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WELCOME to Daybreak, the bright and breezy TV breakfast show featuring celebrity gossip stories, light-hearted news items and the latest weather reports. On screen, the programme’s presenters aim to be all smiles and politeness. Off screen they can’t stand the sight of each other.

In Morning Glory – released in cinemas next Friday (21 January) – show producer Becky Fuller is stuck in the middle.

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SALVATION ARMY OFFERS HELP IN AUSTRALIAN FLOODS

Aid airlifted in Queensland THE Salvation Army in Australia has used its Flying Padre helicopter service to rescue people trapped by floods. The helicopter has also been used to take meals to flooded communities.

People who have been driven from their homes by the water – which has affected large areas of central and southeast Queensland – have taken refuge in evacuation centres, where The Salvation Army has provided meals.

The organisation has also distributed food to emergency services personnel and people whose journeys were disrupted by the flooding of major roads.

Around 200,000 victims have been left without power in their homes as a result of the heavy rainfall, which burst riverbanks and inundated towns.

‘The level of rainfall has been phenomenal,’ says Major Rodney Walters, the Salvation Army leader for central and north Queensland. ‘It has been raining virtually non-stop for days on end.’

Free education birthday celebrated

CHURCH of England schools and dioceses are to hold celebrations marking the 200th anniversary of the founding of the church’s National Society, which offered free education in every parish – 50 years before the provision of state education.

Celebrations will also include a special service at Westminster Abbey in October.

‘Before the State had even considered offering free schooling, the National Society had the wisdom and determination to make education for all a reality in this country,’ says the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu. ‘This year gives us the opportunity to dream, to imagine possibilities as to what the future of our schools may look like.’

According to the church, more GLENDA HOWELLS (pictured) of Maesteg is than 15 million people alive today among Salvationists who have been recognised have received a Church of England education. in the New Year Honours.

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Glenda has been appointed MBE in recognition of her services to The Salvation Army and the community.

She has been a member of The Salvation Army’s Maesteg church for 42 years.

Former Salvation Army prison chaplain Ivor Rickard of Aylesbury has been appointed MBE for his charitable service. William McMurray and Ann Humes, of the Salvation Army centres in Stirling and Gateshead respectively, have been similarly honoured for services to their communities. Maisie Ringham-Wiggins, a trombonist who is a Salvationist at Staines, has been appointed MBE for services to music.

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YOUR prayers are requested for Lewis, who is suffering from Rothmund-Thomson syndrome, and for his family; for the family of Mrs Barton, who have health and stress problems; for Jason, who is in prison, and for his family; for Lily, who has severe osteoarthritis; and for Julian, who is recovering from liver surgery.

The War Cry invites readers to send in requests for prayer, including the names of individuals and details of their circumstances. Send your requests to PRAYERLINK, The War Cry, 101 Newington Causeway, London SE1 6BN. Mark your envelope ‘Confidential’.

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a producer, she can expect to be publicly ridiculed, overworked and underpaid.

But Becky is determined to achieve success and turn the failing show around. She starts by offering the job of co-host to former evening news anchorman Mike Pomeroy (Harrison Ford). Mike’s career is starting to dwindle, so he agrees to join Becky’s team. But he’s less than thrilled about it. He sees it as a humiliating end to his illustrious career.

Becky’s dream job soon turns into her biggest nightmare.

Producing a live TV show is stressful. Mike does not see eye to eye with his chirpy co-host Colleen. And trying to persuade him to present trivial stories about cooking or fluffy Easter chicks is no easy task.

The off-air tensions begin to seep on to the screen. And that’s not good news for Becky.

‘Once you say or do something on the air, you can’t take it back,’ says Rachel McAdams, who researched her character Becky by visiting several morning TV shows to see how they worked. ‘That is terrifying.’

Perhaps it is. But even off screen, life follows the same principle. Once words have been spoken, there’s no chance of a rewind and retake. People cannot change their past actions with a second attempt, no matter how much they wish they could.

On the occasions when we have

been quick to say and do selfish things, we may have ended up creating problems for ourselves and others. An unkind word can cause long-lasting damage in a relationship. A thoughtless deed can make life difficult at work or at home. And the fact that we cannot turn back the clock may make us feel hopeless about the future.

But we don’t have to despair.

Life can get better – and so can we.

Although we cannot erase our past mistakes, we can find forgiveness for them from God. He can also give us the strength to start afresh.

When early Christian writer Paul experienced the love of God as revealed in Jesus, his life changed beyond recognition. He began loving the people he had previously persecuted. He knew that if God could turn his life around, he could do the same for anyone.

He wrote to fellow Christians: ‘Give up your old way of life with all its bad habits.

Let the Spirit [of God] change your way of thinking and make you into a new person’ (Ephesians 4:22, 23 Contemporary English Version).

When we ask God for his help, we can receive the best direction for decisions we make in the future. His forgiveness makes it possible for us to become a new character. Is it time to take some action?

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Campaigners raise money for antitrafďŹ cking projects reports PHILIP HALCROW Phil Lane (centre) of Stop the Traffik welcomes Duncan (left) and Mark at the end of their arduous run

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WO campaigners have run the equivalent of five marathons in six days to raise awareness of the issue of human trafficking. In running the 130-plus miles, Duncan Parker and Mark Rowland also raised money for Freedom Ticket for Life, a campaign organised by Stop the Traffik to help provide education for young girls who might be at risk of being trafficked.

Duncan and Mark’s run started in the red-light district of Amsterdam and ended in Soho, London, another area where there is a noticeable sex industry.

Stop the Traffik says that around the world every year between two and four million men, women and children are trafficked and forced to work in domestic service, agriculture, factories and brothels.

Along the route of the run, passers-by stopped to watch as Duncan and Mark struggled on through snow and ice. TV and newspaper reporters told their story, and the pair tweeted about their experiences and why they were running.

The money raised will be used in anti-trafficking projects across the world.

Duncan tells The War Cry that the run was difficult. ‘But each day,’ he says, ‘our support team told us the story of one of the victims of trafficking at the projects we were raising money for, and every day we ran for that one person. That is what kept us going.’

One of the projects that the pair were supporting was The Salvation Army’s Mbagala Girls’ Home on the outskirts of the Tanzanian city of Dar es Salaam. The centre provides safety as well as access to education and training to girls who have been trafficked or who are at risk of being trafficked – girls such as Suzanna.

Suzanna was orphaned when she was 12 years old and was taken by an aunt from her remote village to Dar es Salaam. Her aunt had promised her an education and a chance

Girls find security at The Salvation Army’s Mbagala home

for a better life, but instead Suzanna was forced to work long hours as a street vendor, selling vegetables.

She spent her days being harassed by men on the market rather than being taught at school.

Suzanna was rescued by a policeman and taken to Mbagala Girls’ Home. There she received secure accommodation, regular meals and counselling. She was enrolled at a local primary school.

Aged 16, Suzanna graduated from secondary school with exceptional grades.

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ducation can make all the difference to women at risk of trafficking, explains Simon Butcher of Stop the Traffik.

‘It’s estimated that 80 per cent of trafficking victims are female,’ he says. ‘In some places in the world, girls have much less access to schooling than boys of an equivalent age. We’ve identified that as a significant factor in contributing to their vulnerability to traffickers.

If girls don’t have opportunities to build their own lives, they become vulnerable

If girls don’t have an education, if they don’t have the opportunities to build their own lives, they become vulnerable when a trafficker comes along and offers them a promise of a better education abroad or wellpaid employment.

‘So in our Freedom Ticket for Life campaign we work with community organisations in trafficking hotspots to keep girls in education for as long as possible. We also try to provide those who have slipped out of the schooling system with a way back in. Just being in education helps girls to stay out of traffickers’ reach.’

Duncan and Mark’s run raised £25,000 for the campaign. Other supporters have – figuratively at least – followed in their footsteps by holding their own fundraising Red Light Run over shorter distances.

Duncan suggests that any pain he experienced on the run did not compare with the ordeal suffered by people who are trafficked.

He adds: ‘The run was hard.

Knees are not made to do that. It was painful, but when we finished the exuberance was double the pain.’

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Square eyed NOT for the first time, the goings-on in Albert Square have made it to Fleet Street – and beyond.

Newspapers and blogs have been full of reactions to the EastEnders storyline of a cot death and a baby swap.

young Polish migrants in the UK is to be staged in Central London. The photographs in Migration and Visual Culture were taken by 14 young Polish people in an attempt to depict what is sacred to them. The exhibition will be open to the public on Tuesday 25 and Wednesday 26 January in the Chapel at the Strand Campus of King’s College London.

Car bomb kills in Egypt A CAR bombing which took place on New Year’s Eve outside a Coptic church in Egypt killed 21 people, reported the Daily Mail and other newspapers.

According to the newspaper’s online reports, the Interior Ministry claimed that 70 people were also wounded in the bombing in Alexandria, which ‘prompted hundreds of Christians to take to the streets in protest’.

The paper also said that ‘police used teargas to disperse the crowd on the streets’ but added that Christian and Muslim protesters planned to form a human shield round churches in a show of solidarity.

Members of Berlin’s Jewish community discuss Nazi persecution in ‘Judenfrei’

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In one episode, Ronnie swapped her deceased baby for Kat’s newborn son. Thousands of viewers complained to the BBC. Last week the founder of the parenting website Mumsnet, Justine Roberts, wrote to the BBC DirectorGeneral, Mark Thompson, protesting about the portrayal of Ronnie.

‘The focus of the complaint is the swapping storyline,’ she wrote. ‘Our members are concerned that, as is all too common, a bereaved mother has been portrayed as deranged and unhinged. In fact the reality is very different.’

In response, BBC Vision Director, Jana Bennett, said that ‘the show is absolutely not suggesting that this behaviour is typical of a mother who has suffered such a terrible and tragic loss’.

Whatever the rights and wrongs of this particular episode, it highlights the general need for screenwriters and screen watchers to be on the same page.

EastEnders – like all soaps – is only a story. Consumers of drama need to remember that, while portrayals may be true to life, stories don’t have to be realistic. (And there is always the ‘off’ button.)

But stories have a power that cold and brutal statistics (281 unexplained infant deaths in 2008) don’t have.

Fiction – Lady Chatterley’s Lover, for example – can challenge attitudes and change the way law is applied.

Fiction can affect the way we see the facts. The way Christians are portrayed in Walford and other corners of Soapland is often inaccurate and occasionally offensive. Why is that?

With power comes responsibility. If writers yearn to reflect reality, they’ll need to create characters and not settle for caricatures. And viewers will have to decide whether they’re content with true-to-life or life itself.

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Religion comes into play THE persecution of Jewish people in Nazi Germany is the subject of Kate Glover’s new play Judenfrei: Love and Death in Hitler’s Germany, currently running at the New End Theatre in Hampstead, London.

The play explores the lives of two Jewish solicitors who are banned from practising law after Hitler’s rise to power and shows the dangers faced by their families.

The production is based on the true story of Dr Wilheim Dickmann, a German lawyer of Jewish origin, and Dr Elizabeth Kohn, a German lawyer and practising Jew. Playwright Kate says she was inspired to create the play after attending the 2009 Lawyers Without Rights exhibition, mounted by the Temple Church, the Jewish

Museum London and the German Federal Bar. She says: ‘There were stories of people who somehow hid away for years but died shortly after the capture of Berlin,

through sheer exhaustion. I was still haunted by the sadness of a visit to the synagogue in Budapest the previous day. It was the force of this coincidence that hit me with the realisation that there was a play waiting to be written about these stories.’

Judenfrei runs until Sunday 30 January. For more information visit newendtheatre.co.uk

Jewish couple Philipp (Anthony Wolfe) and Hanna (Noa Bodner) are in love despite their troubles

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New CV may be just the job THIS year employers will read about 70 CVs for every advertised job vacancy. So how can an applicant make their CV stand out from the rest? Three recruitment experts give their top tips: Cite qualifications as proof of skills.

Contributing will boost your confidence

Beat the office ARE you feeling bored at work?

Stressed, depressed, unfocused and no longer enjoying your nine-to-five?

If so, it’s possible that you may be suffering from the ‘Get up, survive and go back to bed’ syndrome.

Work-related stress is becoming a problem.

According to the 2009 Labour Force Survey, an estimated 1.2 million people suffered from an illness which they believed was caused by, or made worse by, their work.

If these symptoms sound familiar, consider these tips: If you are part of a team, work out how you can best contribute to it. By engaging with your colleagues, you will also boost your confidence.

Find ways to increase your levels of mental, emotional and physical energy in and out of work. Give yourself a treat and have fun.

Disengage from work and recharge for another day by soaking in a hot bath and

‘Employers sometimes struggle to see why aspects of education are relevant to business,’ warns Steven Kirkpatrick of recruitment agency Adecco. ‘You have to explain how they helped you operate in ways which are similar to behaviours within the world of work. Graduates can be perceived as lazy – so break down every degree course and workexperience item to show how they have taught you responsibility, time management and customer service.’

If you haven’t got a lengthy employment record, emphasise your talents.

David Moran, a consultant at the CV Experts, recommends: ‘Begin with a skill section which outlines your key personal strengths, using any previous jobs as evidence.’

Personalise your CV for every application.

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unwinding with a good book.

Eliminate ‘what if’ and ‘if only’ thinking. Focus on the positive things in life and don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can.

‘Feeling stressed and bored at work can be very debilitating for the individual and very unproductive for the organisation,’ comments Sharon Eden, the author of the motivational book Whack Around The Head.

‘The emotional gap from being discouraged and bored to being enthusiastic and passionate about your work and your life is smaller than you might think.

Don’t limit the way you think about yourself – see bigger and better things for your life.’

Work-related stress is becoming a problem

‘Put in your most relevant work experience first,’ says Ben Hayward of cosmetics company L’Oréal. ‘Recruiters are very aware of students taking a scattergun approach to applications. If it looks as if you’ve sent them a stock CV, you won’t look committed.’

Don’t start with a personal statement.

‘I would always advise against one,’ advises Ben Hayward, ‘unless you’ve got something exceptional to say.’

Keep it to two pages.

Ben Hayward advises: ‘Never go on to a third page.

It just won’t get read.’

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VENTS in Johnny Kinch’s life sound like a soap opera. There are scenes of alcohol and drug addictions, gambling, homelessness, time in prison for violence and a suicide attempt. Then comes the twist. Johnny finds God. His life turns around. Today Johnny is a happily married man, a proud father and a committed Christian.

‘God saved my life,’ he says.

‘He forgave my mistakes. He changed me beyond recognition.’

Johnny’s passion is telling people about the love of God. He shares the story behind his conversion in his book Johnny Be Good. Every Sunday morning he hosts Sunday Breakfast, a faith and ethics show on BBC Radio Derby. In 2009 he established Sunday Night Live – evenings of ‘live entertainment with a twist of faith’ in Costa coffee shops across the UK. ‘My wife, Anneka, and I set up Sunday Night Live because we wanted to introduce people to God and inspire them to live better,’ he says.

‘Sunday Night Live is not church held in a café. The format is not preachy. We are Christians who recognise today’s coffee culture and try to fit into it.

‘Our events take place once a month and are held in 22 coffee

Drink and drugs are no longer my cup of tea We are Christians who recognise today’s coffee culture and try to fit into it

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JOHNNY KINCH tells Claire Brine that God calls the shots shops. We invite musicians to come along to each venue and entertain people while they relax with tea or coffee and cake. We add a “twist of faith” to the evening by inviting a guest speaker to talk for around ten minutes about how they came to know Jesus.’

Whatever Johnny is doing to get Sunday Night Live up and running in various locations seems to be working. More and more churches are keen to run the event in coffee shops within their own communities. The jazz café style of each event appeals to all ages. But the first Sunday Night Live, held in Johnny’s home town of Loughborough, looked as if it might flop.

Johnny Kinch

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ter say a quick prayer.” So we did. As I prayed, I felt God say: “You’ve been obedient. People will come. Let me deal with it.” Twenty minutes later 160 people turned up. They queued up the road. Inside they had to stand on the stairs because there was no room.’

The next month Sunday Night Live got the same response – and it did the month after that.

‘My aim was to take the Church into the town,’ he says. ‘I wanted people to be inspired by this amazing God and see that he has the power to transform lives.’

Johnny knows a thing or two about that. Before he became a Christian, his life was a mess.

‘I had a huge void inside,’ he explains, ‘and when I was younger I

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n opening night I believed that Costa was going to be rammed with people, but when I opened the doors at 7 o’clock, just four walked in,’ remembers Johnny. ‘I said to Anneka: “We’d bet-

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From page 9 tried to fill it with alcohol, gambling and drugs. Soon my addictions grew out of control and I became depressed. I would drink and gamble to make myself feel better. It was a vicious circle.

‘I studied performing arts at college but spent my grant on gambling at the bookies. I was kicked off my course. I started to hate all authority. I had a chip on my shoulder and thought the world owed me a favour.

‘I got accepted into London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) to study acting, but while I was there I blew thousands of pounds betting on the horses. I started taking cocaine. My drinking became heavier. RADA kicked me out and I became homeless.’

Johnny started to sell The Big Issue in the shadows of a theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue, a venue in which he had previously performed.

‘I wanted to get back up on that stage – but I was in the gutter,’ he says. ‘I moved from hostel to hostel. I got into quite a few fights and was in trouble with the police.’

Eventually, Johnny moved back to Loughborough. He moved in with his new girlfriend. She encouraged him to take part in the ITV talent show Soapstars, a programme in which participants auditioned for roles in Emmerdale.

‘I got down to the last two men for the part of the dad,’ says Johnny. ‘When the producers told me, I made a joke by shouting to the cameras: “Who’s the daddy?” I didn’t get the part, but from the exposure I did get an agent.’

Soon the roles came thick and fast.

Johnny landed parts in The Bill, Doctors and Paradise Heights. He shot adverts for Matalan. But Johnny lost his earnings through gambling.

‘My girlfriend kicked me out and before I knew it I was back in London,

I stole from shops.

I mugged people. I was arrested for committing violent crimes homeless again. I went into a hostel and the lady at the desk said she recognised me as the “Who’s the daddy?” guy off the telly. She asked me for my autograph. I was embarrassed to tell her that I’d actually come in for a bed.

‘That night in the hostel was the darkest of my life. I was so depressed. I wanted to kill myself.’

But life was about to get even worse.

‘By this time I was on medication for depression and obsessive compulsive

disorder. I was regularly stealing food from shops. I had also mugged people.

Later I was arrested for committing violent and alcohol-related crimes. I went to prison. My life was manic. My brain didn’t contain one positive thought.

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ne night I was in a park in Leicester and necked a load of tablets with some cider. I wanted out of life. Just as I was falling to sleep a voice popped into my head, saying: “Get up Johnny, there’s more for you.

Go to A&E.” So I did. When I got there I collapsed. I woke, hours later, with all these tubes on my body. But I was going to be OK.’ In 2004 Johnny moved into a council flat. But it wasn’t long before he was in trouble with the police again. He was charged with criminal damage and assaulting a taxi driver. He was placed under house arrest.

‘I had an electronic tag on my ankle,’ he explains, ‘but I didn’t care. I went out, got drunk and went over my curfew.

Then I ran into a wall to smash my head in. I told the police that the reason I was late home was because I had been beaten up.

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told me that he had become a Christian.

I was gobsmacked. If he’d become a woman I would have understood it – but a Christian! I thought it was the most ridiculous thing he could do. I didn’t think much of what he said and asked him to lend me a tenner.’

Johnny’s friend invited him to church.

He went along, reluctantly. Even for a hard man, the experience was tough.

‘There were a couple of old ladies on the door, and I found that I couldn’t look them in the face,’ he says. ‘Then the preacher spoke about finding freedom in God. I wanted to take in his words, but I couldn’t. I had one eye on him and the other eye on people’s purses.

‘When I got home I started to cry. I rang Jonnie and asked him what was happening to me. He explained that God was moving in my life. I was scared, so I tried to ignore what I felt.

‘After a while – and much persuasion from Jonnie – I went back to church.

This time I prayed: “OK, God. I will give you ten days to change my life.”

And that’s what God did.’

Johnny felt strong enough to stop swearing, drinking, gambling and taking drugs. He looked for a job. He told his doctor that he wanted to come off his medication. But starting afresh wasn’t easy.

‘I went through three months of being very poorly,’ he remembers. ‘But every time I was sick, instead of turning to drugs I prayed. God really helped me to steer clear of my old ways.

‘Nine months after I became a Christian I went to Bible college to study theology. On the first day I met Anneka. We were engaged within six weeks and have been married now for four years. Our baby girl, Georgia, is three months old.’

Although Johnny is a changed man, he admits that he is far from being the

Johnny with his wife, Anneka

OK, God. I will give you ten days to change my life sort of person he wants to be. He has just about managed to come to terms with the past.

‘I’ve done some terrible things in my time – but I believe that by the death of Jesus on the cross God has forgiven me.

I’ve had to learn to forgive myself too.

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oday I still get things wrong. Sometimes the old Johnny Kinch rears his ugly head. But I know that if I make mistakes, I can ask God for forgiveness. I trust him to help me.

I won’t fall back into my old lifestyle.’

He is keen to encourage others to discover the life-changing power of God for themselves.

‘If people have addictions, I tell them how much God loves them just as they are. But I also say that God loves them so much that he doesn’t want them to stay that way. He wants to help them overcome their problems. At times their recovery process may make them feel nervous or awkward, but if

they have faith in God, they can build new foundations for life. And then things can start to get better.’

He owns up to having ‘a chequered past’, but Johnny has finally put it behind him. Today his focus is on the future.

‘I want to see more churches hosting Sunday Night Live events in hundreds of coffee shops across the world,’ he says. ‘I hope we’ll have reached 50 locations by the summer. But the whole process is in God’s hands. My job is just to keep pushing the doors to see if they will open.’

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Fill the grid so that every column, every row and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9 Solution on page 15

I F O T L R U WORDSEARCH N F Look up, down, forwards, S backwards and T diagonally on the grid A to find these words W associated with coffee T R AMERICANO BLACK L CAFE AU LAIT CAFE CON LECHE CAPPUCCINO

QUICK CROSSWORD ACROSS 1. Fury (5) 5. First appearance (5) 8. Astound (5) 9. Group of singers (5) 10. Incredulous person (5) 11. Reside (5) 12. Regard (4) 15. Half-conscious state (6) 17. Scratch (5) 18. Show off (6) 20. Fable (4) 25. Energy (5) 26. Tiny gap (5) 27. Extemporise (2, 3) 28. Surpass (5) 29. Wild cat (5) 30. Shelf (5)

ANSWERS QUICK CROSSWORD ACROSS: 1 Wrath. 5 Debut. 8 Amaze. 9 Choir.

10 Cynic. 11 Dwell. 12 Deem. 15 Trance. 17 Score.

18 Flaunt. 20 Myth. 25 Oomph. 26 Chink. 27 Ad lib.

28 Excel. 29 Tiger. 30 Ledge.

DOWN: 1 Wicked. 2 Arouse. 3 Hardy. 4 Label.

5 Declare. 6 Benign. 7 Tackle. 13 Eel. 14 Act. 15 Try. 16 Cut. 17 Snooker. 18 Faucet. 19 Asking.

21 Yelled. 22 Humble. 23 Smack. 24 Shall.

QUICK QUIZ 1 The A-Team. 2 A joey. 3. Elinor, Marianne and Margaret. 4 5,280. 5 London and Glasgow. 6 Harare.

HONEYCOMB 1 Cygnet. 2 Change. 3 Guitar. 4 Dublin. 5 Nearby.

6 Legacy.

COMPETITION WINNERS THE winners of the Moments of Wonder CD competition are I. Capstack of Dawlish, S. Murray of Norwich and C. Booth of Paignton.

The correct answer was Bethlehem.

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HONEYCOMB Each solution starts on the coloured cell and reads clockwise round the number 1. Young swan 2. Make different 3. Musical instrument DOWN 1. Evil (6) 2. Stir (6) 3. Robust (5) 4. Tag (5) 5. Proclaim (7) 6. Kindly (6) 7. Implements (6) 13. Slippery fish (3) 14. Perform (3) 15. Attempt (3) 16. Sever (3) 17. Table game (7) 18. American tap (6) 19. Inquiring (6) 21. Bawled (6) 22. Meek (6) 23. Slap (5) 24. Will (5)

4. Capital city of Ireland 5. Not far away 6. Money left in a will

QUICK QUIZ 1. Which 1980s TV series included the catchphrase ‘I love it when a plan comes together’?

2. What is the name for a baby koala?

3. What were the Christian names of the three Dashwood sisters in Jane Austen’s novel Sense and Sensibility?

4. How many feet are in a mile?

5. Which two UK cities have a station called Charing Cross?

6. What is the capital city of Zimbabwe?

INNER LIFE PEOPLE across the British Isles have faced disruption because of the winter weather. At the same time parks and streets have been full of children playing in the snow and building snowmen.

Such scenes reminded me of when I was younger – when snow wasn’t a problem but exciting and fun. The only downside was that, until I was ten years old, I had to wear short trousers to school. On some winter days my legs would turn blue, and my knobbly knees would be knocking when we marched into assembly at the start of the school day.

I think the teachers imagined that some hearty hymn singing under the

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the behind the ANDREW STONE looks at the biblical inspiration behind some popular hymns

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The Lord’s my shepherd

direction of our headmaster would warm us up.

I particularly remember singing ‘The Lord’s my Shepherd’, because one day the headmaster was astounded to discover that his pupils didn’t know that the hymn was based on the Bible’s 23rd Psalm. (As all of us were 11 years old or younger, perhaps we could be forgiven for not making

the link.)

To make matters worse, the head then found out that we couldn’t recite the psalm by heart. Those were the days before schools followed a national curriculum. So the next morning, lessons were cancelled in order that we could copy out Psalm 23 and learn it.

It didn’t work for me.

I was much older before I learnt the psalm’s words and discovered the assurances and promises it gives about God. It begins: ‘The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not be in want’ (Psalm 23:1 New International Version).

When people decide to make God their ‘shepherd’ by following his direction for living, they find their lives change for the better. God shows them what is important and how to live life to the full.

They also discover that God guides and helps them through tough times they face – those described in the psalm as being like walking through ‘the valley of the shadow of death’ (23:4).

Ultimately, those who follow the shepherd will live with him for ever (see 23:6).

Whether we know all the words to Psalm 23 or not, we can experience the guidance and help it describes. We don’t have to drift through life without direction or purpose. God can guide us to a great life in this world and an eternity with him in Heaven.

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a packed Tube train on my way to a football match. Suddenly the train stopped in a tunnel. It was quite scary not to know how long we’d be stuck in the packed carriage.

There are times when we all feel anxious or afraid, but we need not feel guilty about it. To fear is normal.

It is part of being human.

Whenever I have felt scared I have found great comfort in these words which appear repeatedly in the King James Bible: ‘And it came to pass.’

The words do not mean I am immune from facing my fears – I may still have to go through difficult experiences. But the Bible reassures me that such troubles will pass and come to an end. My pain will not go on indefinitely. Calm will return.

Peace will reign.

Whether we are in the middle of a frightening time or not, we can cope with whatever comes our way. God is with us. He is at our side, bringing comfort, listening to our concerns and offering guidance. Never fear!

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Each time we stopped at a station, new passengers got on the train, making the carriage even more cramped. Soon it became standing room only. The carriage grew hotter and became stifling.

The woman who was sitting next to me was pregnant and started to have a panic attack. She couldn’t get off the train, and no one could reach her to offer help. I did my best to reassure her. We were relieved when, eventually, we were able to get off.

On another occasion, I was on

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JUST DESSERTS

Bread and butter pudding Ingredients: 8 thin slices white bread, buttered on one side 50g sultanas 2tsp cinnamon powder 350ml whole milk 50ml double cream 2 eggs 25g granulated sugar Grated nutmeg

Pork with sauce Diane Ingredients: 6 x 150g pork medallions 6tsp seasoned flour 1tbsp oil 15g butter 200ml orange juice 1tsp dry mustard 2tbsp Worcester sauce 1 clove garlic, crushed 1 orange, peeled and sliced 2tbsp chopped parsley Method: Cut off the outside edge of each pork medallion in order to prevent it curling, then secure in a round shape with a skewer. Dust each medallion with the flour.

Heat the oil and butter in a heavy frying pan and cook the medallions until they are brown on both sides.

Remove them from the pan and keep warm by wrapping in foil.

Drain the excess fat from the pan, then add the orange juice, mustard, sauce and garlic and simmer for 3 minutes.

Add some slices of orange to the pan and reheat along with the pork, coating each SUDOKU SOLUTION

medallion well with the sauce.

Serve the medallions with chopped parsley sprinkled over the top and the remaining orange slices.

Serves 6

Method: Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas Mark 4. Lightly grease a 1l ovenproof dish.

Cut the crusts off the bread and cut into triangles.

Arrange a layer of bread, buttered-side up, in the bottom of the dish, then add a layer of sultanas and sprinkle with a little cinnamon. Repeat this process until all the bread is used up, then set the dish aside. (Make sure that the top layer of the pudding is bread.)

Gently warm the milk and cream in a pan over a low heat to scalding point. Do not let the liquid boil.

Crack the eggs into a bowl, add three quarters of the sugar and lightly whisk until the mixture is pale.

Pour in the warm milk and cream to make a custard and stir well.

Pour the custard over the prepared bread layers, then sprinkle with the nutmeg and the remaining sugar. Leave the pudding to stand for 30 minutes.

Place the dish in the oven and bake for 30–40 minutes or until the custard has set and the top of the pudding has browned.

Tip: Day-old bread works best in this recipe.

Serves 4

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CAN you believe it? Wikipedia is ten years old today (Saturday 15 January) – according to the online encyclopaedia itself, that is! Tap any subject into a search engine and you’ll most likely be directed towards Wikipedia.

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People use the website to learn about everyday topics, to read celebrity profiles and to find information on the most random subjects, such as types of fire extinguisher.

According to its own figures, Wikipedia has 365 million users worldwide.

Founded in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, Wikipedia is the most visited online encyclopaedia. Deriving its name from the Hawaiian word wiki, meaning ‘quick’, it offers speedy general reference information.

Its slogan ‘The free encyclopaedia that anyone can edit’ pretty much speaks for itself. The fact that Wikipedia can be edited – or added to – by anyone at any time makes people wonder

Bible speaks truth into their lives – even in the most difficult times, such as illness and death. One reason for this is that the Bible points not to a philosophy but to a person – Jesus.

Jesus made a difference. He healed people who were ill. He raised people from the dead. He spoke the truth – about life, death and what comes next.

‘I am the resurrection and the life,’ he said. ‘He who believes in me will live, even though he dies’ (John 11:25 New International Version). ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father The issue of except through me’ (John 14:6). whether we While Wikipedia can trust what sometimes offers ‘facts’, we read is not questionable the truth is that Jesus is someone in a modern whom we can put phenomenon our trust.

if it is 100 per cent accurate.

The question for many users may well be: Can I trust what I’m reading?

The issue of whether we can trust what we read is not a modern phenomenon. Newspapers, pamphlets and books need to be read with a critical eye.

Some people find the Bible hard to believe.

However, millions of people around the world find that every day the

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