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November 2013
TV surprise for brave Phoebe PHOEBE Newton, aged 16, had the surprise of her life when she went on what she thought was a shopping trip to Nottingham in June. The result was screened on nationwide television in October when she appeared on ITV's Surprise Surprise show, along with the Red Devils and pop group Rizzle Kicks. Phoebe has for the past four years played a key role in supporting her family and cancer charities following the diagnosis and death of her brother Ted. Her mum Kim said: "A friend of ours nominated Phoebe for the show in November 2012, and I never thought we would hear anything more, but in February we were contacted and ours was picked out of 20,000 applications." After a hectic few months, secretly making arrangements and explaining about Teddy20 fundraising, it was agreed that a skydive was a great theme on which to base Phoebe's surprise since a Teddy skydive was planned for September. They travelled to Nottingham, telling Phoebe that her dad had some work to do and they would be staying overnight and maybe go shopping. "She had absolutely no idea what was about to happen. When we arrived at Langar airfield we were met by a Red Devil called Mark. Phoebe wondered why but as soon as we got out of the car she was greeted by TV celebrity
Dave Berry. The surprise was out and she was invited to do a skydive with the Red Devils." It was while she was undertaking some basic safety training with them that her second surprise happened - the arrival of her favourite pop group Rizzle Kicks. "She had the most wonderful time and was incredibly brave doing not one but two jumps at 15,000 feet," said Kim. The whole family went up to the ITV studios in London to film the next part of the programme and there was huge excitement while Phoebe was enjoying "hair and make-up" and she saw Marvin from JLS. "We all sat in the audience with two of the Red Devils and watched Phoebe come on and sit with Holly Willoughby, then Rizzle Kicks, who performed their new song for Phoebe. "It was an experience Phoebe will never forget. The surprise was in recognition of the work Phoebe has done in Ted's memory and how out of great tragedy she became a positive, beautiful, well-adjusted young lady." In September, 14 people, including Phoebe's dad Owen, skydived at Old Sarum, near Salisbury, for Team Teddy, raising around ÂŁ2,000 for presents for children undergoing cancer treatment in hospital over Christmas. From 9th to 16th November, Owen and
Power cut brings chaos to traders A POWER cut on Wednesday 2nd October badly affected a number of premises in Blandford and Blandford St Mary, including the Tesco supermarket, Homebase and the Hall & Woodhouse brewery. Properties and businesses in East Street were left without electricity for over an hour and the majority of the town suffered intermittent outages as Southern Electric sought to restore the supply. A spokesman for Southern Electric said the power cut occurred at 11.20am, and around 500 proper-
Time please TOWN councillors have raised no objection to an extension of licensing hours at the Heddington Drive convenience store so that alcohol can be sold later in the evening, and at Christmas. They agreed it would be unfair to seek to restrict the hours when other shops in the area already had extended hours.
ties were left without power. "The vast majority were restored by 1.50pm in stages, but were without power until we connected a mobile generator at about 6.10pm. "Our main priority is always to restore the power, and then our engineers start looking for the fault location so they can isolate the section to carry out repairs." For some of those suffering severe disruption, it was the result of trip switches being thrown, and although Homebase was able to remain open and serve cash customers only, Tesco remained closed until late in the afternoon and a large quantity of frozen and chilled food had to be thrown away, leaving many of the shelves under-stocked for the remainder of the week. A spokesman for Tesco said: "Like other shops in the local area our store was affected by a prolonged power cut. "Our priority is to ensure that all the food on sale is safe to eat, and unfortunately some chilled and frozen products had to be discarded."
Phoebe with her pop heroes, Rizzle Kicks. Phoebe's brother Tom will be cycling Death Valley in California over five days to raise funds for CLIC Sargent. Anyone wanting to sponsor them can text TEDY66 followed by amount to 70070 or by visiting www.justgiving.com/teddy20cycle.