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Youngsters airlifted by Midlands Air Ambulance Charity in thelast three years are being invited to the charity’s annualYoung Airlift Heroes Christmas Party this December, andthere is plenty of festive fun in store!

The event will take place at the Strensham airbase, Worces-tershire on Sunday, 14th December 2014 to recognise thebravery of the children who have needed to rely on the Midlands Air Ambulance.

Anyone under the age of 16 who has benefited from thecharity’s life saving service will be able to attend, and JasonLevy, fundraising and marketing director for Midlands Air Ambulance Charity noted that they need only contact thecharity's Stourbridge headquarters to register an interest intaking part.

“This is an annual event we really look forward to and onethat is always very popular,” Jason said. “We're all lookingforward to hearing from our all of our invited guests soon asto whether they can attend, and to welcoming them on 14thDecember.

"Thanks to the fantastic work they do each year, the aircrewsfor Midlands Air Ambulance are often hailed as heroes buteven they themselves admit that the bigger heroes are theyoung people they come into contact with on missions.

"Each year around 180 young people under the age of 16are in need of emergency airlift services from Midlands AirAmbulance and their sheer bravery never ceases to amazeus.”

The special event, which takes place at Strensham airbaseat the Junction 8 northbound services of the M5, will featurefestive games and a chance to be reunited with the Midlands

Air Ambulance aircrew. Refreshments will also be on offer,while there will also be a visit from Father Christmas.

Jason added: "The Young Airlift Heroes Party is a great wayfor us to recognise that as a charity but it also gives all ofthose youngsters a chance to come face to face again withthe people who helped rescue them, this time in far happiercircumstances and at a special time of year.”

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What would Christmas in a Medieval household look like? Howwould you spend a Victorian Christmas at Berrington Hall? Nowyou can find out with a visit to Sir John Savile’s household on 6& 7 December at Brockhampton or visit again on 13, 14, 20 &21 December to see the hall beautifully lit by candlelight.Berrington will be in its Christmas finery each weekend from Sat-urday 15 November to Sunday 21 December.

Explore Brockhampton’s rooms and meet the Ledbury Waytesmedieval minstrels on Sunday 30 November or enjoy carols bycandlelight on 21 December. There’s also carols, crafts and bellringing to enjoy at Croft Castle on 6 & 7 and 13 & 14 Decemberwhen you can find fantastic festive gifts at their fairs. Bromyardand District Local History Society have their Christmas fair, too,at the Local and Family History Centre in Bromyard on Saturday22 November. Then the Christmas Fayre at Hellens is back onthe evening of Wednesday 26 November, in the Great Barn andHaywain plus carols from the Hop Singers on Saturday 13 De-cember.

Why not learn to make a foliage wreath at Croft Castle onWednesday 10 and Thursday 11 December with all materialsand lunch included for £25 or take the children to meet Santa inhis workshop, follow the reindeer trail and receive a Christmasgift on 6, 7, 13, 14, 20 or 21 December?

And don’t forget, there’s always the onsite shops at Brockhamp-ton, Berrington and Croft where you can find gift ideas and makepurchases to enhance the festive season or enjoy seasonal farein the sites’ respective tearooms.

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14th to 16th November 20142014 celebrates the CraftFairs 21st event. Theevent first took place in1993 with approximately30 exhibitors at the TownHall in Hereford. It movedlocation when The Court-yard was completed in1998 and has evolved intothe high profile popular

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60 contemporary designer makers working in traditional andnon-traditional media will fill the floors of The Courtyard from14th to 16th November. The work will include; jewellery, textiles,furniture, ceramics, glass, stone carving, basketry, fashion andaccessories and metalwork. National and regional makers willbe exhibiting as well as those based in Herefordshire.

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Hopes Ash FarmI am currently on apple harvesting and our glorious summerseems a long time ago already as I squelch through the or-chards. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that we’re blessed witha little more dry weather soon so I can get the wheat drilling fin-ished. I’m having difficulty remembering what I was so busy atduring all those dry September weeks rather than drilling but Imust have had a good excuse at the time.

One thing I can remember doing was maize harvesting. Wehave a contractor to harvest the maize; every year the har-vesters seem to get bigger and this year’s giant was no excep-tion. The MD’s (My Dad) job is “the pit”. This is nothing to dowith him exercising his free mining rights but is agriculturalspeak for shoveling the loads of grass or maize as they arebrought into the silage pit and then driving backwards and for-wards over the heap to compact it. “The pit” is probably themost important job of the whole process and if rushed airtrapped within the silage will hamper fermentation and producesome pretty poor silage. Understandably the contractor’s mainaim is to get the job done and move on to the next, our mainaim is to get our silage as near perfect as we can which meanstaking a bit of time to compact the pit properly. As you can imag-ine at times we are working at cross purposes! The MD’s eyeswatered slightly at the sight of this year’s giant as it growled upthe road and battle commenced. The monster machine roaredon 12 rows at a time and the MD rolled backwards and forwardscompacting the pit in his own sweet time.

Harry, my son, is now 13 and is at an age when he can be almost helpful. He is always keen to do any tractor work that’sgoing so he’s been busy helping with cultivations this autumn.The novelty of working into the night with all my lights blazinghas long since worn off for me, however, Harry loves truckingon through and often has his lights on by mid-afternoon just incase dusk catches him unaware. One issue is the need maketime to get homework done and many a weekend has beenspoilt as I drag a bad mood bear off the tractor and back to baseto further his education. It goes without saying that it’s my fault;apparently if we didn’t have such low spec tractors and suppliedhim with one with auto steer he wouldn’t need to steer and coulddo his homework as he went along.

The Reception Class from Lea School have just been on theirtwice-yearly orchard visit to check I’m doing the job right. If howmuddy you get relates to how good a time you’ve had then theyhad a great time. When you’re only knee high to a grass hopperfive inches of mud can present quite a challenge. We sell ourapples to Magners at Shepton Mallet, they get a bit picky aboutforeign objects in the apples so we made extra effort not to leavetoo many wellies behind.

As you may know Roger the Ram has gone to the sheep pen inthe sky, actually he’s currently in the taxidermist’s pending trayand is due back in residence by Christmas. Since Roger’s de-mise the only rams we have on farm are related so, as Herd-wicks are docile enough without interbreeding, we went sheepshopping for fresh blood last weekend. Lucy, my daughter, isalways up for a retail experience in whatever form she can getso came along to assist. We came away with Romeo – let’shope he lives up to his name for the Herdy girls’ sake.

Robert DaviesHopes Ash Farms


Every Tuesday throughout November11am to 4pmMuseum open. The Museum is also avail-able for school visits and group visits, byprior arrangement, all year Waterworks Museum01432 357236 or www.waterworksmu-seum.org.uk

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Saturday 1 November to Tuesday 23December11am to 4pmOpening the Regency wardrobe; costumeand accessories from the Charles PagetWade collection will be on display in thegrandeur of Berrington’s Georgian interiors.Berrington Hall01568 615721

Monday 3 November10.30am – 12.pmThe Weapons of the First World WarWorkshop presented by David Stevens &Ben Moule. This will be held in the mu-seum while closed to the public, to allowthe weapons to be taken out for study.Free admission, booking essential, limitedto 20 Hereford Museum and Gallery01432 383383 [email protected]

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Saturday Lecture: For Your Tomorrow byDr Kate Lack will explore the fallen, re-turned and the new post-war society. Cof-fee and arrival at 10.30am in the Old AppleStore tea-room. Lecture at 11am at LowerBrockhampton, upstairs in the Granary.Lunch at 12.30pm in the Old Apple Storetea-room. Adult £5 (includes coffee andlecture), adult £19, concession £17 (in-cludes coffee, lecture and lunch). Bookingessential Brockhampton Estate0844 249 1895 orwww.nationaltrust.org.uk/brockhampton-estate/.

Saturday, 8 November Hereford Decorative & Fine Arts Societypresents a lecture by Juliet Heslewood onthe work of Matisse. She will discuss hispower of colour and why he and his con-temporaries were called "Fauves" (wildbeasts). Guest Fee £8.Hereford Musical Theatre Company,148 Whitecross Road, Hereford, HR40DH. 01432 272151

Saturday 8 November 11.30am – 3.30pmKnitting comforts for the troops workshopusing original patterns from the Hereford-shire Archives. Led by Elizabeth Semper-O’Keefe. Free admission but bookingessential to find out what wool and nee-dles you’ll need Hereford Museum & Gallery01432 383383 [email protected]

Sunday 9 November9amTree planting party. Get involved with ourwood pasture restoration work and re-member local casualties of the First WorldWar. Ticket includes a light lunch. All Tick-ets £10. Booking essentialCroft Castle and Parkland 01568 780246

Tuesday 11th November 7pm to 9pmWould you know what to do if your lovedone suffered a life threatening emer-gency? If not book a place now at a:-FREE Two HourHeartstart Course (CPR etc)At Holmer Park, HerefordBooking essential, to book :[email protected] Call 0845 60 60 654

Wednesday 12 November7.30pm Bromyard and District Local History Soci-ety talk: The Herefordshire Regiment dur-ing WWI by Andy Taylor. Members free,

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Friday 14 November 7.30pm MSJ Singers - A magical programme…Lest We Forget…poignant, poems,music, dance trumpets and choir. Tickets£10 Hellens Great Barn01531 660504 or hellensmanor.com

Saturday 15 November, 10.30am to12.15pmSaturday Lecture: Families' Stories of Warwith Charles Gordon Clark.2014 marks 100 years since the outbreakof the First World War. If you are seekingto trace a family war hero, join PhillipClark as he explores how. Coffee and ar - rival at 10.30am in the Old Apple Storetea-room. Lecture at 11am at LowerBrockhampton, upstairs in the Granary.Lunch at 12.30pm in the Old Apple Storetea-room. Adult £5 (includes coffee andlecture), adult £19, concession £17 (in-cludes coffee, lecture and lunch). Bookingessential Brockhampton Estate0844 249 1895 orwww.nationaltrust.org.uk/brockhampton-estate/.

Friday 21 November & Wednesday 17December7pm to 10pmEvening Ghost Tours. Exclusive afterhours, adults only, ghost tour inside theCastle. Hauntings and their histories. £25.

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Wednesday 26 November 5pm The Christmas FayreHellens Great Barn and Haywain01531 660504 or hellensmanor.com

Saturday 29 November 7pm start (approximately 90 minutes)Don’t go into the Cellar theatre companypresents ‘A Very Marie Christmas’. Getinto the festive spirit as Marie Lloyd enter-tains with special comic appearances byVictorian stage stars, inside the manorhouse. Booking essential. Adult £10, child£5, concession £8, group/ family of fouror more 20% offBrockhampton Estate0844 249 1895 orwww.nationaltrust.org.uk/brockhampton-estate/.

Sunday 30 November11.30am – 3.30pmLedbury Waytes: Medieval Music &Dance. Explore all the rooms and meetthe medieval minstrelsBrockhampton Estate01885 482077

Sunday 30 November 12.00-5.00pm Christmas Bazaar - gift stalls, FatherChristmas, Christmas Carols, MulledCider, Mince Pies, ReindeersWestons Cider, Much Marcle01531 660108www.westons-cider.co.uk

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November, in the stunning Medieval setting of Ludlow Castle,visitors will be treated to a full day and evening opening onSaturday from 10am – 9pm, joining Medieval knights, maidens,entertainers and stall holders as the sun sets across SouthShropshire and the castle comes alive for an evening of fieryMedieval Revelry. On Sunday visitors will be able to enjoy aday filled with Medieval festivities from 10am – 4pm.

On both days explore over 100 stalls selling seasonal wares,food and drink, crafts, historical goods and more; it’s the idealchance to find the perfect, original gift or indulge in a uniquetreat. With a wide range of food and drink stalls to tickle yourtaste buds, grab a mulled wine, a spiced cider or head over toour local Beer Tent to whet your appetite for our full programmeof entertainment. With the bone-crunching Plantagenet Societyknights, medieval music and fire juggling, there’s entertainmentthroughout the castle all weekend. And keep an eye open forour 10’ giants!

From St. Nicholas in his magical den to try-on armour, have-a-go archery and cross bow and birds of prey, there is somethingfor all the family to enjoy. Head to the Inner Bailey across theflambeau-lit moat for hands-on-history, storytelling,demonstrations and activities, and enjoy beer, sausages androast chestnuts.

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200g of black pudding4 large potatoes (boiled and mashed)

50 grams uncooked chorizoCircular cutter (about 5cm in diameter)

For the carrot puree6 large carrots

2 cardamom pods2 pints of light veg stock

For a really tender and tasty pork belly you should start to cookthe pork the morning before (about 32 hours) you want to eat it.This will allow for cooking and setting. Once the pork is cookedit needs to be refrigerated & pressed between two trays undera weight (I usually use a few heavy tins). This compacts the porkand allows for easy portioning and also makes for better pres-entation.

FirstPlace the belly, skin side up in a roasting tray on top of the mire-poix, score the top with a sharp knife and cover with the ciderand the chicken stock. Cover with tin foil and braise in the oven100’c for 24 hours. Check at regular intervals that the stock isn’tevaporating too much. If it does, add more and make sure thefoil is on tight to prevent it further evaporation.

Chorizo stackCook the chorizo under a hot grill for 5 minutes. Place in a foodprocessor and blitz to a rough puree. Add this to the mashedpotato and mix well. This is better to be done whilst the potatois still hot to avoid the potato becoming too starchy.

In a separate bowl crumble the black pudding.

Next, in the ring mould, layer the chorizo mash and the blackpudding, pressing down hard with your finger on each layer. Iget four layers:- black pudding, mash, black pudding, mash!

Press out of the mould and repeat until the desired amount isreached. Bake the stacks in a hot oven for about 15 minutesprior to serving.

Carrot pureePeel and roughly chop the carrots and place in a pan, cover withthe vegetable stock, add the crushed cardamom pods. Boil untilsoft. Remove the carrots and place in a blender (keep the stockfor now), puree until smooth adding a little of the stock to loosenif necessary. Usually I will puree for about 15 minutes.

Next, pass the puree through a fine sieve, pushing through withthe back of a spoon. This is a tiresome job but it leaves you witha lovely smooth puree.

Once the pork is ready Remove from the tray and press in the fridge (see top of page),pour the remaining stock from the tray into a pan. Ladle awayany fat from the top leaving just the juices. If necessary addmore cider until you have the desired amount of gravy. Thickenwith a little flour and boil for a few minutes. Pass the gravythrough a sieve and leave to one side.

To re heat the porkThis is the stage you should get the crispy crackling. Re-heat ina hot oven (200’c) for 15 minutes, then, place under a hot grilland you should see the skin start to crackle. Watch carefullymaking sure it doesn’t start to burn.

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Celebrate a creative Christmas in style by doing yourseasonal shopping at Taurus Crafts, where you canchoose from an inspirational selection of art, crafts, gifts,food and drink.

At the Gift Shop, browse the region’s best selection ofdesign-led gifts, art, local crafts, ceramics, fair tradeproducts, gift wrap and greetings cards.

Buy direct from the on-site artisan and craft businesses;Chocolatiers, Picture Framer, Jewellery, Artworks, Knit-ting, Corsetiere, Leather worker, Men’s fashion, Ethicalfashion, Stone Mason, Antiques, Health and Beautytreatments.

For gifts for “foodies” visit Cowshill Farm Shop; localmeats and pies, local and deli cheeses, fresh veg, patis-serie, bread, organic wine, local cider, perry and ale..Turkey, geese and all the traditional accompanimentscan be ordered and hampers arranged.

Taurus Café, serve meals prepared on site, using manylocal and organic ingredients, handmade cakes and arange of coffees and teas.

Taurus Christmas Shop specializes in stylish and tradi-tional Christmas accessories and to complete the effectchoose from a selection of locally grown high qualityChristmas trees, of varying sizes and species.

Christmas Markets over the weekends of 6th and 7thand 13th and 14th December will provide even moreseasonal ideas, featuring local crafts, gifts, antiques,local food and drink, jewellery. Local choirs and bandsfeature throughout the markets.

Check the website www.tauruscrafts.co.uk for moreinformation or telephone: 01594 844 841. This vibrant, family-friendly venue is easy to find - located at The Old Park, just outside Lydney on the A48.


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The garden in the winter can be a really exciting and vibrantplace. A well crafted border for example can breathe life intothe garden by including some of the many winter interest shrubsand perennials. One of my favourite smaller evergreen shrubsis the winter box - Sarcococca humilis. This gem not only looksgreat in the summer with its fresh shiny dark green leaves, butcomes into its own by producing an abundant array of sweetlyscented flowers. The winter garden is often associated withscent and fragrance as it is the lure to the reduced pollinatinginsects to come and visit on the milder days. A classic woodlandfringe shrub is the deciduous winter honeysuckle - Lonicera fra-grantissima, which produces delicate small creamy bell flowers.

An evergreen structural shrub for the back of a border would bethe Mahonia x media Charity. This beauty produces racemesof soft yellow, sweetly scented flowers from November to lateFebruary. The spiny leaves are upright and shiny. Anotherknockout scent to rival any of the top perfume companies comescourtesy of the Daphne odora Aureomarginata. Purple-Pinkbuds often opening to small, white, highly perfumed flowers ap-pear in late winter, from February. It is a small evergreen shrubwith a light margin around each leaf and needs to be positionedin a pot near the front door or on the edge of a sheltered pathso you can appreciate the weeks of scent each time you walkpast knowing that spring is just around the corner!

Other shrub additions would in-clude the winter Viburnums. Forscented pink flowers on a barestemmed shrub choosethe Viburnum BodnantenseDawn or for clusters of whiteflowers on a compact evergreenshrub, try the Viburnum tinusEve Price. Another interestinglarger shrub with scented wispyyellow flowers is the Hamamelismollis or Witch Hazel. This Chi-nese shrub is best planted witha darker evergreen backdrop toreally accent the magical flowerdisplay.

Winter highlights can also include plants grown for their bark. Ithink this is often overlooked and should be part of any all yearround planting plan. The common dogwood or Cornus for ex-ample, can look very dramatic when planted en-mass and canbrighten any further flung part of the garden. There are a num-ber of variations but the main stars still remain on top. Thiswould include the Cornus alba Westonbirt for scarlet redstems with the added bonus of bright red autumnal foliage, Cor-nus stolonifera Flaviramea for intense yellow winter shoots andthe aptly named Cornus sanguinea Winter Flame whoseshoots are bright red fading to fiery orange yellow. The verysight of a group of these will warm you up! The important thingto remember with the dogwoods is that it is the current seasons'growth that provides the intensity of colour, so an April prune isessential.

Other great bark candidateswould include the wonderfullynamed paperbark maple- Acer griseum. This excellentsmall garden tree producescinnamon coloured peelingbark that glows on a brightwintry day, together with cop-pery spring foliage and rich au-tumnal golds and reds. As acontrast to the Acer, the Hi-malayan Birch - Betula jacque-montii displays one of thewhitest barks available and isbest grown in groups of threeor more for maximum effect. Itis also a great subject to up-light as a lawn feature to ex-tend its interest into the nightas a shining white silhouette.

Winter foliage certainly provides structure within the garden andcombined with a berry offering can provide a source of valuablefood for foraging birds. One of the most reliable berry providersis the humble Holly which comes in a wide range of varieties,often with gold or silver coloured foliage. Ilex x alterclarensisGolden King is a bright evergreen shrub with gold coloured leafmargins and red berries. Ironically, despite the male soundingname, this one is actually a female form that requires a pollina-tor. The spiny gold form of the Hedgehog Holly, Ilex ferox ar-gentea, will do just this.

The winter garden can really become a seasonal celebrationrather than the excuse to lock up the garden shed until the warmspring sunshine lures us back out into the garden! Take an ob-jective look at the garden and get inspired.

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Autumn is definitely here and the evenings are drawing in.Hellebores are just the thing to brighten up dull days as they willflower throughout the cold winter season with white, pink, redpurple or even black flowers. The Christmas Rose (Helleborusniger) is the first one to flower with varieties of the Lenten Rose(Helleborus orientalis) such as ‘Penny’s Pink’ or ‘Anna’s Red’or ‘Molly’s White’ blooming as late as March. Our full range ofHellebores is now in, including the Harvington’s hybrids bred inthe Vale of Evesham.

Bare root hedging is now available including hawthorn, horn-beam, beech, purple beech and privet. These need to plantedas soon as purchased but if you cannot do so, keep in a bucketof water or damp bark, covering just the root system (any higherand the plants might start rotting). Hedging provides a softboundary or screening alternative to walls and fences. They alsofilter strong winds and therefore reduce damage caused by po-tential high winds. Moreover, they provide shelter and food forwildlife.

Autumn lifted roses will be available as freshly potted plantsfrom week beginning 3rd November. This small selection willinclude special celebration roses such as ‘Golden Wedding’,‘Ruby Wedding’ along with traditional varieties such as ‘ArthurBell’, ‘Just Joey’, ‘Margaret Merrill’, ‘Deep Velvet’. We will alsobe stocking a small selection of highly fragrant standard roses(grown on a 80cm/2 ½ foot stem). Remember that when plant-ing the taller roses, they will benefit from staking to prevent wind-rock damage to the roots.

Our pot grown Christmas trees (all grown locally in Evesham)are now in stock . In addition to the usual Spruce we have somemore unusual varieties suitable for container as well as speci-men planting. The Glaucos Spanish Fir (Abies pinsapo glauca)is a slow growing relative of the Nordmann Fir, therefore suitablefor containers. As an alternative to the large blue spruce, theColorado Spruce ‘Koster’ will only grow to 4 metres in height.The Bhutan/Himalayan pine (Pinus wallichiana) is a beautifultree for larger gardens with slender drooping blue/grey needles

and 25cm (9.5 inches) banana shaped cones. Finally, the shortwhite spruce (Picea ‘Albertiana Conica’) is also suitable for con-tainers as well as rockeries. Cut UK grown Christmas trees(Nordmann Fir and Norway Spruce) will be available from Sat-urday 29th November.

Visit Father Christmas here in his grotto at Trioscape everyweekend during December (starting on Saturday 29th Novem-ber). Browse through our range of Christmas decorations, arti-ficial trees, lights, advent calendars, candles and floristry. Ourrestaurant will be serving festive Christmas Lunches every Fri-day and Tuesday during December starting from Friday 28thNovember – pre bookings

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Broadfield Court will be holding a Traditional Christmas Fair on22nd and 23rd November with Home-Start, Herefordshire.There will be over 30 stalls at Broadfield Court, offering you theperfect opportunity to find some unique Christmas presents fromlocal designers and craft people of Herefordshire. Our shop willbe all set for Christmas with our wine, sparkling wine, home-made Christmas cakes and puddings will all be for sale.

Home-Start Herefordshire is an independent charity, which offers support, friendship and practical help to families who areexperiencing stress and finding it hard to cope. AlexandraJames is their president and it is a charity very close to herheart.

Broadfield Court will be set for Christmas and Bodenham StMichael’s School children will be singing carols on Saturday afternoon to help you get into the festive spirit.

Our Café will be serving refreshment’s throughout the day, including delicious homemade soups with ingredients from ourwalled kitchen garden and scrumptious cream teas.

We will be open both days from 10.30am to 4pm, entrance is£3 per person, under 12’s free. We look forward to welcomingyou to Broadfield Court for a special weekend.

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Community Wheels is operated by hvoss (Herefordshire Voluntary Organisations Support Service), a charity which currently provides a community transport service across Herefordshire. It is the largest of 7 Community Transportschemes in the county providing support to 70% of the geographical coverage across Herefordshire. The purpose ofthe service is to provide door to door transport for people whodo not have access to a car and are unable to use publictransport due to mobility difficulties or because of the non-availability of the service.

Moreover, it ensures people maintain their inde-pendence, and provides a crucial lifeline to manypeople who are often living alone in a rural andsparsely populated county.

All journeys are provided by a team of dedicated volunteer drivers, currently 85, using their own vehicles. We take people to doctors, hospitals, clinics, day care centres, supermarkets, town centres and a host of other places. We pick themup and we take them home.

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4An album put together in commemoration of a dinner held in honour of Don Bradman (the Australian Cricketer) in 1948 created a bit of a stirat Smiths last antiques sale. The album compriseda selection of photographs of the dinner and it’sprestigious guests together with explanatory textand a series of facsimile thank you letters includingone from Prince Phillip. The album also boasted amenu from the dinner with a signed photograph ofDon Bradman and the signatures of all his team onthe reverse – this was the most valuable part of thelot.

The album was publicised by Smiths and immedi-ately a very keen purchaser contacted the sale-room for further information. The owners werecontacted (it turned out they were on the beachabroad) and tapped for further provenance regard-ing how the album had come to be put together. Thekeen collector contacted the saleroom repeatedlyover the next few weeks with requests for more im-ages and all the sale details – he was definitely veryinterested. On the day there were two telephonebidders, a host of commission bids and severalbidders on the internet but eventually the albumsold to the very enthusiastic buyer on the telephonefor £640 against a £200/£400 estimate. Lets hopehe was ‘bowled over’ by it when he received it!

A pair of Coalport pot pourri vases painted scenesof Scottish Lochs by Edward Oakes Ball also attracted interest due to their immaculate conditionand also Scottish subject matter. There are ofcourse collectors for this specific artist who was oneof the principal landscape artists at Coalport in thelatter part of the 19th century. On the day they soldfor £210 to a local dealer bidding on the internetagainst a telephone bidder and buyers in the room.

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Collectors of pin cushions were interested in a novelty folding pin holder made by Avery which wasengraved with foliage to three sides but had the cur-rent postal rates and weights to the fourth side –(not so surprising in so far as Avery were more wellknown for making sets of postal scales) but still anunusual combination. Perhaps made as an adver-tising item the pyramid form box opened up com-pletely to reveal a small red velvet pin cushion setwithin the base. Antique needlework items are verycollectable in the current market and this sold to aninternet bidder for £80.

Coming from the same house in Ross on Wye,which housed a large number of small collectabletreasures, was an early 19th century horn handledpocket knife with a large number of gadgets includ-ing horse shoe pick, small saw, corkscrew and obviously an assortment of blades. The knife waskeenly contested by a number of penknife collec-tors and sold for £110 to a commission bid left withthe auctioneers. This is the typical of small every-day collectables which many people might simplythrow away but which are very sought after in auction rooms today.

Smiths next sale is on the 7th September and features a special section of silver and jewellery –just in time for Christmas. Entries are invited for theDecember sale which features a special section forantique toys. Please see our advert or website forfurther details www.smithsnewentauctions ortelephone 01531 821776

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Super Smash Bros for the Nintendo 3DS (and, later in the sea-son, Wii U) is the fourth in Nintendo’s famous fighting series. It’scheap for a new game (under £35 at launch, if you bought on-line) and at that price anyone with the console can’t afford tomiss it. It’s fun, fast-paced, caters to players of all skill levelsand provides a welcome break from the overly gory fightinggames that are everywhere else in the market.

Special Features: Classic Mode, Unlockables, All-Star Mode,Stadium Mode, Smash Run, Smash Mode

Classic Mode: 9/10The classic mode is one of only two non-multiplayer modes inthe game. It’s a series of battles in which the player is pittedagainst enemies of varying strengths, for varying rewards, andthe whole thing’s on a varying system which dictates the varyingrewards. In short, it can be tailored to any skill level. The onecaveat is that gold (the in-game currency) must be wagered onthe higher difficulties, and for those who, like me, buy every tro-phy they can at every opportunity, it can be a restriction on fun.

Unlockables: 10/10Some players don’t agree with the system in the new SmashBros. They say that you should start off with every character,stage, custom move, piece of equipment and “advanced rules”setting from the start. And I disagree entirely with those people,because unlocking each of these is rewarding, well-timed, well-balanced and, crucially, feels like an achievement. It’s things likethis that make Smash Bros so fun to play with friends: The fran-tic race to get that new combo, that new coat, that new bananapeel…

All-Star and Stadium Modes: 10/10The All-Star mode is a one-life-only battle againstevery starting character and (once you’v unlockedthem all) EVERY character in the game. It’s gotsome healing items between fights; the enemiesare slightly easier to smash offscreen and defeat;that’s it. The Stadium Modes are the only othernon-multiplayer part of the game (next to Classic);this isn’t quite accurate, though, as almost every-thing except the Training (in which you can practicewith a character) is multiplayer to some extent.

Smash Run: 10/10Smash Run is insane. It’s a no-holds-barred explo-ration-type minigame, in which each of the fourplayers runs around killing computer-controlledmonsters for power-ups, items, trophies and gold.

It ends with a final battle (which can be anything from a Smashwith all four players giant-sized to a race past explosive obsta-cles to the finish), and it’s fun even against the computer;against friends, it’s the high point of multiplayer gaming this year.

Smash Mode: 10/10This is the classic part of the game: Where up to four players,human or computer, fight to determine which of Nintendo’s (orin this case, Nintendo or a limited selection of third parties’) fight-ers is the best at punching the other three off the colourful plat-form and to their doom. It can be timed; there can be limitedlives; it can just be hectic, frenzied, and genuinely funny. Therehasn’t been a game this year that’s made me laugh as much asthe climactic Sudden Death to resolve a draw being ended by..a sudden bomb falling from the sky and sending my opponentto an instant KO.

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This autumn we have the good fortune to see new bookscoming out from several big name authors. Why not trysome of the novels from our round-up.

A new legal thriller by John Grisham isalways an event. His latest work“Gray Mountain” tells the tale ofSamantha Kofer, a budding younglawyer who, as a result of the financialcrisis, is thrown from the high-flyingworld of a big city law firm to legal aidwork in a small town in the AppalachianMountains. Practicing the law doesn’t getgrittier than in Brady, Virginia, where thecoal industry dominates and secrets sim-mer. And Samantha learns the hard waythat handling ‘real problems for real people’can bring her own life under threat. Some-what surprisingly for a thriller-writer like Gr-

isham, this reads primarily as a campaigning novel, concernedabout the environmental impact of Big Coal and the industry’sties with government. If you like a book that deals with issues,as well as keeping you entertained, give this a try.

Another best-selling author with a new bookcoming out this autumn is Patricia Cornwell.“Flesh and Blood” is the latest instalment in herseries featuring forensic sleuth Dr Kay Scarpetta. When a high school teacher is murdered by a sniper on Kay’s birthday, she hasno reason to suspect any link to the shiny coppercoins left on her garden wall that same day. Butas investigations dig deeper and uncover a seriesof sniper killings, the trail leads to a wreck off theFlorida coast and evidence that implicates

Scarpetta’s own niece Lucy. Weighing in at 384 pages, this is alengthy read but every bit as enjoyable as “Dust” the precedingbook in the series.

Stephen King also has a new work comingout this November and it marks a return to thehorror genre with which he is so closely asso-ciated. “Revival” begins in the past whenyoung Jamie Morton finds that he shares apassionate interest in electronics with the newminister Rev. Charles Jacobs. Tragedy sepa-rates them and it is years later, when Jamie isa guitarist struggling with addiction, that he re-finds the Rev Charles, now a showman creating ‘portraits inlightning’ working obsessively to unlock knowledge beyond thehuman realm. This is a dark and unsettling tale from a masterof supernatural horror. King himself has been quoted as sayingof “Revival”, his new book, ‘it’s too scary’- so don’t say youhaven’t been warned !

Fans of ace crime writer Michael Connolly willbe delighted with “The Burning Room” his 19thnovel to feature LAPD detective Harry Bosch.Still dodging retirement, Harry tackles a newcase from the Open-Unsolved unit with the un-usual distinction that the victim has only justsuccumbed to the effects of a bullet he re-ceived ten years earlier. Mentoring his newpartner, Lucia Soto, a 28-year old Mexican-American, Harry has found a partner as deter-mined as himself to find the truth, even if that means bendingthe rules and stepping on some important toes. And when theyfind the shooting may be linked to two robberies and an arsonattack, the case turns out to be politically charged. This is a po-lice procedural at its finest, enjoyable for die-hard fans as wellas newcomers to the series.

Another new release this month comes fromqueen of chick-lit, Marian Keyes. “The Womanwho Stole my Life” recounts the story of StellaSweeney, a Dublin mum whose life takes adramatic turn when she suffers a car accidentafter attempting to do a good deed. Giving herphone number to the driver of the RangeRover that hit her car, Stella little realises thatthis is the beginning of a journey that will turnher life upside down and offer her the chanceof a happiness she has never known. Always entertaining,Keyes has served up another masterful story full of wit andcharm.

There’s plenty to keep you busy so…enjoy !

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The new model follows the trend set by new Aygo in adopting amore distinctive look, notably a new cross-shaped arrangementof the front end with new headlight units and a new bumper, dif-fuser and light cluster arrangement at the rear.

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at Westlands Hereford

New & Used Car SalesMotabilityAll makes Servicing, MOTs, Repairs, Tyres

Westlands HerefordRoss Road, Callow, HR2 8BT.T:01432 379085www.westlands.toyota.co.uk

“First Class Service”

ALWAYS A BETTER WAY

(on production of this voucher - offer ends 31.12.14)

Westlands Toyota (Hereford)Ross Road, Callow, Hereford, Herefordshire HR2 8BT01432 379085

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Models shown are MY15 Yaris Hybrid Excel 1.5 £17,695. MY15 Yaris Sport 5 door 1.33 VVT-i Manual £14,995. *0% APR Representative available on new retail orders of MY15 Yaris (excluding Active) whenordered between 18th September and 15th December 2014 and registered and financed through Toyota Financial Services by 31st March 2015 on a 36 month AccessToyota (PCP) plan with 0-32% deposit andGuaranteed Future Value/Optional Final Payment. Toyota Financial Services (UK) PLC; registered office Great Burgh, Burgh Heath, Epsom, Surrey KT18 5UZ. Authorised and regulated by the Financial ConductAuthority. Other finance offers are available but cannot be used in conjunction with this offer. Excess miles over 30,000 charged at 8p per mile. Toyota Centres are independent of Toyota Financial Services.Terms and conditions apply. Affordable finance through AccessToyota. 5 year/100,000 mile manufacturer warranty subject to terms and conditions. **Free servicing available at participating Centres only andis available on new retail orders of MY15 Yaris when ordered between 18th September 2014 and 15th December 2014 and registered before 31st March 2015. Free servicing offer is not available in conjunctionwith any other non-finance offer. Servicing offer includes the vehicle’s first two services booked within the first two years of ownership and in line with manufacturer servicing schedule only. All free servicesmust be booked at the Toyota Centre where vehicle was purchased. Terms and conditions apply.MY15 Yaris Hybrid Excel 1.5. Official Fuel Consumption Figures in mpg (l/100km): Urban: 85.6 (3.3), Extra Urban78.5 (3.6), Combined 78.5 (3.6). CO2 Emissions 82g/km. Yaris Sport 5 door 1.33 VVT-i Manual. Official Fuel Consumption Figures in mpg (l/100km): Urban 43.5 (6.5), Extra Urban 65.7 (4.3), Combined 55.4 (5.1). CO2 Emissions 119g/km. The mpg and CO2 figures quoted are sourced from official EU-regulated test results. These are provided for comparability purposes and may not reflect your actual driving experience.

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0% APRRepresentative*

When financedflexibly throughAccessToyota

2 YEARS FREESERVICING**

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