enough to make those odd goals count. Now we are letting in goals at a rate of knots the blank sheet against Burnley came as a huge relief. That we could actually have won that game at the end – despite not having a shot on goal for the first hour or so – is a reminder of some of the early wins that we managed to get away with. At the time of writing we have yet to play Millwall in the late Saturday kick off, but since in their previous game they conceded five against lowly Peterborough there shouldn’t be an excuse for anything other than a comprehensive victory. Failure to achieve that will go a long way to denying us even the play-offs.

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Perhaps I’m being a little harsh in view of the number of injuries we have had to endure, but I still maintain that playing Rhys Williams at right back when Parnaby was on the bench was a waste of one of our better players. That Stephen McManus returned against Burnley to do a great job despite being pushed out and ignored for much of the season showed a great attitude and it really is that kind of determination we now need from everybody.

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INDEX OF ADVERTISERS Accountants Wasley Chapman . . . . . . . . . Page 13 Aerials (TV) ADI Digital Aerials . . . . . . . . . Page 8 MWC Services . . . . . . . . . . . Page 7 Appliance Repair Domestic Appliance Repair .Page 7 Eaglescliffe Domestic . . . . . . Page 9 Bathrooms Improve Your Surroundings .Page 19 Rubberduckbathrooms . . . . Page 31 Bedrooms Improve Your Surroundings .Page 19 Yarm Joinery & Build . . . . . . Page 13 Beauty Image Hair And Beauty . . . . Page 9 Builders Steves Joinery . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 21 Yarm Joinery & Build . . . . . . Page 13 Car Bodyshop Car Spa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 5 Eaglescliffe Body Repairs . . Page 7 Car Repairs Redline Racing . . . . . . . . . . . Page 5 Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning Rise & Shine . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 13 Conservatories Discount Windows . . . . . . . . Page 25 Curtain Makers Drapes In Elegance . . . . . . . Page 3 Decorating Service First Class Decor . . . . . . . . . Page 19 Rievaulx Decor . . . . . . . . . . . Page 15 Double Glazing Ace Aluminium . . . . . . . . . . . Page 3 All Seasons Windows . . . . . Page 9 Marton Windows . . . . . . . . . . Page 27 NU Vision Windows . . . . . . . Page 15 Window Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . Page 19 Driveways Gibson Landscapes . . . . . . . Page 17 Town & Country . . . . . . . . . . Page 21 Electrical Services AEP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 21

Flooring Rubberduckbathrooms . . . . Page 23 Garage Doors Cleveland Up Over . . . . . . . . Page 27 Garden Services Creative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 32 First Class Landscapes . . . . Page 7 Georges Lawns . . . . . . . . . . Page 17 Green Onion . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 8 Garden Supplies Dig-It . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 3 Hair & Beauty Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 9 Heating AEP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 21 GM Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 25 GTS Plumbing . . . . . . . . . . . Page 15 Insurance Eunisure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 15 Joinery Steves Joinery . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 21 Yarm Joinery & Build . . . . . . Page 13 Kitchens Dream Doors . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 11 Improve Your Surroundings .Page 19 Space Master . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 13 Landscaping Creative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 32 First Class Landscapes . . . . Page 7 Gibson Landscapes . . . . . . . Page 17 Green Onion . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 8 Town & Country . . . . . . . . . . Page 21 Leaflet Printing Media Solutions . . . . . . . . . . Page 24 Mechanics Redline Racing . . . . . . . . . . . Page 5 Office Space Rentals Wilton Centre . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 19 Oven Cleaning Hobsnobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 8 Painting & Decor First Class Decor . . . . . . . . . Page 19 Rievaulx Decor . . . . . . . . . . . Page 15

Piano Tuition Teeside Piano . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 9 Plumbers AEP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 21 GTS Plumbing . . . . . . . . . . . Page 15 GM Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 25 Public Houses The Beckfields . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 2 The George . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 32 Roofing Services A Cook Roofing . . . . . . . . . . . Page 8 Walker Roofing . . . . . . . . . . . Page 19 Satellite TV Installation ADI Digital Aerials . . . . . . . . . Page 8 MWC Services . . . . . . . . . . . Page 7 Soft Furnishings Drapes In Elegance . . . . . . . Page 3 Synthetic Turf Lion Lawns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Front Pg Upholstery Cleaning Rise & Shine . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 13 Vehicle Servicing & Repairs Redline Racing . . . . . . . . . . . Page 5 Vehicle & Race Tuning Redline Racing . . . . . . . . . . . Page 5 Wardrobes Space Master . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 13 Window Cleaning Rise and Shine . . . . . . . . . . . Page 13 Window Repairs All Seasons Windows . . . . . Page 9 Marton Windows . . . . . . . . . . Page 27 NU Vision Windows . . . . . . . Page 15 Window Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . Page 19

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