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OWL CITY AIMS TO COMMUNICATE HOPE

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‘FIREFLIES’ created a huge buzz last year. Owl City’s single went to No 1 in the UK – matching its earlier success in America – and the album Ocean Eyes reached the Top Ten. Before his career took off Owl City – aka Adam Young from Owatonna in Minnesota – was creating music in his basement during sleepless nights and uploading it to the internet. Since those days he has Turn to page 3

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VOLUNTEERS GIVEN COMMUNITY AWARD

Queen honours Bible actors

A ‘Life of Christ’ play at Wintershall

A GROUP of volunteer actors who stage biblical plays have been given the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service. The Wintershall Players have been staging plays for more than 20 years on the Wintershall Estate in Surrey. Over the past two years they have staged an Easter play in London’s Trafalgar Square. The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service is awarded to volunteer groups ‘for outstanding work done in their local communities’.

SALVATION ARMY PROVIDES FOOD AND CLEAN-UP KITS

YOUR prayers are requested for Mrs K, who has manic depression; for Karl, who is coming to terms with having MS diagnosed; and for Harriet and Richard, who are heartbroken after the loss of their longed-for twin babies.

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Send your requests to PRAYERLINK, The War Cry, 101 Newington Causeway, London SE1 6BN. Mark your envelope ‘Confidential’.

Corruption campaign targets poverty CHRISTIAN relief and development agency Tearfund is urging visitors to its website to support a campaign to tackle corruption and poor governance in developing countries. Through its Unearth the Truth campaign at tearfund.org, Tearfund hopes to put pressure on the UK Government and the European Union to pass legislation that would require companies to publish payments made to developing countries in return for oil, gas and mineral extraction contracts. Spokesperson Paul Cook says that if people knew what their governments were paid, they would be in a better position to hold them to account.

Tearfund says that in 2008 exports of oil, gas and minerals from Africa were worth roughly nine times the value of international aid to the continent.

Teams help US tornado survivors CYCLIST’S FUNDRAISING HAS MUSICAL NOTE THE Salvation Army has been providing thousands of meals from mobile kitchens to emergency services personnel and residents in communities devastated by tornadoes in the USA. In Joplin, Missouri, where more than 100 people were killed and hundreds more injured in a tornado, The Salvation Army deployed not only mobile kitchens but also its Team Emergency Radio Network, which used ham radio to assist survivors in locating loved ones.

A fundraising drive by the Kansas City Chiefs American football team included a request for people to donate crates of bottled water that would be distributed by The Salvation Army.

In La Crosse, Wisconsin, where a tornado damaged BREAKING AWAY more than 200 homes and businesses, The Salvation FROM THE SEX Army deployed a mobile TRADE feeding unit and distributed p8 clean-up kits and vouchers for emergency lodging and clothing.

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A SALVATION Army musician is getting I ready to cycle from Inverness to London to raise money for charity in memory of his sister who died of leukaemia in childhood.

During the 900-mile ride, Steve Hanover will play his tenor horn at outdoor and indoor concerts.

Steve’s effort, which is due to begin next Saturday (18 June), will raise money for Cancer Research UK and Salvation Army healthcare projects overseas.

York Minster is sow green VISITORS to York Minster were given seeds when the historic building staged a Big Environment Celebration. The seeds were given away as part of the Church of England’s Shrinking the Footprint campaign. The Big Environment Celebration also included stalls run by environmental groups, drama presentations and competitions.

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From page 1 sold about 12 million tracks of his electropop.

Now a new Owl City album All Things Bright and Beautiful is about to be released.

It contains some humour. Adam describes ‘Deer in the Headlights’ as ‘a tongue-in-cheek song poking fun at the idea of being in love because you have to be, because you’d feel lonely otherwise’.

The song is available as a single, so listeners already have the chance to hear whether Owl City has the wit to woo.

Adam is not backward in coming forward with songs depicting happiness.

He says: ‘As a listener to music, I’m so attracted to something uplifting, a hopeful vibe. For me, that’s very powerful. And that’s been my goal throughout this Owl City project: to create that vibe.’

The musician who, for his first hit, evoked the image of fireflies lighting up the world often links nature with happiness on his new album.

In ‘Dreams Don’t Turn to Dust’ he heads for the countryside and marvels at ‘all this beauty’. It’s a kind of reality that he doesn’t want to end. ‘Apple, raspberry, river blue/ I don’t want to leave without you,’ he sings.

Rural references also appear in ‘Honey and the Bee’, which plays with a cliché by asking: ‘Who knew the other side could be so green?’

And in ‘Plant Life’ – with lyrics about waltzing through a forest and crickets singing a chorus – nature is linked to feeling alive rather than dead.

The album’s title is not random. It is borrowed from a church hymn about the wonders of nature and of its Creator.

Adam says: ‘I come from a very humble Christian background. It’s a big part of who I am and what I do musically. It fuels the way I write lyrically.’

On the album Adam suggests a divine presAdam takes his ence, even in Owl City project on stage in Minnesota in 2009

I’m so attracted to something uplifting, a hopeful vibe the bleaker experiences of the world. He may hint at it in ‘Hospital Flowers’, in which a car crash survivor is given a different perspective on life and says: ‘Grace had finally found its way to me.’

The idea of God’s help in the most extreme times of life and death appears in ‘Galaxies’, a song about the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster. Adam sings, ‘Dear God, you’re the only North Star/ I would follow this far’ and describes him as ‘the saving grace of the galaxies’.

Experience can be harsh – even devastat-

ing – for anyone. But the grace of God that can be observed in the album All Things Bright and Beautiful and in the hymn of the same name offers a message of hope: that ultimately reality is about kindness rather than hatred, forgiveness rather than condemnation, peace rather than disharmony.

In the words of the hymn, ‘God Almighty … has made all things well.’

Or, in the words of Owl City, he ‘is the saving grace of the galaxies’.

Wise words.

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OVERTY is a global problem. Across the world 1.4 billion people live on the equivalent of £1 a day – just enough to buy cooking fuel, water and two meagre meals. The little money that’s left over goes towards other survival essentials: healthcare, transportation, education and clothes.

Live Below the Line is an awareness initiative, run by campaign group Global Poverty Project, which urges people to focus on addressing worldwide poverty and raise money for development work – including Salvation Army projects overseas.

Last month, thousands of people across the UK and Ireland signed up to the challenge of living for a limited period on £1 a day for their food and drink.

One of them was Fleur Bragaglia, a research and development worker at The Salvation Army’s UK headquarters.

‘When I signed up one of my first thoughts was: “It’s going to be really fun. This will be like a detox week and I will lose weight.” But I realised that it was really important for me to support The Salvation Army on this. The organisation has amazing initiatives and people always

A woman sells fish in the Philippines GRAEME HODGE

The fight against poverty is on.

FLEUR BRAGAGLIA talks to Renée Davis about living below the line

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Margaret Banda runs her own business in Malawi, thanks to a loan from The Salvation Army

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say: “Wow, that is a really good idea.”

But these things never get off the ground if people don’t do something about them.

‘I signed up to provide myself with a little insight of what it might mean to live on £1 a day. I also did it to raise my own awareness about the scale of poverty globally, because a lot of my work with The Salvation Army is focused on this country.’

Fleur lived below the line for a total of four days. With just £1 a day to live on, she strategically planned her meals by spending £4 and buying in bulk.

‘A bag of pasta was 9p so I worked my meals around that and four other items that would be flexible,’ she says.

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or breakfast I had slices of wholemeal bread. The loaf cost 40p. My lunches consisted of pasta with carrots and chopped tomatoes. For my evening meal I would have a version of gratin – layers of potatoes and chopped tomatoes. Other evenings I would have jacket potato with shredded carrot.’

How to be creative and efficient with her meals was not the only thing Fleur

learnt. Although she did not have to eat less food, she discovered there were side-effects to her new diet.

‘I was never hungry, but by day four I was really bored. At lunch I would see what everybody else was eating and have food envy. Because I was eating so many carbs, by the afternoon I would be really lethargic. My stomach felt bloated all the time. I wasn’t getting much fresh food and normally I would have at least six pieces of fruit a day.’

Fleur also learnt about the environmental consequences of purchasing sustainable and unsustainable foods.

‘International development is about living life in an environmentally friendly, sustainable way and having a standard of living that is acceptable to everyone. That includes fairly traded food and making sure that your carbon footprint is low. I was eating the s u p e r m a r k e t ’s own-brand pasta and bread but it was completely unsustainable and wasn’t Fairtrade,’ explains Fleur.

‘It raised questions for me about how people living below the poverty line in the UK could be helped to be environmentally aware when they cook and eat as they don’t

International development is about having a standard that is acceptable to everyone

have money to spend on healthy, organic, fairly traded products.’

Fleur highlights one of the lasting positive outcomes from taking part in Live Below the Line.

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or lunch I used to take two oranges, two apples, two bananas, a yoghurt, a packet of crisps, some crispbreads and tuna to work. I still have those foods but by no means do I have as much fruit and I don’t have as many crispbreads, because I just don’t need them.’

So how did living on the poverty line change Fleur’s perspective?

‘My immediate reaction to doing Live Below the Line was to plan and be excited. Rather than think, “This is going to be hard so I need to pray and hand this time over to God so that he can give me a message through it,” I went into control mode.

‘I wasn’t malnourished by the end, but I hadn’t had any fresh fruit and I wondered what the consequences were for my eyesight and skin. For a young child or adult to be growing up like that – day in, day out – how much must their health be affected?’

MEDIA

Homing in on care ELDERLY care is unlikely ever to be a glamorous issue. But as Britain’s population ages, it is one which is not going to slink away quietly and die.

THE Daily Mail reported that a survey carried out by the BBC has revealed the corporation to be ‘anti-Christian’.

In the frame for a million FOUR paintings that hung in a village church for 150 years are expected to fetch £1.5 million at auction, according to The Daily Telegraph.

The 14th-century masterpieces, depicting the passion of Christ, were donated to the Church of St Michael and All Angels in Withyham, East Sussex, in 1849 by artist Edward Ottley. The works will be sold at Sotheby’s in London.

The survey – completed by viewers and staff and conducted as part of the BBC’s diversity strategy – highlighted that Christians are portrayed as ‘weak’ or ‘bigoted’ on its programmes, said the tabloid.

The consultation concluded: ‘Christians are specifically mentioned as being badly treated, with

Caring and cash TO mark Carers’ Week, in Sunday Half I Hour tomorrow (12 June) presenter Brian D’Arcy explores what motivates people to dedicate their time and talents to care for those in need.

The Radio 2 programme features the Voluntary Choir and Oratorio Society of Wells Cathedral in Somerset. Songs include ‘When I Needed a Neighbour Were You There?’ and ‘Praise My Soul, the King of Heaven’.

THE Canon Chancellor of St Paul’s I Cathedral explores church history to find out if money is the root of all evil on Radio 4

He’s a real Noah man!

A DUTCHMAN has built a modern-day Noah’s ark, which he hopes to sail on the Thames during the 2012 Olympics, reported the Daily Mail.

According to the paper, Johan Huibers’s ark will feature live and model animals and will welcome visitors. The construction company owner decided to create the ark nearly 20 years ago after having a dream in which a great flood swamped the

a suggestion that more minority religions are better represented.’

But a BBC spokesman argued: ‘We have strict editorial guidelines on impartiality, including religious perspectives, and Christian programming forms the majority and the cornerstone of our religion and ethical output.’

Netherlands. He saw this as a signal from God to spread the Christian message. ‘[The ark] is to tell people that there is a Bible and that, when you open it, there is a God,’ he says.

Mr Huibers built his ark on the river at Dordrecht, near Rotterdam, according to the exact dimensions of the ark which was built by Noah.

It cost more than £1 million to make.

on Monday (13 June).

In the first part of The Root of All Evil – Christianity and Money presenter Giles Fraser investigates the teachings of Jesus and the Early Church. He talks to church historian Diarmaid MacCulloch and visits a friary in Dorset where the monks are committed to living in poverty.

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Last week, the Care Quality Commission – the NHS care regulator – reported that three hospitals in England had failed to meet legal standards for giving patients enough food and drink and treating them with dignity. It also raised concerns about three further hospitals.

In Scotland, NHS Tayside criticised a hospital for its care of an elderly woman with dementia. Mrs V, reported the BBC, was admitted to Ninewells in Dundee with a chest infection, which made it difficult for her to swallow. For 11 days she was given no food, and sedatives were administered 86 times. Although she was later given small amounts of food, four weeks after her admission Mrs V died in hospital.

Describing Mrs V’s treatment as ‘degrading’, the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland in its Starved of Care report concluded that Mrs V ‘was not given the care, dignity and respect she deserved’.

Although such tragic cases are rare, thousands of care home residents and their families are worried about the future. Southern Cross Healthcare, which houses 31,000 in its care homes, is in financial difficulty.

Last week, Age UK’s Care in Crisis report concluded that elderly care has reached breaking point. It said that 800,000 of England’s two million older people receive no formal support and that government cuts will have an impact on already-suffering older people.

Some societies honour old age.

They respect the wisdom of years.

They ask the opinions of their elders. They listen to those with experience.

So why not Britain?

If, as the Good Book reminds us, righteousness exalts a nation, then doing the right thing by those who have become vulnerable merely by virtue of being alive must be a political, social and moral priority.

Broadcaster biased?

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Lunch breaks the bank MORE than a third of office workers buy lunch rather than make their own, according to a survey. The habit could be bad news for their pockets, the environment and their health.

The research conducted on behalf of website Nigel’s Eco Store found that, on average, office workers spend between £3 and £5 on sandwiches every day. About half the people surveyed said that they sometimes buy a drink with their sandwich, adding another £1 or £2 to the cost.

Nigel’s Eco Store founder Nigel Berman says that, because there are about 240 working days in the year, ‘lunchtimes are making a huge dent in salaries.

Some people are spending £25 a week, but because of the small amount spent every day they don’t think about the

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The cost of shop-bought sandwiches soon adds up

Smartphones mean unwise decisions

cost over the year and it adds up. Research shows that the average amount spent is a staggering £1,000 a year.’

Just over 66 per cent of workers surveyed said that they always make their own sandwiches.

Of those who buy sandwiches, 25 per cent said they always recycle the packaging and 54 per cent that they sometimes do.

The rest of the respondents said that they never recycle the packaging.

Nigel’s Eco Store says that making sandwiches at home could reduce waste, especially if the foil or clingfilm used to wrap them is reused.

Home-made sandwiches may also be healthier, because the person who eats them also has control over what goes into them. Shop-bought sandwiches may be high in fat and calories.

Sandwiches made at home with healthy ingredients on wholemeal bread and wrapped in reusable clingfilm or foil could be good for workers’ budgets, their health and the environment.

WHY are some people working I harder than ever, yet being less effective? Why do employees let work spill into family life and holidays?

A new book by Ian Price suggests that merely owning a BlackBerry or an iPhone increases the amount of time people spend checking messages outside working hours.

The author of The Activity Illusion says: ‘Those with BlackBerrys or iPhones spend two and a half times as long checking emails outside working hours as those without. The way in which we use smartphones means we are over-connected with consequences for work-life balance, resilience and productivity.’

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Sex fair

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UR ultimate goal at Restore Derby is to see women turn away from working in the sex trade,’ says Rebecca Manzie, who has worked at the charity for five years. ‘But even if the women we meet don’t want to change their lifestyle, we continue to befriend and support them.’

Every Friday night Rebecca, Jo Leslie and their team of volunteers walk the streets of Derby and talk to the women they find working there.

They hand out food, hot drinks and condoms, trying to encourage the women to stay safe. The pair also visit brothels, building relationships with the women they find inside.

‘We see a real mix of people,’ explains Rebecca.

‘Often the girls we meet on the streets have had difficult backgrounds. They may have low self-esteem or problems with drug abuse. But then we will meet women in brothels who are highly educated. Some may have given up good careers to be sex workers.

Most of the women we meet are in their twenties to forties.

‘We try to support them in any way we can. We often meet women for a coffee and a chat, attend their court cases with them or help them through any housing problems. Where necessary, we also point women towards agencies which can help them with more specific problems, such as homelessness or drug abuse.’

In most cases, Jo says, the women respond well. The occasions when the charity’s efforts are met with hostility are rare.

‘Building relationships can be a slow process,’ she says. ‘They tend to spend a bit of time figuring us out. Once they see that Rebecca and I are normal,

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game The Restore Derby charity is showing vulnerable women and those working in prostitution that a different way of life is possible. Former sex worker JO LESLIE tells Claire Brine how she broke away from the brothels, and REBECCA MANZIE talks about offering women hope for the future

Jo (left) and Rebecca walk the streets in Derby to help sex workers the conversations start.’

Jo and Rebecca are often saddened by the stories they hear from the women.

There are days when they feel powerless in their quest to help.

‘Knowing that someone is in pain, that their life is in a mess but that they are not quite ready to change is difficult,’ says Jo. ‘Seeing the hurt – but not seeing an end to it – is what I would call a bad day in my job.’

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e will be there for the women, no matter what happens,’ adds Rebecca. ‘But they have to make their own choices. We can’t do everything for them. We are Christians so we always pray that women will exit

any sex work, but it is not a condition we impose on them. We are with them for the long haul.’

Jo and Rebecca sense that a lot of the women they meet have had ‘hideous backgrounds’ which have led to feelings of low self-worth. Jo points out some of the struggles the women face.

‘Some of them don’t care very much about themselves. They don’t have healthy relationship boundaries. Some are completely unaware of how vulnerable they are.’

Some women are in contact with Restore for years before they are ready to try to change their lives. But when they do, there is cause for celebration.

‘I know one woman who has left sex work, stopped using heroin and crack and is now back in contact with her

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From page 9 family and established in her own home,’ says Rebecca. ‘Instances like that make my job so rewarding – but it still took eight years for that particular woman to reach that point.’

Jo understands better than most people that the process of leaving the sex trade can be difficult. For ten years, she worked on the streets, in brothels and for an escort agency before she turned her life around.

‘My mum gave me away when I was born,’ she explains. ‘I was fostered and adopted, but when I was 19 I became homeless. I started running around with the wrong crowd and got into shoplifting.

‘One day this guy approached me and told me that I didn’t need to be homeless. He said he could help me. I was quite naive and didn’t realise he was a pimp. He took me to Nottingham and I spent the next few months working on the streets.

He said he could help I was quite naive and he was a pimp ‘I can still remember my first customer. I can see his face. It was a surreal experience. I didn’t want to look vulnerable and new, because the men expected me to know what to do.

‘Whenever I got into a customer’s car I was frightened. But then I remembered that I was doing this job to get my next meal. I was surprised at how easy the whole process became.’

It was not long before Jo’s pimp set his sights on London. He took her to work in brothels, where she also started taking drugs.

‘I was so miserable,’ she says. ‘I thought I was having a good time but in fact the drugs just stopped me facing reality. I wanted to leave. But my pimp was violent and said he would kill me if I went, so I had to stay.

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fter a few years, my pimp went to prison but I continued as a sex worker. I knew that from then on I could keep all the money for myself. I became angry. I vowed I would never have a boyfriend. I started taking cocaine and became really messed up.’

Jo worked in the sex trade for the next six years. Some of her customers almost became friends.

‘I ended up becoming close to some of the men,’ she says. ‘They came from all walks of life. Some were City workers; others were family men. On a busy shift I would see up to 40 men a day.

‘I got on with the job, but deep down I felt lost. I cried a lot. I felt inadequate. I worked in flats full of cockroaches as well as in posh hotels. On one occasion I was working for an escort agency and was sent to a lovely hotel along with lots of other sex workers. The client made us all line up while he chose the girls he wanted. I felt as if I was in a cattle market.’

Jo was paid anything from £10 to £200 for her services. To survive she switched herself off from her emotions.

Eventually she could bury her feelings no longer.

‘My mental health was awful,’ she says. ‘Taking drugs had taken its toll on my body. I was really skinny. Then on

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me. didn’t realise

11 September 2001 I was watching TV and saw the twin towers of the World Trade Centre fall. In that moment I felt the presence of God. The news really hit me, and I started to read my Bible.

‘I thought about the people who lost their lives and tried to see where God fitted into the picture. I questioned God in a way that I never had before.’

Until that point, Jo had little knowledge of God. But the subject of God often came up in the brothels.

‘I knew that God cared about women working in the sex trade, because of the way his Son, Jesus, cared for them in the Bible. I always felt that God was watching over my life, simply because I had remained safe over the years.’

Jo cut down her hours working in the brothels. Then she stopped working in them completely. She stopped taking drugs. She worked in a women’s support centre in Derby, before taking up a job at a call centre.

‘I watched a lot of Christian programmes on TV and made notes on what I heard,’ she says. ‘I wanted to learn as much as I could about this God who loved me. Gradually I started to build a relationship with him.’

J

o began to attend church. She told people about being homeless and taking drugs. But speaking up about her past work wasn’t easy.

‘I thought, “No one has to know about it” and I was happy with that. But when I was baptised I found myself telling the congregation my whole story.

No one was horrible to me about what I’d done, but some people took longer to get used to it than others.’

Today Jo shares her life story with the women she meets through Restore.

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Many of them find hope in the way she has changed her life for the better. She is also quick to point out the huge part that God has played in turning her life around.

‘A lot of women I meet feel ashamed and wonder if God can still love them.

Some are angry with him and wonder why their life has ended up in this way.

So I tell them about God’s love and grace. I think he weeps when he sees women on the game. But he never abandons them.’

‘We have all messed up in life – but God always forgives us,’ adds Rebecca.

‘No one has ever gone so far that they are beyond his reach. We tell the women that God is there to help them if they ask. They can speak to him at any time.

Through him they can find the opportunity to change. The women we meet may be working in the sex trade but they are also wives and mothers and daughters. And God loves them all.’

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WORDSEARCH

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Look up, down, forwards, backwards and diagonally on the grid to find these words that start with ‘short’

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

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QUICK CROSSWORD ACROSS 1. First appearance (5) 5. Gem (5) 8. Greeting (5) 9. Toadstools (5) 10. Employing (5) 11. More pleasant (5) 12. Pour down (4) 15. Securely (6) 17. Waterway (5) 18. Idea (6) 20. Prejudice (4) 25. Trainer (5) 26. Scope (5) 27. Shining (5) 28. Restaurant car (5) 29. Squander (5) 30. Blended (5)

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HONEYCOMB Each solution starts on the coloured cell and reads clockwise round the number 1. Used to open door 2. Polite request 3. Limit the supply of 4. Angle where two sides meet DOWN 1. Flaw (6) 2. Botch (6) 3. Cogitate (5) 4. Bar (5) 5. Newspaper (7) 6. Complain (6) 7. Bequest (6) 13. Self-esteem (3) 14. Pale (3) 15. Tree juice (3) 16. Meadow (3) 17. Yield (7) 18. Not wide (6) 19. Items (6) 21. Flowing in (6) 22. Packed (6) 23. Stain (5) 24. Allure (5)

5. Disregard 6. Fruit

QUICK QUIZ 1. Which animated film series features a character whose catchphrase is: ‘To infinity and beyond’?

2. What is the capital city of the United States of America?

3. Who sang a duet with Elaine Paige on the No 1 hit ‘I Know Him So Well’?

4. What do the letters of the acronym ‘derv’ stand for?

5. What town on the Isle of Wight stages an annual week-long regatta for about 1,000 boats?

6. Complete the saying: A barking dog…?

QUICK CROSSWORD ACROSS: 1 Debut. 5 Jewel. 8 Hello. 9 Fungi.

10 Using. 11 Nicer. 12 Teem. 15 Safely. 17 Canal.

18 Notion. 20 Bias. 25 Coach. 26 Range. 27 Aglow.

28 Diner. 29 Waste. 30 Mixed.

DOWN: 1 Defect. 2 Bungle. 3 Think. 4 Block.

5 Journal. 6 Whinge. 7 Legacy. 13 Ego. 14 Wan. 15 Sap. 16 Lea. 17 Concede. 18 Narrow. 19 Things.

21 Influx. 22 Stowed. 23 Taint. 24 Charm.

QUICK QUIZ 1 Toy Story. 2 Washington DC. 3. Barbara Dickson. 4 Diesel-engined road vehicle. 5 Cowes.

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HONEYCOMB 1 Handle. 2 Please. 3 Ration. 4 Corner. 5 Ignore.

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To commemorate this year’s 400th anniversary of the King James Bible, PHILIPPA SMALE looks at some everyday expressions popularised by the translation

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poor are with us always

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BOWLED OVER: more than a million people live below the line

‘For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always’ (Mark 14:7)

he was there a woman broke open a in any way they could. He still does.

But that woman’s extravagant jar of expensive perfume and poured it on his head. There were mutterings gesture of love helped him during one of the most difficult times of his life. about what a waste of money that was, and how the perfume could have Sometimes extravagant love is what been sold to raise money for the poor. a person needs.

Jesus said: ‘Why are you CAN WE HELP? bothering her?

Just complete this coupon and send it to She has done a The War Cry, 101 Newington Causeway, beautiful thing to London SE1 6BN me. The poor you will always have Please send me with you, and you Basic reading about Christianity can help them Information about The Salvation Army any time you Contact details of a Salvationist minister want. But you will not always have Name me’ (Mark 14:6, 7 Address New International Version).

Jesus wanted his followers to help poor people

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THE Live Below the Line campaign encouraged people to live for five days on just £1 a day for food and drink. The anti-poverty initiative was designed to bring into focus the plight of the 1.4 billion people who have to live on such a limited budget every day – with no choice.

Challenges included eating a balanced diet, buying food cheaply (no organic or fairly traded items, which would have been too expensive) and juggling family needs by providing school lunches and so on.

Some participants reported becoming short-tempered and found situations that they would normally take in their stride difficult to handle.

Detractors dismissed the challenge as a gimmick, but the idea was to underline the fact that there are millions of people who are trapped in poverty and to raise awareness of the difficulties they face.

The problem of poverty is not a new one.

There were poor people in Bible times as well.

Not long before his arrest and trial, Jesus had a meal with some friends in Bethany. While

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Love is by CATHERINE WYLES

ARE you a V fan? If you don’t know what I’m referring to, V was an American science fiction television programme in the 1980s about an alien race who tried to take over the earth.

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Like many other TV shows, V has been remade over recent years, and I found myself getting into the latest series. I loved it!

The story was about humans trying to defeat the V aliens. The aliens’ plan of world domination, though, was also under threat because one of their number – John May – started to feel human emotions. His behaviour even led to the conversion of others. His love for his newfound human family was enough to start a revolution, and the aliens weren’t as united as they first appeared.

Is it really possible for love to have such a life-changing impact?

I believe so. I believe such love has been known before – and continues to be experienced today.

One of the most widely known texts of the Bible says: ‘God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not die but have eternal life’ (John 3:16 Good News Bible).

God sent his Son, Jesus, to earth to show us what unconditional love is all about.

The way Jesus cared for and forgave people – whoever they were and whatever they’d done – changed them. The love he showed prompted

Characters from the 1980s version of ‘V’ many of them to live differently themselves.

When we know that we are loved, it makes a difference to us.

Love makes us stronger, gives life purpose and brings us hope. Love helps to heal the hurts of the past. Love helps us to face the future.

Everyone can experience the love of God. It’s not an alien concept – it is real.

Here and now.

Love helps us to face the future

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THE MAIN ATTRACTION

THIS dish can be eaten hot or cold.

Ingredients: 100g unsalted butter 5 filo pastry sheets 500g onions, thinly sliced 200g French Emmental cheese, sliced 2 egg yolks 150g sliced ham Method: Preheat the oven to 175C/350F/Gas Mark 4.

Melt half the butter and brush it over each pastry sheet. Layering the sheets one on top of the other, use them to line a 23cm flan ring. Cook for 10 minutes or until the pastry turns golden brown.

To make the filling, melt the remainder of the butter in a saucepan, then add the onions and cook until soft. Allow the onions to cool slightly, then mix in the cheese and the egg yolks.

Fill the tart with a layer of ham at the bottom, then a layer of cheese. Repeat the layers, finishing with a layer of cheese on top.

Return the tart to the oven and cook for 20 minutes.

Serves 6–8 Recipes reprinted, with kind permission, from the French cheese campaign website vivelecheese.co.uk SUDOKU SOLUTION

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French Emmental cheese and onion tart French goat’s cheese terrine with poached apricots THIS dessert can be prepared in advance and left in the fridge until ready to serve.

Ingredients: 20 amaretti biscuits 6tsp fresh orange juice 400ml double cream 125g icing sugar 1tsp vanilla bean paste Zest of 2 oranges 400g spreadable fresh French goat’s cheese For the poached apricots 150g sugar 300ml water 1 vanilla pod, split 1 cinnamon stick 6 apricots, halved and deseeded Method: Place the amaretti biscuits in a food processor and process to form fine crumbs. Put 1tsp of crumbs into the bottom of 6 small serving glasses.

Drizzle 1tsp of orange juice over the top.

Pour the cream into a bowl and whip with the icing sugar until semi-firm peaks form. Add the vanilla paste and orange zest. Add the cheese and

beat until smooth and slightly aerated. (This could also be done with an electric whisk.)

Place 2tbsp of the cheese mixture on top of each biscuit base. Sprinkle more biscuit crumbs over the top, then pour over another 2tbsp of the cheese mixture. Sprinkle biscuit crumbs over the top to form the final layer. Place the desserts into the fridge to set.

To poach the apricots, pour the sugar and the water into a saucepan along with the vanilla pod and cinnamon stick. Bring to the boil and simmer for 10 minutes.

Add the apricots and cook for 5–10 minutes until tender but not falling apart. Leave the apricots to cool in the syrup before removing them from the pan. Remove the skins if they look as if they will come off easily.

Strain the syrup and set aside.

When ready to serve, heat the apricots in the strained syrup and place next to the chilled desserts. Drizzle the apricots with a little of the syrup.

Serves 6

Ascot Racecourse

HAT’S THE WAY: headgear is in fashion at Royal Ascot

HANG on to your hats! Next Thursday (16 June) marks Ladies’ Day at Royal Ascot. It is a time when – as well as keeping an eye on the racing – the punters dress to impress.

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Each year the fashion stakes at Ascot are high. People want their outfits to stand out.

They choose hats and fascinators which are guaranteed to cause a stir.

Choosing the right miniskirts are considered clothes for Ascot is so unsuitable. Midriffs must important that organisers be covered and trouser suits have published a dress code must be full-length and of on the official website. In matching material and the Royal Enclosure, it is colour.’ Even in the less stated, ‘off-the-shoulder, formal area of the halter neck, spaghetti straps Grandstand, people are and dresses with a strap of encouraged to ‘wear smart less than one inch and clothes’.

Life is more than a fashion statement

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It seems that, whatever field we are in, the way we present ourselves is important. People make judgments on what we wear and how well we wear it. Magazines devote pages to scrutinising people’s outfit choices: What’s hot and what’s not?

It’s a good job that God does not us according It’s a good job judge to what we wear. that God does He doesn’t look at us with a view to not judge us criticise our outward appearance. according to In his eyes, the what we wear way we look on the

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inside is what’s important.

In the Bible, God says: ‘I do not judge as people judge. They look at the outward appearance, but I look at the heart’ (1 Samuel 16:7 Good News Bible).

God wants us to be attractive people by the way in which we care for others. He wants us to use gentle words when dealing with difficult situations. He asks that we put others before ourselves.

When we spend time on improving our character, rather than our wardrobe, we can bet we are on the right track.

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