August Thorpe Bay 2011

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August ‘11

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Oracle Competition WIN! A Birthday Party at Adventure Island!

Local Issues

Fair Havens for Life

Recipe Seafood and Chorizo Paella

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Health & Beauty Dont worry, be Happy!

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Oracle again has secured some more great prizes for this month’s competition which has been kindly donated by Adventure Island.The prize is a birthday party for 8 x children (£20 per child, value of £160), 3 x runner up prizes of family tickets (consists of 4 x bands per family, value £23 each).

To enter, send your name and contact details to: Oracle Adventure Island Competition, 39 Alexandra Street, Southend, Essex SS1 1BW, the closing date is August 22.

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Fair Havens for Life F

or the past 28 years Fair Havens Hospice has been caring for people living with lifelimiting and terminal illnesses. Throughout this time they have cared for over 20,000 people and countless family members. All this care is free of charge.

But they face an insurmountable challenge. The hospice is two converted houses. Their Care Team does amazing work, but the physical limitations of the existing Fair Havens are stopping them from caring for more people.

Last year, they had to turn away more than 50 people in need of hospice care because Fair Havens didn’t have enough beds available at the time they were needed. Unless they can find a new site and build the new hospice, there is the very real prospect that in the not too distant future Southend will be without hospice care.

They have been developing plans for a new hospice and searching for a suitable site. In their search they have taken account a range of factors including location, transport links and the views of patients and families. They have looked at over 80 publicly available sites across Southend, AUGUST 2011

Castle Point and Rochford but the majority fail to provide the necessary ‘fit’. This led Fair Havens to widen its search and seriously consider greenbelt sites, including a piece of farmland – “Field Nine” - off Belton Way, adjacent to Leigh on Sea station. This has become their chosen preferred site, because it offers so much of what they have been looking for.

Petitioning for Support At dozens of “Come and See” Sessions in which the charity shared its vision with the local community, over 90% of those who attended endorsed these plans. And over 20,000 have now signed a petition in support of the new Fair Havens Hospice to be built at Belton Way, though it is classed as greenbelt. Over 2,500 of these signatories live in Leigh and of this number 243 are from the immediate surrounding area to the site.

Among the signatories is Les Sawyer, Chairman of the West Leigh Residents Association. “From my perspective having taken time out to study the detailed plans, I feel that Havens Hospices will be responsible custodians of this small piece

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of Leigh, enhancing it to benefit patients and families, as well as local residents and wildlife.

“My family and I are proud to support this proposal and will continue to do so.”

Former Mayor Ron Price has also put pen to paper in support of Fair Havens’ plans. He says, “As a past Mayor of Southend, I fully support Fair Havens planning application for new premises.

After a long search for suitable grounds, they can now hope to extend their care and dedication for the seriously ill to a larger number of people.

“If any organisation deserves the total support of the local residents, they do.”

Havens Hospices Chief Executive Andy Smith says, “We have been bowled over by the level of public support we have received for our plans and the overwhelming response to the petition has proved this.

“It’s important to recognise that whilst not everyone will agree with our plans because of the sensitivities surrounding greenbelt, the evidence shows that there is wide support in the local community. It is no coincidence that the majority of the patients we have cared for over the last two years have lived in Leigh.

“We have an obligation to our patients, and those we will inevitably meet in the future, to pursue this option. It is our duty to do everything we can

Les Sawyer, Chairman of the West Leigh Residents Association. to make sure the New Fair Havens Hospice is put in the right place to care for all those who need our help.”

The Next Step....

This is a very exciting project and will make a tremendous difference to hospice care for local people and their families for years to come.

The charity is confident that architects have designed a hospice that would nestle into the site, sympathetically within its surroundings, enhancing the area for wildlife and users of the footpaths, and below the eye-line of anyone looking across the estuary. They have also showed the steps they are taking to ensure this doesn’t set a building precedent within the area.

A full list of considered sites, criteria and scores are available on the charity’s website, alongside artists impressions, plans and a full list of FAQ’s. Just visit www.havenshospices.org.uk/newfairhavens To find out how you can support the work of Havens Hospices please visit www.havenshospices.org.uk or call 01702 220350.

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1. Heat the oil in a large frying pan. Add the onion and chorizo and fry for 5 minutes, add the garlic and continue cooking for another minute. Stir in the paprika, thyme and rice. Stir for 1 minute until the rice is coated in the oil and then splash in the sherry or wine. Once it has evaporated stir in the tomatoes and stock.

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But too much can lead to some serious health problems. Luckily, there are a few simple tools that can help you to reduce and handle the pressures of modern living.

Find out what’s stressing you the most In most people’s cases it’s related to security (your home, your job or your finances), sustenance (your diet) or sex (your relationship). Once you’ve isolated the main cause, you can then focus on dealing with it.

Plan to beat your stress Once you’ve sussed out the major source of tension in your life, set a series of short-term, achievable goals. These will help you see yourself progressing. Find books, CDs, DVDs, etc that address the challenge you’re confronting, or find someone who’s dealt with the same issue and ask for their help. Eliminate or minimise this worry and you’ll have taken a big step forward in health terms.

Get active Doing the right amount of exercise can help you cope with stress by giving you a way of releasing it constructively. For those really stressed-out people, a full-on exercise regime could be too intense - you’ll simply break. Start something like tai-chi, yoga or meditation that will help bring your body back into balance. Taking up a new pursuit is also helpful. Anything from tennis to clay pigeon shooting, walking the dog to swimming are just a small handful of the thousands of activities people like you do to relax and de-stress.

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The global banking and economic crisis left investors wondering whether they should sell equities and invest in traditionally safer asset classes such as cash, corporate bonds or gilts.

With inflation remaining a real threat to wealth and the likelihood of a rise in UK base rates increasing, for many the outlook is as uncertain today as it was three years ago.

So what does this mean for investors? Despite the seemingly bleak outlook, opportunities remain for the long-term investor prepared to accept some risk in the desire to achieve better returns.

Whilst the double-digit returns from fixed interest assets enjoyed in 2006 are unlikely to be repeated, the asset class remains a key part of a diversified investment portfolio and there are still opportunities to be found in both investment grade and non-investment grade bonds.

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With clouds still hovering over the UK economy, companies that derive a significant chunk of their earnings from overseas have also been attracting attention.

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