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WELCOMETO CORBY MAGAZINE ISSUE SIX

Thanks you for picking up the summer edi-tion of Corby Magazine. This is issue number six.

This issue we have a look at all of the rede-velopment which is happening in

Corby right now, as well as the summer fun which has taken place across Corby over the past few months.

We take a look at the new Tresham Campus, which opened at the beginning of September, as well as the opening of Corby Town Football Club’s new stadium Steel Park.

We hope that you enjoy this issue of Cor-by Magazine - it’s been a great summer!

Regards

Sean SpoonerEditor

SeanSpooner Corby Magazine is produced by Sean Spooner and Louis Porter, who can be contacted by post at 95 Wheatly Avenue, Corby, Northants, NN17 1TE.The editor of Corby Magazine - Sean Spooner - can be emailed at sean@biggishmedia.com, and the business development director - Louis Porter - can be emailed at louis@biggishmedia.com. 2,000 copies of Corby Magazine are produced and distributed every three months, with an esti-mated readership of 10,000 people here in Corby. www.corbymagazine.com

On the cover: This year’s highland gathering cheiftain. Photo taken by Sean Spooner at the Corby Highland Gathering.

Corby Magazine issue 6 | Contents

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Summer Fun

MLG Corby

Steel Park

Reader Offer 1

Business Boost

Summer photos

Reader Offer 2

Chuck’s Corner

New Tresham

Regeneration

Street Lights

Editors Page

Signing Off

events

Over the past three months here in Corby there have been a range of fun events for the whole family.

The Weldon Fest got the ball rolling back in June, with 4,000 people crammed into Weldon Football Club for the an-nual event.

This year’s music fes-tival was bigger than ever, with two stages, an acoustic tent and a dance tent, staging some of the finest local music talent.

Though the weather started off bad on the morning of the event, fes-tival goers were happy to see that it soon changed, bringing with it an after-noon full of sunshine and great music.

Some of the bands on the main stage included Corruption, Octopus Gar-den, Black Hills, B Movie Britz, Shandy Mac and Dirty Money, each playing a set to the excited and enthusiastic crowds.

The dance tent - which got off to a slow, but sure start in the morning, soon picked up with local talent including Slider Man, M.I.L.D, Rev Amp, Jermaine Jones and the huge DJ Neil Bad Boy.

If you wanted to avoid all of the noise, and head somewhere a little more relaxing, the acoustic tent was the place for you.

Craig Garden, Crabby and the Boys and Adelle Kirk just some of the artists performing in the tent.

This year the PA and au-dio equipment was also first class, as Peavey the famous audio manufac-turers supplied it - mak-ing the bands sound even better!

The event, which is now in its fifth year - as well as giving local people a good day out- raises money for community projects and local chari-ties.

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Corby’s Summer of FunWe look back at the two months of fun which Corby has enjoyed - The Highland Gathering, Weldon Fest and the Corby Carnival.

Another great event where charities and local groups and organisations took part was this year’s carnival.

Event organisers say that this year’s event - which started at Snatch Hill, and made its way down to West Glebe Park was one of the biggest ever.

Terri Meechan, a found-ing member of Corby Carnival Association said:

“July 9th saw the biggest and best Corby Carnival in a good many yearsand we at Corby Carnival Association would like to thank everyone who sup-ported our event.”

“We’d like to thank the Transport companies who supplied over 20 lorries and drivers, Corby Radio, Hampton by Hilton and many more – but our biggest thanks go to the people of Corby who got into the Spirit of Carnival and took part on the day”

The parade, which includ-ed over 20 entries started on Snatch Hill near the Oakley Vale estate, be-fore making its way along Dunedin Road, Gainsbor-ough Road and Elizabeth Street, before coming to a stop, surrounded by supportive crowds of locals just

“July 9th saw the biggest and best Corby Carnival in a good many years and we at Corby

Carnival Association would like to thank everyone who supported

our event.”Terri Meechan

outside of West Glebe Park.

Inside the park crowds basked in the many at-tractions put on by local stall holders, and fund-raisers - with the local radio station providing music through-out the day.

July 10th saw the 42nd Highland Gathering, in Charter Field, Corby Old Village.

This year - like all oth-ers - was another great success, with pipe bands from across the UK com-ing to Corby to compete in the main event in the central field.

This year a vast number of stall holders were out and about, displaying the great work which they’re doing in Corby.

Stall holders included the Lexi Leggi fund, North-ants Police, and Bombay Dynasty who took an untraditional slant on the Scottish theme, serving curry to the crowds of people.

All three events were a huge success, bringing both people an economy into Corby, and proving great fun for the whole family. See centre pages for photos of the events.

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enterprise

Fhosted a business event at the Corby Enterprise Centre back in June for a select number of enterprising young people.

Students from Brooke Weston Academy, Corby Business Academy and The Kingswood School took part in the one day event, which was set up to promote entrepreneurial spirit within young people.

The day was split into two sessions. The AM session saw successful young busi-ness people from across the country, including past Brooke Weston student Christian Owens from Corby, speak about their businesses, and how to make it in business.

Other speakers included Andrew Brackin, who was then working on a startup called Tune Bundle, how-ever since moved on to work with Christian on a

ounders of Corby Magazine, Sean Spooner and Louis Porter

discounted digital goods company, GetDealy.

There were also short speaks from Seanand Louis, about their work on Corby Magazine, and other projects.

The PM session then saw the young students take the advice of the speakers and

put in into practice, as they were given three hours to devise a product idea, busi-ness plan, and prepare to pitch it to the speakers.

Many ideas came from the three hour session,

including a brand new film streaming service, a wall hanger product which will replace the traditional greet-ings card, and a gift selec-tion, wrapping a delivery service - all of which im-pressed the judges greatly.

at the end of the event, and after half an hour of heated debate from the judges the

winner was sixteen year old Carly Allen, a Brook Weston Student with her wall hang-ers idea.

She won free printing thanks to Quantum Print Corby, free embroidery and

branded goods thanks to Lion Heart 2012, and men-toring from the top speaker at the event, Tony Godwin, who owns Antal Group, an international multi million pound company.

The BBC covered the event on the day - online - saying: “Two Corby teenagers who were named as the UK’s youngest publishers are celebrating their magazine’s first anniversary with a busi-ness day.

Now the teenagers want to pass on their knowledge to other young people hoping to start their own business. “

Corby Magazine’s Sean said: “We’d like to thank all of the kind companies who supplied the prizes, InCui-sine for the amazing buffet, all of the great speakers - but most of all the young people for beig so engaged, poaitive and making the day one to remember. We’re looking into a 2012 event.“

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Winner, 16 year old Carly Allen of Brooke Weston as she is given the good news.

Young People’s Businessevent

sports

Twhen the new Corby Town lmen. The first ever match at the new £3.5m stadium was a pre-season friendly against the world’s oldest league club, Notts County. On 25th July, Graham Drury’s side ran out 2-0 winners over the npower League 1 side thanks to second half goals from Nick Rogan and Sam Ives. It was a dream start for everyone connected with the club and we were pleased to follow that up with a draw against Stevenage eight days later.

Boro were promoted to the same division as the Magpies after winning the npower League 2 Play-Offs at Old Trafford in May and Corby came from a goal down to draw 1-1. The third and final pre-season game was against Blue Square Bet Conference favourites Luton Town and the Steel-men picked up a second win in three matches over higher league opposition

he new era at Steel Park has so far started in some style for the Steel

thanks to a winner from player-coach and former Hatters’ midfielder Andy Burgess.

A superb 3-1 opening day victory at AFC Halifax, the bookies’ tip to win the Blue Square North this season, was then followed by a thumping 6-1 victory over Bishop’s Stortford - who are managed by former Spurs goalkeeper Ian Walker - in the first ever competitive match at the new stadium. Watched by over 800 sup-porters that victory took the Steelmen top of the early season league table and, at the point of writing, has set the club up for the long season ahead.

It is still very early days and no-one is getting carried away by the recent results however the aim is to make the new stadium a fortress and the club have begun in the right way with four im-pressive results in the first four matches.

If you haven’t yet had the chance to come down to

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Steel Park, please do as it would be good to see you there. Corby have a very high profile friendly to come against the reigning Clydes-dale Bank Premier League champions Rangers on Tuesday 8th November in the match that will officially commemorate the opening of the new stadium.

Admission costs £11 for adults, £7 for concessions and £3 for Under-16s and tickets can only be pur-chased in advance from the club, or the Cube theatre in the town centre.

CONNECT WITHCORBY TOWN FCTo stay up to date with the latest news about the club please log on to www.cor-bytownfc.co.uk and follow us on twitter @corbytownfc.

WIN WITHCORBY TOWN FCTo enter a prize draw to win a football signed by the Corby Town squad, simply answer this ques-tion, who beat Bishop’s Stortford in the first league game at Steel Park, tell us who scored the first competitive goal at Steel Park?(Clue: Visit www.cor-bytownfc.co.uk to read the match report)

a) Jordan Spruceb) James Ozmenc) Jordan Smith

Send your answer toctfc@corbymagazine.comEntries close on 1st Nov2011.

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Some of the team at the Corby News: Left to right (most important first): Bar-bara Jefferson (tea-maker and reception); Peter Jowitt (advertisements); Alan Aldaya (Chief reporter with ‘phone);

CORBY’S ORIGINAL YOUNG PUBLISHERS!An ‘Old Hack’ RemembersFifty years ago two young men had the bright idea of setting up a news-paper in Corby. At least they thought they were young. Lynn Lewis (that’s me) was just 23 and Mike Townson was 22.We were heralded nationally as Britain’s youngest publishers and I went on thinking how smart we were until Sean Spooner and Louis Porter came along with the Corby Magazine. As I prepared this piece, they reminded this Old Hack that they are still only 15!We launched the Corby News on 1 September, 1961, at three pence (that is three old pennies) per copy, operating out of the old candle factory in the original village. We sold 6,000 copies each Friday and, as there were only 7,000 homes in Corby, that was pretty good.We brought in a third partner, Eric Tyson – he must have been all of 25 years old – and he was our Chairman and chief feature writer, while his wife Shirley was advertisement manager. They and Townson lived in our scruffy headquarters, the former candle factory in the old village, while I lived in relative splendour in a £3 17s 6d flat atop Spencer Court in Corporation Steet. My wife, Val, who, although busy with two infants, was Woman’s Editor. We poached Alan Aldaya, whose widow Pat, daughter of Corby’s first optician Frank Carlyle, lives in Desborough and treasures the only bound set of Corby News editions, from the Evening Telegraph as chief reporter. Townson, who wooed and later married Millie Stevenson, chairman of the local Young Conservatives, was Editor, while I handled the business affairs.The whole adventurous scheme quickly attracted a photographer named Tom Dobney, who was famous for having been the youngest fighter pilot in World War II, having lied about his age to get into the RAF. Harry Nestors, a clever local part-time photographer and leading light in the strong Latvian community, helped, too. We got thoroughly involved in the developing community life. As the front page of our first issue shows, the big debate at the time was whether the co-educational grammar school should become girls only. To promote the New Town, hoping to bring shoppers in from the hated rival Kettering area, we led the Chamber of Commerce to buy the Christmas lights that had richly decorated Regent Street in London the previous year. But before we could even bring them to Corby, we received a good offer for them from traders in Coventry. We took the profit, so that we could develop some other plans for decorating Corby.On the first anniversary of the Corby News, we were interviewed by Michael Barratt in Birmingham on BBC television, about the

success of the venture. He asked if we were now rich newspaper barons. Chairman Eric told him: “We couldn’t afford a cigar!” When we re-turned to our office next morning, there were a dozen cigars, dropped in by well-wishers, awaiting us on the doormat.In fact we were struggling. When we chose Corby to set up business, we didn’t know that local newspapers traditionally survive on particular types of advertising that we would not have. There were virtually no houses for sale because they were all rented. There were few independ-ent job vacancies because most people worked for Stewarts and Lloyds. There were no columns of death announcements because the population was so young. Corby residents were sneered at. One major Kettering factory regularly stated in their job advertisements in the Evening Telegraph: “People From Corby Should Not Apply.” Years later they were punished by the courts for a form of racism.We sold some advertising space to a new breed of business called a “betting shop”, not knowing that it was illegal for them to advertise. The owners and I were arrested, prosecuted and fined. The Evening Telegraph group launched a competing “Corby Leader”. It didn’t sell well so they made it a giveaway, a new phenomenon in the newspaper business, and that hurt us a bit.At the time the County of Rutland was under threat of being extin-guished, so we launched a second title, the Rutland News, to get us some traditional advertising. It didn’t really work and we started blaming each other for our problems.The pressure became too much for the directors. Townson went to Lon-don to join Bernard Braden’s television programme. I joined the Sunday Mirror in Fleet Street. The Corby News went into liquidation. The Evening Telegraph group said they would buy it, offering the liquidators £1 for each copy of proven regular circulation. They thought it would cost them next to noth-ing, but got a shock when they had to pay out nearly £6,000.A few years later the BBC started the television programme Nationwide. Townson was invited aboard as London regional editor and went on be-come one of TV’s finest. I joined as an investigative reporter. So, rather than being questioned by Michael Barratt, I ended up as an occasional presenter, sitting alongside him.I left to start another business, following my interest in boating. I called it Nauticalia. It flourished and now has a dozen shops nationwide and a big mail order business. Lots of fun products. If you would like to know more, go online to look or order a catalogue at www.nauticalia.com

Spreading our wings. The masked Rutland sign told of the campaign to keep local government for Rutland. We joined the campaign, but not for long...

Tom Dobney (photographer shouldering his tripod); Lynn Lewis (overloaded with accounts); EricTyson (brains on his head) and Mike Townson (Editor).

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Photos taken at Weldon Fest, Corby Police Station Open Day. Corby Carnival, and the Highland Gathering

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Packaging is also ethical. No glass jars, no plastic, just paper, with a thin foil layer to keep it extra fresh.

Christian Owens, the found-er of LoveCoffee spoke to Corby Magazine, and told us about the coffee.

t’s fair to say that not every product can claim to be totally ethical.

“Here at Love Coffee we have a few core values that we aim to try and stick to.

“No matter if it’s from where we buy the coffee, using Rainforest Alliance Certified sources or Fair-trade beans, or to passing on prices to customers and businesses, we aim to be fair and build a long lasting, sustainable coffee company.

“We’ll do everything we can to keep our prices for coffee and other products low, but we’ll never sacrifice quality, customer service or support because of price.

“We’re a very new company, but we want to do our best to give back to the people, no matter if it’s money to charities or products to people who need it more, when we can we’ll try to give back.”

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CORBY’S TALENT - AND A WHOLE LOT OF IT.To an outsider or some one from beyond the town limits, Corby was always regarded as a bit different. A tough town where opinions were forthright and the water was as hard as its oc-cupants, but even with an exterior that would put a Brazil nut to shame, Corby was always been friendly and caring on the inside with a high turn over of talent. Now, I don’t want to be sycophantically mushy and build up any individuals in or from the town but, this little steel town has always produced the type of person that shows en-deavour, achievement, hard work and skills with added capability that makes others round them pleased, appreciative, gracious and thankful that they are from this town, the place where we all live. I’ve read several of those historical reference books crammed full of shots of what Corby once was. You can see that the towns folk were industrious types that lived in Tunwell Lane, West View or the High Street and there was talent then, if only in their collective role in the community that then lived in, supported and supported by whilst being part of society. As we move into the more recent history of the town, we have cheered for young ath-letes, who have gone on to perform all over the globe, footballers and boxers that have reached the highest levels, creative writers that have written works that have been turned into much loved TV programs.

We have gymnasts, yes lots, that will be around for years to come, actors, that have performed on stages up and down the country as well as the screen. There have been danc-ers, and that covers many genre, from Ballet, Contemporary, Tap, Street, Highland and Irish,

all from round our way, that had sent a high kick or step ball change some where on an elevated stage. There have even been Poets! One of which played Glastonbury (it was a small poetry tent...not a biggy) and bands! So many bands and singers. Rock bands, Brass bands and Pipe bands as well as the individual members that have broken away that have been on massive world wide tours or released accomplished al-bums. Corby has even been a hot bed for politi-cians and trade unionists alike as well as the several artists, performers, presenters, publish-ers and designers and presenter on both TV and radio that produce a high standard of work and they were schooled here. So as you read through this list you can prob-ably fill in your own answers to who is talented in each field but, to a one its got to be said that they are proud to be from Corby as we are of having them represent us and add to the rich history, pride and spirit of Corby.

education

Corby’s new £35mil-lion Tresham Campus has opened its doors to students of further and higher education.

The new state-of-the-art campus replaces the soon to be demolished building on George Street, and with it’s mod-ern design has become a structual icon in Corby already.

The college has been built on the old Corby Community College site on Cottingham Road, and connects up the ‘Corby Walk’ between the Train Station and Corby Town Centre.

The range of courses that the Corby Tresham Col-lege can provide has now been increased, as there is more space in the new complex.

A range of computing, sports, business and care courses started this Sep-tember as the Tresham Website explains.

“Our brand new £35m Corby Campus contin-ues to offer a range of vocational programmes training learners for em-ployment in a number of specialist fields, including Construction, Catering, Hairdressing, Beauty Therapy and Engineer-ing.

“In September 2011 new provision was introduced in Sport, Public Services, Computing, Business, Care and Early Years as well as a number of new Higher Education pro-grammes. “

The majority of the fund-ing for the new com-plex was provided by the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) and the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA), as well as approximately £10m from Tresham itself.

Planning permission from Corby Borough Council was granted in May 2009, after issues were highlighted with

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NewTreshamOpensWe look at the newlyopened Tresham Collage, and the growing success of Corby’s education

the old campus on George Street.

Contractors who worked on the site were praised as the keys were handed over to Tresham back in August both on time, and on budget, with the pro-ject taking just 91 weeks from start to finish.

Now the old site in George Street will be demolished to make way for the new six screen cinema which is set to be open within the next two years.

As well as the new cin-ema, there are also more plans to improve the town centre further, including the old Strathclyde Hotel, which is set to under-go a transformation.

If plans are approved for the new free school in Corby, it is set to work along side the Tresham College, using both facili-ties and equipment.

This would be yet another massive leap forward for education here in Corby, after the recent improv-ments including Corby Business Academy, the regeneration of The King-swood School and the new Arts and Media block which opened at Brooke Weston - who remain one of the top schools in England.

The Executive Principle of Brooke Weston and Corby Business Acad-emy, Sir Peter Simpson is behind the bid to get Corby a free school, how-ever at a meeting and

public consoltation earlier this year, Councillors spoke of the need to improve schools - like Lodge Park - in the town before we build more.

One parent told Corby Magazine: “My daughter is learning in a portaka-bin, and yet there are plans to build another brand new school for a small amount of students.

“Though I am in favor of the free school here in Corby I think that we may be getting a bit ahead of oursleves, and miss-ing key needs of some children on the way.

“I’d like to see the cur-rent four schools working together to ensure that they’re all doing as well as they possibly can, then I think there is room for a new free school, but until then I feel the priori-ties are totally wrong”

It was also raised at the meeting that due to the growing population of the town, with in the next few years there must be pro-visions in place to build a fifth secondary school, to ensure every child in Corby has a place in a school here in Corby.

Grades in Corby have also got noticibly better over the past five years, as well at nationally, with this year of A-Level stu-dents nationally getting the best results for over 20 years.

Have your say on this matter: newsdesk@cor-bymagazine.com

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regeneration

The Cube has been open for a year this November, and the pool is over two years old - so the peo-ple of Corby are asking ‘what’s next’ in the regen-eration of the town

There are many plans for more new and excit-ing things to come to Corby over the next few years, including a new Odeon Cinema, and a new Tesco, not to men-tion a new school within the next ten years here in Corby, to cope with the increase in the popula-tion.

One of the first changes which we’re going to see is the old council building, Grosvenor House, have a complete make over, both inside and out.

The outside of the build-ing is going to be reclad-ded, making it fit it more with the design of the Cube.

The inside of the building is then gonig to be refur-bished, with the ground

floor becoming a JD Wetherspoons.

Floors one and two are going to be made into office space for local businesses.

It’s said that the rest of the floors will remain in the hands of the counci, used to store away docu-ments and files for future reference.

That is not the only change that Corby Town Center is going to see over the coming months as the old Tresham Col-lage’s demolition begins soon.

The site will then be used to build a six screen cinema, which is be-ing backed by the chain Odeon.

The planning permis-sion for the cinema was granted by Corby Bor-ough Council erlier this year, like-wise was that of the new Tesco store which is set to be built in the St James’ area of

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CorbyRegen’updateCorby Magazine takesa look at what’s comingnext in the regenerationof Corby - and when it’sset to be finished

the town.

The new Tesco will fill the plot of land, known locallty as the ‘black=hills’ which currently lays empty, bringing with it jobs for the town.

The planning of the Tesco came into dispute, as we reported earlier this year, however Land Securi-ties did not submit their planning application in the end.

All of these develop-ments, along with the just opened Corby Tresham College on Cottingham Road, the Enterprise Centre, and the continu-ation of developments of housing in Corbt can only be good news.

All of this news comes asthe date approaches the Queens Jubliee, where Corby may become a City.

Other recent openings in-clude Corby Town’s new ground, Steel Park, which opened this summer, and was named after a public vote on the Council’s website.

Despite all of this, there are still things which peo-ple are asking for. An art gallery. A bowling Alley.

We want to know what you think Corby needs, or maybe just what you’d like to see in the town.

Tell us what you think on our Facebook page, and ‘like’ us whilst you’re there.

You can find it by search-ing for ‘Corby Magazine’, or you can find us with the username @cor-bymagazine on Twitter.

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local problems

It’s been a story which was impossible to avoid a few months back - North-ants’ County Council’s decision to switch off 50% of all street lights in Corby, and across the rest of the county.

The lights began to be turned off back in Mayin the south of the county, starting with Corby.

At the time, we reported on our website of the group which had recently been set-up on Facebook to attempt to stop the lights being switched off, or at very least organise a public consultation with NCC.

The group, called ‘Corby Street Lights’ was set up by local residant Melanie Yule, and now has 1900 members, all in support of talks with the county council to try and come to a solution which benefits both the council’s tight budgets and the people of the county’s needs as the winter nights draw closer.

Even when under fire with some tough ques-tions, Ms Yule stayed true to her word, insisting that the page, and the move-ment was non-political, and had local cross party support - set up solely for the people of Corby.

The efforts of the page, and Melanie herself did not go unnoticed.

The campaign attracted media attention from BBC and ITV news, local radio and newspapers, both before and after a peaceful protest was held outside the Corby Cube.

The protest attracted many hundreds of local people, and members of the council, including the leader, Cllr Pat Fawcett who reassured residents saying: “This is one cut too far for Corby”

“I want everyone here today to know that, the first person which is injured because of these cuts has full legal backing from Corby Council”

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Left in thedarkSome people in Corby and across Northantssay they’re left in the darkafter countless streetlightswere switched off.

Group leader Melanie was also nominated for a Spirit of Corby award for the work which she is do-ing in her ‘fight for light’

The lights were switched off at a rate of 1,000 a day over the county at its peak, as the county council attempted to plug a £70 million ‘black hole’

All together it is said that when finished 50% of all street lights in Northamp-tonshire will be switched off.

Despite the increasing pressure which NCC have came under from the Facebook group, and others like it they’re yet to make a U-turn on the decision, and it’s looks like they’re not set to any time soon either.

They have however been in speaks with Corby borough Council over a ‘light-for-light’ swap, ensuring that although 50% of all lighting will remain off, the public will have the option for a set amount of time to swap lights, so there is more lighting in areas which people have highlighted as dangerous.

This is seen as a step forward according to campaigners.

The Facebook group now has backing from the MP, Louise Mensch, who although showed signs of backing away from the cause publicly on Twitter to begin with, later ap-peared in the local even-ing paper in

full support of the group.

Almost all of the lights are now off across the county, and the initial anger seems to be slow-ing down, however there have been several further protests since the first, in-cluding one which disput-ed, before bringing to a close the official opening of the new George Street - to which County Council officials attended.

Though there is no further action publicly announced, the anger still exists in the county, according to some.

As the longer, and darker winter nights draw in the full effects of the street-light losses will begin to show.

We want to know what you think to the whole situation, and if you’ve had any problems yet as this winter draws in.

You can post on our Facebook wall, by simply searching on Facebook for ‘Corby Magazine’

You can also Tweet us - to do so simply tweet @corbymagazine fol-lowed by your thoughts of story, and we’ll get back in touch.

Or you can email the Corby Magazine news desk in relation to this, or any other story which we’ve reported on or which is breaking - the email address for the Corby Magazine news desk is newsdesk@cor-bymagazine.com.

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Following her redundancy from the environmen-tal charity Groundwork Northamptonshire, Ol-wen Turns, from Corby, set up her own company “Cloverleaf ”. Olwen is an international dog trainer who specialises in animal behaviour problems and training, mainly working with dogs and horses. She is a member of the Asso-ciation of Pet Dog Trainers, Pet Dog Trainers of Europe and INTODogs . Olwen says “being a member of these organisations shows people that I have the best

interests of their pets at heart and that I do not use punitive punishment techniques to train; I train using methods that have been around for centuries and have been scientifi-cally proven to work.”

She goes on to say that there is no quick fix and that changing an animal’s behaviour can be a slow process, despite what may be seen in the me-dia. “Quick fixes stop the behaviour at the time but need to be repeated each time the animal does that

action, I believe this bor-ders on animal abuse, my aim is to teach an alterna-tive desirable behaviour instead. For instance if your dog is chewing the sofa teaching him to pre-fer chew toys.”

Olwen also offers dog grooming, and small animal microchipping. While she is busy looking for a suitable premises, Olwen comes to your home to care for your ani-mal; she is able to micro-chip at a younger age than vets usually do, chipping

whole litters as young as 7 weeks old, before they are sent to their new owners. Olwen runs Good Dog Training School and is studying for a degree in animal behaviour

To find out more about Cloverleaf and Olwen’s pet services visit the website www.olwenturns.co.uk or contact her on 07905 387703 or email info@olwenturns.co.uk Good Dog Training School classes are held on Friday nights at St Nin-ian’s, Beanfield Avenue the website is www.good-dogschool.webs.com .

editor’s page

So - it’s fair to say run-ning a magazine at our age comes with both it’ upsides, and its down sides.

One of the down sides, generally speaking, is that we don’t get a lot of time to do the things that we want to (which is expected juggling both education and business)

This summer, for four weeks we decided that it was all going to change. We closed our laptop lids, scrapped our Black-Berry’s put our shoes on, and got out there.

Just after we made this decision, we opened our laptops, and switched our Blackberry’s back on in true geek fashion, just in time to attend a young people’s national hacka-thon week.

We were working along side a number of other young people down in Brighton, at creative media company Nixon McInnes’ offices.

The challenge was simple. We had just one week to think of, create and design a website, or phone app using the UK government’s data, be-fore pitching it to experts including TechCrunch’s Mike Butcher at Micro-soft’s London offices in Victoria.

We worked with two others, Damon Hayhurst and James Cunningham on a suite of applications to build bridges between votes and both local and central governments. We called the application, rather simply, AskGov.

We didn’t win!

Never the less our plan to do no work what-so-ever over the holidays was paying off - a few days travelling the whole south coast thanks to Southern Train’s super low fairs did us a world of good, and left us in the mood to do more by time we were back in Corby.

So we did.

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Well, that was funHere at Corby Magazine,though we normally workhard non-stop for the next issue, this summer we letour hair down!

A few weeks after the hackathon - YRS - we were invited down to the Microsoft head of-fices here in the UK, by a friend of ours, Ben Nunney.

Ben is student Evangelist at Microsoft, and more relevantly brother of Con-nect FM’s Greg Nunney!

After a crazily long trip down, on rail replace-ment busses, trains and tubes we made it to the five building campus, with specific instructions to meet Ben in building number two. We rather mathematically found ourselves lost, speaking to a confused looking receptionist in building number three.

Never-the-less, a few phone calls, and much walking on Ben’s part later we found ourselves in the ‘Microsoft experi-ence room’ (essentially a room filled to the brim with all of the awesome technologies which they’re currently working on, and a show case of pieces from the not too distant past)

We were shown many new and exciting pieces of tech, including the new Window’s Phone operat-ing system, Mango, and their touch surface table.

We also had a chance to speak to Ben about how Microsoft can help both young entrepreneurs and students.

Also - there was free Starbucks!

Despite other smaller events, and days out, everything seemed to be getting a lot quieter. Then we were invited to an exclusive album playback of the number one Album ‘plus’ by UK artist Ed Sheeran.

That proved another great day out in the capi-tal, to go along with so many others this holiday.

And to top it all off, the US magazine website, Babble named us in the top 20 ‘kid moguls who started their own busi-nesses’

Though we truly argue wether it’s factually cor-rect, the site compares us to such names as Thomas Edison, which is a big claim on any level.

But regardless it looks good, so we’re not com-plaining too loudly!

Then - like everyone else, it was back to school and back to working on this edition of Corby Magazine, it was a tight squeeze, but if you’re reading this, it looks like we just about made it.

So, a great summer and a great summer issue of the Corby Magazine!

We’d love to hear your summer stories, and see some of your summer photos.

If you’ve got anything to share, send it our way on Facebook or email us,newsdesk@corbymaga-zine.com

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Gift GuideThis year there’s going to be an extended four page christmas gift guide, featur-ing not only great products from online, and on the high-street, but also plenty from local retailers, design-ers, and businesses. And to top if off some christman themed prizes to be won.

Back in timeLooking back at the re-corded and remembered history of Corby, coming from a small village, to a steel town - falling - and the fight to get back on its feet. We’ll also be hitting the archives in Corby Libaray to get some great picutres.

Core blimey An insight into the work with the Core, and the Corby Cube have done over the past year, as the Cube ap-proaches it’s first birth-day... but still no official opening.

Signingoff...

So there we have it Corby, those three days of over-cast weather, with few showers that we call summer is now over - back to counting away the days until christmas now!

Though we can all admit that the weather has not been as good as it could have been, its been an amazing summer here in Corby, and we’ve been there every step of the way, cov-ering it as it happens online, on Twitter and Facebook and of course in print.

Though we get excited for summer, it’s nothing compared with the thrills that come with devel-oping a christmas edition of a magazine.

The next issue is out in December, and will be packed full of festive goodness - including an extended edition of our annual christmas gift guide.

If you really can not wait for the next issue, and want more frequent updates from Corby Maga-zine, join us on Facebook and Twitter, where already almost 1,500 people have connected.

It’s been great putting this issue together, along side getting our first set of GCSE results, and enjoyng a great summer!

We hope you’ve enjoyed it!

Sean SpoonerEditor - Corby Magazine.

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A look at what’s coming in next issue of Corby Magazine

A look at what’s coming in next issue of Corby Magazine