Yours Magazine Issue 214

By Alison James t’s fortunate that Juliet Stevenson enjoys the challenge of playing characters vastly different to herself, as The Village’s haughty, matriarchal Lady Clem Allingham is her polar opposite.

With the second series of the ITV show set to be released on DVD, Juliet says: “It would be so boring playing various versions of myself – that’s the last thing I want. I feel it’s my job to get inside Lady Clem’s head and try to humanise her – as it is with every character I play. I don’t judge her, but try to understand her and why she does what she does. Having said that, she’s patently not always likeable and very much a product of her time and class. I can’t imagine she and I would ever be friends were we to meet!”

Friendship is of enormous importance to Juliet (58).

“Loyalty is probably the quality I value most in friends,” she says. “And I like to think that I’m a good, loyal friend myself.

I’m still in touch with people I was at school with and I’ve known my best friend since I was 18. She is godmother to my daughter and I’m godmother to her son. I take friendship very seriously.

“I didn’t have many serious long-term relationships until I met my husband, Hugh,

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everything to me’ Actress Juliet Stevenson chats about friendship, family and making a real difference Juliet with her daughter Rosalind

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in 1993, so throughout my teens and 20s, I relied on my friends for my ‘heart life’, if you know what I mean – my emotional support. All friendship is precious, but female friendship especially so.”

There’s one thing Juliet has in common with Lady Clem though and that’s devotion to her children, Rosalind, 20, and son Gabriel, 14 – although Juliet’s is based on unconditional love rather than ambition.

“Being a mum means everything to me,” she reveals.

“It’s this all-consuming, unflinching, overwhelming, unconditional passionate love that absolutely nothing can dent or dim. Becoming a mother is such a deep, intrinsic part of human experience and, to be honest, I don’t know how I would have managed without it. Your children’s welfare becomes your priority, your focus – everything else is secondary. I feel my kids rescued me in a way. You stop being so self-obsessed when you’re a parent which is, I feel, a very good thing when you’re in this profession.”

Would Juliet be worried if either of her children followed in

‘I’m still in touch with people I was at school with and I’ve known my best friend since I was18’

her thespian footsteps? “A bit,” she admits. “Rosalind enjoys acting and is good at it, and for while it was what she wanted to do but now she seems keener on pursuing a more academic career.

She’s studying English Literature at Oxford and, yes, it’s a relief in a way that she’ll probably do something rather than act. My son’s done a few plays on the radio but he’s only 14 so who knows EXTRA FOR YOU Second series of The what he’ll do eventually.

Village out on DVD “Of course, if they really want We have five copies of The Village: The to act, I’ll support them every step of the way but it is incredibly Complete Series 2 to give away. The hard. I have been so lucky but I DVD is released on March 9, courtesy have many very talented friends of Entertainment One. For a chance of who haven’t worked enough or winning, send a postcard marked The done stuff they’re worthy of. It’s Village/Yours to PO Box 57, Coates, so sad to see all this talent and Peterborough PE7 2FF by March 20, 2015. ✢ If you don’t wish to receive further information intelligence not getting what it needs. There’s too much of that in from Yours, please write No Further Contact on this profession to make a parent your postcard.

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Juliet as Lady Clem Allingham in ITV’s The Village and right, hubby Hugh with young son Gabriel

blissfully happy about their children going into it. Of course some young actors do incredibly well but as a mum or dad, you’re bound to worry – especially these days. It seems now that those who are successful become successful incredibly quickly. That’s great but will they still be working at 42 or 64?”

Does she think she would still be an actor if she were starting out now?

“That’s an interesting question,” she muses. “I guess I would because it was as if I had very little choice in the matter.

Acting was a compulsion. It still is and I passionately believe the arts have a huge part to play in life – they help us to understand why people do what they do.

But there are times as I get older when I think I should retrain as a midwife and go and help deliver babies in war-torn areas or something equally essential. Life is so horrific for so many of the world’s population I sometimes think my time would be better spent entertaining children in a refugee camp. That would be a really good use of my time.”

But we would be the poorer for missing out on her acting talent.

Next for Juliet is the second part of the latest series of Atlantis, due to air some time this Spring on BBC1, where she plays The Oracle. She also stars alongside Timothy Spall in a spooky threepart series called The Enfield Hauntings, also due to air this Spring on Sky.

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Try Marks & Spencer Autograph DD Primer SPF20, £12/30ml

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Clever make-up can transform your look, helping you enhance your best features.

Get a more youthful appearance with our five-minute anti-ageing routine

By Charlotte Haigh MacNeil

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The latest foundations combine anti-ageing ingredients with soft coverage, perfect for giving mature skin a dewy, flawless look.

Try Clinique Repairwear Laser Focus All Smooth Make-up SPF15, £29/30ml with Vitamin E for antioxidant protection and whey protein to help minimise the appearance of lines and wrinkles. Smooth it on with your fingertips, which will warm the foundation and help it blend well.

Apply concealer where you need it after your foundation. Even if you don’t have any blemishes or broken veins to cover, adding it beneath your eyes can help to lighten and lift any ageing dark shadows and make you look more youthful.

Choose a shade slightly lighter than your skin tone.

Try Rimmel Wake Me Up Concealer, £5.49. Dab a little either side of your nose using your little finger, then dot it beneath your eyes and gently blend. Less is more with concealer – if you’re too heavy handed, it will collect in any fine lines under your eyes and draw attention to them.

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A great eyeshadow quad such as Bourjois Smoky Stories in Upside Brown, £7.99 contains all the neutral colours you need to create an easy smoky eye. Brush the lightest shade over your eyelid, and the medium shade into your socket line. If your eyelids have become creased, hold the mirror under your chin and look down into it to see the outline of your socket – that’s where you should place the eyeshadow. Blend it up and out to create a socket line and give eyes a youthful lift. With a fine brush, trace the darkest shade around We like No 7 top and bottom lashes, Extravagant working into the roots for definition. Finish off with a Volume Mascara, £12 volumising mascara...

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Don’t forget your brows – they tend to become sparser with age so filling them in can instantly take years off you.

A brow product with a mascara-like wand gives a softer, more natural effect than a pencil, which can look too obvious.

Try L’Oreal Brow Artist Plumper, £5.99

Lift and glow

Contouring can help slim and lift your face – but don’t worry, it’s not as complicated as it sounds.

Suck in your cheeks and, with a small blusher brush, apply a bronzer into the hollows. Tap the brush on the back of your hand to remove excess bronzer before you apply it then blend it well so you don’t have any hard lines.

Next, swirl a bright coral shade of blusher onto the apples of your cheeks (find them by smiling in the mirror) to give you a youthful glow. Try Maybelline Dream Sun Bronzer in Golden Tropics, £6.49. It’s a suitseveryone bronzer and coral blusher in one handy compact.

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Try Revlon Super Lustrous Lipgloss in Kiss Me Coral, £6.99

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Ge orge at As d a Bright and relaxed, this stylish look from George is just £46 from top to toe!

Batwing knit, £14, wide-leg trousers, £14, both 10-18; pumps, £6, 3-8; necklace, £12

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beat the supermarkets Save cash on your weekly shop with our expert advice

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or many of us, the most convenient way to shop is under one supermarket roof. But every time we go we overspend by £30, says YouGov research. Lack of preparation combined with sneaky supermarket tactics mean we go wild in the aisles.

So use our supermarket-beating tips to save £££s at the checkout!

When you get there...

Downsize your trolley. It’s easy to think you’ve not bought much when you use a large trolley, so opt for a small one instead.

Use your loaf. If you pop in for bread, don’t pick up a basket or you’ll fill it!

Resist temptation...

Go surfing instead. Supermarkets are keen to get you shopping online and new customers can get discounts such as £10 off a £50 shop, so check VoucherCodes.co.uk for savings.

Mysupermarket.com is useful for checking cheapest prices in different stores.

Audit your cupboards. Check what you have so you don’t buy more. Then write a shopping list – and stick to it!

Be freezer savvy. If you’ve got things in the fridge about to expire, use them up or pop in the freezer for later. Milk, cream cheese and juices all freeze well.

Go at the right time. Shopping later in the day means many items will be reduced.

Use your coupons!

Don’t leave home without your money-off

Beat the supermarket planners’ layout! ✢ Flowers, fresh fruit and the salad bar are there to gratify your senses. Wait until the end of your shop to see if you still want them. ✢ Frozen food cabinets are positioned to block your path to the checkout. Ready meals are convenient, but expensive! ✢ Avoid higher-priced items at eye level – scan shelves to spot cheaper deals.

Be offer-savvy. Make sure a deal will save you money – if something’s buy-oneget-one-half-price, will you just end up throwing the second product away?

Stock up on basics. If there’s an offer

While Tesco and Morrisons close stores, budget rivals Aldi and Lidl are flourishing. “It’s no secret they’re cheap!” says Phil Dorrell of Retail Remedy. “An average weekly shop at Aldi costs £1.87 less than at Asda, the UK’s budget store. They keep costs down by selling own-label products and limiting ranges. Through effective marketing, Aldi and Lidl are now regarded as places of quality, keenly-priced produce and have gained customers’ trust.”

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vouchers. Keep them in your purse so they don’t get forgotten about.

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The rise of the discounters

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| IT’S A FACT | The over55s are least likely to stick to a budget in the supermarket says YouGov

SUPERMARKET LOYALTY SCHEMES – W ✢ NECTAR Two points for every £1 spent in Sainsbury’s. Each point is worth half a penny. Sainsbury’s is set to halve the value of points from April 11, 2015. Currently, a £500 spend earns 1,000 points, worth £5, or sometimes more when turned into rewards.

✢ TESCO CLUBCARD One point for every £1 spent.

Each point equals 1p, so spending £250 in Tesco earns you a £2.50 voucher.

Vouchers can quadruple in value if you redeem them for treats such as cinema tickets.

✢ Good rewards but pity points are being halved

✢ Great savings on days out, restaurants and more

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On the week of our comparison the basket included... ✢ Apples (5-7 pack), aubergine (loose), bacon (300g), butter (unsalted,250g), cabbage (savoy, each), carrots (tinned, 300g), cheese and onion quiche (400g), chickpeas (400g), croissants (4-pack), diet cola (2L), eggs (large free range, 6- pack), Kingsmill 50/50 bread (800g), lasagne (chilled, 400g), lemon cake slice (6pack), marmalade (fine cut, 454g), melon (honeydew, each), milk (semi-skimmed, 2.272ml), mint pot (each), onion rings crisps (150g), plums (400g), potatoes (white, 2.5kg), Quorn-style chicken pieces (300g), Quorn mince (300g), single cream (330ml), soup (cream of tomato, 400g), spaghetti (500g), sunflower oil (1L), Tampax applicator tampons (regular, 20-pack), Theakston Old Peculier Ale (5.6%, 500ml), toilet rolls (aloe vera, 4 pack), tomato and basil soup (fresh, 600g), Warburtons crumpets (5- pack), Yorkshire puddings (12-pack)

on items you use frequently that won’t perish, such as jam, crisps, rice and toiletries, buy them up. Check out the supermarket’s own-brand ranges, too.

Use discount food websites such as www.approvedfood.co.uk for pasta and cereals.

Read shelf tickets. Look at the weight of items and compare this with price.

Calculate whether it’s cheaper to buy fresh produce loose or packaged.

✢ Prices taken from The Grocer. Lidl prices sourced directly from Lidl.

The basket of products changes weekly.

| DID YOU KNOW? | Morrisons is the best UK supermarket for own-brand products

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With multi-buy purchases, it can be cheaper to buy one big product rather than two smaller ones in an offer. Get the calculator out if you’re unsure!

boring but don’t look at the checkout temptations. They are treats you don’t need with a high mark-up!

Watch the register. Check what name an item is scanned as. If the cashier mixes up oranges for At the checkout... grapefruits you’re going to pay a lot Avoid impulse buys. Queuing is more per pound than you need to.

Check your receipt. ✢ MYWAITROSE ✢ THE CO-OPERATIVE Ensure nothing is O ffers money off in-store items MEMBERSHIP CARD scanned twice or is Distributes profits back to marked at the wrong and undercuts Tesco’s prices members. You earn one point price. Check multiby ten per cent on selected for every £1 spent in store and buy purchases are products. Cardholders get a on all Co-op brands including deducted and query free hot drink when buying a insurance. 500 points = £5 off anything in store. treat in the cafe and spending your shop. Points £5-plus (Mon to Fri) ✢ NEXT ISSUE can only be spent or £10 (weekends) Dealing with clutter! in store. in stores

S – WHICH IS THE MOST REWARDING? ✢ MATCH & MORE Compares products at Aldi, Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda and Lidl. If they’re found cheaper elsewhere, Morrisons will put the difference in points on your card. 1p difference earns ten points. 5,000 points earns a £5 voucher. ✢ May take a while to build up points

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We compared an average basket of shopping from all the supermarkets to find out who was the cheapest.

You think you know…

Brussels?

The Belgian city has more to offer than politics and moules-frites!

By Lizzy Dening

If you thought Brussels was just a place where MEPs go to argue, think again.

The home of the European Parliament is packed with unusual places to eat, horse-drawn carriages and the fabulous Atomium

Unusual sights to see For the best views of the city, visit the Atomium, an enormous installation designed to resemble an atom through its nine silver balls. It was created for the World Fair of Brussels in 1958. You can get inside six of these – one is a permanent exhibition about the sculpture, one is aimed at children and the highest sphere contains a restaurant with panoramic views. The others are home to various seasonal exhibitions. ✢ Located on Square de l’Atomium.

Open every day from10am-6pm.

Tickets cost ¤11 adults, ¤6 children.

00 32 247 54 775 (www.atomium.be)

When you’ve finished at the Atomium, pop outside and see the whole of Europe…

Yes really! Mini-Europe (shown below) is a sweet collection of 300 scale models that children will love and is situated next to the Atomium. There’s even a 4m-high Big Ben! ✢ Tickets cost ¤14.50 adults, ¤10.80 children, or can be combined with entry to the Atomium for ¤23.60 adults, ¤15.80 children.

00 32 247 80 550 (www.minieurope.com/en)

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Belgium is famed for producing cartoonists and a new archive has press illustrations on display to the public in the Cartoonist Gallery. ✢ 11 Hoogstreet, open ThursdaySunday only. Entry free. For more information call 00 32 25112133 (www.thecartoonist.be)

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The guildhall façade in the Grand Place

Foodie feasts Take a trip to a museum with a difference…

Celebrating one of the country’s most famous exports, the Belgian Chocolate Village is fittingly located in a former biscuit factory, dedicated to the history of our favourite snack. Alongside tours (available in English), activities and a tropical greenhouse bursting with cocoa trees, the ‘tasting room’ will satisfy your appetite! ✢ Belgian Chocolate Village tickets cost ¤8 adults, ¤5 children.

Call 00 32 242 07 076 (www.belgianchocolatevillage.be)

Bread-lovers rejoice – a new restaurant has opened celebrating the humble loaf, which is served alongside every

meal. This isn’t just any old bread mind you, with dishes at the strangely named AUB. SVP including diced bacon bread, red currant bread, or lime brioche. ✢ AUB.SVP, 00 32 473 90 24 91 (www.aub-svp.be)

If you’re a wine enthusiast, but never know which varieties should accompany which meals, then Ars Vinorum is the place for you. The wine bar and restaurant has a fantastic selection of Italian wines, plus the cost of a suitable accompanying glass is included in the meal price, too. ✢ Ars Vinorum, 00 32 250 33 933 (www.ars-vinorum.com/)

Shop ‘til you drop Brussels may not be known as a great shopping destination, but it ought to be thanks to its collection of quirky boutiques.

For gorgeous china and earthenware (plus a pleasant tea room) try the Hei Shop and Tea on Cahussée de Charleroi (www.heishoptea.com).

Alternatively, if you’re peckish, shop like a local at Färm, on Quai au Bois à Brûler. It’s a mammoth 300sqm organic supermarket where you’ll find all sorts of local products – from bread and Explore cheese to bath Brussels’ products (www. streets and farmstore.be). its chocolate!

Meanwhile if you’re looking for unique gifts, look no further than Pipaillon La Conserverie, on the same street, where you can buy beautiful preserves made from local ingredients. If the flavours don’t make them tempting enough for you, you won’t fail to be impressed by their musicinspired names – candied lemons are ‘Yellow Submarine’, while rhubarb and strawberry compote is ‘Ruby Ruby’ (www.pipaillon.com).

Getting around For a romantic view of the city, take a horse-drawn carriage around the historic Grand Place (the central square). Two new carriages offer 30-minute rides and can fit up to five people. There’s no need to book and they are available seven days a week throughout the year. Tours cost ¤39.

Take a trip in a horse-drawn carriage

Alternatively take the Waterbus along the Zenne Canal for an affordable way to travel through the city.

There are seven stops to choose from, taking in tourist attractions and shopping areas. Prices vary according to the journey. Contact them for a timetable. ✢ Prices start from ¤2.

00 32 2218 5110 (www.waterbus.eu)

We’ve given international dialling codes plus phone numbers for the various attractions in Brussels. For up-to-date information and prices, please visit individual websites wherever possible.

Note: International call rates vary, calls from mobiles may be higher.

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