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1 January 2020 January 2020 January 2020 PB www.village-life.co.uk 1 January 2020 January 2020 2 www.village-life.co.uk www.village-life.co.uk 3 January 2020 January 2020 Editor Gary Skentelbery Production Editor’s comment Paul Walker Account Executives James Balme CONGRATULATIONS to Warrington Just prior to the election Andy South's new MP Andy Carter on his welcomed Secretary of State for Advertising success in the recent General Election. Housing, Communities and Local 01925 631592 option 1 Government Robert Jenrick to the It was nip and tuck throughout town where he pledged support for Editorial the night in a closely fought election Warrington’s Peace Centre and to help 01925 631592 option 2 where the Brexit issue, which has protect the green belt, saying it was divided our country - and town, clearly stated in the government's Email played a key part. manifesto to protect our green belt. Our local infrastructure simply can't info@warrington- I look forward to working with So one of Andy's first big challenges take any more development which will worldwide.co.uk Andy promoting everything good is to ensure our precious green belt is increase HGV traffic movements on about our great town while working protected and hopefully we can put a Websites our roads. hard for our local communities. stop to any impending huge logistic Finally I would like to take the www.culchethlife.com There has been too much division centres on local green belt. www.frodshamlife.co.uk in national and local politics for far The surrounding area has already opportunity of wishing all our readers www.lymmlife.co.uk too long and everyone needs to start become blighted by a new Wheel and advertisers a happy new year. working together for the good of our Washing facility which is often Let's hope we can look forward to www.village-life.co.uk town and the people who live here. causing traffic chaos in the area. more certainity in 2020. www.warrington.tv www.warrington- worldwide.co.uk Address New Media Centre Old Road, Warrington Cheshire WA4 1AT Distribution Village Life is distributed freely to selected homes throughout the area as well as being available to pick up from various outlets, some of which are listed below. Appleton: Village Hall, Co-op Broomfields Leisure Centre Grappenhall: Co-op, Community Centre Big Blue Andy Carter (right) with Robert Jenrick and Colin and Wendy Parry. High Legh: Garden Centre, Village Hall Olivia reaches final in national singing contest Lower Walton: A FOURTEEN-year-old girl from else in the family has been much of a told it is one of the toughest singing One Stop Shop Appleton Thorn has reached the finals singer. But right from the start her competitions in the country but of the national Open Mic UK singing singing teachers have recognised she Olivia is very determined and we are competition. had a natural ability. obviously hopeful.” Stockton Heath: “Now we are all excited about her Part of the winner’s prize is a Library Olivia Mae Booth has already won appearing in the finals. We have been recording contract. Stockton Fryer through the regional and area finals Panni’s – the North West and the Midlands St Rocco’s Shop – and will now sing at the national finals at the O2 in London on February 1. Stretton: About 10-12,000 singers enter the Beehive Stores competition for unsigned artists every year and Olivia will have a chance in Thelwall: both the Under 16 age group and the open age category meaning she could Post Office be the grand winner. The former Bridgewater High Walton: School pupil’s talent for singing first Walton Gardens showed when, as a young child, she started singing along to pop songs. Village Life is published monthly by Singing lessons confirmed she had Orbit News Ltd. a natural talent and, after two years at Bridgewater High she moved to a The contents of this magazine are specialist performing arts school in fully protected by copyright and Chester. may not be reprinted or reproduced Here, she got a chance to sing without prior permission of the to audiences of more than 300 but publishers. it was only when she entered the preliminary rounds of Open Mic UK The publishers are not liable for any that she found herself in front of statement made or opinion expressed really big audiences. by third parties in this publication. Proud Mum Gaynor said: “We don’t Printed by TwentyFourSeven know where she got it from – nobody 2 www.village-life.co.uk 3 January 2020 January 2020 Dream comes true as Adam meets his dream dinner guest A DREAM came true for former Bridgewater High School pupil Adam White, the youngest ever Fellow and current President of the Landscape Institute, when he recently presented Sir David Attenborough with a lifetime achievement award. As president of the professional body representing all landscape architects in the UK Adam got the chance to have dinner with Sir David and present him with his award. It topped a busy year for Adam who has also co designed four RHS gardens with HRH the Duchess of Cambridge, met former US Vice President Al Gore and now considers Sir David a friend. Adam is famous for designing and managing the creation of flagship nature play spaces with his business partner, fellow landscape architect, Andree Davies. They have won two prestigious RHS Al Gore got the world talking about in east London and the thousands on the Greenway, by the Paul Hogarth Gold Medals, popular two BBC People’s climate change with his Academy tuning in to watch online. Company’s Anthony McGuigan and Choice Awards and an elusive RHS Award-winning Film An Inconvenient Following the awards Adam said Darren McKinstry, the prestigious LI Best in Show for their work. During Truth in 2006. He founded what “He silenced the room and reminded President’s Award. The Connswater 2019 the design duo famously co- would become The Climate Reality us all of our responsibility to make Community Greenway brilliantly designed four nature inspired gardens Project to move the conversation a difference no matter how small or connects people to the green space with HRH the Duchess of Cambridge forward and turn awareness into large. It was a career highlight to and biodiversity around them at RHS Chelsea, RHS Hampton, RHS action. Since their meeting Adam spend the day with him.” through a 9km linear park in East Wisley and an NHS Trust in Devon. has been helping raise awareness of “During the awards meal I asked Belfast. Following the course of the The gardens gained global attention the project and encouraging more him who his dream dinner guest Connswater, Knock and Loop Rivers, and the duo appeared in the landscape architects to be adapt their would be, he couldn’t think of any one the Greenway creates a vibrant, worldwide press including TV in the working practice and projects to be that he hadn’t already met, however attractive, and accessible parkland for UK, Australia, America, South Africa more sustainable. he said he would have loved to have leisure, recreation, and community and Canada. For five years Adam was host of the met Charles Darwin. He then asked me events. Adam has always been really keen Landscape Institute’s annual awards, who my perfect dinner was? I replied Adam closed the awards with a to promote landscape architecture however when he became President ‘I am sat having dinner with him!’ he message about the Climate Crisis as career choice and in July 2018 he he stepped down from this role. This smiled and patted me on my wrist.” telling the audience “Where there is launched a career campaign called year they were hosted by Adam’s “Having written to each other action, there is hope, every single #ChooseLandscape. The initiative friend, BBC Gardeners World presenter several times since March the person in this room can make a has now gone global and has been Arit Anderson. challenge for both of us was finding difference both at home and at adopted in 22 countries around the They celebrated 90 years of the a suitable event and time to meet and world. His message is simple ‘you Landscape Institute, founded at RHS make the announcement. We both work. Landscape architects and could be the next landscape superhero Chelsea in 1929. However, the real agreed the 90th anniversary awards landscape professionals are perfectly of tomorrow’. highlight for the guests and those would be the perfect occasion.” positioned to take the lead and make As President of the Landscape tuning in online was the attendance “He is such a kind, gentle and a difference. Time to act is now! Institute, Adam was the first industry of Sir David Attenborough. patient man. We talked about our own He then introduced a pre-recorded leader to announce a Climate Adam presented Sir David with the childhoods and how we both enjoyed message from Greta Thunberg who Crisis and Biodiversity Emergency LI Medal for Lifetime Achievement finding fossils and exploring nature, was travelling across the Atlantic Declaration in June. This led to being at the Awards, he also made him an even talked about rugby league!” Ocean in a boat to the United Nations invited to speak at the IFLA World Honorary Fellow of the landscape Whilst Director of BBC2 Sir David, Climate Change Conference in Spain. Congress in Oslo, Norway and the Institute. Sir David spoke about was instrumental in the creation of Adam followed up the event with World Urban Parks Summit in Kazan, the importance of reconnecting the BBC2 Floodlit Trophy.
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