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Good News! The donation barometer on the Spotlight Appeal website has already begun to increase! A big thanks to all of you who have already donated to this very important Appeal, raising funds to buy 3 ultraprecise, state-of-the-art radiotherapy treatment machines for Southend Hospital. If you would like to donate, get involved or support an event then please visit www.spotlightappeal.org

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The cost-of-living crisis is hitting all of us, including local businesses. If you are spending money, whenever possible try and spend it locally. Keeping the money local will benefit the town hugely.

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OUR CHARITY SHOPS IN WESTCLIFF AND HADLEIGH NEED YOUR SUPPORT

Having a spring clear-out? Your donations of unwanted items are needed and appreciated.

Funds from our two charity shops are now benefiting the Spotlight Radiotherapy Appeal which will raise £600,000 to provide Southend Hospital with cutting-edge radiotherapy equipment by 2025.

Volunteer opportunities are available at both our shops, for information: mse msevolunteers@nhs net

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Southend's Economic future

Firstly, the last time I wrote in this publication I spoke about the 85,000 vehicle movements through our city. As a way of a short update, Southend Council passed an amended Conservative party motion which will empower us to fight these vehicle movements. Which I think you will all agree is great news.

Today however, I wish to talk to you about something more generic but possibly the most important thing we as a City need to discuss, but over many years have failed to - the future of our local economy.

I don't want to speak ill of the local economy we currently have. This publication alone is a testament that there are many businesses in Southend, and the surrounding area, doing well, with many success stories being found in these pages alone. It is true that there are many places in the UK with a far worse offering than our own.

But that does not mean that we can take it for granted, nor does it mean that improvements cannot be made. In fact as a Councillor the condition of our high streets and overall business offering are some of the most important things that residents raise.

Southend's Economy under attack!

It isn't difficult to see why. When Southend's businesses flourish we create more jobs, we improve how our city looks we encourage investment into our core infrastructure and of course, we are able to raise funds to pay for core public services.

However, Southend's economy is under attack. It isn't hard to see the impact those attacks are having. In the recent Southend Council budget the Council is now £2m a year worse off due to a

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decrease in business rate income. That is a significant amount of money, which in turn has resulted in the Labourled Council being forced to make cuts to some of the key public services. We also see the impact through the dereliction of our city's high street and the additional 5,000 people in Southend who have found themselves out of employment.

Do these attacks effect our economy?

Some of them are obvious, COVID, and the cost of living crisis caused by the war in Ukraine are just two International crises that have seen damaging effects locally as well. Others however, are far more subtle. The dramatic increases in Parking charges over the last four years have scared off many people from coming to Southend choosing instead to go to other seaside resorts such as Clacton or Canvey due to their cheaper parking options. The yearon-year high increases in Council Tax and charges mean less money in people's pockets, and the publicly subsidised businesses scattered throughout the city undermine competition and hurt our

local businesses, which simply cannot compete with a publicly subsidised competition. This is all before we look at the lack of investment in our High Street, in community safety and in our core infrastructure which at times does not make Southend an attractive place to visit or do business.

We should help businesses

However, as I said at the beginning of this article I don't want to bash our economy. We have so much to offer here in Southend. An international airport, 2 train lines into London, gigabit broadband, a thriving cultural scene, and of course our wonderful seafront.

So what can we do to take advantage of these assets? Firstly, I think a holistic review is needed. Often in Southend Council, we see work being done in silos, the highways department talks to itself, the planning department talks to itself, and the economic recovery department talks to itself. Not since 2010 has there been a holistic, step back and look at the big picture, review of Southend and its economy. This means that decisions are being made based on guesses and piecemeal solutions. This has created problems far beyond economic ones and it is something that must be resolved.

On top of this we need to start selling Southend, not just as a place to visit but as a place to do business, thrive, and of course, succeed. But of course, none of this matters until Southend Council is able to understand that businesses are not the enemy, but rather part of the solution. We can't keep treating businesses and residents as cash cows, the loss of £2m in business rates is a tribute to that.

Instead, we should help businesses thrive because when they do jobs are created, investment in our city comes pouring in and through business rate retention our public services have more money to thrive.

I don't pretend to be a great economist, but i know that the current trajectory isn't sustainable long term. As always I am interested in hearing your views and ideas by email at cllrnelson@southend.gov.uk.

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The R&D tax relief scheme, available only to limited companies, is designed to incentivise innovation within the UK and reward companies conducting research and development.

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Southend window and door company Climatec Home Improvements are celebrating the Group’s 30th birthday this year.

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Local elections 2023

With the local elections coming up on Thursday 4th May, it is important that local residents are not only registered to vote, but also aware of new changes to the law regarding how people vote at a polling station.

You’ll now need photo ID to vote at a polling station

The Government has recently changed the law. It is now a legal requirement that photo identification must be shown when voting in person. This will apply for the local elections taking place on Thursday 4th May and means that you will have to show an accepted form of photo ID before being given your ballot paper to vote. Photo ID is not required for postal voting.

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There are many types of photo ID that are acceptable. You can use any of the following examples, even if they have expired – but the photo on it will need to be a good likeness.

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For more information on which forms of photo ID will be accepted, visit www.southend.gov.uk/VoterID

What do I do if I don’t have an acceptable form of photo ID?

Those who don’t have the right photo ID can apply for a free Voter Authority Certificate (VAC) before 5pm on Tuesday 25th April. The Voter Authority Certificate can easily be applied for online by going to www.gov.uk/apply-for-photo-id-voterauthority-certificate

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There is now a second OpenGate weapons detector on the streets of Southend after the local business community donated one to the force. Southend Community Policing Team were the first in the country to use the £15,000 system, which is specifically designed to detect dense metal objects.

Southend: Second weapons detector for city after business community donation

The OpenGate is more mobile and less conspicuous than a conventional knife arch and has popped up at locations across Southend including Marine Parade, the High Street, outside Southend Victoria and Southend Central train stations and by Adventure Island.

Stars Amusements’ operations director Nick Singer, Chinnerys’ Simon Patterson, Joan Tiney of the Borough Hotel and Suzanne Gloyne from the Southend Business Improvement District (BID) presented the OpenGate to Insp Paul Hogben and Sgt James Mint of Southend CPT at Circus Circus arcade.

Insp Hogben said: “The OpenGate has been a big success, so having an extra one gives us a far greater capability.

“Not only can we detect weapons, but by using our Project Servator tactics we’ve also recovered knives from people who’ve tried to avoid the OpenGate.

“We want to get those weapons off the streets and this is another tool to help us do that. If you come to Southend carrying weapons, you will be identified, searched and arrested.

“Our partnership with the local traders is crucial and we’re grateful for their generosity. We’re working together to prevent disorder and make it a safe and enjoyable environment for everyone who comes here.

“We are tackling knife crime, being innovative in the way we work, and our officers will continue to be highly visible across the city.”

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Nick Singer, who’s organisation runs many of Southend’s arcades and Kingpins bowling alley, added:

“Everyone has been very generous and put their hands in their pockets to make this happen. It’s a really good team effort from local businesses and Southend BID.

“This is a massive deterrent for anyone who thinks they can come to Southend carrying a weapon. It’s in everyone’s interest to have a safe city.

“There are lots of security teams along the seafront who are working together with the Community Safety Team and the police to keep people safe.

“We hope the teamwork between the local authorities, the police and the local traders continues.”

The following businesses and organisations funded the new OpenGate: Star Amusements, Genting Casino, Pebbles One and Pebbles Two, Adventure Island, Southend BID, Southend Pubwatch, Southend Seafront Traders Association, the Hope Hotel, and the Roslin Beach Hotel.

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Southend Hospital Charitable Foundation is raising vital funds to improve the delivery of radiotherapy treatment, bettering the lives of patients undergoing cancer treatment in mid and south Essex.

Our aim

The Spotlight Radiotherapy Appeal aims to raise £600,000 to fund ultra-precise, state-of-theart radiotherapy positioning devices which provide set-up and motion management during radiotherapy.

The Surface Guided Radiation Therapy (SGRT) equipment will be available to patients at the Mid and South Essex Cancer centre, Southend Hospital.

It is hoped that by 2025, all patients receiving radiotherapy across mid and south Essex will have access to safer, less invasive, and more precise treatment.

Successful completion of the appeal will ensure that patients undergoing radiotherapy treatment receive the best possible experience in terms of comfort, speed and accuracy.

Nicky Whilde, Head of Radiotherapy PhysicsMid & South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

SGRT delivers greater accuracy, increasing the protection of non-malignant tissue.

SGRT - the benefits

Current radiotherapy delivery is too often known to be uncomfortable and claustrophobic, the Spotlight Radiotherapy Appeal will deliver SGRT equipment which:

Delivers greater accuracy

Eliminates the need for permanent placement tattoos

Ends the need for restrictive closed-face masks - known to increase patient anxiety

Improves clinical outcomes and protects non-malignant tissue

Provides non-invasive positioning techniques in the set-up for treatment

Cuts patient treatment time, providing greater patient capacity

Decreases patient and equipment set-up time

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I did everything I had to, but I felt trapped and dreaded every one of my thirty radiotherapy sessions with the mask.

The Spotlight Radiotherapy Appeal will dramatically transform the experience of patients undergoing cancer treatment in mid and south Essex

Over 385,000 people are diagnosed with cancer in the UK every yearthat's one diagnosis every 90 seconds.

The Cancer centre at Southend Hospital alone, delivers some 30,000 doses of radiotherapy treatment each year to approximately 2,500 patients across mid and south Essex.

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Coffee cakes are still popular and over Easter instead of a chocolate cake, coffee is a good alternative. Will keep for 2/3 days in an airtight tin and then once iced in the fridge but bring back to room temperature before eating. Enjoy!

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Heat the oven to 180°C/160°C fan/gas 4. Grease and line the base of a 20cm loosebottomed cake tin with baking paper. For the cake mix, put the walnuts, brown sugar, baking powder, salt and plain flour in a mixing bowl and mix well with a metal spoon or balloon whisk.

Make a well in the centre and add the vegetable oil, espresso and beaten eggs, then mix thoroughly until you have a smooth batter.

Spoon the mix into the lined cake tin and bake for about 60 minutes, or until a skewer pushed into the centre comes out clean. Cover the top loosely with foil after 40 minutes if

it’s getting too brown. Once cooked, take out of the oven and put on a wire rack to cool for 10 minutes. Carefully remove from the cake tin and leave to cool completely on the rack.

While the cake is cooling, make the icing. Find a large heatproof mixing bowl that sits snugly on top of a medium saucepan to make a double boiler. Fill the pan halfway up with boiling water, making sure it doesn’t touch the bowl. Bring the water back to the boil, then reduce to a gentle simmer.

Put the egg and caster sugar in the mixing bowl and sit on top of the pan. Using an electric mixer, beat the sugar and egg

INGREDIENTS

225ml vegetable oil, plus extra for greasing

100g walnuts, roughly chopped, plus extra to decorate

225g light brown soft sugar

 1 tsp baking powder

¼ tsp salt

225g plain flour

 2 tbsp instant espresso, dissolved in 1 tbsp boiling water

 4 medium free-range eggs, beaten

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 1 medium free-range egg

100g caster sugar

125g unsalted butter, softened

25g full-fat cream cheese

 1 tsp coffee extract (I like Camp)

 1 tsp instant espresso, dissolved in 1 tsp boiling water

120g icing sugar

until thick and pale in colour –about 5 minutes. The beaters should leave a trail of mixture when lifted.

Whisk in the softened butter a little at a time, then add the cream cheese, coffee extract and liquid espresso. Sift in the icing sugar, then whisk it in at a lower speed until smooth. Cool and chill the icing for 2 hours, so it firms up.

Once the sponge has cooled, cut it in half through the centre, using a serrated knife. Spread a third of the icing on the bottom half of the sponge. Sandwich with the top half, then spread the rest of the icing all over the cake. Decorate with the extra chopped walnuts.

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For devotees of the latest series of Great British Menu, a degree of nostalgia is almost certainly guaranteed when the competing chefs claim that their dish is inspired by an episode from a 70’s animation series, such as Paddington, The Clangers or Ivor the Engine.

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Our experts work with professional advisers and clients ranging from individuals seeking IVAs or averting bankruptcy, to family-run companies and major multinationals.

Commercial Litigation

Our specialist team gets quick results where necessary or seek alternative resolution channels that save you money and disruption to your business.

Intellectual Property

Our expert brand management team are here to help you protect and exploit your valuable intellectual property assets.

For you and your family

Divorce, Separation and Child Issues

It takes years of training and experience to handle sensitive personal problems. We’ve got more than our fair share of both.

Wills, Trusts, Probate and Tax Planning

You’ve worked hard for your money. We’ll protect it for you and your future generations.

Litigation and Dispute Resolution

Our Specialist team can help you resolve disputes over land, property or money. We keep the costs in check and end in sight.

Property

If you’re moving home or own a property portfolio, our property solicitors are as safe as houses.

Employment

Our specialists advise employees and directors on all aspects of their employment including discrimination and unfair dismissal and frequently advise on exit packages and contractual restrictions. We provide representation for Employment Tribunal claims and mediations.

Personal Injury Claims

Our team of claimant lawyers are among the best negotiators of injury settlements in the business, from relatively minor road traffic accidents to complex brain injury cases.

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 Use that unwanted jewellery and put it towards something you really want.

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How to change your thinking

Change is a necessity. It is important that we are able to change as life and situations alter by keeping up with technology and growth. However, the reality is as we settle into a job or relationship and build behavioural patterns that we are comfortable with.

The more comfortable we are with our lives, the more safe and secure we feel and become.

So that when a situation arises that warrants change we find ourselves in great difficulty accepting anything which is not like our comfortable pattern.

Believability and Resistance

If you believe change is bad for you, you will be resistant to it. For example, someone who has been working at the same job for ten years undertaking exactly the same work and process every day, is told that they must now follow a new procedure are unlikely to be happy about it.

What happens is, our subconscious will make us react to the fear of change, raising feelings of resentment, anger, abandonment towards the person or organisation making those changes. Resulting in changes of low mood, feeling unappreciated, anxiety

and stress. Over time these negative feelings become patterns too and may result in depression or illness.

Your Mind is NOT in Control You Are!

We have incredible intelligent and powerful minds that constantly respond to our words and thoughts. The only thing we have control over is our current thoughts as old thoughts are in the past. You can stop thinking about your old thoughts by taking control of them.

Releasing old patterns

Changing and releasing old out of date patterns is healthy because it makes us more powerful and in control. By recognising and accepting your emotions toward change, this will help ease transitions and you will be less resistance. Affirmations for Change: I am willing to let go. I release and let go. I release all tension, all fear, all anger, all resentment and sadness. I let go of all limitations, I am at peace with myself and the process of life, I am safe. (Louise Hay)

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Caring for our community

Since 2011, the Doris team has provided care to local people and reassurance to their loved ones. We are proud to have become a part of many families’ trusted circles; a service they can rely on to deliver “care as it should be”.

Our homecare team delivers a broad range of care services to clients across the local area, a number of whom are living with dementia or other conditions. Whether helping with personal care, supporting daily routines, accompanying people on outings or simply providing companionship, we do all we can to enrich the lives of those we visit.

If we can help you, a loved one or friend to remain independent and live safely and happily at home, please get in touch for a chat.

Visit our website at www.dorisjones.co.uk, send an email to enquire@dorisjones.co.uk or call us on 01702 472954.