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If winter sports just don’t do it for you, you can always head for the sun. You can even go all the way down under with Eastern Airways partner, Emirates…

I was intrigued by the idea of visiting Australia, rather than To see Sydney Harbour you can do it the hard way, by taking feeling any real compulsion to visit. All that changed in three the scary and expensive Bridge Walk up the famous arch; or action-packed weeks after Christmas. Australia is a country you can take a seaplane ride (recommended), or you can do it of superlatives and powerful assertions, not least my new from the water. This is a vast natural harbour and a speedboat injunction “must-visit”. It is the world’s oldest continent in is the ideal way to cover the distance. Sydney’s many suburbs geological terms and its indigenous people arrived all of overlook the numerous bays and inlets and you’ll see homes to 125,000 years ago, then having to adapt to life on the world’s die for round every headland. most arid continent after they were marooned by rising seas. A short train ride takes you into the Blue Mountains, so called “Modern” Australia, on the other hand, is very young – but for the haze that rises from the eucalyptus forest. The little leave behind the brash city skylines and you can quickly step town of Katoomba is a must, especially its art deco 1920s back in time in places that remind you of England decades paragon Tea Rooms. From Katoomba you can plunge into the ago. depths of forest aboard the Katoomba Scenic Railway, which, at a maximum gradient of a vertiginous 52°, is officially the Even in the suburbs of the metropolis of Sydney, at Coogee – steepest in the world. Or look at it all from above in a glass- just a few bays along from the iconic Bondi – the atmosphere bottomed cable car. is more like an English seaside resort in its heyday. Coogee makes a great base to explore Sydney. It’s only a short bus ride from town but is completely chilled, its main street lined with family-run cafés, delis and surf shops, and its beach boasts a wonderful sea water pool where you can even take a massage in the sun. Juice bars serve every possible fruit and veg combination and, remember, this is the part of the world that invented all those fancy coffee terms, like “flat white”. Or was it the New Zealanders? Three Sisters, Katoomba

For all its size, Sydney still has quite a gentle pace and has a great cultural offering – everything from Priscilla Queen of the Desert, to the magnificent Powerhouse Museum, providing a real insight into the development of modern Australia and the lives of the aboriginal peoples.

The Art Gallery of New South Wales attracts not only world- class exhibitions (the greatest Picasso exhibition ever to visit Australia runs until March) but examples of how Australia and Heart Reef Oceania inspired the Impressionists and others.

14 Heiselberg/Fotolia.comMorten photography loucas jason / www.hamiltonisland.com.au There can be few quicker ways to head for the snow this winter than to hop on an Eastern Airways flight from Aberdeen , Glasgow or Newcastle to Stavanger.

If Nordic (cross-country) skiing is your bag, it’s not even 30kms from Sola airport, south of Stavanger to the Brekko recreation centre, near Ålgård. Trails are lit for those short winter days.

If you’re an Alpine or off-piste fan, then head for Hordatun Gård, at Røldal,a little over three hours’ drive from the city centre.

Originally the haunt of the off-piste gang and snowboarders this remains the place to watch wide-eyed as Europe’s most daring throw themselves off the mountainsides in the Røldal Freeride Challenge competition.

However, the resort also offers a more rounded product for everyone from novice to expert and lots of activities for all the family. The snow comes before Christmas and remains well Whitehaven Beach into May.

The apartment hotel, Hordatun Gård, is only three years Beyond Katoomba and the mountain divide, the forest old and complements the original apartments at Hordatun progressively gives way to rolling outback. At remote Eagle View Panorama. Escape – a “luxury romantic hideaway exclusively for couples” – we stayed in our own spa on stilts, with huge picture windows. If you don’t fancy driving at all, then you can catch the boat Grey kangaroos were gathered outside when we woke. from Stavanger and be at the snow in two hours.

Another break within a break took us on a short internal flight to Sauda Ski Centre is about 5kms from Saudasjøen and is one Hamilton Island, in the Whitsunday group, off the Queensland of the largest ski centres in the the region. It boasts five ski coast. Hamilton Island shot to fame a couple of years ago when trails, which can handle 5,200 skiers an hour. the post of caretaker was advertised as the “best job in the world” in a PR stunt in which applicants competed for the six-month post. The Ski boat leaves Skagen quay in Stavanger on Saturdays and Sundays at 0800. Pre-booking is essential. The service is It’s a great location from which to visit the 7kms of Whitehaven daily during Winter and Easter holidays. Beach and its talcum powder sand, named the world’s finest eco- beach by CNN. To make the slightly longer trip to the Great Barrier http://tinyurl.com/7sb7vyb Reef, we took a seaplane ride, skimming low over the many coral www.hordatun.no islands, including the aptly named Heart Reef. Yes, you could fall in love with Australia! SA

TO GET THERE Emirates connects daily via Dubai with Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane. Eastern Airways connecting flights from Aberdeen to Newcastle enable the fastest end-to-end journey time to Dubai. www.emirates.com

STAY AT Whitsunday Islands – www.hamiltonisland.com.au Blue Mountains – www.eagleview.com

SEE Sydney Harbour scenic flights – www.seaplanes.com.au Powerhouse Museum – www.powerhousemuseum.com Sydney Harbour Bridge Climb – www.bridgeclimb.com

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North McGeehan’s flight paths extend to levels in 2011, we are sure to see Chris strengthen and enjoy record profit As the Alderley group continues to Yarmouth and Aberdeen. Management Services Ltd, based in Great systems through its subsidiary, Specialised hydraulic, pneumatic and electrical control design, manufacture and installation of has also added to its portfolio with the and oil in water treatment solutions but Group offers not only bespoke metering From delivery to lifetime care, the Alderley and knowledge, direct to the client. service professionals who have experience globally, it brings dedicated teams of manufacturing and assembly facilities service the industry. By having its own to establish regional offices to better bespoke products, but has worked innovations through its ability to produce Alderley not only strives for new using new innovations to our advantage.” of advances in metering technology and company, we constantly keep abreast our client’s expectations. As a pioneering world-class products and services to meet and water injection, working to provide and produces water treatment packages leading force in liquid and gas metering Alderley has become an established cryogenic metering of LNG at -160C. in being an industry leader by delivering North Sea in 1975 and have succeeded “We were the first to measure oil from the and firsts in this industry,” continues Chris. Africa, TheFarEastandAlgeria. www.alderleygroup.com Services Ltd. FZE, SpecialisedManagement Systems, AlderleyICD, Alderley Neftegaz, The AlderleyGroup includes company. independent family-ownedBritish Aberdeen (UK).Alderleyplcisan Arabia), Moscow(Russia)and Dubai (UAE),Dammam(Saudi locations inWickwar(UK), countries. Alderleyhasworldwide 500 systemstomore than50 and hassuppliedmore than metering equipmentsince1959 has beenmanufacturingoilfield of hydrocarbon products. Alderley processing, treatment andcontrol efficient solutionsforthemetering, industries, producing effective and in theoil,gasandpetrochemical engineering companyoperating Alderley isamulti-disciplined ALDERLEY ABOUT MORE 18 Interview LORRAINE PASCALE WOMEN IN BUSINESS After a “grim” childhood of care homes, foster parents and provincial racism, Lorraine Pascale overcame humble beginnings to become one of the world’s leading supermodels. Now, with her second BBC2 series Home Cooking Made Easy wowing critics and audiences, TV’s latest kitchen goddess is rising to the top for the second time. Nick McGrath hears her remarkable story…

With a smile as wide as a certain and I truly believe that you can’t really the “issue” of her ethnicity. feline from Cheshire, it’s no surprise compare me to anyone out there.” that Lorraine Pascale looks like the “My birth parents were of Caribbean cat that’s got the cream. Lorraine was placed in care aged just origin and my adoptive parents were three months. Fifteen months later white and we lived on a council estate With two hit TV series under her she was adopted by an Oxfordshire in Oxfordshire, so I was the only black belt, a best-selling cookery book couple, who divorced when she was person in my school. The only black in and a business at the vanguard just three. When her adoptive mother, the village… of the cupcake craze, it’s been a an on-set nurse at Pinewood film phenomenal time for the 39-year-old. studios, became too ill to care for “People would come up to me and her, Lorraine, then seven, was placed ask if it rubbed off and that kind of “It’s all a bit surreal to be honest,” back in care. She lived an uncertain thing. I remember one day somebody says the statuesque former Chanel existence between numerous foster had sprayed racist comments all and Versace model over hard-boiled families until she was reunited, aged over the house so that overtook the eggs – organic of course – just a 11, with her fit-again adoptive mother. adoption issue. It was horrendous, but catwalk sashay from her Covent it makes you tougher and stronger. Garden patisserie, Ella’s Bakehouse. “It was a pretty grim childhood,” admits Lorraine. “Horrible really and “Psychologically though, my race “But after all the sacrifices I’ve made very de-stabilising as you don’t really wasn’t that important. I just accepted over so many years it feels awesome know who you are and it becomes it much like I have my adoption, to have finally tasted the first bite of hard to trust anyone. as I’ve got older. I’ve realised that what I hope will be the start of a really whatever happened, it’s other exciting chapter for me.” “In your mind, your bags are always people’s issues, not mine, and you’ve packed as you never know how long just got to keep on going.” With a sunny disposition belying her you’re going to be anywhere, so it’s inauspicious roots, Pascale’s infectious hard to forge close bonds with people Whether Lorraine’s stoic resolve is in blend of culinary presentation is a as you’re never told whether you’ll her blood – “perhaps I’ve got some mouth-watering mixture of confidently be with a family for weeks, months or granny sitting there somewhere with delivered gastronomic onomatopoeia – years. these really strong genes” – or learned “I love the sound of words like, Dollop, from her adoptive parents is uncertain, Squidge, and Plop” – transparent “I tended to keep myself to myself but but the catalyst that unlocked her enthusiasm for food and, with the in terms of actually being adopted that potential is unequivocal. stunning looks of someone ten years was never a big shock to me as my younger, drop-dead-gorgeous glamour. adoptive mother told me everything Aged 11, she won a full scholarship from day one. to a boarding school in Devon from a So far, so Sophie or Nigella, you might trust for underprivileged children. And think, but that’s where the similarities “I don’t know exactly why my birth for the first time in her life she found with her more established kitchen mother gave me up and although I stability. contemporaries end. And, as Lorraine have since discovered the names and is quick to point out, she considers locations of both of my birth parents Five years later, with her privately chefs Dahl and Lawson more as I’ve no desire to seek them out. I’m educated accent and striking 5ft comrades than competition. just happy with the way things are.” 10ins figure now flourishing, she was spotted by a model scout while on a “There’s plenty of room for all of us and If Lorraine’s childhood wasn’t already shopping trip to Covent Garden and I think we’re all completely different challenging enough, there was also within months was signed up to >> 1919 AFTER ALL THE SACRIFICES I’VE MADE OVER SO MANY YEARS IT FEELS AWESOME TO HAVE FINALLY TASTED THE FIRST BITE OF WHAT I HOPE WILL BE THE START OF A REALLY EXCITING CHAPTER FOR ME.

Kate Moss’s London agency, Storm. some of London’s top restaurants but 18-hour days proved incompatible Almost immediately she was joining with bringing up her daughter so she Moss, Naomi Campbell, Lisa Evangelista eventually started her own business and Cindy Crawford on New York’s making celebration cakes, with catwalks, modelling collections for Karl Selfridges among her early customers. Lagerfeld, John Galliano and Chanel, and shooting high-profile campaigns for Such was the demand for her Versace, Benetton and Donna Karan. talents that Lorraine soon launched She became the first black British model Ella’s Bakehouse and, following a to make the cover of American Elle and conversation with Storm boss Sarah featured in the coveted Sports Illustrated Doukas, decided to combine her love of Swimsuit Edition. cooking and communication.

“It was unbelievable,” remembers “I’d been in front of the camera before Lorraine. “I’m from a housing (and actually appeared as a Bond girl in association flat in Whitney, so to be Robbie Williams’s Millennium video in suddenly catapulted to a glamorous 1998) and I’ve always loved talking, so it world of sipping champagne on seemed like a natural move for me. After Concorde and hanging out with Robert several meetings with the BBC, a pilot Di Nero and Mickey Rourke in clubs in and lots of brain-storming, Baking Made Manhattan, was bizarre, but incredibly Easy, my first series on BBC2, was the exciting too. eventual result.

“Kate Moss and I were the two youngest “I’ve had a difficult life but I’ve been models on the circuit so we were close lucky too and I want to get the message for a while and I loved those days, but across that life can get better. To me it’s I’m a creative person at heart and I knew all about finding your passion, finding pretty early on that eventually I’d need Baking Made Easy, published by out what makes you tick. Everyone’s to do something more fulfilling.” Harper Collins, is out now, along with got something that lights them up and Lorraine’s new book Home Cooking I believe that you can do whatever you The arrival of daughter, Ella, in 1997 Made Easy. Lorraine’s Last Minute put your mind to. I’m just relieved that also precipitated a seismic shift in her Christmas can be seen on BBC Two I’ve found my passion in cooking.” professional aspirations. in December. One cake Lorraine won’t be baking “I got married in my early 20s and had herself is the one for her wedding. Ella a couple of years later. Ultimately Her boyfriend of two years, Ged, lives that marriage didn’t work out but eventually finding her vocation via an with her and Ella in West London and I realised that I couldn’t continue intensive 12-month Diploma in Food has been an indispensable calming dragging Ella all over the world on and Wine. This was followed by a two- influence. modelling assignments, so I decided year foundation degree in International it was time to heed the words of my Culinary Arts in Pastry at the prestigious “Ged’s not in the TV industry or the adoptive father. Leith’s culinary academy. cooking world and we met through friends, which I think is the best way. “He was a teacher and always used “I trained as a car mechanic with Skoda He’s been a fantastic support to me to say that he looked forward to for a while, tried an interior design throughout this whole process. He’s going to work every single day and it course and even did a hypnotherapy a very grounding force in my life and I was important to find a career you’re seminar with Paul McKenna, but none couldn’t have done it without him. passionate about, so that’s what I did.” of them really lit my fire. I needed some soul food and I found it in cooking.” “Marriage? Who knows? Would I bake Lorraine dipped her elegant toes into my own wedding cake? I think I’ll leave a dazzling array of occupations before After Leith’s, Lorraine cut her teeth at that one to Ella.”

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20 WITH PAUL MCKENNA… Q&A MICHELLE DANIELLS

WOMEN IN BUSINESS Michelle Daniells had a dream: to launch her own brand of nutritious, additive- free children’s snacks. To realise that dream, she’s mortgaged two houses and enticed business angels to raise her substantial six-figure start-up costs – all while dealing with unscheduled events including an unplanned pregnancy and her husband moving to Dubai with his work. Her Benjoy snacks, in specially designed anti-spill Munchcups, have won a Gold Award and are now on sale in supermarkets and on-line. She tells Stan Abbottabout the challenges… SA: Why Benjoy? SA: So you thought you could do better… MICHELLE DANIELLS MD: The product is named after my little MD: Yes, I thought I would focus on Biography boy, Benoît, who was my inspiration. I didn’t nutritious value, but I also listened to think I was going to be one of these anxious what other mothers and parents said. BORN in India of Anglo-Indian parents mums, but he turned me into one: there They felt existing children’s snacks were NAMED after the Beatles song, was nothing physically wrong with him but inappropriate and the portions were too Michelle neither did he seem particularly well. He big, so you would struggle to take them MOVED to England aged four and certainly didn’t read the books about five a away when you felt your child had had brought up in Surrey day. He was better at snacking and finger enough. Eventually my three key criteria LIVES near Petersfield, Hampshire food, but I thought maybe he wasn’t getting were nutritious value, small portions and AGE 42 a balanced diet. He would have a rice cake “anti-spill”. MARRIED to Emmanuel, with children or biscuit, but I felt they were boring, bland Benoît, five, and Amélie, 18 months and not very nutritious. Many of the snacks SA: What made you think you could launch WINDS DOWN with quality time with other mums were giving their children in the the product on your own? the children: simple things like going belief they were healthy, myself included, MD: I found myself in marketing pretty for a walk or to the park actually contained lots of salts and sugars. much by accident. I dropped out of my A-levels and chose not to go to university as I wanted to work and travel. So I worked in Asia and Australia and, when I was 21, I studied for three years for my Chartered Institute of Marketing Diploma. My first “proper” marketing job was in a company that made suspension systems and axles for articulated trailers. I also worked for a Caribbean tour operator, based in Chester, packaging anywhere in the world. Benjoy’s Finance South East Accelerator Fund and, but my best break was a study exchange goal is to make children’s diets better all told, in the last 12 months we’ve raised that took me to Adelaide, where I ran the and parents’ lives easier and we do that about £700,000. We weren’t in a position to management consultancy division for in every way we can: healthy snacks, get bank funding but we do use factoring a chartered accounting practice. I was handy portions and ingenious, less mess to help with cash flow. involved in 52 different businesses in six packaging. years. SA: Where is the business now? SA: And the food? MD: I’m the company’s founder and SA: What brought you back to the UK? MD: My experience as a management Marketing Director and I have brought in MD: As much as I loved Australia, I couldn’t consultant meant I had written numerous the co-founder of Plum Baby, a successful imagine spending my whole life there. business plans and I had a really good all- babyfood business, Paddy Willis, as my Besides, I was missing Europe and my round understanding of business. What I Managing Director. We’ve recently taken on family. I worked for an event management lacked was knowledge of the food industry; a part-time sales person and are relocating company in Hampshire and then I decided and money. I saw Asda, Sainsburys and to new offices in Petersfield. We’ll turn over I didn’t share the value system. So I went Ocado and they all absolutely loved it, so £200,000 this year and £1 million next. We into the charity sector, raising funds for that gave me the confidence to work with are on sale at Morrisons, Ocado, Waitrose, Canine Partners, which trains dogs to help various suppliers on the product itself. Amazon and Little Chef, and we expect people with disabilities. I loved it but, after Eventually we came up with five lines: many new retailers to be stocking our divorcing my first husband, I needed to Multigrain Bites, Multigrain Munchers (like a products soon. improve my income and went to a breadstick), Vegetable Mini Crisps, Crunchy company that distributed cookware, where Strawberries and Crunchy Grapes. The fruit SA: Tell me about some of the unexpected I learned about all sorts of things. I had met snacks are freeze dried, so all the vitamins challenges. my French husband by then and Benoît are retained. MD: Well, in 2009 I discovered I was was born in 2006. pregnant and that definitely wasn’t in SA: What about the finance? the business plan – that’s when I started SA: What did you know about the food MD: I managed to keep things going looking for an MD who could take a lot of sector? with the tolerance and support of family. the load. Then amid all this, my husband, MD: Very little, so I searched for other I reached the point where I either had to who works in financial trading, had to people, who are still working for me now get a “proper job” or follow the dream. I take a job in Dubai, where he was based – my nutritionist, Sally Child, Dr Carina was offered a job but my darling husband until very recently. So I was left with a new Venter, a Clinical Dietician and Senior was supportive enough to say “follow the baby, my four-year-old son and running Research Fellow in children’s eating, and dream”, so we scraped by on one income the business – I was taking my daughter Charlotte Tomalin, a food technologist with and my mother invested in the company. to business meetings and breast-feeding marketing expertise. We remortgaged our house and my her in the car park. Emmanuel is back in mother’s house. By early 2010 we were the UK now and working in London, but SA: Which came first, the packaging or the ready to launch and I had to look for extra we did come close to dropping the whole product? investment and that was really, really hard. business idea and moving to Dubai. MD: The brand is all about the innovative, Then, unusually for a start-up company that nutritious foods but, knowing how messy hasn’t started trading, we got funding from SA: And the rewards? toddlers are, I had this idea of developing two institutional investors and a group of MD: Now that the product is actually anti-spill packaging. I searched the business angels late in summer 2010 and on the shelves and we are getting great intellectual property databases and came they now own 45 per cent of the company. feedback from parents, I just love it and I up with the Munchcup, the first anti-spill We also got mezzanine support from the don’t think that my children are suffering! I am really proud now to have succeeded against the odds – and especially proud to win Practical Parenting and Pregnancy WIN BENJOY MULTIPACKS! Magazine’s Gold Award for the most Benjoy is offering Eastern Airways passengers the chance to win one of 50 free innovative product under £10. Our Multipacks of their delicious and nutritious children’s snacks. Simply join the competition was well-financed research Benjoy Wise Nutrition Club before February 18 to enter the prize draw. Go to teams at big companies like Philips. www.benjoy.co.uk and fill out the form on the Contact page. Enter Eastern Airways in the Feedback box and tick YES, please sign me up to the Wise SA: What next? Nutrition Club. MD: We aim to get into the other supermarkets and other outlets, and we have some very exciting top-secret products under development in different sectors that will provide more, healthier alternatives for children.

SA: Is Emmanuel proud? MD: Well, we actually got married in 2010 and the whole adventure has strengthened our relationship, though I did have some dark days… 23 24

EXPLORATION EXPRESS Stan Abbott LEEDS CITY WITH WELCOMING ARMS WELCOMING WITH CITY place in Leeds. But Leeds is where I newspapers in the country) was taking (once one of the smallest evening of the Evening Despatch, Darlington I’m still unsure why the 2 them. 60 miles from where I hadn’t worked with “reuniting” and the venue in Leeds was I knew few of those with whom I was As reunions go it was an unusual one. enjoys a return to Leeds 5 th anniversary Seventies” has improved. to call itself “Motorway City of the in the 80s, the city that had been proud Leeds, which endured a difficult spell Indeed, each time I have returned to to be. a positive experience that would prove quite different memory lane – and what so here was an opportunity to tramp a spent my student and early career years, introduced us to his latest creation: a clearly loved his job and enthusiastically creature comforts… Cocktail waiter Mark ideal bolt-hole when away from home espresso machine, that make this the rooms, with huge bed and complete with just the very comfortable and spacious quieter side of the city centre. It’s not New Ellington boutique hotel, on the the truly delightful, lightly jazz-themed, Let’s start with our “home” for one night: CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT Royal Armouries, Brewery Wharf, the New Ellington, the Victorian Quarter vanilla and mint julep, comprising Buffalo venue for our “reunion” was Brasserie the New Ellington weighed down by both Trace bourbon, Madagascan vanilla liqueur, Blanc, one of Raymond Blanc’s nine home and personal furnishings, our load mint syrup and crushed ice, nicely finished brasseries that are the “can-can” lightened only by a slimming of the wallet. with fresh mint. Shaken with a smile. counterpoint to the “delicate waltz” of Le This was thanks in no small part to the Manoir, near Oxford. Well, let’s set the universally excellent and friendly customer Breakfast proved exquisite, with an pretentious waffle to one side: how did service we encountered. expansive menu including sumptuous BB cope with serving a complex variety American pancakes with maple syrup, or of choices to a party of 20-something. Finally at the gallery, my partner particularly more traditional English or continental. We Answer: impeccably and all amid a lively, wanted to see the original of her haunting didn’t, but you can also enjoy the kitchen’s buzzing atmosphere that belied the John Atkinson Grimshaw painting of a best in the comfort of your own room. restaurant’s generous size. Thinking I Headingley lane by moonlight and this should “go French” for Raymond’s sake, opened the door to other fine collections, But I jump ahead. On arrival in Leeds, I opted for the escargots bourguignons, not least a Damien Hirst exhibition which, we headed for the city’s most celebrated which sizzled in on a dangerously hot snail sadly, has now moved on. tourist attraction, the Royal Armouries, dish, followed by tasty Toulouse sausages which opened in 1996 as an anchor for and a perfect apricot soufflé, all washed Also gone for the time being is the World the redevelopment of the city’s jaded down by a very acceptable muscadet. Curry Festival, which was bringing a waterfront. As a national museum, entry is carnival atmosphere to the Headrow area – free and on view are many of the national Come midnight, we were so familiar with watch out for this in 2012. treasures that never got to be displayed at our “former colleagues” that adjourning to the Tower of London. Don’t let the name the 14th floor bar of the Mint Hotel seemed The list of our good intentions for the confuse or put you off: there’s something only right – it’s not quite the CN Tower or weekend included reminding myself just here for everyone and it is not a museum the Empire State Building, but this is no how good the decorative arts collection dedicated exclusively to either royalty or bad place in which to feel on top of the at the Jocobean Temple Newsam House armour. TV’s The Tudors has prompted a world, the city lights spread far below. is, and driving 12 miles to Wakefield to revamp of all relevant exhibits and this is sample the new Hepworth gallery. Both as good a place as any to find out about Finding the city art gallery and Henry will now have to wait for another time. But that period of English history. We were, Moore collections closed till 1pm on when weekends come as enjoyable as this however, disappointed to find ourselves Sundays, we were lured by the city’s retail one, that might not be far off. already too late for the crossbow challenge offer, my partner being so inspired by at 3pm on a busy Saturday. the wide range of attractive shops in the GETTING THERE Victorian Quarter that we struggled back to Eastern Airways flies to Leeds Bradford These days the Royal Armouries has its from Aberdeen and Bristol own adjacent shopping mall, with a variety of outlets, including the “world famous” SLEEPING AND EATING Mumtaz Indian restaurant, where the New Ellington Hotel – highly obliging staff were quite happy to www.bespokehotels.com serve us an ad hoc snack of poppadoms, Brasserie Blanc – www.brasserieblanc. halva, and non-alcoholic cocktails, despite com/locations/leeds.php the demands of a large Asian family Mumtaz – www.mumtaz.co.uk celebration in the adjacent dining space. SHOPPING ­ Through the Mumtaz’s large picture Victorian Quarter – www.v-q.co.uk windows we watched life go by on the colourful house barges in Clarence Dock TO SEE and reflected that there must be far worse Royal Armouries – urban environments in which to own a www.royalarmouries.org/leeds warehouse apartment. www.leedsliveitloveit.com Speaking of converted warehouses, the www.yorkshire.com 26

FOOD & DRINK: THE BLACK BULL INN reports… Stan Abbott basics approach. aback-to-with wooing customers that’s successfully find a hostelry it’s refreshing to the same sentence, appear so often in and closed now the words pub atime At when pubs that don’t capitalise on it are mad.” micro-breweries is fantastic: there is something for everybody and realised how important beer was. The choice of beer from the a favour because they almost extinguished beer and so people than this. The likes of Red Barrel, Tartan and so on did everyone think that there has ever been a time when beer has been better Duncan. “I think this is the golden age of English beer. I can’t “We only serve local real ale, because that’s what I like,” says bells, more of which later. and ciders and, as every pub surely needs, a complete peal of Then in came antique furniture, proggy mats, open fires, real ales and, at the same time, ghastly food and a big brewery bar.” “Too many pubs try to be everything to everyone… TVs, jukeboxes Out went Formica tables, juke box, TVs and lager, yes even lager. was to build the sort of pub we like to go to.” I don’t seem to be able to find them these days. So the philosophy pubs since I was 17 or 18 and I know exactly which pubs I like, and didn’t know anyone else who ran a pub. But I have been going into in his own vision. “I never ran a pub before in my life,” he boasts. “I subsequent years have seen him fashion the Black Bull very much conventional wisdom on running a country pub. The six Duncan then turned the pub upside down, along with all North Pennines. Inn, at Frosterley, in Weardale, in the ploughed £300,000 into the Black Bull least he wasn’t until he and wife Diane is not, however, a pub landlord. Or at musician and campanologist. Duncan boat owner, skiffle band player, rock man, photographer, publisher, narrow Step forward Duncan Davis, coffee house blindness. success. Familiarity, it seems, can breed sector to spot the changes that will bring someone from a different industrial Business gurus reckon it can often take The Black Bull rotates its ales and on this visit the offer includes “It’s very hard to compete with cheap supermarket beer and Black Velvet and Orang-a-tang from Durham Brewery, Consett wine, so you have to be something special for people to want Furnace and a southern interloper, Golden Bolt from Wiltshire’s to come out and sacrifice the takeaway on the sofa,” admits Box Steam Brewery, a by-product of a local beer festival. Duncan. Traditional ciders are also on the board. “But if you remain true to yourself and what you believe in and Furnace (3.9), proves a most genial bitter that slips down easily. enjoy doing it, you attract the sort of people who like what you Tonight is pizza night, at which another piece of history comes to like and you have something in common with them.” life: this is the wood-fired bread oven discovered behind modern masonry in the pub’s yard. At one time this would have served a Yes, but does it really make economic sense? “We owe nothing whole neighbourhood, residents arriving with their own, carefully to anyone. We have managed to pay the bank off and we are marked loaves for communal baking. totally free agents. I look upon planning as the great folly: life just evolves and you just have to evolve with it and go with the flow.” But it is Sunday lunches that really pull them in at the Black Bull, with two fixed sittings at noon and 2.30pm. We took two French Campanology? Well, ringing bells is thirsty work, so get visitors to sample the English staple, le rosbif, which, on this visit, bellringers on your premises and you’ve got customers, says came either very slow cooked (melt-in-your-mouth), or roast rare. Duncan. These, with virile Yorkshire puddings, duly impressed, but it was “We are just completing a small extension and so the bells will be the Black Bull’s exquisitely presented desserts that not so much augmented from eight to 12. There are only two rings of 12 in the caught the eye, as astonished our Gallic friends. region, at Newcastle Cathedral and Stockton-on-Tees, so we’ll In what is something of a family affair, son Will is now the man attract more bell-ringers and more bell-ringers drink more beer.” running the Black Bull kitchen, as Duncan, now 60, and Diane In the world of Duncan Davis, running a successful country pub start to wind down a little. Daughter Jenny’s and son John’s really is as simple as that. involvement has been more peripheral.

A criminal justice and policing graduate, Will decided he wanted to be a chef while working in kitchens to support a snowboarding habit. With mum and dad away navigating the Yorkshire canals, GETTING THERE Will is in sole charge. His disclosure that this culinary lesson The Black Bull is 35 miles from either Newcastle or Durham Tees happened in France, naturally provokes knowing nods from our Valley airports, just off the A689 Bishop Auckland to Alston road. guests. It is 39 steps from Frosterley Station on the Weardale Railway, Duncan has even permitted Will to bring back lager, which runs weekend tourist trains. Staropramen, from Prague, being the selection. www.blackbullfrosterley.com The ethos of food at the Black Bull is honest British fare, based on Duncan’s mum’s cooking – with the marvellous desserts inspired by some of Will’s chef friends, in France and at the A shorter version of this article was originally published by Cheers magazine, acclaimed Close House, near Newcastle. www.cheersnortheast.co.uk Subsea_EasternAirways_Nov11-AD.ai 1 18/11/2011 12:11

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THENorway THIRST FOR MORE A desire to collect drinking paraphernalia can be as addictive as the drink itself

It’s not easy being an obsessive. In fact, The expressive collector sees objects heating (but I wouldn’t burn them you can get obsessive about how as an extension of who they are. They anyway, they’re too… collectable). Here difficult life becomes when you have a gather as much information as they can is a hobbyist at work. particular mania. about their items and form emotional attachments – even to the extent of My favourite tin tray dates back to who I collect all things beer. And wine. And isolating themselves from others. knows when. Inscribed around its whisky. And when I say “collect”, I mean circumference is “Mabel, Black Label”. accumulate, stockpile and hoard bottle Presumably Mabel is the barmaid tops, coasters, trays and glassware. I pictured handing out have a library of books on the bottles of Carling subjects – 140 on the Black Label British shelves behind me. I Lager Beer. This grow hops in the represents the garden and roses collector who called Glenfiddich can’t explain why and Whisky Mac. I he has invested don’t know when to in such trivia in the stop. first place but would never dream Psychologists McIntosh of parting with the and Schmeichel define booty. collectors as belonging to four categories. The personal I am one of the four, but no longer know I’ve got boxes of “pre-loved” bottle tops collectors find something they love and exactly which. and brewery tablecloths; there are soon become heavily involved in finding postcards waiting to be framed, posters as many of the objects as possible. My beer mats range from 1960s British still unrolled and an old whisky cask in

Emotional and obsessive, they are likely lager to 21st century American sour the garage. It’s empty. to continue their quest over a long mash and I even toyed with the idea of period and feel some sort of personal contacting the person whose address is The books are an occupational hazard satisfaction when a new item is written on a Stella Artois coaster picked – some I dip into occasionally, others obtained. up in Bruges. The location is a small I’ve read right through, and two or three village called Einden and its mystery has I’ve even helped write. I swear Robert The inquisitive collector tends to do it long stoked my imagination. Was it left Joseph squints in the sunshine when his out of curiosity and with no real intention on the table as a spy rendezvous? Is Ultimate Encyclopaedia of Wine is of buying many more of the items that there a secret message in it? Einden is slipped free from its neighbours The have aroused his or her curiosity. It’s an anagram of In Need, so is it a lovers’ Good Bottled Beer Guide and Classic more of an investment and they’ll sell exchange? This is the lot of the personal Blended Scotch. The marker between when the time or price is right. collector, he can’t let anything rest. pages 72 and 73 suggests something halted my flow, pre-74. Beer probably. The hobbyist collects purely for the Then there are the wine corks – only enjoyment of hoarding and has no natural ones, not those horrendous Am I an inquisitive collector? Hobbyist? specific attachment to objects, yet still plastic look-alikes – which are an idea Expressive? Personal? Perhaps I’m In won’t part with them. They are generally “borrowed” from a County Durham wine Need. goal-orientated people and enjoy merchant. He used them for firelighters, searching for uncommon items to but our pile just kept growing and Alastair Gilmour is a freelance journalist display. growing. Sadly we have gas central with a special interest in beer.

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INTERVIEW INTERVIEW INTERVIEW down to their home in Yorkshire… gravity-defying stunts that he tracked them he was so impressed by the fire-cheating family stunt act while on holiday in Scotland, When Norman Burr watched a professional But it wasn’t always like that. “In 1989 I did a show at Tilbury Dock stunt vehicles, a lot of equipment and a big truck to transport it all. Nowadays the Stannage International Stunt Team boasts its own suspended from a high wire. being set on fire”, gave birth to Aaron in 1995, though not while soon after and Janine, who now lists her hobbies as “reading, and experience she quickly became part of the team. The pair married Janine – at a show of course – and although she had no previous him at least a sporting chance of staying alive. In 1991 he met and fire runs – anything that would entertain the crowd while offering developing his own mix of motorbike jumps, car crashes, high falls, Dylan’s Stuntworld. Not long after that he struck out on his own, him and within three years he had turned professional, with James hospital. Within months the teenager from Falkirk was working with stuntman, Johnny Carr, heard of the accident and visited him in to be his big break – literally and metaphorically – because another This seemingly inauspicious start for a would-be stuntman proved by a car, suffered a broken leg and ended up in hospital. project for mistakes, he wandered into the road, got knocked down about stuntman Rocky Taylor. Walking to school while checking his think about a “proper job” but Mark ignored him and did a project Scottish accent. In 1984, when he was 14, his teacher told him to up toy for Christmas at the age of four,” explains Mark in his soft “I’d wanted to be a stuntman ever since I got an Evel Knievel wind- But that exception, of course, was what I’d come to talk about. family. are – in every respect bar one – a refreshingly, disarmingly, normal Mark Stannage, his wife Janine and their 16-year-old son Aaron ordinary. In fact, as I was to discover, first impressions were correct. take my shoes off, “as we’ve just fitted new carpet”. Thus far, thus cheerful businesslike greeting, and certainly not in the request to There was no clue in the smart but modest bungalow, nor in the small platforms, and doing silly things with cars. of setting fire to himself, jumping off high towers onto impossibly different about him, I reasoned, otherwise he wouldn’t make a habit thousand others a few weeks earlier. But there must something apparently sane, individual who’d entertained me and several Neither of these popular images seemed to fit the lucid, and mercurial strongman of few words? adrenalin junkie who’d broken every bone in his body? A darkly of Barnsley to visit Mark Stannage and his family. A wild-eyed I didn’t know what to expect when I drove through the outskirts Norman Burr RIGHT : Stannage Family poster meets the daredevil Stannage family but my car was on its last legs and died on the way there,” recalls Mark. “I scrapped it and bought another from the same scrapyard – we were always in and out of yards, buying cars for stunts – and used it not only for the show but to get me home afterwards. I was stopped on the M1 because it had a duff rear light, but I had terrible trouble explaining why my silhouette was burned into the paintwork on the bonnet!

“I believe everyone is addicted to something. I’ve seen too many people addicted to alcohol or drugs, I’ve managed to avoid those, but my addiction is to adrenalin.”

Record-breaking is one way of fuelling that addiction. In 1997 Mark tried to break the record for the number of car roll-overs, at that time held by his friend Gary Barnes at 7.25. The idea is to drive up a ramp which is not only angled upwards but twisted sideways, so that the car is on two wheels by the time it reaches the top. At launch the driver steers towards the highest point of the ramp, hopefully tipping the car into a barrel-roll. The physics are critical: too high and the car will be completely airborne and therefore unsteerable, too low and the nose will dig in, tipping the car into an end-over-end tumble.

His first attempt, at Newark Showground, was too high and had the car skidding along on its roof for about 500 yards – “really spectacular, petrol and sparks everywhere”. Some time later he tried again, but this time he was too low and the car tumbled. “I broke my shoulder that time.”

Although Aaron can do all his father’s stunts and has been a dab hand with a fire extinguisher ever since he was strong enough to lift one – “he’s been putting me out since he was seven” – his forte is motorcycle work. The quietly spoken teenager with the mop of black hair and the engaging smile performed his first stunt at the age of three and seems completely at ease with the family’s lifestyle, and his part in it. He has already designed his own logo and merchandise and has a busy Facebook page. Currently he is developing his skills with the Norfolk-based Bolddog freestyle motocross team. >> “I believe everyone is addicted to something. I’ve seen too many people addicted to alcohol or drugs…my addiction is to adrenalin.” STUNTS ARE METICULOUSLY REHEARSED AND RISKS RIGOROUSLY ANALYSED

Teamwork not only keeps the Stannages together, it keeps them alive. Every time Mark jumps off a tower, or Janine runs across the arena with her clothes on fire, or Aaron leaps a bike over a car, there are three minds tuned into what is going on. Significantly, Mark’s potentially worst accident – at the 2011 Glastonbury Festival – happened when, very unusually, Janine stayed at home. Mark set light to himself and dived 30ft onto a platform of cardboard boxes, but they weren’t properly attached to each other and parted as he landed, leaving him flat on the ground with a suspected broken spine.

Fortunately, damage was limited to a trapped nerve, but Janine won’t stay home a second time. “I knew something was wrong: I’d dreamed that Aaron had hurt himself.” Indeed, Aaron had been due to take the leap, but as it was the first night, Mark pulled rank. “I’m glad I did,” he says, “I’m better padded than him!”

It would be wrong though, to portray the family as performing a never-ending dance with death. Stunts are meticulously rehearsed and risks rigorously analysed, an approach which no doubt accounts for their lack of run-ins with health and safety inspectors. Mark observes: “They tend to turn up, check the gear, then go away before the show, to make sure they’re not around if anything goes wrong!

“The ones straight out of college are the worst,” he adds, telling how one young inspector asked why he didn’t wear a safety helmet while ascending his tower. “You might fall off,” she pointed out helpfully. With infinite patience, Mark explained that falling off was the general idea, but by way of reassurance added: “Don’t worry, I’ll set fire to myself first.” www.stannagestuntteam.co.uk, www.facebook.com/pages/ AaronStuntageStannage/166558116748064 www.bolddog.com PUZZLE PAGE by Yves Du Sault COMPETITION Welcome to the new Eastern Airways puzzle page and your chance to win one of two bottles of Chapter 6, England’s award-winning finest single malt whisky (also on sale in Norwich airport duty free shop). www.englishwhisky.co.uk

33 Glasgow’s iconic new Museum of Transport and Travel has opened at the city’s historic Pointhouse quay.

The Riverside Museum, designed by the internationally renowned architect Zaha Hadid, has no internal supports. It houses more than 3,000 exhibits in more than 150 interactive displays that tell the stories of the people who ensured the term Clyde- GLASGOW Built travelled the world and spoke volumes about unbeatable quality. From massive steam locomotives, to the recreation of a 1900s city street, the cathedral-like structure provides a home fit to showcase the innovation and ambition of “the second city of the Empire”.

The £74 million museum is Hadid’s first major public commission to open in the UK and was funded by Glasgow City Council, the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Riverside Museum Appeal. As with all of Glasgow’s ten civic museums, entry is free.

Outside, the Tall Ship Glenlee is moored in front of the museum’s dramatic south façade, bringing her together, for the very first time, with the city’s unrivalled ship model collection. The Glenlee is one of only five Clyde-built sailing vessels afloat in the world today and the only one in the UK. The Tall Ship, which recently underwent a £1.5m refurbishment, also opened to the public on June 21.

More than 4,000 people worked on the project since it was given the initial go-ahead in 2002. Work on-site began in 2007. The main contractors, BAM, described the building of the massive 2,500-tonne steel roof, without internal supporting columns, as the most challenging engineering feat in the UK today.

The museum’s major attractions have been designed and built into the structure of the building – with some arriving before the completion of the structure, such is their size. Highlights include, the Wall of Cars, the hanging Bicycle Velodrome, South African Locomotive, No9 Tank Engine, Motorbike Deck, Ship Launch Show, the Rest and Be Thankful, and three recreated period streets.

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CLYDE PRIDE Glasgow’s latest launch on the Clyde pays homage to the people who made the river great

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After booking your Eastern Airways flight items of hand luggage by the aircraft via a travel agent, the airline’s website or steps. Your hand luggage will be awaiting AIR TRAVEL in-house reservations call centre, you will you on the valet baggage cart at your have noticed that Eastern Airways uses destination airport. SHOULD BE MORE OF e-tickets. It was in fact one of the airlines to pioneer ticketless travel over nine Once on board, our highly trained cabin A PLEASURE AND years ago. attendants offer a friendly and personal- ised in-flight service including compli- LESS OF A CHORE Queues at check-in are short and the mentary drinks and branded snacks. On process is swift as is the experience arrival our aircraft allow for quick Our aim is to make your travel as pleasant through the security channels. This is disembarkation, enabling passengers to an experience as possible. possible thanks to a ground-breaking make their way swiftly onwards through initiative called Fast Track, which is the terminals. Have an enjoyable trip. available at Aberdeen, Leeds Bradford, South­ampton, East Midlands, Newcastle, Glasgow, and is a dedicated security channel for Eastern Airways passengers STAMPING OUT DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOUR to use and avoid busy airport terminal security queues. While the vast majority of passengers flying globally behave impeccably, there is a greater awareness of isolated incidents of disruptive behaviour, also known as “air With Eastern Airways operating the rage”. While this isn’t a major problem for Eastern Airways, the safety and security of largest number of scheduled services our pass­engers and crew is our number one priority. from Aberdeen, a dedicated business lounge is available for all its customers We don’t want our customers to experience any behaviour that makes them feel flying from the airport and is located next uncomfortable, or be put in a situation that compromises safety. Disruptive behaviour to its departure gates. Executive lounge can include smoking, drunkenness, aggress­ive behaviour or abusive language towards access is also offered at Birmingham, a customer or a member of crew. Our crews are fully trained to deal with any incident of Leeds Bradford, Bristol, Norwich and this type. Cardiff for passengers travelling on fully flexible tickets. Disobeying a command, which is lawful by a crew member, is committing an offence under the UK Air Navigation Order. Offenders who persistently misbehave on As you board your aircraft you will a flight will be handed to the appropriate authorities on arrival and may face arrest and a notice we have a fleet of liveried valet heavy fine or up to two years imprisonment. Severe restrict­ions will also be placed on baggage carts for you to place larger their future travel with Eastern Airways.

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JAZZ IT UP Stavanger’s 17th TradJazzWeekend takes place from January 19-22. ESSENTIAL GOINGS ON As the name indicates, the programme is mostly traditional/New Orléans jazz, however, you’ll also encounter elements of funk, latin, swing and soul. In addition the festival will comprise a children’s concert at Gaffel & Karaffel and Tungenes Fyr, and a concert at the St Petri church.

www.stavangerjazzforum. The Scottish Ballet Company in Ashley Page’s The Sleeping Beauty. Photo by Andrew Ross. NEW LIFE FOR SLEEPING BEAUTY Since its artistic relaunch in 2003, Beauty. Its spectacular re-imagining of Scottish Ballet – Scotland’s national the romantic fairytale features dance company and a major cultural breathtaking choreography, lavish sets asset for the UK – has been on a and costumes and Tchaikovsky’s trajectory that has brought worldwide magnificent score, performed live by acclaim. the Scottish Ballet Orchestra.

The company produces a wide range The company performs at Glasgow’s HOOK UP WITH THE HOFF of dynamic work, including full-length Theatre Royal from December 17-31 David Hasselhoff stars at the Bristol narrative ballets, seminal works by the as well as at Eastern Airways Hippodrome in this year’s panto, Peter best choreographers of the 20th destinations Aberdeen (His Majesty’s Pan. The Hoff, best known for his iconic century, and new commissions. Theatre, from January 11-14) and roles of Michael Knight in Knight Rider, Newcastle (The Theatre Royal, from Mitch Buchanan in Baywatch, and as a This season it will be bringing a little February 1-4). judge on Britain’s Got Talent, will play magic to the winter months with a the evil Captain Hook from December touring production of The Sleeping www.scottishballet.co.uk 10 to January 8.

“I’ve been spending a great deal of time in the UK,” he said. “It feels like my AMAZING LACE second home. Watch out – Hoff the Hook is coming to get ya!” Lost in Lace sees 20 leading international artists take over the Gas www.bristolhippodrome.org.uk Hall at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery (BMAG) until February 19.

The exhibition explores the relationship between textiles – specifically lace – and space through a series of dramatic and ambitious installations.

Produced in partnership by BMAG and the Crafts Council, the exhibition brings together both leading and emerging artists.

Exhibits include Atelier Manferdini’s spectacular inverted crystal cathedral, pictured left, hanging from ceiling to floor.

38 www.bmag.org.uk SKATING@LIFE Newcastle’s Centre for Life is once again hosting the region’s favourite real ice rink on the city’s Times Square. It expects around 80,000 visitors in its brief 14-week period ending February 19. For novices of all ages, Life runs popular skating lessons where former Dancing On Ice professional skater, and member of the British Olympic training squad, Susie Lipanova, will put you through your paces. www.life.org.uk

PORTRAITS OF A LADY To mark The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012, the National Portrait Gallery is staging an innovative touring exhibition bringing together 60 images of Elizabeth II spanning the 60 years of her reign – some on public display for the first time. It will be the most wide-ranging exhibition of images in different media devoted to a single royal sitter. Formal painted portraits, official photographs, media pictures, and powerful responses by contemporary artists will be shown in an exhibition which explores both traditional representations and

‘Duirinish’ (detail) oil on canvas, 61cm x 61cm. ‘Petunias’ oil on board, 23cm x 18cm. works which extend the visual language of royal portraiture. Among the highlights from the works from life are Annigoni’s New Works by hugely popular life-size 1969 commission for the National Portrait Gallery, Lucian Freud’s 2000-01 portrait from the NIGEL GROUNDS Royal Collection and Justin Mortimer’s painting where The Queen’s head floats away from her body against a huge and background of flat vibrant yellow. Among the exhibited photographers for whom The Queen sat are Annie Leibovitz, ANN PATRICK Dorothy Wilding and Cecil Beaton. 3rd - 24th December 2011 The Queen: Art and Image tours British venues, including the National Museum Cardiff from February 4–April 29. It then exhibits at London’s National Portrait Galery from May 17– THE RENDEZVOUS GALLERY October 21. 100 Forest Avenue Aberdeen AB15 4TL www.museumwales.ac.uk Tel 01224 323247 www.rendezvous-gallery.co.uk Above: Queen Elizabeth II by Dorothy Wilding (Hand-coloured by Beatrice Johnson), [email protected] 1952. Hand-coloured bromide print, 316 x 248 mm National Portrait Gallery, London (x125105) © William Hustler and Georgina Hustler/ National Portrait Gallery, London 40

Region Stavanger / Shetland image: Anne Burgess BARE ESSENTIALS : DESTINATIONS you get there... get you when to do what and to go where and there to –how get destinations Airways Your to Eastern guide Destinations ESSENTIALS BARE Shetland, January31. Up HellyAafire festival,Lerwick,

www.aeroport.dijon.cci.fr/en Airport +33(0)38067 www.visitdijon.com Tourist/Local Info+33(0)89270 0558 Bordeaux, Toulouse, Nantes Eastern Airways flights direct to Southampton, Sainte-Anne. Monge; Le Club des Œnophiles, 18 rue Pelpa, rue Marceau; Le Chabrot, 36 rue Le Smart, 8 rue Claus Sluter; La Salsa La Rhumerie, 14 Place de la Jamaïque; town and the surrounding villages. and local products can be found in de la Liberté. Gastronomy, wine cellars stores. Don’t miss the Maille shop, rue of traditional boutiques and department Dijon’s town centre has a wide choice Beaune. set in the vineyards, heading towards d’Or; Hôtel Château de Gilly Vougeot, Holiday Inn Dijon, Parc de la Toison Sofitel Dijon La Cloche, city centre; Cathedral; Darcy Gardens. Museum of Fine Arts; St Benigne Palace of the Dukes of Burgundy and minutes, cost east of the city. Taxi into town takes 20 Dijon airport is situated 4.5 miles south Chartreuse. Opendailyall year. the Centre HospitalierSpécialisé dela medieval sculpture masterpiece, in Auguste Comte;LePuitsdeMoïse works forsale.OpenArtGallery, rue contemporary artists.Original Perrmanent exhibitionof30 Europcar info on back page. DRINK AND EATAT AND DRINK AT SHOP STAYAT VISIT WHERE COMING UP COMING DIJON

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LakeKir www.regionstavanger.com Tourist/Local Info +47519755 Norwich, Southampton, Wick Humberside, LeedsBradford,Newcastle, Bristol, DurhamTees Valley, EastMidlands, Glasgow, Newcastle.Onwardconnections to toAberdeen, Airwaysflightsdirect Eastern www.avinor.no/en/airport/stavanger Airport +4767031000 Kjeringholmen, 4001Stavanger. Norwegian Petroleum Museum, that overlookstheLysefjord; Pulpit Rock–anaturalrock formation page. For carhire seeEuropcar infoonback and isservedbyaregular shuttlebus. airport isjustninemilesoutoftown the country’s south-westcoast.The Norway’s fourthlargest citylieson Stavanger, Apr 19-22. Apr Stavanger, of north Randaberg, evening), the in dance and (music 2012 Festival Caravan 19-22; Jan Stavanger, in venues various weekend, Tradjazz ongoing; Oljemuseum, Norsk exhibition, divers Sea North Nedre Strandgate. traditional Norwegianfood;Tango, Sjøhuset Skagen–specialisesin Skagen 14. Dickens, Skagenkaien;Newsman, centre is just 7 miles south of Stavanger. Kvadrat, Norway’s biggest shopping airport. Strand Hotel,onthebeach,near Brygge, allinthecitycentre; Sola The Clarion,ThonMaritim,Skagen VISIT WHERE COMING UP COMING EATAT AT DRINK AT SHOP STAYAT STAVANGER

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WHERE WHERE WHERE Twenty four miles north west of Lerwick, To the east of the town. Taxis and car One mile from the centre of Wick, Shetland’s principal town, and five miles hire are available at the airport. No half-an-hour’s drive from Thurso. south-west of Sullom Voe oil terminal. The weekend flights. Mackinnon Self Drive: Main bus and rail stations are near to village of Brae is about eight miles to the +44 (0)1851 702984. Wick centre serving most places in south. For hire car visit www.boltscarhire. Caithness. Trains to Thurso and co.uk or call 01595 693 636 (no on-airport VISIT Inverness. Post bus operates facilities) Stornoway Museum, Francis St; Thurso-Wick-Airport. Car hire: Stornoway Fish Smokers, Shell St; Dunnets offers airport pick-up and VISIT Woodlands Centre, Lews Castle drop-off, 01955 602103. Muckle Flugga, Unst. Forget John grounds; An Lanntair Arts Centre, O’Groats, this is the very northernmost Kenneth Street, Stornoway. VISIT tip of Britain. Shetland Museum, Lerwick; Wick Heritage Museum; St Fergus Jarlshof, Grutness (both mainland). STAY AT Gallery, Sinclair Terr; Pulteney Hotel Hebrides, Tarbert; Royal Hotel, Distillery, Huddart St. STAY AT Cromwell St; Scarista House, west Busta House Hotel, Brae; Saxa Vord Harris; Auberge Carnish, Uig. STAY AT Resort, Unst; Orca Country Inn, Sandwick. Ackergill Tower; Mackays Hotel; The SHOP AT Brown Trout Hotel, Station Rd, SHOP AT Callanish Jewellery, Point St; This Watten, nr Wick; Shetland Fudge, Lerwick; Jamieson ’n That, Cromwell St; Borgh Pottery, & Son Knitwear, Lerwick; Valhalla Brewery, Borgh (20 miles). SHOP AT Saxa Vord. John O’Groats (pottery, knitwear); DRINK AT Rotterdam St, Thurso (20 miles) DRINK AT Clachan Bar, North Beach; Hebridean Mid Brae Inn, Brae; The Lounge Bar, Bar, South Beach; Whalers Rest, DRINK AT Lerwick; Kiln Bar, Scalloway. Francis St. Ebenezer’s, Mackay’s Hotel; Wetherspoons and Camps Bar. EAT AT EAT AT Busta House Hotel, Brae; Monty’s Bistro, Digby Chick, Bank St; Golden Ocean, EAT AT Lerwick; Saxa Vord Resort, Unst. Cromwell St; Thai, Church St. Bord de l’Eau, Market St; Le Bistro, Thurso; Captain’s Galley, Scrabster COMING UP COMING UP (22 miles). Up Helly Aa, Shetland’s biggest fire Fèis Eilean an Fhraoich, week of tuition festival, Lerwick, Jan 31; Shetland Jazz in Gaelic singing, dance, drama and COMING UP Festival, Mar 23-25; Shetland Folk music, Feb 23-27; The Donald Macleod Caithness model & collectors club Festival, May 3-6. Memorial Piping Competition, The show, Norseman Hotel, Wick, Apr Caladh Inn, Stornoway, Mar 30. 21-22; O’Neill Coldwater Classic, International surfing event, Thurso, April (dates tbc).

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WHERE WHERE WHERE Five miles east of Darlington and 10 miles Fifteen miles east of Scun­thorpe, 20 miles Nine miles north-west of Leeds city centre, west of Middlesbrough.There is a regular south of Hull, 16 miles west of Grimsby, 30 seven miles from Bradford. Regular Airlink bus shuttle to Darlington rail station, 6 miles miles north of Lincoln. Regular bus services 757 bus from bus and rail stations to away on main line to Scotland and the to Hull, Grimsby, Scunthorpe, Doncaster terminal. Taxi time 20-25 mins. For car South. Taxi fare to Darlington approx £8. and Sheffield. Barnetby Station three miles hire see Europcar info on back page. For car hire see Europcar info back page. from airport with Intercity connections via Don­caster. Approx taxi fare to Hull £26. For VISIT VISIT car hire see Europcar info, back page. Royal Armouries, Leeds; Leeds City mima (Middlesbrough Institute Museum, Millennium Square; National of Modern Art) Centre Square; VISIT Media Museum, Bradford. Locomotion, the National Railway Museums Quarter, Hull’s Old Town; The Museum at Shildon; Hartlepool’s Maritime Deep, Hull; Lincoln Cathedral; Ferens Art STAY AT Experience, Historic Quay. Gallery, Hull. Mint Hotel, Leeds; Radisson Blu, The Headrow, Leeds; the New Ellington, STAY AT STAY AT Leeds; Dubrovnik boutique hotel, Oak Rockliffe Hall, Hurworth on Tees; Forest Pines Hotel, Broughton; Cave Avenue, Bradford. Walworth Castle, near Darlington; Castle Hotel, Brough; Best Western Headlam Hall, near Darlington; Willerby Manor Hotel, Willerby; The White SHOP AT Craythorne Hall Hotel, Yarm. Hart, Lincoln. Retro Boutique, Headingley Lane, Leeds; Harvey Nichols, Briggate, Leeds; Victoria SHOP AT SHOP AT Quarter, Leeds. Psyche, Linthorpe Rd, Middles­brough; Bailgate and Steep Hill area, Lincoln; Henri The House, Yarm High Street; Leggs, Beene (Menswear), Abbeygate, Grimsby. DRINK AT Skinnergate, Darlington. Baby Jupiter, York Place, Leeds; Fudge DRINK AT Bar, Assembly St, Leeds; Haigys, Lumb DRINK AT The Wig & Mitre, Steep Hill, Lincoln; Ye Lane, Bradford. George and Dragon, Yarm; Black Bull, Olde Black Boy, High St, Hull. Frosterley. EAT AT EAT AT Mumtaz, Clarence Dock, Leeds; Brasserie EAT AT Figs Restaurant, Cleethorpes; Blanc, Sovereign St, Leeds; Ujala Tandoori, Sardis, Northgate, Darlington; Brackenborough Hotel and Restaurant, Manville Terrace, Bradford. Dun Cow Inn, Sedgefield; The Orangery, Louth; Winteringham Field, Winteringham; Rockliffe Hall. Pipe and Glass, South Dalton, Beverley. COMING UP Northern Art Prize 2011, Leeds Art Gallery, COMING UP COMING UP until Feb 19; United Enemies: the problem She Wears It Well: The Fashions of Russian State Ballet, Hull New Theatre, of sculpture in Britain in the 60s and 70s, Marguerite Elliott, Museum of Hartlepool, Jan 25-29; Lincolnshire Horse Trials 2012, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, until Mar 11; until Jan 29; DJ Simpson Exhibition, Grange-de-Lings, Mar 16-18; EBA World Bradford International Film Festival, Platform-A Gallery, Middlesbrough and Masters Blackball,The Spa, Bridlington, National Media Museum, Apr 19-29. Railway Station, until Feb 2. Mar 27-Apr 5.

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WHERE WHERE WHERE Twelve miles west of Cardiff, 10 miles Three miles north of the city. Hourly bus Five miles north of city. Parkway Station from Junction 33 on M4. Rail link, every service into the city centre. Approx taxi beside terminal, three trains hourly to hour, connects airport to Cardiff Central fare to Norwich £7. For car hire see Southam­pton and London Waterloo. and Bridg­end. For car hire see Europcar Europcar info on back page. Buses hourly to the city. For car hire info on back page. see Europcar info on back page. VISIT VISIT Norwich Cathedral, The Close; Norwich VISIT Cardiff Castle; Wales Millennium Centre, Castle, Elm Hill; Sandringham Estate, Solent Sky, Hall of Aviation, Gilbert Cardiff Bay; Cardiff Bay Visitor Centre Norfolk; Norwich Puppet Theatre, Road South; Maritime Museum, Town ‘The Tube’, Harbour Drive; Norwegian Whitefriars, Norwich. Quay Rd; Spinnaker Tower, Portsmouth. Church Arts Centre, Cardiff Bay. STAY AT STAY AT STAY AT The Maids Head Hotel, Tombland; De Vere Montagu Arms, Beaulieu; The White Star Peterstone Court, in the Usk Valley; Dunston Hall Hotel & Golf Club, Ipswich Tavern and Dining Rooms, Oxford St; De St David’s Hotel & Spa, Havannah St, Rd; Marriott Sprowston Manor Hotel & Vere Grand Harbour Hotel, West Quay Rd; Cardiff Bay. Country Club; Barnham Broom Hotel & Chilworth Manor, Chilworth; Carey’s Spa, Honingham Rd. Manor, Brockenhurst. SHOP AT St Mary Street for specialist shops; Splott SHOP AT SHOP AT Market (weekends), SE of city centre. Jarrold’s, London Street; Soho Hip, WestQuay, city centre; Bargate Centre, Pottergate; Ginger Ladies Wear, Timberhill. East Bargate; Antiques quarter, Old DRINK AT Northern Rd; Gunwharf Quays, Pen and Wig, Park Grove; Park Vaults, DRINK AT Portsmouth. Park Place. The Fat Cat, West End St; The Adam & Eve, Bishopgate; The Wine Press, Woburn DRINK AT EAT AT Court, Guildhall Hill; The Last Wine Bar, The Dolphin, Osborne Road South; The Champers, St Mary’s Street; La Fosse, St Georges St. Frog and Frigate, Canute Rd; Ocean The Hayes; Bosphorus Turkish & Collins, Vincent’s Walk. Restaurant, Cardiff Bay. EAT AT Tatlers, Tombland; Mambo Jambo, EAT AT COMING UP Lower Goat Lane; Umberto’s Trattoria Olive Tree, Oxford St; P.O.S.H. 60 Portraits of The Queen, National Italia, St Benedicts St. Queensway; The Purbani, Botley. Museum Cardiff, Feb 4-Apr 29; RBS Six Nations 2012 – Wales v Scotland, Feb 12, COMING UP COMING UP Wales v Italy, Mar 10, Millennium East Anglian Game & Country Fair, Norfolk Titanic 2012: events include City of Stadium; St David’s Day Gala - BBC Showground, Norwich, Apr 28-29; Norfolk Southampton Orchestra Concert, Queen National Orchestra for Wales, St David’s and Norwich Festival, various venues, May Elizabeth Terminal, Southampton Docks, Hall, Mar 1; RHS Show, Bute Park, Apr 11-26. Apr 10; 100th Anniversary 20-22. Commemorative Service, St Mary’s Church, Apr 15.

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Fancy a luxury break, but with North of England only your family or friends for company? Then welcome to MIDDLETON HALL LAKE HOUSE our Essential Guide to Exclusive Middleton Hall was acquired by its The Lake District has no shortage of Use Properties. We’ve gone for current owners in 2006, by when it had exclusive use properties and country the most interesting gaffs – from been split into flats. Now it is a luxury house hotels, but recently opened Lake castles where you can play laird, holiday destination that claims to be House, on the four-acre private Knipe to the privacy of a converted fort true to the original 19th century vision Tarn, is really rather special. Tucked completely surrounded by the sea. of John Towlerton Leather. The estate away along a narrow road, you can Catering and bar service usually includes two lakes and walled gardens. enjoy its privacy in the company of up Holy Island, Bamburgh Castle and the to 12 guests, in the fully catered and comes as part of the deal but town of Alnwick (with its Harry Potter serviced property with its own spa. Or we’ve also included some places castle and gardens) are all nearby. let the chauffeur run you up to sister where it can be easily arranged as Large professional kitchen but no in- hotel, Gilpin Lodge. You can even take an alternative to self-catering. Of house catering. Ten bedrooms in the a private picnic on the island in the course, even in these trying times, hall and five more in the lodge, the middle of the tarn. www.gilpinlodge. many of these properties are ideal exotic boathouse and the folly (opening co.uk/Lake-House-Home-6.cfm for that corporate escape for blue- soon). www.exploremiddletonhall.co.uk Nearest Eastern Airways airports – Durham Tees sky thinking or to reward clients… Nearest Eastern Airways airport – Newcastle Valley, Leeds Bradford

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BEAU CASTLE HAPPISBURGH MANOR Beau Castle boasts a quirky roofscape, This is a Grade II* country house created romantic tower and spires – hence its in the Arts and Crafts style as a seaside “fairytale castle” moniker. The top of villa. It boasts magnificent views to the the magical tower is reached by a spiral coast, while, beneath its thatched roof, iron staircase, at whose summit you are are eight bedrooms, providing luxurious rewarded by views across the rolling hills accommodation for 16 guests. The four- of Worcestershire. Room for up to 14 in winged “butterfly” plan means all rooms seven suites. Gardens, lakes, croquet, are light and airy. Inviting sandy beaches BBQ area and croquet lawn are all yours to nearby. www.amazingretreats.com play in. www.amazingretreats.com Nearest Eastern Airways airport – Norwich Nearest Eastern Airways airport – Birmingham

MORLEY OLD HALL Morley Old Hall STANBROOK ABBEY The Grade I listed hall sits in wonderful If you’re planning something pretty big, seclusion on a garden island surrounded then Stanbrook Abbey may just fit the bill. by its own moat. This Elizabethan SPITBANK FORT The restoration of this celebrated fort in An imposing former monastery in 21 acres property offers spacious and luxurious The Solent began in November 2009 and of grounds, it boats 50 bedroom suites accommodation for up to 14 guests, is due for completion in March. This former and the Brides Manor, with five additional with all seven bedroom suites affording Napoleonic structure will then boast eight suites and its own magnificent chapel. Due great views over the very best of sumptuous bedrooms, three private dining to reopen after renovation in March. Norfolk. Sympathetically renovated and rooms, three bars, a wine cellar, open-air www.amazingretreats.com refurbished. www.amazingretreats.com hot-tub, sauna, sundeck and games rooms. Nearest Eastern Airways airport – Birmingham Nearest Eastern Airways airport – Norwich As the fort can only be reached by boat it provides a level of privacy, peace and tranquillity it would be hard to find anywhere else. www.amazingretreats.com Nearest Eastern Airways airport – Southampton

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EASTNOR CASTLE Eastnor Castle, in the Malvern Hills, is the home of the Hervey-Bathurst family. Built in 1812, it was designed to resemble a medieval fortress defending the Welsh border. The result is a triumphant, authoritative castle amid a 5,000-acre estate, with a 300-acre deer park and lake. Twelve luscious bedrooms in the castle, plus room for four in the Golden Gates Lodge and six in the Edwardian Peacock villa. www.eastnorcastle.com Nearest Eastern Airways airports – Bristol, Birmingham, Cardiff

BATH LODGE CASTLE Small but perfectly formed castle, complete with towers, battlements and portcullis. Grade II listed and just six miles from Georgian Bath, Bath Lodge Castle has nine suites, individually styled in a contemporary English design. The landscaped gardens include a pavilion with bar, sauna and hot tub. www.amazingretreats.com Lake House Nearest Eastern Airways airport – Bristol >> Scotland Wales

AMHUINNSUIDHE CASTLE PLAS CILYBEBYLL A remarkable hideaway overlooking Loch A French château set in a secluded location Voshamid (believed to have inspired the with idyllic woodland views, close to the ghost story play, Mary Rose, by Peter Pan Gower peninsula. The property boasts a author, J M Barrie) on the dramatic west ten-metre indoor swimming pool and offers coast of North Harris. Amhuinnsuidhe Castle 11 bedroom suites, nine in the main house offers sumptuous accommodation, fishing and another two in the self-contained and field sports, good food and Hebridean Bakehouse. The grounds contain two pond hospitality for up to 18 guests. Ackergill Tower gardens, a domed folly and a tennis court. www.amhuinnsuidhe.com www.amazingretreats.com Nearest Eastern airways airport – Cardiff Nearest Eastern Airways airport – Stornoway CARBERRY TOWER Her Majesty the Queen has been among ACKERGILL TOWER guests at 15th century Carberry Tower, Ackergill Tower’s reputation goes before it, whose situation less than ten miles from Norway as one of the most celebrated of the UK’s Edinburgh means it can easily double exclusive use properties. It is purposely as either a leisure or business venue. low profile and very private and has hosted VILLA SORTLAND Situated in 35 acres of landscaped and The celebrity chef and three staff at important guests we couldn’t possibly know manicured parkland. Sleeps up to 60. Villa Sortland, Bømlo, are charged with about, let alone tell you about! Rooms for up www.amazingretreats.com responding to guests’ every need – you to 52 guests are in the 15th century castle Nearest Eastern Airways airports – Glasgow, Newcastle. bring it back and the chef will create and in the beautifully converted outbuildings. something wonderful! In any event, service The tree house provides a very different AIKWOOD TOWER inludes a five-course gourmet meal every dining venue too, and the friendly staff can Surrounded by the ancient Royal forest of evening, along with airport transfers, arrange lots of different activities from RIB Ettrick, Aikwood Tower has links to William boat rental and fishing gear. Kari and Jan boat trips into the sea caves, to clay pigeon Wallace Braveheart and the author, Sir Walter Sortland have created a large terrace that shooting. www.ackergilltower.co.uk Scott. Built in the 16th century, it fell into overlooks the sea and runs the length of Nearest Eastern Airways airport – Wick disrepair 200 years later. Step forward Lord the villa and is furnished with deck chairs WIN a fabulous night with friends at Ackergill Steel, former leader of the Liberal party, who and a hot tub and massage spa for eight Tower’s Beach House – see page opposite painstakingly restored the Tower, winning six people. There is also a thatched salon for architectural awards in the process. Intimate, barbecues. www.villasortland.com KINNETTLES CASTLE with just four double bedrooms in the tower Nearest Eastern Airways airport – Stavanger Scottish Baronial mansion in the heart of the and one in the byre. www.aikwoodtower.com Angus countryside. Castellated Kinnettles Nearest Eastern Airways airports – Newcastle, Glasgow greets you from its imposing location at the France head of gravelled drive. Besides its grand GLENAPP CASTLE fireplaces and ornate plasterwork, the castle What could be more Scottish than a baronial offers two games rooms and a billiard room castle overlooking dramatic Ailsa Craig. A CHÂTEAU RIDOU for the amusement of up 22 guests, 18 of member of Relais & Châteaux since 2002, Champagne region château along a 3km whom stay in the main building, with another Glenapp Castle is set in 36 acres of private private road, set in exotically planted two rooms in the Gate Lodge. There are 44 gardens and its 16 bedrooms are available grounds amid the 2,000-hectare Ardennes acres of grounds in which to get lost or enjoy for exclusive use from March to January, Forest. Rebuilt in the 18th century by King a range of outdoor activities. with the exception of Christmas week and Leopald II, of Belgium, for his mistress, www.amazingretreats.com New Year. www.glenappcastle.com the château itself sleeps up to 18 people Nearest Eastern Airways airport – Aberdeen Nearest Eastern Airways airport – Glasgow and, with the estate gîtes, that can rise to 60. Facilities include tennis and badminton courts, table tennis, fishing and pétanque. Mountain bikes available for hire. Catering available in the private reception barn restaurant. www.simplychateau.com Nearest Eastern airways airport – Dijon

CHÂTEAU BEAUCHARM Not itself a château, but a delightful house in a wooded valley in a private part of the château grounds. Three double and two single rooms. In an unspoilt area between Burgundy and the Vosges. Nearby Roman spa at Bourbonne les Bains. Hosts Adriaan and Adriana offer table d’hôte. www.simplychateau.com Plas Cilybebyll Nearest Eastern airways airport – Dijon� 48 COMPETITION : WIN A NIGHT AWAY FROM IT ALL As part of our Essential Guide to exclusive use properties, Eastern Airways Magazine and Amazing Retreats are offering one lucky reader and up to five friends the chance to enjoy an amazing one-night retreat to the Beach House, in the grounds of Ackergill Tower.

The Beach House is a luxury five-bedroom New England style For your chance to win this amazing one-night break, just answer cottage situated in the grounds of the world famous 15th century the following question: Ackergill Tower, near Wick. It has a beautiful private location on the seashore overlooking five miles of glorious beach. The Beach House is in the grounds of which amazing exclusive use retreat? The prize* includes exclusive use of the Beach House for one night (Monday to Thursday), with dinner prepared by award- Send your answers by email, with Beach House in the subject winning head chef Kevin Dalgleish and delivered to the beach field, to [email protected]. Or send a postcard house – to a menu designed to the winner’s taste following a one- to Beach House competition, Gravity Consulting, Office 15, Imex to-one consultation. Eastern Airways will provide return flights to Business Centre, Abbey Road, Pity Me, Durham, DH1 5JZ. Wick, via Aberdeen, for up to six guests. * The competition is subject to availability at the Beach House and to availability Lovingly refurbished recently, the Beach House is finished to an of flights. Dinner to the value of £60 per person (excluding beverages). Includes continental breakfast. Arrivals from 3pm. Terms and conditions apply. exceptionally high standard, with two large, beautifully furnished The closing date is Friday February 24 and the prize must be taken by June 28, reception rooms and five double or twin bedrooms. Complete with 2012. Peak holiday periods may be excluded. Prizes are not transferable and the Editor’s decision is final. a state of the art kitchen and dining facilities, the Beach House is also perfect for a secluded self-catering break. Activities on For more information on The Beach your doorstep include archery, shooting, fishing, coastal walks, House, visit www.amazingretreats.com/ abseiling, cycling, golf and lots more – you can be as active or as venues/ackergill-tower/the-beach-house. leisurely as you like.

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THE LAST WORD with Harry Pearson A SPORT THAT’S GONE TO THE DOGS

In the Middle Ages it was an offence in hanging out – is a bit too long-winded. this country for a commoner to own a greyhound. Sleek, quick and quiet as “THE BUD LIGHT Except in terms of their choice of a Rolls Royce, such hunting hounds leisurewear and the resulting risk of a were solely for the aristocracy. For the IRON DOG SUGGESTS static electric shock, they hardly make greyhound, circumstances have quite up a dangerous crowd. This may explain literally gone to the dogs since then. ATHLETIC CANINES why greyhound racing often attracts men of the cloth. The tradition linking the dog In the USA things may be different – SWIMMING ACROSS collar with the dog’s collar goes back we’re talking, after all, about a country thousands of years. After all, as readers that offers The Bud Light Iron Dog HARBOURS AND will not need reminding, the greyhound Triathlon, a greyhound event that is the only breed of dog mentioned in suggests athletic canines swimming LEAPING ONTO the bible. across harbours and leaping onto bicycles, but which in fact offers the BICYCLES ” Mick The Miller, the most famous more mundane spectacle of a trio racing dog of all, was born in an Irish of long distance races. In Britain glamour the average greyhound track vicarage and raised by a priest, Father dog tracks have an altogether ranks only slightly above those inner-city Brophy, who named him in honour of unwholesome reputation. fishing tackle shops with the wire mesh the local odd-job man. In 1929 Father across the windows and the hand-written Brophy sold Mick the Miller to a London In the public imagination they are the signs offering maggots by the ounce. bookmaker for the then princely sum of home-from-home of shady characters. The only whiff of danger comes from the 800 guineas. It was cash wisely spent. The very names of the great stadia – burger stand. The only coppers likely to During his career Mick the Miller earned Walthamstow, Belle Vue, Shawfield, make a collar here belong to the fashion more than £10,000 in prize money. Catford – conjure up in the British mind police, and the collar is likely to be part of a scene in which diamond geezers a brushed nylon car-coat. After retirement the greyhound superstar and hookers with hearts of gold sink blazed a trail that football hard man Lambrusco and down basket meals. The whole unedifying spectacle is Vinnie Jones has since followed, earning While tattooed villains with the opaque summed up by the electric hare. The rave reviews for his starring role in a eyes of dead cod lurk in the shadows term hare is purely theoretical. The motion picture, Wild Boy. It was the ready to knobble a dog with a doctored majority of track hares bear about the hound’s only foray into film. Perhaps he pork chop, or slash the face of any same resemblance to their real life was worried about being typecast. Mick bookie who refuses their offers of counterparts as H’Angus, the Hartlepool the Miller lived a happy life and you can protection. FC monkey mascot, does to a gorilla. still pay your respects to him. Because, They are called hares for two reasons: after he died, the champion dog was This is what most people think firstly because greyhound racing derives stuffed and mounted and remains on greyhound tracks are like. Sadly from coursing, and secondly because the public view in gallery six of the Walter the reality is nowhere near as more accurate descriptive term – lumpy, Rothschild Zoological Museum in Tring, sophisticated. In terms of sporting beige cushion-thing with the stuffing © Martin Cintula/ Fotolia.com Cintula/Martin © Hertfordshire. 50 THREEDOM OF CHOICE 3 FLIGHTS PER WEEK FROM GLASGOW TO STAVANGER

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