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Dear Reader Hello and welcome to the October edition of the MK Flyers.
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Well, the nights are drawing in and it looks as though we’ve seen the last of the summer; can you believe there are already Christmas decorations up in some of the shops? I’ll just be happy to get past Halloween without being forced to surrender my entire chocolate stash to the local ghosts and ghouls. Why not surround yourself with a stunning venue for your Christmas party this year at the Calcutta Brasserie in Stony Stratford. To find out more about what they are offering see page 9. September saw the launch of the NEW MK Flyers mobile APP which we are all very excited about. The MK Flyers APP allows you to read the latest edition of the MK Flyers, find a local service by using MK Flyers Online, interact with us via Facebook & Twitter, keep up to date with the latest events and news stories via the MK Flyers Blog - all on the go. There is also the opportunity to enter regular competitions, support Milton Keynes leading charity, Willen Hospice, with a direct link to their donation page and best of all the app users will receive direct offers from local companies straight to your mobile See page 41 for full details. Please remember to mention the MK Flyer when responding to articles and advertisements.
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Celebrate Christmas in style at the multi-award-winning Calcutta Brasserie Set within a Grade II 17th Century listed Chapel in the picturesque town of Stony Stratford This year saw the restaurant named the Best Asian restaurant in Milton Keynes* which has seen Calcutta Brasserie celebrate its best year ever; as well as become the number one choice for parties and celebrations. As the seasonal period draws closer, now is the time to think about Christmas parties and where you will get the most for your money – as well as leave guests/colleagues/family and friends with Christmas to remember.
caringly prepared by the team of talents chefs. The restaurant’s attentive and friendly staff allow you to relax and enjoy every minute of your time at Calcutta Brasserie and give you the best Christmas ever – you deserve it.
The special private function room and bar offers an exquisite menu, fine champagne and wine options and can seat 100 guests comfortably and up to 200 guests throughout the entire venue. Parties of all sizes are welcome The Calcutta Brasserie’s selection and specific requirements can be of menus cater for all. From authentic Indian food to traditional catered for. English dishes, each dish is *Food and Leisure Awards
Spice up your Christmas and New Year celebrations Celebrate in style at Calcutta Brasserie, set within a 17th Century grade II listed chapel. Our special private function room and bar offers an exquisite menu, fine champagne and wine options. We can comfortably seat 100 guests in this uniquie room and up to 200 guests throughout the entire venue. We are open on Christmas day lunch with a choice of award winning Indian cuisine and traditional Roast dinner.
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Where can you order an Indian curry, Chinese noodles and your favourite pizza all in one place? The answer is Red Hot World Takeaway in Central Milton Keynes. Red Hot World Buffet realised that the customers not only wanted choice in their restaurants but from time to time they wanted the dishes delivered fresh to their door too. The management spoke to hundreds of loyal guests and created a takeaway service the whole family could enjoy! There are over 20 starters to choice from which include Spring rolls, Salt and Pepper chicken wings, Ribs, Sesame toast, Katsu Prawns and more, The feedback collected over weeks of research meant the menu had to have lots of menu options and be delivered as fresh as possible. The main courses available are also spanning the world and include Stir Fry’s, Mongolian Mussels, Thai curries and lots of pizza combinations. The Red Hot takeaway service also caters for the kids with a choice of chicken nuggets, chips, Potato Wedges, and plain noodles available to share. Desserts are popular with many customers with the chocolate brownies and Eton mess being the most items being ordered. All guests can order a meal deal at just £7.99 for a starter, Main and a side giving great value and large portions.
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Here in Milton Keynes we often find ourselves teased due to the number of roundabouts you find and our 1970s architecture. What those who judge the MK Book by its cover miss though is the enormous sense of community we have within Milton Keynes. Considering the size of the city, the grid road system provides a unique set up and allows for a village style community within each grid square.
are trying to get donations of toiletries to form part of a pack for new comers arriving in Milton Keynes. You can find the collection point near the check outs in the store and I strongly recommend you keep an eye out all year round. Over the last year, Sainsbury’s stores collectively raised over £25.4 million for charities and community organisations. They also support local schools and clubs through Active Kids and local community groups-a huge support for many different people in MK. Other organisations which have I have been equally impressed by over the past years include the Barclays based in the city centre, where I attended a charity bake sale for. The Home Retail Group runs a scheme which allows workers to have days off in order to help in the local community with different projects, to name but one organisation. The community work which takes place, really does make a huge difference and I believe it makes our city a better place. Following on, I recently visited the Orbit Housing HQ in Milton Keynes, which is a charity for homeless people based in Fishermead. During my tour I was shown a picture of the House of Commons and on pointing my office out I realised many hadn’t visited. It was my great pleasure therefore to host a group from the charity at the Houses of Parliament last month and following on from their tour I took them for tea on the terrace.
Over the past 7 years as the MP, I am always struck by the great support offered to those in need by the community at a local level and I am very pleased to see that large corporate firms based here in MK are taking their commitment to social responsibility so seriously. During a recent visit to Sainsbury’s based in the Hub, which constituted part of one of my busy days going around our city, I learnt of the many ways they are currently trying to help our local charities. Each Sainsbury store sponsors a local charity, selected by customers and colleagues. This year Sainsbury’s has decided to help the Salvation Army, which has a local centre very close by to the store in Conniburrow. Throughout the year, the store will undertake various initiatives to raise money as well as raising the profile of the local charity within the community. At the moment they
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Working in such an amazing building certainly makes it enjoyable to show people around and I am always delighted to have people down from the constituency. Should there be groups or individuals who have never been and would like to go, all you need do is contact me. With the days growing shorter and the nights colder, I am assured following my visits over the past month that there are plenty of people ready to help those who are less fortunate than themselves. I would urge you all to keep an eye out at your local supermarkets for opportunities to donate and would also ask you to see what scheme your work offers you to engage with the local community. As ever, I am also always here should you need any help or guidance and you can contact my office on 01908 686830 or write to me at: House of Commons, Westminster, London, SW1A 0AA. Mark Lancaster TD MP
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Local therapist joins national awareness-raising campaign Did you know that anyone can set up as a massage practitioner, hypnotherapist or other complementary therapist? What should the public look for when deciding who to see? A Milton Keynes based Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapist is acting as a Local Champion for the Complementary & Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC), the UK regulator for complementary healthcare that was set up with government funding and support. Practitioners registered with the CNHC meet national occupational standards and abide by a rigorous code of conduct, performance and ethics. Once on the register they can display the CNHC quality mark.
Lee Adley of Set Your Mind Free Hypnotherapy joins CNHC registered practitioners around the country who are taking part in the Local Champions campaign. Lee said: “I have been CNHC registered since 2010 as I think it’s so
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important that the public chooses properly trained, qualified and insured practitioners and I am doing my bit to make sure people in the Milton Keynes area can find out more.” In order to raise the ethical standards of complimentary therapies CNHC champions will be visiting therapy centres, community centres, gyms, and GP surgeries etc. At Set Your Mind Free Hypnotherapy in Milton Keynes you are helped to address your issue whether it be giving up smoking, losing weight, gaining confidence/self esteem, or overcoming fears, anxiety, phobias, or depression. Lee added that: “Hypnotherapy is one of 14 therapies registered by the CNHC. There are over 5,000 practitioners on the register and members of the public can search the CNHC register to find practitioners in their local area. More than 170,000 searches have been carried out since the register first opened in 2009.” For further information, please contact leigh@setyourmindfree.co.uk or phone 01908 265410. Further information is also available at www.setyourmindfree.co.uk Visit the CNHC website for a list of registered therapies and practitioners (www.cnhc.org.uk)
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Milton Keynes Village Firework Display It’s nearly that time of year again, this long established event will once more take place adjacent to Milton Keynes Village Hall and the Pavilion. The date for your diary is Saturday October 27th, the fun commences at 6.30pm with the lighting of the traditional Bonfire, followed by the Fireworks Display itself at 7.00pm.
activities will be donated to Willen Hospice- so please be generous and look out for the official collectors! As usual there will be burgers, hotdogs and candyfloss stalls situated near the Village Hall itself, and the nearby Pavilion will also have food and drinks for everyone available. Please note that for safety reasons sparklers are prohibited but the popular Glow Sticks will be on sale near the Village Hall and at the Pavilion. We do also suggest that wherever possible you arrive on foot as parking in the immediate area is limited.
Once again it will be a very high quality professional display, set to fantastic music which combine to create a tremendous So please come along to enjoy spectacle and generate a great the fireworks family fun and at atmosphere the same time support both Although there is no entrance your local community and Willen fee the event is entirely funded Hospice. from collections on the night. Remember, remember Saturday Once again we are pleased to the 27th October! announce that all profits from the collections and Village Hall Chris Brown
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GreenThumb provide a complete Lawn Treatment Programme throughout the year Treatments include weed elimination, moss control and fertiliser applications, scarification, aeration, disease and pest control treatments ensuring your lawn is the best in your neighbourhood at a cost that is less than doing it yourself. Follow their seasonal tips to improve the health of your lawn for next year. • The compacted clay sub-surface of most local lawns prevents rain and nutrients from penetrating the grass roots, leaving a weakened root system. Hollow-tine aeration takes out plugs of soil to improve the uptake of nutrients and reduces the formation of moss. The small holes allow the root zone to breathe and surface water to drain away more easily.
• Clear fallen leaves – deprivation of light and oxygen will otherwise destroy the grass underneath. Damp leaves will also further encourage moss formation. • As long as the ground temperature remains above 6c now is a good time to carry out any patch repairs with fresh grass seed.
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Guide lines for planting new fruit trees Maurice Rust, Frosts Garden Centre, Woburn Sands
Go into any fruit shop of supermarket, you will find the shelves full of English grown apples and pears at this time of year. Your thoughts may turn to ‘growing your own’. If you only have a small garden or allotment growing an apple or a pear tree is not a problem as their many forms and ways that fruit trees can be grown. If you have lots of space then the most obvious choice is to plant a ‘Half standard tree’ where the head of the tree will be grown at the top of the trunk about 120 to 150 centimetres off the ground (4 to 5ft). A bush fruit tree is when the head of the tree is grown on a short trunk in the region of a metre (36 inches) or less. Fan fruit trees are when the branches are grown equally spaced in the shape of a flat fan. Fan shaped fruit trees are grown to be planted against a wall or garden fence. Espalier or horizontal fruit trees are where the branches are grown either side of the main stem and are usually 30 cm (12 inches) apart. Normally these are purchased with two or three layers of branches, however over time you can develop other layers of branches depending on what are your requirements. On some very old properties you can find them as high as the eaves of the house with many layers of fruiting bearing branches. Corden fruit trees is where the fruit is grown on a single stem planted at an angle of 45 degrees, these are traditionally planted in a row supported by wires spaced 120 centimetres (4ft) apart to form a hedge. Triple-corden fruit trees are usually grown with three upright stems growing off a short lateral growing branch either side of a short trunk usually 30centimetres high (12 inches). Also available in this method of growing fruit trees are what is known as a double ‘U’ corden with four upright growing stems or a ‘U’ corden where two upright stems are grown. Step Over fruit trees, these are lateral growing stems grown either side of short trunk 30 centimetres high (12inches) and are usually grown on the edge of the garden plot to form a small hedge that you just ‘step’ over. Family fruit trees are grown with three compatible pollinating varieties on a short trunk.
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Root stocks Apples are grafted on to different root stocks depending on how high you wish your fruit tree to grow. Some varieties are weak growing varieties so they are grafted on to a strong growing rootstock whilst other varieties need to be slowed down a little. The following is a simple guide. On apple tree labels you will often see M27 or M9 this means that the root stock was originally grown at the East Malling Research Station in Kent. For ‘Very dwarf’ growing fruit trees M27 growing less than 2 metres high (6ft), (these can also be grown in large containers. Dwarf M9 growing just over metres high (8 ft), Semi Dwarf M26 growing 3 metres high ((9ft), MM106 growing 4 metres high (12ft). Pears are grown on just one root stock which is known as Quince C that generally grows around 3 metres high (9ft).
Pollination This subject is often made unnecessarily complicated. This brief outline will hopefully be of some assistance. Most fruit trees are planted in close proximity of other gardens so activity of bees and other insects is helped by such close planting. All apples and pears flower at different periods, over the years Research Stations have been able to place varieties into different groups and ranked 1,2,3,4, and 5. Number ‘one’ being a early flowering apple and ‘five’ being very late flowering apples, so that providing you plant two fruits of the same number or for eg. 3 and 4 the flowering periods overlap and they will ‘cross pollinate’. To help you select suitable pollinating varieties on plant labels each fruit tree you should find the variety marked as either 1,2,3,4, or 5. Some varieties are ‘Self fertile varieties’, this means that the flowers will pollinate with the pollen from other flowers on from the same tree. On plant labels these varieties are marked ‘SF’. Triploid varieties – there are a few varieties of apples that are marked ‘Triploid’, in simple terms they are poor pollinators therefore they need planting with two other pollinating varieties. If you have an ornamental flowering crab apple tree they will often assist in the pollination of your apples.
Biennial bearing This condition often afflicts old apple varieties and in particular varieties such as Laxtons’s Superb or Blenhiem Orange. In one year they will produce very heavy crops of fruit when the tree uses up all its energy to sustain and mature the current crop but then it has no reserve to form flower bud for the following spring resulting in little or in some cases no fruit at all for that year.
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Small businesses will lead the way in 2012, says company whose tenants already employ 1000 people Milton Keynes will boom in 2012, says the town’s largest serviced business premises provider, as the number of people employed in its units tops 1000 at the close of 2011. Bucks Biz, with over 400,000 square feet of space and 150 tenants in Bletchley and Denbigh, says it is already planning more units to cope with the expected growth in demand and bringing forward plans to develop extra space at the huge Interchange House in Howard Way. “Our units currently provide work for around a thousand people and we have seen that figure rise steadily,” said Dominic Muscat, a director of the company that owns the business.
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“As Milton Keynes business booms, led by small businesses, we are already identifying potential new units that can be converted to provide the premises needed for small companies to thrive without hassle.” Bucks Biz, with units all over Milton Keynes, is renowned for straight talking and dealing; not hiding costs and not charging for many of the little things that keep businesses ticking, but which can be annoying to the point of distraction. “We really believe that if our customers are happy, then they’ll be free to get on with their businesses, which in turn will expand,” added Dominic. More info from www.bucksbiz.co.uk or 01908 821000
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Lower Back Pain Back pain plagues many of us. A whopping 8 out of 10 people get back pain at some point in their lives, equating to 80% of the population according to the NHS, and in the years of 2010 and 2011, 7.6 million working days were lost due to back ache. Back pain has various causes, from plain old stress, to the more serious causes, like a fractured vertebrae or a herniated disc. This article focuses solely on the least serious cause of back pain, one which has no obvious cause, and for this reason, is referred to as “non-specific back pain.” Non-specific back pain usually presents as pain in the area at the base of the spine. It can start after exercise, or it could come on slowly, over a period of months. This kind of back pain is not usually associated with any kind of fall or trauma. The pain doesn’t radiate to other part of the body, that is to say, it stays local to the spine. Exceptions!! There are always exceptions to the rule and here are two of them: If you have lost the ability to control your bowels or bladder, you will need to seek medical assistance as a matter of emergency. If you have a fever and your urine smells funny, you may have a kidney infection, see your GP. So what’s going on? In the case of non-specific back pain, the pain you are feeling is likely to come from the muscles, not the bones. Your muscles are tense, due to being over-used from either sitting or standing for long periods of time. This state of tension is what is causing the pain. Fig 1. View of the spine from the back with Quadratus Lumborum, far left. Multifidus, left and nearest the spine. Longissimus and Iliocostalis Lumborum arranged tightly on the right.
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The image shows the muscles as viewed from the back. I have removed the opposing muscle of each pair so that you can see all the different muscles. All these muscles are responsible for bending the body from side to side and, more crucially, extending the spine. In short, they help you sit and stand up straight. It is likely to be these muscles which are tense and causing pain. So what do you do about it? Your doctor may well offer you pain killers and antiinflammatories to deal with the pain. If the pain persists, or if you want to be rid of it more quickly, then consider seeing a physiotherapist, osteopath or chiropractor. They will treat the muscles causing the pain. I personally have treated many lower back problems with some startling results. There are exercises which may also help, and I plan to write more about this in later articles. Jacque Cilliers Adv Dip. M.T. (MSM) Appointments: 0845 458 5376
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Frosts ice-breaker deal for Xmas Frosts Garden Centre at Woburn Sands has announced its biggest ever investment into Christmas this year, the busiest and potentially most profitable period in the calendar for the Garden Centre.
Last year the Garden Centre’s ice-rink created a spectacular day out for the whole family with festive food, treat stalls and this year promises not to disappoint, explains managing director James Frost “We are delighted to have ice skating back this year follow a terrific success last year, it completes the perfect Christmas day out for families and friends. Now we want to give local business people a unique office experience plus ramp up our partnership with schools.”
Following a damp but ‘average’ summer, the Garden Centre is looking to capitalise on the growing success of its Christmas trade and has announced the return of its ice rink, following its debut last year. In 2011, the ice rink attracted hundreds of visitors and now Frosts has set a target of increasing this when it opens on Saturday 17th November.
Tickets cost £8.49 for an adult and £5.99 for a child, plus book now for half price skating in November. Look out for Frosts mid week deals which include ‘Skate & Cake’ and a ‘Parent and Toddler Special’, plus there is free parking for everyone. To book tickets visit www. frostsgardencentres.co.uk or call the Garden Centre on 01908 583511.
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