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Dear Reader Hello and welcome to the September edition of the MK Flyers.
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As the children’s summer holidays are over, normality is resumed.
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However if there is still time to keep the kids entertained have a look at page 11 to see details of what is happening at SNO!zone. With the last bank holiday behind us, Christmas is fast approaching. If you are looking for that something different to do this year have a look at Harben De Vere’s Christmas offering on page 6. September brings the launch of the new registration numbers, so if you are thinking of changing the old faithful for a new sporty model then get in touch with Carnoisseur Leasing in Newport Pagnell. For details see page 19. On page 10 have a read about the MK Flyers team day out at Segway Unleashed. A great family fun day based just out side Milton Keynes. Please remember to mention the MK Flyer when responding to articles and advertisements.
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Pamper yourself with our September Special Offers TUESDAYS Wax for free… pay full price for legs (full leg or half leg) and get underarms, standard bikini, eyebrow or lip FREE. WEDNESDAYS Express facial and back massage for £35. THURSDAYS Get Bronzed for the weekend… Spray tans £20
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Introducing Deutsch Tech, the new independent Porsche, BMW and Mini specialist in Milton Keynes area! Based in Old Wolverton Village, Milton Keynes, Deutsch Tech is a brand new company offering vehicle maintenance for German prestige cars, with particular expertise in Porsche, BMW and Mini. Our charges are up to 50% less than main dealer prices. Deutsch Tech directors, Lenny Harper and Ben Mason, have over 25 years combined main dealer BMW and Porsche experience. Between them, they have a wealth of knowledge and expertise in servicing, diagnostics and repairs. At Deutsch Tech you will be
guaranteed a personal service. There’s a comfortable waiting area with refreshments available should you wish to wait.
‘Our new and fully fitted workshop offers a wide range of services, from carrying out a basic service, through to full diagnostics and engine rebuilds. We have the latest diagnostic equipment to ensure the best possible result for your car at an affordable price. We believe in treating our customers as we would like to be treated ourselves. Customer satisfaction is a priority. We will work on your vehicle with expertise, honesty and enthusiasm.’ Come and visit Deutsch Tech at Unit 6 Canons Road, Old Wolverton Village, Milton Keynes MK12 5TL or phone 01908 579229. Or contact us via email at services@deutschtech.co.uk
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! d e h Unleas y wa g with Se This month, Stuart and the MK Flyers team had a half day away from the office to enjoy MK’s new outdoor sensation the amazing experience that is Segway Unleashed! Segway’s are a fast, fun and challenging ride and at Segway Unleashed you can experience the unique adrenalin charged 2-wheeled activity with friends, colleagues, stag and hen parties, clubs or just for the sheer fun of it! At Segway Unleashed they are dedicated to giving you the ride of your life with their thrilling adrenalin experiences sending you on a crazy adventure with the latest Segway X2 off road machines!!!
Stuart and Kim enjoying MK’s new outdoor fun experience
Stuart said ‘When you’re on a Segway it feels like you are gliding through the air - while still being in complete control! I’ll definitely be going back for more’ Segway’s are brilliant fun for people of all ages and abilities. If you’re looking for an outdoor activity in Milton Keynes, the totally unique and amazing Segway’s will leave you smiling from ear to ear. Kim said ‘It was great fun and it’s really easy! You’re given full training and supervision from friendly, experienced staff members. Try it, you’ll really like it!’ With a minimum age of 12 and no maximum age, it is an experience suited to everyone, with packages to suit the adventure that you are after. The find out more about ThE Segway Unleashed Experience contact Them now
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MP’s Diary
By Iain Stewart MP, Conservative MP for Milton Keynes South
I have been holding a number of street surgeries around the city, including at the Shenley Wood Retirement Village. In addition to my regular surgeries by appointment, street surgeries provide constituents with an opportunity to bend my ear on the issues that are most important to them. For me to be an effective representative for local residents it is essential that I hear people’s concerns and I am grateful to those who shared their views with me. One of the privileges that I enjoy as MP is meeting inspirational people. Recently, I met Andrew Lawless, a constituent who is a stroke survivor. Before the unfortunate incident, Mr Lawless had a successful career in the commercial sector. Rather than be deterred by the incident, he is putting his experience and skills to excellent use by setting up ‘In touch with stroke survival’ – a community interest company to help re-enable other survivors. His website, _http://strokesurvival.co.uk/ gives a sense of his vision and aspirations for others who have been affected by stroke. For companies looking for a corporate social responsibility (CSR) project, I believe that ‘In touch with stroke survival’ is a worthwhile cause to consider sponsoring.
There is also good news for people looking to buy a home in Milton Keynes. This month I joined Jephson Homes Housing Association at the official unveiling of its Walton Grange scheme on Brickhill Street. This development includes 53 high-quality homes, which will help families in Milton Keynes to access local affordable housing. I know from my post bag that there’s a huge appetite for quality affordable housing in Milton Keynes. This development is in a lovely part of Milton Keynes and I’m sure will be very welcome for local people. Redeveloping an existing site like this is also a great way to help protect green areas and make the most of brownfield land. Congratulations to Jephson on completing this development during tough economic times. Milton Keynes also hosted the Energy and Climate Change minister, Greg Barker MP, as he visited the Lakes Estate in Bletchley. The Minister took part in discussions over the proposals to refurbish 480 council housing properties as part of the Green Deal. The proposed work will include external wall insulation and ‘warm roof’ improvements to flat roof terraced houses, helping residents to save money on their energy bills.
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A-level Results Rocket Skywards for Akeley Wood School A-level results at Akeley Wood School rocket – the best ever, as students’ achievements go from strength to strength! Once again the outstanding performance of Akeley Wood’s Sixth Form shows striking evidence of impressive value-added scores in every subject across the board. Teachers at Akeley Wood joined in with the students’ celebrations this week, delighted to share in their success. As Headmaster, Dr Jeremy Grundy, comments, “I am especially pleased to see such significant value-added scores, with so many students far outstripping their predicted grades at A2 as indicated by their GCSE results.”
(to study Economics at Warwick). Other Akeley Wood graduates – the vast majority of whom have now been accepted at their first choice university – are moving on to study degrees ranging from Engineering to Psychology, English to Music Technology, History to Anthropology.
An unprecedented 20% of all grades achieved at Akeley Wood School this year were A*. 65% ranged from A* to B, and 88% from A* to C. Top A* grades were achieved across the curriculum. Amongst individual achievements, Oliver Penfold attained two A* and two A grades (to read Medicine at Bristol), Alex Younghusband gained three A* grades (to read Politics at Leeds University), and Vivien Shen gained two A* and three A grades
Following the completion of the School’s new, stateof-the-art teaching block, a small number of places still remains in the expanding Akeley Wood Sixth Form for September 2012. For further information about Akeley Wood School, please contact the School’s Registrar, Mrs Gemma Bailey, on 01280 812000, or admissions@akeleywoodsenior.co.uk Akeley Wood School is owned by Cognita, the UK’s leading independent schools group. Founded by Sir Chris Woodhead, the former Chief Inspector of Schools, Cognita currently owns and operates 58 schools world-wide in the UK, Spain, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Group benefits include access to international exchange programmes and high quality degree courses.
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Fancy a new ‘62’ plate car at a fraction of the normal cost? Carnoisseur Car Leasing are offering some fantastic new deals on the up-coming ‘62’ registration plate which launches September 1st. On top of their already amazing deals, they are offering a further £150 cash back to all MK Flyers readers on all orders taken in September. Carnoisseur Car Leasing have delivered with manufacturers there really are some unbelievable deals on over 500 cars in almost 3.5 years of business, even expanding new cars, both to lease and purchase - in particular on Mercedes their network from their shop on St. Johns St Newport Pagnell Benz. They can also offer part exchange on your current vehicle, to also include a shop in Bedford on Harper Street. Owner Chris short term rental, not to mention exceptional deals on commercial Robinson says “even though times have been tough over the vehicles as well. Whatever vehicle you’re looking for from a new past few years, people still want a nice new shiny car and aren’t family car to a fleet of sign-written, branded vans, Carnoisseur willing to pay dealership prices. With the added value of driving a offers fantastic customer service you can trust (as demonstrated new car, i.e., no road tax, lower insurance, better fuel economy, in customer feedback below) - pop in to the shop and speak to little or no maintenance costs no more MOTs and full 3 year Chris, David, or Michelle and find out for yourself. warranty and 3 years road side assistance, combined with the surprisingly low monthly costs, many private customers and businesses are reaping “The service from “A BIG thank you the friendly guys at Carnoisseur to Chris at Carnoisseur! the benefits. For example, a new Citroen was excellent, really helpful and they We have taken delivery of our weren’t pushy. The choice of cars was 3rd commercial vehicle in C1 could cost you as brilliant and they helped me through Milton Keynes and the service little as £99/month, every step of the leasing, organising provided was once again the financing and filling out the leasing professional, accurate and or a Mercedes SLK agreements, right up until I received my 100% recommended!” from as little as £250/ car. I have recommended them Emma Bowman Smith month, all with minimal since to friends and family.” Managing Director deposits”. Due to Chris Bradley from Xcel Property Services Carnoisseur’s bulk Grange Farm buying relationship
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All prices shown are excluding VAT and are based on 2 or 3 years with 10,000 annual mileage. Offers available to business and personal users (rates may vary). The Citroen C1, Citroen Nemo and Nissan Juke offers shown are subject to an initial rental equal to 3 x monthly payments. The VW Golf offer is subject to an initial rental equal to 4 x monthly payments. The Mercedes E220 and Mercedes Vito offers are subject to an initial rental equal to 6 x monthly payments. All orders are subject to a documentation fee of £166+VAT (taken on order). All offers are correct at the time of going to press and are subject to status, availability and manufacturer’s price increases. Any photographic images incorporated within this leaflet are for illustrative purposes only and may not depict the relevant model. All mpg figures quoted are based on combined cycle figures.
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Hang new internal door, including fitting handles From £40.00 Fit new external door and furniture including lock From £65.00 Fit new radiator From £40.00 each Fit new outside tap From £50.00 Pressure wash driveway or outside walkways and patio From £60.00 All electrical, carpentry and plumbing work quoted for upon inspection. We can fit your new kitchen and bathroom and tile your floor and walls to your own specifications. We are specialists in tarmac and block paving driveways, bricklaying, laying paving and patios. All our work is tailored to individual needs. Our prices are for labour only but we would be happy to purchase materials on your behalf should you so wish. Accurate quotations will be given in writing before commencing work. To book our service, request a quotation or arrange for a visit,
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Do you or someone you know require personal homecare? Superior homecare services ltd is a domiciliary care agency based in Milton Keynes, owned and managed by a registered and qualified GP Nurse, with over 20 years experience. We provide personal care in the comfort of our clients own homes. All our staff are experienced and dedicated carers, who are CRB checked for your peace of mind, and safety. Our carers are fully trained or are working towards their NVQ level 2/3 qualifications. We pride ourselves on delivering high quality assured care.
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Maurice Rust, Frosts Garden Centre, Woburn Sands
As summer bedding plants begin to fade thoughts turn to autumn, our thoughts turn to replanting with winter and spring flowering bedding plants. Before you replant your borders, I recommend that you spend some time preparing the soil. After you have removed your old bedding plants, dig over the soil removing any weed growth, especially deep rooted weeds such as ‘dandy lions’, docks, bind weed or nettles. Even leaving the smallest amount of root in the soil they will regrow. Brake down any large lumps of soil and treat the soil with an application of ‘Bonemeal fertilizer’ a small ‘hand full’ to the square metre to add some new nutrients to the soil. In September the soil is still warm and moist especially with all the rain we have experienced this past summer it is an ideal time to replant. Rake and level the soil before planting any new bedding plant. Remember if the old summer bedding plants where healthy and not diseased compost them down to make garden compost with for next year. Plants such as Pansies and viola are available in abundance everywhere from Supermarkets, Garages, Markets and Garden Centres. Pansies and Violas are exceptional as they will flower right through the autumn, winter and into spring. Suitable for hanging baskets, containers, beds and borders, to improve flowering remove faded flowers immediately. When replanting baskets or containers I always recommend replacing the compost if possible to avoid any over wintering of pest and disease such as ‘vine weevil eggs that have been laid by the adults before they are killed off as the weather deteriorates and we begin to experience cooler night time temperatures. When replanting hanging baskets at this time of year a good combination of planting is either pansy or viola with golden thymus – Thymus Aureus. There are many varieties of thymes available, they are hardy and ideal for hanging baskets or containers. Wall flowers are available now. When buying wallflowers select plants that are fresh with firm stems
and healthy green leaves, bushy plants with several stems about 20/30 centres in length. They are often sold ‘bare rooted’ in bunches that may have been lifted several days ago. Before buying - check the centre plants of the bunch for faded, often yellow leaves, stems that are showing signs of rotting, also they may not smell very sweet. If they are of poor quality do not plant them as they will never establish and grow into healthy plants to flower next spring Some other plants available now to plant for planting in beds and borders are Aubretia, Arbis, Bellis daisies, Cineraria maritima, Mysotis (Forget me nots), Polyanthus, Primroses and Sweet Williams. Another very popular and colourful plants available now is the Miracle Cyclamen, a miniature form of the traditional house plant, with very brightly coloured flowers either red, white, pink or mauve, they will flower from September through until early December when cooler night time temperatures below 2 degrees become to severe for them. They are often sweetly scented with a very delicate fragrance, they will add instant colour to containers, window boxes or sheltered corners of the garden. As soon as flowers fade remove the dead flowers, all to stem ‘clean’ from the corm, any small length of stem left will very soon cause the remaining stems to deteriorate and rot. For many years brightly coloured Chrysanthemums have been available during the autumn months in various colours shades of yellow, orange, bronze, red, white, mauve, pinks and purple known as ‘Yoder Chrysanthemums’ they are ideal for autumn colour in containers on the patio or decking. Compact growing plants producing masses of small flowers that form a large head of colour growing around 30 centimetres high will flower from September through October and often into early November. Often they will over winter and flower again next autumn. Another recent trend is to plant ‘Ornamental Cabbages and Kale’. With white, pink, red or purple and green foliage lasting throughout autumn and winter, they make a colourful display in borders or containers. These cabbages are purely ornamental and are not grown for ‘cooking’ – they have a very bitter taste I am told - if you try to eat them.
I hope you will find this article interesting and a useful shopping guide to replanting your baskets, containers and borders for autumn.
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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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Come and Play A bit like handball, a bit like netball, a bit like basketball – but a bit better! Korfball is a mixed-sex team sport that has been in the Olympics in the past and will be again in the future. MKX Korfball Club is looking for new players for the season ahead to join our following teams: U9s Years 2, 3 and 4 Shenley Brook End School Wednesdays 5.15-6.30pm U11s Years 5 and 6 Shenley Brook End School Wednesdays 6.30-7.45pm U12s Years 6 and 7 Shenley Brook End School Thursdays 5.30-7.00pm
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