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Nigel Lindsay as Shrek in ‘Shrek the Musical’

LET your freak flag fly! That’s the message in Shrek the Musical, which is packing out London’s Theatre Royal.

The loveable green ogre who stars in a series of films has finally taken to the stage, along with his friend Donkey, Princess Fiona and the vertically challenged Lord Farquaad.

Shrek (Nigel Lindsay) is not your average hero.

He’s big, grumpy and lives alone in a swamp.

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He doesn’t like people. So when a bunch of fairytale characters descends on his property – after being

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CHURCH BUILDINGS AWARD

Rescuers to be recognised

e THE Comment about the recent controversy surrounding rape and sentencing (‘Serious trouble’, 28 May) highlighted the seriousness of rape and its consequences. I have written a booklet, published

by The Salvation Army, about how to support a person who has been raped. Copies of the booklet, Hope Beyond Hurt, are available by writing to me at the Social Services Department, The Salvation Army, 101 Newington Causeway, London SE1 6BN. Major Trevor Smith London

London in the autumn. A panel which includes Andrew Lloyd Webber and Melvyn Bragg will judge the shortlisted entries.

The other three awards will be made for the rescue of an historic industrial building or site, craftsmanship and the rescue of any other entry on the Heritage at Risk Register.

God debated POLLY TOYNBEE

has agreed to debate the existence of God with Christian philosopher William Lane Craig from California when he visits the UK. UCCF, which is organising Professor Craig’s Reasonable Faith tour, says that the journalist and President of the British Humanist Association will take part in a debate in London in October.

DANCING IN THE STREETS

Church celebrates birthday DANCERS, comedians, musicians and lecturers took part in events in London celebrating the birth of the Christian Church.

About 30,000 attended events during the Pentecost Festival, organised by Share

Peer praises pastors THE Minister of State for Crime Prevention and AntiSocial Behaviour Reduction commended the work of Street Pastors when she spoke in the House of Lords.

In response to a question from the Lord Bishop of Chester, the Right Rev Peter Forster, Baroness Browning said she was familiar with the work of the church-

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MEMBERS of the Chalk Farm Salvation Army church climbed the seven highest peaks in the Lake District over three days in a fundraising challenge. Lieutenant Ian Standley, who leads the church, says that the money raised will ‘help to support and expand’ the services which it offers to the community.

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Jesus International as part of Christians’ annual commemorations worldwide of God’s gift of the Holy Spirit.

More than 16,000 people attended the finale at the O2 Arena to worship God and pray for London.

MINISTER CASTS VOTE OF CONFIDENCE

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PRAYERLINK

ENGLISH HERITAGE is to give an annual award to people who rescue or repair a listed place of worship. The award will be one of four honouring people who save buildings or sites on the country’s Heritage at Risk Register.

The first Angel Awards will be presented at a reception at the Palace Theatre in

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based Street Pastor groups, who help people in trouble – many under the influence of alcohol or drugs – in town and city centres late at night. She added that she would ‘need to dig deeper than looking at the solutions to latenight drinking and look at the causes of why Street Pastors and others are now required to carry out this valuable work’.

YOUR prayers are requested for Hazel, who has a broken arm.

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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From page 1 banished from the kingdom of Duloc by Lord Farquaad (Nigel Harman) – Shrek is less than impressed. He goes to see Farquaad, expressing his wish to have the swamp to himself again.

Farquaad proposes a deal. If Shrek can rescue Princess Fiona (Amanda Holden) – who is imprisoned in a tower and whom Farquaad wants to marry – then the ogre will be granted his private life once again. Shrek agrees to the challenge.

Along with Donkey (Richard Blackwood), Shrek locates the princess’s tower and overcomes a fire-breathing dragon in his quest to rescue her. Princess Fiona thanks him and expects to fall in love, because that is what happens in stories. But Shrek knows that he is hardly tall, dark and handsome. Instead he promises to take her to meet Farquaad.

As Shrek and Fiona spend time together, they become close. They discover that they have things in common. But their relationship is complicated. Shrek isn’t a typical knight in shining armour. Farquaad is determined to marry Fiona himself.

And Fiona has secret problems of we are never without a friend if we her own. know Jesus. He sees us, warts and all, As the wedding between Farquaad and loves us anyway. He wants to play and Fiona approaches, Shrek wonders an active part in our lives. if he should confess his true feelings Jesus accepted those who thought towards her. But he’s not expecting a they were unacceptable. He befriendhappy ending. ed ill people, poor people, people who ‘The whole world seems to have a were cast out from society and people problem with me,’ he tells Donkey. who did things wrong. To those ‘I’m just a big, stupid, ugly ogre. I’m swamped by their problems, he offered better off alone.’ his help.

After years of isoHowever we may feel lation, Shrek doesn’t about ourselves, Jesus invites believe that it is posus: ‘Come to me, all of you sible for him to build who are tired from carrying close relationships loads, and I will give He sees heavy with people. He you rest’ (Matthew 11:28 thinks he isn’t good Good News Bible). enough for them, that us warts Life doesn’t have people will reject to be lonely, him, that no one will and all because Jesus understand him. is never far, He’s not the only one who feels that far away from us. way. In the real world many people go Whatever our charthrough life thinking that they are not acter is like, he up to scratch. Perhaps they have been loves us. But more ridiculed in the past or excluded from than that, Jesus is friendships, leaving them with a sense willing to ease our of abandonment. anxieties and help We may feel that no cares about us us become better and it hurts. Or maybe we struggle to people. connect with others. But the truth is End of story.

The cast of ‘Shrek the Musical’ with (below) Amanda Holden as Princess Fiona

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ACK in the Czech Republic, Honsa – divorced with a grown-up family – worked in the food business. Karel – single – was a carpenter and lorry driver. In March last year they arrived in England to start a new life. What they hoped for was not what they got. They were put to work sorting recycled rubbish for a pittance – just two victims of traffickers who used them as slave labour.

‘After the revolution, everything in the Czech Republic began to go wrong,’ says Honsa. ‘Factories began to close.

People lost work. Things were getting more expensive. People could take out loans but then they lost their jobs and couldn’t keep up with the monthly repayments. They started to think that if they got work in foreign countries, things would work out well for them.

That’s how desperate people got.

‘I answered a newspaper ad and flew to Leeds totally legally. I bought my own ticket. I was promised I would have work and somewhere to live. I thought I’d earn between £1,000 and £1,800 a month.’

On that kind of money, Honsa would have been able to pay off his loans.

‘The people who met me at the airport took me to a house and told me that I would start work once they’d sorted out the insurance. A week later they told me that the insurance was complicated and that while they sorted it out I’d

Free at

PHILIPPA SMALE talks to two victims of trafficking rescued by The Salvation Army

be working for someone else.’

The insurance was never sorted.

Honsa had been sold to a gangmaster for £1,000.

‘I was moved to another house where we slept three to a room. The people in charge took the money I’d brought with me.

I had nothing.

‘In the end, I realised that I had become nothing more than a slave to the person I was sold to. They took everything away from me. We were told that if we tried to leave we’d be hunted down by armed men.

‘If we were good, they gave us £20 a week for food. They made us go to sleep where they said. Eventually, I was sold and moved on to Bradford.’

We worked ten hours a day sorting rubbish

After being sold on five times, Honsa ended up in Kent.

‘In every place I worked I was sorting out recycled rubbish. I got between £10 and £20 a week, out of which I had to pay for the electricity.

‘In the house in Kent, there were five people sleeping in a room 12 metres square. The rooms were really dirty.

There was no money for cleaning. There was no heating. Many people who were slaves turned to drink or drugs to forget the situation. I wanted to leave.

‘One day, by chance, I met a Czech man and explained my story to him. He gave me the phone number of a Salvation Army person, saying they were the only person who could help me.

‘I ran to the woods and made the

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Karel and Honsa talk to a member of The Salvation Army about their need to escape gangmasters

PHILIPPA SMALE

phone call. I had kept the phone hidden all this time and I thanked God that it was still usable. I contacted The Salvation Army. They came with the police and helped me escape. They took me to a police station, and I made a statement. Then they took me to a house where I would be safe from the traffickers.

‘It was difficult for me to help anyone else, because some people had been there too long. They were into drugs and drink – they weren’t people any more.

Traffickers seemed to like it that way.

They had people who would do whatever they told them to do. They didn’t want people who were intelligent, who could think for themselves. They didn’t

want people like me.’

Honsa helped Karel escape. Karel had answered the same newspaper ad as Honsa, and the pair met in Bradford.

‘We got talking and realised that we had come with the same firm and been sold on to the same gangmaster in Kent,’ says Karel. ‘We worked ten-hour shifts sorting rubbish. It was hard work. For ordinary people working for the firm, it was fine. They did the work, got paid, had a life. But it was different for us. We never had money and we couldn’t escape. We were effectively slaves.

There was no one I could say anything to.

‘The traffickers came with bodyguards and beat people up if they broke

the rules. If they didn’t obey, they were hit.

‘A gangmaster wanted to take me to France to hire cars. They would then be driven to England and sold on. I refused. I didn’t want to go to prison. I knew if I stayed I would eventually have to do it. That’s why Honsa wanted to rescue me.’

Since Karel’s rescue, thanks to a number of agencies, including The Salvation Army, the pair have found proper work and accommodation in the UK. Their new life is just beginning.

The traffickers beat people up if they broke the rules

Names have been changed

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City favourite in the frame ANDREW MILLIGAN/PA Wire

Poor kids

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THE tip of the iceberg of Britain’s child poverty, the story of four kids has shaken those who watched BBC One’s Poor Kids. In response, viewers recorded a record number of comments on the BBC’s TV blog about the lateevening documentary.

In the programme, Paige, Sam, Kayleigh and Courtney described what it is like growing up with little or no money in the family.

Eight-year-old Courtney lives in Bradford with her mum and three sisters.

Tea for Courtney is a sausage roll. During term time she gets free school dinners.

During school holidays she does not go anywhere but does go hungry.

Eleven-year-old Sam from Leicester is bullied because he wears worn-out clothes to school. When she was younger, his 16-year-old sister Kayleigh tried to take her own life because of the burden of poverty. ‘It puts you in the mindset that you’re lower than everyone else,’ she said.

Paige, who is ten and was filmed in a high-rise flat in the Gorbals area of Glasgow, where the mould and damp made her and her family ill, concluded that ‘you must be kind of bad to put people in houses like this’.

THE story of the relationship between the city of Glasgow and Salvador Dalí’s painting Christ of St John of the Cross is told on Radio 4 on Tuesday (28 June 11.30am). In The Dalí Christ, crime writer Louise Welsh explores the controversies surrounding the purchase of the painting by the head of the city’s art galleries in 1952, Tom Honeyman.

When he spent the colossal sum of £8,200 on the painting art students, critics and taxpayers were appalled.

But in 2005 readers of the Herald newspaper voted it Scotland’s favourite painting

Church work impresses

Poverty

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Heritage explored THE BBC has also announced that Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch is to present a series about how Christianity has helped to shape English identity.

The church history expert says of the project: ‘Now that Great Britain is so radically questioning its future, it’s all the more important to find out who the English really are. And what we’ve discovered as we’ve gone looking will surprise many: Christianity created Englishness, and there was English church before there was England.

‘Given that past, where does Englishness go in a modern nation of many faiths and none?’

The three-part series is due to be shown on BBC Two later this year.

A VISIT to a church provoked Guardian writer John Harris to reflect on the debates that take place on the paper’s website ‘between equally staunch believers and nonbelievers’.

‘It’s a particularly remarkable feature of modern British life: the way that in certain circles even the mention of the most modest form of theistic belief is enough to bring down great torrents of hostility,’ he began. Noting that some people were uncomfortable with ‘the social role played by religion where they lived’, he observed the worship and work of Liverpool’s Frontline Church.

He watched as church members, without evangelising, took food, tea and condoms to the city’s sex workers.

The next day he met a former sex worker ‘now apparently off drugs, set on somehow starting college and a regular THE BBC is to celebrate the 50th Frontline worshipper’. anniversary of Songs of Praise by airing When he asked her three special programmes, including a how the church has return to the scene of the first broadcast. helped her, she replied: In Fifty Years Ago, presented by Pam ‘Oh, it saved my life … I Rhodes (pictured), the hymns from the would be dead if it wasn’t first Songs of Praise will be sung again at for this church.’John conthe Tabernacle Welsh Baptist Church in cluded: ‘A question soon pops into my head. How Cardiff. does a militant secularist Special moments from the past half a weigh up the choice century will be featured in a second between a cleaned-up programme, and celebrations will also believer and an ungodly include a musical birthday party at crack addict?’

BBC London’s Alexandra Palace.

Songs of Praise hits 50

IN THE PRESS

Last month, the BBC reported that ‘in 2009–10, 20 per cent of children (2.6 million) lived in households classed as below the poverty line, a 2 per cent decrease on the previous year’.

But in April, the Doing Better for Families report from the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development warned that child poverty is due to rise throughout its 34 member countries – including Britain.

In a Britain where the salaries of City speculators are counted in six and seven figures, children going without food and clothes is a dirty little secret.

There is no such thing as the deserving poor. No child deserves the mental, emotional and physical damage of poverty. One fifth of Britain’s children live in poverty. They are innocent. When it comes to daily, grinding injustice, they are not ignorant. The tragedy is, they should be.

Dalí’s painting returns to Glasgow earlier this year after being loaned to a US museum

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I spy still sees the miles whizz by I SPY with my little eye something beginning with B. Boredom. When boredom approaches on long journeys, children and their concerned parents are still turning to the traditional car game.

As school summer holidays approach, a survey from the RAC reveals that, despite the rise in mobile gaming, traditional games such as I Spy and the numberplate game are still played by 40 per cent of families on long To ensure that children and car journeys.

Even with the success of parents get the most out of electronic games such as Angry their journeys, the RAC Birds, which is played by mil- has launched the website lions, only one in ten British whatsmyjourney.co.uk.

Linked to Facebook, road families uses them as a means of staying entertained on long journeys.

Nick Giles of the RAC says: ‘We have a vested interest in all parts of people’s journeys and it’s great to see that traditional car games still have their place in family trips. Parents appear to be prioritising family interaction during long journeys.

‘However, the rise of portable electronic entertainment is inevitable.

Over the past year, we have seen a rise in the number of cars fitted with portable TVs.’

Children can feel involved in long car journeys

users can share the best bits about trips – their route, pictures and memories. The site also includes handy tips for cost-efficient ways of keeping children entertained on long

journeys.

‘Part of the reason for the website is to ensure all journeys are as pleasurable and memorable as possible,’ says Nick Giles.

Keep your eyes on the road ahead MEN are twice as likely to be distracted while driving a car as women, according to research from Santander.

The survey found that one in ten men who has had a driving accident, compared with just one in twenty women, admitted to crashing their car because they were distracted.

The study of 1,000 motorists revealed that one in twenty women reported near misses as a result of distractions

while driving, which included adjusting the car stereo, eating or drinking.

Many more confessed to talking on mobile phones without a hands-free kit and to reading maps while driving.

Almost all the drivers surveyed (96 per cent) acknowledged that texting while driving was the most dangerous behaviour and one in five admitted to doing it.

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Doctor works on for MS

Dr Coles, why did you get into science?

As a child, the first thing I wanted to be was a scuba-diver. As a teenager, I wanted to be a fighter pilot. That took me into science.

I’ve always enjoyed the excitement of discovering new things. I’m not content with what we already have. I want to be part of discovering things and making new and better things happen. Science is about discovering new things and changing our understanding of things to make life better.

How would you describe the science you do?

Part of the time I’m a doctor dealing with diseases of the brain – a neurologist. I am also a scientist working to understand how we can cure or treat brain disease – a neuroscientist.

My particular area of research is multiple sclerosis.

What is multiple sclerosis?

Multiple sclerosis is a brain disease that affects young adults, mainly young women. If you see a young woman going down the street using a stick or in a wheelchair, she is most likely to have multiple sclerosis. In the UK it affects 100,000 people.

MS starts with an attack of imbalance or difficulty walking or problems with the bladder and bowels.

That lasts for a few weeks and then disappears. It might be weeks or even months before another attack happens.

To begin with, these attacks get better,

Neurologist Dr ALASDAIR COLES of Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, talks to Nigel Bovey about his work and his faith

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cure BRAIN BOOKS: Dr Alasdair Coles

and usually the people who get them don’t bother to seek medical attention.

But over time, the attacks leave some permanent damage, so people are never in quite as good condition as they were.

Subsequent attacks leave further damage and that’s when day-to-day problems appear. So by the age of around 40 most people are struggling.

MS also affects the thinking processes. So people who have to be quick with words, such as journalists or sports commentators, find their thinking gets dulled and slows down.

To what extent is MS lifethreatening?

It is mainly quality-of-lifethreatening. People with MS have a slightly shorter life expectancy (five to ten years) – the equivalent of someone who smokes.

Most people with MS would say that is not the big issue. The big issue is that for the last 10 or 20 years of their life they will have day-to-day problems.

What causes this condition?

It is an autoimmune disease. The root of the problem is in an immune system which mistakenly identifies the brain as an invading bacterium or virus and starts to fight it off. To begin with, the attacks happen to little bits of the brain, which is why there are specific, occasional symptoms. As time goes on, the attacks are more widespread and affect wider parts of the brain.

So the cure lies in identifying and rectifying the trigger mechanism?

Yes. Ideally we want to be able to re-educate the immune system to teach

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From page 9 it that the brain is a healthy part of the body and shouldn’t be attacked.

Over the past 20 years, we’ve gone quite a long way towards achieving this. If we are successful, we will be left with people who no longer have fresh attacks but whose brains will still be scarred and damaged from previous episodes.

A second challenge, therefore, is to be able to promote brain repair in people who have a lot of damage. At the moment, that is very difficult. But the experience of someone with MS today is very different from what it was 20 years ago.

Back then, doctors would tell a patient that the condition was untreatable. Today, we can offer three or four drugs. Over the next few years, there will be up to a dozen drugs that will make an impact on the disease.

So it is very exciting and positive.

I had all sorts of intellectual questions

To what extent does gene research and gene therapy form part of your response to MS? There is no doubt that the genes play a small role in determining how likely it is that a person will get MS. But, unlike Huntington’s disease, there isn’t one gene that is responsible for MS. There may be 100 genes that each slightly increases or decreases the risk of getting MS. Each one by itself has a trivial effect but if you have enough of the risky genes, then you are prone to get the disease. Even that is not all. You would probably use them, and I would would have to encounter something in defend their use in terms of warfare. your early childhood or early adulthood There is a war taking place between us which would trigger the disease. and a terrible disease, and in a war Given the number of genes involved, soldiers lay down their lives for the realistically gene therapy is not an greater good. option. However, the more we The key point, however, is that there understand about a person’s genetics, is very little that is unique now about a the more we can see which particular human embryonic stem cell that means parts of the immune system are going it has to be used in the treatment of MS. wrong and we can target our drug The discovery of inducible therapies more effectively. pluripotent stem cells – cells from the skin of an adult that can be made into So you and your colleagues are not stem cells and then turned into other carrying out stem-cell research? types of cells, including nerve cells – is No, not in our work. But in other a very exciting prospect and undermines parts of the world people are using the argument that only embryonic stem human embryonic stem cells in the cells must be used. laboratory to turn them into brain cells as a tool for seeing whether this or that As a doctor, you regularly meet drug in the laboratory helps. people – and their families – with a debilitating disease. While you rule How do you feel about the use of such out using embryonic stem cells in the genetic material? case of MS, you say that if that were From a distance it is easy to hold a the only option you would use them clear view. The more you look into it, on the basis of a ‘just war’ principle. the more complicated it becomes.

Would you also apply that greater I completely agree that a human good principle to the creating of a embryo has the potential for life as a child to save a very sick brother or full human and dignity before God and sister? that we should value them as a person No one should be quick to come up in the making. It seems to be with a response to this situation. If you straightforward that by using those have ever dealt with a family who are in cells, you are using and destroying that situation, you know it is horrible, potential people, and that is a terrible difficult and tragic. It is where people thing to do. However, the diseases we are trying to do the best in desperate deal with are terrible too. They do circumstances. terrible things to human beings.

The logic of what I am saying is that If it were the case that the only sometimes a ‘saviour sibling’ would be solution for a disease such as MS was to acceptable. It is a very unsavoury and use human embryonic stem cells, I unhappy solution, but we are already in would have conflicting feelings but I an awful situation with such families.

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When and how did you become a Christian?

Throughout my schooling I was a great attender of church or chapel and a member of the Christian Union. I think that experience was authentic. But when I went to university I became an outspoken atheist. I think that was authentic too – it was me becoming independent and challenging everything I’d been taught about God. That lasted for a few years and then in my early twenties a much more stable faith emerged. I became a Christian, but in some ways I am still becoming a Christian.

Was there a point or an incident in those student days that turned you towards God? My girlfriend (who is now my wife) was a huge influence, mainly because she is the opposite of me in having faith

Two people appeared in a canoe without intellectual worries. I had all sorts of intellectual questions which I felt had to be answered before I could make a faith commitment. Yet she had a faith commitment without needing all the answers. That was quite a jolt.

She also gave me a copy of C. S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity. (Lewis

himself had journeyed from atheism to faith.)

I then went to work for three months in a small hospital in Chile. While I was there I had a series of very powerful experiences that gave me a sense of what it was to have a faith.

One weekend I went walking in a national park the size of Wales. The ranger told me there were only two other people in the park. Having camped overnight surrounded by old volcanoes, I set off for a trek round the lake. After a while the track turned into rubble and I had to pick my way through every step. I turned a sudden bend and discovered that this lake was bigger than I thought. I’d never get back to my tent before nightfall.

The trail was blocked by a cliff so I tried to climb it. I fell into the lake.

I was very cold and my hands were bleeding but I scrambled out and battled on. I was in a sorry state. How would I ever get back to camp before dark? I started to panic.

Just then two people appeared in a canoe. I tried to call them over but they didn’t move. I struggled on and kept falling in the lake, getting colder and more and more sorry for myself all the time. The couple, meanwhile, stayed about 100 yards away, keeping an eye on me.

When I finally got round the lake, I met them at their camp, where they had a fire ready and cooked me some food.

As we talked, I told them that I could have done with their help. They said that they came to this lake once a year to give thanks ever since the husband had been cured of cancer. The chemotherapy meant that they couldn’t have children but that for today I was their child.

That stuck with me for months. All these years later, I’m convinced that God gave me those people – and that picture – as an insight into how he cares for me. It is not a doting care that solves every problem but a care of someone who is willing to watch and to be there in my struggles.

NEXT WEEK: Faith and mental wellbeing

PUZZLEBREAK

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

WORDSEARCH

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H D D P A P A O G Look up, R down, forwards, E backwards L Y and U diagonally C on the grid to G find these S characters T from G ‘Shrek the E Musical’

ANSWERS

B U O P R I N C E S S F I O N A O I H G

R E H T O M D O G Y R I A F D L M F L O

G D G N R H D B Y L O T F N F D A O N A

I N N O I K W T S W W R M I N S R K W M

N A I L L I L N E E U Q U I E D I E A A

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BLIND MICE DONKEY DRAGON FAIRY GODMOTHER GINGY GOLDEN GOOSE HUMPTY DUMPTY JACK KING HAROLD LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD

QUICK CROSSWORD ACROSS 1. Put an end to (7) 5. Assess (5) 7. Henley, for example (7) 8. Silent (5) 10. Hunted animal (4) 11. Without an idea (8) 13. One of two (6) 14. Deceive (6) 17. Dreamt up (8) 19. Intelligent (4) 21. Punctured (5) 22. Disastrous (7) 23. Cringe (5) 24. Ship (7)

N E O L I I H T I B B A R E T I H W C R

Y R I A K W E D E C S B P A G A D A E C

A K R N Q C L N H E A R R H A P R D D Q

D D D U O E U R G O E Q A R D R T H I H

F E E O D G N D J O U R G E P E H A D E

I E R E N H A D Y A O I U P B T R T I A

N G E G E K F R A L C S S I O E E T M E

LORD FARQUAAD MAD HATTER MAMA OGRE PAPA OGRE PETER PAN PIED PIPER PINOCCHIO PRINCESS FIONA QUEEN LILLIAN SHREK SNOW QUEEN

G O L D T M E D D A G K E P O P E E P H

O Y T P M U D Y T P M U H D F R P R S C

E A T W E E D L E D U M P E L R I H H E

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SUGAR PLUM FAIRY THREE BEARS THREE PIGS TWEEDLE DEE TWEEDLE DUM UGLY DUCKLING WHITE RABBIT WICKED WITCH WIZARD WOLF

HONEYCOMB Each solution starts on the coloured cell and reads clockwise round the number 1. Roof of mouth 2. Collection of songs 3. Take a brief look 4. Delicate and pretty DOWN 2. Fragment (7) 3. Appraise (4) 4. Annually (6) 5. Assembled (8) 6. Male relative (5) 7. Refill (9) 9. Flavourless (9) 12. Perplex (8) 15. Consistent (7) 16. Card suit (6) 18. Permit (5) 20. Mocking remark (4)

5. Waterproof jacket 6. Non-venomous snake

QUICK QUIZ 1. On a dartboard, which number is opposite 20?

2. In which film did Marilyn Monroe perform the song ‘I Wanna Be Loved By You’?

3. In the Bible, who had a coat of many colours?

4. In which county is Leeds Castle?

5. What is singer Smokey Robinson’s real first name?

6. Which US President said: ‘Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country’?

QUICK CROSSWORD ACROSS: 1 Destroy. 5 Gauge. 7 Regatta. 8 Tacit.

10 Prey. 11 Clueless. 13 Either. 14 Delude.

17 Imagined. 19 Wise. 21 Holed. 22 Ruinous.

23 Cower. 24 Steamer.

DOWN: 2 Segment. 3 Rate. 4 Yearly. 5 Gathered.

6 Uncle. 7 Replenish. 9 Tasteless. 12 Bewilder.

15 Uniform. 16 Hearts. 18 Allow. 20 Jibe.

QUICK QUIZ 1 3. 2 Some Like It Hot. 3 Joseph. 4 Kent.

5 William. 6 John F. Kennedy.

HONEYCOMB 1 Palate. 2 Medley. 3 Glance. 4 Dainty. 5 Anorak.

6 Python.

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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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Samaritan ‘A certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him’ (Luke 10:33)

EMERGENCY: a passer-by comes to the rescue

A Jew would travel miles out of his way to avoid setting foot in the hated country of Samaria. A bitter quarrel over the right way to worship God dated back for hundreds of years.

So this particular Samaritan treated an enemy as a neighbour – that was what made him truly good, especially as the people who might have been expected to help passed by on the other side of the road.

Jesus still calls his followers to be good Samaritans.

Samaritans and Jews were enemies

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IN some countries, ‘good Samaritan laws’ protect people who step in to help others who have been injured or are ill. The laws have been put in place so bystanders won’t hesitate to go to someone’s assistance through fear of being sued or prosecuted.

Doctors who stop to assist people in a car crash will not get into trouble if the person they treat then dies. A nurse who sees a man collapse in a supermarket and gives him CPR will not be liable if he subsequently suffers medical complications.

So, why is the law named after a good Samaritan?

The term goes back to an answer Jesus gave to a question he was asked by, appropriately, an expert in the law: ‘Who is my neighbour?’

The lawyer had just heard Jesus tell him he had to love his neighbour as himself and he wanted clarification.

Jesus told the story of a man who was robbed on the way from Jerusalem to Jericho. A priest and a Temple official travelling the route left him lying in the road, but a Samaritan stopped to help.

He bandaged up the victim, took him to an inn, looked after him and then paid the innkeeper to continue the care until he returned, when he would settle any outstanding debt.

That was good of the Samaritan, of course, but the point of the story becomes clear when its background is understood: Samaritans and Jews were enemies. They would have nothing to do with each other.

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‘Over the hill’ is

by WESLEY HARRIS

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MIDDLE age, according to It is never research reported in the press last year, begins at 35 and ends at 58. too late to While we might scoff at the idea of being over the hill at the tender become age of 58, how do people feel new people about being middle-aged, whenever it falls? Sometimes with a fresh people feel disillusioned. No outlook longer in the first flush of youth, they begin to doubt their contribution to the had been ill for 38 years. One day, Jesus was passing by world. They may not and asked him if he wanted expect very much of to get well. The man replied themselves or others that he did. Then Jesus said any more. to him: ‘Get up, pick up your But some people keep a more positive attitude. Rather than bemoan the passing of time they look for new opportunities. They spot fresh challenges.

There is an example of such a man in the Bible. He

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mat, and walk’ (John 5:8 Good News Bible).

Immediately, the man stood up and started walking.

He didn’t doubt Jesus’ ability to heal. He didn’t ask questions. And his illness – although long-term – didn’t

beat him.

Jesus made it possible for the man to make a fresh start physically. His age proved no boundary. Jesus also challenged him to make a fresh start in all aspects of his life.

Likewise, it doesn’t matter how old we are, it is never too late for us to become new people with a fresh outlook. The teachings of Jesus can change us at any time.

We can start to live in the knowledge that we are unconditionally loved. We can draw upon Jesus’ strength to become people of kindness and patience. We can be sure that death is more than the end of life – it is the start of a future in Heaven.

Our life doesn’t have to be the same old story. Jesus can make us new.

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Slow-roasted vegetable calzone

Ingredients: For the dough 360g plain white flour 1 ⁄2 tsp salt 1tsp sugar 2tsp fast acting yeast 2tbsp olive oil 240ml lukewarm water For the tomato sauce 1tbsp olive oil 1 red onion, finely chopped 1 clove of garlic, crushed 400g can chopped tomatoes 1tsp oregano 500ml vegan stock 1tbsp tomato purée For the topping 2tbsp olive oil 1 red onion, finely sliced 1 red pepper, finely sliced 1 yellow pepper, finely sliced 1 can artichokes, drained and sliced

300g chestnut mushrooms, sliced 75g pine nuts 1tsp dried oregano Method: To make the dough, sift the flour into a large bowl, then add the salt, sugar and yeast and stir.

Make a well in the centre, add the oil and gradually pour in the water, stirring continuously to form a dough. Dust the worktop with a little flour, then knead the dough for 8 minutes.

Divide the dough into halves and place each half into a clean

JUST DESSERTS

Strawberry knickerbocker cheesecake Ingredients: 100g chocolate digestive biscuits 250g cream cheese 250g Greek yoghurt 1tbsp of icing sugar, sieved 1tsp vanilla extract 100g fresh strawberries, sliced Method: Place the biscuits in a plastic bag and bash into small pieces using a rolling pin. Set aside.

Combine the cream cheese, yoghurt, icing sugar and vanilla

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essence and stir until creamy and smooth.

Put a layer of biscuit crumbs, followed by a layer of the yoghurt mixture, followed by a layer of the strawberries into each of the 4 dessert glasses.

Repeat the layers until the glass is full. The top layer should be strawberries.

The desserts can be served immediately or chilled in the fridge until ready to eat.

Serves 4

bowl. Cover the bowls with a clean cloth and leave in a warm place to rise for 40 minutes.

To make the sauce, heat the oil in a frying pan. Gently fry the onions for 5 minutes, then add the other ingredients. Lower the heat and allow to simmer for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally.

The sauce should be rich and sticky.

To make the topping, preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas Mark 6.

Place the onions and peppers on one tray and the artichokes and mushrooms on another.

Sprinkle the oregano over the top, drizzle with the olive oil and season with the black pepper. Place in the oven for 20 minutes.

Once everything is prepared and the two balls of dough have risen to twice their original size, turn the dough out on a floured surface. Gently roll each dough ball out to the size of a large dinner plate. Divide the sauce between the two rounds of dough, then top with equal amounts of the filling and pine nuts. Use a pastry brush to wet the edge of the dough.

Fold the dough over the filling, pulling and pinching it to seal the join. The calzone should take the shape of a large Cornish pasty.

Carefully place the calzone on a floured baking tray and bake for 10 minutes until golden brown.

Repeat for the second calzone.

Serves 4 Recipes reprinted, with kind permission, from the Vegetarian Society website vegsoc.org

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There is power to overcome fear writes RENÉE DAVIS IN brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape his sight.

For the first time, popular comic book hero the Green Lantern has blasted onto cinema screens and given his name to an action flick, now on general release.

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Far away in the Universe a powerful elite has existed for centuries. The Green Lantern Corps are protectors of peace, justice and the Universe.

While in battle against the evil Parallax, Green Lantern warrior Abin Sur is fatally injured and crashes to Earth. In his dying moments, he sends his light to choose a new warrior worthy of saving the Universe. The light falls on test pilot and adrenalin junkie Hal Jordan (Ryan Reynolds).

Hal is swept up and taken to the crashed spaceship where Abin Sur gives him a lantern and a ring – tools that will provide newly appointed Green Lantern Hal with his powers.

Hal now has the ability to turn whatever he envisages into reality.

But Hal isn’t the only one who has been recruited by a force bigger than himself.

Doctor Hector Hammond SUPER HERO: Ryan Reynolds as Green Lantern (Peter Sarsgaard), who was called to operate on the to use his newfound powers strong as your will.’ dead alien body of Abin to destroy the Universe.

Parallax, meanwhile, draws Sur, comes into contact A fellow Green Lantern his strength from the fear of with Parallax. Hector plots tells Hal: ‘You are only as others. The battle is on.

The The fight between our fears and our will affects fear of many of our choices.

YOUR LOCAL SALVATION ARMY CENTRE Perhaps we have a strong them will to apply for a particular job, but our fears of not rejecting being good enough stop us from going for it. Or us keeps maybe we have the will us quiet to apologise to someone we’ve wronged, but the

fear of them rejecting us keeps us quiet.

Whatever our fear, we don’t need to worry, because – in the words of the Bible – ‘God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love and self-discipline (2 Timothy 1:7 New Living Translation).

When we tap into God’s power, we can overcome fears and failings and see life in a new light.

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